Not only is this day celebrated around the world, especially in Miron, his resting place, with hundreds of thousands of Jews (if not millions) singing, dancing, lighting bonfires; but it is Kabbalistickly speaking called the “Matan Torah (analogous to Shavous, the giving of the Torah) of the inner Torah.”

In life there are always two.

An inner and outer dimension.

If I look at you, I know you not – if I know you, I don’t need to look at you – in fact, the Hebrew word for intimacy, is the word knowledge.

This dichotomy between sight and knowledge is what makes reality.

The soul of something, its raison detre, its beliefs, values, heart! not its outer appearance, which ironically, often is masking the inner, is what it is.

The Torah too has an inner and outer part.

What we are more familiar with is the outer, namely that God graciously bestowed upon us Mitzvos Commandments, wonderful ways to live in accordance with the highest spiritual and moral standards, such as Shabbos, Kashrus, charity etc.

However, Why? – What was God’s raison d’etre?

According to Kabbalah and revealed on the day of the passing of Rabbi Shimoin Bar Yochai to his select group of holy disciples and transcribed for prosperity, the key why, is Love.

Remember before, we said that love is knowledge.

Whereas to another I can know them only ipso facto (a cool way of saying “after I meet them and spend much time”) to your Creator (in whom in any event past present and future is simultaneous) His knowledge of you is infinite.

Quite amazingly, the Kabbalah predicted that in the year 1840 (“sixth hundredth year, of the sixth millennia”) G-d would open the floodgates of wisdom of above and below and they would converge – from this time, literally an explosion of both Chassidus (the inner Torah) and physics, to be followed by quantum physics, the inner matter, was revealed, and remarkably they point to the same thing.

Without belaboring a very technical and lengthy subject, the essence is that it was G-d’s foreseeing and more importantly knowing / Loving YOU, which resulted a. in the entire universe, b. obviously in your existence and c. equally as important, in the ability to have an infinite intimate relationship.