#521: Amida: V'Lamalshinim (Part 3)

s s Ser sponsor by the Saka family and as well by a and a foran and we are on the 12th the of we've been discussing how many bras there are in theid we call it 18 was added and it became number 19 we last left off the tells us that that corresponds it's not coincidental or accidental EA didn't author AA a universal that would transcend time and space and capture all of our needs with 18 coincidentally they looked in's name is 18 times there shma hashem's name is 18 times there and that's how they knew what right do we have 19 times because there is a 19th mention of hashem's name in namely not hashem's name the way we have it the way we think of it but a embedded hidden name of Hashem and there it's hashem's name of justice so they understood hashem's name of RA which is what we turn to him and we ask for his help that's the rest of the and we ask God to invoke his sense of justice in order to eliminate in order to overwhelm the intent of theim theim in order of those who are seeking to corrupt or undermine his Dominion in this world similarly we have a 19th reference not hashem's name explicitly what was the reference the Oneness the UN of the the they were trying to confront the Oneness of hem to suggest that there is no Unity to hashem's existence so through that illusion we gain license and we have permission for the 19th the gamar quoted a third possibility not the number of times that Hashem name appears in either shma or what was the third possibility the gamar had the 18 vertebrae in the spine and just like when one b they invoke all 18 vertebrae they protrude that through our movement we're using them so too when we DAV we are Freelander described the vertebrae are the skeleton the scaffolding of our physical being and the 18 BR is the scaffolding of our spiritual well-being and the gamar said there's a 19 small vertebrae so I don't know if you had looked into it but I did because we pointed out you pointed out that there are not 18 vertebrae how many vertebrae are there seven cervical vertebrae that end at the shoulders 12 thoracic vertebrae that end at the hips five lumbar vertebrae which end at the sacrum and five fused vertebrae and at the bottom is the tailbone that consists of three or five fuse vertebrae as well depending how you count and that is a total of 24 maybe more vertebrae and at least eight more that are fused 24 vertebrae individuals and at least eight more than are fused so there are not not 18 so what mean is our all off we have the wrong number we should add some more how do you get to 18 so the Koran translation notices this anatomical conundrum and says the 18 refers to the vertebrae in the spine beneath the ribs that's how they calculate in the spine beneath the ribs you get to 18 but some challenge that might not be accurate as well the Shan thing the English art scroll has its own answer in stating the number of vertebrae in the spine the rabbis apparently referred only to those below the neck this accounts for 17 vertebrae the identity of the 18th is mentioned is unclear but even that meant to be correct because there are 19 12 thoracic and seven lumbar spine below the neck not 18 so even that comment or calculation I know Ron's enjoying this I don't know if anybody else is but it's of interest but uh but it's of interest to me anyway so how do you get there so if you look at the uh if you look at the art scroll Hebrew gamar in the footnote they say something else there in Translation in the language of the rabbis the word spine shra does not include the entire vertebral column the vertebrae and the neck are counted separately in the mishos the rabi's count of 18 vertebrae apparently includes the back the thorax the hips the lumbar and one additional vertebrae either in the neck or in the base of the spine so how you get to 18 if you understand the way the back is divided it's possible to isolate and get to 18 but the image of freedlander that just like when we bow the pro they protrude we are invoking them the vertebrae represent the skeleton the scaffolding of our spine our ability to stand straight and erect and to be able to be mobile then so to the am these Bros when we surrender submit when we bow they are the scaffolding of our spiritual lives my friend Morty Goldenberg alerted me to the fact that all this is based on the bav the bav in bras has those tradition i s there are 18 either the 18 names of hem in 18 names of hem inma or the 18 vertebrae in the back spine however you calculate them and the 19th is because we found another name of hem another name of hem or a small vertebra we can count on if you look in thei thei bras actually learns that there were not 18 bras that E when they first authored the amida they authored it with 17 how do you get to 17 so the according to the holds that were really one we have them as two separate bras as broken out that's how we arrive at 18 but the understands the to see these two BR combined and according to the is called not preceding but only once was added that's how you got to 18 otherwise it would have been 17 because the two were combined how does Yi deal with the number of hashem's name you got to look at thei in Bros there to see how he deals with it but according to the's understanding of the was the original number 18 and it became 19 was the original number 17 and it became 18 what's anina a big difference between it would be what we call it today otherwise if according to the B that we have 19 why do we call it so you could argue we still call it 18 is life so maybe we're focusing that the is again the the backbone of our lives so even though there's a 19th we still call it 18 because 18 is high 18 is the the backbone of Our Lives maybe we're showing they authored 18 even though came later came later and the 19th we give covered by still calling it 18 but according to thei it's not a question the reason we call because they're 18 Bros so it makes perfect sense according to the Y