The "BLESSING" of Sefiras HaOmer - Lomdus and Machshava of Rav Moshe Shapiro

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay welcome everyone T sponsored by a good friend K as a for the miracle that performed for him um may he have okay welcome back everyone want to speak a little bit about the of the blessing that is latent in the of and speak about the blessing on itself we all know like before any Mitzvah before we're the MIT we make a the same way we make a before before you put on you make a before you put on sit you make a before you s the Suka before you eat matah whenever you do a Mitzvah you make a and likewise before you count um you know you know the joke there's a there's a couple Bali Chua so the husband asked the wife you know what's for supper so she she was very from she said last night we had chicken you know so but um but we know that when it comes to we make a like it like by any like by any like by any Mitzvah anyway um the ramom comes and the ramom who interestingly brings in not in not when it comes to brings the says in which already is interesting the ra has to tell you what the does r Say by every Mitzvah what The Language by the ram tells you what it's interesting that the ra articulates what the is and then he says if you counted you didn't make which is a why the ra needs to say that of course person puts on does make th% there's nothing deficient in theah somebody sits in the and they don't make a they forgot to make a but there's nothing deficient in the the r not not every time the r talks about the performance of a Mitzvah does the r have to say by the way if you fulfill the mitzah you make a you're why does the r say if you count it and make why does the ra need to say that and then the r says further meaning if you D early let's say you D Mar right after so you let's say you counted before the for those who do that then now you want to count you want to count after say you don't make a you don't make a why cuz you're no kidding you're why does the Rah have to say you don't make a mean this whole statement of the r is Superfluous why would the Rah have to say if you count it and you didn't make a of course you're and why would ra have to say and if you count without you don't need to count again with a of course not youah for example if somebody ate mat the first night of p and you forgot to make a you don't eat again with a you ready the mitah there's nothing you could do can't make AA so why is the r articulating this it goes without saying this is the question of one of the great of this last generation and he says very simply that the reason why the ramam articulates this is because there is a dissenting view there is actually a descenting view that seems to hold that if somebody counted without a you could count again with a which is a but there is such a view and that's the view of the talash the holds that if you counted without a you could count again with a a I was already theah how could I say not I already did theah the says you could and that's somebody who if you before you count without a and you make some some kind of stipulation which we don't really do but the says you could do it he says like this if I remember a night to count I'll count again and I'll make a and it won't be because I didn't make a the first time if I don't remember to count at least I counted so says if you D early you count without AA and then after this man you count with a and that V brings but the RAM says this is not correct that the r if you count it without a sounds like even if you count it without before the you're and you don't make again so therefore says we understand why the ram needs to articulate if somebody counted and didn't make a you're and you don't make again because the argues there are that argue there are that hold that if you count withouta count again with ABA therefore the Rah says no that's not my viewpoint my viewpoint is if you count withouta you count again there's no re reason to count again whole thing is the Rabon are also important right the rabbis are also important what's his basis why are the rabbis important well the rambam seems to be uh the more clear because we all know that is not part of the Fulfillment of the Mitzvah so if I if I fulfill the Mitzvah why would you do it again with already was theah is the how does he know that you fulfilled it without saying because we know it's it's a well-known rule in that not you know let's say woman lit the candles Friday night she didn't make a she so put on didn't make a is not is not needed for the Fulfillment of theah so the r is the more simple if you count it without a you don't have to do it again with a but we would like to explain is what's why would the say you can't if you count you could count again with I already Mitzvah so now I want to bring to your attention another interesting in the MIT which would also lend to the following idea what we're learning is that maybe there's a notion that when it comes to the is not merely somehow part of the is the maybe what we're learning is that even though when it comes to every other Mitzvah the is just prep preparation for the Mitzvah the of is part of the Mitzvah let's give another um illustration of this the mug of brings down a that when you count here you say and says don't say that because if you say that that implies that I'm I'm commanded to count the because tonight is the third as if somehow the and the Fulfillment of the mitah are connected and the says don't say that don't say say you make a and then you fulfill the mitvah but don't connect the to the Fulfillment ofah likewise the T says don't say but if the M of and the T say don't say obviously there's a legitimate position to say it otherwise there's no need to say not to say it but comes was wrote the he wrote the he wrote and he wrote and he says even though the consensus of the is not to say but the truth is if somebody says they're not off they're not making a mistake you have what to rely on the the T not to be confused with the T the T nothing to do with the B one of the there's a SA I believe it's a it's a summary of the sh is called the written by one of the Italian from the anav family there's a tradition that Titus um exiled from y four prestigious families one of them was the anav family from which the sh comes also the saer of the reine came from this family they all say you could say oh and why would you say sh the is blessed are you hasem that you Sanctified us and you commanded us to count the because tonight is the third night of the somehow again this G this approach is saying that the bra is incorporated into the Fulfillment of the mitzah the question is what is the connection between the bra and the by the way the seems to that this approach of is a legitimate approach and he brings it down that if somebody wants to say you're not making a mistake it's not a crazy thing to do so let's discuss the following the that means next week's BL in the next Monday night we're going to learn BR from shazar Ezra Ezra was um was the na Mal the last of the he enacted Tak that certain have to be laned at certain times so he enacted that we know there are two right as where are the okay good um that these two have to be read at two specific strategic locations We Lay it before and we have to lay before rash this was the Tak of Ezra and this is what we do two weeks before meaning before we l by midb but the week before that we l and two weeks before we lay ask why don't we do it immediately before T says we don't want to get the claw too close to rash so we give a little bit of a buffer zone but it always has to has to go before sh and has to go before G asks goes before rash there's a rule we want the year to end with its CL you know I all the calendar it says at the year end with but why do you have to lay before is not a new year says no is a new year like the M says so is the new year for fruits by the way the says it's a rem to that's a new year for so since sh is a new year we need to get the in before the new year so it's very interesting that we specifically have to get in which somehow we can't have a and we can't conclude until we get out the you know why is this so critical to get out the before okay here it is the gar you've all been waiting for are the same no no in fact the has double the number of that the in um says this is the seminal gar for this time of the year Raba had 12,000 pairs of tamidim they extended they occupied the the length and breadth of from gas until anti Paris and they all died at one time because they didn't treat each other nicely and the world was desolate until Raba went to the sages in the South and they were rabai who were they you remember theic right and Sh by the way the have a different say that rebelar Shu was not the F the fifth was and the is the word is May that's the the REM of okay taught these five and they restored the T and they all died between p and why why did they die now now is the healthiest time of the year you know the gar says in chabas all drinks that you drink between PES and shab are healthy thear says water is very healthy during this time of the year it becomes an elixir of life in fact brings that the it's so very healthy time so why are they dying this time it's such a healthy time why would they die now how many students did Raba have 24,000 students half you look throughout tanak and there's another instance where the number 24,000 appears and another instance where 24,000 great people died and that is at the very end of says how many from shim died all of 24,000 okay so what are you going to do with that so last year by ra Mori Jacob's bonfire we spoke out from the Malala Muk and from the Rami Pano that they draw were you there you were there good good just check what you had a good time so so they draw a connection that there is a connection between the 24,000 uh descendants of shim from sh shim led by who led by Z Salu otherwise known as who knows what Z's name was and these 24,000 descendants of shim they died and the AR Malala andal Malala and Malala that somehow The Tam of RAB AKA were the tick of the 24,000 descendants of sh who died and for whatever reason they were not able to be and they too died which gives us a completely different insight into what happened we tend to think they died which is one would think that that it's pretty severe because they were not they died so horribly there's no but now it's being revealed to us that they were brought back in this world to correct the a of theim who committed for if they were not successful in being M so they too succumbed to the original that that hit the so it could be they didn't die because they were given a chance to be they blew the chance they also had that original but the question is what's the connection between the 24,000 students of RAB AKA and the 24,000 descendants of Shima like what does one have to do with the other the r didn't come from how were these students in any way connected to the the 24,000 yiden who succumb to the m in the times of um shim and Pinas and Zim and Cosby okay so tonight's mythbuster very y see tonight's mythbuster is as follows everybody's going to say right bam tried to curse CL is but he was what he blessed them right that's what everybody learned in Yeshiva nice try that never happened no no that ultimately he cursed what but the says in that so I don't know why this is one of the most misrepresented teachings the gamar be says not like that let's let's read what the gar say exactly the gamar says and the almost thear says says from the that bill bless because if you read the par he didn't say one word of the whole para is blessing the whole word the whole para is blessing so the gar says from the blessing that bam gave CL is we learn what he wanted to curse us he get he he wanted that we shouldn't have so he hasem changed it to the says he wanted that so he said he didn't want us to have instead he said he didn't want us to have olives and Vineyards he said no he didn't want us to smell good he said no like he didn't want us to have tall Kings he said no he didn't want us to have continuity of Mal he said he didn't want us he didn't want our Mal to rule over the go he said no and so on and so for so on so forth says the every that bam gave CL was transformed into a CLW he cursed CLA is and it was except for one says what what are you talking about I thought the success the the CL exactly he was m one cl to not CL but every other bra was turned into a CLA the whole story that everybody thinks B bless he didn't bless he cursed Every Blessing was except for one says the except for can I like the says only one CLA was turned to bra everything else was ultimately transformed into a CLA so now question is how was bam successful in Inu cursing what was his tactic so we know he was being very unsuccessful in cursing us until he had an EIN file what was the Ein file he said um God hates LD Behavior if I get if I get then I'll be successful in cursing now it's very interesting with what nation did Bam try to have us be maana and have us be M May why may why not North Koreans why not Japanese why may why may so here's the side now let's we're going to understand the secret of the plan of bam and we're going to understand the secret of of SP this is a so and SP which is not never tapped into and it's says what's the numerical value of me is 40 V is six Al is One V is two the is 49 likewise wres is 49 in fact this is used because we know even though the says in was given 49 gateways of wisdom but says the name of went up from The Plains of it's 49 he went up to Har he went up to the 50th level so may is is very often used to the number 49 is AA is the root of all CLA in the world so bam now how much kala is there everything in this world in the physical world or in the spiritual world is measured in basically numbers of 49 and the reason for that is because the physical world is in the context of seven seven runs the gamut of the expansiveness of the physical world the seven days of the week but the full gamut of what's contained in the context of this world is seven to the to 7 * 7 49 and the way the created the world is whatever there is for evil there is for good whatever there is for good there is for evil right everything has to be balanced out so there is is the epitome of so bam says if I want to get if I want to make my curses successful the best way to do that is not to get with North Koreans but to have them be with the that is of gatria 49 why is of the it's very interesting where does may have come from a very interesting fellow your Zeda light what does light mean what's the L of light the writes how do you say curse in Arab it's a light means CLA light was the epitome of CLA and therefore he bore May 49 which is the the root of of CLA the root of curse of oror that's the L of light light is look at number 21 I never knew this it's a big side he says aan of a curse now isn't that strange here you have a nice man by the name of David he's Messiah and we say you know Messiah who's the z z where did he come from can't really talk about it and who is his I mean he can't have better why can't he you know why can't he come from a nice of to ofik why why the answer is like this the describes the job description of Mia the says number 22 by the way was a sa is a saer on the trar the trasar is one of the books of the T you know when God came down and he gave the Torah to Moses he gave us 24 books called tanak in the N there's something called one of the is says that the job of Mia is God the excuse me mhia will transform the Nations which means like this messiah's job is to take the highest level corruption and turn it around Messiah is not going to come and preach to the choir the job of is by the way the rambam writes in the censored in the uncensored rambam we don't have it in the regular Rams and the shopi Franco ramam they put it back in the rambam right that the reason why God brought Christianity to the world is because this way the nations of the world know there's something called Messiah they know there's something called divine revelation they just have a distorted view of it and then the mhia could come along and flip it around that what mhia didn't come but it's here now that God did not change his mind it's still uh he still has chosen CLA is but uh the ROM's bother why can't Messiah come and why do we need false religions in the world why can't we just have a true religion and not everybody believes it and then mhia will come and teach it because that's not the job description of mhia Mia has to people's mindset the the intentionally created false religion so that M will come and flip it meaning in other words they have certain distorted viewpoints of of the truth and mhia will come and flip it around that's what it says in the original uncensored edition of the r okay so be it as it may since will bring to the world M has to come from which is which is CLA by the way this also I was never familiar with I saw schah an incredible schah you know ab and light it's very interesting the first time you meet a Jew Abu in the three later he's taking this guy L with him like we don't there's no such thing as a right says was the first Jew from and within he's taking this guy light with him who's light why why is light brought in like within within seconds of being introduced light cuz if you have a CL saw you need the potential for mhia light already comes to the scene already uh from the first second so what does do they go to is comes to AB go to so they go to is and is muzzling his animals and light's not muzzling his animals light's a smart guy light knows land will eventually belong to us so Abraham says to light the following word he separate from me you go left I go right you go right I go left what what L what word does AB use he pared separate interesting we don't encounter that word again until sa R where R tells only death will separate us says was telling light light what are you getting so carried away with is this doesn't belong to you yet wait until your day comes when M will come from you started out in Russ the moment that R tells that's when you'll be wait until the next perod now this period you don't deserve Isel yet what ABR was was signaling to light is right now is doesn't belong just hold your horses wait untils unbelievable used that word he as a signal light wait until the next perod so all CL in the world was rooted in light came forth from May 49 powers of CLA emanating from May got to be with and now the is this would explain a very interesting rash in the anybody know in the as an introduction to the we have how many how many curses how many curses 49 no how many AR 13 closer 11 11 curses says Rashi the 11 right obviously the 11 curses con the 11 you're good with that what there 12i says shim doesn't need an a why doesn't shim need an say already is the epitome of shim already had an A so the only we didn't need an a for sh okay so somehow by being with the may they were they were affected by the CLA of all CLA came from being connected to may but the truth is in order for messia to come messia needs to destroy May because as we said Messiah is the Mak of he has who descended from light and from he has to destroy by the way and we spoke about this last year but we're just going to touch on it now very briefly we know that in this same TOA that Raba 24,000 students died you know let's just speak out this we're now in of AAS why because 24,000 students died I don't understand today was the death of Yeshua Bon we don't have AOS you know every day is another y of a big Yeshua was greater than any of R why don't we have a for him because only what we Cate C you right so why do why we only there's a rule we only have a why do we have a for the death of we have a a a lot of didn't have died throughout the ages we don't have a a if you lose a close relative but when sad dies there's no a why because of the numbers just because of the numbers so says like this more than one there's something else that happened during that time re AA besides being the rebi of Cl Israel what did he do on the side he carried suitcases he was a Scher whose suitcases did he carry he carried the suitcases of he carried says in number 28 look at number 27 there's a I see but not now I gazed at him but he's not close a star will emanate from yob Raba said who's the star that emanates from yov and and there's a man by the name ofasa who by the way if you look in the in the humble book Mia there's a chapter on told that you're making a mistake grass will grow in your mouth before this guy's that's the m so the Kasha is how could Raba made a mistake you know one thing you know throughout history there are many false Messiahs there have been already 20 false Messi in our history the answer is was MIA the only thing was because his students were not so we were so what wasn't built the third so the same way we have three weeks because the second bdash was destroyed we have 49 days because the third bdash was destroyed but you it wasn't built exactly that's like a says three the why because we destroyed RAB wasn't mistaken about he got it right the 24,000 student now listen carefully the 24,000 students came back to this world to overcome the CLA of when the continues one last thing Mia needs to do to confirm that he's Mia he has to wipe out the governor of so in order for someone really to be Messiah you need to overcome 49 these students were given the opportunity to be M how they were given this opportunity we don't exactly know how they could have been M that's why because they were not they failed that's also above and beyond our our comprehension but one thing we know that they were given that opportunity these 24,000 SSA were the ti of the B with 49 says shapo if these 24,000 students di during SP you know why they die during SP cuz the 49 days of SP must be the designated 49 days a year to overcome the 49 K OFA that exist in May and these 49 K OFA that exist in May killed 24,000 descendants of shim and if these 24,000 studentsa were able to M and they didn't then they will succumb during what time of the year during the the are the 49 days of the year that have the possibility to overcome the curse of mayave and if we don't overcome the curse of mayave then those who have that masakin will succumb during this time this is one of the most tragic periods of of the of the year throughout history not only students of reab AA all the Crusades first and second occurred during the ere we spoke about it last year why because the these 49 days are the power of May that could be overcome now this is M if we're successful in overcoming May during this time of the year when do you think mashia will be born when we're done on the 50th day of the wow what a coincidence what day was born on the the 50th day CU David was the true mhia the true Messiah is able to be and by over by counting the that means the job of is to overcome CLA and to bring the world somehow into the state of braa and to overcome the CLA of light and may is there any coincidence then that the Pinnacle of the areas and the birth of when it's all said and done what we're aiming for what we're yearning for what we're counting toward is that's the crescendo of the if I could remind you of a that we set over from the the says in sanedrin that P was standing there by the way the Riano says Raba was the gilgal of Z himself that pus was standing there as Zim is living with kby who by the way kby came back as the Gil of and he Pinas didn't didn't do anything at first not until Z tired out from living with K says the gamar how many was the gar says a nla 424 times and then he tired out and then kill them what that supposed to mean 424 how's that possible so the IM brings down from that heaven forbid to read any episode in thees simply that that these great Figures were based the based or lowly or luid he says was just a but they're they're but we don't know what they are so the says in my humble opinion I'll tell you what it was the same way we had a tradition that there was a spark of mesiah that was laying dormant in and that's why R went to and recognized that this spark of Mal lay dormant in Ros Z thei the God is he mistakenly detected likewise that this dormant spark lay in this woman kby and he was trying to bring mhia and that's why the gatria 424 is mhia now don't try that at home Mia you know you can't use gatria but says the this was aav of Z so we see that there was some type of awareness that on the one hand bam understood that through Mo it will inject the 49 of and on the other hand the errored and somehow thought that he could overcome it and and Rise Above It Rise Above the 49 424 says ra Shapiro is there any coincidence then what do we have to get out of the way before the the how many CL do we read in the 49 they're 98 but we l 49 why do we l because the is to somehow overcome the level of CLA that bam was successful in placing in the world in through the of which which emanated from light and therefore before begins we say we have to read the 49 curses of says Perhaps Perhaps this explains the unique and the and and the that when it comes to the Mitzvah it's different than every other Mitzvah when it comes to the mitzah the Mitzvah is not just to count but perhaps there's an idea that the is part of the Mitzvah why would the be part of the Mitzvah so he says where the is to overcome the 49 powers of May OFA that were injected into the world through the of the which had an opportunity to M through the 24,000 students OFA the a of is to overcome that CLA therefore the Mitzvah is not just merely counting the Mitzvah is to bring to draw writes a pool to draw forth the so the is not just to count but toose the counting to the becomes part of the mitvah to the extent that that even if you count it without a you could then count again with because the is not just is actually part of the and perhaps that's the explanation for those who are to say because again we're connected the itself to the But ultimately the a of counting during is to combat the a of third bdash which and that was going to do it so it wasn't just the death of the 24,000 students OFA but their death made it that by's plans were frustrated and we didn't have a b mikdash and we didn't have B it but as we count the we are sort of counting toward that great conception and through our that should be Reon it the you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com