Why Do We Stay Up on Shavuos?

How could the Jewish people sleep the night before receiving the Torah? Could they really have been that careless?Let’s look at it from a Chassidic perspective. Before Matan Torah, the physical and spiritual worlds could not mix. A mitzvah was pure spirituality, and any earthly action was strictly physical. The Jews actually went to sleep intentionally—they knew that during sleep, the soul ascends. They wanted to detach from the physical world to reach the highest spiritual level possible before receiving the Torah.So if that’s the case... what did they do wrong?Stump The Rabbi | Rabbi Shloma GoldfarbTo ask a question and for more answers visit:http://stumptherabbi.org/This project was made possible byThe Chanin Fund