The "BLESSING" of Sefiras HaOmer - Overcoming the Curse of Moav With The Birth of Moshiach

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone bruce welcome everyone to the national agar de pirkashir we have an amazing uh subject today relevant to this man of sphere as hawaii we have a lot of khashv listeners today live on zoom on the phone line and here at the live studios we have we have actual participants welcome everybody so uh we're going to begin today's share with the uh comments of the rambam in hilchoice to medium um now we all know that before we perform any mitzvah we make a bracha now a bracha is never ma'ake of the performance of a mitzvah in other words if somebody does not make a bracha they are fully i'd say the mitzvah the bracha is not part of the mitzvah the bracha is just a expression of gratitude for the ability to perform the mitzvah comes the rambam and the rambam says in park one has to make a bracha before they count mana if someone counted and he didn't make a bracha yatzah he does not go back and make the bracha again now the fact that the rambam tells us we need to make a bracha okay i understand the ramam is a safer of halacha and he's telling us how to perform the mitzvah properly but why would the rambam have to say that if you counted and you didn't make abraham you're you'd say of course you're you'd say we know that there's a rule by all mitzvahs why would i think that in this case that if you didn't make the bracha you would not be you'd say it doesn't go without saying that you're you're to the myth it's obvious and then the rambam says you don't go back and make the bracha what would i think that if i counted i have to make the bracha i have to go back and make the bracha would anyone say that if i were talis and i realized i didn't make a bracha i have to go back and put on the towels again with the bracha or i have to go back and sit in the sukkah again with the bracha of course i don't have to go back and make the bracha why is it necessary for the rambam to say that if i did not make the bracha i have to go back and make the bracha that is question number one asks hagon rav maisha shapiro number two the avodraham rav david avudram rav david quotes the taj baits he says that you're he brings the opinion that sphero bismuth is we know it's the rambam hold spirit is the eraser the taj made says says that he quotes a master victory someone who davens with the sibor while it's still day he counts without a bracha and me and he says if i remember at night i'll make a bracha and if i forget then my counting should work in other words the opinion of the master victory is that if you count without a bracha then you go back later and you count again with the bracha and it's not abraham atala however the rambam says that if i counted without a bracha you're already say now that means now we understand the opinion of the rambam namely you know why the rambam said that if i made sure without a bracha because that's coming the shita of the master victory who holds that if you counted without a bracha you are allowed to go about and count with abraha in other words the rambam is not just telling me an obvious halacha because in fact there are opinions that hold that if you counted sphero without a bracha you do have to go back and count with abraham that is the of the master victory and the avojoham says the rambam disagrees the rambam holds since you can't once you count sphero and you don't have to go back and count with abraca but the bottom line is that we see from the rambam the fact a that the rambam had to say that if you counted spheros out of bracha you're and the fact that the the brings from the master victory that if you counted sphera without a bracha you're actually you don't fulfill them it's when you have to do it again it seems like surya sahima is different than any other mitzvah by other mitzvahs the bracha is merely a preparatory introductory and by sphero we see the bracha in a way becomes part of the mitzvah and that is why the makhsa victory says yes if you counted without a broke you have to go back and count with abraham and that's why the rambam said that in fact that's why the rambam had the need to say that if you counted without a bracha then you don't have to go back so it seems like there is idea that the bracha for sphero saw amer is actually part of the mitzvah furthermore let's look in the maganavram the magin of ram and simon tough pay tests if caught don hey the muggin of rum brings uh in that the way to count seerah is barakat hashem like because that implies that you're giving a reason you know i am counting because today is the ninth day no you should just say my and the tas also brings down ain loimer and um however the khoi kyakov rabbiako of reisher who is the revyakov he says the consensus of the acharyan is you should not say but nevertheless one who says shahyom is not mistaken and he has what to rely on says the roy keach and the tanya and the marau and this is also published in pesach in other words shahiyam is giving a reason why are we the reason is now we don't say but there seems to be an opinion that we do say shahayam indicating perhaps that the brah of surah sawaymar is different than abraham by other mitzvahs and in fact the brah of swift is part of the mitzvah of counting when it comes to the performance of other midsoles the bracha is merely preparatory when it comes to the mitsubishi there's a sad to say the bracha is part of the mitzvah so so far we have three illustrations how the bracha is part of the mitzvah number one the fact that the rambam needed to say that if you don't make the bracha you're still you'd say number two the fact that the max of victory in fact does say that if you did not make the bracha you count again with abraham and number three this gersa that the khayakov says is legitimate those who say shaha yoi myoim indicating that the brach is somewhat a con continuation into the performance of the mitzvah the next in uh interesting point the kumar magillah tells us days from shimbin al-azhar he says that we know that there are two taikahas we read every year we read bechukaisai how many colors in 49 colors how many khloes in kisawa why do we read 49 and 98 says the gemara ezra was masaki and for claudius that we should read the clause of the kaisai before shavuous and that we should read the claw lice of kisaway before rosh hashanah why to apply the rule tikhla shana the killer let the year end together with its curses the year is coming to an end so as the year goes down the drain we want the curses to go down the drain together with the year so therefore we read the clause of kisaway at the end of the year and toisus asks no we don't we don't read kisaway right before rosh hashanah we read kisawa a week right a week before that the last powershell of the year is nietzsche the last powershell before shavus is by midbar not kisaway but nevertheless taisus says we need to give some buffer zone between the end of the year and the toy but we read it close to the end of the year and the gemara asks very nice i understand rosh hashanah marks the beginning of the new year but shavuous is not the beginning of the new year and and uh the gemara says no shivers is the beginning of the year because khazal tell us the mission says we're judged for the fruit of the tree so therefore shus is the beginning of a new year the swaram tell us the fruit of the new year refers to torah so therefore we want to get the taikaha out before the end of the year so it seems a very interesting thing we see from here that there is a a connection between the curses of the and the mahasavira that we want to get them out during the days of sphera before shavus comes why is the taikaha an appropriate torah reading for this time of the year now we all know from the gemara and ivamas salam that what occurred during the days of sphera why do we mourn the days of sphera because the days of sphera commemorate the mourning for the students of rabbi akiva who they died shall i now they did not accord each other with honor now it's interesting that the students of rabbi akiva were 24 000. what's the significance of 24 000 we have another instance in tanakh where 24 000 people passed away and that is when bilaam came to curse the jewish people and contrary to what they taught you in kindergarten that bilaam did not curse the jewish people he blessed them that's the pharish not what the gemara tells us we'll see in a minute bilaam in fact did curse the banaya israel and he gave in eight saw that the mene israel should be persuaded to be mazana with the binoy samoyav and how many people died in the plague when the jews were masano with the binocular of the last passing in parishes balak number 12 on the sheet valley simba 24 000 jews died in the plague when bilaam persuaded the jewish people to when villam convinced balak to persuade the jewish people to be masano with the noisemail now the meghala amucas the gulen shamans they both reveal something incredible that there is a connection between the 24 000 students of rabbi akiva and the 24 000 jews who died in the magefa simply what possibly could be there be a connection between the 24 000 students of ravi akiva dying during the days of svera and the 24 000 jews who died because of the persuasion of bilaam but that is what the maga amuco says and somehow the 24 000 students were supposed to be a tikkun for the 24 000 jews who died in him because of the itsa of bilaam harasha somehow the 24 000 talmidim were came to be messaging what what does one thing have to do with another marv we're going to be a prize of a very wondrous idea rabbi kharan says from the blessing of bilimaharasha we could infer what he wanted to curse us with he wanted to say that we shouldn't have shulls to be have continuity he said he didn't want us to have olives and vineyards he said keganoi salina he didn't want the smell to be aromatic he said to hashem he didn't want us to have imposing kings he said he didn't want the kings to have a legacy he said he is our miami daliaf he didn't want the malchus of yusuf in the umass he said bizarre ibm i am robin he he didn't want their mouths to be strong he said says the gemara all of the blessings of bilaam were transformed into curses say only one curse was transformed into blessing was one curse he wanted to say we shouldn't have shoes and that one curse was transformed into blessing but all the other blessings were transformed into curse so in other words bilaam wanted to curse the jewish people instead he blessed them so all of those curses were turned into blessing and all the other blessings were turned into curse now why why were all the blessings turned into curse it's because bilaam gave the advice that hakodesh who hates zunus so he got balak to get the jewish people between mazana and through this most of israel all of the curses all of the blessings turned into curse now what is it about the binoys mayav that they were able to get hashem to turn all the curses into all the blessings and to curse and now we have an amazing revelation of the arizaw and the shah absolute also in devarim says the word mayav mayav is gematria forty-nine maya machia memtes memtas okay what's that going to do for us we learned from here maya was gematria 49. god created this world in a perfect balance blessing and curse and when god gave much to the torah he gave it mem test panim tame test panum tahar like it says vidigolai the diglai is gematria 49. and the avoid of a person is to outweigh and to incline the good of 49 away from the bad of 49. now the reason everything in this world is in values of 49 because the physical world is always measured in numerals of seven seven days of the week and the full expansiveness of the physical world is seven times 749 so therefore there are 49 ways to come close to hashem maybe the days of sphera and 49 ways to plummet and to fall into curse and that is mayov so what may of is lara sphera is type there are 49 pathways of hiskarvo there are 49 ways of climbing up the mountain hashem and they're 49 ways of descending in the pit curse may of is the epitome of curse in fact the shlock others points out that where does maya have come from who does may have come from may have comes their progenitor is light what does the word light mean light is a lesion of curse latusa like in the gemara says it's a curse light is the source of all curse and light therefore is the father head of maya the epitome of curse that's why when bill on god through that hashem transformed all the blessings of billam into mayav curse lyit lamitas um the 40 the 49 pathways of curse by the way you'll ask why would mashiach then have to come from mayab i mean could a meshiach come from a nicer family where maybe the father he's in a good hebrew and lakewood and the mother went to a really good seminary you know why did hashem have to make meshiach come from such bad origins well the answer is very simple says ramaisha shapiro what is the job description of mashiach the javascript the the navi tsufanya says then i will overturn to the nations in a clear speech liquid coulomb hashem the job of meshiach is not okay everybody thank you hashem that's not the job of mashiach there's gonna be some feel good everybody kumbaya konsets the java meshech is to take the klava of the world the curse of the world the tomah of the world and to transform it so mashiach per force inherently has to be rooted in and then he comes and he overturns and he transforms it into kedusha that's why david king david the mashiach has to be rooted in maya he's going to come into the source of all tuma and he's going to uproot it from its source by the way just a beautiful yadiya the qatar says that when avraham avinu says to light haloid arts the whole land is before you please separate from me abraham uses the word preda why does he use the word preda because he's saying why are you so why are you so hot about eretz israel that you have to take it now don't you know you're the progenitor of meshiach ben david when you'll take it rightfully and remember what um nami says to russ she says she was signaling the word pareda meaning when avraham told light you're too quick to take out israel he said abram was signaling to lord you need to wait until david miller comes to the scene which was announced and began with the expression of us so now we've established a few ideas mayav is the epitome of klala curse and the claudius royal fell because of the advice of bilaam to be mazano with the benoist mayav and we were stuck then in klala and 24 000 jews died because they attached themselves to maya of curse and one thing we know that if the students of rabbi yakiva who were supposed to be a tikkun for the twenty-four thousand jews who fell in the magefa with if they died during sphera then the 49 days of sphera must be the designated zman to overcome the kayak lala of maya of the 49 kayak so if the students of akiva died in these 49 days that's because these 49 d's are designated to overcome the kayak lala of mayaf mayavi is 49 and we were supposed to overcome it during this man but we didn't overcome it so the students of rebbi akiva also succumbed to the klala of maya of in these 49 days says maisha shapiro this will explain another passage in the taikaka by the taikaka and kisawa how many arurim are there how many horrors are there in kisaway rashi brings their 11 can arurim get the eleven shivatim says rashi what about shimon why isn't there a twelve there are twelve shmatim why are there only eleven arurim says rashi shimoine was already horror why is shimon already are now we understand because shimon already succumbed to the banana smile so everybody comes that they already were or so mushy didn't have to say or can i get the banana mine so these 49 days of svera correspond to the 49 possibilities of overcoming the klala of mayav now that means and david melech has to so therefore if david is going to be born if meshiach is going to come what day of the year do you think david would be born on shavuous of course because you count 49 days to overcome the kayak of mayav and then the kedusa that will be mahapeche will in fact the usami tells us that was noilad on shivuas because he his avoida is which is 49. by the way we once spoke out really a remarkable idea that isn't it strange that we have availas for the students of rabbi akiva think about it throughout the jewish calendar many many great people have died and we don't have a veils for them the only time we have available in the jewish calendar is for corbin-based amigdas and yet for these 24 thousand students we have avelus we don't have avelos when other great people were killed we may have tightness but not availas why are the days of svera days of our veils so moshe shapiro says a wondrous thing sphera is designated as a time to overcome the curse of mayav that's why mashiach ben david from maya was born at the end of the days of surah rabi akhiva also believed there was someone who was mashiach who did rabbi akiva believe is mashiach the ushami and taina says rebbi akiva was the weapons bearer of barakah where the kiva schlepped the armory of barakah his swords his shield after him because rabia kiva believed that barakah was mashiach you know that thought was mashiach was rebeca wrong ramos shapiro says no he was not wrong he was mashiach but we lost it why did we lose it because the 24 000 students of akiva died and they brought availables to the world and that sever that ruined that was macauco the messianic campaign of barack obama in other words had them had the tamil republic but not died then meshiach would have come so the death of the students of the kiva was hormone-based hamikdash because the baselines would have been rebuilt so it's not just that it's not about us because big sadique him died believed what parsha what did rabbi akiva darshan to indicate that bakula was mashiach look at number 27 he will cut the edges of maya of do you show me in tightness says the number 28. i want you to see this inside do you show me in time it says tony rip shimba ye akiva rebbi he said this is king messiah that means he was saying barakah would knock off maya and why didn't he surah moshe shapiro says because the students of cuba passed away so if the students of akiva passed away then they were not able to rectify maya but they succumbed to the klava of maya when do they succumb in the 49 days that are designated to overcome the toma maya during the days of svera the 49 days of svera are designated to overcome the tomah the klalla of mayav but rabbi kiva though would be able to overcome it and therefore when the student survikiva died it became zmana velos like every other available in the torah namely bay samiktas and that is why david hamelach has to be born on shibuyas the day that we overcome the tomah and the klippa of mayoff there's an incredible gemara in the end of sanhed uh in heilak i'm sorry there's uh near near a para kai like da pe bays on the base that who was mazana with cosby basur zimri ben salu and khazal say how many times did he live with her because i'll say he lived with her 424 billy lice and pinchas waited until he tired out and then he killed him and the question is that's a rather bizarre figure 424 is that just a complete exaggeration is that even possible what do chazal mean that zimri lived with kazli by the way who's kazui basur because he's the daughter of balak what does it mean he lives with her foreign 24 times the imra yosef of spinka he says i think this is i don't know be gathered he says why did zimri live with her well because the jewish people had a tradition that there will be a dove that will emanate from maya from whom mashiach would come from that's why yesh that's why baaz lived with russ that the whole with that they had a tradition that the meshiach would emanate from maya so cause zimri thought this is the lady he thought he was gonna bring meshiach from this woman the gematria of 425 is mashiach ben david that's the secret of the gemara he lived with her 424 times his kavanagh was to extricate the clear the meshiach that was latent in maya he wanted to bring forth the shall shell us david he um the emma yosef says he says okay nearly he says otherwise he otherwise he says this is impossible to explain um he says all the actions of the rishonim is not kip shutdown it's not just happenstance don't think that shlumiel then surishada was a paris by arayas but he had a very lofty sublime kavanaugh what were they he says it says that there was a spark in mayav that would bring salvation to the jewish people and that's why the jewish people once they extricate that spark then maya would die the idsa of zimri was he would uh try to get out this spark he figured cosby was the one since uh tsur was the most hush of all of the moabites he figured he'd be able to extricate this spark from her so we see that the meshiach is latent in mayap the avoid of the days of svera is to counteract the curse of mayaf and that is why meshiach is specifically born at the end of the yemera now says shapiro this would answer a number of the difficulties that we began with number one why it's so critical to get out the klala of the khukaisai specifically in the days of sira why because the days of sphere how many days of sphere are there forty nine they correspond to the kayak lala of mayav and therefore it is imperative that before this mount of sphere is over we read the so that as sphero is coming to an end we could say tiklas the 49 clause of kisawa that correspond to the klala and the tuma of mayaf can be removed and we could overcome it through the laida of david marv says shapiro now we understand the role of the bracha in since this man of svera corresponds to the tama of mayav and the klala of mayav and the avodah of svera's to overcome the curse of mayav and bring it to his man of bracha therefore the bracha of svera is not merely abraham mitzvah but it is inherent to the focus of these days namely to overcome the klala of mayav and therefore the rambam has to tell us that if you counted without a bracha don't think you have to count again you're still you'd say the mitzvah that is why the avudrahan brings the opinion of the master victory student of rashi that the bracha in fact is imperative and if you counted with that abraca in his opinion you would have to go back and count again with the bracha and this explains the opinion of why you don't just say hiyoim but in the opinion of the uh it is legitimate to say hiyom indicating that the brah is not just but is part and parcel part of the actual counting of svera and this gives us a new understanding of sphera and that the students of rabbi akiva it's not some kind of random tragedy that happened during this time but it actually is a reawakening of the sin of claudius in the midbar where twenty four thousand jews succumbed because of the benoit's mayav this is this man where we're subject to the tuma of mayaf and as a man that is predisposed to overcome the samaya through the leydah of mashiach thanks everybody for joining us today is a wonderful to see everybody back again hope to see everybody again uh next monday you could join us um we have every morning at 9 00 a.m we have a zoom on mission abura we're up to summon gimmel excuse me up to some base you could join us 5 p.m but we didn't start yet we're not starting that until uh next week 5 pm of the rush or you can join us wednesday morning um at 10 45 for the the sheer uh have a great day everybody called you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com