Hillula D'Rebbi Meir: Visting Rebbi Meir Is the Best Preparation For Lag BaOmer

okay welcome everyone sh it's an honor to be back here thank you uh Rani for organizing uh today's learning [Music] nishmas Balan you know that ra is uh very dear to me it's a subject if uh if you remember from last year if anybody wants to get after this year the sa Andes I see you came you came prepared have it in English and uh this was just born lagba om saan lagba so they're all available here and I want to share with you some thoughts about the tan mayor and we have to really open up our eyes and recognize that we're living through miraculous times you know there was a lot of there a lot of discussion in in Israel you know whether they should have said Hal for what happened with uh Arvin you know that the the Iranian who was scheduled for imminent execution and then was deferred you know people people were uh some sh skipped some some said Hal you know the question is what should our attitude be towards these Miracles that are happening you have this Russia marusha who threatened Annihilation he was is the uh the Minister of Foreign Affairs he said that there's going to be a big earthquake if uh Israel invades and sure sure enough there was an earthquake in Iran you know so how do we view these events is it a big salvation so I like to think of it as follows you know in the the daving we say every day we make the right we all say this every day three times a day what does it mean this is a double language what does the word Mish mean that we could lean on him we could trust on him trust him we could rely on him it seems like it's uh Superfluous it's what what is this double of has an amazing explanation for this double language he says if we go back to the purm story so the Jewish people were being threatened with Annihilation H scheduled that the Jews will be eradicated all every last year and then all of a sudden one day the king couldn't sleep you know he was probably looking at his phone too late at night and the blue light you know he he was tossing and turning because of that so wakes up middle of the night he he's he feels threatened he feels like somebody's going to assassinate him and he realizes that probably somebody did him a favor and he didn't pay him back so he calls the Royal scribe and they read the record and he realized he has to pay back morai and just then Haman comes into the courtyard and a says okay bring him in bring in ham and says to ham ham what do to someone who I would like to honor and Haman said let him ride the Royal Horse and let him wear the Royal clothing and call out before him and okay go go get Mor the Jew he's sitting in the Gateway of the king put on the Royal clothing let him ride the Royal Horse and honor him and I have a question for you what does anybody know what you know we makes such a big deal about this part of the story that morai was honored what did morai do the moment he finished riding on the horse and wearing the Royal clothing he took off the stupid clothing he got off the horse and he put on the sackcloth why because the Jews were still scheduled to be annihilated on the 13th day of Adar so this little I call it blip in the in the in the narrative what did it do to help the Jewish people nothing it was it was meaningless and we get very confused with that this little episode we think oh this is the beginning of the how's it the beginning of the Salvation has nothing to do with the Salvation the moment it was over uh morai puts on the sackcloth and the Jews are still scheduled to be annihilated and ultimately the only reason we're saved is because Esther goes into the king and and pleads with the King and begs the king and the King says okay the Jewish people will be saved so what role did this little salvation play in the perm story you ever think about that what role did it play did it somehow contribute to the ultimate salvation another thing to think about when the makos were happening D Kim AR how did that help the Jewish people did it help us get out of Egypt no didn't help us get out of Egypt did it make us make it easier for us to leave no it didn't make it easier to leave so what did the Mak do for the Jewish people let's say God would have brought the 10 mot let's say God would have brought the 10 mot then what you know what we would be today we'd still be in Egypt if God had not taken us out we would still be there today we'd be in Egypt we'd be subject to CE me so what did the Mak do okay give them bam you know P PCH but but how did it get us out didn't so what were they for if God was ultimately going to knock them off with and Cre what was the purpose of the the Miracles in the beginning okay so the V says a very important principle and he says this principle will play out in the end of days and that's where we are here we are sh and that we're almost at the end of days says the that in order order for God to redeem us Hashem what does he want from us the wants trust in him faith in him by the way what's the numerical value of B is two Tess is nine we're up to 11 is eight 19 VAV six 25 n 75 75 when does abrahamu go on his journey to go to is 75 when he has what the rean wants from us when the gal is difficult when there's very challenging situations God wants the problem is friends it's very hard to have it's very hard think about it here we are we're in Israel we're surrounded by billions of enemies billions of enemies we're surrounded on every Side by people who want to annihilate us and it seems very hopeless It seems impossible how can when when a situation seems very Bleak how can a person have so God says I'm going to help you and whenever the Jewish people are in a very difficult situation before the yeshu god makes yeshu why this way we could lean on him and once we lean on him that makes it easier for us so then we could put all of our trust in him says Aon this happened twice in our history it will happen one more time the first time it happened is in Egypt we were wallowing in Egypt for 210 years there was no way out nobody ever escaped the land of MIM nobody ever got out it was impossible to get out parro in made witchcraft that you know high security it was not possible to get nobody ever escaped the land of Egypt the Jews were there for 210 years we didn't think it was even possible to get out it seemed hopeless and we were falling every day lower lower lower we were on the brink of the me so God has to help us have so how does he help us have he makes on the MIT what does that do for us nothing it doesn't get us out we're still stuck there but what we see is in the darkness there could be some light we could we say you know maybe uh maybe God could do something over here maybe we could get the ball rolling so it didn't save us it allowed us to lean on him and once we leaned on him then we come to the yam and it's impossible because the Egyptians are on one side and the yam is on the other side we have to put our full faith in to do so in the beginning would be very hard but since Hashem trained us he gave us what lean on then we could rise up to the m of says the same thing in the time of puim the Jewish people there was a scheduled date the 13th of Adar we were going to be annihilated the king took off his signate ring he gave it to Haman if the king signed the document there's no backing out it was a hopeless situation and then all of a sudden one day the Jews open up their window shades they look out and what is that Mori on the horse and who's leading him ham how's that possible what happened isn't Haman the most powerful person in the world wasn't he isn't he the one who's going to destroy us isn't morai his mortal enemy now the date was still scheduled there's still a schedule date for annihilation but the Jewish people saw that God is uh he's with us he can change things so we start to lean on him and once we lean on Hashem then we can have full and that's when the Yeshua G comes so for instance if there's a man in Iran and he's scheduled to be executed and the Jewish people storm the heavens and it's deferred do you omit doesn't say in the that you do you say doesn't say that in the what if the if the uh president of Iran Iran who threatened Israel with Annihilation if he miraculously dies is that is that worthy of Celebration is it a yam we're not out of the water yet it's a very tenuous situation they're on the brink of getting nuclear arms they're they're not doing so what does it do for us what it does is you say you know hey look The Bu even after 2000 years of galut he still uh he still could pull the strings at any moment he could take any Rasha and we don't we don't need anybody we don't need Biden we don't need Kamala we don't need the state department we don't need the Israeli Army we don't need anything we they could get into their own American made helicopter and there's a little weather and who did it God did it in the war things were so desperate things were so Bleak so what does that do for us are we out of the water nothing changeed friends it's still as tenuous as ever it's still as dangerous as ever their plans are just the same but now we could lean on Hashem just a bit he's helping us have it's m and once it's it's okay now what does this have to do with re and good question I'll tell you something very interesting since this is a re May or share right mid okay you have to think very carefully mid is which name of Hashem elim reveals that to transform it into you have to take the the letters before okay so let's do a little exercise what comes before Al nothing Al so Al remains Al what comes before L what comes before he what comes before test what becomes before final me regular me so Elohim if you want to transform it to is you got it what's the numerical value of elim 86 what's the numerical value of Al Al 21 25 Tess 34 me 74 74 says [Music] 744 you hear because Elohim is transformed to now in these five letters if you could imagine in your mind's eye and underneath it the earlier letters the and the meem remain the same basically the main transformation is the lamid the he and the Y is transformed into what's the numerical value of 33 huh 33 33 that means the main transformation of is 33 now we know is the main day of of all the days of because 45 transforms into is what we call the nuclear core of M 33 that's why is the epitome is thees is the of 33 isn't that amazing says the Ben you know the Ben wrote a called H the then isai writes that the reason why the students of rabika stopped dying on this day is because this day is the main day of transformation of Midas here of Midas you got that how many letters are we dealing with five letters these five letters says correspond to the five students of RAB AA who are they R mayor rabi RAB Huda R shim rabar the five letters correspond to the five students of RAB aka the main transformation are the three middle letters now I want to share you I want to share with you something it's mindboggling okay remember a few years ago there was a great tragedy in meron how many people were killed 45 the main is 33 what if is not transformed into is then it's not what is it what's 45 when is not it's it's 45 okay the is a transformation of to and if it's not transformed to it [Music] remains yeah so let's talk a little bit about reab mayor you know it's very interesting we don't have any M kados that today is the there's no source that today is the in in [Music] fact the writes that the way it started was people were going up to meon for and Taria you know was sort of left left lonely and nobody was visiting Taria so they decided one year to make a on because they didn't want to do it any other day because if they do it a different day then they're going to maybe people won't say so they figured we'll do it on they don't say anyway and from that day on every year they uh they would Gather in Taria but there's no evidence there's no evidence that it's the yard side of R many years you know we've spoke how maybe is the yard side this way if you have a book on re mayor you have two times a year you could sell it you could do it on P and Ona so it's convenient actually in one of the ptim written by someone in the family he says meaning it was enacted to commemorate his yard side on this day which indicates it's not his yard side it was just enacted to remember a mayor on this day but we have to try to understand what exactly is the connection between here it is today is uh four days before and in many go to visit's on Y and then four days later they go toim on somehow going to R is a preparation for somehow these days visiting is a for visiting on L what exactly is this preparation what is this H so I want to share with you the words of the Z in today's par in this week's para here if you look in number three the Z some on the PK in this week's para you know we have is who remembers the end of the p is right we have two relationships with Hashem we have two way of connecting with hasem we're and we're also we're his servants and we're his children so there's a a beautiful explanation in Zar if you look at number three look at number three this is Zohar on this week's you know in the he says that what what's so what's unique about zar how is it different than the rest of the Tor says you see when you read we have a tradition all of the are names of God even though it's story but it's really the letters are names of God but it's masked and couched in a story The is just the open raw and writes even if you don't understand it when you read the words of the Zar it brings you great alah so we're going to learn with your permission two passages in the Z uh beautiful words look at number three bet with two names the Jewish people are called by God in two different ways we are called to what are they number one where servants and were called children so when are we servants and when are we children the says when we know God generally you know we know God generally we keep Shabbat we keep ker we learn T you know we keep the basics the main things we're called servants that serve Hashem and do the bidding of their Master the less but we that that individual still doesn't have permission to search in the secrets and the hidden Realms of the house let's say like this I'm going to ask you a personal question raise your hand if you have a um a slave in your house no no don't answer that okay but if you had a an attendant an attendant an attendant would you let him wash the dishes yeah would you let him vacuum yeah would you let him clean your office maybe would you let him clean your drawers where you keep your checks maybe not would you give him your account number would you give him the combination to your your safe where you keep your your uh billions and your and your uh social security number no he's only an attendant but what if you had a son and you know you're you need somebody to take care of things for you would you let him go into your drawer yeah would you let him you know take something out of your wallet yeah would you give him your combination to the safe deposit Vault a trusted son you would so the difference between a servant and and a son is a servant is someone who serves God in general and he could keep the mitzvot but he cannot search in the SEC secrets of the master but but when you know God in detail then you're called a beloved Son of like a son that searches the secrets the treasures all the secrets of the house look in the Z number four in the next passage fortunate is the portion of this son who merits to make efforts to know the secrets of his father and all of the Mysteries of the house he's like an only child that the father gives him sovereignty control over all of his treasures one says this is a great coved for the son if he rules over everything one who begins to make efforts in learning the Torah to know Hashem to know the secrets is called a he says all the in the heavens nobody could stop him this son any moment who he want if he wants to go into his father Kulu fortunate is his portion in all the worlds what's Zar saying in a nutshell someone who just learns the Torah basically is called a servant of Hashem someone who tries to learn the secrets of the Torah he's called a child of Hashem the difference between an EV and a Ben is an EV he DAV he learns but he's not probing the secrets we see two things from the Z in order to probe if you probe the secrets of Hashem then you establish a new relationship with Hashem you become a child of Hashem but also if you in order to learn the secrets of Hashem you have to be a Ben if you actually if you look in the you know who wrote thei wrote 36 proofs that we are all says one who God has graced him and he comes to learn the secrets of the he is a child of the difference between an and a Ben an is someone who just learns and keeps MIT in general he's an EV someone who probes the secrets and learns the secrets he he establishes himself as a child of a now friends whose opinion is it that we are always the Beloved children of Hashem RAB mayor Rabbi mayor rabi mayor argues on rabi Huda rabi Huda holds that when we do the will of God we're the Servants of Hashem we're the we're the children ofm if we don't do the will of God we're only his servants holds what were always the Beloved children of hem in order to learn the secrets of the Torah you need to be a child of hem what are we going to be doing on lag what's what's lagba by the way I mean don't tell anybody just between me and you it's not so that is the yard side of either you know that I mean only the you ever heard of the the right we have no that yard and says in says it he says you can't rely on it there are too many in the there's a question whether at the end of the day the himself thought um was the yard side of R Shimon it's a big question it's a big mystery so what exactly is L what do we do on l did you know that [Applause] says G uncover my eyes the word gal is what number 33 there's a connection between the number 33 and the secrets of the Torah you know Zak told his students go out and look what is the right path that a person should follow what didar say to what's the numerical value of Le to La is 32 to is 17 49 these are the 49 days of s the first 32 days are La La is your mind not your heart nowhere in the Torah does it ever say the word mind heart means mind I personally asked Miller why does the Torah call the mind a la and he said because it doesn't matter what you think the thought is only valuable if you feel the thought not it just goes you know many people in One have billions of thoughts even in one some people could have thousands of different they start off in the then they see the guy's shirt they think about where the guy bought the shirt he bought it in the city in the city are the Nicks still in the playoffs oh they were eliminated so was the guy in Iran he was also eliminated but the guy in the guy is the the the Iranian guy he's acquitted it's deferred to next month next month is I'm sending my kids to Camp how am I going to pay for it I got to go and in one minute the guy went from Manhattan to Iran and back and that just in the first doesn't matter what you think you have to feel your thoughts that's why in the Torah it's called Lev anyway the first 302 days of s are Le the mind because in order to know the fundamental intellectual aspect of Tor there are 32 levels of in it's called that's why in in the first par it says the word 32 times can I get oh once you get to 33 there's 17 levels of the secrets of the Torah the first 32 days of to get the the last 17 days to get the N starting we learn the secrets of the Torah 33 is always associated with the secrets of the Torah you know Do You Remember by the what's do you remember what the ran writes ran says when you get to 33 you'll understand it that's what ran says you want to know ran writes when you get to 33 you'll understand it so the rush explains what does ramban mean when you get to 33 you'll understand it the rash says count 33 Pim from the word aaz you'll get to but the would say 33 is the number of the secrets of the Torah it represents the secrets of the Torah what means when you reach the madga of 33 then you'll understand the secret of the aaz 33 is always associated with the secrets of the Torah so on we're going to be trying to connect with and learn the secrets of the Torah the thing is to learn the secrets of the Torah what do you what has to be a relationship with Hashem you have to be a Ben so first we have and we go to T and we go to reab Mayor and we establish that our relationship with hem is we now after we visit or we learn about then we have a couple of days to get our act together to prepare to learn the secrets of the Tora in other words connecting with visiting learning about RAB mayor is the for is we try to learn the secrets of the Tor but in order to do so we have to establish ourselves as that we do today today we establish ourselves as and then we're ready for the madga of 33 you know shim made a wondrous statement in theim said Rim says I could exempt the whole world from D from the day I was born until now no wonder everybody loves Rim what does that mean you ever wonder what does that mean actually if you look on the gar in Suka there's a footnote from raber rer says look a raban a ran writes that rim says that because of him nobody will ever face see the face of geham so what RAB ker is doing is he's putting the two statements of Rim together when Rim says in that he could exempt the whole world from it's going hand in hand with what he teaches in aan that because of him nobody will ever see the face of Gam there's another pish you know what the other pish is another pish isim teaches us in the gar by the way friends does anybody know what is the biggest indictment against the Jew after 120 what's the main question we're going to have to give an accounting for of of all the things t t b t all they're going to do is they're going to take out the phone they're going to go straight to the app how much time did you spend on it today it's GNA say between three and 5 hours and they say really what you couldn't learn Shas B Andi you had four hours a day so 4 hours a day I was so busy you're so busy how did you squeeze in 4 hours a day to go like that 4 hours a day that's that's for people who are not addicted to the fun anyway some people are able to be on the phone more than 24 hours a day it's a big Ness more than they could look at the app at the end of the day it says 27 hours they they were only on it for a 24-hour period they they were on three things at the same time do you know says in the [Music] if all you did was you said sh in the morning and Sh at night your now you don't want to have to come on to that it's better not to have to come on to that and we have to understand what that means but that's also a big defense that has for the Jewish people yat I'll tell you another one the gamar tells us that at the end of that that rebi that antoninus came to rebi and he said uh rebbi you know at the end of 120 everyone has a good excuse then n will say hey look at me I can't sin the N is going to be like floating around in shamay and God's going to say you know why did you do X Y and Z and theam is going to say me look at me now I can't do anything now and God's going to turn to the Goof and the gof is going to be like me I'm lying here 6 feet under I'm in the Kev I can't move I I I couldn't do anything so each one could should say I can't sin the Goof can't sin on its own the can't sin on its own so what did reab say rebbi said I'll give you a Mas there was a an orchard and there were two servants they wanted to steal from the king one of them was one of them was blind the couldn't see the the the couldn't walk and the blind guy couldn't see so they made they were in cahoots the blind guy said to the listen here's what we're going to do I'm going to put you on my shoulders and you direct me and uh you'll direct me where to go I can't see anything but I could walk you can't walk but you could see you'll direct me to the fruit and then we'll rip off the king and sure enough the blind guy puts the guy on his shoulders and they go they take all the fruit and they rob the king uh Blind King comes to the orchard there's nothing left in the orchard he looks at the blind guy the blind guy say ah me come on you know I didn't do it he looks at the guy the guy you know I can't walk so the king is thinking he said okay fine he takes the he puts it on time top of the blind guy and he punishes the two of them together so too the is going to say it wasn't me the Go's going to say it wasn't me so God's going to take the Soul he's going to put it in the Goof and he's going to punish the two of them together not so fast what's the regarding if I can't do a and you can't do a on your own they can because without me you couldn't have done it so I'm needed so I did something says do we pass like no but on we pass like because it's so the says that when Rim said I could exempt the whole world from it's because I could say meaning according to we're off the hook we we but according toim you're but there's another meaning that Rim could exempt the whole world from mid where at least the Jewish people it's suggested in the hashem's going to come and he's going to make us give a and there are things we're going to have to answer to but Rim is the one who taught us the secrets of the Torah if he told us the secrets of the Torah then what must be be we must be soim could say look I could get everybody off the hook because I'm the one me and my my mayor we're the ones who established and through the power that we're so that really exempts everybody it gets us off the hook because uh you know if you find your servant did something wrong he's going to get one punishment if your kid did something wrong you know the kid knows how to has a had to find the soft spot soft spot in the Father's Heart the benai writes in the saer H that on it's not only a day of joy for rabish Shimon it's also a day of joy for rebbi mayor and on L if you go to Mayon you should also visit rebbi mayor in Taria and we're we're learning that one of the connections between the two of them are by the way aside from the fact aside from the fact that these were two of the students that Raba taught after all 24,000 students passed away you know I want to tell you something very interesting there maybe we'll speak about this topic next year you know the 24,000 students R passed away and then it says Raba taught five new students who are they R what does the gar call them the rabbis in the South and this year I I couldn't get that out of my head why does it have to say they were in the South who cares where they were well you can only teach rabbis and now Jews love the South right Jews always go to Miami you never hear oh where you going I'm going to Winnipeg no no Jews go south Jews are always going did you ever notice in the abrahamu he only go south so he's going south okay well maybe because he was going south he was going to Egypt do you remember when he came back from Egypt it doesn't say Abraham went North it says Abraham went South says Rashi yeah he went to the south of Israel is there a problem with the north that like we're avoiding saying it AB when he goes down he's going south and when he's going up he's going south okay this is very important where's the MRA that way okay a person is usually facing MRA so if you face MRA what side is your right side sou what side is that Dar saon Mar if you're facing MRA the right side is the is the South the west side is the north the right side is mid the north is mid it says about B the evil comes from the north you know all the ask B is not North of Israel it's east of Israel doesn't the gar say about in um in B they would say in the west so Israel is west of bavel not South why does it say that bavel is North of Israel you ever wonder about that the answer is conceptually is the north is the South if you want wisdom you go south you want money you want gold you comes from the north comes from the south saw that even though his students were immersed in Tor but it was a Torah that had some so therefore when he wanted to start again he made sure to go to rabot rabbis and the South Who had who are these rabbis mayor who said shim who allows us to learn the secrets of the Tor how could we learn the secrets of the Tor you could only investigate the treasures of hem when you're a so this is a very important Li preparing for on that we all learn Tor but it has to be a Tor of T of it's not enough just to learn it's not enough just to learn Tor it has to be a Tor of it has to be a Tora and this is what says it comes from the DAR he could exempt us from the mid so I think thank you very much for uh giving me the to share with you some T about the T May and the and in the Merit of connecting to these you know mayor said that he's mashiah in thei why how could he be mashiah he doesn't even come he comes from asav you know may re comes from isab you know how he could be Messiah because of his teaching that we are the beloved children of Mia could come teaches in because the Jewish people are destined to to taste from the Tree of Life which is the the is the tree of life we will be redeemed with Mercy in the Merit of reim and his teachings we will be redeemed with mercy so we hope to the and we should have see only very good there