Lag B'Omer: Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai Saves the World From Judgement

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com thank you everyone for coming some debris but in honor of black volumer we're gonna speak a little bit about the uh mystery and the uh kadusha and the power of the lagboyman but of course we'll tie it into Mr Broncos and what we're learning about now we have a tradition that on the last day of the life of Republic which of course the tradition is now is live volume there told the secrets of the Zaya to his student right A lot of people think that desire was written by Russia actually did not even write one word did not write even one word of the Zaya the zayar was written by his student rabiaba and dictated the words of desires Patera which was last but amen by the way it's also interesting to note that even though we don't have the birth certificate of I don't think so and we don't know exactly what day he was born but nevertheless in general we have a tradition that Sadiq and they passed away on the day they were born and therefore based on that the saskar conjectures that was also born on but it was on laguama that he revealed to the world the great light of the Zyra kadosh so the question is what is contained on this day of life what is special about the nature of the day the number of the day that it lended itself for the foreign okay so comes along the arizal you know the byways the highways of the heavens were open before him and that reason reveals to us something unbelievable something earth-shattering we know God's name with Midas haddin is that like him alef then alamed then hey then ayud then a mem away Kim what's the numerical value of Ella Kim thank you 86 86 aleph is one Lama is 30. hey is five Yoda's ten ma'am is 40 86. that's me that's Haden is how do you transform by changing the letters of La Kim to the letters that precede it by advancing the letters to the preceding letters so if you take the word I like Tim says that Rizal what's the letter before aleph there is no letter before aleph so an aleph remains an Allah what's the letter before lamid khaf what's the letter before yod Tess what's the letter before hey dalit what's the letter before the final mem so the aleph and the mem cannot be changed it's the three middle letters dalid that are changed from is transformed into aleph dalid aleph dalid Tess man the numerical value of olive is what 74 86 becomes 74. is considered the name of the name of trust in God because when you have him it lends itself to that says that reason that's the meaning of the past like that's the shame Ella Kim becomes look at it like this says that Rizal if what is more is the letters that are able to be transformed from din tarakhamun now the aleph and the mem on the bookends cannot be changed the alephasis remains an aleph the man remains a mem so those letters are not as much as the hey yud mem with the excuse me the lamid is transformed tests which are the letters that hey yud lamid is transformed to what's the numerical value of hey right what's the numerical value of um 33. got that the three middle letters of La Kim which is which is lamid hey good is transformed to Dollar test that equals 33 it is those 33 that is the most intimate powerful it's like a combustion of so the aleph and the mem can't be changed it's the three middle letters that are transformed from what lame test dalid that's 33 the 33 is the three middle letters of the shame La Kim which is transformed into the highest degree of rakamem and that is why it was on this day the day of Dallas 33 that was able to reveal the secrets of the zayar to the world because again the aleph and the mem are Untouchable aleph remains an aleph the mem remains a mem it's the hey the yud the lamid that are transformed to what dalid Tess by the way the Rizal says these five letters are like Kim which is transformed to what aleph dalit test mem represent the five students that raviakiva taught online we know when he went to Rabbi Singh and after the 24 000 students passed away he taught these five students are represented by these five icy ice and that is the meaning of when yaakov avinu meets love on he says Aid is 74. the shame of Italian where the Allah changes into aleph dalid test man that's aidao are the 33 the middle part of the sheamasha okay so this gives you a little bit of an inkling onto some of the mystery of lagba makes a very mysterious statement take a look at number four um says I could exempt the whole world from judgment you know everybody has aberos I could take it on the chin for everybody I could take it for everybody I could accept upon myself release free the world from judgment the question is what exactly does mean that he could free the whole world from judgment how's he going to do that what's he going to do exactly he's in Godfather and what's he going to tell the Revenge them what does it mean that he could free the whole world from judgment okay let's talk about a very controversial topic no everybody's favorite topic you know learner or earner should you work or should you learn Fred should you work or should you learn what's better so well that's both right all the different statements that everybody has and everybody I'm sure has their shita and their opinion and we're not changing anybody's mind here at this year right unless we give them a lot of that alcohol over there we're not changing anybody's mind today but says like this it's actually gather your grain says the gemara what does it mean gather your grain my talmad what does that mean gather your grain because the plastic says let the Torah not be removed from your mouth you should learn Torah day and night so it's good to know you don't always have to learn only when it's either day or night any other time you don't have to learn you can waste your time only when it's either day or night every other time you're free so now the question is what does a Torah means to delve yeah well to to Delph so the gemara says because the plastic says that you have to delve into tar day and night you would think that you need to learn 24 hours a day therefore talmudloin therefore the Torah says gather your grain what do you see from there you gotta have a Confluence of learning and earning you learn and you earn you learn and you work says you act with it the normal manner with your learning you have to work also that's the opinion of rub your C right there but the rashvi says working working is not for Jewish people person's gonna plow during the plowing season plant during the planting season and harvest during the harvest season very nice you're gonna work but how are you gonna know you can't work and learn it doesn't work Ella says if you want to do the right thing you only learn when the Jews are doing the will of God then you just learn and who's gonna work for you other people one second one second when we do the will of God yes but when class was not doing the will of Hashem and the guy are not going to work for you then you gotta go out and make a living is when when we don't do the will of God then you have to go to work and not only are we gonna do our work if we don't do the will of God we're gonna work for the guy in so you're gonna go to work and then at the end of the year you're going to give the USA seventy percent of your paycheck I got that okay what am I paying you tomorrow should you go to work should you not go to work ready small says you got to go to work you don't go to work how are you going to pay the bills you're you're gonna go you're gonna learn all day and then what you're gonna go rob a bank and you're gonna go when you go to the grocery store I went to a store and I saw a from Jew he's by uh by the vegetables he looks around from Jew looks like dress nice looks around nobody's looking he takes a grape why does the poor guy want to come back to this world to pay that store back 10 cents because he stole a grape from the store it's it's Halo what's the guy doing kid stealing as a matter of so guys people don't earn enough money the gamara says so they're gonna end up being Canaveral stick so you gotta go to work you gotta go to work gotta go to work that's the opinion of your smile you can't work how are you gonna become a type of awesome how are you gonna know the Tyra says if you do the right thing you learn and as they say though you'll figure it out okay this is like who do we pass them like so the gemara says something over here that as far as I know there's no other example in the entire Shas where the gemara doesn't pass in which way is right and which way is wrong the gemara comments which way works which way doesn't work says the gemara um I don't know who we pass can like but how are they also crabby small but also Beyond many people acted like rebe smile and they were successful in this world they worked they supported their family they were then they it was a good the Harvey excuse me and many people acted like and it didn't work by the way you know the briskarov says we see from this gamara we pass skin like Ravi Shema very interesting but in any event the gamar doesn't really tell us just comments that have working Works does not work by the way the place can say that this is talking about just learning but if somebody has what an ominous in learning or let's say Arabian Yeshiva or their mechanic or they're rough so in a case where you know you get a normal salary that's also a valuable way of of going by that event that's the commodity small says you're not allowed to work here's the problem okay the problem is like this if you look in the gamar monach what does it say about upon Him upon Him have to be on the table tumid so now the question is what does mean does mean 24 hours a day that's Allah and 28 four hours a day would mean that let's say you have the new bread to put on the table you would do it in other words as you're removing the old bread you slip on the new bread so not even a moment goes by that there's no bread on the table and according to that if tomid means 24 hours a day then would mean you have to learn 24 hours a day look at number six Tanya reviews even if you take off the old bread in the morning and you put the new Bread on in the nightclum that's not a problem you could take the old bread off in the morning and put the new Bread on in the evening and it's not a problem then the question is there is a problem it's not tummid you let 12 hours go by and the table was unoccupied what does it mean that the bread should be on always it means don't let the table go to sleep without Bread on it so Tommy doesn't mean constantly tomid means consistently It's Always There In other words there's not a day that goes by without bread so one explanation of tamad means always 24 hours a day as you're removing the old bread you put on the new bread and then the comments according to that by by toy review would mean you need to learn 24 hours a day but now the gemara brings another Tana review excuse me um says even if you remove the old bread in the night in the morning and the new bread you put on the eat in the evening but so you're not letting the table go by without bread for one night that's also good oh definition of tomid we could learn that if a person does not learn all day he just learns a little bit on that in a little bit and then evening that's also tonnet we see from here a new definition of Thomas tommen doesn't mean 24 hours a day Tom and means consistently every day so says even if you learn one parag of mishnais in the morning and one pack in the night key aim mits in the Mitzvah of learning okay one second said even excuse me no I didn't learn a word but I was Makai in the Mitzvah the higiso by Layla Yom of a Layla and even learn one minute yeah you did you said in the morning that's also good that's why we celebrate [Laughter] we'll see even if a person only says Shema in the morning and the night you're also you'd say now why am I telling you this says that's why I made sure only would come today and then and that's why I tell you but make sure I have a guard at the door to make sure no ameras come in but you know the teachers because why because you teach us an MRS and I'm always gonna say oh great I'll just say in the morning forget an issue because now they know that you know that they don't have to worry so much so there are a lot of things to talk about in escamara but here I want to talk about the following issue what is opinion says doesn't mean you have to learn 24 hours a day it means a little bit in the day a little bit at night and more than that even Shema in the morning suffices hey wait a second you just said in the gemara base that you're not allowed to go to work says no boyla means you need to learn 24 hours we have over here is the biggest era in all of between says you need to learn 24 hours a day review smile holds you got to work then what's going to happen do you learn a mission in the morning Mission at night you're not going to know a blessed word of Torah will work for you it's good enough himself by the way last year we said the following carrots and I'll remind you remember when in the cave now where is the gemara going into the cave Shabbos foreign against the government and the government found out maybe he was on torahanytime.com I don't know and the government found out about his statements he had to run away he went into a cave he learned there for 12 years what did he eat he ate carobs he had carobs I don't know how anybody could do carrots you must have been a malach and and a stream of water um came up miraculously for 12 years he comes out of the cave and you can imagine what a high level he must have been on after learning and Downing for 12 years straight he saw Jews working they looked at them they killed them right away anybody with looked at who was working some said you came you came out of the cave to destroy my world get back in the cave get back in the cave he goes back into the cave for another year comes out of the cave rebelaza looks at people who are working he kills them heals them so he said last year that after he came out of the Cave the first time he heard God the basketball safe what are you doing you're coming to destroy my world you have to appreciate that Jews need to go to work so there's no steering reps who said you have to learn 24 hours a day that's before he heard the boss call that says that she's got to go to work after you're the basketball that you just got to go to work he changed to shita and he said even if you just say Shema in the morning and you say shiman the night that's also good where'd he get it from told him that's what we said last year we're not going to get into that further okay there's a third gemara about working now this is like this now by the way let me tell you another answer to the question first of all this question this is asked by the Karen let's take a look at number seven on the third line you can ask astero here between says I said he can't go to work because what's going to be with the Torah hurry the sphere we see well that you have to learn learn and only learn foreign it's a different gearsa you have to change the gearsa it's rep shiman so there's nostira represent you know how to work you gotta sit in a cave up to your neck and sand and you gotta learn and learn and learn if you want to eat God Will Make A Miracle a carob tree will grow don't expect to learn learn and God's gonna make a miracle that Carlos and Gabby's is going to come in but if you want to sit and learn and miracles to happen you got to be happy with the carobs but but the other gemara that says that uh even is good enough The Shack changes the gear set it's this morning we're going to explore a new passport that was a different answer that's what we said last year fedrish we have a new answer this year okay children you know boys or girls if you have girls you're gonna have to work more if you don't have an apartment get another you get another cave you get another I hear it I hear to study all day long like if you have girls you have a problem look we have the gamara says bottom line is a lot of people tried it doesn't always work you know the the more safe the safer bet is like it's good but someone on the madriga someone on the madriga so then who's on madrega who can make so then we have to reach uh yeah attribute it to someone completely different it says it's spelled out no no right so he has a different character from the gemara he changes the gearsome he changes it from because of this okay Rabbi Sai we have a third gemara this Kumar is not a wild listen to this Memphis rep shimen shot killed Sana alcase okay listen to this took a basket on his shoulders they said Reba what are you doing are you working he said of course I'm working there's nothing better in the world than working he said chuckled Santa that it's good enough to say sure at night he himself is working in the ass Rebel what are you doing he says what do you want me to do collect handeth what do you want me of course I'm working malacha is a great thing to do there's nothing greater than working it's honorable to work it's a covet to work it's dignified it's a dignified way to live so not only is saying you don't have to learn 24 hours he himself is working so now this is uh very interesting now you can imagine what you know he wasn't working nine to five right but still the fact that he the gemara says he was carrying a basket on his shoulder and he was commenting on the the worthwhileness of working that shows he honors it so now we have to explain how do all these gemaras fit in what no but he himself here is working wait a second didn't he remember how does it feel to be rich I mean he tested it out he wanted to try it out he's saying wasn't working he was carrying the basket because since he didn't work he didn't have a chair to sit on so he had to carry a basket to bring to the base matters okay that's another Mahala but again the simple meaning of the gemara is saying work is a worthwhile Endeavor fine so let's explore a new Option we're gonna today we're gonna learn the approach of the maharam shikh the time for a very very interesting approach it says in Augustana and drinking alcohol in the afternoon remove the person takes the person out of this world if a person indulges and sleep in the morning he loses the best part of the day the best part of the day is the early morning that's when you could accomplish the most or someone who drinks in the afternoon it's the heart of the day you're gonna start drinking alcohol in the afternoon Sigma says the mission says it takes you out of this world for example sleep in the morning Kate sad yeshine do not plan to sleep in a way that you're gonna miss this man Christmas if you go to sleep and you sleep past his mind creation you're going to lose out on Tyra so here's another illustration how Shema is a form of learning because his Apostle in honor of David Richter and Michele the possuk says the door swings on the hingesai and the lazy man is still in bed here you have a lazy guy he's sleeping in bed he has two pillows one pillow on top of his head one pillow under his head the alarm has been going up for three hours now he doesn't hear it he's still in bed he's still in bed and what's happening to the door the door is going back and forth on its hinges his wife gets up his kids are already in school most of the family they already spent the good majority of the day and the guy is still in bed with the door swinging back and forth thank you so now the question is wants to know what is this analogy of Soma melach that the door swings on its hinges what does that got to do with anything why we why are we focusing on the fact that the door swings on its hinges who cares the door is swinging on his Hedges what that's the only thing could come up with that has two hinges a door that's the only thing he could come up with with something that revolves and the point is while the world goes on this guy's sleeping so why the emphasis on the door on the hinges the key to the whole day is Shema in the morning and Shema at night that's the key to the whole day the way a Jew goes to sleep and the way a Jew wakes up that's the key to the whole day if a person wakes up and says oh yeah before I go diving let me first uh first I'm gonna check the news what happened last night I guarantee you nothing happened and first let me check my stocks to the start of the market doesn't open yet right then let me let me take a look at your bank account the credit cards didn't take anything from 12 o'clock last night until the more nothing nothing happened you cannot you're not permitted to take care of any activities before you dive in chakras in the morning why because if you start the day with you're setting the tone your whole day is going to be Unholy you have to set the tone of the day the day has to start with Krishna with shakas also you have to you have to know how to go to sleep at night how does the Jew go to sleep at night uh some people you know they turn on the radio or something else and and they fall asleep the box or the radio it calms them down so now where do you think the box is going to send you in the shama right the nashama goes up to shamaim at night you have to send it off in a good way so that's why a Jew before he goes to sleep it takes the fuse farm he puts it on the night table he says Shema he opens up a safer first of all if you have a hard time falling asleep you'll be out in no time okay you take a fuse for him and you put it by the night table your wife said what's going what happened to are you okay yeah you take a few spawn you especially really want to fall asleep take out a monster safer and right and you take as a safer you won't even get Beyond a line you'll be ready right but that's why is that the correct way to go to sleep because in the night time the nashama goes up to shamayim you want to give the nisham a certain Booth before it leaves this world you have to a Jew the way you go to sleep is very important to the way you wake up if you go to sleep in the right way if you go to sleep from learning you wake up in a different way you wake up with a different mindset that's why many farm right as soon as you wake up and you open your eyes you should look at the mezuzah not saying you have to do that why should you look at the mezuzah so the first thing you see in the morning should be kadusha the first thing you do you wash negovaser why the first words you say are maidani the way you begin something it sets the tone I'm not telling you you have to look at the mezuzah just saying the point is the beginning sets the tone the end sets the tone it's the two bookends of the day that the side decisively what the day is all about if you start the day with Shema and you end the day with Shema even if the rest of the day you're working it gives us certain elevation to the entire day the day is determined by the book ends where do we see in this world that you could have two bookends and everything is dependent on the bookends a door only has two hinges one hinge on the top one hinge on the bottom and the whole door slides two ways with two hinges wow that's an amazing analogy you have this huge door take that door probably weighs 70 pounds probably can't even move it and you have one hinge on the top you have one hinge on the bottom and the whole door is swinging on the hinges Shema is an analogy to the two hinges on the door if you say wake up in the morning with the mindset that the first thing I gotta do is say Shema and you go to sleep with the mindset that the last thing I need to do before I go to sleep is Shema then you have transformed your entire day all the work that you're doing you're doing for the ibanishum all the activities you're doing you're eating you're working to support your family you're elevating your whole day everything you look at the door the door teaches you that everything is dependent on the bookends just where do we see that in Korea comes along the maram shik says look at number 15 this is on the Mitzvah the maram shik has a commentary on the safer Hamid slice alef [Applause] IC says the following he says that when you say Shima and you say Hashem you're not just making God's name one the intention is supposed to be to make all of your activities in this world one you want to be ahead all of your massim in other words when you say Shaman you say Hashem there's one God what your intention should be is and therefore everything that I do today is for one purpose I go to work it's to serve Hashem I eat to serve Hashem I rest it's the sir Hashem I relax it's to serve Hashem the Shema is not just to unify the shame Hashem it's also to be all of your activities this is the the highest Havana of Shema when you say Hashem you're saying there's One Republic therefore everything I do today is for the revanish so says with this we can answer the stira you're not allowed to go to work he was talking about someone who they just say Shama and they don't know what to think they just say Shima in the morning what are you going to waste 12 hours a day working the majority of your day is going to be empty but the gamara said even if you just say Shema in the morning that's good enough is telling you the secret of Shema that if when you say Shema you think there is one reborn Islam and everything in this world is a manifestation of God and therefore everything I do today is going to be for the express purpose of Hashem then all you need to do is and that will transform your entire day just like the two hinges of the door allow the entire door to move allows the whole day to move it transforms the entire day so therefore that's the answer to this era if someone is not saying Shema with the right kavana then how can you go to work you can have an empty day but if you say Shema in the morning properly and the evening properly and you have in mind to me then even if you work the entire day or you sleep the whole day you're a good guy you're a wonderful guy everything you're doing is a shame shame I am take a look in number 15 for a moment he says when you say Shema this is a reference to unifying our activities so take a look in the next paragraph and based on the above mentioned idea we could say this is Hashem and when you say Shima you do with kabani you say Hashem and therefore today when I eat and when I work everything is foreign even if you're plowing and you're harvesting your work is very valuable your work is very Noble you're serving Hashem the whole day that even if you just said you're gonna work all day he's talking about somebody who doesn't know the secret of Shema so if you don't know the secret of Shema you don't know how to transform your day if you don't know how to transform your day how could you have an empty day so says the safer can I hear of shiman we quoted it yesterday he says like this that's why abayu says you can't say this to Amir you're gonna tell him RS that just say Shama in the morning and you're good to go they're not going to understand what that means they're not going to understand that what that means is that whatever I do today is only for the ribana they're just going to take it as we're being lacks and talmatar and limit they're not going to appreciate what this means comes ravan rabbit says just the opposite you have to tell people about this you have to tell them the secret of Shema explain to people that when you say Hashem the purpose is all of one's activities for Hashem by doing so Rabbi Sai you have transformed the whole day you know what you've done the whole day you have learned day and night learn day and night I work nine to five you're working nine to five is transformed through your Karishma of into tamatara that's the answer to this theorem work is great why is work great talking to someone who appreciates the value of Shema Shema are the two hinges of the day they're the two hinges of the door if you say Shema properly in the morning you say Shama properly at night you're able to transform the entire day Rabbi said we'll end off with the following content of Janice and ivishits look at number 17. he tells you a tried and tested segula and he writes it works every time every time without fail he says if you want to be successful in business during the day and you want to be successful in advance Hashem during the day he says like this it's tried and tested images that if you dive in chakras and Shema with cavano number one it's on that day Hashem will bring your way a great Mitzvah to accomplish and your Stacks will go up you'll do well in business tried and tested without fail if you say Shema and with cavana you will be successful that day and even if it's already 4 30 in the afternoon and nothing good happened and even if it seems like you have been successful at the end of the day you'll find that this indeed has occurred no question if you learned that day you'll be very successful in your learning but says to me Beijing if I don't dive in properly now you can imagine says he didn't Diamond properly it means you know if one of his lofty cavanas were lacking on some minuscule level but he says if I don't dance everyone falls asleep and the Torah that I teach is not really that beautiful but just the opposite if I cry out Hashem from the recesses of my hearts with Fila lechonini then the always has to illuminate my eyes chakrases foreign then that transforms the entire day so even if you're not learning the whole day all of your secular activities are elevated to be considered so it comes out is really saving our skin because without his trick that by sanction on the morning that's good enough if we didn't have that trick we would have to be sitting in our seats 24 hours a day learning and who could do that what a regular person to do that very difficult and we know the gemara says maybe pilchas could do that but a regular person I don't know right so the gemara tells us from Shana what will be the main accusation against the person so good Martin says take a look at number 18. when you leave water racist that's the beginning of fighting what do we do with that Posse question number one is let me see your schedule how much time do you learn that's question number that's the first indictment against the person the first indictment against the person the main indictment against the person is so now the question is so that's a little scary right we're in big trouble that's the main din who's saving our skin the rashpee of how is he saving our skin you know what you're right I learned a little bit in the morning a little by night but look at my Shema I said shimabe cavana in the morning I said come on tonight at least you know that will transform my day in a certain extent rashfi is saving our skin so maybe we could suggest this is going back to number four this is the meaning of Shima is I could get the world off judgment I could excuse the entire world what is this kavana his kavana perhaps is the following the main din that will be held against the person is forbido Tyra says I have a way I have a trick I have a shortcut to get the world off the hook and that shortcut is I feel like we're not here to say whenever a person has available time they're supposed to be learning we're not here to you know to make your lives that easy you know I'm not here person has to make sure to set aside significant time for tomorrow but but when not possible you have to remember to take advantage of teaching us that I feel like that when a person says Shema first you have to make sure you say the words carefully can Mumble Bumble the words yeah what is understanding yeah but uh kavana and Shema is in the first pasok there's only Mac even the first passage but the rest of Shema you have to at least say the words properly right you have to when you have when a word ends with a mem and the next word begins with a mem got a pause to say every word carefully slowly and for the first pass look you have to have kavana for the meaning of the words and before you begin you have to have in mind so fill the mitzima but perhaps this is another dimension tells us had in emanates from the three middle letters of the word Eloy Kim which are lamid hey which is transformed into which is 33 lag volumen is to have tremendous and therefore he's able to save the world and we know the banished Sky composed a special pismine for lager right the deeper meaning are the 25 icis or the first Posse of Shema is 25 letters this is for teaching us the 25 ocls the power of the 25 uses of krishma rabbis you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you like torahanytime.com