Tu B'Shevat: The Yom Tov of Shovavim - The Astounding Revelation of Rav Chaim Filag'i

okay welcome everyone to tonight's sh and Edition thank you everybody for coming continuing the which are again generously sponsored by Dr Dr Z's mother should family are sponsored by the Israeli family mayor tonight is sponsored by my dear tonight is an honestly sponsored as for Z for their son and daughter-in-law sh with Mish tonight sh is also dedicated by our good friend Mrs yudas yehudit Herman from in honor in Tu and for daughter RKA to have an easy birth and healthy baby and for the protection of our soldiers in Gaza okay so if you want to learn more about tubish I hope you get the safer the light and the Splendor you could still get it if you want to know about tuat if you don't want to not we have we have there's one copy left where but whatever store you go to there'll be at least one copy left um that's available if you don't yet have ra Balan and the Eternal children of Hashem that's Ava available in local better bookstores everywhere we're climbing up there um upcoming swum in the queue if anybody wants to we have a lot of stuff on the way if anybody would like to participate um the is complete we're doing the final editing if anybody would still like to be the next art scr for this year a t p it's called no it's called the what is it called the fire and the soul the fire and the Soul oh louder okay the fire and the Soul then umem we're also working on translating the yes it's going to be uh very special work so if anybody like to M any upcoming projects what are you supposed to do on tuat what do you mean there's a lot to do why do I why is there a lot to do cuz you save a whole seven minutes tomorrow morning because there's no ton so it's a really long day you know what a go can never experience the great Sim of going into sh and about to sit down and put his head down and somebody said no no it's tuat that's a only a could enjoy you know so tomorrow it's a very special day and because we don't say it's now so what exactly are you supposed to do on tuat the earliest record of any type of hanat comes from a a rare saer an ancient saer it's called tiar tiar by rarb suan who lived in the times in um more than 400 years ago he writes basically he wrote a work which is like a calendar he goes through the calendar of the Year and that year that he explains to came out on a Thursday like it does this year right you know tonight is Wednesday night so tomorrow is Thursday just thought you might want to know that and the says we don't [Music] fast eat a lot of fruits why honor of the day so the they don't get involved in this practice but the as are to eat a lot of fruits on this day of now this is such an ancient saer it's actually codified by the he quotes the that to eat a lot of fruits on now the following question just hit me as a way of example Mish why in the world are we eating fruits on tuat do you know tuat is it's a line of demarcation regarding that any fruit that was before tuat it's part of last year's crop and you take off Mas from last year's fruits whatever was after is from next year it's a day it's not really a judgment day it's not a day of judgment nobody is judged on there don't worry your apples and pears are not being judged tonight or tomorrow so why are we eating fruits it's just a line of demarcation for example just occur to me I can't believe I never thought this question what's it's a Russ for master Bima yeah and vegetables vegetabl yeah and master do you eatos on on I never heard of anybody I know people go to SCH to hear the I never heard of a guy he's he's sitting down to like rib steak Who what are you doing a guy eating and they have these ribs the Mish looks like the rib of the the the rib cage they put that on your plate they put the be on your plate that should be for forget the forget the let's get the going no because what just because it's a line of demarcation from Master B you don't have to eat beo because it's a line of demarcation so why you eating fruits on tubish you ever wonder about that and people you see what's going on it's actually the fruits are more expensive than the Bemis they're more you could get a steak for cheaper than the kind of fruits they came up I don't even know if they're real fruits they're genetically manufactured there these things don't grow on trees you let me ask you you saw any of these things ever on a tree you never saw any of these fruits that with with horns and prickly things you never saw any of these guys on a tree right so why why you eating them because it's a rashash for for master okay that's what we're going to discuss tonight but on a more serious note I want to share with you a few questions of course we're going to start with RAB mayor but this is not a RAB mayor sh the says how many do you have to make a day 100 a day 100 blessings a day what does God ask of you and the has so we learn out 100 from the okay the medish comments on this P interestingly that when ate from the what was it some say was some say four possibilities right but uh we we've discussed that in the past so ate from the and now has is afraid he might eat from the and now lest he send forth his hand so the Met says God was giving him an opening of T how do we know God was offering T because hasem said to him the word and now says the med the word and now refers to chuva from where do we learn it and now Israel what does ask of you so we learn from the and now that the word v means what does God ask of you the says that refers to CH so comes by the way his father was AI his mother was an ashkanazi comes and the says how can we tie together these two D that on the one hand and now is what does Hashem ask of you and the refers to 100 and the med says refers to CH what connection is there between CH and 100 because we're learning two things from this the med says refers to the mitah of CHA and Ma refers to 100 this is the question of the in the you know who else asked this question none other than in the in number 10 that's question number one how do you reconcile how do you combine these two refers to ma refers to 100 another similar question is called the man who has H who established oil what does oil mean literally a yoke oil a yoke that goes on the a responsibility look at number eight what does it mean the word of and the word of the man who established a yoke established the responsibility of CHA H refers to the responsibility OFA that's very interesting because the Medan number seven says what's the gatria of oil 100 that it refers to DAV established responsibility of making 100 like the Torah brings down that 100 men were dying every day um every day people were dying 100 100 people were dying every day David came right there was AA and Dav came along and he was Ming 100 to put an end to the plague so it's interesting that on the one hand the gar says oil refers to 100 blessings and here the med says the gar says refers to and the med says it refers to 100 blessings so how do you again how do you combine these two D why is it why is it that we constantly find that the subject of BR is always connected somehow to chuva okay and another one last question the asks in the is he quotes one of the the says you'll return until God what's the of's name 26 26 what's the of what's 74 and 26 100 hasem is 100 yeah but the first part of the P says you'll do cha so again you see a connection between Chua and and 100 so it's very interesting again we uh consistently see a commonality between 100 and what connection is there now I'll tell you a little secret many years ago we answer this question differently it's actually in this book on rabi May and what the says and I'm not going with the's approach tonight what the says is that in order to make a bra you need to be able to have a status of being hashem's child and in order to do chuva you need to be hashem's child that's a idea we've spoken about many many times that only CL could do Chua because Hashem forgives us because a father for could forgo his honor but tonight we're we're going in a different direction and a different angle we're trying to deal with the fact that kazal consistently where they find 100 blessings there they find the Mitzvah of CH be it in says the matter says and is 100 so I found I found a gem an absolute Jam you think it's easy to give a sheir on Tu bishvat every year I mean what we we eat fruits every year it's not so easy I found a treasure okay this treasure was uh discovered in a safe I even messaged the one who printed the safer today I told him I'm giving a share tonight from the saer you published he was very happy or so he led me to believe so so fagi says something very interesting and he says he never saw this anywhere nobody told it to him but it was like divinely inspired he says what period of the year are we in now no period nood you know there's no y yam now the last yam was Kana the next yam is PM but we do have a certain now that's not named after the month or the Y but it's connected to the par and that is sh you ever hear of shim shim are the the eight weeks of those six weeks some add says it comes from the it's a time of chuva chuva for what I'm going to tell you but it's not for a general audience okay so use parental discretion but what is it chuva for the says this in short theal explains this at length it's chuva for something called tabis tikis is preserving the kadha of of BR why this time of the year that's why this time of the year is dedicated for adherent to kadus guarding one's eyes and observing kadus in this area called tonas why these that says like this ate from theas yeah you remember that story I hope so when he ate from theas he separated from because convinced him to eat from theas so for 130 years he had separated from his wife so says what was during those 130 years he saw which means he emitted Z not in uh not witha and therefore by being Z during that time it produced certain and those came back to this world a few times the first time they came back to this world is in the generation of the flood and the generational flood continued this evil behavior of RA they were zal and they were punished in boiling water in the Mable they came back again in the generation of the dispersion daraga they also continued in this evil Behavior this ra fine they came back a third time some say they were also in s we jumping to the end they came back in MIT in MIT they had to be uh cleansed how are they cleansed well in the Mable they drowned so in they were thrown in the water that was a TI for the sin of in the generation of the they built the Tower they said so they were worked and the and the bondage of Egypt purified these Souls from the sin of ad arishine this purification did not come to an end until these eight weeks are dedicated for Tik TI pamas now we know that it's a serious sin in fact it's so serious that the Z says something very frightening and many grapple with the severity of the Z the Z discusses whether you could even repent from such a sin and all the for tell us of course you could repent nothing is beyond repentance one of the main ways to repent is to learn tah with AOS with with toil because the says says in the that the Z is produced in the in the brain now Al the Zar has produced in the brain but now scientifically we know that there's a gland in the brain that causes the production of it it's unbelievable what the Caba taught hundreds of years ago theyve discovered that there's a gland in the brain that actually creates it in any event by learning Tyro with with great depth it P it cleanses a person but says something amazing did you notice that in the whole there no you have eight weeks there's nothing to do so I know everybody they try to invent you something called yiva week right they made a new yam Yesa week but actually that's not a y many people go into debt because of Yesa week and actually most people who stay here find it very pleasant during yiva week because there's much more parking you could go to Central Avenue there's parking there the stores are empty you know Yeshiva week you I would think Yeshiva week is when everyone's in the Yeshiva no Yeshiva week is L Yesa week there no Yesa now right but any event um fi says did you notice though there's one y in and I saw in the writings ofar the son ofar this Y is M smacking middle of it's the middle week of is always tuat that means tuat is um is intentionally and logistic placed strategically placed excuse me strategically placed right in middle of says nobody ever told me this I never saw it anywhere but it must be that tuat is like the and whatever correction we need to be doing in there must be something about tuat that helps us correct the sin say what helps what are we doing on tuat all we're doing is we're eating fruit it must be somehow eating fruit it must be providing us with a tick for this notorious sin and indeed saysi it is well known that making withana is a very big tick for pagamas so therefore he says quoting what a very controversial saer now this many years ago onat when I used to have time we discussed the subject of a very controversial is one of the most controversial all time and there's a question whether it was written by one of the mikal and there opinions that was written by Nathan of Gaza the prophet of sh that's how far-reaching the various opinions are if you remember many years ago we saw we saw fagi very much um defended the authenticity of the says if you look in the making with is a big for Pam and therefore we Dar wherever kazal find the Mitzvah of chv in proximity to it we find the Mitzvah making 100 Bros a day because making Bros properly is a very big element of chuva so is the man who establish L oil the responsibility of Chua he's also the man who who established the mitzah of Chua and what does God ask of you to do chuva and to make 100as a day and how do you return to God 100as a day now some people they go like this huh what what did you say what are you doing Bo huh who where when how what are you talking about no no I made AA you really what but why were you rambling why were you saying jar you know you you didn't even say anything no so you said that pal that wasn't a you were paying homage to the ancient custom of the Hebrews that used to make but that was not a that was not a a is you have to say the words clearly and then when you say hashem's name you think hashem's name means he's the master of of everything he was is and will be will that will will anything happen to you if you stop and think that for a minute nothing will happen to you you're not running anywhere just stop and say the braa slowly and clearly it brings a person a great Al it is a very important element of he even brings a remz you ever hear this now now in cabala the word sadik refers specifically to someone who excels in mid is like who's called in the only why because y was preserved his Kad also while the rest of the generation of the was engaged in this evil Behavior n remained aad soad is someone who guards his kadus blessings made on renders a person sadic blessings so therefore in the realm of doing a proper chuva bras play a key role and therefore Heaven strategically designated that in middle of this twomon no man's land between where all you have is you have this special what are you supposed to do I'll tell you what supposed to do you take out an apple and you say Hashem you think master of everything you were are and will be you are the source of all blessing elu Our God powerful who controls all powers me king of the world he created the fruit of the tree you do that you're catapult upward don't go no that's not bad news bad news M Brewer brings a story they saw a guy in the next World the guy looked out of out of sorts he looked really in bad shape so what what' you do killed someone no what' you do you robbed the no I didn't makeas withana so now the good the good news is you're breathing right now right you're breathing if you're breathing you could still make with by the way writes the same in the that making especially is a tick for the pamis and he says the remes is in Mish L sad that BR made with the proper kav here he says a little different BR made in the with the proper kavana render a person aad also you ever hear there was aad Reb Mani sound familiar he was a contemporary of the benai he was a rabbi in Baghdad and he moved to Kevon he's buried in the ancient Cemetery in KRON and he wrote a sa for carad and he says being careful in is a for this and all the yeah also but um all now had a son any youone know the name of the son son's name was R fi I had the to be at r fi's on on his yard sidei is not buried in the New York area he's not buried in the tri- state area he's buried in ismir in Turkey now right now not a good place to visit but is also there is also there next to each other they're pretty close to each other yep also bar there's AI wrote a sa in Lino you know what Lino is is it's a it's like a Spanish it's a Jews spoke Lino it's like what Yiddish is to German leino is to uh to Spanish a people of Spanish origin he wrote a saer in Lino and here you have the translation in Hebrew he also writes the same idea that Hashem was maak that since this time of the year of we're doing cha for this particular inion known as therefore gave us to be so that the special of gives us a unique opportunity to the so the way I look at it is here you have eight weeks and the center piece of the eight weeks of what we're trying to accomplish in this eight weeks is the special y of and all you got to do is enjoy fruits and even if it costs you a lot of money I know it's going to cost you more than a stake but you're going to make a braa and it's going to elevate you and it's going to rectify us and this saysi saysi is a very big part of the inion of now says that he got this idea from the I want to share with you how the says it he says that you know in in the world of they Mish fasted a very good chunk of they could fast up to every Thursday some every Monday and Thursday some fasted 84 days doesn't look like that many people in this room fasted 84 days but but tubish you're not to fast why he says tubish is a big tickle during this time of the year and he says something very interesting I'm sure you're familiar with the famous Yi says and I know a lot of people that are on this when they go to KES they always think about thisi a person's going to give an accounting for every good food they saw and they didn't eat I know a lot of people that are very mockit on this you hear what thei says every treat that you see and you don't eat you're going to have to pay the price for wow what does that mean reel Lear would save up money to be able to eat from every kind of species every new item why is that sounds like a very unusual Mitzvah by the way you don't find this in the B at the and or it's not down either one day we're going to have to have a share on this topic what exactly is this Mitzvah that a person's going to give a on every treat that he saw that he didn't eat from says somebody who eats without aaha the gamar says is what he's a gazan what's he stealing from so simply he's stealing from God belongs to God without the blessing God doesn't give it to you he says he says deeper than that that by making AA you cause that a an influence of blessing comes down from shim that the angel appointed over that fruit will be now filled up from the BR you made to be able to make another fruit fruit so if you don't make a blessing you're stealing from mankind more oranges you eat an orange and you don't make a blessing you're stealing oranges from people cuz now the angel is not going to be able to produce hashem's not going to give more oranges you're stealing from the world more blessing the reproduction yeah the continuous Bounty of this type of prodest the gar continues soone who doesn't make a you're stealing from your father and your mother why cuz when you eat with kavana you Rectify your soul in everyone's Soul you know what your soul is I'm going to tell you where your soul is in your soul the same way what's in your what's in your body your DNA where does your DNA come from your father and your mother so there's a piece of your father and your mother in your physical entity in your soul there's a nit of your father and your mother also and your grandfather and your grandmother and when you make a you're you're giving power to your soul and your parents and if you don't make AA you're stealing from your parents and they might be looking down from Shay unle you're still you're still at it someone who doesn't make a is stealing from their parent the reason why the Yi says that for every type of food you see and you don't enjoy you're going to pay the price it means you need to enjoy it to make a br on it because by making a br on it you're allowing the rest of the world to enjoy from it so therefore um rabar would save up money and enjoy every type of fruit why not to enjoy the fruit to be to make a tick in the in the entire world by the way the Tash who a tam Ram renberg also quotesi that a person is destined to give a for every for every pleasure that he didn't partake of the meaning of that is for every pleasure he didn't partake of and make a br on it it's not for the pleasure of it it's for the ability to make a br on it so there's a particular connection between this Man of the Year there man of and is like the so if I were to ask you now after the you know what are the and what about and what about and anything in between yeah there's a time period in between it's called is designated for chuva and the you know the Pinnacle of the middle day of is Tu this is the approach of fi and his Soni there's another beautiful idea that many people I never understood this until until this week you could go to the store you could get a dragon fruit I mean the dragon it's like yellow with red and you could get I saw in the store today an ugly fruit an ugly fruit I guess everybody gets what they deserve you know um you could get a th guava a thigh that's what it was a Tha guava um you could get a special kind of pair asan yeah a yali pair yali y a l i then they had a Malo citrus fruit a big all kinds of stuff going on over there but no people don't want any of that they're still eating their dried apricots right they're still that you could get a fresh kiwi no dry kiwi why why in the world eating a dry kiwi they pump chemicals in it I get a headache the next day from from the from the nitrates and the the sulfites I think I got a headache from it uh you could have fresh fruit there's a the big section is dried fruit what in the world people getting dried fruit why would you want a dried fruit if you have a fresh fruitable right what's wrong with people no there's a reason for it there's a reason to have dry fruit I never knew I thought it was just I don't know what there's a special basis for perro this is in the sa the son brings this also in the IM of they bring from his grandson that don't forget it's sh of him and people sometimes get down in they feel they may have sinned and in this type of way where where the Z says it's hard to climb out of and they feel they're all dried out they feel like they're dead they're a dead fruit they feel like they're shata they feel like you know like a dried apricot and even worse now now I understand now people eat bucker bucker eat the table it's the same thing there's no there's no difference I almost WR it with me cuz you knew I was going to do my bucker routine I people are still eating that thing buxer yeah yeah cut off a piece of table and bite into it what is it water yeah and if you soak it in water for a week and then you chop it up and then then you know you soak it in Salt after that I mean eat the table while you're at eat eat the floor the wall I don't know but people are eating answer sometimes you pe you feel like a dried piece of wood you feel down and out but we know this time of the year even though you might feel down and out you could look at the tree the tree is dead like a door knob doesn't look like anything's going on but we know our tradition is that the S is o in the interior of the tree at this time of the year the sap begins to rise because most of the Rains of the year have already fallen when it comes to tuat it's also very interesting by the way that I saw the mar says we know on Tu of the sun begins to wne and the nights get longer and there's more time to learn and they stop chopping wood for the M cuz the sun is is waning and it doesn't dry out the wood there might be worms in the wood which means Tu bat which is the polar opposite the sun begins to get stronger today and the nights begin to get shorter and the days start getting longer and there's more Sunshine so it's the time of raim so even though you may feel down and out you feel like a dried apricot you feel spiritually like a dried you feel even worse you feel like a piece of bucker you're wood you have no Tom in you you have no juice you have nothing going on you're down and out you're an but we know this time of the year that through a little bit of May of to you could begin to flourish and grow and fix and rectify and Blossom and develop into so the Min the Min of eating a dry fruit is to indicate that even if you feel dry and like AATA you could still develop into a beautiful tree so that's there's a specific inion of eating uh dry fruit on this day and I would add maybe that's where the buckster comes from okay let me uses the language there's no such thing say yes the said that's everybody's using well actually it's a question right why it says it should say right because everything else is and and we've discussed that uh um many times I want to end off with the following uh very piece in the writes he quotes if I were to ask you how do you get raise your hands if you have well it's very how do you get I don't know you know you go to the Mikvah you wake up very early you spend a good part of the day davening learning doing writes that he heard from the the holy spirit is primarily dependent on making why is that because imperfections and t comes from what's in the food and when a person makes a proper braa the kip the outer shells the Tuma in the food is removed says because here you have an orange you don't see what's going on in the orange there's T in the orange the orange could downgrade your soul when you make a proper BR if you go no they're monsters in the orange if you make a proper the the food is pure the food will Elevate you the was also in the look at this a person's body is n from the food and from the is Sanctified with these blessings like it says so we don't think of it this way we think our alah comes from comes from and it does but the says the ier achievement of connection and is by making and what we're learning tonight from is thatat was strategically given to Jewish people during this time of the year the time of to elevate us to give us the renders us a and it's the and like the says it could elevate a person all the way to the mad of have a great night when did they establish that did they celebrate the celebrate like with fruits like or just that that it's a day the day listen yeah