The "BLESSING" of Sefiras HaOmer - Lomdus and Machshava of Rav Moshe Shapiro

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com welcome to today's share uh Brooklyn and we are going to discuss a very important subject today a timely subject regarding Spiros and to try to delve into some of the marchava behind spirit that emanates from the lambdas of sversoever and to get a little bit of an insight into the power of these days aside from just leading up to Kabal Satora but they they seem to have an added Dimension to them as we are about to discover we're going to try to make the uh is a little bigger here we go okay beautiful uh the rambam Hoskins Park Zion Cafe it's myself familiar with he passed against we need to make a bracha says if you counted and you didn't make a broccoli I'd say and not only are you it's you don't have to go back and make a bracha again now this statement of the ramam is seems to be very difficult and that is the fact that the ramam says we make a bracha okay that's part of the Mitzvah but why does the ram them have to say that if you counted and you didn't make a bracha your you'd say of course your you'd say we all know blessings do not interfere with the performance of a Mitzvah even in the slightest way we all know if somebody puts on Talus and he doesn't make a bracha he also have someone worst villain he doesn't like if you eat matzah and you don't make feel the need to specifically Say by spirit that if you did the Mitzvah and you didn't say that is the question of Maisha Shapiro's one of the great Bali makshava of the last generation in uh there are a number of svarum now from Shapiro in Los Angeles we have Mayim we have uh you have many swarm in English now and they say for Africa he is troubled why does the ramam have the need to tell us that if one does not make abraha they are say furthermore why does the rambam have to say that if you counted and you didn't make a bracha you don't go back and make a brother of course you don't go back and make a bracha you're ready so if you'd go back and make a bracha it would be Abraham so that also seems to be unnecessary and superfluous so regarding that halacha the Advent writes that and gives us an insight into why the rambam perhaps had to say that if somebody counted and didn't make a broccoli again and that is because that is not a unanimous view not everybody holds that if you count without abraha you don't make a bracha again there is an opinion that you do go back and make the bracha again for instance the tashbate says that you're allowed to make abrahamas because three is only draw banana but the marks of Victory says if you dive in with the seabor count without a bracha um you say if I remember in the night at night I'll count with the bracha so I didn't say about Allah and if I forget I already counted but the rambam says no if you counted you can't go back and make a brachas you see from the max of victory that you'll Add accounts for yourself and then the count later with the bracha what do you mean why would you be a lad account later with the bracha you ready so we understand why the rambam has to go out of his way to say that if you counted without abraha you don't go and count with abraha later because he's coming to exclude the dissenting view that if you count without abraha you could count later with abraha but why is there such a dissenting view why would somebody say that if you already performed the Mitzvah you could go back and make the bracha later nobody would say if you ate matzo without a bracha you could then go and eat matzo with abraha you're ready you'd see the mitzvah what would the logic of that be apparently Rabbi said what we see is that the bracha of spirit is different than the bracha for other Mitzvahs when it comes to the to the bracha of other Mitzvahs the bracha is merely a blessing over the Mitzvah when it comes to spheroimer it seems that the bracha is part of the Fulfillment of the Mitzvah and therefore the rambam needs to tell us that even though the Brach is part of the performance of the Mitzvah nevertheless if you counted without abraha then you would still be you'd say the mitzvah furthermore that is why the rambam that is why perhaps the maksar vitri tells us that if somebody counted with Arab they could then go count with a bracha because even though they counted nevertheless the bracha is not just a blessing over the Mitzvah the Brach has actually part of the performance of the Mitzvah so that's something we have to study and analyze why when it comes to spheroimer is there this notion that making the bracha is part of the Mitzvah when it comes to any other Mitzvah making the Racha is not in any way part of them it's not why does it seem to have an element uh that making the bracha is part of the mitzlah by the way here's another illustration of where we see that making a bracha is part of the performance of the mitzvah the image of ram writes in Sim and tough pay tests of cotton hey that we know that how do we count Sera we say or today we say voice a that today saying that today implies that you're giving a reason you know I am making a bracha now because um the reason I'm making a broadcast is because that's how you're not making because there's no there's no reason you're making a Brotherhood because you're doing a Mitzvah she implies certain Fusion between the bracha and the Mitzvah likewise the Taj says don't say hey however if you look and look like yaakov says that the conclusion and consensus of the name is however says the truth is someone who says not making a mistake you have what to rely on namely the royke the Tanya the maharral and the meaning is a reason you know I'm making a bracha because today is uh this and this day so you see there is an idea and there is a approach to the midst of aimer that the bracha becomes part of the mitza in Contra distinction to all other Mitzvahs where the bracha is not part of the mitzvah when it comes to serious is part of the mitzvah there's another idea that to throw into the equation to help us understand this whole subject tells us at the end of Magilla if Allah says Ezra Ezra of course was the navi Malachi he was masaki and for Claude Israel that they should read the of tairasai before shivuis so that the curses so that the year ends together with its curses so that when the year is coming to an end as the year is going down the drain the curses go down the drain so as the new year approaches and Rosh Hashanah is coming and the previous year is ending we lay in the as if to say let the year go down the drain together with the curses the 98 curses of kisabai but at the end of so the gumara asks I understand why we want to read the before Rosh Hashanah as the year has just come to an end but why do we have to read the Turkish before shavuas says the gemara because shavuis is also a new year like the mishnu says were judged on the fruits of the tree so in uh before shavuas is the end of the year so to speak so you want the year to come in at to an end together with its curses now which curses do we read before how many colors 49 Clovis how interesting how significant that there are 49 curses in what is the significance of that what is the reason for that why do we dafka have to read the 49 curses before the yomptif of chevous it almost seems like before we go into yomptif it is incumbent upon us to uh make sure we read the 49 curses of the hook I say foreign Ty Paris they all died at one time because they were in Illinois and the world was desolate until the Akiva came to the sages of the South and he taught them who were they rev mayor ravihuda rabiosis I saw an interesting uh reminisce to this idea ishim ishem Isham stands for elieza shimmine Yehuda mayor Isham and says the gemara they all died they established the Torah at that time Tana we learned Kula mesumi PESA they all died in the time frame between pesach and shavors they all died a horrific death Mahi what is that horrific death they all died the Misa of askara had 24 000 students which is a lot of tamidam and they all died at one time they all died between the number 24 000 is a very significant number that is a number we find in Tanakh as well and that is at the end of parsha's balak when the beneathanya with the Benoist moyav when the binay Shimon led by zimri bensalu shlum was mazana with Cosby basur there was a Plagueis um died in the plague in the times of the Benoist mayav 24 000 students died at that time what is the connection if if any between the 24 000 students of Ravi Akiva and the 24 000 students the 24 000 Jews that died in the Maga fund the times of the nice so we've learned from the magala mukas from the ramami Pano that there is some kind of mystical connection between the students of revia Kiva and the yiddin from shaved shimain that died finds a connection between the 24 000 residents of the city of Shem who were slain and but at the end of the day we do see that there is a connection between the the students of rebecciva and those who were um died by magefa in the times of zimmery and Cosby what exactly is that connection how were the students of rabi Akiva in any way a fulfillment a tick on a uh a way to rectify what occurred in to the children to the benay Shimon in the times of zimri and Cosby in the mid bar when Kai saw came Adam it's right they say I am here today to debunk a very great myth I believe that most people think that bill um came along and he tried to curse claw Israel and what happened instead of cursing us what did he do he blessed us right that's what they told you in Yeshiva but they tricked you they didn't tell you the truth that never happened it's not true billum never tried to curse us and then bless us he cursed us the gemara says there's only one curse of villam that turned into a blessing all the other curses were uh seemingly effective the gemara says in Sanhedrin let's take a look on the sheet over here in Number 16. the gemara says shall I say Russia from the blessing of that Wicked man we know what was in his heart he wanted to say that we shouldn't have Shoals what did he say he said he wanted to say that dwell Among Us he said Israel he wanted to say that their mahu should not extend he said he wanted to say they shouldn't have olives and grapes he said he wanted to say they shouldn't have a pleasant Aroma he said and said Hashem and so on and so forth um all the blessings that God switched from a curse to a blessing turned back to a curse in other words billum wanted to curse us Hashem turned into blessing on billum turned it back into a curse is except for shoes and the almighty overturned the cursing to a blessing it doesn't say the curses to a blessing but the curse to a blessing only one curse was turned into a blessing they all turned into a clalla except for except for one now why did it happen that all the blessings of bilum turn into a curse that's because bilum had a great idea he told his people God hates us and like Zima and this way billum was successful in having the curses be effectuated on call Israel but the shows remained in as a blessing and bilam cannot infringe on them okay what is the connection between being Miss Zane with mayav and the ability to curse after all billum all he wants us to do is uh be next so why did he have to get moabites why couldn't he get Japanese North Koreans Iranians syrians Lebanese Africans why only by being nazana with the Benoist mayav would we be eligible for klala and that is we now uncover a great Secret that the numerical value of the word Maya of mem is 40 vava 6 alif is one bases two is 49. mayav is gamatria 49. in fact at the end of my shabino's life it says given 49 levels of wisdom like the gamara says in Rosh Hashanah of wisdom the coulomb they're all given to much except for one Kim and you made him lacking a little bit of God my shabino had 49 levels of wisdom but at the end of moshe's life went up from The Plains of Maya from the level 49 alhar nivoy to the level nunby samayav represents 49. we know the gemara says because I'll tell us the Torah was given to my shabino 49 ways tame 49 ways tar like it says gamachia 49. why is the Torah given in a numeral of 49. we know the number seven is the number that encompasses the natural world the world was created in seven days but the entire gamut of all aspects of the natural world is represented by the number 49. 49 represents so to speak the full extent of existence ultimate blessing 49 ultimate clalla 49. the way to get to Hashem 49 levels of wisdom the way to have the ultimate distance and period from Hashem mayav 49 levels of Tuma we know that who is the progenitor of mayav light why was his name light the answer is light in Aramaic means curse light means curse that is because light brought into the world the ultimate for power of 49 the ultimate auror the ultimate curse namely mayav mayav is the quintessential force of klala of Tuma therefore a villain wants to be successful in having curse be effectuated on the Jewish people if he gets us to be missing that would be the greatest attachment of klala and contamination to the Jewish people as moyev represents the ultimate force of klala that was the plan of bilam and he was successful so billum gets the Venezuela with the Benoist mayev and then billum is able to overturn all of the brachice to klala but the strange thing is that there's a very important person that comes from this koala and comes from light and comes from mayav namely why does dovet have to come from the quintessential force of Tomah and aura because the job of mashiach the Navid safanya says take a look at number 22. it's a fania paragima posic tests then I will overturn all the nations the job of mashiach is not to teach the truth is to completely turn around every false and incorrect notion and turn it on its head in fact the rambam writes in the censored edition of the writings of the rambam that the reason why God allowed Christianity to spread to the whole world is because this way the world will have the ideas of Messiah mashiach of God known but they'll have a distorted view of it and then when mashiach comes he doesn't have to teach them new information he just has to so to speak modify and turn around what they already know to be true that's the job of mashiach meshiach has not to bring goodness into the world is to take the auror and to transform it into Baruch that's what the Apostle says so if David is 49 the quintessential force of klala that was the force that billum used to effectuate his clothes and they're from dovin must come from in fact the Schloss says a very amazing thing that when avram avinu set to light the whole land is before you he parted not may Allah separate from me he uses the lotion of period he said either I go left you go right or vice versa he says hello why are you fighting over inheriting Arts Israel there's a time for everything right now it's not the time to take possession of the land you know when it will come time to take possession of the land he poured at the time of period when ruus will hear from Nami Ki when Nami will tell well when Russ will tell Nami yafrid only death will separate us when Russ clings to Nami that then the period will be over then the land of Israel will be ours so what avram was telling was light was he pareton it's not the time for the possession of the land yet we need to wait for the final period of yafrid so very interesting so light is the father of mayav it's a lotion of a curse he brought the epitome of curse into the world and therefore mashiach comes from Lord because he will be mahapir the and therefore he has to have within him that seed of Kala and turn it around and now we understand when billum was successful in getting the Benoist mayav to be mazana with kalai so that is when his clothes took effect through the actions of Shiva shiman Shapiro this gives us insight into a phenomenon we encounter in the turkey says one who hits his friends secretly says Rashi this refers to lushinhara says Rashi I saw in the countress of remote there are 11 arorim in what do you mean the 11th they're 12 no Shimon it doesn't say horror so Rashi says darshan because Shimon doesn't get in horror because yaakovi never intended to bless him before he died when he blessed the other so he didn't want to curse him either but Cesar Shapiro according to what we're learning we understand why it doesn't say because Shimon already got his Aura when he was mazana with Maya of mayav is 49 already got his Aura there's no corresponding or can I get Shimon in the Marvel Shapiro now we understand the eighths of villamarasha he wanted to try to find the precise moment that Hashem is angry to be able to turn over me the surahman to meet us but then Hashem turned everything La bracha so balak balam had a great idea if you want the klala to effectuate if you want it to take effect you need kaiso to attach to the ultimate source of Kala namely mayav and therefore now we understand why the the Shiva shiman died because of because the clallah of bilam was hell on them and as Rashi says later that's why there's no error in the against shiman Shimon already got his Aura in the times of bilam and this gives us an understanding of how the students of the Akiva correspond to the 24 000 student members of Shiva shimane Why did the you didn't die in the times of bilam because of the club they were mazana they attached themselves to mayav and therefore they were not able to overcome the kala of bilam now let's talk about the following idea foreign do for a living Akiva was a schlepper he was a porter really he carried suitcases whose suitcase is there a vikiva carry he carried the suitcases of Barkley because Ruby Akiva believed wholeheartedly that Barca was mashiach the Posse says i gaze at him blood curve he's not close shoots forth from yaakov becomes Israel and a rod from Israel um he will cut off the governors of foreign he was like a star Rabbi Akiva can't have a gummy bear because he would say Dane have a Malcolm this is the mashiach review said to Akiva grass will grow in your jaw before this guy's mashiach but Ruby Akiva really held that was mashiach so the question is but we always pasca like Ruby Akiva Sahara bikiva get this wrong and the answer is right held that Barca closed now if he's mashiach that means he was able to overcome the 49 forces of Tomah and overcome mayav but then because so therefore they so to speak because of their average died they killed Michelle couldn't come it's not that rubikiva was wrong was right the problem was because of his Tami then by the way remote Shapiro says now we have a deeper understanding of the amazfira the same way the Avalos of the three weeks Mourns Corbin bayashani the avellos of spirits would have come he would have built the base of would have been here but because of the sin of the Tamir Akiva baraka's uh plans and hashem's plan of Sheikh was frustrated so now svira is a days of Avalos the same way the three weeks are days of Avalos these three weeks are days of mourning over by a Shani and svira is mourning over hormone in a way sphera is more painful more mournful than the Quran than uh the three weeks so three weeks is crying over spilled milk in a way but sphera is crying over what could have been is as a man which is dedicated to overcome the 49 powers of clallah of mayav and if it would have been would have been the mashiach and now we understand why the tamiderebiakiva died dafka during this time of the year because these 49 days of svira correspond to the days of overcoming the 49 powers of Kala of mayav in other words the days between pesach and shavuas these 49 days are 49 days to overcome the 49 of mayav and if we're successful in overcoming it what's going to be on the 50th day the birthday of meshiach now we understand why we read rusan shavuas because the avoida of spheroes to overcome the 49ers of Tama so that mashiach could come on that's why on the 50th day it's not only a countdown it's countdown to gaula countdown to mashiach overcoming the forces of Tomah but because the students of rebecciva so to speak did not rectify the sin of the Vanessa mine the sin of the shimane was literally the curse of mayav so the Suns Arabia Kiva did not rectify the curse of mayav so when is someone punished if they don't rectify the curse of Maya during the days of mayaf the 49 days of mayav from the 49 days from pesach to shavus are the 49 days of overcoming the curse of mayav the Jews succumbed to the curse of Maya by the 24 000 members of Shimon who died because of the klala that's why there's no clallah in the the opportunity to rectify that they didn't so they succumbed during the emesphera so that means these 49 days of sphera are designated to try to bring bracha and overcome the by the way I'll share with you one awesome idea from the imray Yosef of spinka that's mamesh vegetarian sanhajan says um that before pincha stabbed zimri zimmery lived with Cosby 424 bee ice that day is by the way just want to point out that's a lot simri lived with Cosby 424 times what in the world does that mean they had a tradition that there was a prey de taiva a good dove who had come out of mayav from which would come the image and ultimately the mashian Israel and the progenitor of Marcus Blaze David zimri anasi of claw Israel who is a great man and he also had a tradition that from moyav would come a dove a righteous woman from which mashiach would be born zimmery held that Cosby was the righteous Dove that prayed the taiva from mayav who from her would come be she would be emotion and from her would come and David 424. gamatria mashiach Ben David says the spinkaraba the intention of zimri was to live with this woman from mayav actually you could ask it was really from Midian but it was under the auspices of the idea of together with and he held that from her would come the image 424 Michelle because the avoida of the binay Shimon was to overcome the curse of my oven the binay shaman thought they were doing it but they succumbed to the curse of mayav and the students were supposed to overcome and he was going to be Meshach and he was going to overcome but somehow because they were like they also fell into the clola of mayav which is specifically this time of the year foreign now we understand the avoid of sphera these 49 days are correspond to 49 days of curse which is represented by mayav is there any Wonder then why before the optif of Swiss must we get out of the way must we read before the umptive of us approaches the gamara says the megillah we have to read the clolo it's not of mishna Tara but of tairasai how many 49 those are the clawless represented by mayav that we must overcome and get out of the way before the antifa starts and therefore the avoida of svirus to overcome the clallah of mayav and ultimately to reach the day of Swiss which is the Crescendo of overcoming mayav with the birth of ah now we understand some of the lambdas comes the rambam and the rambam understands that if the avoida of sphera is to overcome the 49 powers of Kala of the yamasphera of moyav then the bracha of svira sawimer is not only a birha Mitzvah but it's to help us influence this man that it should be overcome from his man of clowa asman of the tamiderebi Akiva succumbing to club and injecting it with bracha and therefore you would think the bracha is part of the mitzvah and you would think therefore if you said yes even though yes when it comes to serious is more fundamental than other Mitzvahs nevertheless if you don't make the bracha still your Mitzvah of and that's why the marks or Victory says that if you counted sphere as you could go back and count with what do you mean you ready you weren't fully mitzvah because the myth says not just to say what day it is it's to save the day and then overcome the klala latent in that day the clola of mayav and injected with bracha the bracha of the anticipation for the Yoma which is not only the day of cabal but the leader of David the leader of the ultimate overcoming the kala of mayav says Shapiro this gives us insight as well into the opinion cited in the Berge so the mugan of ramen Natasha say don't say because today because the blessing is a blessing and the counting stands on its own but now we understand based on this approach of Ramos Shapiro that the blessing and the counting so to speak fuse together it's not a regular blessing where you're making a burger but the the blessing infuses the day with uh with a quality of bracha because these days do have a capacity of Kala we want to get out of the way the 49 clothes of of um of taurus the 49 clothes of the hokaisai we want to inject bracha by every day not just counting by saying the bracha and that's why there's a shita if you count without and therefore there's a notion there's an idea that when you count you don't just saying you say and this gives us a different approach to the days of svira on the one hand it's a very tenuous time it's a dangerous time it's a time that's latent with klala the kala of mayav the kala of bilam the kala that helped CL that allowed the Clovis of Willem to be effectuated but it's also this man which is massugal to overcome this kala and to reach the ultimate Crescendo namely the leader of which is on the umptive of to infuse all of these days with with great Braha and great blessing and overcome all of the clola of the memthes Shari Tuma of moyav to reach the great day of the Leda of meshiach pandavid Amen thanks everyone for listening and today we're restarting a Garris ramban at 5 PM bully nether so please join us then and uh until next time have a great day you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com