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Netzach of Tiferet – “Eternal beauty” | Counting the Omer - Rabbi Alon Anava | #sefirathaomer

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which the Sefirah is Netzach she ba Tiferet. The last couple days we were explaining that Tiferet is beauty and Netzach, ooh, that's an enigma to start explaining Netzach. You can interpret it as victory, mitzvah on. And you can interpret it in many other ways. Today we're going to choose to interpret it as eternal. What comes from the word in Hebrew Netzach. Netzach is netzchi, something that is eternal. And again, the words in Hebrew can be easily changed and expressed in a different way. And there are many ways to approach it. And by the way, the classes that we have here now, this is not the only way to look at the approach of Sefirat HaOmer. Last year we had the another series of Sefirat HaOmer and we were talking about other things. And you know, the the the Netzach here, yesterday we spoke about Tiferet she ba Tiferet. And we explained it that it's the beauty of truth and the truth of beauty, right? We explained that Tiferet is also emet. And we quoted the verse "Titen emet le Yaakov." We know that Yaakov is midat Tiferet. It was also midat emet. So we know Tiferet is also emet. And we were trying to find the connection between one and the other. The Netzach, it's another attribute that will connect beauty and truth. They always go together. Now, when you want to think of what is one of the most, I can't say the most because that will be already be difference of opinion. But one of the most beautiful things that somebody can do in this world. We will now quickly make a survey. What would you say would be the most beautiful thing in this world that one can do? And I think, and to many others, it would be doing a nice act, a good act, an act of kindness. Good deeds, it's hard to find. Not everybody is jumping on doing good deeds. I think, that's my opinion, I think many will agree with me that one of the most nicest, the one of the most beautiful things to do in this world is a good deed. And you know, we just learned about it today. We learned about it many times, but in the morning we learned about a Mishnah that if you're familiar with Pirkei Avot, now we also learned the Halakha this morning that many congregations they have the custom of throughout the summer to learn Pirkei Avot. Some do it every day, some do it once a week. So some congregations, they learn Pirkei Avot every day in the summer between Mincha and Maariv. We learn Zohar. Other congregations they learn Pirkei Avot. In Pirkei Avot, there's a very simple Mishnah that says Mitzvah goreret mitzvah. A mitzvah will drag after it another mitzvah. And this is on the positive side. On the negative side, Averah goreret averah. You apply yourself to do a sin, then the sin will drag you to do another sin. When you do a a good deed, a good action, then it right away will cause you and pull you to do another good action. Mitzvah goreret mitzvah.