Kabbalistic Secrets of the Snow - Revealed By the Arizal and the Ben Ish Chai

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com with uh new york city covered in a blanket of snow and much of the northeast covered in a blanket of snow we have up to two feet of snow so we have an opportunity to learn one of the uh some of the secrets of shell egg for many years i have been pondering what is the significance of the fact that the word shall egg is numerically valued at 333. the morale talks about how the word baruch okay the root of it is beis each of these letters represents two bases two half is twenty ratios two hundred indicating that bracha is a bounty extra gift from my college barcha and therefore all the letters represent the numeral two so then what is the significance of shell egg which is three uh gimbal is three laminate is thirty shin is three hundred so let me share with you a few thoughts that i've discovered on the pasic and voracious um we know that shimon huam sunni and ravi kiva even bolstered his approach darshan's every s in the tar so what's umilu s vikki so it's suggested in a safer mascara aldol of ravrahamim david kuskos that the message of the passage is we have to conquer the entire world we have to settle the whole world including areas that you would think are uninhabitable now what areas would you think are uninhabitable the snowy icy areas s is the rabbis makayama is hasheleg and amazingly the word vikki is spelled chosser so it's spelled varvhaf bayes shinhei which is gumatria shell egg indicating that we have to conquer the world even mccoymoys that are not easily settled even mccoy mice which are numerically valued 333 shell egg now there is much written in the arizal about the segula of rolling in the snow now i'm not here to tell anybody to roll in the snow and that rizal says that rolling in the snow actually helps for shikha for forgetfulness it helps restore the zikarrain and amazingly that result says that the word aleph lament which is gumatria 111 times three is shall egg so three alefs which that result says comes from the three olives of the three miluem of the shame ekia so the three olives 111 111 111 is gematria shall egg and through shell egg through rolling in the snow one is able to overcome shikha the kamatria of shellac 333 is the same as shikha 333 even mustafi recommends putting shell egg on one's forehead to help restore one's memory interestingly even the hassam sofia talks about the significance of shellag being gamatria 111 three times the first says that if we look in the passage that talks about the it mentions three plain it says three times the word pellets use pella is the same as aleph one eleven one eleven one eleven gomatria 3 33. so shellegg is gamatriya 333. amazingly comes the banishkai in his commentary to masakhta tinus binayahu and he says that this segula of the arizona to restore memory is maruma's in the enigmatic statement of rava rava says mali till gulaturi montana's given a lemon base snow is good for the mountain snow is good for the mountain well says the baneshkai in the benayahu the mountain is also a reference to one's roish and we find in gemara shabbas khuffman aleph the caesar said why didn't you come to bayabada avedan they avedan was a area where the used to debate the heretics and rabbishow ben khannanya being always the chief debater and the chief supporter and upholder of the oral law was always found debating the heretics so he was asked by the caesar how come you didn't come now and he said tour teleg there's snow on the mountain rash explains the mountain refers to his head snow means he's white he's too old now to debate so we see the word mountain refers to the head and shall so therefore says snow is good for the head that is the school of the rizal of rubbing the snow on the head as arizon says says the baneshkai the three alphin of the shame ekia the milo alfin is gematria for shikha shikha is gamatriya shellag so again this these are ideas which are lamala saga say no but the banishchai does say that this marumas in the words of rava so if you go outside and you walk to minha you walk to marv and some snow gets on your head so maybe you'll be mikayim the schoola of the arizal malay snow is good for the head it helps you remember and on the most basic level the the way that snow is good for the memory is you can't go out to your regular shoe rim in the snow so what do you do you sit at home and you review and you hazard and certainly the best way to remember your learning and the best sagula for shikha is khazara so hakodesh should give us a lot of zman to be able to review everything we learned and we should be able to remember and integrate all of our limu dim the taiv of us have a wonderful evening you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torah torahanytime.com