Parshas Emor: Uncovering the Moed of the Days of Sefira and the Biblical Yom Tov of Lag B'Omer

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Kad that is okay and thein as well somebody who jumps ahead and gets married and does n we don't punish them but if they ask us we tell them not to do so now there are some places the Torah says that don't take a haircut so you see that it was not widespread not to groom oneself during the m and some even some do shave from on cuz they say that the students of stopped dying so the obvious question is wow what a holiday what happened reaba had 24,000 students and now that they were all dead there was nobody left to die so let's celebrate what a happy occasion wow sounds like a really nice yum uh what are we celebrating we're celebrating that they stopped dying well the only reason they stopped dying is cuz they were all dead no there were no survivors had Reb it's not like reaba had 240,000 students so and 24,000 died but there were many survivors so we celebrate the survival of the remaining students of RAB AKA they the reason they stopped dying on L is because people who are never created can't die did you know that people who don't exist can't die it's a you may not have been aware of that so how could the asks what's this happiness if it's because they stopped dying there was no there are no survivors and they all died what is the benefit of this now if you want to find out more about this question you could get the the fire and the Soul this is one of the main questions that we discussed in the what is they stopped on because there is nobody left that's question number one question number two even if somehow you're going to construe that because they sto dying we don't need to mourn anymore but why is that a positive reason to celebrate in other words the padash asks why are we rejoicing the reason they sto dying is because they all died but if even if you were to say well maybe it's just a reason to lift the AOS maybe it's just a reason to uh stop the practices of mourning but that is not a positive reason to celebrate so that's what uh two items we need to examine the question of the padash that they stopped dying because they were all uh dead and number two what is the positive reason to celebrate now what's interesting is the mitvah when we begin do we make the following now excuse me do we say do we make a we don't why not why don't we make a Shak an well we don't make a sh is a question that all the deal with many many deal with this question among which the deals with this question and he says the reason we don't make a Shak on is because the of is dependent on P because we don't count on the 16th day of the Nissan we start the day after P so therefore it's not necessary he says to make a could you hear me better now therefore it's not necessary to make a on because it's dependent on the of P how's the sound are you able to hear me better now yeah much better how's this is this good sound is good you like it okay much better okay so uh he says it's dependent on the time of pesak and he says you know it's not similar to Suka and lulav that we do make a Shu why don't we say why should we make a shul we'll make a Shu on the and that should cover the Suka and that should cover the lulav the answer is because those items technically you could make the Shu from the time that you from the time that you build the Suka or from the time that you tie the lulav and if you didn't do it then so then it could we we make it on yam but since it's not necessarily dependent on the Y we make it separately and then the sh says what about Shar why is Shar not exempt with the Shu on Rashana he says it's because is AA Suka is AA lul is AA therefore they get their own is not an act and therefore it is subsumed in the Shu of P but that's uh still requires explanation what what is the connection between and is a completely independent Mitzvah it happens to be performed the day after P but it's not fundamentally uh connected to P so why would we make a why would we make a uh Shu on the SP so why would the on the be ex Ed with the on the what what does have to do with P it's a separate independent Mitzvah it happens to be performed a day later but is it reasonable to say that therefore it does not require a Shu on its own okay so what I would like to present to you is really a revolutionary understanding of L in general if you ask most people what exactly is the celebration of many would say some how it's connected to rim some say the students of rabika sto dying but most are hardpress to come up with a real fundamental reason why we should celebrate un what exactly is this major celebration but I what I would like to bring to your attention is that actually lag is could be thought of as a yti it may even be a yum which Isa let me explain in parasar which by the way isn't it that's this week's para you know it comes out really good that I'm speaking about par and this shabas we're going to read we read about the so speak to and say to them the of and then interestingly it [Music] says Fine what we just said these are the Y and it begins by saying you should work for six days how exactly are how exactly are the six working days and then it says the seventh day is shabas chabas is also not a y this is a very peculiar P it says these are okay and it starts off by saying what do you do for a living you're a psychologist you're a doctor you're a plumber you're an electrician so imagine these are the Y you're going to go to work for six days and then you're going to rest on the seventh how is my work y another question you could ask is at the end of the par it says look over here number 10 besides shabas what do you mean besides shabas the first thing you talked about was shabas why would you have to say at the end of the whole subject besides shabas chabas was the first subject discussed very interesting so Rashi says you know what shabas is doing here to teach you that anyone who desecrates yam it's like he desecrated chabas don't think that chabas is more than yam that chabas is so and it's somehow more no shabas is not more it's one who desecrates yam it's like he desecrated chabus and anyone who keeps yam it's like he kept chabus furthermore um now that that this Rashi explains what chabas is doing here but it doesn't explain what the six working days are doing here in other words I understand the T wants to talk about chabas to teach that if you desecrate yam it's like desecrating chabas if you desecrate chabas it's like um if you keep the Yum it's like keeping shabas fine but what are the six work working days doing in this subject so this is a question of the rebes the rebes of c and it's also the question of the V if you want next month of shabas when we visit the raama on his yard site we'll visit the Reber of hesel and you could join us at the Kev of the Reber of hesel while we're there we're going to visit the magala Muk by the way um in crack out when they didn't know who the next R should be so the Malala was Malala that the next R should be hesel why cuz he qued the and that's how the Reel was selected he wrote the and he brings this question as well as the and he says something astounding he says something really amazing he says when the T says y it is not referring to the six working days because the six working days are not but rather do you know how many days of yam there are in the year there's seven days of yam what are they one day Rashana two days suus two days PES one day sh did you know that there's six days of yam in the year r one day two days of P excuse me r two days of suus the 1st and the e8th two days of pesak the 1st and the 7th one day of sh and then on these six days you're allowed to do Mal you're allowed to cook you're allowed to carry but there is one day of yam which is shab shab did you ever wonder why does the P say what do you mean sh sh only Y is called sh no the answer is we are talking about Yumer there's seven days of yam six days you're allowed to do Mal the seventh day Yumer you're not allowed to do Mal in other words the PK is not talking about the six working days and then the Sabbath the PK is talking about the six days of Y that you're allowed to do one day rash two days two days those days this is what the reever of says this is what the says the adds that's why at the end of the par it says besid shabas what do you mean we spoke about chabas in the beginning wrong we never said a word about chabas yet we weren't talking about chabas we were talking about yum Kipper isn't that unbelievable then it comes out the the para begins this way are six days and the seventh day is Yumer and then it goes on to explain the what Mitzvah you do on these days so this is the introduction to the par now let's Let's uh learn for a moment and let's study something else you know we have two basic Paras of Y we have and we have what's the difference between in and very simple tells you about the mitz P tells you about the carban question did you notice and by the way presumably then whatever is in EM is a yam whatever days we're talking about are yam right tax March 15th is not mentioned in par because not a Groundhogs Day it's not in because it's not it's not a y we're only mentioning y could somebody please tell me why the in parar it talks about you're going to come into Isel and your you're going to cut the Harvest you're going to bring the the first of your Harvest to the could somebody please tell me why it talks about the bringing of the car it's a is a very nice P but what's it got to do with the par shouldn't that be I don't know in Pinas or in another para where we talk about why is the MIT mentioned in par are the days of they're days of AOS they shouldn't be in par we don't talk about the three weeks in Pasar so why do we talk about inar so number one why do we talk about the carbon why do we talk about the and and why do we talk about the days of the here's another point you know on in parar it talks about bringing Carbono on on PES and on sukus for seven days in it says in why why is it talking about bringing carbon during the this is not the par of carban the par of carban is p not is this a mistake did this accidentally get in here obviously not says AO the reason the T says you bring Carbono on 7even days of p is to explain that the seven days of P you might wonder why is mentioned inar after all it's not a it's not a yam the answer is since you bring Carbono for seven days the bringing of a carbon is reflective of its yump of quality the fact that we bring a carbon that reflects the yump of quality of these days of if we bring a carbon besides the carbon tmid then it becomes like a Mikes it becomes like a that's the only reason why it's mentioned here we mentioned that we bring carban throughout uh PES and throughout suus to explain how these days are really days of Y fine now [Music] um so now let's come to the big revelation of today the ran makes the following analogy the ran tells us in a cabalistic comment also makes this comment in a few places that the of p is analogous to the of suus suus has seven days followed by likewise PES has seven days followed by and the days in between PES and says ran they are like says the ran the eth day is everything is restrained it commanded the seven days of sanctity before them and after them they're all holy and God is in its midst and you counts 49 days seven weeks like the days of old we sanctify the eth day sh like the Eighth Day of sukus and the days in between p and Sh the count the days in between are like between the first and the eth day of that is the day of that showed his great fire the ran is saying that P and is analogous to so PES are like the first days sh is like and the days in between are like that means the days of are like by the way also uh mentions this point and he says the 49 days between are like between the first day of sukus and Shas likewise the writes that the days in between p and Sh are like by the way an amazing thing you know the bring that there's an is of doing Mal at night during the days of s and there's a question is it for women is it for men and writes in the mar that the reason why there was an is as a reminder not to forget to count at night according to that says says the is would only be to for men because men are the ones obligated in or says maybe the reason for the custom he provides another reason is to be similar to to be similar to to and uh just like a in during they placed in but they only placed the is at night because since it was the time of harvesting we don't want to cause a undo loss to people's businesses but again you see that this idea that that the like between p and has ramifications in other words it's not just a philosophical idea mentioned by ran and ra but according to that's the reason for um according toy that would be the reason for um according to then that would be the reason for uh why there's an now by the way this also brings this idea that the days of are like like between and now what do oh okay we're going to get to that okay we're going to get to that good point by the way so now we understand friends we understand why the are mentioned in is the why are the days of mentioned in the answer is because the days of really are it's no less in a way I mean it's less than a real but it has a quasi status of I mean the ran says they're like it's like to the point where says they even made there was an ancient custom not to do Mal in the night time because it's actually like by the way the tour adds the tour says the reason for this custom is either because the students of Rea passed away and and uh and since they died and and they were buried the people stopped doing then because the passed away so there were go there not to do or another reason says the Torah is think about how the Torah describes these days it says shab shab is a of shos resting so that means these weeks have some type of biblical quality of yam of rest of sh of ceasing from Mala so therefore ceasing from Mala fine now it's very interesting um now we really have a deeper understanding why these days are mentioned in parasar because they indeed have a yum of quality to them they have a quality to them and now we understand why the carbon is mentioned in the same way the carbon of p and suus is mentioned in Mr because if for m carbon that's reflective that these days have a status of a likewise on excuse me likewise during the days of the fact that these days start with a special carbon and the carbon is really continued because the carbon triggers the counting from the bringing of the so the counting really draws and continues the the bringing of the carbon in other words you bring the carbon on the first day and you extend that Sacrifice by counting on each subsequent day so it is reflective on the yump of quality of these days now the there's a student of the brisar thean who brings something called Med that there are seven shab and the question why would and be counted separately why would they be counted separately the is the second day of P so the says as follows remember the says why do we say Hal on every day of suus because each day of suus has a different carbon so therefore each day is a separate y but P we bring the same car carbon every day so therefore it's not a separate yum so we see the bringing of the carbon is reflective of a unique status of yam just like Theo said that if we bring a carbon on that that's reflective of its status of yam so therefore says the if a new carbon is brought on the second day of PES namely the carbon that's reflective that the car the the Y the second day of PES is in a way a new y so you have the Y of p and that's reflected by the carbon of Pak that's brought but you also have the Y of the is the second day of p in a way it's a new Y how do what demonstrates it's a new y the fact that we bring a new carbon so it comes out as says that somebody asked him well just like we say Hal sh on each day of sukus because new carbon is brought why then don't we say sh in is on the second day of P that should also be a as reflected by a new carbon So to that I would perhaps suggest that the Garin says that it's not enough to bring a carbon it also has to be a moade and the same way shabus is not a mo and we don't say Hal on shabas the second day of P would not be a moade for a new reason that you bring a carbon but any event what we're what we're learning is anything mentioned friends in the paraa in Paras Emar it's parasar is not oh this is the paraa of the calendar not everything is on in para's mrr tax day is not in mrr re love Ker's yard site is not in parar what do you mean but it's a very important day yeah but it's not one of the you know I'm joking here so not every but whatever is mentioned in Mr must be a that's why all seven days of PES are mentioned because there's a yump of quality to it the whole sucus is mentioned even that's why the carbon is mentioned because the fact that we bring a carbon that's reflective of it having a quasi status of Y and that's why all the days of SP are mentioned because the days of SP are really yum days they're yum days why are they yum days because they're the between and in fact the says that this may explain why we don't make a on the mitvah we asked isn't the MIT a independent Mitzvah from yam why would it get covered by the theu that we make on P what is the on P really it covers the mitz the Mitzvah doesn't get subsumed in the Mitzvah of uh the mitzah is subsumed in the it's an independent day but in light of what we learned the days of are the P it's part of the Y P it is subsumed in the Y of P the days of are not independent they are subsumed in the Y of p and therefore theu that we make on P um the says we'll cover the MIT by the way we're going to take a little poll here okay who here says y and the shab between p and you do where do you DAV we're going to ask you to unmute what we missed that where we missed that you have to unmute again in Queens it's by Rabbi Freedman and in m wow so here we have a living proof that there are shs still today they say in the shab between p and and RAB fredman's they say on on 141st Street and 70th 72nd Crest I don't remember what 72nd Avenue they they say between now the brings that the F the actually brings the that these are very important he says the first shabas after P we say the or is and the um codifies the practice of these and he says these y speak about the G and we lament during this time um and we remember the Redemption from Egypt and we we mourn the Galos and the s that we have from the Gentiles and we mention all the G in our Med ashas that many of them have fallen out during this time and therefore we ask Hashem to remember their Merit and just like in MIM we ask Hashem to show us Miracles and many question whether you're allowed to say these uh these y because after all How Could You mourn on chabas but the was very careful to be in these he says especially during this time of the year the says that on the G Will comea on the 50th day David is born and therefore this is the reason says the the Salazar that um it's reported about the about that he would say these with a mournful tearful voice and especially on shabas Kesh which is that it's for one's feels to be answered like we know the word my prayer is frequent is is proficient in my mouth um and in the he brings that from P about the importance of these like the of thees ofit and how he the would say this with very hot tears um and this was a for the and how important it is to say these but the suggests that the reason why these f are so appropriate why do we say these and it's almost like these shab during are like y the same way many have accustoms to say during the likewise during the of the again in light of what we learned that this has a quality of Y to it it's like the it's the between we understand the unique quality of the of the during and the real Whopper is a comment of the V himself the V says inin um the V says that if somebody has is an OV on ER of P it does an is he a on a of PES says the that just like an is not on just like he's not or suus says the is not a on P why because Arab p is mentioned in par because did you know that what does the T call PES your n is PES to the 21st is but the 14th is called p and it's mentioned in and it's listed in so says the since is mentioned it must be a and therefore there's no a it's in that case friends if Paras Emar mentions the days of s and the carbon then those days also must be and those days also must be a Biblical y ah so we come to's question after everything we've learned now that we've learned that everything mentioned in is a y and has a Biblical quality of and belongs in the par of then why are we no AOS during this time we're not no AOS P why are we during I'm sorry during the days of and the answer is because the tragedy that 24,000 students are have passed away who would have been the continuity of the toyra and maybe on a different occasion we'll explain that they believe that was mashiah and he did have the potential to be Mia and he was going to build the third bash so the tragedy that these students died and that bar did not uh was not able to assume the role of mhia that was such a tragedy that's on par with the destruction of the temple because what difference does it make if the temp a temple is destroyed or if a temple that should have been built is never built so the terrible mourning of the death of the studentsa override overrode and transformed MOS it overrode the day it was so tragic it transformed days of holiday days mentioned in parar until into days of AOS but friends imagine if there was one day that the students didn't die imagine if we could identify one 24hour time period that the students sto dying for whatever reason it may be then that day it's not that we're going to celebrate because they didn't die on that day the inherent fundamental natural biblical quality of yam of that day would be able to be to burst forth and be experienced in all of its original Glory the way it should have been as it's mentioned oh imagine if we could identify one day that the students of Raba didn't die we did on we're not celebrating the fact that they didn't die the happiness the joy is not we're not rejoicing they didn't die inherently all the days of s are y it's mentioned in these are y the only thing is they had to be cancelled because of the death of the students of RAB AA but there's one day that never lost its original Glory there's one day that was never soiled there's one day that was never covered up there's one day that was never ruined so retains its original pristine biblical yum quality is like the it's the Y of the really all of these days are all the days of are like the ran says they're imagine if you had to take your kid on a trip for 49 days you'd bring him to Great Adventures and you'd leave him on the roller coaster when it's stuck no no don't take your kids on roller coasters you wait 5 hours that they should be turned upside down if they want it what are you going to do but okay that's just personal advice you know think of something uh better if you could get out of it most some kids are good negotiators they could convince you of anything imagine kids could even convince parents to spend a hundred bucks per ticket to wait for 5 hours that they should be shaken up and down you know after they come down they don't even know they don't know they don't remember what they counted the night before but that's a side point but if you want to understand what is the meaning of it's not that we're celebrating that the stud stop dying that's not the cause of Celebration that allows the original luster of L to shine in its natural inherent biblical status this is the great is we're discovering the the days the M of the days of and it turns out then that has certain quality that is even Mar have a wonderful day thank you so much for 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