Propel Your Soul To The Greatest Heights With the Fruits of Tu B'Shevat

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com today we're going to speak about the Indian of what exactly is tubishvant the the mission tells us in the beginning of his opinion is that the new year for fruits is fat now there's a widespread misconception that it's rosh hashanahallah ilanis it's a day of judgment for fruits there's not a day of judgment for fruit that's a mistake it's an error yourself quotes that say this but it's a pretty explicit mistake it's a confusion between the first mission on Rosh Hashanah and the second Mishra the first mission of Roshana says there are four lines of demarcation in the air the second mission in Rosh Hashanah says they're four times a year the world is judged fruits are judged on shavuas schwas is the day of judgment for the fruits two bishvad is the line of demarcation for maiser whatever fruits were not before the Meister is last year whatever fruits have Canada after tubishra the Meister is this coming year by the way today's Gala breakfast is sponsored by my dear friend Mr Freud and I will cover the umptive of tubashat is so it is not a day of judgment it is a line of demarcation for his master and even so it would not seem to be a festive day it's a technical day it's like tax season basically it's April 15th I don't know anyone who celebrates tax season I don't know anybody who rejoices on April 15 unless they figure I got it out of the way but there is no one who omits some people fast but nobody omits so why does the say in Summit aleph that the Minogue is not to say it's not a yam diff it's a nicer day it's just a line of demarcation there is a inexplicable comment of the Quran the the deepest and most profound and cryptic comments that you will find are the hagoi sagranath the beer Agra the bira Gras says the reason we don't say he says it's a Russia just like all the other four rosh hashanahs arayamtif now let's go through that what are the four rosh hashanahs one is tishre it's the Rosh Hashanah Le bring me a gamara is for shavius is for so the truth is not a Rosh Hashanah it's not a day not to say the fact that it's a the fact that it's a line of demarcation for others thank you is not a reason not to say tasana the reason we don't say the fact that it's not the reason we don't say taklan it's we don't say when else is ah the reason we don't say is not because it's rosh hashanahallah when else do we say it's not why we don't say and also what since when is there a heckish between all the four rosh hashanahs but this is a very enigmatic inexplicable comment to the going that just like the other rosh hashanahs we don't see taknon so too on tubishvat so I want to share with you just a few thoughts firstly in the safer nephesh David nefesh David we're the personal practices of the aderas Rabinowitz to um with a great going the wrath of ushalayim father-in-law of Rome cook he writes on the 15th day of Shabbat he would learn in the rambam and he would review it and he would be Mahadev according to his ability foreign and he said to himself that the reason why the reshining were kaivea not to say is what to remind us that there's a Mitzvah of Russia's master like because I'll tell us that we should always make Dash so basically what is tubishvat says it's a zeiter to the time that were applicable and it's a reminder that one day the time will come where you won't just learn Mishra but you learn you'll have to learn all these voice that is what the two the Adara says is the reason for tubishvara it's a day to remind ourselves of Mitzvah is is many people go to Earth Israel are you allowed to eat the fruit I don't know what about shmita I don't know nobody knows nobody knows how close when are you supposed to learn about it at the very least on tubishvad it's a day dedicated to remind ourselves of the midsize hatsuyoz that's I would say um a valiant attempt to explain why tubish fat is a yamta say that's the reason we don't say taknon because it's a reminder to learn I mean that's what that Dara says so but it's hard to say that that's the reason why it was established as a yamtif so the uh Morgan avram brings from a safer tikoni or tikanya sakhar we don't know how to pronounce it because nobody has a safer but he is the one who brings he's the first record of the custom to eat a lot of fruits fat he brings the ashkenazim arnoyage silane the ashkenaza nowadays this five of them have more than taken over this custom but it's somebody who wanted to know let's say you don't eat fruits on tubishvan what did you violate nothing there's no mits of the erisa there's no mitsadrabanon it's brought in the mug and Abram that the Ashkenazi marble now here's the problem whatever fruits you're gonna get you're gonna get an apple you're gonna now here's the most important thing the most important thing you could do on tubishvad is not eat worms so that's all I have to eat dates yeah you know how to check you've been trained to check dates yeah there's a hexer okay I'm gonna tell you the colors of the century hexture means there's no Pig in it it doesn't mean there's no worms in it you could say the Vada of Queens Flatbush of Five Towns it doesn't mean but by eating it you're not over hundreds of laven they're not checking it for worms they're just making sure that it's not Hazard tree so you need to be trained Don't Go Near a date unless you know how to check it don't go near a fig unless you know how to check it it might not be so hard you could you know be trained you could you know watch all the training videos that they send you no problem before you go near the thing make sure you're not a track you want to eat a remind remind them don't need to be checked um or strawberry Don't Go Near the strawberry unless you soak it in soap water you agitate it and then you get off the bugs otherwise stay away from fruits if unless you know how to make sure that they they don't need to be checked but let's say an apple apple you're okay even though you know traditionally apples always have the worms in it now the worms have much better places to hang out these days than your Apple so you eat an apple here's the thing why in the world am I eating an apple because it's tuba shot why is it what is tubishi it's the new year for my sir so why would I eat on the new year for Meister last year's Apple I mean it's the whole Min hug of eating fruits is counterintuitive this is the new year for fruit so how am I celebrating by eating last year's crop I mean that's the most counter until well it is 30 days before Purim so you prepare for an adverbs but asks the Min hug of eating fruits if anything is counter-intuitive it seems illogical cerebella whose yard side is coming up on the 22nd day of schwat gives the following answer now agar we know is the grandson of Akiva the son of the gilion Marshall and he left foreign normative Jewish practice and he became Legend has its on his yard side he passed away on the 22nd day of Schwan there was a snowstorm on that day Natalie was there a snowstorm one of the biggest um snowstorms in the history of the world the account is that the snow was up to people's noses some say their waste yeah in the waist say Hammond you're in Warsaw how many people are you gonna be able to get to such a how many people are going to be able to get to such a lavaya more than 20 000 people came to levia of Republic he was one of the greatest he was a guy not some and uh but it was revolutionary from that family uh for him to become uh he was a talmud of cutsk and then ishvitz and he was a fascinating personality and at his uh lavalia he was looking to have 20 000 people I was like to be at his cover and says look at number 16. anyone who is Nene from this world without a blessing it's as if he stole from akadesh and the Jewish people if you eat without a blessing you stole who did you rob you robbed God you also robbed the Jewish people says Rashi how did you rob God you robbed the Republic how did you rob the Jewish people that when a person eats without a bracha the fruits are smithing God smites the produce so says if by not making abraha God snites the pro the produce by making a bracha God blesses the produce therefore the minute of eating fruits onto beshwat is that by making a blessing on last year's crap you infuse blessing and you give us for the coming years crap okay that's what he says is the idea of making a bracha on fruits on tubishvat because not making a bracha it causes the fruits to be smitten so making a bracha infuses bracha in the fruits not only does making a bracha Infuse blessing in the fruits take a look in the tour the tour says that we know we in alham we say foreign ask the tour we want Hashem to rebuild you shall I am to eat fruits doesn't the gemara say my shopping didn't want to go into Arts Israel just to eat fruits he wanted to go to be Makai in the midst of toys but all right how could you ask God to rebuild you shall I am to eat fruits you want God to rebuild your shine to eat an apple that's the Kash of the tour therefore the Torah says you're not allowed to say those words it's Usher to say mituva it's ridiculous you're gonna tell God rebuild you shall I am so I could eat an orange and therefore the Torah says don't say it my father didn't my father Rush didn't say it don't say it if you're an Ashkenazi you know how to say it dear father you could say it but not if you're asking nothing but we do say it thank you it says to be so safe what's the shot that we say it he says on the fourth line and they show him a farage we don't want to eat fruits to eat fruits Aina tackles [Applause] the tacos not eat the fruit the tacos is rebuild you shall I am will go up into it we'll eat the fruits and we'll make a blessing but we can the the tacos is to make a blessing but you can't make a blessing if you don't have an orange so we ask God we build Jerusalem and we'll eat the fruits and we'll make a bracha what's so great about making a bracha that's why we want to build rebuild you shalim to make a bracha that reads our rights impatius achev that a person has to be very careful persons We Care from all blessings but especially because the person's body is Nana from the food and the person's body is Nene from the bracha um a person is Sanctified through his blessings over food like it says when you make a bracha and you eat food you ingest the bracha when you make a brachand fill in the bracha doesn't go into your intestines when you make a bracha on a bagel you eat the broccoli you eat the bracha and if you say abraha you're eating you're eating dirt you're eating back you're eating something bad abrah has an entity so if you say what did you say well you were signing the telephone book yeah what what is that oh who are you whispering to what was that mystical incantation how were you able to say that in less than a millisecond so when you make a bad bracha and on a bagel and then you eat the bagel then you should view it like you went into a pile of mud and you took a spoon and you consumed putrid mud but when you make a bracha and you think about the meaning of hashem's name hashem's name is you have to know your ingesting kadusha more than your fill in more than your Torah it has a great husband because you're eating it okay that's have to feel you're eating you're eating the bracha the cafe brings from the arena look at number 21 because you're not going to believe me your main caduceus from blessings on food not from learning not from davening not from doing midsize the way you make a brachan food why because food has Tuma on it and you got to remove the Tuma how do you remove the tumor by making brachice because warned me very much so everyone has to remember that when you come to when it comes time to eating a suda what's the first thing you do even before you before you make a bracha who remembers you do chuva reminiscent says every meal before you sit down you always do chuva every meal you do chuva what about what do you say you say you don't even have to say it could be maharabachuva what do you say on Shabbos um you have to realize you have a beautiful meal in front of me but I have a choice I can consume something that's going to bring me down or I could consume something that's going to bring me up what is it dependent on how I make abraha now so the base Joseph learns we're asking Hashem rebuild you shall I am we'll eat the fruits and we'll make a bracha but the question is what's it got to do with rebuilding your saline why can't I eat good food in Cedarhurst and make a bracha I could I can make broccoli in Cedarhurst the best dealership is saying you know really you could save the neutron why because the focus is okay but what do I need the fruits of Arts Israel for what do I need to be in arts Israel to eat those fruits and to make the bracha by the way it's well known the banishkai would try to get a hold of foreign again you have to get through customs they're going to ask you you know do you have any fruits from you bring any fruits with you you say yes you'll be there for the next four four months you know while all the illegal aliens are coming in with all kinds of you know CR the Imports and that you're gonna be there with your Apple from Israel you know and the the inspector is going to be looking at it so I can't tell you how exactly to do it but according to what we're learning if it's dependent on the bracha what's so special about the fruits of Arts Israel so there's a Bach is an astounding comment an amazing the box says look at number 22 Tama caduceus the Holiness of the land of Israel which has influenced from the Erath Israel who nishpas Gambit is affected through its fruits today is in the land of Israel and therefore it's in the fruits that's why we were warned and parach does not say don't contaminate the land that you're living in that I am sure Israel and it says the Tomah will go on the fruits and the shrina has left the land if we sin the box says a wondrous idea the box says that Earth Israel La Mata is and therefore there's a certain sanctity in the land and the sanctity of the land is infused in the fruits and if we're able to retain the shrina in arts Israel that shrina will be present in the fruit so not only does the bracha Infuse kadushan the fruit the fruit itself is considered something that is affected and influenced by the kadusha the shrina that applies to Shiva saminim and not Shiva saminam by the way there's an amazing says who who remembers the great great grandfather he says I don't understand we're in the mid we're in the mid bar what did we eat parishes bashalach what did God give us man we get to Israel no we can't have money anymore well we could only have none in a in a desolate desert why didn't God if we had money then we should have money so no we get to Israel the month stopped foreign so if anything any fruit would grow in the mid bar it would contain Tama in it so then it would contaminate us however in the land of Israel where the fruits themselves have kadusha and the kadush Israel is infused in the fruits where it's actually a favor that Hashem does to us that he doesn't give us the Mana narut Israel we have something holier than the man we have perus Israel yes that's a good that's a good share by the way what bracha do they make on the month what blessing do they make on the month the the you know some sometimes so it comes out that there's a special Aliyah that a person could have from eating fruits in the right way number one again the Torah says don't say that is says no the focus is we want to eat the fruits to be able to make a bracha and like that Rizal says the main caducea of a person comes from however there must be something about the fruits themselves fruits of Earth Israel themselves are an embodiment of kadusha I want to end off by something that I saw very quickly during the week and I looked at it more extensively this morning in uh imranoyam imranam is the gross commentary the grass says something out of this world it's not on the sheet I never understood this there's something called the Shiva saminam foreign not what fruits are they but what do they mean seven fruits with which Earth is always praised wow oh we are associated with oh I didn't know really because wheat doesn't grow in America and barley doesn't grow in America and pomegranates don't grow in Spain and they don't go in Greece I mean all this stuff goes everywhere grapes grapes don't grow in California yeah you think they do not they don't they only grown as what does it means what does that mean you ever wonder about that so I saw quickly I think this morning that ramanasha Klein says yeah but grapes grow in California and pomegranate is growing Greece and wheat grows uh in in America but you never have any country that all seven grow in one place yeah but still that that means that sounds like you're not going to get the best pomegranate in uh Israel you know you might get the best pomegranate from Spain you might get the best grain from Idaho the grass has a different shot the girl wants to know what broccoli make on vegetables let's see now right do you make on bread all right why by vegetables you say Adama and by Bread you say RS what's the difference between Adama and aratz says the gra Adama means the soil so vegetables come from the soil but bread comes from what material grain grows only your bagel Gordon where'd you get the bagels from North Woodmere I don't think they're going to the Galilee to get green to make your bagel so why do we say how much is every time we eat a piece of bread we say means eres Israel says the gra the shivas could grow anywhere in the world but the shepher of kadusha and bracha of the Shiva saminim come from aretz Israel and then our nishba all the rest of the world like the gemara says in Tinus that first Hashem feeds the mistress and then he feeds the maidservants first Hashem gives rain Terrace Israel and then from there he gives rain to all the other lands that's why the grass says I don't understand what this means we saved the saint talamata in the rainy season even if we don't need rain because we do need rain in Arizona because if it doesn't rain in Earth Israel then no bracha will come to the produce so when it comes to an Apple the Apple of California the orange of Florida is not nishba from The Shepherd of arth Israel but the wheat the grain any of the Shiva saminam wherever they grow they come from the aretz they come from here to Israel so when you make Abraham pass even if the grain comes from Idaho it's God brings grain from Earth Israel and then it sends bracha to the grain everywhere else in the world so according to this there might be a certain Myla even if they don't come from Israel but there is some kind of from the fruits of Earth Israel that the bracha of the Shiva saminam why is this I never knew I knew he says the alkane Illinois so is a yamtif because it's a technical day for the laws of Master it is a day that the Min hug is to eat fruits and even though the tour and the rush did not says that we should save because the focus is on the bracha as that Rizal says that when a person makes a bracha they are then ingesting the bracha and the Iker kadusha of a person comes from the braj Israel the fruits themselves are infused with a certain shrina and according to what the girl is saying there is a certain connection to Earth you saw that a person could have through the shivas okay thanks everybody for coming have a wonderful day we're going to try later we're going to have a tubishva Tish with more amazing thoughts about I wish you all a great area you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com