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and this was para it's talking about the
Mitzvah of
om of the entire spir om and what we
need to do and why which many people
have a lot of questions about where it
comes from why we do that and of course
in this uh beautiful period of
the there's which supposed to be very
happy and festive there's something very
negative that we technically we mourn
the death of the 24 students of RAB AKA
which is kind of contradicting each
other why is it contradicting because
it's supposed to be a very happy and
festive time and at the same time we're
we're have on our we take on ourselves
all these laws of of mourning not to
take haircuts not to make parties and so
forth now last week we learned about one
of the most important in the Tor that is
called we spoke about it last week
and needless to say that we speak so
many times about the the is
that
Raba says that it's it's a big
foundation in the entire Tora
is but you have to love another person
like you love yourself amazingly it says
doesn't mention the word Jew or non-jew
say to your fellow friend doesn't matter
who it is and you have to love him in
the same level that you love yourself so
we spoke about it last week about this
whole concept how can one love each
other other in such a such a level but
this week we meet something even even a
greater question because we know that we
mourning now the death of 24,000
students of Rabbi
AKA but how is that he's the one who
preaches and all his students die now
this is not two students 24,000 students
can you imagine what's 24,000 it's a
city it's half
ofat it's it's just imagine this is not
a yes
that has 10 students this is
a this is a a
city
so we want to approach this big question
today how how why did they die how did
they die and how is that connected to
our
parasa and like I said last week we
learned about the Mitzvah which is a say
it's a positive mitah from the
how come the students of Rabbi AKA did
not apply
that now there is a story about a a
certain individual he's known as rebi
AKA eigel he a very big sadik from a
very recent generation not too long ago
that was in Eastern Europe wrote many
many books commentaries and unbelievable
individual and amazingly a few weeks ago
we had here a guest for Shabbat
and somebody donated books we were
cleaning all the books and as we were
cleaning the books they walked in and
the husband was interested looking at
the books what did we get and I said oh
these are a set of books fromel so the
lady says oh that's my great great great
great
grandfather I'm a descendant of him so
he was a very special individual
there's once a story that on on
PES he had a very big
L and of course just imagine what type
of AED what gems he was sharing that
night and and everybody was sitting
there waiting to hear every little thing
and every little piece of the S he did
in a very particular way and then
something happened during the
meal that there was one poor person
around the table didn't eat for like two
weeks and when they served the bowls of
soup he got so excited for the food can
you imagine they're probably his was
like at midnight like we had in this P
we ate at
12:30 he got so excited from the from
the that the food arrived he went like a
motion like that and the Whole Bowl
turned over and spilled all over the
table he got so embarrassed he didn't
know what to do with himself and RAB
saw that he's he's all embarrassed that
he didn't know what to do to himself so
he flipped his ball
too and he says what's going on with
this table something's wrong with the
table maybe you should check it after
the holiday this table is all shaking
and the other guy was like he was
calm cuz he so cared to see that this
person he got so affected that everybody
looked like what it is is so sloppy is
pushing his bow of food that's how
refined he was and he so much cared
about the feelings of another person
that he pretended also that his ball
went flying just that this person is not
going to feel
bad and there is a mishna that it says
meaning that how do you see how do you
want to know that a person is a very
refined God-fearing person that people
like that person that he's nice to
people that he's polite to other people
not like so a person can be a very
learned person a very long beard he not
nice to other people something
something's missing there and with this
story with RAB aiger it comes to the the
the mishna that when people around a
certain individual they they find that
the person is comforting and he's nice
then the hasem is happy with that person
this is this is a way to indicate how do
you know a person is kosher so to say
when we don't eat people but sometimes
you see a person that might dress like a
rabbi and behave like a ra maybe like a
rabbi or today in our generation is very
deceiving a lot of people who dress the
ACT but far away from the reality and
one of the ways to indicate is you see
how polite a person is or how what's
called in Hebrew is nice it's not not a
rough person doesn't scream doesn't
raise his voice doesn't humiliate
somebody in in in public I mean of
course you can judge every situation
sometimes you see a situation and it's
very easy to point a finger it was once
a
scho where I used to pray and the rabbi
B is a very special individual and there
was a certain guy used to come there for
months and annoy
everybody and he would complain and
scream and disturb and B it was very
disturbing one time the rabbi got upset
at him and screamed at him now we all
knew listen this is a buildup of months
and he deserved it and the rabbi did the
right thing but if somebody would be
there the first time and see the rabbi
screaming he would be like oh this is
not a koser rabbi look how he threw him
out of the Sho so it's important also to
know how to judge the situation but in
general when you know somebody and
somebody's nature is 100% nice once in a
blue moon he does an act that's a little
bit extreme okay once in a blue moon but
if a person you see constantly that is
not a nice person a person can be very
learned I know somebody who is a genius
in the Tor is the most rude person you
ever
met so all the Torah is worthless so one
way to see to have an indication when a
person is is a kosher person again not
kosher to eat him but rather that he's
standing behind what he's supposed to
be and not only not only a public public
figure any individual that has
compassion to another person and treats
people equally then you know that hasm
is very happy with him and you know that
that's that's a very high
quality so this brings us to a very big
question how come the students of rabi
AKA were not treating each other nice
how did they get to a point that they
had to all die I mean you have to
understand that the students of RAB AKA
um each one is a minimum of Rabbi kvki
this is this is the level it's not that
they were like in a some Bakers in a
Yesa learning
each one of the talmidim of Rabbi AKA
was a giant and they still didn't treat
each other the right way and to a point
that they all die how how is that going
to be how could could that
be now in this week's par it's talking
about the counting of the OM this week's
parasa is
called and it's mentioning the Mitzvah
of counting of the OM now what really
happened in this
Mitzvah we learned about it in the
previous class is the prohibition what's
called every any crops that would grow
in the from the beginning of the year
till PES was prohibited to eat it and
the way they used to do it is that the
day before pesak the priests would go
out to the field and they would tie
bundles of wheat together so it will be
very easy to to cut it
off and the next day after pesak they
would go out to the field make a whole
big celebration out of it a big party
cut the crops and then they would
sacrifice it as a as a offering and this
would be called
the now the prohibition was that any
crops that was growing till PES you're
not allowed to eat it we just learned
that in the previous sh is called
kadash for the ones of you who weren't
with us in the beginning sometimes you
go to a bakery and they tell you this is
and a lot of people don't understand the
term k k is is flow it means that it was
not touched till PES now in our
generation when we don't have a coin
then we don't have to give the crops to
the Coen but we have to wait till the
next day after PES till the 16th day of
Nissan after the 16th day you're allowed
to eat from that H flow and it's all
five grains in the days when we had beta
mikdash then they had to wait give it to
the Coen the Coen would do a
celebration and then there would
sacrifice offer the sacrifice and then
everybody was able to eat like I
mentioned in the previous class that
there's a argument between the the
rabbis if it's in our days also for the
crops that are grown in the diaspora or
not or just in Israel so there is
AA argument here most go by that the
crop in the diaspora don't they don't
have the prohibition of kadash has to be
only in
Israel but just not that in some of the
bakeries that you go to you'll see it
will tell you kashan kashan is basically
the the opposite well Kash it's because
it was before PES but you'll see that
this concept of kadash so that that was
the the prohibition of the OM now the
way they did it is that they would do a
big part out of it and the whole party
was to go to the field cut a piece of a
few pieces of the crops and then make an
offering from
that the reason why they made a whole
party out of it is because they had to
strengthen the the oral law this the
sages at the time at the time of the
temple was a very hard time because
there was a group of people that they
were called Sim that they went against
the
rabbis they the there were two groups
that St him and then B to
they went against the
rabbis and they said we only follow what
it says in the Torah it says in the
Tor don't cook a calf in the mother's
milk that's what we do everything else
that the sages says we don't go by so
they would only follow literally what it
says in the Torah it says you should not
light fire
inab that's the prohibition that's it so
they totally went against the rabbis
about against the sages and they created
a big problem so at the time the The
Authority they wanted to strengthen the
oral law because the this do they came
and said this whole om has nothing to do
with us it's that's not a rule that
applies to us so our sages at the time
wanted to strengthen the oral law and
the the authority of the rabis so they
made a whole big thing out of this whole
a cutting of the OM and again you have
to understand that it was a few piles of
of of wheat that they would cut Chi Chu
make an offering and that's it that was
the whole
thing so but they did a big thing out of
it now starting from then they started
to count the
days and up until today we count the
days and so forth so now came a big
question why do they count from the
bottom up technically they should count
to do a
countdown they should do discount 50
today's 49 today's 48 you count down
technically why would you count going up
and up until today we count up not
counting
down so first of all there's one
commentary his name is abam that he
mentioned that this whole period of the
was a very sensitive period we don't
relate with that because you want to buy
something you go to the Super Market but
in the olden days the
farmers everything was depending on the
farmers no crops no food so the farmers
were very very strict in that time
because they had that's the time when
they had to pray for all the crops to to
grow if there would be some type of a
problem crops would not grow and then
nobody has food and then Shalom you know
that would affect the entire Village or
City so the abam says that this was a
very a uh sensitive period and all the
farmers would pray all day long they
would pray please it should be enough
rain should be that the crops everything
should be good that I shouldn't have any
any disease that Locust should not come
anything it was a very sensitive period
because if everything would work well
then you have food for the rest of the
couple months if not for the next year
and if not Shalom then the problem would
be that there wouldn't be any crops
so the
the the farmers was a very sensitive
time so they would count every day just
let's let's let's period be over
already so this is one explanation why
they would count going up and not going
down cuz Technically when you think
about it that first of all the Torah
doesn't say how to count it just says
that you have to count 50 days
technically one would think that you
would do countdown not a count
up there's a story that there was one a
certain individual that whatever he did
something wrong legally wrong and he was
found guilty in the kingdom and they
threw him in the pit that's how it was
in the olden days there were the king
had a pit in the backyard of the palace
and they would throw the people in so
they threw him in one time the king
needed advice about something and
somebody whispered listen you know that
guy that just got thrown in the pit he
has the answer like the story with ysep
aik pull out pull out ysep out of the
pit so the king didn't want to make a
whole issue out of it he went to the pit
asked the person the question he
answered him he was oo this is a very
wise man the next day he had another
question he goes again to the pit asks
him his question the guy gives him a
very good answer
she this is a very smart man I canot
take him out now this is going to be
embarrassing so every day he would go to
the pits and ask him his questions and
this guy would answer him the best
answers at some point he would go every
day and just ask him questions and learn
from him after a while he started
bringing all his kids with his with
their questions but he was still in the
pit at some point the king says listen
this guy is
his place is not in the pit his place is
next to me I need somebody like this
this is a very smart individual so he
comes to the guy and he tells him listen
your place is not in here I'm taking you
out tomorrow I'm taking you out of the
pit I'm going to make a whole big thing
out of it that is going to be legal and
not only that I'm taking you out of out
of the pit I'm going to make you my
right hand man and to top it all in 50
days I'm going to give you my daughter
to marry
her the next day they pull him out of
the pit like Y ysep aad and he makes him
his right man now the guy started
becoming very
scared why cuz it says in 50 days
there's a in 50 days there's a
wedding so he said the king said he's
going to take me out he took me out he
said he's going to make me his right
hand he made me his right hand so he
told me I'm going to marry his daughter
now there's going to be a wedding I'm
not married to be I'm not ready to marry
the the princess but I'm going to become
royalty now I I have to get ready he
started getting under pressure so he
started counting the days oh my God oh
my God in 40 49 and in in such in so
many so so many days I'm going to be now
marrying the the daughter of the king
I'm going to become like the royalty now
so he started counting the days
of course this is not a real story this
is just a parable that the same thing
happened to us in MIT we were in a pit
we were thrown there and then God comes
and through
MOS sorry through MOS
raenu tells them I'm going to take you
out of MIT they didn't
believe he comes and tells through mosu
not only that I'm going to take you out
of MIT I'm going to take you to Har they
didn't believe they're like you're not
taking us out of here we're here for
hundreds of
years and then again through mosu he
says I'm not only going to take you out
of M and I'm going to bring you to I'm
also going to give you the Tor I'm going
to make you marry my daughter I'm going
to give you my daughter I'm going to
give you the Torah they didn't
believe but then came the day of and
mosu took them out of MIT then they were
like whoa wait a minute he took he told
us he's going to take us out of MIT we
didn't believe he took us out of MIT he
told us that he's going to bring us to
house he's going to bring us now we in
50 days there's a wedding so they
started getting all hyped up we're not
ready to get the Torah so they started
counting the days that's why they didn't
count back they count
forward because of the excitement and
the oh my gosh I'm getting the Torah
this is the real
deal in the beginning they didn't
believe but when they saw that God took
them out of MIT they started to believe
so we have been told now for so many
centuries that mashiah is coming nobody
believes that's off the subject but
interview any person about mssiah the
reality is that the majority people
don't believe that the mssiah is really
coming and I'm talking about the
religious people not the not religious
people we spoke about it many times how
most people don't really believe that
Messiah is coming because if they would
believe they would act
accordingly but very soon can you
imagine the first blow of the horn
people will be like oh my gosh it's true
he's coming he came now what who bet
mikdash so this is very very
soon so this parabel comes to explain to
us why we count forward and not why
don't we count backwards so we say today
is the first day then the second day
from the excitement of actually getting
the Torah now this is all in general the
concept of the Paras talking about the
OM which is all nice and we understand
now why we count the
OM but from from this point on the story
starts becoming a little bit more
sophisticated how come the students of
Raba were
dying and this is a big part in our
counting of the OM the counting of the
OM takes us exactly 3 minutes every
night I don't think most people really
count the OM preparing that in 50 day or
in 49 days or in 39 days we're getting
the Torah people just say it at 2:00 in
the morning or one eye closed they
forget to say the night before they say
the next day without the braa so many
people are so into the
counting with excitement like as if
they're getting the Torah but one thing
that we do follow and everybody follows
is all the denim all the laws of of aute
of being in morning we don't cut our
hairs we don't do parties we don't
listen to music we don't get engaged we
don't do so many
things I mean if you make an engagement
you can make it official and you can't
make a party out of that all sorts of
laws in engagements during the Om I'm
just throwing that because there's many
things that we don't do of course there
there is an argument hold on there is an
argument till what when time what time
was the the
plague the Safar go by that the plague
was from the day after PES and it ended
in LBA that's why it's far is after L
they don't they already start listening
to music getting married and so forth
Asim say no it we went all the way into
sh so the ashim they they keep these
laws of of the morning till the end of
the
OM but the question is how in such a
situation the students of Rabbi AA
failed now in very general the story of
Rabbi AKA first of all Rabbi AA was born
50 years before the destruction of the
second temp Le so we're talking about
the story happened 2,000 years ago to be
exact it's
2000us 4 4
three don't catch me by the ear but
about
1996 that's about so AA should be now
1996 or 97 don't take me by my exactly
on the on the year but that's when it
happened 2,000 years ago
because Rabbi was born literally 50
years before the destruction of the Holy
Temple now he was born a very simple
person child of converts was a very
ignorant individual didn't know how to
read and write and he found a job and he
used to work for the richest person in
jush who was the Bill Gates of the
generation known as kalbas saava and he
used to clean the Stables that's that's
the level what job he could get he would
clean where the horses were now his
daughter was a very special individual
and couldn't find
the finally one day she comes to her
father and she tells him I found who to
get married
to and he says oh who did you bring so
he told she told him
AKA told her aka the guy who cleans the
T Stables you're not getting married to
him she say yeah that's the man he says
okay if you marry him you're out of the
you're out of the loop you're not
staying
here and that's what happened that she
ended up marrying him and her father
threw out of the house so from being a
rich spoiled girl living in a palace
suddenly she was living like a poor
homeless person on the street in a tent
and the story was that RAB
AKA might have been a very not learned
individual but she saw the potential she
saw that there's something very special
in this man because his midot his
attributes his character traits were
very refined and she says that's that's
the the quality I need and of course the
story goes that he went to Yeshiva he
started learning and after 12 years in
Yeshiva he comes home and as he's coming
home he's about to knock on the
door and he hears a conversation and he
hears somebody talking to his wife
and that individual says you don't care
that your husband deserted you left you
for 12 years she says no if I would have
a way to contact him I would tell him to
stay another 12 years so he heard that
and he didn't even kissed the muuza he
made a u-turn and went back to
Yeshiva there is a contradiction in the
story if it was a friend who was talking
to her or maybe the Satan who came who
wanted to break the marriage that he
made
hear such a thing but the reality was
that he made a u-turn and went back to
yiva for another 20 for another 12 years
after 24 years being in Yesa he's coming
back he's already the the the the rebi
of the generation the he's 64 years old
he comes home with 24,000 students that
was a big commotion the rebi is coming
and everybody came out to see and one
woman starts to push between the the
crowd everybody's pushing her away she's
like no I want to come come closer to
the rebi and they're all pushing her
away of course Rabbi AA stops everybody
and says bring her
over and they make a way she comes over
and and everybody wanted to stop her you
can't go next to the rebi and he tells
everybody everything that belongs to me
and to you is because of
her so then he returned was 60 he was 64
years old he comes back with 24,000
students and again like I said before
each one of these
students is a r kki level this is not
like a somebody from the Yesa he came
with with
pillars and then the sad reality is that
they got there was some type of a
plague and they all died some say they
died within 2 3 days
we don't know exactly how how fast it
happened there's one opinion that says
that within two three days they all died
excuse me yeah there's different opinion
one opinion says a couple days one
opinion says that it took two weeks one
opinion says not till the plague
stopped but you're talking here about an
individual that is something
unbelievable in the age of 40 learned
how to read and write 24 years later
he's becoming the rebi the the the head
of the generation
that up until today is the pillar of the
oral Torah and then all his students
start dying now his entire theme his
Moto
was that's what he was teaching that he
took a from the Tor a verse from the Tor
that we learned about it last week and
he says this is the entire
Tor T this is the main rule the main law
in the Torah is love another person like
you love yourself
and close to home his teach his students
fail and they all die which brings a a
huge huge wonder what did they do what
did they do that they had to die well
they killed each other they they they
cheated on each other these were tell
these are very holy special people what
did they do that they had to die so
there's one place in the tal that says
they didn't treat each other with
respect
that's one of the reasons
that they didn't treat each other
nice and that's what caused them to die
which again you would say what such
great people and they couldn't treat
each other Beav they couldn't treat each
other Cav is they didn't respect each
other the thing is that they loved each
other so
much they had unbelievable love to each
other they did do
just that they loved each other so much
that they could not tolerate somebody
else's
opinion they could not tolerate the fact
that this the your opinion doesn't match
my opinion and of course in the Torah
not talking about the
about a style of clothes they did love
each other to an unbelievable
level but they could not tolerate a
different opinion you had to go by my
opinion not by your opinion and that
brought them to a point that they didn't
treat each other with the right respect
and there's a very big difference
between love and respect respect is one
thing and love is a whole different
thing and love is a very
selfish
attribute because who do you really love
do you love the other person or you love
yourself and in most cases love is very
very
selfish because I love something that
benefits me you know there's a story
that there was once uh a group of
fishermen and Friday was the day they
would go out to the ocean and that's the
day when they had good customers
everybody wanted to buy fish for
Shabbat one time they go to the ocean
and they fish up a big
fish the story says it was a fish that
is called amnon very big healthy fat
fish
and the guy who pulled it out was very
very happy he's like okay I'm going to
take it right away to the wealthy person
of the city he will buy it just like
that he comes with his big fish knocks
on the door the wife opens the door ooh
wow look at this beautiful fish let's
take it to my husband he would right
away would want to buy it from
you okay they go in the rich person sees
the fish right away stands up oh that's
my favorite fish I can't believe you
found it how much do you
want and he tells him a price and a half
and he's like I don't care how much it
is I want that fish I love that
fish so in the last breath of the fish
life the fish opens up his mouth and
says you liar you don't like me you like
yourself
so we love things but we don't love the
thing we love
ourselves I don't love ice cream I love
myself because I love the taste that ice
cream gives to me and I'm selfish
because what I love is not I don't love
the thing I love myself to a point that
I want to indulge myself I want to
benefit something from the love so I can
love another person but if he's not good
for me anymore I don't love him anymore
that's the sad reality with love that
love can stop in a second when I benefit
something out of the love then there's
going to be love going on if I'm
stopping to benefit or it's not good for
me anymore love can stop right
away so the attribute I don't know if to
say even love is an attribute but the
motion of Love is a very selfish
motion but the opposite of Love That is
not selfish is respect respect has
nothing to do with love it's two
separate things so the students of Raba
they loved each
other but they didn't have respect to
each
other and that's the
problem is that the only
attribute that doesn't involve your ego
is
respect in love there's a lot of
ego and a lot of people mistaken it and
they say oh I love this person so much
so what if if you love him doesn't mean
anything I know people that they love
their kids they love their parents and
they treat them like garbage because
there's nothing to do I you know I love
many things but I love it because what
type of benefit it gives to
me and respect that's a whole different
thing and there's a story about the Aral
who lived here in spat a very famous
story that's let's go back in the time
machine close to 500 years 4 something
years and this place this holy place
here was the capital of Torah in the
world now we know about theal the Rak
maybe a few more other individuals that
are famous you know what was going on
here I mean every individual here was a
was a giant there was a very special
period in spat I mean we had the the
same generation the BET wrote thean he
had a a personal Angel a magi that came
and him everything you had the
here I mean I mean the list goes on and
on what was I can't even imagine what
was going on in the
city if you're a little bit sensitive
you walk through the alleys here you can
feel like what the stones here what what
what what testimony they can give so the
story says that one Shabbat the is
walking with his student r v and they're
talking and I mean they were not talking
about about the Yankee who won the Super
Bowl they're talking about deep concepts
of cabala comes a certain individual
speeds up his baste and he goes in front
of
theal now this individual was not a
certain simple individual this
individual was a very
big and he did not like it that is going
in front of him because he's a now if
you have to understand is great as he
was ISB Gloria he was 34 years old like
a little boy with a little few hairs
sticking out of his head when he came
toat everybody kicked him out what what
who are you the came to r v who was
almost triple in his age and he told him
told me to come and teach you he almost
got kicked out of the out of the
window was was a very high level
individual and he tells you came to
teach me so in the beginning
was not so welcomed here it was a young
man young man so this didn't like did
not like the fact that is walking in
front of him so he speed up his Bas and
went in front of the Aral and they're
walking and walking and walking and
didn't like that why is this guy walking
in front of my
rebi has to walk in the front and
anybody else has to be in the back it's
not it's not
appropriate and at some point the
got very upset how how does he dare go
in front of the and this was
a not some
Farmer at some point they got to the
place where they were supposed to take a
certain path and this goes into a
completely different path the continue
going after him that's where stops and
says wait a minute we have to go there
why going
there told him listen he's a
I'm obligated in giving respects to a he
is a he is a sage I have to give him
respect I'm going to go behind him on
his path whatever he needs to take cuz
I'm obligated in giving him respect
doesn't matter right now who I am
doesn't matter how great I am it doesn't
matter that I have to go now that's off
my course already I have to go this way
he's a he deserves respect I'm walking
after him him he deserves
it and he explained to the V that
somebody else deserves respect you give
it respect has nothing to do with if you
like the person or not and respect is a
very hard thing to do because it's the
only character trait that you have to
leave your ego
behind and you respect another person
doesn't matter who it is so much more so
when it's a but even if it's somebody
else doesn't matter who you are the
problem with the
OFA that they were great but they
couldn't give each other
respect this is what it says in the in
the that they didn't give each other the
right
respect and that's what we need to take
from this entire period of the not only
from this Paras is the entire period is
the respect for another individual and
when
says you should love another fow
person he meant not the love that I like
you that I have to respect you like I
would respect myself or whatever type of
respect that I would want to get that's
the type of respect that I need to give
that's why says this is because it's all
about respect it has nothing to do with
love if you focus on the word
love sorry this is just a selfish Act
it's very very rare that my love is true
this is what's called the the love of
am a story in the
tanak that if I'm benefiting something
from the love there's not real love
here and the real relationship is built
on respect and that goes into marriage
it goes into business relationships it
goes into a father and child it goes
into me and a random person in the
street is what type of respect I'm
willing to give that
person and that's the main reason why
the the talmidim died and that's why
we're mourning not the death I mean
there's a big question you know how many
other sages died why why am I not
mourning the death of moso why on on the
seventh day of AD I'm not doing a day of
mourning or anybody
else why D the 24,000 students of
Raba and why dka in the what great Sages
didn't die in the in the thoughts of
kanuka why shouldn't I make kanuka day
eight days of
morning no cutting the hair on the E dat
of kanuka why why these 24,000 students
and not many other stages and why this
specific
time because we're going to learn in the
next class the point of this time is the
time
of is refinement of character that's why
we we mention in the counting we count
such and
such days to but then we also count in
it which
attribute whatever it is because the
whole perod is refining my character
trait that's why we
counting specifically in this time
because we need to reiterate the whole
point the whole tun that we need to do
is about
respect it's about accepting another
person making space for another person
doesn't matter who you are doesn't
matter how great you are doesn't matter
if you're 10 times greater than that
person that person deserves a certain
amount of respect then you give it
because that person deserves it and
that's
the going back to the story when we said
with
r he he wanted to give that individual
the same level of respect so he threw
his bowl too that person will not going
to feel wait a minute I'm I'm I'm
totally out of
place and what we need to learn from
that is how much the honor of somebody
else is important sometimes by just
doing a certain act you make that person
feel special or welcome or part of the
congregation that's what it
takes sometimes just getting up to a
certain individual shaking their hand
welcome them come Welcome to our table
welcome to the class whatever it is is
knowing when to make space to another
person and to respect another
individual's feelings and emotions it's
not always about
me sometimes and in most cases it's
about somebody else it's not about me
it's about that individual and sometimes
they need to be in the spotlight they
need to be a little bit on the stage and
talk and that's what I want to take from
this par and in the entire period of the
is to to acknowledge some somebody
else's needs and I have to learn from
the that it's all about the relationship
of respect and not the relationship of
love and in many cases you would
say but I love you so much say so what
if you love me so what if you love that
individual it depends on respect and
same thing if you want to take it to
marriage one can say oh I love my wife a
lot yeah but you don't respect her
there's no respect and a relationship is
built only on respect it's not built
from love because love is is is
selfish what is it to in it to me how am
I benefiting some it but respect has
nothing to do with me I put my ego aside
and I say okay how can I make you feel
better how can I make space for
you we should be able to apply last week
we learned about that we have to love
another person like I love myself
why because I demand respect then I
should give that and that's the real
meaning
of that I need to recognize when
somebody else needs his
space we should know how to apply it in
our
life that we should not come to the
point that we we have our spiritual
death so to say the tum of the students
of Raba had a physical death this can
affect us in a spiritual death needless
to say that if we reach to a point that
that somebody else's respect is so
important to us and we treat each other
with the right respect and love needless
to say that we will be fulfilling the
positive
Mitzvah which just by itself will make
space for the ultimate Redemption to
come because this is what we're lacking
we're lacking this motion
of that's why in the you will see on the
grave of the and for the ones of you who
use the of the it opens with one verse
it
says I'm here accepting on myself a
positive go to the Grave you'll see
that's what it says on it I mean not on
the actual stone there's nothing says on
the stone but right next to it there's
the plaque and you'll see CU says before
you start anything first start with
accepting the
positive then after you do that then you
can continue so it's all about making
space to another person needless to say
that that's what's stalling the G at
least in my opinion that there's not
enough respect and love for another
individual and we tend to disqualify
somebody very fast because he belongs to
a different group or a different
congregation or he's dressed different
or he's from a different Nation or he
speaks different and we tend to cut
another person very fast without even
knowing who they are and the real is
that I know how to make space for
everybody and the the the motion of
accepting every person which meaning
that I have a what's called No Love with
no conditions and I respect who you are
even though your opinion is completely
different than mine even though you
think completely different things than
me even though you dress different than
me even though you you you have a
completely different view in politics
but I still obligated in respecting you
and I'm still I need to make space for
you I don't have to agree with you I
don't have to like you but I have to
respect you and I have to make space for
you if we know how to apply that I can
guarantee to you that the Redemption is
going to be coming much much much
faster should have a beautiful beautiful
week
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