Parshas Eikev: The Most Important Haftoros of the Year - The 7 Weeks of Consolation

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com uh we're now holding in the weeks after Tish which is called the sh the seven weeks of consolation which uh are mostly known for The Haus that we lay during these weeks starting with shabas it's interesting that a period of time of the year is known primarily for the Haas I don't believe there's any other time of the year where the period of time the is uh the highlight of the is the so apparently that tells you something about the importance of the ha of these seven weeks and we're going to learn something quite interesting that of all the ha we lean throughout the year these are from among the most important um and if you take a look in the gim deusa see the sh we're familiar with but a little bit less familiar are the giml deusa the three halfus of punishment followed by Z the seven weeks of consolation and the two weeks of CHA so actually it's a total of 12 halfus it's a series of 12 halfus what are the gima number one in the first pack of Y number two shim also from y That's right after that in y and three those are the three weeks of punishment what are the seven weeks of is number one we'll see comes from followed by is this week that's from through then which is then that's thenal then Kum that's yes and then those are the seven weeks of followed by what we call the two weeks of what are not as well known even as the two weeks of Chua so you say you don't have two weeks of CHA you don't have two half of CHA you do and you have which is what so that's okay now we just have over here a list of where the seven weeks of come from and if you look at the list there are two glaring problems number one okay 40th of through what so actually it's from the end of me to the beginning of then you have the end of and then through how so here's a problem problem is that appears in yes after and here the order is reversed then you have is the beginning of n so actually is before if you look in thei if you look in the first begins and then the end of is and here the order is inversed it's very interesting really number three three in our order comes before ha number five but it should be in reversed actually appears after R and even more strange is should be before both of those so it's really two problems problem number one is and is Switched and problem number two is appears before all of them and it's in between so really if you would want and then if you want to write the correct order first should come then then then should be then should be and then so there are two two problems with the order okay we have to address that but let's speak in general about theas how important are the Haas so one thing you should know is that really if really your sh should have a CLA really a sh needs a CLA you want to be y properly it needs a CL if your SCH has you don't need another they enough you need a CL so tell your Rabbi tell whoever tell the board that enough money is being invested on this and that you need a CL is a Tak I who's going to L it people don't like to get it people are resistant to getting a clap because how the bar MIT is going to L it they don't have to Lan it but you do have to lane from a CL okay you want an order of priorities needs to be from a CL who's going to Lane it the same B prepares the let him prepare the okay but if you're laning it from a tanak then the listeners need to say it along quietly to be y okay that's the first thing but let's say the weekly let's say the weekly ha where does it say in the gar that you have to lean uh this this week does it say anywhere doesn't say anywhere doesn't say anywhere in ch that this ha has to be lay this week there are only a few mandated ha you have the tells you this this this and it says on the you should L this and that and the are also mandated actually even maybe even before the time of the G okay and that's what we're going to look into today where do the come from so take a look in number seven the says that if falls out on chab so now you have a dilemma normally on what do youan right if is Sunday right but what do you do falls down on so do you do so the says you so you kill two birds with one stone one is you mention and the other thing is you mention punishment that is not happy with us however we don't do that even when what do we l fall on chabas that would be the second week of the okay look we do not follow the a rare instance that we don't follow almost always we follow here we don't the first and last that's dependent on the but the that's not critical but with the the the t is saying we don't lay but instead We Lay and why why don't we listen to we follow the the says that before we lay in do also do that yeah do lay in the gima of course of course there you have it okay after right you have the seven of the two of number one from number two that's this week and then is n and then is and then is and then and then you have the so now here comes the big question ask now to doesn't ask both of our questions again we had two questions one question is should be ipped because really is before and should be before both of them why do we put three before five it should be inversed the answer is the way consolation works is you progressively increase the consolation you go higher and higher more and more and more and more and therefore we want to move up we want to magnify the and in order to do that we start small and we end big so is less of a consolation than so even though appears before in then we inverse the order to now to completely disregards it doesn't even discuss it okay and then says tus what par do we do we begin the gim depart We Begin the three weeks and here's the Simon got it got it now you won't forget shash and what is shash I think you'll remember butash right what is it is is and Shad is okay now says the before is always why that's the end of the and I was always bothered by the fact that b mik was destroyed on Tish and it's interesting we have a lot more then we have Panos we have three weeks of Panos we have seven weeks of and I could guarantee you that once TSH is over the last thing on anybody's mind is and no we can't let go throughout the month of and L we're blowing Sher but what are we laying in now one word it's the week before R tonight we're going to say nobody need once TSH is over nobody wants to hear about the no we don't let up we keep the coming we don't mention a word of all the are dashing away all the Gab are telling you to buy your seeds but thei he's still giving you why why is it why doesn't the navi let up on the now apparently these Haas are from the most important of the year to the extent where what ifes comes out on shabas this year this year this year the first dayes is shabas the second day is Sunday so now you have a dilemma do you lean the Z or do you Le so you would think you should definitely is one of the only that are mandated by no it's actually do you or do you drop and you maintain the who argues about this the in the fourth par the mor was the of he lived from 1240 to 1298 uh he and his entire family perished in the rfel massacres he writes we do notay you can't they're Untouchable the are Untouchable is mentioned in the G and the is not even mentioned in the G it doesn't matter is so important they're Untouchable however sayses one of the one of the regions of Germany right we do skip it inspir as they skip it and not only that because look are important but not as important as that are mentioned in so now now on a on a regular year this would just be academic but this year we have to know what do we do do we follow the do we follow SP follow what do we do so it's between and uh take a look at number five comes out on CH seven like an ordinary shab and you say and you don't mention shabas in and you take out to and you you call up seven for the first and the second you l m and the M consists of and what have you no problem that's what you do when is Untouchable you do not move it you do not lay who's like there are those who say there are those who say the who's that the so if you would ask me what do you do on I would think the follow the and they lay and the as certainly follow and they L now but I don't know if that's necessarily true you have to what does do I still think that they they do like the asaz they say and then they combine because it's it's because you can make it up make it exactly they combine an maybe with RAR right and the Order of course starting with then yeah okay so you'll find out what they do but the we definitely have this year on yeah what do you do what what after do you L you do you or do the followed by the says you lay and followay what so question is but isn't isn't it Untouchable isn't it Untouchable so the T says no it's not a problem you know because when you L you could also kill two birds with one stone how's that CU talks about and it also talks about because the end of the is um words of consolation regarding yeah I think that's in you have two you have both mention okay just say that his father still called so the M yaa Edition the one with the square says that like this year okay so here we have it but but they will no they will read the first and the last as well they will do that as well okay yeah but that's just like a t on that's not really okay so now we have a very interesting Chu over here the sh CH is not to be confused with theed of laich this is theed RA um he was a to of the B he the abz of nickelsburg he lived from 1600 to 1661 so he is the firsted and by the way why did he name his his saer because the gatri ofed is so that's why if your name is any and you're writing AER is always a handy name of a saer to have in your back pocket okay but he says like this they're more important than any Haus the whole year all the of the year except for the I think that means a dollar even though they are from the did legislate that you should like it says at the end of the it was never mandated this week you Lan this that week you Lan that on a normal shabas there's no legislation you have to Lan this said we should Lan something relevant to the however it was left up to the stages of the generation that they could arrange it according to their decision it's only the that they legislated but they never legislated any of the other weeks with the exception of the they legislated the first week of followed by Follow by Follow by where do we get this from like says in the second par of excuse me in the fourth par of in the name of the and then he quotes the Tor in the thees from bous until you get up to the 17th day of tamas what do you Lan for the something relevant to to the par no specific mandated but from till the end of the year there's no no more free choice your discretion has been removed you know if if you want to know categorize the year the first two thirds of the year are discretionary Haus and the last third of the year are legislated Haus once you start fasting isas Freedom of Choice has been taken away the first 2/3 of the year we leave it to your discretion just lean something relevant the last part of the year we don't trust you anymore right said exactly what to lean which week what are they okay and then he says what they are and he says exactly he says and it's not just in weeks it's not just week one week two week three it's more than that must be must be very interesting so what how important it is says in the next paragraph since this is the case since these are the most important of the year and they can't be changed it would seem obvious you ready for this let's say you missed the week let's say they couldn't find the cloth so you're not going to lay in the ha obviously if you can't find the CL so what are you going to do you hope you find it the next week what if the seor the ha went by and for whatever reason the the did not lay in the you lay it the next week if you missous you will not make it up if you miss you will not make it up there is no ha the whole year there's no makeup for halfus by the way there's no real makeup for Chris either unless the hold seore missed it but when it comes to the sh if you miss the first week of pan you know why you could make it up week two very simple because the first week of the gim de parusa is the first parak of Y the second week of the gim parusa is the second parak of Y so if you miss week one and week two so instead of starting peric Bas you start peric Alf and you L peric Al and peric Bas because it's very convenient but it's not only because it's convenient it's also because it's very important so it's a combination of the fact that the really appear one after each other in the and the other factor is these are very important they date back and they're already sourced in Thea and therefore if you miss one you would usually make it up so for example that means the you should begin to Lan from right and then you lay and then you CL and they're one in and they're all about Tish then you can L it together now interestingly if you missed shim the second week of the pan you can't make it up week three cuz you're not going to lay per Bay of and then jump to cuz you can't you're not be M the from one to another like that only in the TR you could skip like we do um like we do shaba you skip right but or we do let's say we skip from to right separate we don't we start we start with mat yeah mat yeah oh another thing he says the are more important than the rest of the ter of the year and there is so important that there's an opinion of the who the go that trumps but listen to what he says the conclusion of the is as much as we could try to wiggle out to not to push off any of the you for whatever reason skipped one you should try to make it up so therefore it's very logical listen to what he says let's say you missed this week you miss which comes from then you could make it up in two weeks then since theas are in very close proximity if you miss one you could make it up in a week that comes right after yeah on the but if if you're there and you want to be y you would have your own personal obligation to uh try to say it along if they don't if you happen to DAV in a show that doesn't have a clap is most of the which is most of except for has a and what has a CL yeah I don't whatever we unfortunately we do not have a CL he's saying if you don't have a CL if you don't have a CL you not you should say it along say it along if you don't but if you have a CL you don't have to say you don't have to say it alone you shouldn't say it alone but you have to be say it like you know correct yeah cor right okay um so now let's talk about the order of theas it seems to be out of order again and are out of order and should come before both of them so T said well we're going in Progressive order of increasing the but that would be a little bit somewhat difficult why is the navi giving then if if we're taking the navi out of order because we want to go in increasing order that means the Nai in a way is not really going in order of progressive so the quotes really a beautiful an unbelievable he brings down first the med that the how much do you need says you need a lot of so much I will console you until the year is over said look if was you know in I'd be consuling you the whole year but but uh it was Tish I'm going to take you through the end of the year and then he says like this the Simmon is which stands for and it's also connected the seven the med says that when K went into Galos it's like a king that was taken captive with his children with his son-in-laws and with the whole his whole nation and the Queen is alone bereft lonely in the palace for days and years and then they tell the queen guess what everyone's coming back who's the queen the queen is Yim who's the king the who are the children the sisters the brothers the daughter-in-laws that's us so is given the that your children are coming back are the return of the the the the the brothers the sisters and finally Hashem that's why the final is what but says I have two questions here we still need a reason why do we say them out of order why we say them in the order that they're in in thei and five are inverted and and also they're written after says let me tell you something I saw that the reason for the order of these Haas is because of the following little story that happens after comes to and he says I destroy theik please go console the people so the go to they start consoling us and we say we don't want to hear your consolation you didn't destroy the mikash we will not be consoled by you we don't want to hear your consolation what does k say when tells what God has forsaken me I don't want to hear your consolation so theim go back to and and they said to the Jewish people don't want to be consoled says why not so said because they want to hear it from you say oh they want to hear from me no problem I personally will console them says the this episode is played out by the order of the of the Hashem comes to he tells please go console my people so come to us and they start consoling us and we say we don't want to hear your consolation has God forsaken us says say says has God forsaken us so thei goes and reports back to the Jewish people are they are storm tossed they will not be consoled say ah if that's the case I personally will console them and says to us do you feel Barren do you feel like you have not given birth no I tell to you personally I say arise cuz your light has come so says from the the order of the is not the order they're written but instead it's supposed to be playing out the the story line of this episode where first orders the to console us and we don't want to be consoled until finally has to personally console us if you take a look in the let's see it inside 12 lines from the bottom they were enacted to say from the beginning of from respond we will not be consoled we want to hear God's personal consolation go back to and they say will not be with our they are say on the fourth says and therefore you who you consider yourself the I tell you in week five uh week six Kum and then [Applause] finally purp I am going to be the one but it says who I okay not a question anything I said um right here by the way the r Shapiro and the Lina he has a uh a little bit of a different doomi yeah he was a big fan of doomi I would say I would say he he was Pro dfom right that's cousin wow very good so so he has a little bit of a different Nuance of uh this V instead of the us being a a story line of the coming to the and saying to the to console us and we don't want to be cons by consoles us himself the shapo um he this is quot theander zedman who is my great grandfather May is like the classic Mitzvah gift right every gets like five Shas right so he's he brings down over here a y the Y says that going to go to the he you you hurt us you you murdered us you were you tortured us go console the Jewish people so the G come to us to console us and we say we don't want their consolation their consolation says what do you want so we said we want you to console us says fine I will personally console you to which a Shapiro said the first pk of these ha also play out this story line between the and that orders the and we don't want to hear their so we say says if in fact you are the then I will personally be by the way there's another uh take on these seven weeks of the he brings a that tells theim that the sikim should console the Jewish people and first the sikim week one is the collective the Jewish people week two is Abraham that's why in this week this week is week two that's why in this week we mention Abraham in right right look at because this is's and week three is and week four is week five is week six is and Y says you know what I'm not getting what I need and finally in week seven gives his personal and the medish plays out very interestingly that says go consult the Je Jewish people and ab says they're going to they're going to accept my I called the like we learned last week I called and says they're not going to accept my I called it a and says they're not going to I called it a bias and says they're not going to accept I'm the one who wrote the until finally theam himself has to console Us by the way if you count up the of the you count up all the so let's count it up now in you have in you have 27 you writing this down but before you write this down let me tell you the winning lottery numbers for okay that you're going to write down right okay pick seven right number three you have 12 you have 12 number three is 12 and is 24 and R is 10 and Kum is 22 and is 23 you have 44 second 144 second and if you add up theim of the in andu you have 143 you have 143 of Panos in and 144 of why obviously says it's consolation for the Panos but you have a little bit more a little bit extra there's always more good in the world than there is bad so you have more of than you have of punishment okay let's see in the remaining time let's focus on some of the highlights of the uh of starting with of is um is gatria 208 which is the gatria of P because this is one of the things that will do he will bring us the but it's interesting what's the why isn't one time enough why do we need a double just as to say why why two times well we're in number 11 now the med says that we sinned doubly like the P says in right a double sin and we were punished doubly double and therefore we have a double now what does it mean we sin doubly what does it mean we are punish doubly and what exactly is the double well if you take note of the first words of interesting is usually is usually interesting where the speaking to you in is so says we were so bad in the times of that we know are able to take the and turn it into well are able to do the opposite they're able to get the to sign off to punish them they're so bad that even the is that they should be punished so in the times of the it was even spoke harshly it was that was our that was our double not only did we sin we sinned so terribly that even consented that we should be punished but when we were consoled we turned it around so much that even even said you know what they deserve to be rewarded they deserve to be consulted that's it's okay by the way the that's excuse me that's the AR that's the AR who's the AR was written by the as far as I know no relation to and was the name of the city he wrote is a commentary on the that's what he says in his on the he also says what's the Why by the does it say and by the it says so he points out that by thees Not only was it but it's that we had so th we were so thoroughly rotten that even the had to punish us okay it's a little yeah the only thing I added was is taking note of the words and is taking note of the fact but the same point same point look at number 18 says also similarly what's the Hashem Hashem also the first Hashem is Y the second Hashem is why by the does it say a and by the it says what's worse to be forgotten or to be forsaken or to be sleeping which is worse right which forsaken or forgotten it's worse to be forsaken forgotten is the person hasn't he just doesn't remember anymore the other way he didn't do it intentionally it just slipped his mind forsaken is he left you when it comes to y when it comes to y not only do we not um we don't not only we don't even say it we don't even pronounce we do not pronounce we we we know it exists but when after we don't pronounce it anymore so it's the has forsaken us we don't even use it the shame sh we say it but that's just together forgotten so to speak on some Dimension we are sh we're forgotten so says when it comes to which we don't even pronounce that's when it comes to the that is the ad okay that is excuse me that is sayki says very nice thing on the of also this week I'm giving you good material for this week's because you know you come to the table and they're going to say and they say again on the par you say no this week not on the par this week on the okay and fine so um points out the brings these two hasem are the two of and what is mean that the two names of hem have forgotten us there's we know what is the before before is that you don't sin to begin with and where what is the after the is that hasem should for forgive your sin so what we're saying is the first of has forgotten us has forsaken us that we don't no longer have that anymore to help us to prevent us from sin and then has also left us in a way that doesn't forgive us the way he always did one more thing from the of this week maybe two more things one of theim we say isim look at number 19 hasem gave me a knowledgeable tongue to know to set a time for those who are thirsty for the word of hasem to awaken every morning and Rashi says what does this mean that yes saying Hashem sent me and he gave me the oratory skills to be able to teach the people who are yearning and thirsting for the word of Hashem now I want to ask you going ask you a personal question you not you don't have to answer the question you could choose to uh remain silent it's not an obligation but if you want to participate in this particular discussion and open up what do you listen to more even if you go do you listen to your r's on shabas more or a Shear that you go to during the week for any time right what do you no no not not names I'm say both of them were the same caliber what do you listen to more carefully thank you thank you okay fine look you got you got it you got it you know I set you up but you got it okay no but really what do you listen to more shab in general what do people listen to more it depends who gives a I know assuming the same person even shab D or a Shear that I think most people listen to a Shear that they go 90% of people there are a number of factors there are a number of factors first of all shabas morning people are tired for whatever reason they're hungry it's a long daving they just sat through the the shakas and the laning it's not a good time to to speak even a good it's not okay but part of it is and this is what um r he pointed out you see from rash that is saying that he gave him the ability to speak for those who are thirsting for the word of hem Rashi says to establish set times look he says established for those thirsting to hear set times to listen to his word in other words apparently Shai was a good speaker and he had a good audience the people were interested and the people were thirsting but he had to also make sure that he takes care of one other Factor otherwise it sounds like he would not be successful and that is he had to make set times why sounds like if he would just get up and speak then even someone who is thirsting for the word of Hashem would not be as uh receptive to the message as as someone who came at a set time why is that cuz if somebody just happens to be going to someone who's speaking Yeah it's interesting it's this but I don't necessarily want to be here right now I haven't prepared myself to have to endure this speech right now as oppos of someone has a set time to go to something he's already set aside the time he's already prepare himself okay I'm giving my hour I'm giving my half hour I'm giving my 10 minutes I'm now preparing myself to listen to to what this person has to say but if a person does not have a set time if it's a little bit halfhazard this week the laning ends this time this week was a double para he's still going to speak even though it's a double para it's not as easy to be receptive to a jha that is not as set as ifha has set times yeah speaking because you tell that some yeah I'm not I'm I I think the rabbi should speak on chavas I'm just pointing out the phenomenon that sometimes people pay it's not necessarily the best venue for somebody to speak at a time where the is not sure when it's going to start and when it's going to end that's right if if is used to she starting St time they're able to sort of cope with the what they're about to okay two more things number 21 okay this week's ha ends it's this week okay listen to me those who pursue righteousness those who seek at look at the rock that you are yed from and the hollow of the pit that you were dug from in other words hasem tell the Tells think about where you come from look look they were one I bless them and I increase them God will console he will console her ruins and he will make her deserts flourish and the question is or in Hebrew they say um in English they say what's the connection right what does it got to do with the price of tea in China oh look at abrah look at sah God will rebuild you know what is one thing got to do with the other so brings like this wants to know what proof is there that they're going to be and says like this if someone who was never born could be born that someone who was born but died certainly could be revived right if you were never existed and you could now exist certainly if you did exist you could exist again if you look at Yim and you look at it where it's desolate from its children and it's profane and it's and you wonder how is it possible for it ever to be rebuilt says ream that's not a big deal just look at AB was supposed to be one sorrow was supposed to be one in the stars there was no plans for them to be able to have children and yet I took two people who were not supposed to have continuity and I gave them an a I gave them a future if I could take abrahamu I could take saru who weren't and yet they [Music] became which was which was the most beautiful city in the world the most holiest city in the world a city that was all the more so okay let's end with the following last thing this time for real yeah what that was good place yeah it it was but this one is better thanks yeah but uh um one last thing we'll end with the first console console my people problem is what's the consolation there is no console my people console my imagine Loy you're going to a shiv house and and uh there people sitting shiva and somebody calls out console the MERS console the M yeah what do you tell them there's no consolation in the whole what's the consolation so let me tell says but before that I have to tell you a little bit about Royal life in England okay in England if you became the king it wasn't because you were the most benevolent soft-hearted kind individual in order to become the king you had to be the greatest assassin right you basically mean you killed everybody under you that's how you became the king of England and if you were the king of England the greatest honor you could bestow is one of two things either you could appoint somebody a not um a royal member of the Knights of the bath and even greater honor would be to appoint someone a royal member of the Knights of the Garder now what does it mean to be a royal member of the Knights of the bath well you would be presented with a little washcloth and then you would be taken into the king's bath and you would be allowed to rub one one square inch of the king's smelly corpulent back and but not more than an inch cuz that would be too much coved for a human being to handle in this world and you would come in and you would rub his back oh and that would stop then you would have to put on special badm and you were royalty and your wife would have to wear special bugm and your children have to wear special if anybody would look at your children or your grandchildren your great-grandchildren the bad way they would kill them and until 2015 in England if you're Ela Ela was a a royal member of the Knights of the bath you're royalty why cuz you serve the king and if you serve the king you're royalty but that was not such a great honor the greatest honor would be to be a royal member of the Knights of the Garter what does it mean to be a royal member of the Knights of the garer well you would be presented with a sock and the king would then stick out his smelly fungal infested toe and you would then put a sock on one foot not not two feet two feet would be too much honor for a human being to bear in this world and if you would do that we would then put on you special clothing with special Insignia that said you're a royal member of the Knights of the Garter and your wife would have to wear the clothing and your children would have to wear the clothing and in England you would continue to wear the special clothing because your great-grandfather was a royal member of the Knights of the garden because after all if you serve the king your royalty so let's make a and if you have the great opportunity to sing to serve the king of all Kings how much honor should we feel how much should our hearts be brimming with pride if you have the opportunity to put on a pair of Fillin to wear a yamaka in the street don't be embarrassed it's royalty you're a royal member of the Knights of the Jewish people you were selected to be royalty to serve the king of the universe what is the there's only one word of Amy You Are My People you are associated with me your royalty you're connected to the king of the world and that is our so I wish you all you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime com