Rebbi Akiva and the Soul of Yom Kippur

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good evening everyone hope everyone's having an easy kindness tonight's learning should be nishmas nishmas my grandmother today today is her yard site sina abbas harav yehuda leib um she should be melissa ishara for the homoshp they're very interesting subject this is a tremendous mature this is a very uh interesting amazing khadosh um actually hit me the night of lag boymer at the bonfire and i was hoping i wouldn't forget it i even uh had to go back to that cheer to remember part of it and uh we begin with call nidre and connidre begins uh oddly in a way with uh mysteriously with apostolic and hillam begins a light is sown for the righteous and for the straight-hearted there is happiness also it's hard to understand why would we begin the avoid of yom kippur with this posix specifically why do we specifically mention ourselves what does it have to do with young kipper what does it have to do with khan nidre what's it doing here it's interesting if we were to ask who is the tana of yom kippur like who revealed what yom kippur is the most famous statement of alyam kippur which is the conclusion of everybody knows there are a lot of songs for this amarrabia kiva ashrae israel the jewish people are fortunate he's referring to yom kippur let's name it before whom do you purify yourself um who purifies you it's your father in heaven i will sprinkle upon you the purifying waters and purify you for oimer mikveh hashem this is the great teaching of rabbi akiva meaning more than anybody else ravi akiva was the one who taught us to taught the world who taught kali israel about the great power the awesome kayak of yoima kippur and what exactly is the connection between rabbi akiva and yom kippur now let's talk about the demise the patira of ruby akiva we all know that rabbi akiva passed away at the time of krishna that's and not knowing any better one would think that akiba passed away by krishna that's sort of how we imagine it you know it was it was shema and he was about to say shema and he said and you know the kumaran broker says like this one time the the government made a decree that we weren't allowed to learn torah and papa's ben yehuda founder of akiva he was gathering groups and learning torah he said akiva you're not afraid so we keep saying marshall there was a fox who was strolling along the river and the fox turns to the fish and he says to the fish you know it's so dangerous in the river so many fishermen why don't you come stroll with me out here on the dry land so the fish made of kabukimer madag where my source of life is i'm in danger if i leave the water i'll certainly be in danger so to rabbi says if while i'm learning torah which is life itself i'm in danger if i forsake the torah allah okay so the gemara says they lacked the prabhu kiva and they lacked up papas manhuda and they were locked up together so papa says to be kiva who brought you here said fortunate are you rabbi akiva that you were captured for divided torah woe to papas that you were captured for dramatic so gemara says at the time they were taking out rebbe akiva was this man krishma and they were raking his flesh with iron combs and he was being macabre and the student said ad khan he said what do you mean my whole life i was mastar on this pasuk so we sort of imagine that the story happened only because you know it makes for a better story you know it's light outside the sun is shining that's typically how we imagine it but we have another piece of information that's introduced by the madrish and combining the med rish with the gemara we get a different story of exactly when rabbi kiva passed away because what day when is rebecca's yard site so the matter shiaku chamini says as follows there's a story with rabbi kiva they saw him he was in jail was the student and his attendant era vyom kippur he departed from him meaning his student took leave he had to go home and eat the susan osakas ah the last time rabbi akiva saw his student was airborne kipper so he went home bo eliyahu el yo came to be kiva's prison cell vaamara passage so he stood now he's standing by the entrance of garcia's house he says he says back he says you need anything of allah died in jail so when did rubykiva die if he departed from his rebbe heir of yom kippur and that night the leo came to him and he said i came to tell you if keva died when did rebecca die the night of him kipper if kevin died the night of yom kippur so they went to his prison cell and they found the door was open and the warden was sleeping and all the all the prisoners were sleeping they put rebecca on the bed and they went out and aliyahu starts carrying rabbit killer yeshua says what do you mean you told me you're a cayenne he so let's combine two things the gemara in barakah says rekiva died at the time of krishna the matterer said he died at the night of yom kippur so obviously which krishna he must have died krishna shall arvis so when did rebeca die lael carl nidre so i saw in the safe here committee shallow rav which is a beautiful leak of safer he quotes from a current russia shiva rub small mayor that if according to the gemara died by krishna krishna and the madrid says he died on yom kippur he must have okay bear that in mind so we're coming to shul we're preparing ourselves for the holiest day of the year but realize that night that evening is also the art side of rabbi akiva who by the way was perhaps the greatest of all the tanoam and perhaps the greatest person who ever lived other than maisha abhinu but still there are mid-russian that seemed to say that rabbi kiva had access even to what mushroom didn't know the matter says and all preciousness says i saw coil says the madrish even though how could we say such a thing one of the gimbal icram is that nobody ever was as great as moshe and any discipline but there is a concept that the mepharsham say calls matriarch 50. that mushroom only had the memtasharyabina and rabbiki had all 50. okay let's let's move on and this is uh we discussed the night of lag by amer and that is if we look in shokinara here we have uh tonight we have two yards as my grandmother is the outside and also shabbos rip shomo's father is the outside and typically you know bismarck people like to give tick on by the art site and they drink a little schnapps some even make a suda you know what's going on because traditionally if you look in shokinara in semen tough coffee the machaba paskins the following days we fast on the first day of nissan even though it's very dash you could fast because the sons of aaron died on the tenth of nisan you could fast because miriam died on the 26th you could fast because yeshua bennun died on the 10th of er ely and his two sons died on the 28th of er shmuel died on the 27th others some of the tanaam dad on even though it's foreign on the fifth day of tishrei interestingly robbie keeper was captured so this this is consistent with what we learned in the madrish because rekiva died in jail the night of him kippur and he was captured on the fifth day of tishrei and the the the shukhan ark goes on says on the seventh day of adam died and all of these days traditionally are fast days and the question that reptilia kaine deals with and we spoke about this at length and the night of lag but we mentioned many answers is what's going on comes lag boymer and what's about remember people go up to the mountaintop they different ways of getting there some people take camels some people take donkeys now some people take helicopters or colors crawled on his hands and knees different ways to get there but everyone what are they doing there they're dancing they're prancing they're drinking they're revelring it's a happy day it's hilula the rajbee so we make we're all happy that the rajvi left the world so what's going on rajab is greater than misha moshe leaves the world we fast yeshua leaves the world we fast ailee lives the world we fast she all leaves the world we fast aaron leaves the world schneider leave the world miriam leaves the world all of these great people who they were greater than the rashbe i mean that's part of the shall shadow royce obviously been was greater than so where all these navy if shamika wasn't a navi it's a tana so why when the by the death of navi and we fast in the death of the rashbe we celebrate what's going on over here that's the kasha of many achievement and we're going to speak out the answer of reptile and we're going to borrow an idea that he'd he almost said and we're gonna say it we're gonna borrow idea that he has a question and he's forced to give us to an answer but we're gonna give a different ad we're gonna use what he could have said to explain yom kippur i think it's an amazing and repsilika coin articulates this question in the safer priet sadiq and parshas emr unlike voimer he also partake articulates this question in the safer pocade ikara aka ikarim akarim and again the question is why is it that when great prophets have passed away we fast and when shinra khai passed away we celebrate and he introduces it with apostol the words of the sages are like goads not goats goads g-o-a-d-s they're pegs you know yeah anyone here live in a tent don't whoever happens to live in a tent you know that you take the corners and you take a peg and you take the mallet and you knock down the peg the words of the sages are like pegs meaning they are penetrated deep into your heart and like nails that are planted who have gathered teachings so there's an idea that the words of the of the sages are like pegs driven deep down but now the question is when do the words of the sages penetrate your heart because we all know i could go to sheer and when the share is over you could say it's great share so what did he say good question i'm not not quite sure what he said not sure what he said and then right now i remember something that rebbe said 30 years ago like it was yesterday so sometimes it enters sometimes it doesn't enter so when does it enter so primarily the matter says a major kiddush listen to this number eight ema sahim the two individuals when is torah implanted in the heart dismantlement mayhem when the master when the rebbe is gathered onto the next world when the rebbe leaves the world the torah penetrates the heart kozman sha rabbi kayama nobody listens when the rebbe is alive because you say you know if i miss the step i'll ask him tomorrow i'll ask him next day i'm not going to wait online after this year to clarify i'll get him tomorrow i'll get him next year i'll get him next shmitah next yoivo i'll get the i'll listen to the sheer when the rebbe is alive nobody is paying attention because the person rationalized i'll get it later meis rabbi when the rebbe leaves this world person says the rebbe is gone what did he mean what did he say did he mean like this he mean like that all of a sudden a person is worked up to try to understand what the rebbe meant that you don't have no one to ask when is torah planted in your heart this man shabbaleen asafo when the rebbe leaves they say that's why the sam soifer his rebbe with los angeles sent him away and sent him into golos because when you're in the presence of the rebbe it doesn't enter your heart yet it's only when the rebbe is not around then finally the torah enters your heart so now reptilia says he says this concept that when a rebbe leaves the world the torah enters your heart it should come out the happiest day of the year should be the day the rebbe died because finally you have what he meant but there's a difference between who miriam when they died so now the torah should be pegged into your heart but the thing is it's not going into your heart because the torah is not transmitted from mouth to mouth the written law is not transmitted from mouth to mouth the written law is written on the parchment so what happens you read the safe retirement when you're done with the sacred torah you put it back in the bhima the safer goes to sleep and you go home and you go to sleep but it's never getting into your heart the tarshiva saba is not on your heart is on paper it's on parchment so the death of the sage of the tarshiva is not a happy day nothing happens on that day and therefore it's a sad day and therefore we fast whenever a sage of the torso dies we fast but when the torah shall be passed away now where is the tarsh about peritone it write it on the tablet of your heart what's the clap of the aurala your heart so what's the greatest day of transmission of torah the day the rebbe passes away because on that day it finally enters your heart and now it's etched and seared onto your heart so the day that one of the sages of the oral law passes away is a great day of giving of the torah and we know when the rashbe died now let me tell you what he says and what he doesn't say and what we're going to borrow so a very happy day is the day that the oral law was given to israel now who's the master of the oral law who is the shairesh of the or allah who's the shirish of the written law maisha is the sheriff of the written law it's tirad siva no moshe so technically when moshe died it should be happy the only thing is when moshe died the torah is not being transmitted to us just the opposite what does it say in the german tomorrow the day moshe died we forgot three thousand halal but if you had the greatest sage of the oral law and then on that day the tarshibe was given to claudius so who is the greatest sage of the oral law yo because let me share with you a gemara tomorrow says in sanhedrin number 10 interesting gomorrah stamas nissan ramayana stop mishna mayor by the way that doesn't mean we power we never passing like our mayor stop mishna means when you see a random idea in a mishnah it came from something that ramayana preserved that's what i mean stop mishna amer we don't pass king quran islam mishra mayors when you see a random statement in the mishnah rebbe got it from one of ramirez traditions that's what it means stomach narrow mayor stamp all of them go like rabbi akifa meaning rabbi akiva is the sheriff of tara shabbat now says really truthfully truthfully the day ravi akiva died should have been the day of the transmission of tarshiva path the only thing is says we can't celebrate that day because what day did rebecca die yom kippur so now we're going to have to go and celebrate the day that his student who learned everything from rabbi akiva the day he died that will be the great day of celebration now who was the primary disciple of rabbi kiva his 24 000 students died and then he taught five students they were a mayor rabbi they were shemin primarily so on the day the rajbi died when are the teachings of the plant in our heart when the eyes namely rib shemin now listen but really what day should we celebrate the day requiem died but reptile says the following we're not going to celebrate the day rebecca died why listen to what he says because it happens to be if you look in the halacha there are a few tanoam that we fast when they died but that's not consistent with this principle that when tarshiva dies we have to we have to celebrate no because any from the torso of a pad that we fast they were killed so since they were killed we can't we can't uh celebrate their death so reptile ka queen says we're not going to celebrate the death of rabbi akiva because he was murdered so we have no alternative we have to move to his student which is rabsheman but i want to say really we should celebrate the death of rabbi kiva because it is certainly true the device left the world the oral law entered the bloodstream of the jewish people that's the principle when the when the rebbe leaves the world the torah is implanted in the heart so really what day should we celebrate yom kippur you know what i would say we do celebrate yom kippur the gemara says in tainis yum kipper is the happiest day of the year why is it the happiest day of the year so the gomorrah says enough lambda and time is the happiest day of the year because the second lucratives were given the tarshiba was given but we could add that now that rabbi kiva died the torso about pet was also given on yom kippur it comes out aryanganora think about what happened on yom kippur take a look at the gemaran titans look at number 12. amma there is no greater day than for the jewish people why the jewish girls would go around they would wear white and the bakram would come and they would select the skyra the gemara says the mishnah says says the gemara this says the mishnah the end of number 12 baatara there's a day that is called the sun of hashem what day is hashem says the mishnah the day the torah was given as hashem says rashi what day is the torah given don't make a mistake and say the torah is given on shibuyas the torah wasn't given on shiva's mystery broke that torah what day is the torah given the lucha ice the torah we have today was given on yom kippur yom kippur was the day of nasina satyarah therefore it's the happiest day of the year but now we're adding based on not only is yom kippur the day of the giving of the tarshish yom kippur is the day of the giving of the oral law how because rabbi kiva died and wherever died the torah was planted into our hearts so you say we should celebrate yom kippur we do it's the happiest day of the year it is literally the happiest day of the year what's so happy what happened on it hashem gave us the tarshiva hashem gave us the tarsh about pam many years later when upon the death of akiva why do you think surah ruge malchus occupies such a critical part of the mustaf so one of the reasons is shkula because misa sadiq maybe we could say it's it's more specific than that the death of rabbi akiva is the central theme of yom kippur because the the happiness of yom kippur is as the gemara said it was the day of the giving of the tarshish and we're suggesting it's also the day of the giving of the tara's about i don't think i ever would have thought of it that way that it will be kiva's yard side and if it's akiva's yard said if if we celebrate bro which is the death of the student how much more so do we have to celebrate the death of the rebbe and we do the kumar doesn't say loy how you yum timely swallow either whatever is a happy day but it's okay purim that's the death of rabbi akiva then it comes out mom is half of a fellow listen to this we know from tikkune zayar this is everybody knows this tikkune zayar that the reason why it's called yoim kippurim is kippuram it's like purim actually if you want to look at what the tikunesar says look at number eighteen purim is karius it says it the opposite of the way it's always said over not that yom kippur is like purim it says it the opposite it says purim is called like young kippur al-shem yoim hakipuram that's the literal translation but the beniha yodan is commentary to tikkune zayar he reads it the other way he reads it the other way okay but but for a different time so now let's think amazingly so really we should celebrate yom kippur because that's the day of the giving of the oral law now we know there's a concept that purim and young kippur go together hand in hand this gives us an added understanding of the connection between paramanyam kippur because what what's the celebration of purim that's the day where macabel the torah the ava which torah the torah shabbat we know gura teaches us that purim is mashlim the simcha which we could have had or should have had on yom kippur because yom kippur is the day the torah was given really we should celebrate yom kippur we make it up on purim but it comes out very beautiful because yom kippur's happiness is it's the giving of the oral law that's the day the oral law was pegged into our heart with the death of akiva but we can't celebrate physically on yom kippur so we celebrate the oral law on purim poor eminem kipper then go hand in hand marv rabbi so it comes out who would know more than anybody else the awesome power of yom kemp [Music] is it any coincidence you think it's coincidence there will be keepers the bala that's the day that the oral law was pegged into the hearts of claudius therefore rebecca is the bauhau member of yom kippur you ready for this we talk about the death of rabbi akiva and most of not because for like an outside reason that mr sadiq the death of rabbi akiva is a central principle in the simcha vyam kippur when did rebeca pass away yom kippur knight krishna arvis says in the safer community shall rob and this ties it together it's oyama noira so you're thinking phraby akiva such a critical aspect of yom kippur you think he would get some uh face time in the beginning of the day yes the very first thing we say well young kipper it is well known that there's a safer called by and yeah his name is he writes in the very opening words of the safer that he was trying to figure out how to spell different names in gittin and he didn't know how to spell akiva ayan kofi advais hey or ayan kofi you would verse aleph and he saw riya he saw in a dream and he realized that soy fei tevo is our race rebbe zarua ayan la sade koff spelled with hey by the way we don't pass in that way you're passing the spell with an aleph based on other soothing and arizona beer ya'akov is but i saw in the sephora might say she quotes this is rasha shiva rav shmuel mayor islam he says randomly that since ruby kiva died bisman krishma and based on the matter she died leo yom kippur night so we give a secret hespet to rabbi akiva and the reason why we don't mention his name outright is because since he was killed by the romans the romans had a law that you couldn't say the names of those who were executed but according to what we're suggesting that essential theme of yom kippur is yom kippur is the day that the oral law was planted into the hearts of the jewish people it's almost like if we're going to celebrate lag ba which is a celebration of the day that the oral was pegged into our hearts because that's the day of the patira of the rashbee then of akama ben benoit we have to have a yom simha on the day of the patira of the rebbe namely rebbi akiva and you want to know why don't we talk about rabbi akiva we talk about keeping the music and the very first thing we say the night of yom kippur are zarua la sadiq but i'm not going to make this up i'm preparing the show this afternoon i get a call from my friend weiss and he says where does it say that we know api kabbalah this is pretty well known it says midnight shall sister when yael put sister to sleep you know she gave him the cheese and the wine she lived with him say seven times from the third bia she produced rabbi akiva ramami panna in fact so i said i i said i didn't know who said it but i'll look it up so he said it's somewhere in the ramami panel i found in the ramami panel and the ramami panel says when the pasuk says sisra that his mother was worried crying crying crying she was crying because if sisra doesn't show they'll never be rebikiva that's why she was so worried it says that niskafa ba'adhakhaloin take a look in the ramami panel look at number 17. the ms dwarim shlain igloo lemaisha race taras maisha and the nephesh of akiva comes from the tarshish about pair and tarshive has called rabbi akiva stam mishna mayor stamp says thompson for review the stomach of shimon says rabbi kiba when the passage says by the mother of sister it means the shrino was looking through the window to make sure sister would show up so that he would not be killed before isle could produce rebbi akiva from biarhashlishas that's the that's the ramami panel so it comes out the whole reason we learn we blow the shafar it's because the shrina was wailing crying what's going to be maybe rabbi kevin won't come to the world the whole tikiya shaifar is an anticipation for rebbi akiva why do we need rabbi akiva for because we're lost without rabbi akiva because without rabia akiva we don't know me attempt we know that chuva and torah shabbat go together you know the usami says they asked the naveem what should happen to somebody who doesn't have error then the vm said they should die and they ask what should happen to someone who does who doesn't have air that said they should die they asked the torah what should happen to someone who doesn't have air the torah said i don't know bring a carbon but nobody is able to offer the aids uh of doing shuva troop is not mentioned in the khomesh you could do chuva chuva comes from tara shabbat they asked the reborn of shalom what should be the fate of someone who does and avirah the rebound they they asked the rebounding said shiva doesn't come from the tarasa two so you blow that shaft the sheriff represents the waiting of anticipation of the rebounding room when will rabbi akiva come to the world he will reveal to the world luftnay me atari is at the very root of yom kippur of ekiba is the shirish the nasham of yom kippur rabbi kiva starts off yom kippur or zarua sadiq simcha implanted that the torah shabbat is inextricably bound to the soul of the yid and now we could do chuba a vikram left [Applause] and while the sages of the tarshiva yes we mourn their death the sages of the tarshiva there is a concept that on the day that they departed the torah that they taught was forever implanted in our hearts whether it's lag ba'imer and all the more so young kipper which is the yard side of the great tana the tanaki rabi who we acknowledge in the opening moments of the evening and we should be zorkha to take the advice of rabbi akiva to be matar ourselves the flay of and we should be zorkha too you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com