Lag B'Omer: The World View of Rebbi Shimon Bar Yochai

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com in honor of the upcoming emptifah of lag polymer so you want to speak a little bit about uh the yime which is uh coming up already Mount Sai Shabbos but of course we know we're already under the influence of like Weimar because allowed to shave a cup of Shabbos so we begin like this we know there is a tradition in Cloud Israel that on the empty for black boy many Pious individuals make the pilgrimage and they go to the cave of and interestingly there was a great question by the name of the three frimer who has the author of South he was the rav of Kuja glove the kosher Glover going to glove yeah and he was immediately after of Mayor Shapiro and he actually made the trip to May Ryan and I'm gonna tell you what he's thought of while sitting at the cover of in the year we're talking 1935. listen to this the past it says impressions he is a swift hind who gives good tidings says tiger monkeys to hey naphtali will have a good land a good inheritance he will produce fruits he will thank um and bless for them so the Tyra is predicting based on the tiger monkeys that naftali Israel will be a land that produces plentiful Bountiful fruits and naftali will make a bracha what in the North in the north so the question is what does otago mean that he will make a bracha on the fruits there's no such thing as a bracha that's medai Raisa you don't make yes later many many many years later were masaki and braches but how could tagam uncle say that already Jacob avino's telling naftali you're going to go in Terrace as well and make a Brach on the fruits are only drabon on so this would seem to indicate that Raisa because the taragum touches the possible that naftali is going to make a block on the fruit doesn't say he's gonna make a bracha in the bread which is which is there is no biblical bracha on fruits so how could tagum learn the pasok then after he's gonna make a brass on fruits says three he says I was in mayron unlock polymer tough race Stadium sitting at the kevver of and I give the following explanation he says like this we hold brothels our only what is that based on tamad babli but not everybody holds brother there is an individual who holds up does anybody know that is foreign known that the Zaya passkins brothels are direct so we don't hold like that but there is a concept in even if you don't hold like in his shoe that is like him in his location how long does like him we once the Learned why does it say that was speaking about you see us was trying the whole night but he holds currently because it was in Ben abracary the Akiva and in the place of Isla says the city of meron is in whose territory naphtali so in mayron when you eat a fruit you have to make a brother that's what the plastic means he's going to produce fruits and he's they're gonna have to make brochures was given and in that territory was interesting headers that let's see from her was mahadesh at the cover of rapture Rabbi I'm going to tell you another haddish that was innovated at the cover of Life so Rabbi Sai an amazing safer the name of the safer is just I think it came out very recently and the author of The safer is Rev pinchas Friedman the author of likute who has a new safer just on BlackBerry 68 mamore I had asked different people to get it for me so I happen to have two so I have an extra one if anybody uh but any event so he says like this there is a very difficult contradiction in chess about whether a person is allowed to work are you gotta go to work is it permitted to go to work during the week or during the year yeah are you allowed to work for a living it's not like it's time right and not like us whether you're allowed to go to work yeah let's see who else was right says Gather in your grain in other words work for a living why would the Torah have to say work for a living how else are you going to pay the bills well the fish and Amarillo you almost say foreign I would think you know it's taken literally so therefore the Tyra says gather your grain in other words there needs to be some kind of Confluence of learning and working right learner earner you gotta work you gotta learn so what is that stuff means okay you have to that's what it means yes anyway smile so schmel says you want to go to work because I'm to hate it go to work you can't go to work what a guy is going to plow during the plowing season plant during the planting season Harvest during the harvest season you're gonna go to work you're gonna be an Amara says saying you want to be a tomahawken you can't go to work so therefore like this what does the positive mean if you do what God wants someone else will do the work for you but ideally says are you allowed to go to work n o capital n o so you gotta relax someone else will do what has to be done in order to do the time limit so true yes you know how to go to work yeah but he says but how are you gonna know Tyra conclusion is you can't work tell you I'm just reading the words of the tanon what is the conclusion yes if they pay you with work yeah it's hard work it's labor it's an investment it's energy so now the gemara what should you do if I said I'm not telling you what to do I'm telling you what works how about your subscriptions many people work and learn and that massive works it happens it's a reasonable it's a reasonable methodology I'm just observing the reality of the situation is there are people who do what Ravi Shmo said and it's it's if it's a viable means of surviving in this world and there are many people that act like it doesn't work for them okay take it as it is you cannot go to work right presumably I by his conclusions what they follow and I once saw the Brisco rough rice that who do we pass can like rubbishment you passing you go to work that's a biscal of Rights but but yeah what's the next line I'm a REV now right you know any email I made right so right he said now emotion writes today in today's day and age if somebody wants to be Ravi new Shiva it's considered a job it used to be they didn't pay nowadays they pay a little bit so so it's considered uh it's considered a job okay Rabbi say we're not here today to get into this but what we are here today is says something different says other opinion you could take the old one off in the morning as long as you put the new one off put the new one on in the evening in other words don't let a day go by but it doesn't mamas have to mean it doesn't mean that one one hand's breath should be on the other in other words you don't have to put it and take it off simultaneously as long as the day doesn't go by foreign if the definition of tum it is not every moment but every day even if you learn Abyssal in the morning I'll Bissell in the evening doesn't mean at every moment it means every day learn a little in the morning you know how you fulfill the message there is no greater stera in chess he says you're now to work you're not a plow you're not a plant you're not Harvest you're not a thresh you're not a widow what do you do you learn from day till night you don't stop learning just say in the morning you're good to go I mean in my mind there is no greater contradiction than shots than revision contradicting himself it appears to me that what he's saying is that if you have the potential and the capability to become a cuddle the Torah captions do that should be your profession however if you some reason you don't have that potential so you learn to your capabilities and then you do what you have to do to make a living if you're if you have the potential to be an evily and you know a girl that you have responsibility to exert your efforts and uh you can't find a way to ask someone else up and be able to to live but not everybody is cut out to learn everything is only talking to people who can become godalia this costume he says you can't work and here he says all you gotta do is what a little in the morning a little bit in the evening very interesting question you know what else to ask this question the statement says this question and in fact he says he says already asked the question and the shaft in your day are Simon race it's a different person in fact is however we're going to offer a new answer today and this answer is going to be the answer of this and also based on that we're going to uh get get a little touch a little flavor for lack voluma something in the realm a little bit of the mystical and that is I want to tell you that there's a famous who runs away to the cave just want to point out when we start that the uh the bells are available this are shown from Bells points out Aramis that the story bearer of appears staff that the story about gimmerman right so let's say you're going to Mansi for Shabbos and they ask you where is the gemara you tell them however I'm at base however but the talmud of the belzareba the rabbi colors from he says like this if you count from the beginning of Shas until that Gamora you have 32 statements and the gemara shab is about lag voimer is the 33rd member of okay I'll let you count over Shabbos Story Goes that when the bells are ever said this over his son was missing they didn't know where he was they they found him in the basement he was counting he was counting the okay but anyway then let's read the gemara the gemara tells us Israel entered currently I'm not the Seminary they entered after the destruction of the second base Amigo she asked the emperor Tenley Avenue in the sages and it was called The Vineyard in yatna why was it called The Vineyard in yavna because they changed the methodology of teaching they used to sit in what we call a semi-circle and in yavna they sat in Rose like in a Vineyard why did they do that so there's a conjecture from that it was to allay the fears of the Romans because if the Romans would have gotten word that they're establishing a Yeshiva they would have tried to stop it so they set it up in a way where the Romans would not have recognized it as the issue okay Sigma says like this that's about 15 lines down I think Amara says that there were a bunch of tanam sitting right it's on the first one on the line is sitting and there was a man by the name of the Ben garam there began to speak and he said those Romans their actions are so wonderful they made marketplaces they made Bridges they made bath houses really great action so if you actually keeps his mouth closed caption speaks up and he says whatever they did they did for themselves they made markets for houses of prostitution they made bath houses to to Delight in they made Bridges to collect tolls the word Was Heard Juda Ben garam told the Roman of the Roman government and they will issue the following decree Yehuda who elevated us he'll be elevated see who kept close he should go into Goa City Pari and Shimon he embarrassed us he should be killed so where is I run away to he runs to the basement and every day his wife would bring him some bread and some water when the decree is intensified you could turn over the page he told his son listen Carlos women are easily easily uh influenced maybe they'll pressure them maybe they'll pressure on my wife to to get to give up my hiding spot so he ran to the cave right so what happened what's he gonna eat in the cave miraculously a Carib tree grew and a spring of water fine we had Akasha once in a share how could he eat the carob but uh it's our law so it's Uriah Watts my son Nissim right is not subject to the local time fine and he would take off his clothing and sit up to his neck and sand and learn when it came time to Dominic he'd put his clothing back on when he finished the ovening he took his clothing off how long did he spend in the cave 12 years fine 12 years the end of the 12 years comes to the cave dressed up and he says who's gonna tell somebody that the decree is over fine realizes the queen is over he comes outside he sees people plowing he sees people planting and lichita say he says what are these people doing they're wasting their lives they're leaving eternal life and they're being occupied with temporary life whatever they looked at says a Heavenly voice emerged and said what you came out to destroy my world so they go back into the to the cave for how long another 12 months how the 12 months no 12 months right right oh yeah a total of how long did he spend in the cave 13 years remember that so finally basketball comes out and says come out of the cave this time they called off so to speak whatever excuse me whatever revelos are looked at burnt up shipment looks at it and he cured it they see a guy running preparing for Shabbos running with uh roses running with flowers so what happens he said what are you doing he said I'm running to prepare for Shabbos why Two Roses one for zachar one for Sharma oh you're acting in this world to do Mitzvahs they were a piece fine let me ask you another question say that the purpose of the parent abovements yeah so far so Poland go ahead if you hire him someone talks about it oh happy to pay Yin and what happens to you this car you only when you have to pay them and what do they get for dinner [Applause] that part is talking to people who'll do the wrong thing anyway I have another country we have another contradiction contradiction is foreign put a basket on his shoulder so people said a basket what are you doing you're working he said you bet I'm working work is great work is tremendous it's an honor to work it's dignified to work well you can be a schlepper yeah you have to work I'm not embarrassed so if shipment publicly displayed his articles of work and he said what happened to rep Sherman what happened to him soon said you're not allowed to plant you're not allowed to plow you're not allowed to dwindle and thrash so marathias wants to say well that gamara you know why he's holding the basket he was taking the basket to go to the Shiva he needed a chair to sit on says the state there's no contradiction between says you're not allowed to work and the gamara manafa Sarah said no just learn a little bit and that will suffice there's no contradiction between the government test that says foreign and the answer is very simple before the Heavenly voice said what are you doing you're going to destroy the world represent maintains his idealistic opinion that you know how to work this world is a you have a short time when is the person going to learn small maintained this idealistic opinion until he comes out of the cave and he looks at everything and he looks at people working someone planting someone plowing and he says they're wasting their lives until Hashem says what are you doing you're going to destroy my world get back into the cave and now the second time Remy small comes out and he understands that if a person is working to be able to learn to be able to do mid slice to be able to live in this world there is something redeeming in that there's something honorable about that the answer is before he went in the cave before he came out of the cave he maintained that work is not proper he maintains after he came out of the cave after he came to the cave he switched his opinion about work so this is very interesting and that's why nadaramamtest baby says he himself took the basket on his shoulder and he says look at number 12 says very interesting explanation right by the way if you want another explanation you can look in the safer kadai rep shiman in his 90 in his 58th schmooze he quotes amaramshik anyway it says like this maybe next year he says you don't fulfill your obligation with just learning in the morning and evening there's no contradiction between his two statements one is before the Heavenly voice one is after the Heavenly place let me explain very simply [Applause] whatever he looked at was burned up which implies that he holds this is that you're now out of work otherwise if he held really you're a lot of work why would he burn up everybody he looked at he must have held that somebody who works is like a retail you're wasting your life originally you're wasting your life until he says until the Heavenly voice came out but um you came to the show my world item he cooled off says retracted damn Kane and if this is so Slimer it is not far-fetched to say that which is foreign I feel this is correct but what should I do no one ever else gave this answer you choose if you like my chadi says and he says according to what I'm saying we can answer my request this question is that he took the basket and he paraded in the street and he says work is Honorable work is dignified that's talking about after the basketball wow it's amazing explanation so let's take it a little further because in this new volume of kadahi rep Sherman has Friedman Bells he says that he wants to tell us something he thought of when he visited merom meron Adam in 1935 when is that 2004. listen to he was together he writes with tens of thousands of Jews who are pouring out their heart and Fila and he says I'm standing there at the theater and I'm sitting in between the form of and I was pondering the following issue and that is there's a great contradiction between the arizal and the ramak right the greatest of all the McComb of course was the Arizona the beautiful Gloria the ramak was also one of the greatest Cordova he also wrote The Paradise remind him Rabbi Sai if you look in these respective serum the Ariza says hi we will see we have it over here over here on our sheets hi was or Hassan was made sad smile the sad of them okay beautiful not everybody says that who agrees to the arizelle who's on the rambling panel of Monaco mazaria one of the great Italian macabolum he was also had a great printing press in his possession and the Maranda Joseph and trusted the ramami panel to print the base Josef he also agrees he is which fits very good into the garage burns up everything he saw in rep shim and cured it the problem is the problem is that there are mock writes otherwise ramosha Cordova writes there is then and Revelation was the side of Rahman I just want to point out who was greater the arizal or the ramak how could we evaluate such a thing who are we to get to put evaluate them so we don't have to do that yeah to the right Direction yeah he was doing what he thought he was was correct he was punishing those who are acting inappropriately somebody uh doesn't have very active beds in Paris that's a different story the one that punish him because he transgresses that someone who goes to work he's transgressing the will of God that's what that's what it says he had a change of hearts right luckily abaye said have a subscription before you before you throw tomatoes just give me another 10 minutes one minute one minute who is greater them foreign like this how do you evaluate Jewish philosophy and Jewish Kabbalah so the grass says at the place that Jewish philosophy stops that is where Kabbalah begins and the girl took it further at the place where the Kabbalah Ramon Cordova ends that is where the Kabbalah of the Ariza begins that is a number 14 the casa rice fine no he is where it ends in other words at the point where his wisdom concludes from that point then on the wisdom of that reason begins now listen to this there's a safer written by the primary disciple of the arizal who was he writes like this in the year of shelleg what year is the year shelleg months after the Ariza he okay I had a dream says the and you know who came to me in the dream they're on Mac grandma and he says like this and I thought I said all right Mark how you doing I forced you to take an oath I want you to tell me in the oil line according to who's tariffs do they learn do they learn like the ramak or do they learn like the arizal sir Max says like this both pathways are true [Applause] in Kabbalah it's for those who are initiating in that realm but the Tariff of your revita Rizal is more on the panemius and even either I'm actually I learned the Kabbalah of the Arizona my own cabal okay so we have pretty clear sources that the Kabbalah of the Ariza was on a higher level the grass says from where the ramakens zariza begins says something that is contradictory to that which the original rights that reason rights Rebels look at number 17 in Arizona right this is just to get a little taste foreign Exile look at number 16 he writes then the year 5308 yeah so we're talking you know 470 years ago I was in the basement and I was diving there in the namak right and I got up to look and I'm standing there my faces to the south on the right side is the cover of rebels are on the left side is the camera and I said like this Arizona and he says like this how do I know Revelations so very interesting repentance Friedman writes that he wants to reconcile this contradiction between these two great luminaries the Arizona and he says very simply if you look in the beginning of the Tyra voracious Bara I like him the word voracious all right in the safer igra the Kala foreign to illuminate Us in the exile it's very interesting then we know Hashem wanted to create the world I like him but he still wasn't going to work out so he therefore he was Hashem wanted to create the world within it wasn't going to work out he created with dinner in his sixth maima feels like this he starts off his career with Midas haddin like the remark writes after all what does he do when he sees Rabbi Huda speaking up and saying the Romans are terrific they make bridges they make tunnels they make stores they're doing it for themselves they're making stories for a promiscuity they're making Bridges to collect toes he's Maisha he's makani lashem he's a zealot he sees people working he says how could they do such a thing he burns them up at the beginning of his career the ramak is correct is but then he spends how long in the cave total routine is that just coincidental he spent 13 million years in the cave his den is tempered he has a different attitude like the station he changes he started off holding your now to work and even ultimately concludes he himself worked he himself said right we're doing Kabbalah the Wilma going says from the place where there are Mac and that's where the Ariza begins there are Max says that's why in the very beginning of voracious voracious Bara ele Kim wasp voracious number 19 voracious the light of the Torah from Eli Kim foreign to have a certain attitude the attitude of Hashem the attitude of din he was he didn't tolerate any shortcomings but after 13 years in the cave it says he switched his decision and he switched his his attitude and he switched his side there's no stereo between in broadcast that says he can't work that's before the 13 years before the basketball all you have to do is that's after the 13 years in the darm test that says that's after the 13th so after the 13 years that reason I was correct there are Mommy pan was correct and this perhaps is a way to reconcile the contradiction between these great luminaries it's a way to to reconcile the contradiction between menacha it's a way to reconcile between the darum and broccolios asks and hopefully give us a little taste for the young Havana wish you all a wonderful you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com