Y-h Echsof (Part II) By Dr. Aaron Adler

poov I particularly like the Carina choir doing this because this is as original as you're going to get it's um of the O the first the oo and the galaan Ia for sure it's not an easy tune to not an easy tune at all all no no no no but uh you get used to [Music] it okay just got another minute so I'll already make the announcement to share dedication for the entire season in memory of elisheva Sima bat Zalman Frist um next Wednesday there's going to be a special program from the OU I don't have all the details but rabi Shore told me that the regular sh room on Wednesday will not be taking place but there'll be something here uh for as I say lat khuk so um take Peak at the Torah tidbits there should be some announcement as to what the specific program but I'm not going I'm leaving to the states shortly and I'll be away for a week and a half so in two weeks time I'll be back but next week anyway the shear was not going to take place okay so whatever it is I'm sure it'll be enjoyable and rewarding to participate last week we um we began the song Those Who came early just heard a car rendition of it um a one of this bot that has become in the past years extremely popular amongst the Young Generation like from the older generation we don't know this song it's not part of the repertoire but uh now in the new Benes there's MIM so it's it's included you can actually see it um and we try to give some justice to show that there's tremendous amount of cabalistic ideas um incorporated into this particular poem a one thing specifically that makes it stand out from some of the others Mir wrote where the others M wrote um spend some time if not even U spend a lot of time on the on Shabbat fashion facet of Shabbat and and everything here we have a poem that's almost void of the um material side of enjoyment of Shabbat it is one 100% spiritual on so even when the word on may be used it's not used in the sense of sud or for that matter as many of the other poems will focus on leishna and other things that are for the enjoyment of Shabbat and so on here um RAB Aron a carlen is putting his finger on some spiritual aspect of Shabbat that transcends what's going on in reality and I think this is like very very important we're talking about the third generation ofid we're talking about somebody who is a student aid student of the maged from MZ who was the Prime student of the bmov so this takes us back um over 200 years where the daily living situation in Poland and Ukraine was was not very very good putting it modly I mean they were poverty stricken they were progrm there were there all kinds of issues the idea of coming into Shabbat and putting everything out on the side and somehow living an experience that just transcended the daily existence I think this was very much on the mind of the early cidic leaders and it it certainly shows itself in this particular poem um I'm just going to review just to we get back on track the means longing longing for the sweetness of Shabbat which is mim which is appropriate and unifies with your is is so here you have number one Unity of Shabbat with Amel and we're going to see in a moment Unity of Shabbat with Torah and then Unity of Shabbat with these are cabalistic ideas you know many of a familia in the before doing some there's a type of many have a little of a prologue to I'm ready to do a Mitzvah whatever it is for Bening or but it'll start with there's something about unification of and the the V was not happy with that kind of language because the word let's unify something about God suggests div divisibility and that's a no no you cannot talk about anything about a kadosh that's divisible and hence there is nothing about a kadosh that requires unification yet the cabalists worked on certain frequencies of understanding of and it would be our job to bring it all together so in that's in that sense they talked about here we're talking about Shabbat is a unifying factor with almost a identifying am identifies with the fact that they keep Shabbat the Torah identifies with Shabbat what does that mean the Torah has 613 mitv so we know that there are several mitzvot that carry an added weight to them that they're called they're equivalent to the entire Tor Shabbat happens to be one of those so again so the fact that there's identification with Tor in its General sense with Shabbat in its particular sense is already mentioned in the kazal and the idea that Shabbat you is unifying with that's purea so the idea of is the one who is seeking out um the will of God the the Raton of God obviously we're seeking out to know what aosh is through his revealed will his revealed will is the Torah of course now we mentioned last week that there are two mitzvot that obligate us in our relationship to one is and one is doesn't mean fear it means awe a we or and here and but or is NE nevertheless frightening I I I believe I mentioned the r in the which is the very beginning of the Mish T where he says that the r doesn't believe in romantic love here he believes in intellectual love it's all dependent on how much understanding we have about God proportionate to that is considered is when we getting closer and with understanding to what is it gives us a jolt back we recoil because we're so we're so we just can't stand in the presence of aosh and a causes a recoil the med says this with regard to when starts saying just recalls 12 miles 12 mil whatever that is but it but they just couldn't handle it and that's why MH Rao had to just take over so here we want to sweeten somehow the year Factor where it's something that is frightening even though it's not the definition of this morah but it is frightening but we ask that the Shabbat should sweeten it we'll see at the end of the poem how somehow merge together at the end of the day here you see the word that Shabbat is a factor that is Unified with the Torah we ask to open up the gates of sweetness and acceptance of the gates of Ron I'll mention again as I said last week the word Noam is mentioned twice in this particular paragraph and um the family of Rabbi mosha and uh ataram taragan asked if we should sing this in as a schula for their son's recovery just this morning there was another positive encouraging report um of NS staged recovery and he should have a and get back to himself yeah yeah so we mentioned last week that the sh the first word of the poem is God's name in a truncated fashion it comes from the where it says so there the word is truncated say say it's say case but is not fully acknowledged in this world as long as there is an around so how long is there going to be an amolik around L door door every generation that that means that we're gonna have to go through our parot not just by reading it on Z but experiencing it I think we know exactly what this is in the last uh year and a half we have full full flavor of this so we we're asking we want that K's name should become complete once again so complete once again is the so I mentioned that the r tells us in the is a contraction of three words which means eternity Eternal is the so what the what does here he spells out two3 he says which is referenced toos but so far it's only two3 but it's a lot more than the ud and the he he's building a K's name and if you look at the third paragraph It's G to be Vu so he gets the in in like as we progress in this poem's name is growing to utter completion now we ask that should guard those who are waiting waiting for the coming of Shabbat and I mentioned last week that the yemenites have the custom based on a ram to sit with an Arab shabat and with a Talis over the head and wait for the sh to come in with Shabbat most of us don't do this but yemenites still go to show Friday night with the talus and some of them even over their heads I I'll mention that one of the last D that I heard from of the yard side of his father gimat was in 1979 half a year before our Al and he spoke about KES on Shabbat and he was talking about the difference between the kdes Friday night and kdes in the morning and I remember him saying I know that all of you all of you had me 3,000 people in the audience I know that all of you are sh Shabbat but many of you are not sh Shabbat and everybody's looking at him like what exactly are you talking about and the r explained that you're not supposed to just fall into Shabbat the r knew very well especially in the winter month where people come home they because you able to leave their work early um because of Shabbat everybody would normally leave at 5 and they're leaving at 3 and and and if they're coming to sh Friday night at all it's with the hair dripping from the shower and uh you can see that it was a rush job and the r said this is missing in American jewry they're not sh Arab Shabbat but in Isel he said that you actually do have this business you feel Friday afternoon it's a you feel it even in the non-religious sector you see it it's a things already are closing down the stores are not opened anymore people are walking with bouquet of flowers and the you know to get last minute things to get done for Shabbat there's more of a sensation of er of Shabbat here in Israel it's true it's true yeah it's absolutely true so you have this business ofab waiting for Shabbat and we're gonna see in a moment the Shabbat that talks about the the quality of waiting for Shabbat and what the rewards are but let's just continue in the poem um how are we waiting for Shabbat the um this is a quote straight out of T I have the from from uh from from it's Source number four on the second page me like the the deer that's just waiting waiting to get that water in that's how we are Longing To just drink in God's presence and here so what the does with it he takes most of that and he says what we're waiting for is the Shabbat is Unified with your holy name so it's basically an expression of that but applied now to shabbat and waiting waiting waiting it's like you know I have a guest coming so he sitting at the door waiting for the car to pull up or a taxi to pull up U and and and so on that that that's uh I I once had a situation two and a half years ago when I was in Boston for that semester and it was a big big uh snowstorm and of all things my son with one of my other Sons came to visit he he flew in that Friday and there was they had to take a train because of I I'm telling you I was standing outside the house 3 minutes before had lat wrote waiting for that cab to pull up and it did with the Shabbat that's right not only are we asking to protect those who are awaiting the coming of shabat but also to protect those who are not interested in shabas leaving so last week I told you that the they they would say finish shabas at 11:00 at night and the the Mal was asking if they said yet in Bells the so last week we went into the Z that showed that all the six days of the week have nourish from some type of spirituality of Shabbat and therefore we know we're going back into the week day and going back to the week day is a tough business they he realized it and he's asking that should protect us a special protection that we should enjoy some spark of Shabbat even on Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and then he gets into the line that we say and the three dings four dings basically and on course with the language in theing is and I mentioned that wrote an article in the book called in memory of a soldier from the who fell in a terrible accident in Al in in an military exercise that um Shabbat also has requests you think that we don't request anything because the four of the weekday Shabbat is conspicuously absent of our Shabbat avening he says no there is a request but the request is on a different realm it's in a different frequency it's the request of spirituality and that is what we're asking for here in the and then he goes on to should in a sense roll out his compassion on with your midot now many of us have this in parenthesis in the Venture even in the tape of the song now this line is somehow skipped for the next line that was repeated three times that God should roll out his compassion on his holy nation to irrigate us with the with the Waters of his said where does the water come from from the river that leaves ganeden now that's straight out of that irrigated G which means he's telling us there's something about Shabbat that brings us now to a state of ganeden before the sin of Adam and it predates predates the sin of Adam and will Adorn Itself by the Shabbat experience so the Shabbat experience now in its full sense takes us back to Gan you know when else we do this under the right we say we want to bring back a moment a flash if you may of the existence of Adam and before the in ganen and here RAB Aron mikarin is telling us that every Shabbat has this as well so it's almost two-dimensional I would even say three-dimensional you have now a Shabbat bringing us back to the first moment of creation of ganeden other will send us forward that we will sing Shabbat will project us into the future and I think the of Al does this as well with his usage of um sentences and fragments of sentences from ofic days all those there are straight out of that we're familiar with with between Tish and and rashash so that's a projection forward and of course the very shabas that we're standing on is somehow the the the the bridge between the Shabbat of yesterday and the Shabbat of tomorrow let's try to harp on this and see what this means all the six days that will allow you to have AAL a a an inheritance of sorts a portion that somehow reflects yov your chosen now what does this mean your chosen so let's look at source number three on the same page Source number three the bottom of source number three says we have a tradition here from in the name of Barat this is sounds good if you're careful about having three meals on Shabbat and you have to realize that usually people ate two meals a day and the rambam tells us parenthetically the first meal at 10: in the morning and the second meal at 4 in the afternoon and he says then breakfast at 10: is the most important meal to get you going that's what he thought okay but here we're talking about three meals on Shabbat you will be protected from three difficult situations would say here one is means that in the ushering in of the um of the Messianic era they're going to be birth pangs and they're going to be painful well the only problem is Amell has gone through a lot of pain the last 2,000 years so when are the birth pangs was it the Shah was it that which brought about is was it World War people thought thought it was World War I well he missed the Shah he thought it was World War I exactly what are the the problem is we're not going to know until after the Messiah comes and we're going to be able to turn around and say ah those were the mashiah or we're using a little bit intuition here and seeing that maybe we are in the process of ushering some great times who would have ever believed that in a course of 48 Hours the Israeli Air Force would totally decimate and destroy the entire Syrian military uh Force who would ever have believed that if anybody would have said that a month ago the equipment yeah well the the Army fled the Army fled but everything that they stood for in terms of their equipment was destroyed in 48 hours I think if you would have said that to me a month ago I said it was mhi time yeah for the best that yeah I think emphasized in the homes this Rush this last minut everything that is not you're right I'm not here to give Musa somehow or another even in summertime those people who are Rush at the last minute also are rushing at the last minute so it's not winter time's uh fault right it's the way we condition our El imar would you just mentioned out correctly about the the importance of ushering Shabbat it was laba after July 4th 1976 so that was the bicentennial of the United States but you know what happened on that day inbi inbi and the rebba said that um apparently he said that the um he quoted the RAR ra is in who says that we should nibble on the shabas food on Friday afternoon to make sure that it tastes good and it's lifted at the ra lifts it out of you should taste the taste you should have a good little tasting of of the shabas food I don't have a lot of humus in my house but this is a big one you know like my wife makes a special with the regular cougle there's another one there so the little koule so we should Nash we call it the Nash so the Nash is Reb said said that what we saw in inbi was a was a tasting of what's going to be in yam mashia that was his idea and he said that um and and he even said it with regard to in general what the the events here in there Israel and you know I don't think it was an accident that medat is was established on a Friday the he the fifth of V 1948 came out on a Friday and in in light of what the rebba said about the significance of you know taking chabas in early um it's it's very very instructive so the first thing that the gar says was that we'll be able to survive the birth pangs the second is God forbid if a person does something that uh deserve some spiritual punishment after life it'll be moderated my father used to work with a fellow in the in his shop who was a and he used to read this referring to the state of Israel he he would call it the Medina shall G but okay so you have to realize where he was coming from but the the proper pronunciation is from the of G right and the third thing isog so here too we have all kinds of different Traditions based on theim and Zakaria the end of Zakaria of some type of end of you know World War and so on H exactly how that's going to show up we don't know but whatever it is it's was probably a good thing to have an insurance policy so the gar is telling us that observing the three meals properly on Shabbat is somewhat of an insurance from and protection from these three things quotes a few for each of them but I just want to jump down now four lines says in the name Whoever has the proper enjoyment of Shabbat not will get unbounded uh ter as it says now this is a coming out of so let me read the from the beginning and you'll see what the connection will be we're familiar with this some people say this kiddish in the morning on Shabbat there's something about the observance of Shabbat and a reward that some has something to do with the of yov so let's see this in the the says [Music] okay so we'll let's see what this means the says here and the and theor explains not like abah as it says by Abraham walk tread walk on the land that's length and width but that means the boundaries the're boundaries and also not like y you'll have all these lands these lands means it has a beginning it has an end but like VBA unbounded No Boundaries east west north and south all over the place which means it's a type of expansion of the boundaries and and and and and here the gar says this concept that whoever is is careful about the pleasures of Shabbat so question is what are the pleasures of Shabbat it seems in the context of Y it's the on Shabbat that's the the good meals and so on yet um take a look what Caren does with it and he says [Music] what he's saying is that there's going to be he's translating this on as as being a very spiritualized on Shabbat and this indeed will be the um let's say the U fulfillment of a granting us boundless boundless uh territory boundless territory can only be spiritual because once you talk about the physical world that has there must necessarily be boundaries and to Abraham and they were Define boundaries but abah yobu there was something that is told that your children going to have something that's boundless and we're not talking about territory here we're not talking about territory and the idea that he refers to yob as so take a look at Source number six Source number six it's from this week's par it says was afraid why was he afraid because as is is going to attack him when he comes back to Canan and and and he even splits he says if if if if I let's split the camp so if one part is attacked at least another is going to be able to flee this is typical galute mentality typical typical galute mentality we're going to get it over the head so let's have a a a strategy of of security and so on so kazal say about y why was he Panic stricken why I mean assured him that it's gonna be okay the end ofu in the med says two people assured them and nevertheless they were afraid who are the two one was the the choice of the forefathers and the others was the choice of the Nim choice of was so we're not gonna get into where M was was scared you have that in but the isov as it says is and he is the chosen one see assured him I will be with you and and so on nevertheless at the end of the day yobu was feared so this requires a lot of elaboration but I'm just bringing this medish to point out that yobu from the three abov is the chosen one and this is to this end um the um RAB Aron kher points out in the in the in it says and he changes it from to and integrates this theme of yob being the chosen of all of the uh of the forefathers and the truth of the matter is it's pretty simple why he's the chosen because am doesn't come out of Abraham you have but you also have and doesn't come out of because there's also an as say the Bel part of will come out and that will be yov but from yov came out everybody all the 12 they are the ones who are becoming so therefore he has the title of being the and that phrase um we're GNA let's take it down to the next stanza nowat no again the word no appears I think it's the fourth time already in this poem what is this these three words are very very critical andot it's a it's the last stanza of the poem The Last Stand of the poem so the idea of to sweeten the love and the and the awe this is the unification of a and where somehow shabat will allow the closeness to a in spite of it will and merge together but what does he mean when he's saying one the seventh day is two there there are three degrees in cabalistic literature of our spiritual existence and they are theot the rot and the neot exactly what they mean I'm not on sensual I'm not sure how to to elaborate on this but it is clear that the author is tapping into this cabalistic idea of theot the r and um and and the the theot the and theot somehow human existence on its spiritual side is now is divided into three and all three Shabbat attaches itself to so therefore there's a a total total attachment of Shabbat to all the spiritual sides of human existence right here and therefore anybody who is at that level already shabes will be protected by the shadow of will be able to have pleasure from Des usually is is something that's fertilizing which means that which is um um Rich the richness of one's house where does he get this P from so flip the side again to the last Source in um t you have here d uh saying that um we are we can live under the shadow of God's Wings to be protected that's so he's lifting these two wonderful ideas of being under kosh's protectorship happens every single week and that's how he's ending the poem he's ending the poem that we're we're going to we need this you know when we say this well we s every night during my in hash is we need's protection we need that that protection and and saying it at nighttime is is particularly important because nighttime was always dangerous we end with is the guarantor of our protection forever it's uh it there's no doubt that U the the ending here is is is of extreme importance but there was also one more point that I thought was important to point out and that was in Source number eight Source number eight comes from nees from from y neesh right it's the one of the stanzas of the hey from it says that phrase is used here in the second to the last line of the it is possible it is possible the the the um UMES was written by somebody n name is rabbi elazar asari and if I'm not mistaken it's from the Middle Ages third or fourth 14th century which means there's no question that yish was already known uh by the 18th century RAV kher I'm sorry the the Rin the the RAB from khin and he simply lifted out of context um the idea of it's a quote it's just trans transposed from thees and it's put here he's not the author of it he he borrowed it could it be that two people is is no it's I have in Source number seven where you have the idea of so it's not an exact quote means love sick and even the rambam uses it in peric that's from shim of what it means to be Lovick and there's no question that he's tapping into that too except that I'm pointing out that the phrase these three words are from the poem you did neish and um whether he did a cut and paste as we would talk about today or he thought of writing those words all by himself I don't know but it's been suggested that he lifted it out of the Y nees possible nees made it up the author wrote it he the the idea of Love Sick comes from shirim peret P which I have on Source number seven the idea of love sick of of of uh which is idiom it's an expression obviously of of you know just falling over for for for for being close toosh the uses this idea of Love Sick where he talks about the word tamid the Everlasting Everlasting being close with the Raman believed that is not something that you schedule um in your calendar for a particular day and a certain particular hour he believed that it was 247 AEM and um the problem is that if aatm is 247 when actually do we fulfill it so the rahan believes that 247 a person is supposed to be thinking about getting close to it doesn't usually work like that because we have things to do right we have a bus to catch we have a uh we have we have to go to work we have other things to do in life so um the ramam tells us something phenomenal because it's the very end of the first book of Mishra which is the book of AA I'm sorry the book of and it's the laws of chuva and he talks about aat which is his transition to the next book which is AA and the r spells out several one is one is d one is one is in general and other one is and one isus one is Brit the ram gives us a slew of mitzvot that the point of all of these mitzvot are take a moment out of your day and fulfill so let's say kma how long does it take us to say kma three minutes three minutes how long do it take us to say five minutes five minutes how long does it take us to acknowledge is in a on a mza a fraction of a second a fraction of a second but Rah says well you go in and out several times during the day so the seconds add up to minutes minute minutes add up to hours um whether it'sin or or tius or mitzvot like this the ram believed that all of these mitzvot were there to give us a momentary pause in life and we know that the ramb before every book of the Mish he begins with a p either from or Mish that spells out the theme of the book so from he cites from he says now you would think that in a like he's talk about the Mitzvah of Torah study not so he already spoke about it in the first book so what is he talking about so the r son-in-law professori in his big fat book on introduction to the Mish of the ram suggests the second part of the you want to know what is throughout the day I have a dialogue with a K throughout the day but not continuous throughout the day I take a moment and so on it's almost like took a break in the middle of the day you know shakas everybody gets up in the morning go to shakas my you know you're home at night my when did have at the office I have a map today I don't need it anymore because it's all online but once upon a time I had the Min map for Manhattan so you know that at 12:30 at at at the track 42 of the long Isen railroad you have Min you have 100 people getting there on ding Min or various buildings you know on the 55th floor you know in some office there's M and and and people are aware of this you know because they want to say Kish they want to feel a b whatever yeah as it's how we speak correct correct to have on our minds the is means you should have aosh in front of you all the time it doesn't always work we try we try thear says that the person who walks around all day with Fillin today most of us don't walk around all day with Fillin and the reason is because if you have F on you're supposed to think of a so our minds are wandering with other things so we would profane the fillan if we have the fillan on and our minds are W wandering with other things our problem is to have not our minds wander with other things in the half an hour in chakras that we have that filling on that's already a challenge but um there are some people who have filling on from morning to that whatever paintings we have of the V you see that he has filling on it's it's a famous picture I'm not happy when I see people in Yim they're riding their bikes and they have Talis and Fillin on you know put the Fillin on and Sho or take it off when you leave Sho I I I don't I don't think it's right I just don't think it's right you know if you're sitting if somebody's goingon to sit six hours in the morning after d leing to doesn't want to take off his F and that's okay but um one of the things that we do see in yourl is and there for sure it's just a wonderful thing if you go to the in Kon you see a putting on fill in for at 12:30 that's okay that's okay that means whatever he was doing was important and he didn't have a chance yet and he's putting on his F now that is perfectly perfectly okay but I don't like when the when and also there's a Min ofarim by the way that on a public fast day T they put on Thousand filling for fine that's a but you know St people should put on filling that's it shows um you know that that that you're really careful you know that K were very careful about that we shouldn't make ourselves as you know showboats and and and so on this is very Frank yeah because CH is not the beginning of a safer it's the last unit of the safer called Mada that's why you're right see you remembered the r doesn't have a each unit he has a POS for each book which each book and he also begins each book with a fraction of a from and the reason he does that because the Rah is identifying withu he's he's doing he's continuing abu's Mission that's a speech in itself not GNA do this now okay so we fin basically uh finish this U um I I will uh I will continue in two weeks time all right so we stop a little early I'm apologizing also because I have to make a train and I have to make a plane today okay this is absolutely true so mem do um I think RAB sha is here and he's going to announce what the program is going to be uh next week and I'll be back M Sham in two weeks okay