The Omer Part 1 - Counting Time or Making Time Count? with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everyone welcome home to toro welcome back to the ebony beat midrash and um we are going to talk about the spheres omer for those who are unfamiliar with what that means there is a command in the torah to bring an omer offering a barley offering the measure of an omer okay we'll talk about the size and whatnot but according to most opinions this uh counting from the day after pesach until until but not including shabbos which comes out to 49 days is from the torah which it's literally in the torah however the offering itself is inapplicable because we don't have a temple unfortunately we should have it soon in our days and then according to everybody then it would be from the torah the actual counting would then be applicable as well on a total level so keep that in mind so what we do is every single night shortly after sunset we're making accounting we're counting days and we're counting weeks amazing this is what we're doing in the hopes of preparation preparing ourselves our bodies and our souls right in in in growing in torah in wisdom as a clear as a vessel in order to receive the torah on the 50th level on the 50th day but in the meantime we are talking we're going to be using a text that was actually written by the cleo car in a book called olos of frying okay so that is the text that we're gonna use the truth is it's a nine page essay i only gave you guys online uh for the first four hebrew pages i don't even know if we'll get through all of them it could be maybe next week we'll do part two let's see how far we get i don't want to jump the gun so let's start with the first verse that we're going to deal with and that's in leviticus 23 it's actually two verses it's verse 15 and 16 and it says again it's leviticus 23 verses 15 and 16. we'll start with the english and you shall count for yourselves from the moral of the rest day from the day you bring the omir as a wave offering seven weeks they shall be complete you shall count until the day after the seventh week namely the fiftieth day on which you shall bring a new meal offering to the lord that new meal offering is all a special offering on shivoo oat okay it's a minha now just to note in the beginning of the verse us and you shall count me shabbat the day following in hebrew says shabbat but shabbat does not always only mean the seventh day of the week is called shabbat now just keep because we can even see it in verse 16 right until the following day of shabbat which is uh when it says odd odd does not always mean including it could mean up until so as we all know we don't count 50 days we only count 49. okay so just keep this in mind odd until the 50th day so we're going to count 49. seven days seven times seven weeks one thing to note is that that there's a wave offering as i mentioned the beginning that part of the idea of a offering is from the torah that is done in the bait mikdash in the temple by the kalin and this is unfortunately not done today because we don't have the temple we will discuss a little bit a little bit that's how the clear car is going to open in the oldest ephraim about how one waves the um we're going to call it the barley offering it's it's a it's a it's a measure it's a measure of an omer now that omer is also believe it or not tied into the mana right the mana is an omer that's the size the the measurement which is one tenth of an atha okay so by the way just uh i did right here the measurements just you should know so it's about three and a half pounds you know if whatever the food is if something is weighed as an omer which is about a little over one and a half kilo that's the minimum there's a little bit more than that possibly which comes out to about 43 egg volumes worth and that is also the minimum to make to take chala to do the mitzvah of separation of kala to give to the levine and which uh unfortunately we we don't have yet we don't do that either today in its fullness we do it well as a zeitgeist and because we can't um give we don't know who the vein really are anyway let's move forward let's move forward so we just saw that verse i'll just read the whole thing in hebrew because it's beautiful so that's how he begins just know the mitzvah know the verse and he brings a um a medrush now believe it or not that mattress does not follow exactly a matrix that i have if you turn to page two number three there is a uh it's a it's a little bit of a different version it says and he shall wave the sheath before the lord that's what we just discussed the haney assai militant the question is kate saad kaitsad hayam anitho how was it done so rafhamar baruchpa in the name of yeshua ben khan you bring it out and you bring it forward and then you bring it up and then you bring it down and why is that so you do it lemiesha oil coulomb to show recognition to whom the whole world belongs okay that's the first opinion malu maori le michael jones and you go up and down to show whom the upper realms and the lower realms belong everything belongs to hashem and therefore you're moving it in all those four directions to show and recognize and to praise hashem rabbi shimon barbie yoshua he says exactly the same idea you're going to move it forward and backward up and down in order to castos in order to negate or get rid of we're going to use these terms i'll try to translate rujos kashot i think it's better just to translate it as injurious winds you know as an agricultural uh society that we had these could be devastating to crops i'm sure that pedestrians also would enjoy the negation of rujols caschos but also in order to levatel uh dangerous do okay floods and whatnot things that could ruin the crops i have a feeling and that there's no real contradiction in terms here i'm not gonna i don't want to spend too much time because i don't really want to get into the the meat of the matter but usually when you see two very seemingly distinct opinions there's it's not necessarily black and white that there's an aspect of one opinion that is absolutely true and it doesn't contradict at all the other opinion and i think i'll just say succinctly by recognizing hashem and praising hashem that's one way to to let's say guard against god forbid bad consequences right that go hand in hand right you're blessing hashem meaning you're recognizing that hashem is the source of all blessings and therefore hashem will send you blessings in return okay so now let's begin the next paragraph it's not an easy verse to translate but this is the beginning of this paragraph so i want to like try to explain he's talking about the activity of a human being on earth right yoshida helen the people who live in this temporary things are not obvious it's a very hidden world but we're very active and the the amount of days yes what if we live to 70 80 even 120 we they're still considered short and painful okay that's how i'm going to translate it they're short and there's a lot of struggling in this world it's not simple hine hamas but someone who is let's say lividly intelligence right he's really like actively using his brain right his intellect although we will translate moscow the way seijo is a spiritual person someone who's like spiritually in touch so someone who is on this level he'll place on his heart he'll pay attention to what shalom he won't waste any time there's no time to waste life is short i mean i feel like crying do you realize how much time we waste if we just wait till we get through this we'll realize how valuable time is and that's what we're doing i'm i think i'm going to title this class don't just count the owner make the owner count make time count don't just count time don't just let it fly by make it count okay so unfortunately right well here we're talking about someone who is intelligent who's spiritually inclined he he uh he's going to pay attention to make sure that no time even how short it could be is not wasted kilo heartbeat youth critic because there's not a whole lot um going on here that um you want to waste this is the observation or the note this is the message that one should take to heart through the counting of the omer that's the bottom line don't waste time now the next paragraph we're on the right side of coufin gimbal at he wants to explain it from the way of us human beings how we look at the world anything that is considered important anything that's considered important by us guess what we give it a number we count it if it's important it's worthwhile counting kakasseth like money like silver the zahav and gold the zulata mean anything like that all the other things that are valuable the any kind of activity that is either disgraceful disgusting shameful um you have disdain for they fade away katev and vekash like straw and hay i'm you know i'm serious here you're talking about gold and silver on one hand and you're talking about thorns and weeds and kash viteven it's um it's worlds apart in value lo yimnu leyolam you don't really count the amount of hay or straw i mean you may sell it by the ton right obviously horses need to eat people like to go to target practice with their what do you call it with their boats and arrows obviously it's it's worth in fact i'm responsible for a farm that grows hey i mean okay that's a whole nother story we're not going to go there right now right when it comes to kashmir tevin strong hay you're not really so concerned about the the quantity if it's a lot or little in general uh the reign but the person who owns a granary right where you separate the grain from the shaft do you separate the good grains from the waste product they ain't a monitoring he's only really going to count the good stuff the tavua the produce that's coming from it and he's not counting the the waste product what does he care until we see hazal themselves mentioned a famous verse which we're all aware of the fact that the jewish people are counted there's a census several times in the desert and there's a famous rashi on that and we'll talk about that shortly so go to i believe you'll find it on numbers chapter 1 verse 2. right take the sum of all the congregation of the children of israel at rochester israel so that's what we see here so uh he is the one who compares he compares us the jewish people to counting wheat to like wheat like i said about the the granary you count the good stuff whereas and i forgive me don't shoot the messenger okay this is the holy writings and there's depth okay almost with the umos takash whereas the nations are compared to um to straw and hay minyan now i do want to i will get into some of these verses that it's not me you know what i mean like here let's just do it now and you can see number five on the source sheet uh quoting from uh in minbar and bamidbaraba i i don't have the whole measure in front of me but i did take some of the important quotes so you get an idea in um song of songs which is a love story between hashem and the jewish people you're a seven verse three your navel is like a rounded basin where no mixed wine is lacking your belly is like a stack of wheat fenced in with roses okay so jewish people are compared to a stack of wheat yes psalms 83 14 king david says my god make them like thistles he's asking the enemies of israel make them like thistles in hebrew and kash like kosh like stubble before the wind actually shittimu ke gal gael that's more like thistles and kash is more like stubble okay before the wind and avadya who's talking about asov this is a famous verse we're all aware of it's in chapter 118 besides there is only one chapter in nevada verse 18 and the house of jacob should be fire and the house of joseph aflame and the house of aesop shall become stubble meaning kindling wood basically and they shall ignite them and consume them and the house of aesop shall have no survivors for the lord has spoken and uh prophet isaiah chapter 40 verse 17 all the nations are as not iron as nothing before him as things of naught and vanity are they regarded by him okay so you hear it's not me i'm just quoting the verses and let's go on so we see the question we just asked so what do i need to know numbers for if it's um if it's something that is so inferior obviously only that which is valuable i will count or hashem in that case he will count and he will not count that which is inferior kamosha um like the verse we just saw so as rosh bin israel count count take a census the word here really means to raise up but it's to separate to separate and to count us on israel this is an interesting idea that god is raising the jewish people above and i'll use the word supreme what does it mean should you say osama bin yoterse translate as supreme alcohol uma he raised us up above all other nations in number by numbering their names that was given to the jewish people right that's what schmos is all about the law also came the kogoy but he didn't do so for the other nations now in terms of what we call it means divine providence hashem's watchful eye it says that it's over israel right we're the apple of his eye and his his desires towards us and over here the quote is that he did not make us let he didn't do this counting and this individual um providence for all the other nations but rather they all were put into one big blender one big uh our rubia our bubia is a mixture a big mixture and hashem does not have what we call this singularity pinpointed divine providence on them on koh ishvish on each an individual each and every individual but he does look at them as a nation and he guides them but he actually does that through angels right only israel has a direct line that's what israel means you shall we go directly to hashem all the other nations have administering angels over them and therefore hashem deals with them as a group he actually deals with each and every one of us on an individual basis called ishmael now this is a big sentence just to swallow he's actually looking at each and every individual jew like an entire nation like an entire nation wow and he brings a verse to prove that like rashi explains on the verse in exodus chapter 19 verse 21 so the lord said to moses go down warn the people lest they break their from formation to go nearer to the lord to see now this is by the golden calf right no this is sorry this is by the um we're waiting to hear the the the revelation of mount sinai and many of them will fall so we were put as a border you couldn't approach you couldn't come near to the mountain and if you did you would fall but it says here in hebrew and many of them will fall the nothing menu rav what does that mean how can you say and many of them will fall rashi says whatever number falls from them let it be even a single person to me hashem capital m e it is considered as if many had fallen if one jew falls it's as if a whole nation has fallen now while we're here to teach the world every human being counts right and every human being is like a universe it's like an entire universe okay i just want to clarify one thing when we talk about the difference between jews and non-jews right there are many gray areas in between right you could be a righteous gentile and that's you he invites you right if you're not jewish you can still go to heaven you can still be part have a relationship with hashem and maybe very brief what i'm about to tell you but if you believe in the revelation of mount sinai and you know that the torah was given to the jews and you want to learn the torah and you learn it through the jews so you're connected you're connected in a big way okay and that's all i want to share with you right now about that i have a series on it's called beyond the seven it's on the um the noah hyde uh world center um you can find them on youtube you can find them on facebook and no hybrid center and start from the beginning and you'll get a better understanding of what it means to be a righteous gentile and i'm not saying it's like you are and i'm going to use this term loosely it's like you are jewish you're ish you're jewish right because you're part of um you're really connected in a big way to the jewish people okay so let's move forward i just wanted to clarify that so there's gray areas um miserable uh but miss so too the jewish people are compared to the number of stars you can go to isaiah chapter 40 verse 26 he says lift up your eyes on high and see who created these who takes out their their host by number hashem he calls obviously created the stars he calls them by number he calls them by name and so too the jewish people are also called by name all of them he calls by name because of his great might and because he is strong in power no one is missing let's go on what's the difference between a jew and a gentile in this in this regard listen to this so anything that you're going to call out by individual name uh then you are recognizing the individual importance of each one if you're calling it out by name there's no doubt that you're certainly showing the importance of each and every one as it says now this is where you get into the difference between jew and gentile look king david says in psalms 87 verse 45 now it says i will remind rachael now the word is askier i will remember that's really the better translation remembering is one thing i will remember babylon of my beloved ones he has to remind them about us behold at least entire with kush this one this is who the jewish people they were born there born where in egypt and to see on who's ceo that's israel it will be said man after man was born in her but you have to see the hebrew to really let's go on and he will establish it on high so began with the word i will remind these nations about my beloved ones so there's only remembrance when it comes to the non-jews over here when it comes to to israel yet he will actually say to each and every person his involvement is with each and every person forget about reminding or remembrance that's a far-off relationship but when you're actually involved then you're speaking to each and every person you love that every man was born in her okay so that is um one of the verses he wants to bring down now he says so when it comes to the nations this is a general remembrance about them right these other nations it's just a remembrance i'm not lucio but when it comes to zion the yeah there is means important these are just different words for important nifla this is an absolutely fascinating teaching el co mosco whoever is spiritually um sensitive and a thinking person where his eyes are open al me can you finish the paragraph regarding sorry you may regarding the days that are on this earth that are fleeting and temporary we're talking about each day every single moment it's considered it's important why yahoo like nosbo because one is capable one has the abilities to acquire in on those days on those moments a lot in the direction of what we call towards perfection until it's a famous perky avote if i'm not mistaken actually it's in the gemara here it's a famous expression that says right we all know the stories of the different sages where somebody had done chuva at the end of their life just think about it they were not so righteous through their life and all of a sudden they cried and their soul left them and they the chuva if you can imagine that moment in one moment they can acquire all of the world to come meaning heaven we have we have that same moment during the 70 80 90 120 years of our life why let it pass through our fingers we find many people who are really working towards perfection and many who are extremely careful in this regard right the very fact that we expend energy that we're we're using time time is being used that these people that we just described as being very holy they don't waste any time not even one moment in which they're not trying to acquire any aspect of per true perfection the masha'anru and this is found in perkavo chapter it's chapter four number 17. so you can find this page four on the english sheets robiako he would say a single moment of repentance and good deeds in this world is greater than all the world to come and a single moment of bliss in the world to come is greater than all of the present world hu hayao oymir yafetchuva we discussed when i started learning with many of the one of the ideas we came up with was a counteracts christian thought but doesn't matter it's a jewish concept and that is all deeds matter all these matter and we wanted to make a bumper sticker i don't think we ever did but we can still make a movement right there's all kinds of movements about what matters so all deeds matter can you imagine one moment in this world doing a particular deed whether it's chuva right or maasim tovi mitsta's kind acts in this world is greater than all of the world to come because there's no opportunity to do any mitzvahs there's no opportunity to reach perfection wherever you got to that's it you're stagnant right static is that the word static there's no movement in the world to come all of the opportunities are here now there is kind of con continue our conversation a little bit there are people who had past lives they may have accomplished a lot and they just need to accomplish a little in this life only hashem is the judge and he knows so just keep that in mind that if you see people they're not really accomplishing a lot doesn't mean they haven't already accomplished in previous lives okay we're not going to go into that now just keep that in mind um and it's for this very reason those who have perfected their lives who are working towards perfection are given over there they're allowing themselves to count the days of their lives in order to know how much has already passed kizera this it reflects and shows the the the desire and the love and the cherishing of time in their eyes video because even one moment they can they can um acquire the world to come now i just want to stop here there is a vid a a youtuber his name is nas daily n-a-s-d-a-i-l-y and he wears a t-shirt every year he changes it and he adds another percentage i i suggest he's interesting i mean he's interesting for sure and if i had an opportunity to meet with him and interview him this is an invitation if he's watching i actually emailed him this week and told him about this um i'm waiting to hear back the idea is that he felt like a cog he didn't feel his boss didn't even know his name he felt so unimportant and unaccomplished and he realized just looking at his own battery on his phone that everything has a life expectancy right and therefore he came to the conclusion on his own that it's so important to take advantage of every of every moment because it's not going to come back to you and he in my opinion is bringing so much happiness to other people um you'll have to get you have to see what he does bringing knowledge bringing um you know such good advice to people in character development and that it's worthwhile checking out anyway and furthermore shaha but not only is it good to know how much time has passed but also how much time is coming forward how much time you have left in which you can acquire perfection you know there's a famous verse we all are aware of it i'm sure and that is in psalms chapter 90 verse king david once again one of my favorite people the days of our years because of them are 70 years and if with increase in other words with more might 80 years but their pride is toil and pain for passes quickly and we fly away in other words if we know that we have on average 70 years so now that's basically what king david is telling us now knowing that you only have right i don't know what happened all of a sudden since the pandemic and i'm not even sure i allowed to say this on youtube but apparently people are thinking they can live forever nobody wants to die i mean that's very interesting everyone's now afraid they weren't so afraid but all of a sudden now they're afraid guess what maybe this is a positive move right take advantage of life here this idea of knowing you only have 70 years and if with strength 80 this adds to the dagger to the concern and worry not depression but concern aruba there's another statement in perky vote chapter 2 mission of 15. ruby tarpon would say right the day is short and the work is much i'm sure we all feel that on friday but shouldn't we feel that about life right there's so much work to be done and yet we only have 70 years why are we wasting any of it you should use the the time wisely the 70 years and don't delay why push off things my mother she heard of noah weinberg's classes and she decided to teach herself and to learn how to play the piano at a later age she was just um you know he talked about the potential and not wasting time and doing things with you had pushed off when you were young and here don't push things off especially the yates ratov right all the good things all the good inclinations from day to day which you will do and you have um but in other words this is what god wants you to do and you can do it dealing with the court and pesach but it's a general idea look in exodus chapter 23 verse 18 regarding this particular sacrifice but it's true by many you shall not not sacrifice the blood of my sacrifice with leaven and the fat of my festival sacrifice but this is the main point at the end it shall not stay overnight until morning we have to act with reasons right by the pesach night we won't have to eat the passover offering and not leave any of it over till the morning why wait why are we procrastinating right get it done believe me i'm one of the biggest procrastinators i happen to work really well under pressure so since i know that i really work well under pressure it's part of the plan but okay hello lola i'm bk daven llama now i just want to practice a little bit i have an idea we will get into this idea even though we say that a person lives to the age of 70 meaning the average person right and broke hashem with modern science and hygiene we live a lot longer but i just want to keep this in mind the first 20 years of a person's life he's not a bar onshin a bar once in means that yes once you're 12 13 years old and for banane it might even be younger okay we could talk about that another time but basically once you become a bardas you have a certain amount of intelligence you're responsible in this world for your actions in this world i said it's true you know the bastion you steal the bastion could could give you the consequences as an adult once you're 13 12 or 13. but in heaven there is this um i call it super mercy this extended mercy hashem loves us and he knows he created us flesh and blood right and we have a yates of hara mediates our own and we're during this period of life called adolescence we are still trying to find ourselves it's a very uh crazy period for everyone for most of us and so therefore hashem in his own mercy extends grace that there is no punishment from heaven until meaning for anything you did before the age of 20. okay i mean there are going to be some exceptions but let's not go into that right now what did king david ask in in psalms 39 5 king david says oh lord let me know my end and the measure of my days what it is i i would know when i will cease he was so interested i want to use every moment so when i don't know what i'm going to die so i would like to know so that i could make sure to uh to use my time wisely be cash yoda miss bar yamath he wanted to know the extent or the the the amount of his days laid the common nisharullo bashani myanmi he wanted to know how much time remained this month he had to pace himself so to speak right he wanted to know how much time he had to work on himself in leviticus chapter 25 verse 50. now think about this for a second it doesn't matter in this this particular verse i'll tell you what it's dealing with it's actually dealing with egypt a non-jew who lives in the land of israel he's totally righteous and he helped a fellow jew out of a bad predicament by purchasing him as a slave we as jews would try like any other brother would to redeem him before the time is up but when the person gets sold into slavery since jubilee in this case the jew goes free from his gentile slave master who's a ger toshov so the gertoshav is on a certain level responsible for many of the mitzvahs maybe you know we'll talk about that another time we'll go to the beyond the seven he's living amongst the jews there's certain missions he must keep this is one of them he must redeem his jewish slave by the 50th year and so therefore when the person sells themselves to slavery let's say it's five years before the jubilee year so let's just take a number that's just easy to deal with if someone was sold into slavery to this non-jew for 50 years so let's just say use a hundred thousand dollars so if it was only five years left so let's just say ten thousand dollars one tenth so that's how you have to calculate you calculate in the shemitah slash jubilee years you're going to calculate how many years left until it goes free and the purchase or lease however you look at it and the same thing goes with renting or leasing land because land also gets returned to the original owner after 50 years uh jubilee at the jubilee year so the verse here says it's in leviticus chapter 25 verse 50 and 51 he shall calculate with his purchaser the number of years from the year of his being sold to him until the jubilee year then the purchase price should be divided by the number of years as the days of lives as the days of a hired worker okay you can read the rashi you can see that i explained it well we're talking about agertoshav who purchased a jewish slave okay so again even though we're going to talk about the number 70 minus the 20 right the first 20 years don't count so a person's life was spent is with 50 years of acquiring perfection meaning he spends his life acquiring things for 20 years for 50 years so keep that in mind we're narrowing it down to 50. again why the omer is right we have 49 the jubilee again it's 49 in the following years 50. now watch what he says this is the secret this is the fundamental concept behind the purchase of a person in this case the non-jew to the jew the hainu shi yong shin nimbhar ba nimsar biyaat kono shibishamayim you hear the word should be meaning think of it like this it's from the day that one was sold and was handed over into his maker in heaven just like we see by a human transaction of a slaver servant for a certain amount of time then he goes free but it's a minimum or let's say maximum right 50 years so two that's what we do when we turn 20 we are giving ourselves over into the hands of our creator in heaven that we were borrowing we were not a bar ocean before we're now becoming responsible i don't like the word i don't want to translate baronshine as now in the category of being punishable well that's what it means you're punishable because you're responsible right if you weren't responsible there wouldn't be a punishment that's why also you should know just for those who've been inaugurating right if you had a flood and you had a destruction you had punishments right cain kills abel cain is punished or there's some kind of consequences any time there's consequences god it means that god warned us there has to be a warning for responsibility in order to have consequences so we see until the 26th generation 26 significantly is uk that's moses generation the generation of the receiving of the torah there were consequences to mankind mankind is responsible for the seven of high laws okay all right let's move forward so once you become a bar on sheen adhyayovil until the yova what is the oval it's not when you're 50 it's when you're 70. it's your 50th year your 50th year is when you are 70. you follow capisce everyone with me okay however however there is a seduction of that is contained within this temporary world that we live in right not a fake world it's an illusion or it's it's a world of illusion it's a world of illusion you may s you know what we waste a lot of time here in this world now this might sound very racist not against any specific race but he's telling us that people who don't live in the cities people who are uneducated living far out in these little towns who don't know they don't know anything about life they don't know how long you ask them how old they are they don't even know how old they are right i guess i mean i know there's old people that i met you say how old are you and like i don't know i don't have any documentation i'm like between this age of that age so it's not really like it's not pinpointing a specific uh you know like hillbillies or anything like that it's just saying he's saying that the people who live conscie faring and it could be fear but let's let's just assume he's talking about the uneducated they don't even know how long they're living they ain't ham spooning at so if you don't know how old you are you know how long you're gonna live you don't really care so then nothing is really considered important by you however after the fact they spent their entire lives doing nothing maybe they do nothing okay but there they waste a lot of time and there's no light or there's no purpose or any good purpose um you your mod below you there you spar it so if it's not important so they never measured it and they never counted it now according to me not me personally this is the clear car the oldest of ryan he's claiming his ball haram is bestirizo this is all teaching us it's hinting to us through our accounting remember i started off make the sphere count right make time valuable don't just count time make time count he says that in a spiritually sensitive and intelligent person will begin to count the days of his temporary life here in this world only from the age of 20 and onward because that's when he becomes responsible or he feels i think you feel more of a community member hopefully by 20 you're married you're gonna have children right or if you're going to the army because according to the torah you go in the army when you're 20 you're responsible for the clown right you enter a state of mind where you are responsible for others hopefully by the age of 20 you've reached this point so that's this that's the statement here um year the fugu so what does it mean from heaven you will be chased right because once you're a bar own sheen once you're in the category of responsibility i your i.e consequences and punishment that means that you are um being chased but we're gonna just switch it around a little bit because in perky votes in chapter 5 22. so it was been bag bag or bin hey hey he would say five years is when you start to learn scripture 10 years at 10 years old you begin mishna at 13 that's when you're obligated to observe misses at 15 you begin talmud 18 is the age for marriage 20 and that's the words here ben estrin leer dove it means you pursue a livelihood that's when you are now acquiring life uh real life okay it goes on 30 for strength 44 understanding i don't want to read the rest right now you can look at it look it up so the earlier years before you were 20 the fish are dying charlie bedatto you have not yet come to a certain level of maturity or understanding of a communal level which i would equate to maturity meaning knowing that your consequences have actions your actions have consequences then before that point you're just considered comparable to like the destruction the the the the non-valuable parts of the grains shane boa dying they don't have yet the seeds the real seeds they can reproduce right so before that process it's basically i don't want to use the word garbage but that's what he's comparing it to to the um to the non-valuable parts that are worth getting rid of from the day you were born what are you you're a sprout that's what you are i love watching um national geographic and watching the pups of you know lions or even alligators baby turtles whatever it is you can watch like they're growing and they're they're ex-curious and they're experiencing life right even a human a human baby i mean just imagine what they learn in one day we take for granted we it's already in within our sensory perceptions we can walk through life almost blind at this point because we know where all the pitfalls are on the sidewalks but a child who's walking the first time is um experiencing something and he's so aware here too you're like at seats so in in psalms 103 verse 15 as for man his days are like grass like a flower of the field so does he sprout this is a young person who's just sprouting the kashaya yama bishani but when he gets older and he matures then he will be compared to a a tall stalk of grain and this is where we're going to get into one of the psuche we should know now is regarding the um the uh the omer offering let me find it um in deuteronomy chapter 5 16 verse 9 okay it's on the top page six so in deuteronomy 16 9 this is dealing with the omir and it says like this okay due to a very unusual technical difficulty we experienced uh where the rest of this video was just cut off and not recorded so biz hashem anyway we're going to do part two next week we will just pick up where we left off and continue onward with some fascinating insights into the counting of the omir so i'm just praying for everybody we should all have an aliyah a ascension towards mount sinai opportunities for growth to take each day each moment uh seriously right not to waste time to make time count not just to count time but to make our time count in the 48 ways to wisdom in personal growth so i'm wishing everyone shabbat shalom for now and even a greater aliyah to the receiving of the torah come out signing off have a 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