Fair trade and ethical business practice bring tikkun (repair and success) to the individual soul and to the world. Based on Vayikra/Leviticus 25:14 and Likutey Halakhos, Orach Chaim, Hilkhos Beis HaKnesses 6:24. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
"Were all the skies parchment, and all the reeds pens,
And all the oceans ink and all who dwell on earth scribes,
Hashem's greatness still could not be told..."
- Akdamus of Shavuos, Rabbi Meir Ben Yitzchak Nehorai
Iyar - Days of Preparation
Once during the dairy meal on Shavuos morning, Rabbi Nachman praised the Akdamus sung earlier as "wondrously unique". He chanted a few lines and said, "This is a song of longing and devotion..." (Sichos HaRan 256). Link below for more about this from Likutey Halakhos. Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
It's customary to eat a dairy meal on Shavuos morning before the noontime seudah(Orach Chaim 494:3). Just as milk contains everything needed to sustain life, so the Torah provides all the “spiritual nourishment” needed by the soul. (Imrei Noam,Rabbi Meir Horowitz of Dzikov)
