{"id":47619,"date":"2019-06-10T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T09:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=47619"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T10:06:10","slug":"ramban-on-two-sets-of-luchos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/ramban-on-two-sets-of-luchos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolutionary Approach of the Ramban to the Two Sets of Luchos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We received the luchot twice &#8211; on Shavuot and on Yom Kippur. Why is the physical-based celebration on Shavuot and the spiritual-based celebration on Yom Kippur &#8211; it should be the opposite! Why do we celebrate Shavuot as the day when we received the Torah &#8211; we didn&#8217;t receive the Torah then &#8211; those luchot were broken!<\/p>\n<p>Why is the kabbalat hatorah process absent from the second luchot?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/ramban-two-sets-of-luchot.pdf\">Download the mekorot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shiur provided courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.torahanytime.com\/\"><strong>Torah Anytime<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-post-47619 wp-image-36223 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/torah\/files\/TorahAnyTimeLogo-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"Torah Anytime Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received the luchot twice &#8211; on Shavuot and on Yom Kippur. Why is the physical-based celebration on Shavuot and the spiritual-based celebration on Yom Kippur &#8211; it should be the opposite! Why do we celebrate Shavuot as the day when we received the Torah &#8211; we didn&#8217;t receive the Torah then &#8211; those luchot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133454,"featured_media":47621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shavuot","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Revolutionary Approach of the Ramban to the Two Sets of Luchos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why do we celebrate Shavuot as Matan Torah - those luchot were broken!\u00a0What is the difference between the 2 sets of luchot? 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