Counting The Omer: The Purpose of Time

[Music] We count spir between the yumpt of pes and the of what exactly is the objective of counting? Why do we need to count? says to count our days correctly teach us Hashem prays Hashem teach us how to count our days and we will bring to ourselves a heart of wisdom. The objective of counting is is to acquire wisdom. Let's elucid elucidate an incredible gamatria of the Arizal. The Arizal teaches us that the word zman time which is gamatria 97 zan is gamatria 97 has the same numerical value as the following two words 52 Adam 45. Rav Mosha Shapiro explains the objective of counting the objective of counting our days is to elevate ourselves from the status of behema 52 and make a 45 degree turn and elevate ourselves up 45 points to 97 Adam is 45 52 and 45 beheima and Adam is man in other words the objective of time is to transform ourselves from animalistic to Human you know human being is the dichotomy. Adam conotes we come from the ground but it also conotes I can be similar to the objective of time. The purpose of is to elev elevate ourselves from toman 97 is beheim plus Adam. On the pes we were taken out of mitzim. In mitim we were acting like our host country. We're on the level of behemoth. The carbon we bring on pes is carbon from barley. Barley is animal food. On shus we elevate ourselves to the status of Adam. The carbon we bring on bread for man. The objective of is to acquire wisdom to elevate ourselves from animal to Adam. to count our days. Please teach us correctly and we will acquire a heart of wisdom. Let us use the counting of the days to acquire wisdom. Elevate ourselves to the highest level of Adam which is to be comparable to the Almighty. Wishing everyone a wonderful week.