Journey To South Africa: "Flying Letters" - The Mystery of the Missing Day Of The 3 Weeks

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com for arranging this trip and helping making it possible the kilo is very fortunate to have a Tomah a rabbits caliber raising up the level of Torah and avoida and we like to be Mubarak him and his family that he should have many successful years together with the kahila of lahag del Toro ladira so over the past short time I had a privilege to meet some of our my good friends from South Africa I see my friend Neil here and Jonathan I want to thank Elon for taking us around today actually it took us to one of the gold mines and it's quite interesting that South Africa and Johannesburg has one of the richest deposits of gold anywhere in the world and I couldn't help but think you know there's a principle that everything in the physical world really parallels the spiritual universe universe so if South Africa is such a repository of zahav of gold in the physical world that must mean that the spirituality and the holy nashama is that are here are unparalleled anywhere in the world as well and that's something that I'm coming to see firsthand thank you so much for having me foreign how many days exactly are in the three weeks the title of this year is called Flying letters which coming off of a plane actually all the letters to me seem like they're flying off the page how many days are in the three weeks we usually call it the three weeks is that really an app description for this period of the year so we linked that last Shabbos the beginning of safer yeah Olive the word of God to me saying what do you see what do you see actually I got a Shiloh today somebody in America texted me I have a have an unlimited plan so someone texted me where is not realizing that it was the three weeks Lane the haftarah parishes so what should be done next Chavez so actually it's one of the rare exceptions very good that la give this man a cigar okay so it's one of the rare exceptions that next week's half Torah is parag Bays of yermiyahu right the acronym is so if you miss one of the half tourists of The Voice or the Shiva dinakamta there's a Chiva that you'll actually have to make it up next week because it's a rear half Tire which is legislated by I believe the sikhta it's legislated by by the tar Sheba path okay be it as it may so last week's safaira begins where the Rebelution says what do you see here Yahoo I see a blossoming almond branch a staff blossoming with almonds Hashem said to me you see good I am diligent I will be diligent to carry out to carry out my edict Rashi points out that what's the comparison between the shake the Almond branch and this period of the Year says Rashi the shucky the Almond branch is the swiftest producing fruit of all the fruits that exist the one that produces the fruit the quickest is the Almond brand the almond tree and therefore with rebound is saying is I'm not going to tarry I'm not going to wait even though I said even though I said it's going to take a long time until I punish you the punishment is coming very quickly but then Rashi brings the matter shagoda Rashi says that if you're familiar with the way that the Almond grows it actually takes 21 days from hanata from the time that it blossoms until it's fully ripened says Rashi that is communion the days that is the same number of days as the days between Shiva serbatamas and Tish above and therefore Rashi is pointing out to us that the revolution is that this is not just an analogy a general analogy this is not an allegory there's a very specific example that I'm giving you that this period of the year the period of perennial is the period of punishment is exactly like an almond tree an almond tree it takes 21 days to grow likewise this time of the year is 21 days three weeks by the way there's another source that this time of the year is 21 days this is a gemara that all the ballet all the darshanim all speak about this Kamara the gemara talks about the conversations and the debate between a tuna in the sages of Athens the wise men of Athens the Heretics of Athens and it's interesting that throughout shast just as an aside who is always selected the best candidate the one who they're always standing is struck me who is this that he's always debating the apicarsam he must be this really educated worldly person who has such broad background that he's able to converse and debate the happy kartham one thing we know about is it what does it say in parque Iowa is fortunate is his mother and the morphotian bring down a tradition that we have that from the time that this this little boy was young his mother would wheel him into the basement so that as soon as the first the first music the first sound that he would hear would be the sound of Tyra this is an individual who had no exposure whatsoever to anything other than pure unadulterated Torah he's the only one who could debate just the opposite of what you would have thought you know we we're not so into these uh ecumenical debates or these these types of uh discussions and dialogue because we don't have people the characters who are so fully immersed in Torah if somebody's not fully immersed in Tyra they're not necessarily qualified to be able to have a dialogue maybe they'll be influenced maybe they'll be affected by such a discussion we need someone like all his ears ever heard were the pure words of tarbida as it may one of the very difficult perplexing questions they they posed was here it is you have two chickens you have a black chicken you have a white chicken and they both produce white eggs how's that possible seems like uh odd questions what exactly was the question so the martial says there's something unique about the egg the egg takes how many days to develop 21 days to develop and you could have a black chicken and a white chicken and they both produce 21 egg that takes 21 days to develop that corresponds to two periods on our calendar that are exactly 21 days what are they from Rosh Hashanah till Hashanah rabba is 21 days right we say no no is 51 51 days from the beginning of and then the other 21 days are the three weeks and the question is how could it be that from one God emanates 21 and 21 you may have peroneous how's it possible that this was a question about God's Unity how could from one God come 21 days of punishment and 21 days of mercy and the answer is the martial explains told them was both of these 21 day periods of Israel and bring the Jewish people closer but what I would like to bring out from here is that what item in the uh in the world represents this period of the year the three weeks the egg why the egg because it takes 21 days for the egg to develop so here you have two analogies to the three weeks number one the Machel the Almond Tree which takes 21 days to develop and number two the egg which takes 21 days to develop the areasal also says if you look at number four in the shower Cabanas that Rizal says that during the Ben hamit sarim which are 21 days between Tish above the reason says it's a proper Minogue to sit during a midpoint of the day but available but I just want to bring out from the reason also gives the number 21. so you have the machoque 21 you have the eggs 21. you have that result 21. the problem is you know if you've ever graduated second grade mathematics you would know that in three weeks there are not 21 days we all know they're 22 days in the three weeks because whatever day shivasa batamas is the same day of the week is Tish Above So if this year shavasa batama is a Shabbos Sunday so it doesn't require you know it's not not rocket science to figure out that it's 22 days it's three weeks plus a day so all of these sources that say the three weeks are 21 days they're all off by one I know in Camacho you're allowed to be off by one but it would seem that we're not dealing with a Gamache over here we're using examples in the physical world we're using the example of the Machel the Almond Tree which is 21 days the egg which is 21 days why do we keep on referring to the three weeks as 21 days when in fact they're 22 days and by the way the concept that the three weeks are 22 days is very very significant there's a lot of importance in the number 22. the vanilla for example right that he says every hour and the three weeks is precious how many hours are in the three weeks so he says well they're 22 days in the three weeks 24 hours a day that's how many hours in the three weeks 528 hours he's using the number 22. what's the significance of 528 key is 528 meaning the key to the Gula is something which equals 528 you know what that is do you know any problem there are in Shahs yeah says there are 528 procurements she says to teach you that the key to the Gula the key to Redemption is the Mastery of the tarsh about the 528 procam in fact asks that if you count there are only 523. writes they're only 523 procurement shots so what does mean that they're 528 procam no it's all true it's accurate you see they're 523 procim of mishnah and they're an additional five prokim in uh shots that are added that are not technically machinayas so for example the fourth paragraph is not technically a mishnah the last paragraph so really you have 523 procam of mishnah an additional five proximators 528 because the key of gaula is the mafia is the 528 procam of Shahs like the mattress tells usna it's amazing thing if you look in the mission at the end of Tinus the mishnah talks about the five tragedies that occurred on shivasa batamas so what are they well we know the Lucas were broken that was the first one comes down and he shatters and as we're going to see when he shattered the Lucas the matters tells us in a number of places the letters flew off the luchis don't forget about that and then the mishnah says stop being brought and then the mission of says the walls of the city were breached by the second base foreign ER asks you know it's very interesting that these five tragedies happened what's it got to do with my life okay who and I I didn't tell him I should break the Lucas I told him to break Lucas if I would have told them to break these then I understand that I should fasten the time I put up the Salomon I didn't put up notes if I would have been there I would have stopped him why do I need to fast because of all these tragedies that happen and it seems like a quite a random string of tragedies first of all think about the timeline of it in the mid bar the carbon tamid was broke it was ceased it's the walls of the city were opened up we're breached it seems like a random order of tragedy and the uh says quite frighteningly and quite powerfully that this mission is giving us the key to Jewish demise and destruction in other words these are not five random tragedies these are five tragedies that repeat themselves throughout history and these are these are ideas and Concepts that we have to think about in our own life foreign the this is the five step downward spiral of the Jewish people it all starts with it all starts when the commitment to regular study of the Torah breaks that's the beginning of the end yeah person maybe was committed to learning or wishes they were committed to learning the moment the commitment is slightly broken then what happens next the daily service of God seems starts to slip away first it starts with maybe marev with a minion or minha with a minion maybe then it goes to Tuesday and Wednesday and then just the regular daily avoidas Hashem ceases that's but and once the daily service of God ceases then the city has been breached who's the city the gemara tells us that the person is the city we are the city we are the ear Katana we are the small City with very few guards and once we pray once our city is open we are prayed to the yet Sahara and the yet Sahara comes and burns down the Torah and then a generation or two later when you see instead of the mugging of a dangling around the neck when you see a different symbol you can know you could always trace it back too it starts very innocuously it starts with it starts with a slackening off in limaratura then goes the daily service of Hashem then we're open Pray therefore we understand why they're 528 hours in the three weeks because in order to rectify the problem of where the lucrith were broken and the commitment to Lima slackened off we need 528 hours to rededicate ourselves to the prakim of shishita mishna now there's a well-known gamatria reviews that when he said this Gematria the briskarov said he said AKA Sian will be redeemed with Justice and her captives will be returned with sadaka foreign in other words that's what it takes that's what that's what it all boils down to the rededication and the recommitment to repair what started on yazayan batamas which is okay coming back to the question friends everybody's saying they're 21 days in the three weeks the problem we just said the beneath they're 22 days times 24 hours of 528 hours you could count them they're 22 days why is everybody referring to the three weeks as 21 days well there must there's a missing day there's a missing day in the three weeks there must be one day that doesn't seem to count and you would have to say that if there's one day that doesn't count by the way one more item that reason our rights now I'm not saying you should do this or we're on the level to do this but just be aware that during the three weeks when you say the first blessing of esre and you say the name of Hashem you should think about the letters that precede the name of Hashem so if you take God's name then a hey and then above and then okay the letters that proceed that you'd Cave of care are what Tess dalid download is 13. hey in dalid is nine a total of how many 22 oh the 22 days of the three weeks says Iris out why are they alluded to in the letters before God's name because the days of the three weeks are very hidden days they're nistar their nelam they're almost ignored there's something about them that has not been brought out yet there's a latent potential in these days that are nellam they're the letters before the yud kevke testalid hey dalid test Alid is what 13. those are the 13 days of tamas from your Zion batamos until the end of the month Thomas is always 29 days hey daliter are nine those are the nine days of ab so here that Rizal is saying they're 22 days in the three weeks by the way that result says incredible thing test dalid are they are the nine what does that mean 13 meters they're 13 meters and after he broke the luchais after he broke the Hashem Hashem but after the raglam by tishabab he only invoked nine of the Midas so the 13 days of tamils correspond to the 13 meters after the spirit and the nine days of ab correspond to the nine meters but here that reason I was saying 22. so what's this number 21 which day are we not counting so you would think is most reasonable to say that we all know that even though Tisha was such a tragic day on the other hand there's this dichotomy that Tish above is considered a mayad it's even brought in we don't say deposit says Tish above is this and therefore maybe Tish above doesn't really fully make the bill of being part of the three weeks and therefore when we say the number of days in the three weeks we're not including Tish above Penthouse character explains that everything good in this world has to First be broken down completely for it to develop and come to full fruition he says an egg an egg sort of decomposes and then regenerates a seed a seed decomposes and then Sprouts forth so too in order to have the Binion we had to have the destruction of the base two times on tischev so that ultimately it would be rebuilt on Tish above but that's odd that the most tragic day on the calendar shouldn't count here you have 22 days the first 21 days we're going to count but I get it Tish above is a Moyet it's somewhat of a yamtiff but it shouldn't be part of the three weeks when we talk about the 21 days why are we not counting tishimov if you examine Miguel what time do I have to 40. the examine we know they're five days 20 tubes took in by letters of the Isle of face how many people compare gimmel 66 three times so gemara asks why are there 22 sukim in every parrak is uh 22 connected the aliphase says the gemara why were they punished with number 12 because they violated the Torah that was given with the aliphase the marao says something incredible that we know the first base hamiktas was destroyed because of the big three avoidazara those are big big others may be in and of itself a one-time violation maybe you could make the case that's somewhat minor after all there's no malcus there's no lashes lashes are not ordained for somebody who violates there's no but it's not punishable by Death but it's the type of aveiro the Rabino writes you repeat it you repeat it you repeat it you repeat it it's like one a thread that's repeated again and again and again it becomes a very thick rope the morale says are very very long paragimo which has three aleph bases the sukum are very short the very sorry very short circum some of them you don't even have an a snack Morel says very simple the the Parikh aleph parag bays and parag dalid all begin with the word foreign s that we could be liable to that terrible death penalty by the way during which base hamidash did we violate the 36 crisis because they didn't violated so the morale says incredibly peric I'll lift that begins with parag basa begins with parag Dali that begins with correspond to the first place the first base hamiktash they violated The Big Three The Big Three size therefore there are three prakim for korba Maya SRI shine and the sukima long long because the others are very very very bad and that's why peric Aleppo begin with the word because in the first place they violated the 36 by the second base they didn't violate they didn't says they learned they were Isaac the only thing they did is they did this little aveira called therefore the sukimar very short therefore it does paragimal the sukum are very short it doesn't begin with but they did it again and again and again and again therefore each letter of the aliphase has three sukem to teach says the gamara that says equal to the big three but be it as the May the gemara says that we violated all 22 letters of the alephas and therefore has 22 letters in each pasok says ah if the gemara is saying that because we violated the 22 letters of the alephase we're punished with 22 letters in akha probably says that's why they're 22 days in the three weeks because if the reason we were punished with echra 22 letters of because we violated all the 22 letters of the Isle of Base probably that's why they're 22 days of the three weeks to rectify all the letters of the Isle of phase that we uh we destroyed we violated but maybe there's another way to look at it so I'm close with um Friedman he wrote uh volumes called he's the Royal of bells it's a tremendous and last year he sent me I asked him you know how do you compose your pieces so he said you know Daniel let me I'll give you a little uh taste so in the beginning of the week he sent me his mimer like a draft he's actually flying from America to Earth Israel and then on Monday he sent me like a second edition and then the next day he sent me the Third Edition and the fourth edition he wrote he said on the plane Bane Between Heaven and Earth the matter says it's found in a number of places I brought on the sheet at number 14 and 15. that when Moshe Rabino broke the Lucas so we we imagine it we you know he's holding the tablets which were not rounded on the top good they have it right over here okay and he's holding it and he was about to shatter it and you know we picture that he shattered no the murderer says that as he's about to Shadow the Lucas they got heavier and heavier and ever you know why they got heavier and heavier because the letters of the Lucas flew off the letters flew off the Lucas flying letters look at number 14. the words flew off look at number 15 the outcome he saw the letters and it got really heavy and that's why they fell so it's very possible then that if the three weeks is sort of kicked off and triggered by the breaking of the Lucas and the look lights broke how many letters are the alephas 22 letters on the alipays that's likely why there is a connection there are 22 days of the three weeks because we're commemorating the breaking of the Torah on Shiva tamas we know the matter says when Maisha broke the Lucas what happened the Torah was forgotten the Torah was forgotten had moisture not broken would never be forgotten that's why what's the avoidance what does Tama stand for I'm not going to breslip says Thomas stands for moisha remember the Torah don't forget it because he shattered it he brought shikra to the world the avoida of Thomas is he said what happened to the love doesn't Thomas have up says of course it has but the Lucas were and they broke so we don't have to use the VAV in tamas or we could say Thomas stands for that's when the Torah was given moisha try to give us the Torah it just didn't work out so from the moments and he shattered it and the letters went flying we now are in avilos we're trying to retrieve those 22 letters if we retrieve those 22 letters during the 528 hours of Thomas by mastering Tarsha box then that's them that's the key of redemption so again now the question is so why what are the 21 days 20 I thought he broke the look like so now all the letters of the alphabes went flying says Friedman shlita an incredible not so fast hold your horses when Moshe broke those yes all the letters went flying but were all the letters written on the Lucas do the Lucas actually have all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet there's a famous almost inexplicable gemara we have no way to understand it but the gemara says if you look at number 17 . foreign now in between the gemara says really why are you asking me why it says you should ask me if it does say taive which seemingly is impossible to explain here you have an Amara who doesn't know if it says the word in the in the second how is it possible that you have a Torah Sage who doesn't know this is everybody speaks about this I'm not but I'm not going to speak about it today but what the gemara says openly is that by the second it says by the first it doesn't say tithe foreign is good and When God says good it means absolute good total good perfect good like Tyra if Maisha would have taken that word type and he would have shattered the word type then we never would be able to have taiv again in our history so that purposely omitted the word Taif because if it would have said would have gone down the drain forever and ever and ever I have to read to you the words you should be familiar with these words because the reason it doesn't say toivan the first is eventually going to be broken who cares if it's eventually going to be broken you can't break the tithe if you break the tithe goes down the drain so what day did Maisha break the what day of tamos 17. 17 is gamatria tithe you know what's tell you about the 17th day of tamus that it didn't say sometimes what's tithe is and what is taiv is not you know why the Lucas were broken on the day of time on the day of 17 because it was so tithe that it didn't say taiv so in order to preserve type forever and ever and ever Hashem had moisha break that doesn't have time on it was the fact that there's no toivan so it comes out then then how many letters were written on the Lucas huh only 21 letters were written on how many letters were broken off the localized 21 letters what do you mean no the letter test did not appear on the Lucas the Sam Cipher has a beautiful drush Parikh I and gimont number 19. Ms Marla Assaf Li Israel 21 the fact that they're only 21 letters on the Israel that's good for the Jewish people because if there would have been 22 letters that would have been rally Israel because that means that would have gone down the drain foreign so it comes out then that if we would ascribe if we would ascribe each letter of the Hebrew alphabet to a different day of the three weeks after all that's what Republican says that each letter of the Hebrew alphabet corresponds to another day of the three weeks then is it possible to say that what letter corresponds to Tish above the ninth day of Tam of AV the letter tests the letter that was never broken the letter that survived the letter that wasn't even there to begin with the letter that moshabbinu couldn't break because if he would have broke it then all hope would have been lost in fact that means the day that Maisha broke the lucrez is a very hopeful day because orchestrated that and ensure that our ultimate salvation will never go down the drain in fact what Penthouse Friedman said it could be that's why moisha knew he was allowed to break the lucrez you know Maisha looks at the lucrez should I break this and not break this this is not going to be good for the Jewish people if I break the Lucas starts looking at the letters and he sees the aleph and he sees the base and he sees the gimmel and he sees he says there's no tests over here wait a second there's no test and I break it there's still hope for Rejuvenation oh must be didn't put a test he's allowing me to break it because there's still be hope if I break the Lucas what gave myself the clue that he could break the Lukas is the fact that the letter test is conspicuously absent you know like Mars says in babakama haroya test because if you see the letter test in a dream let's say during this year now you doze off a little bit or even not now anytime you know let's say you know you know there's a guy who um every time the rabbi got up to speak within minutes that was outcalled like throughout it could be like two minutes into the Russia the guy was like I was snoring and one time the rabbi was like walking up to the podium and the guy was already out cold the rabbit got so he said you're already sleeping said Rabbi I trust you but anyway thank you mother says if you see a test in a Dream It's a cement it's a good simin it's a good cinnamon it's a simin of type says the morale I think tomorrow says when is the best time of existence you know in our in our existence in any stage eov says I wish I could go back to the good old days you know what are the good old days the good old days are in utero when the gemara says comes and teaches a person and the gemara says that a person's eyes are closed a says the gemara if you look at number 25 there's no greater day of toiva there are no better days of toiva than during the nine months that a person is In Utero listen to this description says how wonderful it is you want to know what taiva is in utero says tomorrow you think it's coincidence that the greatest in the world is for how long nine months it's not a coincidence there's a reason why the greatest type in the world is for nine months what letter is Mayor what letter is predominant during the nine months of of uh laid of of ibor the letter test in other words if you could take a sonogram it doesn't come up I've seen sonograms that they were not able to capture letter tests they're not they don't know what they're looking for but if you've got a really good view you would see that the letter Tess was is Mayor on the baby through the letter test which is through that it's meaning the possibility to know the entirety of the Torah is through the letter test so when the gemara says that if the letter test was broken on the lucris then we would have lost toiva forever that means we never would have been able to retrieve the Forgotten Torah that was caused by Maisha breaking the luge but the good news is the letter test is never broken through the letter Tess everything could be restored they're 22 days of the three weeks but there's one letter and one day that retains its ability to restore everything for the Jewish people and that's the ninth day of the ninth day of Av is tests the ice test which is mayor in the nine months of pregnancy those tests that through that voice test we could retrieve all the Torah that was forgotten through the srira Salukis so Maisha breaks the Lucas on the first of the day of the three weeks but he understands that the evolution is saving for us the ninth day now the ninth day of time is a tragic day the first base I mean this was destroyed the second baseman was destroyed but latent in that day is the letter test let me tell you one last thing about the letter tasks the radvaz writes about the oyst test there's no ice in the alephase which is a clay cable like the ice test think about all the layers of the alipes none of them have receptacles they're either open or an opening on the right side or the left side or it's open on the bottom nothing could receive anything so you could think of it two ways Tish above which is connected it's the bottomless pit it's an endless day of Tara all the Jewish tragedies keep on recurring again and again and again it's like a pit That Never Ends year mihanavi cursed the day of his birth Tish above first based something their second base I make there's Batar Inquisition but it's also tremendous clickable it's also a tremendous receptacle it also has tremendous possibility for brachi and if we are able to connect to the ice tests through the 528 hours of the three weeks then we have we we are grateful to iban Islam that he removed that oyster so that when all the letters of the alipas were broken that one is still preserved as the receptacle for us to pour into it all of our avoida and all of our preparations maybe May Hashem find our preparations to restore the Torah that was forgotten and restore the Binion based 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