The Healing Power Hashem Sends In Chodesh Iyar - Erev Shabbos Zoom Drasha

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Interestingly, in Melachim Aleph Perek Vav Pasuk Aleph the month of Iyar is called Chodesh Ziv. Chodesh Ziv and that actually has a lot of significance because the month of Sivan the Sefer Yetzirah says was created with the letter Zayin. So the month of Iyar is a Vav, the month of Sivan is a Zayin and together it's Chodesh Ziv meaning it's the Hachana for Sivan. Meaning Chodesh Iyar is the Hachana for Kabbalas HaTorah. But it's of great significance that the month of Iyar was created with the letter Vav because we know the role of a Vav is a Vav is a Vav HaChibur. It connects. Because the month of Nissan is the Rosh. Reishon Hu LaChodesh HaShanah. It's the beginning of the year. It's the head of the year. It's the beginning of the year. The origin of the year. The month of Sivan on the other hand is the giving of the Torah. It's the heart of the year. It's the Lev of the year. Chochmah is in the Lev. What connects? You always need a connection between your heart and your head. Your head and your heart have to be connected. The Rosh and the Lev are connected with the Vav, with the Tzavar, with the Vav HaChibur that's the month of Iyar. Iyar connects the beginning to the Lev, to the heart. So this is a central month because we know the Simanei Chiyus, the signs of life are in the neck. The neck, the month of Iyar is the is the month of life. It connects the head to the heart. What's very interesting is if you look in the authentic Tachanun when I say authentic Tachanun I mean the Tachanun of the Sefardim. Ashkenazim much to your chagrin actually never say Tachanun ever ever ever. We never say Tachanun. Tachanun is Perek Chaf Vav is the authentic Tachanun. And excuse me, not Chaf Vav. But LeDovid Hashem Nafshi Essa which is Perek Chaf Hey of Tehillim which is what the Sefardim say which is actually the Halachic Tachanun and Ashkenazim avoid it because we're afraid of the Kelalah of the Zohar that anyone who says Tachanun without Kavana it's bad news. So instead we opt to say a different Perek and by saying this other Perek we never incur the Kelalah because we never say Tachanun. We'll never say Tachanun without Kavana because because we never say Tachanun. Instead we say Perek Vav which is certainly of note. Because if you look in the authentic Tachanun Perek Chaf Hey LeDovid Hashem Nafshi Essa it goes by the Aleph Beis and the Zohar asks every single letter of the Aleph Beis is represented. There's a Pasuk for Aleph, a Pasuk for Beis, a Pasuk for Gimel and there's no Pasuk for Vav. The letter Vav is omitted. And the Zohar HaKadosh says that's right. You know why the letter Vav is omitted? Because the letter Vav stands for the Eitz HaChaim. The Vav is the tree of life. And in Tachanun the objective of Tachanun is to say and articulate that you would be Moser Nefesh Al Kiddush Hashem. So since the purpose of Tachanun, which by the way this is the month of Tachanun. Nissan there's not too much Tachanun. Sivan also not a ton of Tachanun. Iyar is the month of Tachanun. So the month the letter Vav does not appear in Perek Chaf Hey because the letter Vav represents life. The tree of life. And in Tachanun you're Moser Nefesh Al Kiddush Hashem. To me it's ironic that the Ashkenazim say for Tachanun Perek Vav. Can you imagine? Instead of saying Perek Chaf Hey that has no Vav we say Perek Vav of Tehillim. But in any event we learn from here that the letter Vav is the letter of life. And therefore if the month of Iyar was created with the letter Vav that means Iyar is a month of life. And in fact we find in many Mekoros that the greatest month of Refuah of the whole year is the month of Iyar. For example The Gemara says Kol HaShakyanim, any elixirs, any liquids that you drink are always healthy between Pesach and Shavuos. I believe the Chasam Sofer quotes this Gemara to show the medicinal properties of the month of Iyar because it says the Gemara says any liquid that you drink between Pesach and Shavuos are healthy. This says the Chasam Sofer shows the medicinal properties of the month of Iyar. In fact, the Chasam Sofer writes and this is brought in the Sefer Shaarei Yissachar of the Munkatcher that the word Iyar stands of course for Ani Hashem Rofecha. I am Hashem your doctor. And you know there's there things that we need Hashem to be our doctor because as Ribono Shel Olam has given us great Shluchim in this world and health care practitioners and medical doctors there's so much that we don't know and there's so much we have to rely only on Hashem for. So Baruch Hashem it's the right month for that. Iyar is the month of medicine. Iyar is the month of the the medication from Shamayim, the Refuah from heaven. Ani Hashem Rofecha. And the Bnei Yissachar explains why is it historically that the month of Iyar is such a month of Refuah? So the Bnei Yissachar writes that the Mann came down for the first time on in the month of Iyar. Some even say Lag BaOmer, some say three days earlier but whenever it was it was certainly in the month of Iyar. And says the Bnei Yissachar we know that all Refuah really comes through the proper Achilah. Illness comes through inadequate Achilah, improper Achilah Achilah that does not nourish and does not sustain us and Refuah also comes through the proper Achilah. So since we know that the Mann was pure nutrition. It did not produce any Tzoya. It did not produce any Nothing had to be excreted from the Mann. The Mann was pure hydration and nutrition. And since the Mann came along and all the the Cholaim were Nisrapei from the Mann in preparation for Kabbalas HaTorah so every year in the Zman of Iyar it is programmed into this time of the year that it is a time of great Refuah and it's a time of a Segulah for Refuah. And therefore Ribono Shel Olam we want to say created with the letter Vav because the letter Vav is the Ois HaChaim. Represents the Eitz HaChaim. So we're Mispallel as we approach Rosh Chodesh Iyar. Today is Rosh Chodesh but we haven't yet begun the month of Iyar. We hope that this month should bring Refuos for all of Klal Yisrael, Refuos for all the Cholei Yisrael and the Ribono Shel Olam should open up the eyes of the world to to be able to recognize the proper Refuos for this Mageifah that we're facing. And uh just like when Klal Yisrael were Mekabel the Torah all the Cholaim were Nisrapei. May the Ribono Shel Olam send us all a Refuah this month. It should be a Chodesh of Refuos, a Shabbos Shemelitzik Refuah Kerovah LaVo Vi. And I want to wish everyone a good Shabbos and a good Rosh Chodesh. And BeEzras Hashem only Bracha VeHatzlacha. That's all. That's all folks. Wishing everybody a great Shabbos. Thank you so much. Kol Tov. Good Shabbos. Shabbos. Good Shabbos. Shabbos. Shabbos. Shabbos everyone. Good Shabbos from Nossan. Shabbos Dovid. Good Shabbos Azriel. Good Shabbos. I don't see everybody's name. But if Eliezer good Shabbos. Good Shabbos everyone. Good Shabbos Dovid. Good Shabbos Shaya. Shabbos Sruly. Good Shabbos from Aron. Good Shabbos Hillel. Good Shabbos Jay, Menachem and that's those are the names that I see and AC Posen of course and Rav Gedaliah. And if I missed anyone good Shabbos to you Judah and Solomon. Good Shabbos. Good Shabbos. Bracha VeHatzlacha. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com.