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hi this is Deborah Lasky and welcome to the rabbi Orlovsky show okay it is a pleasure to have you on board whether you're listening from tour anytime dot-com however you listen to your podcast so watch your podcasts this is of course episode 35 my goodness and hours and hours of almost Torah content brought to you through the magic of Technology and I'd like to acknowledge the sponsor for this week's podcast who asked to remain anonymous but asked us to Davin as a reformer for her husband and her children and some of her grandchildren unfortunately this wonderful lady who I know well their Misrata is being tried with many medical issues and coach Barajas should give Mohnish the homeless an emissary flourish Lima and I know you're a little disadvantage here because I'm not giving you any names but you have the ability to say I want to wish her foolish Lima to these people this entire family who's sponsoring this podcast this week who are suffering from medical problems and without the 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like my old impish self so but that's the exciting things of the Spirit is is that you know you have to wait chipped away to be able to take a haircut and we're getting into it now I have a we have it we have a problem we have we have a problem Houston yeah here's the problem the problem is that meanie shall pay sock for those human hustlers we didn't have a mini shop a sock and hurts Joe this has been going on for thousands of years we don't have a second day yontiff and therefore normally it's not such a problem takes a little adjusting that when you're used to it being pace out you go out and you buy yourself a pizza and I knew either comets and it took my wife year is to be able to do that because she was sure that the you know a lightning bolt was gonna come out and get her you know it takes a while but of course this year Schmidty shall pays off came out on Shabbos which for those and who's laurits didn't really make that much of a difference but for us we went straight from pays off into Shabbos which of course created all kinds of Halak ik conundrums like could you go to a Sephardic neighbor and have a kid Gnaeus chant for those of you who are watching who have less background Ashkenazi Jews do not eat kidneys which is translated as legumes which is translated as kidney as' and and so it's like beans and that kind of stuff so they can put beans and have hummus and have all those kind of things and rice we cannot but it wasn't really pays off it's just obviously you can't buy you comets back because it's Chaves so if so if a smarty who's allowed to have those things during paisa is serving it on Shabbos which is not pays off can an Ashkenazi Jew have it well one thing we have determined is that I don't bask in Halawa here I'm just raising the interesting discussions that took place throughout Pesach what you do on that last Shabbos most people did exactly what they do the other seven days because we are remarkably uncreated and there's all kinds of Allah problems but ok let's let's put all that aside that's not what I came to talk about the problem for us was that we on that Shabbos Lane Departure session WA and those inputs laurits ray read the Curia Citterio fish monisha paisa which means that came the next Shabbos we a night shall read the next para and those in whose florets read the parsha from the week before and therefore there is a partial lag between Earth's shell and whose loads now if I was in charge there's a lot of things that would change death penalty for double parking that's first but besides that ok so the next week look how easy this would be yeah we read off Ramos and you reg mini shall pass after the next Shabbos we would read ocean and you Primo's kadosh IAM and that would be it the problem would be solved but for reasons that are unclear to me we do not double up the Arbuckle cosine we do not double up Lukas bollock we do not double up until mottos ma say the first week of August which means that for all of these weeks when a person from hos Lawrence will come to Excel they will miss a parsha and when people from its rel go to Collette's they will hear the same parsha again and then when they come back they love mr. Parcher so this is this is a problem I don't know why it works this way is the number of people and no one has given me an answer aghh normally I say no one's giving me a coherent answer no one's giving me any answer I don't know why it is so the reason this is interesting is because I tend to speak about the parish to that week but which part should go I did speak about do I speak about this week's partial or last week's partial which for you is this week's parser if you're in a close alliance so luckily luckily I am one of those creative Jews I have as I have pointed out in the past many learning disabilities but they but often to compensate kotas protocol gives people with learning disabilities tremendous creativity and imagination yeah my teachers refer to it as spacing out and I refer to it as an active imagination anyway so that's the that's the idea so what do we do so I want to talk about the partial of spheres over the partiers because you'll find that in these partials of vikre there is a fascinating theme I'm gonna start with em or which for us and there was last week's Barcia for those of you in America will be this coming week special yeah in em or you have the Mitzvah of as luck would have it it's fear assignment and it tells you count seven weeks seven times and then you'll come to shores right that's fair Simon seven times seven next week's para bajar you get the mitzvah of shmita and you evil you count seven years seven times seven times seven and then you come to a you evil in parshas berroco site you have according to Rashi there's different counts forty-nine clueless seven sets of seven plus forty-nine curses seven times seven now in parshas taz ria you've got lots of sevens you lock the person up for seven days who has for us you like the bed up for seven days you wait seven days another seven days another seven days you come to parsha Smith Sora I need the last seven days as of iners ever have to count seven days the but Sora's process of Kippur is seven days followed by another seven days there's a lot of sevens there's a whole collection of sevens and in these last pass here seven by seven seven times seven what's the significance what are we what are we aiming for what is fair assignment so morale 101 at the beginning of verse at Shem he says that this world is six for directions up and down six is this world the point in the middle that pulls those six together that's seven seven is really six by one six and one that ties it all together all right you look at the mug and of it the ivories I'll set up the seder plate like a mug and of it yeah so you've got three you got another three so six points and there's a little hexagon in the middle that brings it all together six days you work and on the seventh day you rest and enjoy what you worked six years you work and on the seventh year you enjoy what you worked for during those six years the six and seven comes together it's interesting because the Gemara tells us but shiva drop him when it says that they will pursue you by 7 roads it's that seven is a lot unless seven is six plus one so if it's just seven it just means a lot of different things but if it's seven the way we look at it in the Torah it's six and the point in the middle that pulls it all together the little hexagon in the middle of the mug and of it that's what seven is it's six and one now those of you who say your cabbalistic references it's very sorry Murr so you know that we refer to the Spheeris cassock Vorta Farris Nate Suhag you sewed and mouth was the first week is present the second week is goer the third week is the fairest and on each one of those days we make a combination professor - professor pastor Cho Devore I said with two ferrous hair has said with Nessa and we go straight through their heads with Malthus and then we start again all right we will pass it were with Laura Gabor with two Farris and we do this all of these combinations what's the idea the idea of those seven is that the seven is how God created this world six days he created on the seventh day he rested and created Manuka as Rashi says meaning he made the seventh day as the purpose the the topless of the bria is on Shabbos it brings it all together when you have those six you bring it all together now because each one of these represent an aspect now because each one of these represents an aspect of creation as the seven days of creation obviously do so the combination of all of those fulfillments with all of the other fulfillments is seven times seven that's 49 that brings you to the maximum manifestation of the different aspects of creation and that's the way we do it when you have finished that you've maxed out to the potential of the world and you move outside of this world so in Paris mo we count seven days seven times till we get to 49 and then you move out of that that's force Lewis is when we get the Torah it's la mala minute Eva it's out of this world as the Torah always is out of this world everything associated with Torah is considered out of this world it's supernatural and that's why I'm pass up we have matzah we have a seder on circus we have a sucker we have adult meaning and shores we have nothing it's Torah it's above everything so when you when you reach that 50 you're out we count a cycle of seven years seven times seven and we do that seven times 49 years and then you come to your evil what is your value evil is of this world all the slaves go free all the land returns to its original owners everything goes back to start is the great level of civilization says the Al Shifa Kadesh we start counting people at the age of 20 and in Tehillim it says the average lifespan is 70 years that means that your life is in essence a you evil and you live your life your forty-nine years to reach your 70th year which is the fiftieth year of that you evil and boom you move beyond out of this world into a different world into a different existence that's the IVA on the negative level the more you run away from a coach merical Hakodesh burrow hole will chase you with clueless because he hasn't given up on you if he's given up on you later doesn't care what you do it if it doesn't care what you do then you're not that's the story of the novice well he said said enough coach I'm giving you everything you need that's it don't even dive into me you're done where we left once explained this story and when he was a rough in Miami so they asked him to speak to this boy who tried to commit suicide and why was he so upset he says his father called him in gave him the keys to a new car gave him the keys to a new condo on the beach gave him a credit card with whatever amount of thousands of dollars a month so he said so what are you upset about he says he's marrying a woman who doesn't want any children I get all of this on condition that I never come by the house again I don't want you here you go you're taken care of you have been spoken for so there's a a sense that coach merical could just give up on you and the Gemara says if nothing bad happens to you for a while you have to worry that it could be that a coach broker just gave up but the parsha buku cosa tells us the story that a courier who will follow you down to the depth seven times with seven clueless 49 negative manifestation all the way down know what the lowest is the lowest of Tomo probably a child sleeping with their father having a child and calling it my father's son you know if you're familiar with this story it's called mo of mo of the geometry is 49 yeah when you reach the lowest level of tama and when you reach the lowest level of Toma there's no place to go no place to go is up and that's why who comes out of mo of Ruis who has david amela who we celebrate his yard site on lewis on the fiftieth day where we go all the way back up back up so these are ponchos and what Spheeris arm is about is contemplating our lives now there's a there's an interesting thing how how are we supposed to do it and I spoke about this in the last podcast the idea of working on our meadows and one of the things we do is you learn perking of us and empirically I was in the 6th parrot which is called King Yannick atanga not part of Misaka saw those avos is a mastectomy schnoz and it only has five program the sixth Parekh is called King yaya touré it is a collection of Brice's these are unauthorized Tenaya texts that did not make it into the Mishnah or as I once asked on a test what is a bracer and the student answered the little Mishnah that couldn't I gave him credit for that of course and it didn't didn't make it in so these Brice's were pulled together into a spoon so to speak sick Perik of avos that's why it's called Pirkei avos as opposed to my surface of us and in there is a bracer called the mem fest varam greater is Torah then the Kahuna and Malthus the Cohen gets 48 special Montana's the King has 30 special powers but there are 48 characteristics that you need to be Kona toward and you need these things in order to be able to be Kona it without it you don't get it these are character traits of golf Weinberg formation taro used to give a class on it he called it the 48 ways to wisdom and there was one aspect of it that used to disturb me because it used to say these are good techniques and anything you're gonna do in life and I'll help you be successful no that's not true that's not true one of them is Tara purity that will not help you in English literature my wife was taking an English course in Queens College as a student and she had to be asked to be excused from reading some of the books I won't mention them because they were pornographic they were art but they were pornographic art through a joke we've never been able to make that fine distinction between pornography and artistic pornography that was the famous Supreme Court ruling as this is from a song by Tom Lehrer called smut as the judge decided the day that he acquitted my aunt Hortense to be smut it must be utterly without redeeming social importance so if it's pornography with a redeeming social importance then it's okay is then we we're not good at making those kind of distinctions just like a G rating doesn't necessarily work in the Torah world so that there were these famous beach movies made in the 60s various actors and actresses would be on the beach dressed as one is on the beach race of course has fine G rating by us that is uh sir to look at people scantily clad jumping around on the beach even if they're not jump around there'd be somebody only I have to be careful cuz people mad I come I just got an email from somebody who said that my podcasts have seriously raised the spiritual level of their home I'm so sorry for you anyway but vaca Shem if you find something meaningful in all of this and has made my day worthwhile and I hope it has yours and speaking of worthwhile I was asked by a friend of mine Yaakov Schwartz who I've had a relationship with for many many years he has written a book called keeping the spark are live for a seminary girls and he asked me if I can give a shout out because a lot of 70 girls are getting ready to return to their countries of origin and this book is supposed to give them the insights of how to keep the excitement of that year in Israel alive and as far as I can tell you do that by eating large boxes of cookies I don't know why this is an essential part of the seminary experience but evidently when girls are studying for tests they need to eat large boxes of cookies and that's why they go pace up and they suddenly realize that none of their clothes fit them and they're only entitled to one seat so so during this time of year if you live in one of those Seminary neighborhoods you can see hordes of seminary girls briskly walking up and down the hills of you shall I am trying to undo months of damage so I guess if you want to keep the seminary thing alive just keep eating cookies anyway but that's neither here nor there so so the the the truth is that when we want to aspire - something in Terra so Tyra if you want to go into English literature is not necessarily going to help you know tsubame vero help your friend is not going to help you if you're pre-med premed you have to be able to make the cut it tends to be somewhat vicious I've mentioned this in the past is this historical phenomenon called the lightbulb jokes where and they would say how many this does it take to change Aleppo how many that does it take to change a lightbulb so one of the jokes was how many pre-med students does it take to let change a lightbulb the answer is - one to change the lightbulb but want to kick the chair out from under him because it's highly competitive so if I want to make it at medical school no sabella saveiro is not necessarily a great technique steven kobe and his seven Habits of Highly Effective People right when a person gets into business we try to teach them how to work together as a team but if you do that in school we call it cheating so it's interesting no zero Mescalero might be a good attribute but it's not gonna help you when you're trying to you know write your reports and do your homework in school simcha simcha happiness that's one of the 48 things that's definitely not essential when you're gonna do mathematics I think if you were happy you wouldn't be doing mathematics mathematics is a particular personality this guy won the Nobel Prize in mathematics he was schizophrenic he was talking to people it didn't exist but he was great at math you need simple know so these 48 things are aspects of yourself that you need to change in order to be able to be Michael Taylor derech Eretz cutting lithography you mentioned in it last week the more that you develop yourself into a person who's Roy to be Mocambo Tigra the gradient layer to do it and therefore the belly must have bring down that these 48 can Yaya Tyra are the 48 you should be working on during the 48 days of Spheeris are oh man wait stop reverse that I thought there were 49 days that is correct but just as I mentioned there are six days and the seventh day is the one that pulls it all together there are six years and the seventh year the shmita pulls it all together after you work on all of these 48 aspects on the last day you're supposed to hyzer them all over and unite them together in one hole to make yourself into a person who is a synthesis of all of these different aspects my nephew rabbi Navi Orlovsky has started some type of a whatsapp group I'm talking now about things I don't really understand but I'm going to repeat the words wherein there are famous personalities like myself also rabbi Arlovski there's a number of rabbi Lau skis running around you know the podcast I did with my son it was the rabbit Alaska show yeah but when I spoke in my nephew school some of the kids were saying oh yeah booyah laughs skis uncle is here I Raffaello have skis uncle anyway he has collected a group of personalities to speak about the members varam and each one of them focusing on a different aspect of it we're obviously well in this fear sought remember at this point there's no reason that we can't start now at least to work on what we can but the more that we get down these 48 things and again the number 48 is obviously gonna be significant we pull it all together when we use all these aspects we make ourselves into a person who can be Co Natori you can get it with Moshe Shapiro's when he was teaching pafos gave shiurim on this bracer i don't know where to get it from but but if you can get those recordings I mean he gave many many many many Shira and these memorized vironment explained why these particular things are essential to becoming a turret like I say I don't think you needed to come to be kind of everything but if you want to be kind of Tyra these aspects these transformational things need to be done seven times seven Oscars Armour seven times seventh against the evils seven times seven clothes that we get and and when we go through these seven times seven we reach Lewis which is lamella minute Eva which lifts us up out of this world into a new reality and that's this time of year watch these part shows you'll see the sevens and you'll see the seven times seven and you'll understand the aspect of it if we're still doing this podcast around circus time so we'll we'll discuss how Circus is these first imma condensed which is an interesting aspect but for now we've got seven weeks each week to work on one of these spheres and to be able to take it to the manifestation how it how it interacts with all the other spheres and to be able to build this up to that level and that's what we're supposed to be working on and that's it for this podcast if you want to find out more about this show please go to regularity comm slash podcast if you would like to make a comment on this particular episode please go to River Alaska dot-com 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