The Bar Mitzvah Series Part 6: The Gra's Text of Meseches Sofrim

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com let me read you a mishna in uh sakta safran which is in the back of masak zara and based on our gersa and the bryce and masak saifrim it bears no influence whatsoever on the topic of bar mitzvah because we have one particular gersa and according to this gersa nothing could be derived from it so first let me read you the gersta that we have that we don't learn anything from it says there was a good custom in jerusalem of an ice that children boys and girls fast on a fast day how old then yura al of shanna 11 years old until that very day ben meaning 11 years old they fast until like midday 12 years old they finished they complete the fast bias we then take the children and we bring them before all the elders kadela varchay to bless them to strengthen them well espalier eleven to pray for them the torah over mass him you hear this what a beautiful custom that has nothing to do with anything that in there is an old custom in jerusalem that boys and girls would fast half a day at 11 fast the whole day at 12 and when the fast was over we would bring them around to get brachis however however the bill nagoyan has a different gear so in this braisa says the vilnigan the gura here is as follows ben you like this at 11 years old they fast half a day at 12 years old they fast the whole day and at 13 years old we bring children that they should get a bracha from all those kingdoms based on the vilnigan there is a makar on the day of a child's bar mitzvah you should take them around to the zucchini to receive brachas now again according to argersa nothing of the sword is seen it just says that children fast a year or two before the ramita and at the end of the fast we take them to get a bracha but according to the girth of the vilnigan there is a macar and many have this cost and then a day of varmints you bring the child to receive braches so if you have over here on your sheet minag atik minho there's an ancient custom this custom and cloudy so should call yelled kodam shanna that every child before they become a bar mitzvah you breathing you bring them to a righteous person so that the righteous person according to the no the gra that we just read that ben you'd gimmel mylichra you make anyone who's great in the city we would take the kid to bay to get abraham fine so that's basically according to the graz gerso there's a macar to take a child to get a bracha from the sadhikim and the however this is only in the figure sasay of the gra but according to the pashud girasamus there is no macar at all for this custom in fact in look in the next page says that the custom that people go to the canon before the bar mitzvah and they quote the soy frame according to our gersa there's no makar it's only in a car from the from the gerso de gra says by the way by us we do not have this custom i don't know if he means this his family doesn't or in general in claudia swirl he's not saying you're not allowed to he's just saying it doesn't seem to be the minute but based on the gerso the gra there is a pretty solid source and the day of one's mermaid mitzvah one should receive blessings from the zucchini okay so on that note on that note i want to share with you a few brachas that different gadolin gave to bar mitzvah voice okay now i'll give it to you you could also have that brother it's never too late how old are you you know let's go around that i'm joking okay but if so like what nothing's personal once you enter the share you know um no i'm joking i won't do that to you okay but let's learn a few um a few brachas that different good oil gave look over here where we saw cilantro on page one said to a bar mitzvah boy who came to get a bracha look how great the day of a bar mitzvah is that if you had imagined in the show you had rebecca the some sofa the soy for the he had nine sadiq they came down with a minion in walks this little pee wee kid right who an hour ago he became oh now the rebound shams here so think about the greatness of the day of a bar mitzvah that before you could have nine sadiq as great as moisha you couldn't say kaddish you said you couldn't say kadusha because ain't over not sarah and now this little kid comes in all of a sudden kaddish kedusha kriya satora barco who brought it this little kid how bar mitzvah okay so now i'm going to share with you the bracha that rabbi yosef zanenfeld would give to a bar mitzvah boy he would say as follows remember when yosef saw ben yaman for the first time who remembers what did you say say to benjamin the first time he saw him may god be gracious to you my son that was the bracha that rabbi yosef zenfeld gave a bar mitzvah still asked okay why did he pick those three words well first you could say his name was yosef so this was the bracha that yosef gave but the reason that he said was the rashet voice alakim yachna hamelech turned 13 years old the ibanisham said to david david ask whatever you want from me beniyata i gave birth to you today the zayar says this is the beginning of the beginning of tehillim in the beginning it said hashem tell david i tell you bini ata god said to me beniyata anihayam desire says this refers to the day of the bar mitzvah what does god call a bar mitzvah boy beni so therefore the bracha there will be something that at 13 years old that's when the neshama of the jew enters his body until then he does not have the neshama qadosha and about this moment says let me read to you one last thing and that will conclude uh what this part and [Music] orbach you turn over the page on page tests he would be mavari before his bar mitzvah that hashem should help you that your whole life you should put on fill in with the same simcha that you have now the first time you put on fill him then zalman said that to a bar mitzvah one time the main thing that you should be careful about is to guard your mouth this is the icker thing for every bakhr it's in the kabul upon himself that one's mouth will be used for torah for tefillah for tara salashain and through that one will receive all of the brachaise okay rabbi sai we'll break over here you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com