The Mystical Connection of the Rem"a to Lag B'omer and Rebbi Shimon

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good afternoon everyone to the Monday afternoon National today's learning they should be for their family we're very excited to uh show you the new sa the fire and the soul the fire and the soul the mystical power of and this year you can't go to uh meon however if you buy this book you could look at the picture and just by looking at the picture it will be as if you went there once you have the book you might as well crack it open maybe you'll learn a thing or two about ler also but just the picture alone and you can even slip off the slip cover you could give it you could you know look at this and if you don't want to read you could give it to somebody else so that's also an option uh today in preparation for uh this upcoming weekend uh I have a great opportunity this coming uh shabis I'm going to be in the city of CAU CA is a very prominent City for the Jewish people Kau had many great rabim throughout history you had of course the ramaa Isis you had the re hesel the Malala Muk shimer yel cor and other notable rabim and you know there's an idea that we don't make monuments for sikim their words are their Monument there's an idea their words are their monuments the is the final word on so the after he wrote extensive comments on the tourah called he summarized it in the on the wrote comments he always introduces his comments with the word ha and his commentary is known as the MAA the table cloth now we're going to discover something very interesting about dama namely let's see if you could uh namely the yard side of the Rama is and cworth as reported in the the chisworth his custom was to every year go to D's Kev and Cal because theama passed away on but that's not the only reason there's another very interesting and fascinating reason why the Rama why cworth would go to the R's on because in a certain sense the the Rama was the one who invented what does it mean invented if you look in the the says the is not to say on the 15th of of or the 15th of or on or in the before and ateka and some say even the before khah and not on but the doesn't say anything about the is the one who said we don't say furthermore the minog is not to take haircuts until the 33rd day of the where they say that the students are stop dying but the M says we don't take a haircut until the 34th unless the 33rd comes out on AR shabas comes RA in our communities we don't follow the we shave we take a haircut even on and not only that we increase our and we don't say so who invented the was the first to talk about is not mentioned not in the not in the not in the in the nowhere is mentioned is the first one to codify so we don't just go to the because it's his yard site we go to the theama was the first to discuss now how do we know the the in discusses something uh very interesting the Taz says that on any day that you don't say says um you don't say you don't say by and the tour says said says Taz I heard that in CAU in the year 1573 when there and we're going to learn about that date because it's not so simple that the Rama that the Rama passed away in 1573 and WR Shin L giml it may have been a year before but the Taz reports that Shin giml when their passed away and they didn't know should they Sayad or should they not say on the's an important person got up and he testified that he heard from the Rama that you should say because he remembers hearing theama say that you should say and they in fact said on out loud and therefore the taza's conclusion is you should rely on this on a day that you don't say you still say for example which are not a especially the rush says that and kades are not a eulogy it's just a and but not on and which are um and that they have a source in the those days you don't say to the so it's it's very interesting the custom to visit theama on his yard site not only because it's his y but also because was the first to describe and to and to codify there's a sa which is a biography of of he says that on the 33rd day of the if you go visit the Rama you should increase in Saka to is because in they celebrate at the K of the rash and if you're standing by the and you're giving it will be considered like you're at the Kev of the rash so this year you can't actually go to the Kev of the rash so the best you could do is go to the r and give for is but I would argue if what if you can't make it to meon and you can't make it to the Rama I would say learn the of the give and then it will be like you're there by the way in the notes raal he brings on in his notes on the reports that the wrote a very well-known we discussed it yesterday and he mentions the um that thousands would go to the Kev of the on and the r of the city would say all kinds of and mus and Pim to answer difficult rulings in the Rama whether rulings that others leave and we'd give a lot of s and any time during the year if someone had a particularly difficult situation people would go to the C ofama and they would be and they would be now um the miman who is a descendant of the he says uh in AA he describes AA that he gave on crao in the year tough y z that's 1857 so you see it was an ancient custom to Daran by the uh in Coco on the yard of theama on this goes back at least to 1857 in 1861 we have theha ofer recorded in the sa he sayses um recovered theama and he said that we know that sikim the likes of the Rama are as if their Eminence is as if they're alive and especially someone of the caliber of is that it says about him on his K who illuminated the eyes of the Jewish people more than the r cck out deservingly should take pride that she conceived and bore The Shepherd of Israel theama and she has rightful place as an ear the aim be is and in the notes on the he brings that every year of with in the sh of the Rama on his yard side and he would always say a difficult passage of the Rama and uh speak about the greatness of theama one particular D that the M said which is very interesting is that think about it what's the commonality between the and so my father says is the Paragon of the wisdom of cabala is the backbone of the world of Hala and the hash is showing that even when there is great knowledge of the mystical elements of the tah but still it always has to be founded on the principle and the foundations of Hal so that's the significance of the Rama having the same yard side as there's also a very interesting commonality between them namely they are the two individuals in history that their father's names are seared onto their own name what do is Isis Isel was the Ra's father Isis was not his last name his father's name was Isel in fact The Story Goes it's reported that Isel was one of the great paros and leaders of the community and he was in the Garment industry he had a big store and he sold silk and his Min he would close this store one time the S got very jealous of visceral and he wanted to test him and he dresses up like a prince and an officer and he came into the store and he says you know I would like to buy a um a round of this and I would I would like to buy a many feet of that and a few meters of that and he was going to make a very very big purchase a tremendous purchase you know and and the clock is ticking and rist is like you know I really got to close the store and he's like don't rush me don't rush me and finally comes and R says you know I'm sorry I have to go and the person says well if I can't complete the sale now I'm not going to make the purchase and risel says so be it and in the Merit that he didn't he did not uh abolish his regular practice of of closing the store at he was son the who has the illuminated the eyes of Israel so the Ra's father was is RA was the father of these are twoim who their father's names were seared onto their name Ander understood the significance of that is did not invent cabala he did not create it he didn't innovate it it was a tradition that he taught and relayed and transmitted he was continuing the MRA not innovating likewise theama was not creating new custom was not creating new theama was recording the ancient customs of Poland and Germany so these are two great individuals who are continuing M especially the Rama who was a great philosopher theama held that philosophy and cabala were very similar in nature almost identical theama was a proponent of learning other disciplines dama encouraged the learning of astronomy and history in fact he had a student that Gans who learned philosophy and it was in correspondence with other um other astronomers of the time Tao Braha Yan klar is very interesting the ra his deathbed said that he had just recently learned about the the passing of the arizal um the great mbal and the Rama himself was passing on but the Rama said that whenever a sadic passes on God already creates beforehand the and God Grooms other to rise up and take the place of these sikim who are passing on the pointed to the rise of Polish jewy just as in the end of the 15th century was the fall of Spanish jeury so raama said that my student R David Gans told me that Tao Braha discovered a new star in the heavens called Nova and theama said he hopes that discovery of the new star portends that new sadik are being born in in the world so and yet even though the Rama was very knowledgeable in many disciplines but he was a great Advocate and proponent of minhag isra he would always he was m to and he would always say don't be Mel in so these this showed his connection to M that's why his father's name was seared onto his own name after the passing of was appointed The Ren crackout and he was given the distinction to DAR in the B of the and it's very interesting to point out that one time runer said as follows always falls out either in the week ofar the week ofah or the week of to be that the rulings of the r are so sacred to us are the you could unscramble the word letters Mr to spell Rama Al it spells Rama his rulings are so dear bah as if it was given on as a statute from another great R Who dared in C on was and he would say I guess one time was on a on a Friday and he says that even though the Min gives to DAR in honor of the Rama but the Rama always warns us to be in one's learning on Friday to be able to prepare for chabas so the right way to memorialize the falls out on Friday is basically to cut the draa short which is not an easy feat for a rabbi okay and then the um in another he said the hug in cck out on is to answer and to reconcile any difficult ruling in Rama and the truth is what is really a honor to the Rama to reconcile a difficult ruling of the RMA if we had the intellectual capacity and the intellectual Acumen then we would understand what the Rama means and we we wouldn't have a question in the first place the real honor to the Rama is if we f fill his rulings the first ruling of the I place God before me always so let's ask ourselves do we fulfill that do we honor that do we live by that ideal if we would follow that and live by that ideal that would really truly be an honor to the Rama this I love because uh on Friday we read from the that the is really a to the because the's was even later than the but the indicated that just like the is like H over Shai the sort of indicated maybe the mar was sharper but the r excelled in humility well in the Frank he brings from who once said that he heard from the that the the had the of H and therefore the is like him the had the of sh and the bring Nas is God says when I make man I have to consult with Shay and H so we have to understand why da does God have to consult with SH in h and would say from the gamar tells us in Aran that for two and a half years B disputed is it better for a person to have been created or to not have been created and they they nimu they came to the following conclusion a person is better off not being created it's not an easy journey in this world now that doesn't mean that it's not better for anybody it means it's an arduous Journey if you live properly it was certainly worth it but the bottom line is before God has to uh before God created man he had a check with shamay and Hill because you can't do something to someone's detriment if they're not present so because B held that it was better not to be created God had a consult with them so to speak now this is very interesting in the Sham he brings that his son AB you know the never traveled to Eastern Europe but his son AB made it there and his son went to the Kev of the Rama and his son reported that on the cama it says on the 33rd day of the on the year 333 that's 1573 at 33 years old theama passed away in the he reports that not only did the Rama pass away at 33 years old and on the 33rd day of the and in the year 333 he also wrode 33 moreover at his Laya they try to praise him with 33 praises and they came up with 32 and they were searching for the 33rd and they said the 33rd praise was often on the night of PM people would forget to D because they were neb this is and the ra would put on a mask and he would remind everybody davv don't forget to davv that was the 33rd praise they said about drama the problem is that some of these details are erroneous in the footnotes on the shim he brings that the Rama did not die in the year 333 it was 332 by the way even though the Taz himself wrote the raama died in the year 333 on his cover it says 332 and furthermore the L of the it says and it's the year Shin L first of all the Rama was not 33 years old when he passed away it does not say that on his mat was the says he was 5 to theama was 42 when he passed away not 33 not 52 he was 42 but it is true that he was and it could be the son in reporting that it was the year 333 took the liberty to be one year off just to show the Rama's connection between uh to the number um an interesting thing is how the Rama ends off his commentary to the final words of theama are someone with a good heart is always at a party there's a famous observation of the we know that sent out his and he said go out and see what path should a person cling to and said the path is a good heart explains as follows in order to learn Tyra you need to have a la a la is a mind a is 32 32 represents the elementary and basic fundamental Pathways of understanding Tyra once you are able to get the foundations of T Le 32 then is time for to to are the secrets of the Tyra for example if you look in say for barus the word eloim appears 32 times corresponds to the the 32 Pathways of wisdom and after that come the 17 dimensions of the 17 dimensions of cabala the 33rd word in the is you know that the 33rd word in the is because once you surpass 32 you're ready for the secr of the T the days of correspond to 32 and 17 49 the pathway of the preparation for C is in order to receive T you need the 32 Pathways of wisdom and the 17 dimensions of the secrets of Tyra the passed away on the 33rd day of the isn't it telling says rabar isn't it telling the's closing words on are theama passed away after 32 days of the when begin the days of the 17 days of the final days of the the final words of the m and it's amazing that the Rama concludes his comments on with these words says um that's for which is in between the days of Le and the days of it's the day that we celebrate the hilula of the rash it is also the day that we commemorate the yard side of the Rama so fortunate are those you know I was asked you know this year one is not able to go to meon but there's an idea that when one sun sets and when one door closes when is he's also he opens up doors so this year if we can't physically go to meon by studying the tah of by studying the tah of the Hashem we hope opens up for us new doorways and new vistas of understanding their great wisdom and since the main mat of sikim are not their graves but rather their words so in a sense maybe we'll be we'll be able to even surpass of what we can normally achieve on a regular so may the Merit of and and they should be for thanks for listening we'll see everybody uh you could join us Wednesday morning and this week's sheer will be uh Tuesday evening please stay tuned thank you very much yes do you remember in the early days of us at the Israel Garden Hills we had a pretty regular uh 10day Jerry orstein Jerry I believe so I believe so yes I think his son lives in Poland right it's the head of the Jewish Community Center in krackow can you get me his number I don't I don't know I don't have it okay just run to somebody named Warstein you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com