CHAG SHAVUOT SAMEACH!!!!

When Moses ascended to heaven, the angels protested to G-d: What is a human being doing amongst us?

Said He to them: He has come to receive the Torah.

Said they to Him: This esoteric treasure, which was hidden with You for nine hundred and seventy-four generations before the world was created, You wish to give to flesh and blood? (Talmud, Shabbat 89a)

Thus, the Talmud tells us that "When Moses ascended to heaven to receive the Torah from G-d,"

The angels protested to G-d: "What is a human being doing amongst us?"

Said He to them: "He has come to receive the Torah."

Said they to Him: "This esoteric treasure, which was hidden with You for nine hundred and seventy-four generations before the world was created, You wish to give to flesh and blood?... Place Your glory upon the heavens!"

Said G-d to Moses: "Answer them."

Said [Moses]: "Master of the Universe! This Torah that You are giving to me, what is written in it? 'I am the L-rd Your G-d, who has taken you out from the land of Egypt.' Have you descended to Egypt? Have you been enslaved to Pharaoh? So why should the Torah be yours? What else does it say? 'You shall have no alien gods.' Do you dwell amongst idol-worshipping nations? What else does it say? 'Remember the Shabbat day.' Do you work? ... What else does it say? 'Do not swear falsely.' Do you do business? What else does it say? 'Honor your father and your mother.' Do you have parents? What else does it say? 'Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal.' Is there jealousy among you? Do you have an evil inclination?

Thus Moshè said to the angels: Do you have an evil inclination? Do you deal with the mundanities of the marketplace? Do you dwell in a pagan world? So to what end should you be given the Torah? To cultivate another lush garden of spiritual delights? But we will build a home with the Torah, as only we can. Only we, who daily struggle with the deceit, the strife and the profanity that mark the lowliest stratum of G-d's creation, can construct with the Torah a dwelling for Him, a place to house His quintessential self.