Dear Nitzotzos Community, A gutten Rosh Chodesh Sivan! “In the third month after the Exodus of the Jewish People from Egypt, on that very day, they came to the Desert of Sinai…And the People of Israel encamped there, opposite the Mountain.” Chazal teach us that the "very day" was Rosh Chodesh Sivan. When describing our encampment around Har Sinai the Torah uses the word "Vayichan" in the singular form despite the fact that multitudes of people were gathered around the mountain. This teaches us that we were a unified nation. We were like one person with one heart. Approximately 600 years later on this very same day we would once again be gathered together as one. In Divrei HaYamim we are told the story of King Asa of Yehudah, “And he gathered all of Yehudah and Binyamin, and from those who lived with them, from Ephraim and Menasheh and from Shimon, for they gathered unto him in multitudes, because they saw that the L-rd was with him. And they were gathered to Yerushalayim in the third month, of the fifteenth year of King Asa. And they sacrificed to the Lord on that day, bringing from the booty, seven hundred cattle and seven thousand sheep. And they entered into the Covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul.” What is it about Sivan that gives us the power to unite throughout history? Why is this a prerequisite to entering into a covenant with Hashem? The Zodiac of the month of Sivan is twins. Chazal teach us that no two people
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