Parshas Shelach: Threads of Light - Tzitzis and the Revival of the Dead

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay of course we have at the end of the par the Mitzvah ofus and this morning share is sponsored by Rab in Florida sponsoring it for his good friend Mr Mar who listens to so we wish him okay so in the that we say right immediately before for those who say and we say and everybody knows instinctively that when you say the words may you grab your AR now while that may a very cute thing AR how nice I happen to have AR let me hold them if you actually think about the meaning of the words the arao in aara mean the four ends of the world now your four cono are the four ends of your tius why in the world would you take your arano at the time that you happen to be saying the words AR that have absolutely nothing at all to do with your tias I mean very nice it's cute maybe it worked in kindergarten but but actually if you ever thought about the meaning of the words you'll you'll at first it would seem to have nothing to do with it now the question is well who says you should do it the Sid now anyone who's gone to AR know that what it says in the Sid is not necessarily reflective of what you should do so question is where what is the mar what is the source and I looked at many sud and they don't bring down where the soures but I knew there had to be some source so if you look in the writes by the way if you know very interesting the end of the did not complete his work and the family of the gave it over to Young to complete completed the and he writes in number two first of all when you hold your tius by kishma it should be in your left hand can opposite Your Heart Right but when you kiss it you take it oh now we're going to now you when you kiss it what do you mean when you kiss the question is if you kiss it and then maybe we'll discuss that a different sh we're not going to discuss that today it doesn't say anywhere in you should kiss your ti especially during and maybe we'll discuss is it a heck to kiss your in middle of or not what right now we're just learning let's see let's see what he says he says the that's obviously when you get up to you should raise up the two sides of the tal on your two shoulders um May where you have two in front of you two in back of you then you should gather them together the sources of the four of them in your left hand your heart right that's important to know if you want to hold your tius you might as well do it the right way and that is hold in your left hand so during K you hold in your left hand by the way when you get up to you put in right hand also now whether you kiss it or not it's not it's not brought down to kiss it only kissed it when he got up to and then he kissed but not during but maybe we'll discuss that in a bit so from the the is quoting the that in fact when you get up to you should gather your for sisters together now if you take a look in the itself of the AR take a look we know you should sort of remove you know sometimes people Fold It Up on their shoulders let it drape down and let the titas go down below and you should put the two ends of the Talis on your on your shoulders and this is the secret of especially if you come from the root of Cen so if anybody here knows that they come from Cen the ofen if anybody knows how to look into the N anybody here up to that yet well if you do you don't have to tell me no need to announce it but if you feel you're from the sh of Cen you definitely need to do this still working on the bir and then you need to have more C okay then when you get up to AR you should have in mind they are the the four conf of the to gather them together and then you them in your left hand because malus is on the left side and that is what the AR tells us and the question is um obviously it's not just a matter of oh AR yeah let me let me have let me gather them together obviously there is some kind of deep connection between the and this point ofing another thing that we want to discuss is the it's well known brings it down and that is Jewish person is buried in their Talis by the way in they don't do it that's right and so they do not bury in the Talis but most people don't know that in so they don't bury in the Talis but in in general even in they definitely cover the person in the talus until the until the but outside they put on the tals and they bury in the tals and they do not pass the what do they put on yeah I I believe so right they do they don't pass they do not pass wait in America there or where on planet Earth okay so he says that's even brought down after they dress the mace now the by the way are eight garments eight different garments and a has more even though I don't think they do that but this is what brought down and the the C also has hand has gloves for his hands but it's brought down his and they don't pass all the and the question is why in the world are they putting on the Talis on the mace why is he buried in a Talis for what reason because he get cold what everybody knows that a has no has no you can't wear in the cemetery so why could he what's he wearing so give himer you know he'll open up this give you know give him a in case he gets up you know okay so comes along and says also what does the word Talis mean Talis Talis what's a Talis what is it what does Talus mean says now we know when you make there are four sets of windings there two men hug him one is 7 9 11 13 what does that add up to what does that up add up to 7 9 1113 40 40 7 9 11 7 9 1113 is 40 what's the significance of 40 well hasem is is 26 is 13 39 plus God himself that's 40 well you know we'll throw Hashem in there plus one so that's one minut but we don't do that most people don't do that what do we do we do 78 113 remember right 7 8 113 that's 39 then it comes out perfectly is 39 okay and that's by the way the brings down 79 1113 and the Mish brings down from the mum 78 1113 and I mean as far as I know we do 78 1113 some M have a 10 five six five what's that I don't know but brings down 79 11 that's I have a why add in Hashem hashem's already 26 why I have to throw them in again also is 39 did you know that yud how do you spell yud y V he is he Al V is v and y is so you say that's not 39 that's more like 49 50 59 excuse me that's more like um 45 the answer is no we only use hey once how many times you use hey hey is already there is 39 he Al is 39 he says G you know the of is I'm not up to that that we know now we're doing what we don't know 13 I mean so you want to take the Torah with you to Shay that's why you bury the person in the TS and the ti yeah but that doesn't work that way so you could bury somebody with SH but he ain't taking the T the sh up to shamay but we have a we found a higher level with the T like the so he says like this okay he says only three letters of's name is so what are they now there's another thing that we know that if you take y and you do a certain type of switch around it's called kuu that means you take every letter and you make it the next letter so y becomes a a becomes a a becomes a z and a becomes a that's spells that that's 39 so it's really the name of 39 and said there's a famous in yes now says this is the most clear reference to in the the says your dead will live my corpse will rise get up and sing those who sleep in the dust your do is a do of light from which deres that how is hasem going to revive the Dead with a certain special du but the to the land the Wicked Will Remain says the mar the mar Talis comes of who Tal andus you know what your do is o o is gatria right everybody knows tius is tag how they eight string eight strings in the five knots tius is 600 and the five knots and the eight string 613 even though tus asked what are you talking about cus is not 600 doesn't have the cus is spell s s it's 590 one 590 so the two answers one answer is one times it says and three so you take the L you divide it by three each one takes a now comes comes even though it's written but it's pronounced with now I'm going tell you something very important what is the BR called after say this no not and then what do we say it should be but we don't say the word right the only thing is there's no such word in the Hebrew language first of all it's a and it's also not mym it's my I have a question when you see the word the under the cuff how do you pronounce it ke key so why is it ke and if it's key then it's my either you say e or you don't say e the answer is we're inconsistent and we don't pronounce words correctly either how do you want to pronounce a you want to pronounce it a or an e well we always pronounce it e ke me do you say or you say do you say Lee or you say Le you say Lee so why when say it's and don't think I'm like a dick fanatic they Askin otherwise you're not saying the right word so you have to know when you must pronounce it e i people don't do it don't know I'm going to sh that's when you're talking slang but when you want to pronounce the name of the city it's there a y of course by the way this is only if you want to you know get your toos going up you want it to work you have to have to say the words so it's my not my there's no word in Hebrew my there's no word there no maybe they it's whenever there's a it's and don't say well doesn't do it that way yes it does you don't say you don't say you don't Say You Say Me that means your does pronounce there's no out there I don't care what what organization what affiliation you are you pronounce k when you want to so you should also do it when you don't want to because that's the correct way to pronounce whether you're you pronounce most people pronounce most of the time it's just there's certain select words that haven't become that popular of pronouncing it correctly so anyway says the mar why am I why am I mentioning this cuz he says even though it's it's written but it's pronounced with two now again that's the mor we don't necessarily we don't have it like that we go like we don't have that Mar says but at least the first y it's not sit nobody pronounces it sit nobody it's C the first one is a okay by way just a side point no extra charge okay fine so now comes the comes the and the says where does Talis come from tal do that's the do of is 613 so now we understand a little bit why a person is buried in the Talis Talis is a connection is a reference is symbolic of the do of and that's why a person's buried in a Talis because the person wants to have the Merit of and that is uh very intrinsically connected with the word Talis and the concept of a Talis they they don't need the extra boost they don't need the extra boost they come up without it what so look look at number seven the who the ques he says after have relied on these Traditions first you make aay and you tie seven and then you make another n and you tie eight then you make another n you make 11 and then you make another N9 you tie 13 7 8 11 13 gatria 63 now with the double what not the way he spell with the double or with the double with the double he's spelling with the double correct you're right we don't have it with the double good right now says so it's a good idea when you're traveling on the road you take your mouth and you take your thumb you put on the Mazza and you whisper the following you whisper with kadus and by covering your face tal three times you say that three times and three times um and tal we know Isa three times T is okay what what's that thing you have to say what do you say before you go on a trip but don't go on any trips cuz Miss she over here so stay home okay says and this is really work so now we understand a little bit better why what the connection is between the Talis and being buried because the Talis is symbolic of the do of comes and he takes this a little bit further and he says something remarkable when a person is dawned with a Talis he's emulating God God Don his creatures and you're Dawning yourself with a Talis like the says and it's also to because hasem when he revives the dead they're going to be wearing clothing like the says in now listen carefully this is the key of the since this mitvah of tal is a again we understand even more now why a person is buried in the Talis the Talis is symbolic of the body why the are like hanging threads they're like the hair of the head you hear this the tius are symbolic of the hair that's what the says in they grab me by the locks of my head so the tius are like the hair then the holes now tell me we going take a poll now you don't have to answer right we're taking an optional survey and you're at situs you have one hole on the corner or two holes one who has one I think one who has two well on either side I on each Corner the corner I see them have two no what do you got I got a war you got a Warner well the holes are the eyes the holes represent the eyes why are there five knots those are the five sensors touch taste smell hearing s and what about the eight strings that corresponds to the of the body which is the on the eth day and that's why we say if you don't have you're not why just like Talus is symbolic of the and symbolic of so who doesn't have a which is the eth day the eight strings is not and every corner you have five knots so how many knots all together 20 20 10 fingers and what and the 10 toes those are the 20 knots oh now this now says an amazing thing which is which gives us a beautiful look at the next paragraph the four corners of the four corners of the the why on every corner you have what we call the um the aniva and the anaf you have a third which is Twisted together and knotted and two thirds which are spread out says a how is that even is now scattered among the Nations and who are the chief Nations and right now is on the bottom they're going to be on the top and B when they're on the top they're going to be tied and wound all together there's going to be a this now remember now we're learning remember when we get up to say we're going to be two times and the third of it will be left around in other words to this concept that Ka is compared to 1/3 2/3 right now we're on the one3 side we're on the bottom we're spread out but we're going to be on the top and when we're on the top we're going to have K like the says to me this is a very clear indication that the scattering of the tius represents what the of is and the Gathering of the as is represent K and that's why it's not a it's not a coincidence it's it's not just well we happen to be saying AR so let's gather the together because they're also no it's much deeper than that actually what is saying is that the AR conf that we wear are symbolic of the state of and when we say it's only appropriate then to symbolize that by gathering our araba conf together which is symbolic of the key of wouldn't do represents the yeah but it's a little bit uh it's misrepresentation possibly of the the mitzah only my side okay let's take it a little bit further when you when you take the the together it's not a Mitzvah no but do it because of the symbolism yeah but we don't do any symbolism with sisa okay let's take it a little further um o and a number nine and number nine it's the I didn't I didn't put it in if you want to add it to your sheet it's the says says eight so far we had that eight represents what like the eight limbs that everything is dependent on what are they the two eyes the two ears the two nostrils by the way there's only one mouth yeah the two hands and the two feet now now listen to this we're only counting them as once so the two eyes are one are two the two nostrils is three the mouth is four the two hands is five the two feet is six Thea and the two B is seven the Le and the CL which are the CL eight in these eight places this is where all MIT take place in the T you find eight types of punishments and I'll let you try to identify them what oh he says and the Seven chambers of geh okay those are the eight types of punishments and you have eight and eight and that's whyo said eight types of listening of okay and all kinds of things that are eight by the way quotes this which obviously had not printed and published until this Century so the also says that the eight strings of the ti correspond to the eight and in these eight are all the mitz so again this idea of that Theus represent the the body of a person again how's that well the strings are the hair and the holes are the eyes and the eight either represents the or the eight and the five knots are the five senses and Al together you have you have you have 20 knots which represent the hands and the the feet so again the the situs the Talis represents the so we could say maybe a little deeper that the connection between Talis and is not just oh Talis T Talis represents the 613 the do of but let's just add one another common denominator between the Talis and the of and then um I want to bring out this point and that is we know is gria 600 5 KN H 613 that also is connected Adam because we know that in Adam has how many Limbs and Senus 613 where do we know that from one of the sources is T which says that when created we have 600 13 limbs so to speak like the now what does that mean like gave 63 so the image of God is the Ty 613 the human being has look at number 12 God created Man In His Image 248 limbs 365 sen and he put on him skin and meat and blood fine so the Talis is really the image of the G of of person Talis is 613 n them has 613 limbs the Talis has 20 knots corresponding to the 10 fingers and the 10 toes the talus has five knots on each Corner corresponding to the five senses the talus has eight strings corresponding to the eight main aim the Talis has um the Talis has 113 Parts connected the Talis has the holes in it connected the eyes the Talis has the strings Conn here but in what way is a Talis like an Adam what aspect of Adam so I'm to tell you a little story story you know there's a man by the name of comes out of the he makes a little and he gets uncovered and shame and yees they see him and they both cover him and they're both rewarded what was the reward of Shame and what was the reward reward of Y soash says it doesn't say shame was more had more aity in the mitah he had more he had more energy in theah that's why his children to the Talis of TI so shames descendants were to what Talis burial to be given burial like the says even in the war of the descendants of will be given just think about the two respective Rewards now it fits the bill they both covered their father therefore the cover of Talis and to the cover of the earth now now which one is better now which one is better a Mitzvah or being covered by the earth I mean it's pretty good thing to after all the says of all things to D for the thing you need to D for most is to it's one of the opinions in the more than anything else you D in your whole life for you have to you have to my grandfather wrote in his memoirs about the Holocaust he wrote about one of the great Rabon in Warsaw who when they realized that uh it was in inevitable what's happening he ran to the German guard to be shot because he knew that if he goes to the cror he would never be so he ran to be shot so he should be that was a big desire that they had over in the in the camps to be so why is the why are getting we're getting Talis so like you said the answer is Talis is not just a Mitzvah but Talis is the key and the secret of it's more than is you're dead in the ground Talis is more than you're GNA be alive forever so it's a greater reward let's just let's just think about this maybe in a on a philosophical level shame and ye did the exact same thing shame was to Talis and was to a burial shame was to eternal life and to dignity in death but not eternal life why why was that so you could say you could say that when you cover someone and you give someone dignity and you cover their body there are two Dimensions that you could appreciate about the person and therefore you're giving them that dignity you could say look they're a body they're a goof and they deserve dignity their body deserves dignity or you could cover them for more idealistic reasons and Holier reasons and that is their body is created in the image of God their body has Divinity to it so you're not just honoring their their physical aspect but you're honoring theim you're honoring the Divine quality of the body very likely that if shame not only to the mitah tal but to theah which brings to that means he recognized not just the physical quality of his father n but he he recognized the Eternal quality of his father the spiritual quality of his father and therefore gave him you Rec the Eternal quality of your father the spiritual quality of your father the I will give you the Mitzvah that ensures eternal life which is the MIT yees on the other hand who is the um Forerunner and the the beginning and the seeds of grace and beauty and architecture Yim he he appreciated the aesthetic quality of the go and the Dignity of the go and therefore he was to burial he's covering his father merely just for the physical qualities of his father and therefore he was so I think what you see from this is that the Talis represents like we saw the Talis is a representation of the it has all the qualities of Adam you have the five knots the five senses and the eight main a of a person and the hair and the eyes and so forth and the 613 components but the Talis reflects the spiritual d dimension of Adam it's it's not it's not just the gam it's the spiritual dimension of the gam because everybody knows that in the times of how could a body of Flesh and Blood have eternal life after all everything goes back to the dust the answer is says his purified the Goof that even the Goof became a spiritual quality even the gof was elevated to to spirituality the Talis represents the spiritual dimension of the gofam and that is why the talus is so connected to the concept of because is only possible not with the artus of the gof artus of the gof the physicality of the gof cannot be Eternal the talus represents the spiritual quality of the gof that the is created and that is why possibly who only covered the the father physically so to physical dignity he's buried but he's not to the afterlife it's shame who covered his father and appreciated the spiritual quality of of the of his father's body he was to the of which represents the spiritual quality of the and therefore the mitvah and the great inion of and that is very likely why we bury a person and their tal us to try to strengthen this idea that the body itself can be elevated spiritually and that is why you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com