Tiferet of Tiferet – “Truth is beautiful” | Counting the Omer - Rabbi Alon Anava | #sefirathaomer

Tiferet sheba Tiferet, the 17th 17th day of the Omer. Uh I mentioned that last week when we counted Gevurah sheba Gevurah and I mentioned that the week before that when we counted Chesed sheba Chesed. Whenever you have the same Sefirah uh double, that's already uh chazakah for a more powerful connection between the Sefirot. And we spoke yesterday and the day before that Tiferet had the the way we're going to learn it now, there are many ways to interpret Tiferet. Right now we're talking about the Tiferet is beauty. When we have a combination of Tiferet and Tiferet, so would that be beauty and beauty? So it would be no. Rather, the teachings of Kabbalah explains that the midah of Tiferet is not necessarily beauty, rather the Tiferet is emet, is midat emet. And where do we see that? Because we know that Yaakov Avinu was rooted in Sefirat haTiferet. And what does the prophet Micha say about Yaakov? Titen emet l'Yaakov, that the midah of emet was given to Yaakov. This can be found in the book of Micha chapter 7 and this is a very pretty famous verse that we read, chapter 7 verse 20 in the book of Micha, where it says titen emet l'Yaakov, meaning you give the midah of emet to Yaakov, but we know that Yaakov is Tiferet. So the teachings of Kabbalah will explain to you that Tiferet is not necessarily beauty, rather it's midat emet. So when we have Tiferet sheba Tiferet, then we see a nice combination. Either it can be truth that is beauty or the beauty that is truth. So either way you're looking at it, it can be as follows. Tiferet sheba Tiferet can be I'll say it in Hebrew and then we'll translate. Yofi hi emet. Beauty is the truth. But you can switch it around and say no no no no, the truth that is beauty. This is the yofi, the real beauty in creation. So I explained that I don't know if often enough, everything has a soul. Not only my body has a soul, everything has a soul. The the teachings of Kabbalah explains that everything in creation will have not only a neshama, will have a nefesh and a ruach. So according according to the Ari Hakadosh, he explains in many different places that even inanimate they have a soul. Uh a rock can have a nefesh and a ruach and a neshama, but not more than that. Only a Jew will have above that already what's called the yechidah and a chayah. Uh or the right order if you're going from above to below will be chayah yech- chayah and then yechidah. But nevertheless, animals will have a nefesh and a ruach, an inanimate will have a nefesh and a ruach, everything has a neshama. And even something spiritual also has a neshama. So the teachings of Kabbalah explains that even the midot they have a neshama.