Parshas Emor: The K'sav V'hakabala Revoutionizes Sefiras Ha'Omer

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good evening everyone again the show is empty just the kaltyra here um but this is Hashem we hope to revengeham brings us back into his house very soon and he gathers Us in tonight's sure is sponsored by in honor of the upcoming Bar Mitzvah of his son Elia this coming Shabbos and his wife to bring tremendous to his parents grandparents and entire family also please have in mind my grandfather Ben Sarah my mother's father who's now in the hospital he needs great so the learning thank you okay we have the midst of spirit the Torah tells us you will count from the day after this and the day that you bring the armor of waving bear in mind this carbonheimer was waived Shiva Shabbos seven weeks that are whole weeks and you count these seven weeks until then the day after the seventh chapter count 50 days and we know there is a well-known established between the Sudoku and the and the prusem as to how to interpret this literally that you count start counting from the day after Shabbos namely Sunday that's with the literal translation of the words but our Messiah is that Shabbos in this not refer to the seventh day of the week instead the Shabbos refers to pesach and the spirit begins to be counted on the second day of pesach this was a well-known between that sudokim and the Peru shim and the mission of menache says that this was a major debate to the extent that when they would reap the Omer they would do so with such Pomp and ceremony in order to demonstrate that the sudokum are wrong that we don't do the siraso in Sunday we do it the day after pesach and the mishna goes on to say that the Agents of bezen would go out from eravyantev and they would make bundles on the in the grain while it was still attached to the ground this way it would be easier to cut and all the surrounding cities would gather there so that it should be harvested with Asa godal once it became dark so the shamish would say no is the the sun set and they would say yes did the sun set they would say yes this sickle yeah this sickle they would respond yeah this box uh-huh this box yup and if it was on Shabbos they would say on this Shabbos and they say yeah this Shabbos yeah and they would do every uh they would go through this procedure three times for every question they would answer yes three times why because of the bitusum the vitusum would say Shabbos there's no excuse me they would say that God Sunday so we would prove them wrong we would demonstrate we would openly display the incorrectness of that opinion that in fact the series is done on the second day of pesach and the gemara says that got into a whole conversation with them and he mocked them he said why do you think shibuus is always Sunday because loved Jews so much and he uh since she was only a one day holiday he wanted a juxtaposed to the Sabbath to give the Jews a long weekend but this is a well-known and on this on the simplest level it was based on whether we take sukum literally or no do we follow the traditions of however we would like to investigate this evening what was the deeper motivation of the sudokim and why do we specifically have to go on an all-out assault to counteract it in other words there's a concept we want to become wise from our enemies so what was the Insidious intention of our enemy and how do we try to overcome it we come back to the well-known comments of the ramban it's a famous ramban we've quoted it a number of times and the ramban Compares pesach to sukis and just like sukis's seven days followed by shmini Ataris on the 8th pesach has seven days followed by shavuis on the eighth week 50 days later what what excuse me sukhas is is followed in pattern by pesach the only thing is sukis has days of in between but says the ramban likewise pesach the days of the sphere are all kedoshima and goddess and we count 49 days and we sanctify the eighth day which is the 50th day and then the ramban says his Immortal words the days in between are something like akin to these are the famous words of the ramban and this gives us an added insight into why Spirit soymers mentioned in paris's Emma after all parishes Mr is the Parsha of the moyadim not the carbonics of the mayadim but the days of the calendar which are yomptif now one would not have expected sphere to be in the Jewish calendar because sphere sawimera are not one wouldn't have thought these are days of yamtif nevertheless because one would have expected that talks about the party that talks about the various carbonoids of um just flip around the screen the various carbonis of the yamams that you would have expected that it should be that the days of the aimer one would have expected should be in parashas pinchas but no the impassious Mr because according to this ramban the days of the oymer are actually days of halami they have moyad quality to them and therefore they belong in Pasha Samar but what we learned from this ramban is that contrary perhaps what we would have thought that pesach is one jumped by itself and schwus is a separate by itself which by the way they are they are independent Yaman but in a sense we see from here that they belong to one entity they're one Corpus as pointed out I had these just a few months ago before the world went uh Haywire I spoke in London and I have this close to speak in a coil in Manchester and I made Metal a review delay withler and he gave me his safer and it was sitting on my desk and I happened to open it up recently and he says from this ramban we see the name of the safer again is magal Hashanah that we see from here one big Binion says one big Corpus and the fact that Emma we see that the days of svira are part of this yamtif and they so to speak link pesach to shavua says ramban so beautifully dubs that these These are days of so we would like to explain what exactly is this vinian of Pisa Spira and shivuis why are the days in between halamite and again going back to what is this between the sadokim and the prusem well rabbi whitler has a amazing observation and a beautiful dioc we all know that Halal begins in Paris hallelujah hallelujah and Rabbi whitler points out the very first praise said in halal now Halal was first said when the Jewish people left with sarayam the very first praise is hallelujah stop if you were a Jew leaving Egypt and now you have an opportunity to sing praise upon your freedom what would be the first thing you would cry out and praise we may have thought you know you're enslaved for 210 years you're being brutalized you're being antagonized we would have thought the first thing that that you say freedom Heroes no the first thing they said was Hashem we praise you we Servants of Hashem now you have to know these words Hallelujah Hashem are a fundamental part of halal because why don't we say one of the reasons gives is because we can't say hello because in Halo you say hallelujah Hashem and in the times of Purim we were not abde Hashem so that means we are categorically exempt from because we're not we cannot call ourselves Hashem so the question is um what are the Jewish people saying here they're free they they were enslaved they couldn't go out at night they couldn't go out at will they couldn't travel where they wanted now they're free so you would have thought uh they would extol the virtues of Freedom no the first first thing they say is praise Hashem the Servants of Hashem ah meaning they are not putting value and freedom other than all it is is it's an opportunity for a new servitude instead of being servants to parai we are now servants to Accolade think about it they did not celebrate the inherent value of Freedom all they celebrated was a new type of servitude so let's let's continue on our journey bearing this in mind there are a few interesting questions we could ask about Sphero so I know these questions are raised by none other than the safer Mecklenburg one of the great commentaries on Hamish and similar to the malbum he shows how intertwined the tarsav is with the Torah she about he lived in the 19th century and he asks two very powerful questions on spirit in our sheets it's number seven they are elaborated upon by the Lakewood Russia in the beautiful safer um written by my friend question number one we know that the midst of svira is we're counting what are we counting we're counting we're counting the days whatever the day is we're on our way you know that song you know the the less people who are in the room the more I tend to sing you know so we're counting days and what do we call the mitzvah the Mitzvah is called we even see the way that hazal termed the bracha the Liturgy of the bracha is we're not counting the Omer we're not counting the Amer at all was brought on the second day of paystack we're not counting it we're counting the days that transpire the the brother should be asphiras counting the days from the carbonomy or asphiras furthermore azika Kabbalah is elucidated by robiro commotion what's the name of the carbon the name of the carbon is the minhas what explains a measurement that contains an asira saifa is called an oymer so why is the carbon called we don't name any carbon based on the measurement of ingredients why is it called it should be called there's an ashram there's a minha but why is this the measurement or why is it called the hinophen just because the measurement is the whole carbon should be called after all that's Allah so these are the questions takes us through a wondrous journey in redefining and revolutionizing the Mitzvah of and he says as follows this oymer is waved we wave it up and down and back and forth why Kabbalah many authors write there's nothing that inflames the heart and elevates the Heart meaning there's nothing that puffs up the heart and makes a person's sin like being wealthy there is nothing in this world that brings a person away from Hashem like material possession like the past success by ishman yishun yeshurun became fat and they rebelled and they said when a person has money when a person has possessions they think they earned it with their Acumen and hard work and that takes a person away from Hashem so that so therefore so that everyone recognize whatever money you have whatever fruits you have it has nothing to do with my Acumen and my wisdom and my planning so what do you do you take the first fruits you bring it to the carbon and you wave it up and down and back and forth and what you're saying is God everything I have from this direction from that direction it's all because of you I got nothing to do with this this could help us answer the two questions that were mentioned we could understand you know why the name of the carbon is the carbon has only a measurement we usually name a we usually name a carbon after the type of vessel like but why would we call it based on a measurement why isn't it listen up if the whole purpose of waving is not to attribute any success to one's own ability and Acumen but rather to attribute everything we have in this world that means the bringing of the eimer is a preparation to how to appreciate possession in this world in order to be Misha beat us to the midslice the purpose of the carbon oymer is to enslave us to the midsize that a person should be carried away that whatever they have is because of their ability the purpose of bringing the oymer it's the carbon of avdos what does that got to do with oymer says not just a measurement there's Apostle in if you will find a man who stole a soul from his brother someone kidnapped someone if you will use him in servitude so we see the word means usage so you know what the purpose of the carbon over is to allow a person to enter the Abdul to a person should be to the Hashem the servitude of Hashem that we are thanking Hashem with the carbon that all of our material success is only a means to subjugate us that when the alarm goes off in the morning we get up we don't look at our phone we immediately the first thing we think about is we immediately watch nagamas so we prepare for tefila and we don't care take care of any personal need until after davening what do you mean I'm a person no we're talking that's the purpose of the carbonomy and like Savage takes it to the next step why is it called with we're not counting the oymer the IMA was a carbon we're counting the days why do we say whatever in the what's the intention of counting what oh yesterday was the 27th Day from the day that when the temple stood they brought a carbon I'm counting 2 000 years later from a day that if the temple was standing and it was two thousand years ago they brought a car carbon that's what I'm counting from I'm counting from something that we don't do that we used to do no that has nothing to do that is not the cavano of we're counting it's an exercise and today is another day that I emphasized and I focused and I contemplated that my station in this world this short time that the vanishram has allowed it to us I am counting that this is yet another day to be mishabad myself another day of preparing myself to be to the avoida in the midst of the Torah and that's why God took us out of Egypt I'm taking you out to serve me there is no value in just freedom freedom no you left being of the parody to become therefore the days of the Omar are days of his days that were counting preparation of being in evat Hashem and we're not counting the days you see there are different kinds of counting we're not counting the days to know how many days elapsed but like the Posse it is for God count my footsteps we're not asking God to count our footsteps we're saying give me special practice look at me intently Hashem pay close attention to every step in my life likewise the days of svira these are we're counting them to focus and to emphasize and to hone in that yet this is yet another day that says it's twofold it has Duality I'm thanking Hashem thank you Hashem that I have yet another day to be mashabi myself to enslave myself to subjugate myself to the will and the midsource of and not only is it a a form of gratitude it's also a commitment to the Future that this is yet another day that I look forward to the future to commit my life the word oymer is not just the measurement of the amount of flour and the carbon the word oymer refers to avdos and then he says the real Whopper and after 49 days of subjugating our will and and tying our run sign where the the Behemoth says in us you know spend the day pursuing good food good times good conversation good relaxation we need to bind up our road sign and our taiva we have to sort of put it into captivity shovel to be at to to confine it and to put it into captivity and after 49 days of his guess what day we have shavuas says captivity enslaving ourselves so you say this sounds miserable I'm going back to Egypt what's the difference between being an Ever attacked the difference is and it explains the same adult type when you're an avid to paroi paroi wants to enslave your body to trap your soul Hashem says you enslave your body to the Torah to liberate your nashama because when your body is subjugated to the Torah it is freed from the shackles of Earthly desire and your soul is free Ze captivity we are tying up we're literally harnessing all of our desire and all of our wants and all of our passions and we're binding it up that's what atsaras means because after 49 days of um we're ready for the ultimate reiterates this he says that the Shiva shavu is also come from this lotion of shovel seven weeks of captivity tying up there are nephe habahamas it's like you know you're a broker we're a broken Bronco we have an animal within us and we need to tie it up so that the nashama could be expressed freely so we're learning is that it's not tasach where we're liberated from Egypt and then counting Sphero which is a separate takufa and then another takufa of Kabbalah no pesach we were freed for being avadim to paroi but we need to make sure that we don't sing Hallelujah and say we're free the first thing we say in halal is hallelujah Hashem we are free from power to be avadim to Hashem and we work on that for 49 days of oymers until ultimately we reach the Pinnacle of completely into captivity so this time of the year it's one big billion it's pesach which is continued you see pesach if it's not attached to sphera it's just freedom freedom in and of itself is worthless so we have to make sure to close the gap we don't allow pesach and then appreciate the freedom we go straight into Hallelujah Hashem 49 days of suic and let's explain this even further we know typically we talk about the four cups of wine on pesach and they represent the Flawless shyness of this is expressed in the isakim this is expressed in voracious the foreign says that and many wish items say that comes says it's a mistake all of these sources it's a cipher they got it wrong the printer is messed up the Rashi was not correct the rashbam is not correct the you xiaomi the murder shroud on two places and you're gonna have five cups so just like we don't count the ABC we don't cancel our coffee and the four Le shyness is and therefore says the grub because the third and fourth case are all part of Vega Alti therefore don't be mastic between the third and fourth class however in the hagueis he says how can we say such a thing then you want to say there's one Rashi is a tall Cipher one rash bomb but the Rashi and the rashbam and the usami and the meters everyone got it wrong so really they said the the evangelaima says the Dal of the China is like we always thought you see so the ravan says no you only have to count the gulas that happened when we left Egypt we didn't go into Arts Israel yet so we don't have to count it but we could ask is this a sufficient answer because the truth is when did happen if you look at almost all the reshine them look in venezera number 15 the svarna number 16 says foreign so that didn't happen yet either so why would we count and review commotion in his Safran pesach points out that there's a very important difference between we all are eagerly anticipating when Hashem gives us this trust to be there but that wasn't the target has value even without uh the entire purpose like this excuse me and the world was created for the Torah and that was the main reason we left mitzrayim and when Hashem said Hashem said I'm going to take you out of Egypt the sign and you're going to serve me on the on the mountain of harsinai that indicates that the Icarus serving Hashem and harsinai and the signs um and it says the time was the sign for that therefore we are not redeemed from Egypt until we got the Torah if God would have just taken us out of the Egypt and we wouldn't have gone to Torah we would have been an exile it would not have inherent value it would be a meaningless freedom we were only redeemed from Egypt though I'd say City it's still redeemed without because there's no purpose in life just being free you know the star colors right an amazing slaw we spoke about this many times the slaw writes you know what was the purpose of going down to mitzrayim in the first place it caused so much harm to our people we were downgraded to the 49th level of Toma we were depleted we had a slave mentality was it really could die to go down to Messiah says the shla was worth it because mitzrayim was a lesson and an education and being an event and in order to for somebody to be a a viable Jew in this world it's not enough just to serve God when it makes you feel good you have to have a feeling I'm in denture Taco I do Mitzvahs because I have to and we're going to explain that and Hashem sends us down to the time to teach us how to be avadim and then we would Channel and harness the middle of says this explains that when God told Abraham he's going to have descendants it's going to be Eliezer and um no he's not gonna inherit it will be a biological descendant why would avraham think elieza would be his Heir I mean why would avrah mabino think such a thing Elias are not related to him he's in Evan Kanani he's aura you have to have amida the most important media of all that's the middle of all things he was Avid avraham he was a loyal servant so he had the mid of this he could have been his Heir and Hashem said no not that ever says I shall you ever wonder why in Tanakh even after we've moved into Arc Israel we kicked out the canonum it's called arid's Canaan why do we still call it Canaan the answer says the shla to give us an understanding what Arts Israel is it's a land of Kenya humility and when the Jewish people don't have the Mida of being avde Hashem they don't deserve to be there is a wondrous thing he says when we ask the question you know he says we don't even answer these questions we don't talk about dipping we don't talk about leaning does not mean why because then we would ask declaratory statement like Hashem how great is this night and you know we tell our children you know why this night is different you know why this night is is shanoi we tell our children the first thing you need to know is that we have to listen to Hashem because we just have to because the is that you can't buy an event against his will so the kids come to the father and say Tata I don't understand God told us to do the say there so what why don't we say no why why don't you give us a choice the answer is the truth is you can't take an Evidence as well but you could buy an avid from an other and once an effort is owned by an Aden the first Adan could sell him to the second order and then the second Adam could do whatever he wants with him and it's not at the discretion of the event when you buy an event from an ordain when you buy a slave from a master the second master could do whatever he wants we don't need to get the consent of the event is if he's sold to a Israel the evidence truma well I can never say I don't want to be sold because your property Hashem sent us down to Egypt says so that when Hashem liberates us and takes us we are his no matter what we have to listen to him just because because we were slaves for parody we would still be slaves to power so when God took us out it's like taking an avid from an online and we have to listen no matter what this is the meaning of apostle next week's parashah number 21 on the Israel the children of Israel okay you just said that Revenge some why do we have to say about him it's not repetitive says and once I took them out of the house of bondage now they're mine nothing you could do saskar says a wondrous thing says you know that there's their punishment for there's no punishment in this world by the president person there's no inch him specifically for lack of fulfillment of a Mitzvah SASE only for violating actively a negative commandment there are only two exceptions to the rule I want to thank who took off time to be able to film tonight's Allah there are only two Mitzvah SASE that somebody doesn't fulfill them as high of Courage you know what they are somebody doesn't bring a carbon Passage and someone who doesn't do breastmila why why these two misses are say so severe that if you don't fulfill them says that if you buy an avid from a guy you don't own the ever until you title the evidence you have to dunk the evidence for the purpose of slavery well what if the event is in Ibraham and he says Ah I'm going to go into the Mikvah you think you're going to dunk me to be an Evan I'm gonna dunk to go free he goes free if the evide immerses in the Mikvah to go free the event goes free so what does the other one have to do the gemara says the other one has to exert sovereignty and dominion over the event in the Mikvah he puts a slab on the Eve its head in the Mikvah to show that when you're going into the mikvine you're transitioning from one Abdus you're not going from abdos to herus you're going from one Abdus to another Abdus says the holy is aparri but where we were supposed to be transitioning into becoming the Hashem after all the says the whole purpose of being of its right is to learn how to be an avid so that we could Channel it to become but what if Claude says Lord thanks for taking me out take me out and I'm off to the racist I'm out of here I don't want to be your Avid so the night of isisan was a transition period so that night it was critical for the bunchem to demonstrate his dominion and his sovereignty over us so he gave us two mitzvahsach those are the two Mitzvahs that enslave us therefore if a Jew doesn't want want to keep those midsoices as if he's saying God I don't want to keep tairo Mitzvahs Tess the linchpins of Kala toy rakula they are the foundations of the hotel because without that then when God took us out of Egypt we would have gone scot-free therefore in Hashem when we stood on our Sinai Hashem said I am God whether you like it or not I am your master what what do you mean you're my master who says I want you to be my master you know why I sure would say come here I took you out of slavery you're still a slave you just have to channel it the safer Michael um Hashanah brings up a beautiful point it's a point we've mentioned in the shiram over the years and it's a seems to be a fundamental point of his safer and the point is the partials of a respective week are not random of course but rather they enter are very interconnected to this man of the year and they are specifically there to facilitate our growth at that particular time where we've been discussing the apostle him the Jewish people are my servants when did God say these words we would have expected he said these words when he took us out of Egypt and in fact that the reason why in evidence when he wants to stay by his master we drill a hole by the door is it because the doorway was a a witness in Egypt when Hashem jumped over the door he heard God's sake he lives the door heard and this event apparently doesn't want to be a servant to God he wants to be a servant to someone else so interesting the gemara and condition says that when were the words they were uttered in Egypt funny it's a plastic and pastures bahara next week's parashah they weren't uttered in Egypt there were other impacted by her but apparently even though they were uttered in Egypt the pasok is written in Bahar which is a posit during the days of slavery of histamdos to remind us what these days are all about these days are to facilitate a focus we're counting not the day from when the carbon which was a measurement of an imra was brought we're counting and we're were emphasizing and we're focusing and we're doing an inventory on the days of preparing ourselves to be today this is a real she but it's a real avados you know the the possible says that if a non-jewish owner buys a Jewish slave when joyville comes we force the non-jewish owner to free him because we tell him hey hey owner slave owner this is my slave God says Ebenezer says we tell the slave owner my star my lean on this human being God says to the Gentile came before yours think about it we're talking to a gentile we're not giving him a religious argument we're giving him a financial argument we're telling him you came too late this person was already indentured to another Master namely God before you bought him give him back we are indentured to the Republican he took us out of paroy's clutches and he transitioned us to be his Avada we need to learn from our enemies why he says abshad he heard from the brother-in-law of the achies who says why do you think that sadaikim said ah start counting Sphero from Sunday don't count the day after pesach because that sadokim wanted to Revel in the Heros of pesach they didn't want to transition the avdus of mithrayim into becoming Hashem they said there's a nice big gap over there you know when you're jumping out of Egypt forget the Mila forget the pesach forget the transitioning through the day of the oymer which is to ultimately ultimately lead to the Shibuya of shavu is no Revel in the Gap Revel in the heroes and therefore with great Pomp and ceremony we say no this is not Sunday it's the day after pesach there's no binasak immediately transitions into the email because we never went free we just acquired an Adine who will allow the nashama to be liberated but that is why we have to publicize and make it widespread that the eina begins and yadidi of Mayor bronstein pointed to my my way exam Cipher that also a good friend of mine rep Shaya Levy pointed my way both of them today that there's a sound safer in the Under Pressure hurashi and at the end of schlaf compares the four strings of Titus to the for the shyness of gula and just like you can't have three little shyness of gula and you can't have five little shyness of gula you can't have three strings or five strings you know the fourth string represents the lockharti is this is really the answer we're giving to the Kasha of the gra why would we count so far if you count what it says this is exactly what we're saying is saying that sudokim wanted to do they wanted a split but away from the la carte to make it that the heroes of Pisa has independent worth but we say no there are four strings they're four Le shines of but we also say they're not five says because as great as it is lest you think you can only serve the revenge is also not part of the gula that we land during the imeihasira beginning with tasria ending in are all helping us for um solidify and concretize the Sinai experience which is that's why we have now when we stood on harsinai says the magalashana we accept it upon ourselves the Mandate of the attentive foreign what do you think these seven parishes about teaching us to be like which is and then he says also these are parashayas where we work on the whole Surah Adam which is the parasha of the arayas it says there Ani Hashem I took I'm the one who said and therefore you need to accept my xeros again these parishes refer that revansham is saying you are obligated to serve me these these parashay eyes are not randomly during the days of svira they help us integrate and they help us inculcate the ideals of sriimer which is the ribana didn't take us out of mitzrayim to be a nation of benejiren in the sense that we are now free to pursue our wishes because to free us from the shackles of our Earthly desires so that the nashama could be free and be liberated to connect to the almighty to the body so this is a an amazing approach to the days of svira there yes there's a yamto for pesach that stands by itself there's a yamtif of that stands by itself but there's also opinion the Binion is pesach we were liberated from being AB de parai but the image days of his working on becoming an Evita Hashem working on being a loyal servant which means that at any moment whatever arises that is Hashem were able to drop whatever our personal desires are to wholeheartedly follow the desires and then we reach the highest madrega of shavoy where we're at sir [Music] Bahamas and were able to be fully liberated on the 50th day where we say our soul thirsts for you the question samagit says 49. the 49 days we yearn we thirst to be able to experience the Divine connection thank you so much for listening I wish everyone Yeshua is you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com