A question that has been on my mind is can women really teach men and can men really teach women how to dance? Which brings us to ...

The holiday of Shavuot is 50 days after Passover, when the Jewish people received the Torah at Mount Sinai.

The tradition is that every Jewish soul was there and so there is a popular Jewish singles website called www.SawYouAtSinai.com.

While every other Jewish holiday is legislated with mitzvot (laws from Hashem), Shavuout has none except to keep it as a day of rest. Consequently, Shavuot has possibly more minhag (customs) than any other holiday.

Among the minhag are studying all night (makes sense, we did get the Torah) and eating New York cheesecake (well we are Jewish). Traditionally men and women studied separately, but today we frequently study together.

I heard a Rabbi speak about relationships and this is the story he told.

"The traditional male method for studying Jewish law is through argumentation. You get a study partner and argue over minutiae to get to the truth. A typical study session goes like this."

"First guy, 'Nu, so what do you think of such and such?'

"The second guy starts to respond when the first guy rudely interrupts, "What are you crazy? Did you even read the commentary? You missed the entire point!'

"And the argument begins. It gets your blood boiling. The discussions are heated and kibitzers jump in. We love it.

"So I was excited when my wife said to me one day that she wanted to study Torah with me.

"We got out the Torah portion and I said to her, 'Nu, so what do you think of such and such?'

"She was delighted that I asked her opinion. When she started to answer, I interrupted and said, "What are you crazy? Did you even read the commentary? You missed the entire point!'

"I was ready for the fun to begin, but to my shock, that did not go over so well.

"She started to cry.

"And that is one difference between men and women.

By Andrew Weitzen, DanceCalendar.info, Bronze Inc. (c) 2010.

Andrew Weitzen is the author of Partnership Dancing™, How to Communicate Every Step in Every Social Dance Unambiguously.