The Midrash says when Hashem gave us the Torah, all of the animals in the world were still and were not able to make any sounds. All of the angels in Shamayim stopped their praises, all of the waters were completely still. No human beings were able to utter a word. The world was completely silent. And only then did Hashem say אנוכי ה' אלוקיך אשר הוצאתיך מארץ מצרים. Hashem wanted the entire world to know that there is nothing besides Him. But it goes further. Rabbi Meir Shapiro explained that on each of the shalosh regalim , we focus on a different aspect of Hashem’s control of the world. On Sukkot we understand that Hashem controls the world at large and thus we bring 70 bulls, corresponding to the 70 nations, and the Torah says regarding the command to go up to the Bet HaMikdash to be seen by Hashem, את פני האדון ה'– we call Hashem the אדון, the Master of the world. On Pesach we understand that Hashem has special hashgacha on His People, He skipped over the homes of the Jews and saved them from harm and thus, in the command to go up to the Bet HaMikdash to see Hashem, it says את פני ה' אלוקיך - which shows us that He has a special hashgacha on Klal Yisrael. And on Shavuot, when Hashem opened the Heavens, it was revealed that He has special hashgacha on every single individual. And that’s why for the command to go up to the Beit HaMikdash it is written יראה כל זכורך, speaking to every single individual. Hashem cares and worries, kavayachol , about every single Jew. Our problems are His problems, our concerns are His concerns. All He wants is for us to be successful in this world, to do the jobs that we are here to perform and He goes to great lengths to give the chizuk that every Jew needs to do his job properly. Recently in Israel, two children of one of the people who were killed in Meron wanted to do something special l’ilui nishmat their father. They knew how much their father loved going to the Kotel to find people to put tefillin on. They decided to go to one of the army bases up in the North and ask the soldiers there if they would put on tefillin . When they arrived, the guard told them they were not allowed to enter the complex. They were so distraught, having traveled so far to give this special zechut to their father and now they were being turned away. The guard felt bad for them and told them there were many soldiers out in the forest doing what was called their sherut miluim . And so, with renewed strength, they went out into the forest and found some 40 soldiers there and put tefillin on most of them. When they got to a certain individual, he refused to allow them to put on the tefillin. They kept trying to encourage him, but he said, “I will never put on a pair of tefillin again.” After pleading with him, he finally told them the reason. He said, “No one ever put tefillin on me except for one man.” He explained that he grew up irreligious and one time he was by the Kotel and an extremely nice man made conversation with him and got him to put on tefillin . Since then, he had gone back to the Kotel numerous times and, each time, that man puts tefillin on him. But for the past two years, he had gone to the Kotel eight times and that man was never there. He said, “He is the only one that I would allow to put tefillin on me.” The two boys asked him to describe the appearance of that man. After he did, they took out their phone and showed him a picture of their father. He exclaimed, “That’s the man!” They told him he passed away in Meron two years ago and they came to put tefillin on people to elevate his neshama . With that, this man happily put on the tefillin and then told them, in memory of their father, he would accept to put on tefillin every single day going forward. Look at what Hashem did for this man! He sent the only people in the world who could possibly get him to put on tefillin and commit to tefillin . And they found him over 100 miles from their home, out in the forest somewhere. Hashem cares about ev