Uncovering the Moed of the Days of Sefira and the Biblical Yom Tov of Lag B'Omer

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If anybody wants to be we're going to speak about this and most specifically we're going to talk about is the most misunderstood yam on our calendar. We all know that during this time of the year, Rabaka had 24,000 students. And when you hear the number 24,000, so you should be alerted. Where else do we find 24,000 in Tanakh? We we we do encounter the number 24,000 in Tanakh. And that is when Bum advised Balak to get the Jewish people to stumble in Yayos. There was a plague in Kali Israel. And how many Jews died in the plague? 24,000. Halo Daru. Is it a coincidence that in the times of Bum and Balak? Balak came from what nation? Balak was the king of Moyav. And of course, who came from Moyav? David. And who's born on Shabuis? David. So is that just coincidental? 24,000 Jews died because of Moyav and then later 24,000 students of Rika died and after all of this death we have the when it's all over is that is there anything uh to that but we have this mysterious dayb what exactly happened on we know during this time of the year we don't shave we don't take haircuts there are no weddings during this time of the year and all of a sudden Yeah, Lagimer. You're allowed to What happened on Lagr? What's the big yumpt of Lagimer? Did something really happy? Is there any cause for celebration? So, the Torah brings down if you have a sheet number one on your sheet that the students of Rabi Aka stop dying on. You don't have it. I'll come back tomorrow. I'll do it again. But the students of Rabika stopped dying. I mean, is that a cause for celebration? Can you imagine on the day after the 6 million were killed? So now we're going to celebrate. Why? Because they stopped being killed. Yeah. That's because there's nobody left. Rabika didn't have any surviving tid. So what kind of bizarre celebration is this? That the students of Rabika stopped dying on. They stopped dying because they're all dead. Is that a cause for a Yamiff? Is that really the celebration of it's very unusual. I would like to examine a number of paras. Of course, we know paras is the para of theim. There are two parish that talk about the we have paras and very good paras. What's the difference between Mr and Pinas? Mr. tells you the Yiff and tells you the mitzvah of the of the Yamiff and Pinas tells you the carbon that are brought on the Yam. Okay. So, we have two different Yamim. We have two different paras that discuss and they discuss it in different ways. Emar discusses the uh the and discusses the and let's take a look at number six or if you want to take out that's also good. These are the you need to proclaim here are here they are. You ready? Everyone fasten your seat belts. We're about to say the here it goes. They are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So that's the first and shabas and shabas. Huh? We have this big, you know, drum roll. And what are they? Work for six days and rest on the seventh. Now the first goes, what's Shabas doing? Shabas is not a Yamiff. So Rashi darian it's coming to tell you that don't think Yamiff is more lenient than Shabas. Anyone who doesn't observe Yamiff it's like abolishing Shabas and anyone who keeps Shabas it's like celebrating Yamiff but still it's rather odd. We have this big intro and then it says keep Shabas but even more bizarre is you know what the are work for six days. The work days are not Yamiff. What's what's going on over here? So the vagin and the rebel have a very revolutionary reading of the beginning of paras because we can ask another question. At the end of all the which does it discuss and then it says besides Shabas. What do you mean besides Shabas? We just said Shabas we just said Shabas. So why at the end does it say beside Shabas? We already mentioned Shabas. So the gr and the rebel say six days you do work not all work on yumptiff you do some work there's six days that of yumptiff that you do work what are they here it goes two days of pes the first and the seventh in ar is one day of shis one day of rashashana and the first and the eighth day of sukus those are the six days Not Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. There's six days of Yamiff that you're allowed to cook. But there's a seventh day of Yam. You can't do any. Which seventh day is that? We're not talking about the work days. We're not talking about Shabas. Six days you should do work on cooking and carrying on. You can't do any. And now we're going to tell you what they are. Here it goes. You have pes and you have shuis and you have sukus and so on and so forth. So that's the introduction to the paras. Let's read about some of the yam mentioned in par. One of the yam mentioned after the of pes it talks about the mitzvah of what in the world is the mitzvah of doing when the are listing off the various it says it says the mitzvah of it says shuis it says rash. Why include the mitzvah of in the litany in the list of the it's a mitzvah you count you count 49 days these are not days these are not is is it now these are days of why are why is the mitzvah of listed in paras among all the other that that's a very basic question why in paras when talking about all the yamim does it talk about the mitzvah of now we mentioned the difference between and pin is talks about the mitzvah of the and pinas talks about the carbon of the yumpt and yet there's an exception to this rule it does mention some carbon in par namely and so if you look in there the say the craft You should bring carbon for seven days says the safaro. Why is the Pik telling me about the carbon of P? This is not the par of carbon. Par of carbon is in this is the para of the mitzv says the paras is the par. How do we know if a day is holy and if a day is? Would you say is Yumpt or is not Yam? How do we know says this? The fact that we bring that indicates that's symptomatic that the days of are now we understand why they're listed in par. In other words, why is mentioned in Param? The answer is yeah, you bet it's a Yam. How do I know it's a Yam? You're going to bring carbonite. Well, what are carbon doing in they should be in pinas? No, it's only mentioning in the context of that you bring carbon to explain why is mentioned in not mentioned in Now let's go back to why are the days of spher mentioned in Emr are these days of Yamiff? Now let's think for a moment. If on days that you bring a carbon it becomes a yumptiff. Do you bring a carbon during the days of well sort of on the second day of pes look at number 11. You bring the carbon. So you're going to bring the carbon on the second day of Shabas. Now how many days do you bring the carbon for you bring it one day? But wait a second that bringing of the carbon triggers a mitzvah for 49 days. So technically you bring the carbon and then you count 49 days. So that means the bringing of the carbon is extended for a 49day period. In fact, there's an ancient medish called Medish that lists seven. It's listed number 24. What do you mean? What's the answer is on the second day of PES, you bring a carbon. The carbon is called a carbon. That carbon is extended for 49 days through the process of and therefore in a certain dimension a certain way there's a 49 day y it's called say really do I have to cook maybe what exactly is this yumptive called why don't we celebrate it do we do anything about it are you allowed to do oh I thought you might ask that question. The answer is you're not allowed to do malika during the day of the really only women. Did you know that? Only women. If you look in the tour, the tour writes very interesting. The tour writes number 19. I just gave you big vacation from until the morning. Uh Uber Eats. Okay. Why? Why you not do from until the morning says the tour? Well, I guess the day must have died from until the morning. And when a dies, you have to be bum. So there were go there not to do malika. Who doesn't do mala? We'll get to that. It says about these are not there of rest. Therefore the night from Shia till the morning as the status of Shabas you don't do Malika and therefore from until the morning there's no mala who doesn't do mala nashim is this min practice was manaz no I don't know anybody who ever heard of this but it's brought down in the Torah that there's a quality of yumpt during the days of why because it says shabas in fact The lavush brings that the shabas of are like shabas and therefore the special to say and there special yo to say and where are they in old sorim what kind of old sudorum old ashkorim where are they somebody hid them so no so so we don't have to say it but we don't have those we don't what you know haliv people come on time for desim But now you're going to get them to say and the shab between pes and however the lavush brings that these are very important says the monker these yro are the most important felo of the entire year because they're in preparation of the birth of messiah on shabuis who says these felo but we're just trying to bring out an idea the idea is there's a new The yumpt is called it lasts for 49 days. It begins on P. It ends on is this a it's a biblical yam. Where is it? An of course it's an in talks about it talks about it. Why would it randomly talk about a mitzvah of does it talk about the mitzvah? You know there's a big mitzvah. If you build a roof, you have to put a fence on it. But it's not an because you don't make a yumpt when you put a fence around your roof. And there are a lot of mitzvah in there of see you see a bird with a nest, you shoe away the bird, but it's not a yumpt is a yumpt. Otherwise, it wouldn't be an it's a 49day, but there's no carbon. Of course, there's a carbon. Yeah, but we don't bring a bisman. Of course, we do. The ram says you could bring all the carbon even without a mikdash. That's why the brisk says according to the is now most don't hold that most because you're not bringing the carbon but the ram holds you could bring carbon today we don't do it for technical reasons and the possibility of bringing a carbon triggers a biblical yamtif of 49 days what do we do during this yamtiff there's an ancient custom not to do malik at night who was supposed to observe Why it's not really clear says well we we forbid work so people don't forget to count which is hard to understand because the men are counting the women are women counting spir it's even do women count spir let's take a poll official poll here in are you serious really I'll tell you a little secret off the Here are women allowed to count sphere of you know that uh is a mitzvah. So are women obligated? No. The mam says women have it accepted as the men says no they haven't. I never heard of a woman who accepted it as says women are not allowed to count. Why don't sorry because you have to understand And number two, are they going to remember? So why says bisman? Maybe the men shouldn't be counting spir but but um in the house of kvski they were mak to count spir but al kabahidim do not count women do not count um okay I that was just like like a random side point I can't get into you know. Yeah. If it is considered a fact, why is it that it doesn't cancel the h? So, okay. Okay. Good question. But I'm going to use it for my purposes the other way around. So, if it's really a biblical holiday, if it's a mitzvah, if it's a as evidenced by the fact that it's discussed in paras. So, why is this a sad time of the year? What happened to the it's mentioned in now the main maramakum that I want to point out is the language of the Ramban. The Ramban and par number 13 writes a very beautiful language. The Ramban says that he's observing the fact that the days of mentioned in Emr. He says we could compare the days of to with Pes being like the first day of Yamiff and Shivuis. What's another day for Shuis? At being the seventh day or the eighth day and just like on Sukus we have the first day and ates we have this big yumptive called Pesak Shabuis. Pesak being the first day being at with with spir in between and says the Ramban. It's like really what a happy time. So why do we have restrictions of a why aren't we listening to music? Why aren't we having weddings? Why aren't we having we have a mitzvah to enjoy to enjoy this 49 day. What happened to it? It must be because of the tragedies that happened that the students of Rabaka passed away. The same way we we say with the of what was you know the say the there how many permutations are there of the there 12 there are 12 ways to spell yud and the month of was spelled hey v and aud backward that comes from the ending in a he a nanu ending in a v ending in a hey lee ending in a yud. So was like the worst month of the year. It was backward and it was so we see there's a possibility to take days of mourning and to transform them into Yamiff. Well, if you could transform morning into Yamiff, there's also a possibility of transforming Yam into a which means that a biblical Yamiff called has been has been transformed into days of now listen to this. What para does the gamar migillah say we must read before the of Ezra was for saw that before we need to read the of and before we have to read the of the how many are in the in the 49 huh which indicates that even though these days are biblically they also have the possibility of trans being transformed formed into curse. And therefore when before these 49 days are over, we got to sweep out of the way the power of 49la. And how do we do that? By reading parli who transform these days into curse. There's one nation who is able to take any blessing and be mah to kala. It's a nation whose gamachia is 49. It's someone who hired a very big Russia Calaleno to curse us. And he tried to curse us. And the Gomorrah says contrary to what they taught you in yeshiva that he blessed us that Hashem transformed his into that's not what happened. And the gar says hashem transformed his brah into clala except for one bum moy is gamatri 49 says moy is numerical value of 49. There are 49 powers of kala and 49 powers of braha. Why 49? Because the physical world is always in the parameter of seven. 7 represents the gamut of the physical world and 7 * 7 is the full gamut of the physical world. So there's 49 powers and 49 powers of it started out that the days of spir were days of days of comes bam and he's hired by 49. Now why is moy the kayak of who's the patriarch of moyav in Aramaic means latusa curse kala like in the gar is of and during this time of the year somehow they were able to be thisman until days of tragedy and how many Jews died because of the curse of bum harasha in the end of paras balak 24,000 huh says malamuk saysami pano god gave an opportunity for the students of raka to rectify the moy and to overturn it back into braha and they blew it and therefore they too during this time of the year this man of moa 49 this man of Kala they succumbed to the original force of Kala that Bum brought to the world that was directed to this man. Now isn't it difficult to understand 24,000 students. So now we're going to transform Yamtiff into aos. We know in the Jewish calendar the only time we have aos is for what? So okay it's a very big tragedy that sadikim died that died but it doesn't seem to be comparable to mikdash. So let's let's observe what was happening historically in the times of reba. What did rebika do for a livinger shepherd? After that he was a godhar. What else did he do? She sold used cars. No, life insurance. Rabika was a a car service driver. Yeah, he used a weapons bearer. Whose weapons did he shle? He believed was Msiah. Rabaka came to Bara and he said, "Hey, you're Mashia." What's name? Bara. We from what that is says to you're a sign of your Messiah. You're going to transform Moyab into Was was Rabbi wrong? Could Rabbi Yaka have made a mistake? Rabi Rabika said he's Messiah. So was just Rabbi was wrong and he wasn't Msiah. So Mosha Shapiro says heaven forbid Rabbi made a mistake. Of course he had the potential to be Msiah. Why wasn't he Messiah? Why didn't he transform Maya into because the 24,000 students of Rabika died and therefore it frustrated's plans. So therefore this the death of the 24,000 is akin to what? Because otherwise would have been built through who would have support the 49 days of are 499 days counting up to the lea of Msiah on Shabas. It's a preparation for the Mashiach. However, the death of the 24,000 of frustrated that possibility and could not come to be and they could not overcome the 49 of and therefore the 24,000 students of Rabi again repeated the same pattern of the 24,000 Jews who died in because of the advice of of Balak Malik. But let me ask you something. So that means does that mean spir is like gone forever? It's not a yamtiff anymore. I mean it was a yamisa. So well it's not a yamtiff anymore. But what if there would be one day that the students of rabbi weren't dying. So then the original luster and glory and beauty of a biblical yamtiff would shine through without anything interfering with its ability to be a yumpta. So we look through the days of spir and lo and behold there's one day of that the students of rabaka didn't die. Oh, what's the yumpt of of the what's the it's the yumptiff of the whole the only thing is the entire got ruined it was nifam it was it was transformed into a through the death of the students of but there's one day the students of didn't die so is the original biblical holiday called it's a y of where does it say it in paras what para do we read every single year the week of lag amar and everyone's looking where is there a rem and par re the whole para is the par of because the days of are originally the only thing is they got ruined through the death of the students through the death of there was akin to that transformed the man but there's one day that retains its original luster. Very interesting. GR the GR wants to know what would the be if someone lost a relative on PES. Is there a onra pes or do we say is a y and says the there's no take a look at number 26. You ready for this gra? What do you count? What do you call the seven days beginning on the 15th day of Nissan that we eat matzah and we don't eat? What's that yumpt called? Pes right no where who calls it pes nowhere in the whole toyra are those seven days called pes you know what it's called what day is called pes from the 14th of Nissan from until the night is called that's when you bring the carbon what para is that yumptin says the since that day is an then it's a yumpt there's no P because that's PES proper. So says Shapiro if Pes is an Mr. and that renders of PEST then is an Mr. and that would render the days of SPRA. The only thing is the problem is the trouble is that we've ruined it. We've uprooted it. We were we transformed it into days of aos through the death of the students of Rabaka. But we have one day that remains pristine. We have one day that's perfect. We have one day that retains its biblical element and that is the first week of is no. It's p it's yeah that that's because it's the yumpt of pes but the put it this way the death of the students of rabiko was not strong enough to uproot the yumpt of pes but once pes is over then the aos could uproot the yumpt of spir this would explain a few very interesting things in haka there is a custom now now that I I see that 90% of you count so I might be surprised with some other things that you Okay, good. However, there is an opinion. Okay, that's another question. But there's an opinion that you don't say but rather you say and the Abraham says not to say that but brings there's a custom to say as if the is part of the mitzvah. Let's say for example, let's say a person lights the Shabas candles and forgets to make a where they say the mitzvah. Yeah. Yeah. The is never part of the mitzvah. The is always an additional thing to the performance of a mitzvah. And yet when it comes to there's an opinion that you say as if the is connected to the mitzvah and part of the mitzvah. Why would the be part of the mitzvah? But the answer is like we're explaining the days of were originally they were uprooted and transformed through the death of the students and they became days of kala 49 49 days of kala and it was repeated itself in the times of the students. The avoid of the job of is to re change the days of from into how do I do that partially with the of so the of is different than any other mitzvah other mitzvah the braha is ancillary to the mitzvah when it comes to the bra is part and parcel of the mitzvah and therefore we have to make sure that before these 49 days are over we read paras And we get out of the way the 49 days of and who is born on Shab the of David Benavido now it's very interesting David is the ml he transforms the of light is of curse And Light had a partner in crime as well. Who is Light's partner in crime? His daughter. Light's daughter. And when Russ gives birth to this child, Oade, she's uh they're at the kdesh. Boy is already done. He's dead, right? And at the kdesh or at the aliyah Russ is up there in the ladies section. The rabbi makes the mishab and everyone's looking at the mother because the father's not around. Does anybody remember who names? No naomi. It's um the neighbors. Now I know neighbors could be very yentish. I know that. But for the neighbor in the shul to name the kid and not the mother. Why isn't Russ naming the mother? That's the most bizarre thing in the world. You look it says that Russ was the Gilgal of the eldest daughter of light. Now the eldest daughter of light she she did good. She brought David into the world. I mean she she thought there was no one else in the world. So he had no choice. But Kazal criticized her for doing one thing. What did she do? The name she gave was too explicit mayav she should have said like am someone from the people but not that was too explicit that it came from her father. So says the when came back and they asked a new what's the name he said give it to someone else I'm not even naming the kid that was a tick for to overcome the of and the eldest daughter of lit r was and was born on the yumptiff of shu and where is David born in what city Base Yehuda Rashel is what number? 50. So David is is born on the 50th day. And therefore when David is born Ben, we always need that 50. We need to overcome all 49 curses of and when we do that to the full blessing of this. Am I too early? This is what I got. Five more minutes. Okay. brings a whole story about the two daughters of so um tell us do you want to hear the story in the hakama of the mo in it's brought that it was in Luban Russia in the year 1922 and one of theatim of Feinstein became deathly ill what was his illness his tongue became completely inflamed claimed and he was literally dying. Misas hamaraglam and he called Raosha in in his last moments and he asked everybody to leave the room and he said Mosha I want to tell you the story of why this is happening to me. Last week we read we read Paras Vira and in Paras Vira we read about the despicable deplorable act of the daughters of light who they lived with their father and not only did they live with him but they weren't embarrassed about and they called it Moyov and they advertised that they lived with him and I spoke badly about them I spoke derogatorily about them and that night I went to sleep and I had a dream and in the dream there were two women dressed completely in black covered from head to toe in black and And they said we are the daughters of light and we have come to respond to your accusation. We thought that the whole world was destroyed and we lived with our father Shamayim to propagate the world to continue the world. If we would not have given the name there was a danger that people would have claimed immaculate conception that and would have created a false messiah. So therefore, we dapka said moyov, it's from dad so that nobody would say that a woman could become pregnant on her own. And because we prevented a false Messiah from coming, Hashem blessed us that the true Msiahu came from us. The man closed his eyes. He turns his face to the wall and he passed away. And says he believes that this is a a true reasoning for the uh events and the reward of the bay light. So we're counting, we know we're counting these 49 days. But what are we counting toward? We're counting to overcome the 49 powers of we're counting toward the birth of Msiahu, which is certainly what we need right now. I thank everybody for the opportunity today and uh enjoy the rest. Thank you. If anybody wants any of the swarm, they're available in the back. tough. 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