Two different explanations from Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev as to why we read Megilat Rut on Shavuot

How did Naomi become Naomi, and what did Rut see in her?

As soon as the megila records the first few words of Boaz, we learn of a new light, the light of Mashiach that begins to shine forth.

What did Boaz really see in Ruth?

In this opening shiur on Megilat Rut, Rav Shlomo Katz guides us into the soul of tzniut—not as modesty of dress, but as a posture of presence, humility, and royalty.

Based on a teaching by Reb Nosson of Breslov, we learn of the chiddush that took place once the Torah was placed in the world.

Before you can receive the Torah, you have to return to something deeper than brilliance. You have to return to temimut—wholeness, sincerity, simple truth.

Rav Shlomo Katz brings down a beautiful teaching from the tzaddik of Yerushalayim, Reb Yaakov Meir Shechter. We learn how the Torah wasn’t, and isn’t given to the clever or the perfect, but to those who show up with open hearts and honest intentions.

At Har Sinai, it was not only Torah and mitzvot that were revealed to us. We discovered our own true, inner essence. The result? Responding to G-d, NA'ASEH VENISHMA.

In this class, we learn the beautiful words of Rav Kook from 1932, as Shavuot day was approaching.

Shavuot night, 1929. Warsaw hums in holy anticipation.

Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Piaseczno Rebbe, reveals a radiant teaching from the Baal Shem Tov that pierces straight to the soul: Inside, I’m gold. No matter how tarnished or tired we feel, the inner spark remains untouched.

In this powerful shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz guides us through the Piaseczno’s Torah from Derech HaMelech, lifting the veil on what gives us the strength to say Na’aseh Venishma once more.