The Mystery of the 5 Vav Collateral Yaakov Took From Eliyahu & the Students of Rebbi Akiva

Okay, good evening everyone. Shalom aleichem, baruchim haba'im. Welcome to our final shiur on Sefer Vayikra. The shiurim of taf shin peh vav are dedicated by the Israeli family of Great Neck l'iluy nishmat Malka bas Yosef. Shiur on Vayikra are generously sponsored by Dr. Zachi and Mushky l'iluy nishmat Shimon Eliezer ben Yaakov Zachi. Rivka bas Toby Halevi. I hope that's a good siman. The Gemara says if you sneeze during Shemoneh Esrei, it's a good siman. Hopefully during a shiur. Okay. And l'iluy nishmat Rav Dovid ben Yaakov Zachi. Also Sefer Vayikra shiurim are dedicated by Mrs. Yehudit Herman l'iluy nishmat her husband, Harav Shabsai Beinish ben Moshe. Tonight's shiur is dedicated by Mrs. Brenda Strasfeld l'iluy nishmat her father-in-law Yaakov Yehoshua ben Yosef Baruch Strasfeld whose yahrtzeit is chof daled Iyar. We got a name in the team in the chof. So they should have a mail to you shortly for the whole family. I'll be asking Al Tzedek. >> [snorts] >> Make sure you get the newest sefer pocket edition of Rameira Balaness. This way you could be mekayem the words of Rav Chaim Palagi never to be maysiach da'as from the Tanna Rebbi Meir. >> [snorts] >> Okay. So parshas Bechukotai the Gemara tells us in Maseches Megillah that Ezra enacted that we should read before the Yom Tov of Shavuos the tochacha of >> [snorts] >> Toras Kohanim. It's a tough one. It's a tough tochacha. There are 49 klalos kneged the 49 days of Sefiras HaOmer. During the Omer, we try to extricate ourselves from the klala of Mayav. Mayav is gematria 49. We make a bracha every night and we try to extricate ourselves from this klala. But the tochacha does end with a >> [snorts] >> nechama, with consolation. The pasuk says, "V'zacharti es bris Yaakov." I will remember of Jacob. The off as we see Isaac and even the covenant of Isaac and as we see Abraham and even the covenant of Abraham as car I will remember the as car I will remember the land. >> [snorts] >> Actually Rashi says that I'll remember the covenant of I'll even remember the covenant of Jacob the smallest of the others and Isaac and and Abraham which is a little bit difficult because we know that Jacob you know was the greatest of all the others. But if you look carefully Rashi says that if you're to go into I'll remember Jacob who went into if you're liable to be burnt I'll remember Isaac who went on the day. And in other words we're not remembering them specifically for their respective levels but for the test that they overcame and Jacob's test of was on perhaps not as difficult as the test of Isaac and Abraham. Okay, >> [snorts] >> but if we look at something carefully in this book we'll notice that the that the word Jacob is spelled a little bit differently. It's spelled fully. Usually the word Jacob is spelled fully here fully there's an extra in the word Jacob. Did you notice that? You should have noticed that. It's spelled fully. What is the explanation for this says Rashi the Jacob fully five places in the word Jacob is spelled fully but Jacob spelled missing five times Jacob not Jacob took a letter from name a as a security Sheyavo Viyavaser Gula Hashema that he will come and bring the redemption of the Jewish people. So Yaakov Avinu took a security. What was the security? The letter vav. He said, "You know what? You have a job to do. Your job is to herald the redemption. I need to make sure you do your job. I'm going to take a guarantee. I'm not going to take your watch. I'm not going to take your menorah, your esrog box. I'm going to take your vav. Five times Eliyahu spelled chaser. That's the correct way to sing it. Don't It doesn't matter what it says on the tape. The way it's written in Tanakh uh the way it's written in Tanakh is aleph lamed yud hay. In fact, five times in the Chumash Yaakov in Tanakh Yaakov is spelled malei. Where are they? It's interesting if you look in um if you look in the Mizrachi or you look in the Gur Aryeh he lists the five times that Yaakov Avinu is spelled malei. One is here. One gam zera Yaakov emes. That is the a pasuk in in Yirmiyahu lamed gimmel chof vav. Then it says vishov Yaakov vishaket Yirmiyahu mem vav chof zayin. And hinni shov shvus oholei Yaakov Yirmiyahu lamed yud ches. And lo cheilek cheilek Yaakov Yirmiyahu nun aleph yud tes. Four times in sefer Yirmiyahu Yaakov is spelled malei. What about Eliyahu? Five times Eliyahu is spelled chaser. What are they? >> [snorts] >> Umalach Hashem diber el Eliyahu. That's Malachim Beis perek aleph. pesukim gimmel through dalet. Vayelech Eliyahu, also Melachim. Vayomer Eliyahu HaTishbi, also Melachim. And Vayan Eliyahu vayidaber aleihem im ish Elohim ani, and then hinei anochi shole'ach lachem, which is the end of sefer >> [snorts] >> Nevi'im. Okay, so Yaakov Avinu has five avot, and Eliyahu Hanavi is missing five avot. Yaakov Avinu took a security. The Maharal explains as follows. Eliyahu's job is to herald the Geulah. That's his mission. That's his job. If that's his job, that's his tafkid hachayim. Which means did he do it yet? Did Eliyahu Hanavi do his job yet? He didn't do the job yet. If he didn't do the job yet, that means he's missing something. So, if he's missing something, he needs to be missing from his essence. The essence of a person is their name. So, therefore, something is missing from the name of Eliyahu to indicate that he did not fulfill his tachlis in this world, his objective in this world. The name of a person is their essence. So, he's missing. Now, who is he supposed to redeem? He's supposed to redeem He's supposed to herald the Jewish people. So, we took the letter, and we took what's missing from Eliyahu because what's missing from him is something he needs to give to us. So, the mechanism is that his objective has not been fulfilled. We take something out of his essence, and we take it because he is supposed to redeem us. By the way, what another phenomenon similar to this is in parshas Pinchas, it says hinni nosein li es brisi shalom. The word shalom, the vav is a vav ketia. It's a cut vav. It's a vav It's a cut vav. That also indicates that something's missing from Eliyahu. What? The vav. Again, that's another indication that the vav is missing from Eliyahu Hanavi. Says the Baal Haturim in Parshas Pinchas, this is the meaning of the pasuk, "Yagel Yaakov, Yismach Yisrael." Yismach is is osiyos Mashiach. Yismach are the letters of Mashiach. Yis- Yagel Yaakov. Yaakov will exult when? When Mashiach comes and Eliyahu Hanavi will get his vav back from Yaakov Avinu. So, there are question a few questions on hand, and those who have been listening to the shiurim over the last couple years, last I'm saying 16 years, you're going to say, "We already did this topic." >> [clears throat and snorts] >> I know. But the But this is Ein Beis Hamikdash Bli Chiddush. This is just introduction to taking it to the next level. We have three basic questions over here. Question number one is, listen, who's who exactly does Eliyahu Hanavi need to herald the redemption to? The Jewish people. He needs to redeem them us. So, why is Yaakov the one who's taking the collateral? Why Yaakov Avinu? Why not Moshe Rabbeinu? Why not the Vilna Gaon? Why not Rashi? Why Yaakov more than anybody else is the one who is holding on to this collateral from Eliyahu Hanavi? Yaakov's the only one who's interested in bringing the Geulah. Why specifically Yaakov Avinu? Question number two, why did he take the letter hei? Because he didn't. Why did he take the letter vav? Why did Yaakov take the letter vav? He took the letter vav. Why vav? Why didn't he take the aleph? Why didn't he take the lamed? So, you say, "Well, there's a simple [snorts] reason. His father gave him the name Yaakov at the bris, and if he would have taken the name the letter aleph, he would have been called Aakov or something like that. Or the only letter that wouldn't change his name was the vav. Likewise, probably the only letter Eliyahu was willing to give up was a vav. You know, you take away the aleph, what what what? Liyahu Liyahu? So, it was more it's the obvious choice, the vav. The vav doesn't have such a dramatic effect, not on the name of Yakov and not on the name of Eliyahu, but still that's just the practical reason. What's What's the underlying deeper reason why of all the letters that Yakov Avinu took as collateral, he took the letter vav specifically? >> [snorts] >> And then we'll add also, if you look at number 12, the question of Rebbe Yona Mizrachi, if you take a collateral, you're going to take a watch, all you need to do is take one watch. You know, if if you lent the guy $1,000 and he has a $1,000 watch, so you take one watch. What's he taking five watches for? How many vavs does Eliyahu does Yakov Avinu need? Why would he take five vavs from Eliyahu? The Mizrachi says, "Lo yadati tam l'chamisha makomos." I don't know why he took five vavs. "Ki k'var hayah maspik she'yavo makom echad." It would have been sufficient just to take one vav. So, these are three questions. Why Yakov? Why the vav? Why three times? Yeah? Fine. It's Hashem Baruch Hu wrote the wrote the Torah, not Yakov. Thank you for sharing that with us. So, what I mean is Yakov that's taking the collateral. Hashem Baruch Hu is the one that wrote the seven wrote the Torah. After Yakov took the collateral, you know, Hashem's reporting what Yakov took. If Yakov would have taken a lamed, Hashem would have wrote it with a lamed. You're saying that the Torah came first. So, once Yakov opened up the Torah and it said this is what I'm supposed to take, so he took he followed directions. I hear. Okay. Not a good question? Okay. So, let's let's begin with the first question. Why Yaakov Avinu? The Gemara says in Maseches Pesachim in the pasuk "V'holchu amim rabim v'amru l'chu v'na'aleh el har Hashem el beis Elokei Yaakov." Kohanim are going to say we're going to go up to the mountain of God, to the house of the God of Jacob. Says Gemara the house the God of Yaakov and not the God of Avram and Yitzchak. Not like Avraham who called the Mikdash a mountain, har. "Asher ya'amar hayom har Hashem yera'eh." Not like Yitzchak who called it a field. By Yitzchak Yitzchak was in "El rather like Yaakov Avinu who called it a bayis." Like it says "Vayikra Hashem hamakom hahu beis Kel." So Yaakov calls it a bayis. So think about it. Avram Avinu calls the Mikdash a har. Yitzchak calls it a sadeh. By the way, Reb Hershel of Liska says, "What's the concept that the the Kodesh Kodashim was never destroyed?" Because Yitzchak calls the Mikdash a field. On a field you have to leave pe'ah. So the reason why we still have a Kodesh Kodashim God observes the Torah. He gave the Kodesh Kodashim is the pe'ah of the field of the Makom Hamikdash that Hashem has to always give us. Yaakov calls it a bayis. That means of all the Avos Hakdoshim the one that is has the greatest proprietary rights on the place is Yaakov. Avram calls it a mountain. Okay, it's a mountain. Mountain is just a little site. Yitzchak calls it a field. Yaakov calls it a house. So the one that's most responsible to ensure that the house will be there is Yaakov is the one who recognizes as a house. So he's the one who's going to ultimately take responsibility that that house remains there. So perhaps that's the reason why Yaakov Avinu took um was the one who took the collateral. I wanted to say a different answer. I want to say Let's say like this. I I tell you, you know, um I want to make sure you do something. I want to make sure that uh you come to the Shabbos Shuva drasha in 5 months, okay? So, I'm going to take I'm going to take your watch. Can I have your watch? I'll take your watch. This one I'll give it back to you when you come to the drasha. Now, but what if I need you to do something like in a thousand years or in 2,000 years? It's not really going to help me if I take it because um a mortal is not going to be here in a thousand years. So, if Yitzchak would have taken the collateral or if Avraham would have taken the collateral that Eliyahu will have to come to bring the Geulah, that's pointless because after 175 years, Avraham Avinu will die and Yitzchak will die after 180. And now all bets are off. It's very nice they took a collateral, but they're not here to hold on to the collateral to make sure that the person whose collateral they took will do the job. We can all The only way it will be successful if you take a collateral that the job will get done is if you have someone who's immortal. So, Yaakov Avinu says, "So, of course Yaakov Avinu has to be the one who's going to take the collateral, otherwise the whole thing is pointless." So, my friend Rabbi Aaron Jacoby added, "You also have to take the collateral from someone who will also be here forever cuz if you tell somebody, you know, I really need you to bring the Geulah. Okay, sure. And then if, you know, he's not around a week later, then what good is it? So, I Eliyahu We need basically to get two guys who are not limited by human lifespan. So, the only two people are not limited Yaakov Avinu and Eliyahu. Fine. Why the hey and why the vov? Also, another possible reason is if you look in the Zohar Kadush, the Zohar Kadush says that of all the Avos, the one that Hashem specifically showed the events of Yetzias Mitzrayim to was Yaakov Avinu. That Hashem gave Yaakov Avinu back seats to see Yetzias Mitzrayim. Now, we know Yetzias Mitzrayim was the predecessor, the precursor, pre-enactment of the future redemption. So, since Yaakov Avinu, he's the one witnessing the original redemption, so he's also the guarantor of the third Beis Hamikdash. But, still we have to explain why did Yaakov Avinu take the hey? Because he didn't. Why did he take the vav five times? Okay, you ready? Comes the Shlah Hakadosh. And the Shlah Hakadosh says very simple. We know that until Mashiach comes, until Amalek is destroyed, Hashem's name is missing. His full name is Yud Kay Vav Kay. Right? Anybody here named Yeshayahu or Chizkiyahu or Yirmiyahu or Yirmiya? It's okay. It's okay. But, do you know anybody named Yirmiya? Yeah. My father's Yeshayahu. Yeshayahu or Yeshaya? Yeshayahu. Yeshayahu? You sure? >> [laughter] >> What do they call him? Shaya. Andre. Andre. >> [laughter] >> We didn't rehearse that before, but we should have. The names Yeshayahu, Yirmiyahu, Chizkiyahu, we generally >> [laughter] >> say Yeshaya, Yirmiya, Yechezkel. Even when we refer to the Navi, um what's say if you're learning Yeshaya. What are you learning? Yirmeyahu. What are you learning? His Hiskiyahu Malach. Rarely you Hiskiyahu. Why? So, Reuven Margolios says that Hashem's name is chaser in the galas. It's ka ki yada kiska. He's missing the vav and the kaf. So, therefore, to indicate that the names of Tanakh that are names that incorporate the Shem Havaya are abridged in the galas. We call it Yirmeya, Hiskiya, Yeshaya, unless very, very great people. Then we could give them the full the full uh Okay. So, therefore, Hashem's name is missing the vav and the kaf. When will those two letters be restored? When Mashiach comes. So, Yaakovinu tells Eliahu, "Listen, until you do the job and restore God's vav and hey, I'm taking your vav and I'm taking it five times." Okay, that's the Shlah Kadosh. That's why Eliahu we call. Yeah, because the Eliahu Why do we Maybe that's why we say Eliahu also. Also, the other ones are longer, so, you know. So, the Shlah Kadosh says that the missing two letters of Hashem's name are the vav and the kaf. So, Yaakov takes the vav from Eliahu and he says, "Until you restore the vav and I'm going to take it five times, I'm not giving it back to you." That's the Shlah Kadosh. Similar to this, there's a pasuk in Va'eira. It says, "Vesamti fidus bein ami uvein amekha." "Lamachar yehiye ha'osah zeh." Remember that? "Vesamti fidus bein ami uvein amekha lamachar yehiye ha'osah zeh." By the way, is it vesamti fidus or vesamti pidus? Fidus. Why? Because the word pidus is pei daled taf. Pei is is we call a beged kafes letter. Beged kafes letters six letters that can have a dot in it. Bet, gimel, dalet, kaf, pe, taf. Anytime a letter that can have a dagesh in it is preceded by a vowel, it drops the dagesh. >> [music] >> If it's preceded by aleph, he, vav, or yud, it drops the vowel. So, visamti yud, fidush. Unless the trop on the word before is a melech, >> [snorts] >> so it's a trop that stands by itself and it's not connected to the next word, then uh then the dagesh will be retained, okay? So, it's visamti fidush ben ani uven amechah. Says the Baal HaTurim, the word fidush is missing. It should be pe, dalet, vav, taf. What happened to the vav? But in fact, two other times in Tanakh it says pedush with a vav. Pedush shalach la'ami. Or veharbe imoi. Veharbe imoi fidush. Kuf, lamed in Tehillim. Says the Baal HaTurim, this redemption from Egypt was only temporary. It was only at the end of makat orav. La'atid lavo, veharbe imoi fidush will be a geulah shleimah, with a malei vav. By the way, Rabbeinu Bachya says, the word fidush is spelled chaser without a vav. Because geulat Mitzrayim had galut after it. But the future redemption, there is no shivut after it. The geulah atida will be eternal. Therefore, it says shalach la'ami veharbe imoi fidush. By the way, the Shlah HaKadosh says oy im an ayra. Visamti fidush ben ami uven amechah. I'm going to make a redemption between my people and your people. The word fidush is spelled chaser. It should be malei. Do you remember Rashi in Eichah? It says vayelchu vilaych ayach lifnei >> Roy Dave. The Jewish people ran away without any strength. It says Rashi, every time Roy Dave is spelled in Tanakh, it's always spelled chaser, except for in Aicha, because in Aicha by the Churban, they ran after us full force, full fledged pursuit. The Shulchan says that's what it means, molei rudaftei. I was chased, molei, I was pursued, I was hounded completely. But the word Geulah is spelled chaser. The chaser shnas Geulah. Okay, you ready? Fasten your seat belts. Vesamti fedus chaser. Hashem says in Egypt it's going to be missing, cuz you're going to go into galus again. You want to know when is it going to be complete? Lemacha. In the far off future, lo asah l'olam yehei ha'os hazah. In the far off future, this letter is going to come back. The letter vav. The letter vav is the letter of Geulah. The harbei imoi fedus. That will be when? Lemacha. We know that in Tanakh, the word lemacha could mean not just tomorrow, it could mean in the far off future, lo asah l'olam yehei. By the way, this explains why one of the most commonly recited prakim of Tehillim is perek kuf lamed. You ever wonder? You need something, you say kuf lamed. Why? Like who decided kuf lamed? We made a raffle, we had 150 options, and they they they made a lottery, and 130 came up as the number. Who decided on 130? Perek kuf lamed is the tefillah of for the Geulah. It's bakashas Geulah. It goes like this. Shir Hamalos Mimamakim karasicha Shem Havaya. Shem Havaya. We're not to say the Shem Havaya, but in the depths of our heart we think it. Kira si Yud Kay Vav Kay Hashem. Shima ve koili Aleph Daled Nun Yud. Hear my voice, in my voice I only could say Aleph Daled Nun Yud. Tiyanu as nakashuva is a call em avoyno is tishma ka because of our sins Hashem's name is now missing. Now listen to this. We say Nafshi Lashem Mishoymrim Laboyker Shoymrim Laboyker. Did you ever wonder, we already said the words Shoymrim Laboyker, why are we repeating the words Shoymrim Laboyker? We don't say Shir Hamalois, Shir Hamalois, Mimamakim. We don't randomly repeat the same words. What does it mean Shoymrim Laboyker, Shoymrim Laboyker? I don't know. You don't have to know unless your mother's Jewish, don't worry. Unless you're Jewish, you don't have to know the meaning of why it says Shoymrim Laboyker. So the Malbim says like this. We're saying my soul yearns for the Geulah more than a guard who's waiting on the top of a mountain in the pitch black. You know, the guy who has the night shift. He's waiting in the dark. He can't wait until the light comes. It's cold. It's lonely. It's frightening. He doesn't know who's lurking in the darkness. He's Shoymrim Laboyker. And boy is he waiting for the morning, you know why? Cuz he knows it's going to come. It's not like you're wait he's waiting for something that's an unknown. It's not like you're waiting, you know, for the Mets to win the World Series. This is actually something that could happen. This This is a could be This is a reality. It will happen. There are other people they wait for things that will never happen, you know? It's not the the shomer is waiting for the morning. Sorry, but it's a truth, you know? But the the shomer knows the morning's going to happen. Nafshi l'Hashem, my soul waits for the Geulah. Mishomerim laboker, more than the guard waits for the morning. You know why? Because shomerim laboker, he's only waiting for the morning. And as much as he waits for the morning, it won't happen any sooner. It ain't going to happen It's not like if he waits more, it's going to happen faster. It's not going to happen faster. It will happen, well, but Nafshi Mishomerim laboker Yachel Yisrael el Hashem ki immo hasha'ar hesed v'harbeh immo fidus. Hashem is so kind, he could bring fidus malei Geulah Sheleimah quicker than it's supposed to be. Okay, that's kuf lamed. So, we explained why Yaakov Avinu took the vav and why he took it five times. The Mizrachi asks, "I am not so sure why Yaakov Avinu took the vav five times. Why five times?" Okay, the Shlah says to the missing hey of the name of Hashem. So, in one of the earliest mamarim of the Shelah Pinchas, he suggested as follows, and Isaac's waiting until when I we get up to the new information, yeah? The By the way, and um David doesn't remember, but last time he asked v'harbeh immo fidus it says v'samti fidus chaser who took that vav? It's that that vav is missing. We don't know who took that vav. The mystery of that's a missing vav that we don't know what happened to the vav. I'm sure he remembers asking that, right? Okay. So, what we said last time was uh the Shelah Pinchas said based on the Or HaChaim HaKadosh. That why is the Geulah Why is the Geulah taking so long? What is taking so long? It's already been 2,000 years. What's holding it up? So, there many approaches, many popular approaches. This one maybe not as well known. There's a famous Or HaChaim HaKadosh that there are there there are in the history of the Jewish people four redemptions. The redemption from Babylon, the redemption from Persia, the redemption from Greece, and the future redemption. And they will all be in the merit of four great persons personalities. Redemption from Bavel in the merit of Avraham, the redemption from Persia in the merit of Yitzchak, the redemption from Greece in the merit of Yaakov, the future redemption in the merit of Moshe Rabbeinu. This is the Or HaChaim HaKadosh. It's Or HaChaim HaKadosh the Shita say. The Or HaChaim HaKadosh says Mashiach will be Moshe Rabbeinu. The Or HaChaim HaKadosh writes in numerous places Moshe Rabbeinu will be the Goel Acharei. The Remez is Moshe Rashei Teivos Ma Shehaya Hu Sheyihiyeh. What was will be. So, by the way, it comes out very good. We we once spoke about this at length. Galus, the Geulah from Paras was in the merit of Yitzchak. Yitzchak. That's why Haman has and eight sons connected Yitzchak. And that's why the party lasted 180 days connected the life of Yitzchak. Yitzchak plays a big role in the salvation from Purim. But the future redemption will be by Moshe Rabbeinu. Now, Moshe Avraham Avinu was Chesed and but Moshe Rabbeinu was the Nosein HaTorah. Velazan Nesarech HaGalus, this is why Cuz if we're not learning Torah if we waste time from learning Torah, he doesn't want to take us out. This is the reason why the galus has lasted so long. Cuz Moshe Rabbeinu is the goel. And he says if people are just spending their days scrolling on their phone, I don't want to I don't want to redeem them. No, they're wasting time. That's the cause. If I would have said it, you would have got all upset about me. No, it's because you know, it's because we don't love each other. That seems to be what the Gemara says. That's not what the Or HaChaim HaKadosh says. He says it's because of not learning enough Torah. However, he does say in the end something interesting. He learns this out from the pasukim of Ve'ata tetzaveh es Bnei Yisrael veyikchu eilecha shemen zayit zach. The Torah that you learn has to be pure, has to be lishma, not to argue, not to fight, but uh to promote unity. Fine. So, the Or HaChaim HaKadosh is saying that the future redemption will be accomplished by Moshe Rabbeinu, and the reason it's taking so long is he doesn't want to redeem us if we're mevatal from Torah. That's not usually what they say on Tisha B'Av. You know? That's not what you're going to see on the videos, on the different movies that it's a chiyuv gamur to watch on Tisha B'Av. That's not what they're going to tell you. But that's what the Or HaChaim HaKadosh says. Now, it's interesting the Mizrachi said that why did Yaakovino take the vav five times? Five keneged chamisha chumashai Torah. It's like Yaakovino is taking the collateral, and he's making Eliyahu swear that you better make get this job done and the you're you're committing yourself to this based on the Hamisha Chumshei Torah. That's why he took it five times. But actually, it's interesting. Specifically, the Midrash says that the Geulah will only be accomplished in the merit of Mishnayos. Ein Hagoliyos Miskanseis Elah Bizchus Mishnayos. Like it says, Gam Ki Yitnu Bagoyim Ata Akapetzem. When you learn Mishna, I will gather you in. By the way, Mishna is a very good thing. If you want to make more money, learn some Mishna. Mishna is Gematria Parnassa. In fact, Rav Chaim Palagi says, "Why is it used to be Jews had more money? Why don't Jews have as much money as they used to have?" I'm not sure which where he's talking about, which geographic location he's comparing it to. But it happens to be nowadays, I think Mishnayos is making a major comeback. I think uh uh You know that or the Aruch Hashulchan, the Kodesh U'glav Agoyim, he was the one who instituted Mishna Yomis. After Rav Meir Shapiro made Daf Yomi, he instituted Mishna Yomis. In recent years, they're giving out these pocket Mishnayos. It's become pretty popular, but the the Midrash seems to indicate Ein Kol Hagoliyos Miskanseis Elah Bizchus Hamishna. So basically, what's holding up the Geulah, what's holding up Eliyahu according to the Or Hachaim Hakadosh, is Talmud Torah. Talmud Torah is basically Torah Shebichtav, Torah Sheba'al Peh. You know, there's a famous Gematria. The Brisker Rav, when he heard this Gematria, he said it was Begeder Ruach Hakodesh. Tzion Bimishpat Tipadeh. Do you remember this? V'Shaveha Bitzdaka. it's in the movie Yeshaya or Yeshayahu some people say yeah it's in the movie Yeshaya possible see on the Mishnah but says see on the Mishnah is my tree up Tommy you show me the show but stuck up is Tommy another words the Google will happen when we learn Tommy you show me Tommy but Bobby see on the Mishnah Tommy you show me the show but stuck up Tommy but Bobby so it's holding up the Google women are tired home dish Mishnah you know the says in the Mishnah you had the lower level of curtains five curtains and five curtains do you remember this why five curtains and five curtains five one of the five on the other that was the lower level of curtains five and five and then on top of that you had five and six why five and six and she Mishnah you know the says in Shuma you take five of the corresponding to and you take six of the corresponding to she said in Mishnah so basically the entity of Torah is five and six what's holding back Tommy why isn't he here cuz people spend their evenings scrolling from one side to the next side to the next side to the next side and then after like 90 seconds when they forgot about the first side that they look they go back to the first side then they go to the second one and the third rinse repeat wash again and again and again people are wasting too much time. That's That's the Arima Kodesh. Moshe Rabbeinu says, "I can't redeem you. You're wasting time from learning our Torah, I can't redeem you." You learn Chumash, five. Shisha Sidrei Mishna, six. So, the Shevilei Pinchas says that Yaakov Avinu is taking collateral. The collateral is the letter vav. That's the Mishna. He takes it five times keneged Chamisha Chumshei Torah. Okay. So, let's offer another explanation. Why Yaakov Avinu took the letter vav from Eliyahu Hanavi. There was a man by the name of Kayin. Kayin had a brother. Do you remember him? His name was Hevel. And it gets crowded in the world when there are two people, you know? There's so much more roomy when there's one person in the world. Two people in the world? So, Kayin said, "There's not enough room for the two of us." And Kayin killed his brother Hevel. That was the first example and situation of sin'as achim. So, Kayin did some form of teshuvah. He repented. And God accepted his teshuvah. Kayin said, "Whoever finds me is going to kill me." The pasuk says, "Vayasem Hashem leKayin os." God gave him a letter. A sign. Vayasem Hashem leKayin os. Hashem gave him a sign. What was the sign? The Zohar Hakadosh says he gave him a vav. Why did he give him a vav? Put a vav on his forehead. Vav. What's the vav going to do? Says Rav Meir Shapiro, "What is the letter vav? What is it? Doesn't even doesn't really mean anything. It means and. Okay, what does and mean? Vav is vav hakhibur. It's a vav of connection. It's a vav of unity. It's a vav Kayin, your problem was you wanted to be only Kayin. Everything for Kayin. The earth for Kayin, the sky for Kayin, the water for Kayin, the food for Kayin. You didn't want and. You didn't want any ands. Nobody else. Ani vav just me. So, says Rebbi Meir Shapiro, God gave Kayin the ois vav. The ois vav is the vav hakhibur. It's the vav of attachment. It's the vav of unity. You need to inculcate this. It's not just about you. It's you and vav hakhibur. That was the antidote. That was how Kayin was supposed to rectify his situation. You may be familiar with the following story. You heard about this rabbi? He was giving this massive shiur. I'm talking about big-time shiur. He filled up like a whole stadium with 24,000 students. And they say that in a in in like 2 months, they all died. You heard about this? You heard the story? Rebbi Akiva, he had 24,000 students. So, first let's say over what they told you when you were in school. That why did they die? What's It's true. What they told you was true. The Gemara says in Yevamos on daf samach beis shnayim asar elef zugim talmidim hayu lo d'Rebbi Akiva v'khulam meisu b'ferakhas mipnei shelo nahagu kavod zeh lazeh. They couldn't get along. They bickered. They argued. They didn't treat each other with respect. It's amazing, but if you look in the Midrash, the Midrash tells a different story. The Midrash gives a different hate. The Midrash says, the reason for the death of the 24,000 Sha Ho'itsa Ainahem Sara Ailula Ailo. They were stingy. Their eye was stingy one with the other. What does that mean their eye was stingy one with the other? And furthermore, if you look in Koheles Rabbah, Sha Ho'itsa Ainahem Sara Be Torah Zelaza. They were stingy in sharing Torah one with the other. They were stingy in giving over Torah one to the other. They wanted to maintain like proprietary rights that they didn't want to share their Torah with others. So, it's interesting. The Gemara says they didn't get along, but if you look in the Midrash, the Midrash says there's more to the story. The Midrash in Bereishis Rabbah says their eye was stingy one with the other. In Koheles Rabbah says, Ainahem Sara Be Torah Zulazu. Rav Nachman, it's quoted in the Sefer Mishkan Rebbe Elio Baruch, Rebbe Elio Baruch, or Rebbe Elio Baruch in this year it's Rebbe Elio Baruch. Rav Nachman said that there's no contradiction. The two go hand in hand. In other words, what the Gemara says is correct obviously, that they did not display honor one to each other, but what that resulted in is that they were stingy. And as the Midrash says in Koheles Rabbah, Ainahem Sara Be Torah Zelaza. They were stingy in giving over Torah. They were stingy in sharing Torah and spreading Torah. They were afraid they because they didn't each other enough. Because they didn't have enough unity, that resulted in a diminution in harbatzas Torah. In fact, after Mincha today, I saw Reb Mordechai Komenarsky, and he told me, he mentioned that in Koheles Rabbah, the end of that Medrash adds another point. The Medrash says, in Koheles Rabbah perek aleph os yud, Rebbi Akiva omer shneim asar elef talmidim hayu li migvas ve'al anti Paras. Vechulan meisu bechayai bein Pesach le'atzeres. Amar lahem, "Harishonim lo meisu ela mineishah asar einayim sorah baTorah zelazah." They died because they were stingy in teaching Torah one to the other. "Atem lo tiyu kein." Rebbi Akiva tells his five new students, "You don't do this. Don't repeat the same mistake." You ready for this? "Miad amdu umilu kol ha'aretz Yisrael kol ha'aretz Yisrael Torah." The six students, the five students, different girsa'os, took it to heart. They said, "You're right. Those 24,000 students, they were all learning on their own, and they didn't want to share. So, they stood up and immediately spread Torah to the whole Eretz Yisrael." So, it's interesting. Even though we're accustomed to learning that the chisaron in the talmidei Rebbi Akiva is that shelo naghu koved zeh lazeh, they didn't treat each other with the proper respect, that wasn't the problem per se. That was the root of the problem, but the problem that ultimately was that was caused, that because of that they died, was it resulted in a lack of spreading of Torah. It wasn't just they didn't have unity. Yes, they didn't have unity, but the problem was that that unity did not contribute to further dissemination of Torah. You know, there's a famous Chasam Sofer, an amazing Chasam Sofer. Amara Amara Amara Rabbi Akiva. No, wrong one. Um It goes like this. V'ahavta l'reacha kamocha zeh klal gadol baTorah. Oh, thank you for telling me it's a klal gadol baTorah. I thought it was a klal gadol on the telephone book. So, thanks for letting me know it was a klal gadol baTorah. That extra word was really helpful. Is that klal gadol baTorah? He's a Jewish rabbi. I mean, what else is he Is that klal gadol baTorah? What is this a klal gadol on physics? In nuclear astro chem Of course, it's klal gadol baTorah. Says the Chasam Sofer, "What's Rabbi Akiva saying? Zeh klal gadol baTorah." Actually, you know, we had a shiur 2 weeks ago. That V'ahavta l'reacha kamocha is a klal gadol in the performance of the mitzvahs of the Torah in order to dissem- in order to bring merit to all of klal Yisrael who don't have the privilege of observing Torah. That's what Dr. Aussie added after the shiur. Zeh klal gadol baTorah in the performance of Torah. But, the Chasam Sofer asks, "What's Rabbi Akiva saying? Zeh klal gadol baTorah." Obviously baTorah. Says the Chasam Sofer, "You ready for this? The whole thing is a misnomer. The whole thing about loving your neighbor like yourself, it's not true. You don't have to love your neighbor like yourself. What's the halacha? You're in the desert, you have one cup of water. And there are two guys. And there one guy who Whoever drinks is going to live, the other guy is going to die. So, what do you do? You say, "Oh, V'ahavta l'reacha kamocha." And you give it to the guy? No. You drink it yourself. So, what happened to the Kamaycha? The answer is nothing happened to it. We don't hold that way. We hold your life comes first. Your life always comes first. They asked Kanievsky, if let's say you need parnassa and your friend needs parnassa. So you're davening for yourself and your friend. Who do you daven for first? Kanievsky said, you daven for yourself first. You have to. Let's say you're davening, you need a shidduch and your friend needs a shidduch. Who do you daven for first? Yourself. That's a clown called Chayyei Adam. So what's Rebbe Akiva talking about? What Where does it come in love your neighbor? Zeh klal gadol baTorah. If you're sitting and learning because you didn't learn Erchin yet, but there's somebody who didn't even learn a pasuk in Chumash yet, zeh klal gadol baTorah, you need to show him love and teach him Torah at the expense of your own learning. When it comes to Torah study, your friend comes first. Rebbe Akiva said, zeh klal gadol baTorah. Now, why do you think Rebbe Akiva taught that? What may have happened in his life that maybe triggered that Rebbe Akiva should teach this great principle, that you need to love Jews so much that you give up from your own personal growth to to teach them and to share Torah with them cuz ultimately, the greatest chesed, the greatest benefactor, the greatest beneficence you could offer somebody is to share Torah. Amar Rebbe Akiva, vi'ahavta l'rei'acha kamocha, not in the physical world. In the physical world, you don't love your neighbor like yourself. You love yourself more. It's a Gemara, of course. It's pashut. Vi'ahavta l'rei'acha kamocha, zeh klal gadol baTorah. The vav is very important. The vav is the vav haChibur, I would say. It's the verb of achdus. Until we have achdus, mashiach is not coming, that's for sure. That the gemara says, second base hamikdash destroyed because of sinas chinam. So Yaakov Avinu says, "Hey Eliyahu, I'm taking the verb. The verb is what's holding it up." So the shvilah Pinchas is saying in the world of Talmud Torah, we need to we need to excel more in limud Torah. The verb the hey I'm taking a little different of a path tonight. The verb we're suggesting is the verb hibber like the verb that Hashem gave Kayin. That Hashem was telling Kayin, "Kayin, it's not just you. You can't kill your brother and say the world is mine. You need to learn the message of the verb, the verb hibber. By the way, you could also distort the verb. The verb could become verb hamis hapechas where you could take a past tense or a future tense and make it past. But the verb the hibber and the achdus, it's ultimate purpose is for the five books of the Torah. Is for is for lalamid acherim. The talmidei Rabbi Akiva, because they didn't have shelo naghu kavod zeh bazeh, they didn't have that verb, so therefore they didn't spread the hey. The The gemara says lo naghu kavod zeh bazeh. They didn't show the proper respect to their chaverusas and therefore that resulted, the medrash says, in that shehayu einam sarah bazeh lazah. But Rabbi Akiva said, "No, don't repeat the same mistake." Miyad amdu umalu kol eretz Yisrael Torah. The problem with the students of Rabbi Akiva wasn't just they didn't get along. They didn't get along and now they remained bereft of knowledge. Reuven didn't want to share with Shimon and Shimon didn't want to share with Reuven. So there was a dramatic diminution of Torah in the world. So, perhaps Yaakov Avinu, who by the way was the the shoresh of Rabbi Akiva. One of the proofs is midei avir Yaakov. Avir Yaakov are the letters Rabbi Akiva. Avir the result says avir Yaakov, Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Akiva is rooted in Yaakov Avinu. Yaakov Avinu understands that what it's going to take to bring the Geulah is chibur achdus for the greater sake of sharing the knowledge of Hashem with klal Yisrael. So, the vav that Yaakov Avinu took, he took it five times to indicate it's not just shalay nagoo kavitzu bazeh, but it's also sh'haya einayim sorah b'Torah zo la zo. And it comes out o yom v'nora that the month of the year that the students of Rabbi Akiva passed away in primarily is the month of Iyar. And the Sefer Yetzirah says himlich ois vav. The letter with which God created Iyar was the letter of vav. That's the month that the students of Rabbi Akiva passed away in. Now, Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen explains the reason why Iyar is a vav. Vav is vav ha chibur. It connects the rosh of the year, that's Chodesh Nisan, to the heart of the year. You know, what's a vav? A vav is the neck. The neck is a vav. It connects the head to the heart. The head is ha chodesh ha zeh lachem rosh chodashim Nisan, and the heart is the month we got the Torah. Iyar connects the head to the body. But for our purposes, the month of Iyar is the month of chibur. Chibur what? Chibur bein adam l'chavero, but it's the preparation for kabbalas ha Torah. Because the chibur in klal Yisrael is not just kumbaya. Let's all get along. That's very nice. That's just a preparation. That's just to pave the way because when the channels of communication are open, then we're able to learn from each other because every Jew has special Tyra, unique Tyra. Tyra they learned from their rabbeim, Tyra they learned from their ancestors. And if we're able to be learn the letter of the ice above that's ER, then we could use that channel The world was shamem. Shamem is very interesting. It was shamem because there was no Tyra. It was a lack of Tyra. So that's an interesting approach for why Yaakov avinu took the letter above as a collateral and he took it five times and it would then come out that this message is very timely. We're learning it, we're reading it, we're learning it in the month of ER, the month of the letter above. It's going to revert back to the yard. The above is what's uh-huh. So you want to connect that also. Very good. Tam hakham yaqgam it. Okay. Remember