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hope you had a wonderful Shabbat amazing
time to relax with the family learn some
Torah eat drink and rest but now we're
in a new week and we have to start off
the week with a uh
stimulating that will give us strength
for another
week sticking to
myself we're getting closer and closer
to the extraordinary day of shab
and it's a Biblical mitvah to count the
omm told us in the Tor that after the
second day of PES we have to count 49
days and the 50th day is
sh so we go from celebration to
Celebration from the celebration in
memory of The
Exodus leaving MIT leaving slavery
leaving idol
worship and going all the way to the
greatest day in history which is
receiving the tah from
hasem day that gave this world of
meaning and Hashem told us to remember
those days and celebrate those days but
even count the days in
between but one of the things that most
people
are remembering during this
time is the 34 days the first 34 days of
of
shab of the countdown to shab are the
days we count the OM in
memory of the loss the giant loss that
we
had of losing 24,000 students of
ABA each one of these students was a
Tana was an extraordinary stage where
the least of
them had enough and Tora in them to
revive the Dead
and each day we lost about 700 of them
to give you an idea of how much Torah
each one of them
had if you combine all of the rabbis in
today's world together it would not be
equivalent to just one of them and we
lost 24,000 of them so I was thinking to
myself why is it that Hashem wants us to
go from celebration to Celebration but
in the middle we have some
sorrow and I thought maybe the
sorrow will also remind us of what we
have tractate page
14a it says
that there are only 55 prophets
mentioned in the entire
tanak 48 male and five femal
but the same gar says that throughout
history we had at least 1.2 million
prophets so the question goes if 1.2
million
prophets people that spoke to God in
different ways not like mosenu of course
but in different ways whether to dreams
or meditation and so on but they got the
word of
God and we had one point 2 million of
them and our entire
Torah is from
55 why weren't they mentioned where is
their
Torah and Hashem responds to this
question it's saying that the 1.2
million had prophecy that was relevant
to their generation meaning that the
prophecy of the other
55 the entire tanak that we have the
five books of Moses and 19 other books
after
it is relevant for us forever for
eternity but here we see that this
extraordinary
Torah is really from
55 extraordinary
people and those
55 delivered their
Torah to
24,000 24,000 Sages
that each had the
Kusa to revive the
dead and then
again as a result of the lack of
unity there was a Heavenly
decree to bring on a plague and kill all
24,000 putting rabiaa in a situation
where he had to start all over again
with five students
rabud
rabi RAB
shimoni rabar Ben
shamua this is in the tractate of yeot
in the gar page
62b says that 12,000
pairs of rabaka
students were killed in this
plague and it specifically says 12 th000
pairs rather than 24,000
students to symbolize the lack of
unity but now we see that again we went
from 55
prophets to five or
six people sages extraordinary
sages AA and his five
students and that Torah of the six
people
is everything we
have and if you look at
the understanding and explanation and
commentary that we have on their Torah
which is the entire mishna the entire
gar the
entire the entire
mid and tens of tens of thousands of
books that are still being written to
this day if you go to Hebrew books.com
you you'll see that they have about
75,000 free Jewish books that you can
download online and this is just a small
part of the Torah that we have because
there are many books that you have to
purchase but
nonetheless tens and tens of thousands
of
books of Torah that we have today that
if a person could just read a few it
would change their life and a m in fact
if a person would just read one it could
easily change their
life but this is only from a few from a
half a
dozen what would we
do
if hypothetically Hashem would skip one
of those 34 days and instead of letting
six
survive it would be
706 how much more Torah would we have
what if he would skip two days and he'd
have
146 sages and we would have their
Torah so the question that everyone
always asks what do we do
Inaba what do we do in
ganeden and the answer goes you see Sage
after Sage after Sage after Sage
learning to and people always ask myself
including in the past how much Torah can
you possibly
learn I mean okay so you finished the
you finish the sh took you let's say
seven years if you're a smart dedicated
and persistent person you finished thear
in seven years you finished the K in one
year you finished one par per week and
then let's say it took you another year
to finish the rest of the
tanak then the another seven years then
the Mish another seven
years then the mid another seven
years okay so you spend 30 40 years you
finish the Torah no that's what I would
think how much I mean G which are two
different things but they're Eternal
what do you do with the rest of the
time and if we understand how much Torah
there
is we understand that even eternity is
not enough the gar says story about
razar Ben
hinos razar Ben hinos one of the
greatest sages that ever lived was
actually one of the rabbis of RAB
AKA one day RAB AKA comes to visit rabar
hinos after not seeing him for many
years elzar gets upset with him he says
AKA how come you haven't come visit me I
have so much Torah to teach you he
says you know that the situation did not
allow me to come visit and I know you
have a lot of Torah he says no you don't
know how much Torah I
have he says how much Torah do you have
how much Torah do you have he says if
all of the ocean was
water and all of the trees were
pens and all of the land was paper it
would still not be enough to write down
my Torah that I know and the Torah that
I know is not even a percentage of the
Torah that's
available so you see my friends the
Torah is
endless
974 Generations before Hashem created
this world he wrote the
Torah white fire on black
fire and that
Torah is part of him and he it's Eternal
and there's no end to it so when you ask
yourself what are you going to do
in don't worry you'll be very very busy
consuming more and more Torah you've
yearned for your whole
life but how does this connect us today
how does this connect the story of going
from happiness of Exodus to happiness of
Matan T receiving the Torah and in the
middle of it having this huge sorrow
that we don't have this Torah we have
tens and tens of thousands of books that
we haven't read but we want
to but yet we still mourn for the Torah
we don't have that even if we could we
can't
read reminds us that the main reason why
we don't have that part is Unity R AA
students did not respect each other in
their level not in a level of
disrespecting other like people do every
day treating each other like animals but
respecting each other in their
level where if
one stated an Al and an understanding of
Torah and was perhaps mistaken by
5% his partner his K would not correct
him and in their level that was
considered
disrespect in our
level it's not only that we have to
respect each other each other but more
importantly we have to be reminded that
if we have the
unity combined with the
Tor we will
have and the rest of the Torah we all
yearn for so how much Torah there is
it's endless how do we get it
unite and learn it thank you again for
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