Weekly Torah Portion Behar (Counting the Omer) Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

so hi everybody but British Emma I am very very capable substitute I hope you know not going to help I know that really clapping today a great great job what I want to talk about today is actually in last week's partial but it's still very contemporary that is the Mitzvah of counting the L member we read in last week parkas mor that the Torah says is for example of Charlie McCarthy Shabbos you shall count from the day after Shaba and this is going to be very critical we all have the Economist Homer has new files from the time that you bring the cortlin O'Mara which is a barley operator there is a critical critical question what does the word Shabbos mean in that puzzle and this was a mock locust that it lasted for hundreds and hundreds of years the seductive The Saturdays which are not a legitimate movement to my perspective they're the ones who deny the TOEIC about parity or Allah they took a very literalist position that the meaning of the word Shabbos is Saturday the seventh day of the week and as a result they always counted the all mayor from The Sunday like the day after Sabbath after paper right because they said Margaret the chaves chaves mean shove aspiration the Pharisees the pollution who are cut out basically said know the meaning of Shabbat is the first day of Pesach because since you'll be praying from Malaga on some level it is called Chavez and therefore the bringing of the young man and the counting of the Omer starts from the second day of paper now the Gemara even says that this was their my Hogan that lasted for hundreds of years and many many people were attracted to the sanity position partly for economic reasons because you know if you start counting the on their on Sunday shoe who else is always going to be on the subjects could be Jay is always going to be under Sunday and in our intro we only have one day of youngsters that's great because that's guaranteed a two-day vacation from work because you are Machado spending Sunday and as a result the suit comes position with specificity powers that they even made the argument Moshe Rabbeinu was a lover of Israel that is what he said you can't be almost Allah something and yes the command went out of their way to show that Chavez does not mean Chavez shudders means the first day of Pesach ergo the Macarena Chavez means the second day of paper so the question doesn't come obvious if indeed we start talking the old man from the second day of Pesach why does it say me maha-rathah Chavez it should be more explicit as you'd say me maha-rathah have Pesa so here the empanada has a very interesting opportunity really to observation then if it would have certainly muscle s epatha that wouldn't be the wrong date and this is a very important point in sukham when the totally talks about a day as Petter throughout the whole poem it is very clear that pesos does not refer to the 15th of Nisan pets often refers to the 14th of Nisan which is the day that we sacrifice the carbon Tet book as a result the of Annette were said if the toilet would have said you shall start counting the old man the day after pets us the day after they haka Pesa that wouldn't have meant the second day of pesos that would have meant the first day of that receipt in the toll on us we have two festivals the 14th of Nisan is called Pesa all those money yom kippur say the 15th of Nisan for the next seven days is called Takamatsu the holiday of matzah the modern utilization is already results on a new thing that we call though the period Tessa is actually not in the Torah itself is that receives for Baelish because the Torah says in purchase my sign the maha-rathah pets up yet to pay as well the Jewish people left Egypt the day afterthe ethics that we know he left the 15 like so LMI has not been supporting so the evidence reserves that is why the tourists said we Makarov has Shabbat hash of us because Java is a day that you refrain from work and that would be the 15th me ma classes therefore the 16th if we go to certain Buffalo so Tessa peddanna would have been to 14th we mothers would even assist identify different intercepts but the evidences answer is not complete because all right the mother hasta Pesa would not have somatically that we are giving you the wrong day but Shabbos is an ambiguous term it could mean Saturday it could mean yumpin if the Torah wanted to clearly tell you the second day of Pentecost was a very simple way of doing it just use the date say but Hosea shall be shown the first month which is nice on the shisha on solar Lakota on the 16th of the month you shall bring the olbermann start counting that would have avoided all ambiguities why does the Tyra go out of its way to use a word shadows which invites the interpretation of the spoken that shadows mean Saturday and then to a variety of directa reinterpreted to me youngters and therefore we must collapse of the day after why use ambiguous terms is one to use a clear and explicit dating so there is a beautiful explanation from the message automotive layers of kowtowing where he starts off with a more general observation that's quite interesting we know of course that we have two types of sacred time we have the sacred time of Chabot and we have the sacred time of the abyss but we know there are two hull logic differences between shadows and yonkers difference number one is the category called OLM in other words we know that on savage is not allowed to do 39 and I asked if you're actually not allowed to do 13 envelopes but I'm young tough there is a dispensation there was a special head there for Moluccas that are undertaken for food preparation and that's extended by the way not just food preparation but the general justice needs this is called Hotel nebbish you are allowed to do Malaka on yom tov for food preparation this so i got absolutely even what cooking cooking is Abelardo laser and you can cook on onion so there is a hectare of oak mmm fresh on your hips there is not a head there a local Memphis for four shots that's difference number one we will explore why that is so different number two is how AJ's consecrated the holiness of Shabbos these are automatic holiness that is built into the very rhythm and fabric of creation every seventh day of shopping whether you're reeling or not that we always discovered and in fact even if God forbade this will never happen but even if God forbid there would not be a single Jew in the world that is keeping chalice the holiness of Shabbos permeates the existence within this universe now yes let's still beat yes I believe that is the case because shaggers is inherently Sancta sanctified because it is the completion of God's creation it does not depend on us in any way yes if however is a very peculiar thing yup tip is conceptually very complicated because all of the up until them are measured from the sighting of the new moon that we have a lunar calendar so Rosh Hashana is the new moon of Tishrei Pesa is the fifteenth day from the new moon of descent of life now the way the new moon was sanctified in certainly the time to debate evict us was not to a calendar and not to astronomical calculations it was based on eyewitness testimony who saw the swimmers of the new moon that the hundred would then sanctify now what's interesting is that the way the Rambam explains it even if the Sanhedrin sanctifies the long day even if they exact defy the day that is not astronomically low chosen the oven totem are calculated not from the truly chosen they are calculated from the Declaration of the Sun entrance whether it is true or false you may recall a very famous Mishnah in the third parent of Rosh Hashanah where rabbun jalil who is the head of the Sanhedrin accepted the testimony of witnesses and declared a certain day to be virtuous on earth when the Oshiro was convinced that those witnesses were lying and their sighting of the moon and that particular day was impossible and as a result he took the position that where Hashanah was a day later and he refused to accept the decision of the Senedd res Rabban Gamliel ordered Rebbe yahushua to come to him on the day that Yom Kippur was born of kippers the tested right-to-control schewe in Russia shudder with a bang later yom kippur would be a day later and he ordered of Yahshua on the dead that you think different come to me with your money belt and joy stack violin your yom kippur because it's not your Kippur and Derbyshire was really in a costume and how can you violate the day that he maintained with the holiest day of the year but whether you keep a play case where the keeper said listen the day this is integrity proclaims Rosh Hashanah will be the basis for the calculation of papers even if there was reminiscent Platteville of a famous statement made by very very limited Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson those of you that said we go back on the appearance of takea he actually took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court to be a prosecutor at Nuremberg members wardrobes very very unusual thing to represent and what said about the Supreme Court we are not final because we are infallible but we are available because we are final now what that saying is it's not that what the Supreme Court says is objectively correct what the Supreme Court does might be wrong but if we did the system they are the final arbiters it automatically becomes the law of the United States even as a truck now Lahab you see - AHA - works very much the same way well the kodesh is not Rosh Chodesh because that is the day that the new moon appears Rosh Chodesh is ruling because that is the day to Sun Hedren proclaimed it to be the day the new moon appears even if they're wrong they get it right now you may ask the question today we don't have a son Hendrik today we don't have the future Kovac the sanctification of the new moon so why are there young men told them at all the Rambam actually says without a Sanhedrin that proclaims the new moon there is no how logic Rosh Chodesh if there's no how logically there are no LM talkin so the Rambam explained that the last Sun Hedren which by the way is way after debate and hundreds were finally abolished by the Romans in around the fourth or even fifth century 400 and the last son hydrants were headed by a descendant of Hilla who's also given the name Hillel and Hillel and that last integrant calculated the Russian kodesh in advance and they actually sanctified all the ferocious Kodesh for the fact no more than 2,000 years in the future till the Year 6000 according to our tradition they did not sanctify anything beyond the year six thousands because it's for sure that the Messiah must come by then and then we will go back to the old system which means in theory in theory this actually means that the Jewish calendar has an expiration date of the Year 6000 and that actually means that I mean this is counterfactual but if the machine was not coming here 6000 there was no longer be young and Tolan Pesach full of suckers that would still be shovin but not youngest young just depends I'm the sanctification of the subhead rest as representatives of the Jewish people by the way I'll give you a real brain teaser you know we like to say people say oh but she has must come no later there's a year success okay based on the idea that when you've completed six millennia you're entering the shabath of creation which is machine so people say all rubbish em that's a very reassuring and wonderful thought because we are now in 5777 so at an absolute absolute maximum it's going to be less than 300 years but here's my brain teasers my great teacher is that this is really a meaningless statement because is my does not come by the year 6,000 the year 5900 9 never had let's imagine mushiya will come in a million years so what he still come before the year 6000 because if the Jewish calendar expires in the year 6000 then there's no entity that can proclaim which will shatter and if there's no entity that super cleanser on your son as beer 6,000 you are in a perpetual like Groundhog Day you're in a perpetual 5999 as a result it's a meaningless statement to say but she asked us several years 6,000 because if he doesn't it's not the year 6000 in towards whatever that bit of us of a brainteaser than that one can consider well but be it as it may this is a very important distinction the holiness of Shabbos does not depend on us the holiness of yonkers depends on us we need to actively sanctify it either the Sanhedrin or the last surendran does computed as an event this distinction is evident from the text of the bracha in the governing itself on Shabbos we say Baruch Hashem blessed art usm maker - ABBA who sanctifies shenyang temp you'll recall will be said prophet Elijah the Kadesh misra L for husband Ian he sanctified Israel who interest sanctifies the sacred types and vary between us very except that's why when it's both shadows and yom kippur the grocer is very interpreter dodgem the Kadesh on Shabbat the Israel my husband you saw much money okay because the holiness of yonkers comes from the holiness of Israel the holiness of Shabbos transcends the holiness official now you may ask a little question while waiting seven here how can I say that we do not sanctify the Shabbos only God thank about others don't we say something Friday night and shadows very that is called key douche he does quite literally means sanctification so we have to understand officially he does does not mean actual sanctification it means acknowledgement of sanctity so when we say leadership Chavez we are not making shove it solely we are declaring that God made it holy maybe that's what the kitty said right ego yeah ii - d'you say - price and the like with causation shell okay yes so we now what do we have here and we now see there are two distinctions between shudders and yonkers distinction number one is yelp dough has a dispensation for Oakhill methods food preparation Shabbos does not like the only dispensation for services danger delight second the holiness of Shabbos comes from God the holiness of youngsters comes from what qualities real does when they sanctify the New Moon dementia customer suggests that these two distinctions are based on a third distinction to each others injunctive and that is Shabbos commemorates an event that intrinsically has nothing to do with the Jewish people that God created the world in six days and he rested on the seventh day theoretically even if there wouldn't have been a man in the world they would have been that idea just so shabath has nothing to do with me as a person and as a result Shabbos does not depend on my making holy nor nor does it bend or yield for my needs like eleven Shabbos doesn't Bend for me because it's holiness does not come from him by contrast every single young term is connected to Hashem historical interactions with them Israel if there wouldn't have been a Jewish people that he liberated from Egypt there wouldn't have been a pepper if there wasn't a minute Jewish people that accepted the tolerance there was the finish for Sukkot commemorates the clouds of glory that God surrounded us in in the aftermath of our repentance on yom kippur from the sin of the golden calf so because yonkers only exists because of omnis level without hashem historical interactions with unusual there wouldn't have been enough there that is why octave is subordinated to the ocean Memphis needs of a Jew and that is why Colley's rel are necessary instruments in the holiness of them now the only thing that's a little bit of difficult to assimilate into this role is Rosh Hashanah meaning Pet Rock is certainly a uniquely Jewish holiday Chuvalo uniquely youit's focus uniquely Jewish Yom Kippur is the forgiveness of the golden calf so the event of Yom Kippur is are availa circuits as a saying is the afterglow the clouds of glory in the absence of your paper well Shoshanna it's a little hard to identify with Shoshanna as a uniquely Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah of course is the day that Adam was created so it celebrates the creation of mankind and Rosh Hashanah is a day of judgment and according to the language of the mission it seems that God judges of every human being in the world unless Hashanah so the question that not so clear is if the hectare of local Memphis is because youngsters yield to me because without cloud Israel there wouldn't have been the octave of a sudden is a little bit more difficult but putting it I Jewish honor for now all the other human tone fits that pattern very well and in fact that is why i lova you only allowed to cook food on yup tip for Jewish people you cannot cook food on youngsters we're not Jewish people because they have your local message is because yogurt is here because of us therefore it is subordinated it's been because of us fact there's interesting a lot of that sometimes creates a lot of problems to cook for a non Jew is absolutely a finesse in history oh right that's not a question but Kyle went one step further cuz all said not only are you not allowed to cook for Dodger you're not allowed to invite a non Jew to a yelped of meal you're allowed to invite a non Jew to with javis meal even if he drives compared and I'm going to dress why did you have us be on the cell of the shower there - we have potatoes and the life but for a young to feel not because Cullen were afraid that you might cook extra food for the non zero and that would be a total violation so to make a fence around the Torah they said don't invite them at all so this does create unfortunately in the body you think so up you can let's take a look and unfortunately in the modern family I don't to get to all the hollering in the modern families this creates enormous lis difficult situations unfortunately intermarriage is very very common and sometimes when you try to foster a positive relationship with Judaism like the best way to do it is to incite people for a seder or a young turk meal or the life of a den you guys would be problem officers which is understandable most of the time the Jewish partner is not going to come unless the non-jewish partner can come as well and very best and to make it even more interesting it is often the non-jewish partner that exactly the catalyst to make the Jewish partner more interested this is especially true empirically if the non-jewish partner is a woman meaning to say in more than one case when a Jewish man has married quick subsonic marriage would have married a non-jewish woman she has been the one that got interested in Judaism and realized well after so tell him crap if I have to say that the post Kim has a very very strong tendency to be extremely lenient some of the grounds are not sold and I'm so solid as it were but the bottom line is they basically say well they're really inviting the Jew and he's just bringing the manju along or or if everything is precooked before youngsters so you're not doing any cooking any of this for that meal is much II wonder essentially what's going on here is there tangos there's a tendency to desease this will up up until the breaking point because it is understood that this is a necessary process for children to keep obsessing over how knowledge of how we relate to intermarry that character intermarriage relative has undergone a change and the renovation that was very necessary oh oh yeah yeah yeah that's a separate thing that's because the idea that Charlotte is a bride because remember every day the week as a pair and the seventh day doesn't have a pair today so it says the Jewish people are the RV group and chávez's the bride to HS kayo has many many meanings for whatever it is Shabbos itself is the wife of the Jewish people so that you need chavez realize it doesn't refers to be open less appears if I want to point out that in Europe for vaguely custom of course intermarriage in Europe was very very very rare almost non-existent but when it happens the parents would typically sit here we regard the child as dead and that was it we got to come in SP sense that is Manasa you have to keep a connection because with mother's death if you sit Shiva you've watched the child and all of the generations forever and ever and ever and therefore on some level you have to you know you have to kill to fail a complete in a positive in a positive way so it's difficult very very painful situation I certainly don't want to promise anybody that there will be happy endings occasionally there are happy endings it does happen although you can't bank upon it absolutely no there's no architect there absolutely are tainted and if you would have said Shiva whatever it is you would have severed it you would have lost those kids and all the generations forever of whatever whatever but again terms of pure a lot I do want to emphasize just be sure you don't you don't get mixed up here there is no heavier to actually cook through a dungeon that's not what this is about to cook for a non-jew is absolutely other if we're giving a leniency we're simply saying about that feeling extra cooking and I'm inviting so the post can look for the enter around the rubidium but there is no restaurant Lee Toland is okay so now the Metro Conference of the following this is why Shabbos is always referred to as a gift that God gave the Jewish people is a famous beautiful line without that our chef says to the Jewish people there is a precious treasure I have in my storehouse and I'm giving it to you is called Shabbos Shabbos is a gift why is Shabbos a gift because by right it is not something that should have been given to a shopper should really be a universal holiday not you you keep service and yes I love in the others a non Jew is actually not allow steamships but in pure logic why should shoppers be honest that's why it's called Macallan batana is something you get that you have endure so if we understand that the meaning of Shabbos is something that you haven't earned it is a gift from Russian yoke does however is something that belongs to us because of our historical interactions with ahem on that level dementia custom incentives of all of the onion totem pizza is the most light shove it in this way Pesach of course arises because of God's interaction without me trail that's very trivial but pet sock was a redemption that we didn't deserve and we were not entitled to remember that God had already told of Rama pina that we would be in battalion for 400 years Hashem had to take us out 100 90 years early because as we stayed even another minute at the era's all explained we would have hit the fifty at the level of impurity if we would have hit the 50th level is impurity we would have been irredeemable that's the same as I read it's not directly for those people of enclosing as if it's a Gomorrah or a metric that when it says that you have time to let their dough rise and they had to bake the dough as matzah so simple meaning of the verse of course is power was then get out get out get out but the I resolve explains the very well-known explanation that they didn't have time to let the dough rise but had they remained in Egypt he was a few minutes that it takes for the dough to become comments we don't even know if it means exactly they would have hit level number 50 if they would have taken number 50 irredeemable so in effect we were not deserving we were not working and yet God in His love and because of the devotion of the patriarchs in the matriarchy of OG&E mom's God redeemed us in a supernatural miraculous way and a Shem showed us visions of divinity that were totally beyond our capacity to normally proceed this is the famous - Azam that even the lowly maid servant saw a splitting of the Red Sea visions that were greater and deeper than even the million Haskell that saw the boat that they be in divine chariot and they see they have covered the throne of glory so paper is the most shadow sexy unlike bullet she blows for 49 days we worked to be worthy to receive God's cover Yom Kippur we did the Shuba for the way we worked on the true that God wouldn't destroy it Sukkos is the aftermath of that forgiveness all of the other younger cousin we are in the desert Pesach is called a mock maximum it represented a level that we didn't deserve at that time and God gave it to us as a gift that is why it is described as a defeat the demon beasts of the dealer is jumping and skipping it's like a private once a while sometimes happens during a time of war I don't think a private little bit of a relatively low rank a military person is just repro over everybody to become a general being repeated I finally think never was very capable but they think I've never like skipped from colonel to supreme Allied commander like tremendous jump of level that's what paper holds like exams jump cat over that's Pat over many many levels that's why would he doesn't she was human Hashem was with a leg our holding he skipped over the mountains make a pet out how close he jumped over there so the victory says he skipped over all the years that we should have been in the triumph in the merit of the others that are called mountains he skipped over our inadequacies in our failures is a merit of the hills that are de most so the Mexican was said that is for umas in Y pestis is called service because peasant I take of the notion of the undeserved gift so now I want to combine this thought it's a very very interesting beautiful observation that Renato new breath was made in the name of his great grandfather who is the Baal Shem Tov I love you realize that not an aggressive as controversial as was is one of the relatively few 50° who is a direct descendant of the Baal Shem Tov and he raises the following question we know what a person is new to you is knowing it escaped close every Juma they resolve into a great great sweetness that they find in : every Shabbos is so wonderful dominance great sucker instead everything so much enthusiasm it was a very classic speech Lincoln Square silly guy has a very good outreach program that grew up front buckle because one of the great pioneers of Jewish outreach after many many years of joining and they had a banquet and the main speak was a fellow Hillel gross and be very humorously he gave a speech but why he hates poly chula again was a very well-intentioned then he said I hate them because Friday night I hand them over and Shalvis guests and all I want to do is make kiddush eat a ten minute video and jump into bed so write a number I'm ready to burn through that Oh rabbi how do you understand Rashi here and even I don't want to do it when they make me learn and they make me sing and they make me to say everyone is in the mirror and when he was making in a tongue-in-cheek that's a very affectionate way is that the do come and Ethan is so special and so vibrant it's so sweet and so good but what happens after a while is we take it for granted acknowledge honor of jokes how do you know when about sugar is well integrated into the religious community he talked during governing or he convention five minutes or whatever whatever in other words the common denominator but I mean the common because the common denominator is oh you're well integrated when you care less about your yiddish guy but so the bow chef don't raise the question this doesn't make sense not what he can ask you give us a welcome a sense because like anything else things become a ritual but spiritually that doesn't make them because if you say that every time i you mix up that brings me closer to God how can it be that's the warm diskless I do the less close I am together it might be a normal thing generally that the more I do something no the less passion I am about it but that shouldn't work forbid sucks I mean what do you in effect so I can do respite to apply a stronger relationship with God I mean it makes no sense so listen to what the Baal Shem Tov Kempton said that this could be an analogy to a baby learning how to walk when are they kids what when you start walking the parents are holding the baby by the shoulders by the arm so the baby takes a step forward and they study falling and if the baby could verbalize is thinking the baby might say wow this walking is nice and easy I love it and then at some point the parents feel the baby instructor to kind of do it on his own so they let go and the first thing that's going to happen is plop pop now as an aside I just want to point out another thing and that connected to discuss that no matter how many times that baby is going to swap that baby is going to pull himself up but that itself is absolutely remarkable watching a child not only learn to walk but even an earlier stage watching a child learn to crawl is such a must because we are hard-wired not to give up I mean sometimes I hear baby crawl initially it is so difficult so painful though is a groaning and grip ah and you why are you doing this just stay still I was going to bring you everything you want there's something is that baby it says I have to grow I have to accomplish I don't give up what a butcher thank you but I way I kind my glasses yet to see this one yeah yeah yeah so the question is where does that go why do we lose it or we often lose it not everybody does that's a cycloid although a very very important place but the baby might be thinking why was it so easy to walk a minute ago and now it's a live 18 months from already regressing ready for retirement what's going on but the answer is precious it was easy because our anymore we're holding um but now they show you what you do you have to make it around says the Baal Shem Tov when a person first comes to solar they are coming from a very far place therefore their distance they don't have a connection with God it's very difficult for them to see the light so I shall carry them and when God carries everything is beautiful everything is nice I'm not going to say easy I rethink a lot of struggle but you see the light and see the Jolly you see the goodness and you get the enthusiasm to keep on going but at some point a chef says now that I've shown you what you're able to be I'm going to let go and you have to be coming I've shown you what you can become but now you must be coming by your choices by your action by your work now just like ever and even even after they let go of the child they're there to protect the child so to a chef is always with us but at some point he says I've given you the lips but now you have to make it your own by your choice and this is why the baal shem tov says may be counterintuitive until the team daughter that was writing that when we have spiritual struggles is not a sign of failure it is a sign that hashem has enough confidence in us that kind of let's go a little bit so we have doing turn 1 you can actually see the struggle as a sin saying you're ready for this next stage it's a very very beautiful thought that was often said and again this is the name of the ball chapter but as you know one of the issues that your bakwin deals with a lot is the issue of despair of spiritual dilemma of crises and he talked about as the Chinese the Chinese word for crisis is opportunity is that they say but it's very similar idea that these crises are kind of marking public my life that we're ready for breakthroughs and new levels and new understandings now there's no guarantee we'll achieve them and that's another thing which God creates opportunities we can't wander them unfortunately but Baruch Hashem we cannot expand to them because they're always going to be second campus but nevertheless the crisis is an opportunity for a breakthrough in a lot of ways you're going to the next level so this way this is the relationship of pace ahead sports take us is called kapitsa we've been jumped over passed over God artificially showed us a distance of what we could become and what we could do but after bringing us to the top of the mountain spiritually he puts us down at the ground level and says now that I've shown you what you're able to be it's your job to become it and that is why on life the suddenness of the elimination of Pepa the illumination of Shavuos is a gradual incremental process step by step by step by step that is the counting of the oh man you know there are 49 days of any other many different ways of looking at it one of the ways is that pretty almost tells us there are 48 attributes that are needed in order to acquire the color it's a one of the experts commentary says that they're very common approach in the commentaries is every day of the oh man one works on one of the 48 wings the 49th day you hazard you'll appear when you integrate and then you're ready for monatomic and that's enough trouble istic understanding of the idea but the point is it is gradual pass ox is sudden illumination way beyond your capacity should will open space that graduation which by the way is the only way that growth becomes truly internalized see and that kind of the relationship between peso Joshua's the baby Kasich's God is holding or the parents are holding the baby by God shabooey let go now is interesting to Ballou Tanya not in the Tanya burr Phoenix others say graphical much we could they told us quote say Zola in Sheila Sheila Nash Shira Shira which we read on takes us is of course they work Sargon as you know she Reshiram almost got equal to be abandoned Boston as they were sages of the Talmud we did not want to include Shira clearance as a biblical book because they saw it as a romantic love story or love poems between a man and a woman and they thought it was not appropriate for sacred writings but the one who saved the day Priscilla Sheeran was perhaps was revered even because of the Akiva talk if all of the songs of the Hagana are wholly sheer as she ripped the song of song is the holiest of the Holies because Sheila Sheeran can only be understood as a profound metaphor of the passionate unlimited love that God has for the Jewish people God is the king regarded the princess and the Jewish people are imprisoned and life and every verse of Shira Sheeran is ultimately referring not only to human love it's also referring to the Bible of course how can they talk that the article translation to the peninsula's in this regard although I think they're getting enough very much r12 when his main translation of the song of songs doesn't even give a literal translation although they did they do in the commentary so when after splendor in the crystal example when she Hume says my lover has ravished me with kids so the article translation will say when God took his out of the triad he gave us many gifts because they say after all cherish it was a metaphor why should we use all the romantic sensual sexual imagery okay so that you reach their but you say what's so controversial is that because I need to have God name is otário stop Amina it's just your history what's the big deal but but the answer is no that's why I actually have always believed that the literal meaning of Shirish here was actually quite important the literal meaning sensual passionate peak and now understanding that it is a metaphor for that loveth which on extended terms in which that love is expressed and in fact of gifter in a Hebrew letter that the Icicle translated that goes translation attentive but didn't translate actually says that she regime was written in and sensual imagery because unless you have the capacity to passionately love another human being you're not able to feel the local of the locality believe that human relationship of a dealer that made the beginning of human says ma che Nia ha ha ha like the princess says to her beloved only after you neroon sir so we may run ma shaming uncle ever call me after you nor Lucia so Lee Mayman says the ZOA told me after you is a reference to paper so we may run together is a reference to shimmer to the bubble Tanya explained very similar to a balance point I'm Peppa we are like a sack of potatoes that is simply being dragged we weren't ready we weren't deserving God just spoke up but rules represents red prosody God gives us the total but we've also prepare themselves to obey the total follow the Torah and therefore if I'm Peppa I've dragged a passive on a mobile I don't have any of these abilities but God takes me out God lifts me up and God shows me what he lends me great double your festival didn't see but by Tessa laughs I buy food I've learned to walk I've learned to run with God now like the old t-shirt saying you know what God gives you is his gift to you what you do is what God gives you is to give to give back to Russia sure Boulos were giving something back to a ship Pesach we are the recipients I understand what myself we do a lot of preparation for patience of 12 but spiritually spiritually Tessa we were the recipients Shahrukh's we give back you know some say following a deal I'm saying that every morning one of the grips of chakra is we spend cash em for not making me da Jetta now there are recent opinions of the remodeling that some people say let's stress the positive thank you God for making me trip or sobbing you know sobbing Israel why did you say is your lower time so in the soup reconsiders they say the following form you can't thank God for making you at you because you make yourself that you by the choice you ain't you can take that but acceptance doesn't sense I'm not a guardian of our conversion I have the capacity to make my substitute but God doesn't make you thank you you make your don't you by the choices that you make it much it reminds me of my asked by an Irish fibular Britain is about so at the end of the beginning of the new semester beginning of a new squad you would always like you know which will listicle II asked us are you going to learn wellness laughing so we would ritualistically respond and they from Aquila thought we would say if you're a shepherd if God desires I will learn well so you would always say God certainly desires the question is not if God wills you will learn well the issue is you will you will you were very well because Hashem strictly wants and the next idea you don't make yourself into God has given you the ability to become a Jew by you're not being a guy but you have to make your life your own and this ties into another point you for morale which is much more elaborate you will probably continue with this like this one and throw it out the morale points out one of the very interesting anomalies and the else of cycles that is everybody knows that Shiva is the day that God gave us the Ten Commandments and I thought was over because the Torah was given over 40 years but the Ten Commandments were endless and yes there is absolutely no mention in the Torah whatsoever that that is why there's a holiday called for if I read the college and why is there a holiday the only thing that is mentioned is it is the holiday of firstfruits and it is the holiday of the wheat harvest and there is absolutely no reference to Mottola and because I will figure it out to a number of intricate calculations but certainly it does not say that that is why there's a holiday so it's a little strange that the whole significance of shores is largely monitory and yet that significance is obscured and replaced with an emphasis of the agricultural cycle now I want to point out this is a bit unique to show us it is true that every one of the shoulders we go in has the strong agricultural component that is PASOK is the time of the spring and the ripening of the barley sucrose is the ingathering of the produce that lay in the field so all of the shoulders regarding our agricultural but they are not only agricultural pets are is also identified as the season of Matthias Mondragon and Sukkot is identified as God protected us with boots or with Clara flooring so the two other recovered pet rock and circles have both magna zero and a spiritual remote but what makes Shavuos unmanned out is shoe loose in the language of the Torah all we have is agricultural component it does not mention my consoles at all that's a very interesting question to hear it with my ralph as well so something just a bit of a silver link but the tour could not possibly say making young disconnect ages of toes because whether that's a happy day or ascetic because they're made meaning to say for some people if they're not going to keep the total vigor those North Dakota maybe they would have been better off with others because now there's accountability so God can say listen shabooey is a happy day because no matter whether you keep it so or not at least you have a weekend but the morale says the toga says whether Monsanto is a simcha is not up to god it's up to you you really make an anointing by our commitment dr. bitters may not be a joint extent if we don't not willing to make that that commitment so this is the distinction between chaos and school we have time for a final final thought okay again I'll give you the beginning what does I wanted to go up next week and then final thought as we know that I think oh I'll jungle I'm definitely okay okay okay okay okay I talked I'll tell you I'll tell you what any thoughts and that is Severus Hamer creates a somatic linkage between Penza and rules that many of the ravana analogous that the whole period of spirits on there could be fused as one long column elite one lot colorfully one young why is that so because pet vax is the holiday of freedom and she was the holiday of submission to guidance and the toll wants us to understand that freedom without submission to God is empty and destructive that is why as I say that the core bond of the Kazakhs is Barling which is animal food least one animal group the Corbin of shigellosis is wheat which is human consumption freedom without submission to God is animal animalistic I've quoted before an empirical mr. forte sucks the beautiful metaphor staggering in a an Indian public who is not talking about Judaism in which he describes a human soul like a violin string capable of producing beautiful music but paradoxically when the string is totally loose and unencumbered a loose string on the table you get no music at it when it's tied down there is beauty that can emerge want to draw some analogies even artistic creativity is that way the spontaneity of musical artistic genius can emerge only when there was a commitment to a technique there is your commitment I doubt then you break out and build the up but otherwise you're just a three-year-old throwing paint on the canvas or begging the piano now so on one level therefore there's a somatic linkage between freedom and responsibility and as a result the abode of spirits out there would be to serve Hashem with greater purpose greater passion greater enthusiasts we also know however this is another Lydian and this is much later this is not from the Torah that this is a period of time that commemorates the death of the 24,000 students above the Aquila besides during this period some say they stopped after lump over some 30 died throughout this period and people ask the question okay 24,000 Jews dying is of course a tragedy one question unfortunately we've had much worse repent our cost I mean why are we making such a big deal about 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva that we don't have weddings we don't get haircuts we don't listen to music but the short answer is that you know when it comes to the Holocaust we really don't have the insight to give reasons so we don't know why is it we have speculations but we can't give this into degrees when it comes to the students are ready antiparticles all gave it to the pinion degrees the splits terrific Eva died because they did not show proper honor and respect color Zelizer so the purpose of mourning their deaths is not come morning tragedies of event worst tragedies but it's to rectify in our and our can our only interpersonal behaviors the idea of having colors now the fish of ours does an interesting point what does it mean that the students are running a Kiva does not show proper colors we can assume that they will learn it they were great they weren't pushing each other out of line they weren't saying much about it they weren't doing openly bad things the first set huh boat is not so much about etiquette and politeness Kyle come to the word kolenka Vedas heaviness do you look at the other person as waiting as significant and having gravity it's an attitudinal so I could be the nicest person in the world to somebody but I don't regard them as significant I don't regard them as somebody that I can learn and for whatever reason maybe because they have such a great teacher like Robbie Akiva they did not see the value of learning from each other so here is the point I want to make so it turns out that real mayor has two different demands that we're called to meet one is to get ready for la doctora we become more enthusiastic more passionate more meticulous and I've been closer the other is to learn to look at our villages with greater tolerance and with greater understanding of the significance of their viewpoint of their life and their meaning in their integrity now the problem is in the real world and in real time these two goals sometimes appear to be an opposite because it's often the case because I become more fervent as I become more passionate as I become more persuaded of my approach another success and I'm hoping in a good positive direction I look at others who we're not living up to my standards whatever my standards are with a sense of disdain and disrespect coldness and even animosity the other way around if I'm a big test inclusive type of guy I'm okay you're okay I become a moral relativist or a situational emphasis and if I believe in every sector I accept everything I stand for nothing and I'll ask moral clarity as to what are my values and what is a chef expecting of me so in a sense the rascal mayor embodies a paradox of a contradiction of how to become more fervent enviable efficient and at the same time how to become a more loving accepting that I only want to use were talented elements as a certain connotation of condescension no length of Legion are not even suggesting that accepting now it's a difficult line because obvious you know if they well say that monotheism is intrinsically intolerant you know paganism could be readily be very tolerant system I have on forgot your logins right add up to the list and I will all be happy enough there's enough room is the temple for another guy by the theism does claim one guy's a supreme truth so in many many ways it's almost impossible to be totally existing obviously there are ideas that we disagree with ideas by going but at the same time one can still respect that which is good in a human being and one can also respect the integrity of their struggle and their service does somebody want to an over to me many many years ago and a woman prefaced some to not religious audiences not restricted and not observant audiences just love the thing the woman started your questioning by saying I'm not as religious as you but so I said at the time you might be more religious than me there may be areas of Judaism that I know a bit more about maybe I know more about Chavez composure but maybe you speak less like an artist maybe you're more honest business maybe you have more cubed of the 82 your parents if you would make a big mistake when we define being religious as Chavez culture Dobbin being religious also means loving caring and having tobacco now it's true God forbid I am not at all - meaning the Shabbos kosher that that is part of the intelligence but it's not the only fun and maybe that's how you break the paradox the paradox was how do I become more further in my religious life and become more loving and accepting of others the answer is by recognizing that loving and accepting others is part of what it means to grow in your religious life right not a dichotomy and then the Academy may not be as strong people are looking for cohen don't want to be modern here okay so be mock Maranatha seatrout demonic mary not putting other people down that the over to another why why isn't we have till America mocha a mitzvah that I need try to be - in like all of the different genus right so what I wanna make is that Spheeris Elmer embodies actually something about one level is they come addiction now the other level has to be integrated and true the matter is it's all connecting because my doctorate itself required that we will like Asia cut laser cut one person one heart so we want to get ready for muscle tolerance we have to combine it with our less usual one finally I just did I just saw this today is very very daunting endeavor I never thought of this before this is run of shows daily so showing Israeli some of you might know was a very very great duck teaming a religious Zionist where achievement was really one of the key Dolan of the religious science movement very funny look down the caja and he offers a kind of political social for Kentucky fiftyish Alliance he said you know Rabi Akiva had really two things really seen himself a few phases well the atiba was the consummate teacher of Torah study of Torah the one who really organized all of the cohosh of all paths the one who teaches us unrelenting devoting to total earnings of the 24 years starting at the age of 40 welcome aquiline and other side but receiver was a political activist par excellence which ran sighs devastating consequences when the Akiva was an active supporter of the bar colorful revolt if we compare in for example the Giorgio hominem attack on 50 years earlier at the time of recording based on English the villain of Masada was pessimist Silverman Zack I took the position that any war with Rome would be catastrophic and he tried to the going a piece for which he was crucified WT was took a very very different position there's a huge difference our cultural might be the Messiah let us overthrow this evil empire of Rome and it's not for people in our level to say whether these people was right or wrong but we can now that Ravi achievers decisions did have catastrophic consequences the as commanders of our code will result in terms of sheer numbers of Jews that were murdered was much worse than even the aftermath of the : they come English in terms of casualty and all of the anti-roma anti-judaism laws of the Romans were after by Koch was not after the Corbett okay be it as it may therefore Libya people was a complicated man on one hand he was the epitome of the ivory tower student of toga whose whole life was oldest living and eating observers on the other hand he was a political activist very much believed as a forcible overthrow of evil Authority so actually fairly wanted to say just as is often the case with complicated people he had two groups of Campinas he had told me they were primarily combinational common would know it and he has I leave there were political and military strategists and when it says they didn't have proper Cabos oh is that it means each grilled denied the significance of the other group you see this over and over any of any links love salivate check has different students some of the students are philosophers who consider this the problem with Coleman as a quaint little hobby others like refreshing sensors TN as a Talmudic goggle select no casually looked in philosophy and the Philosopher's of the public don't have to put it in that way well cook you have a similar kind of economy there are those who look at growth cook as a nationalist par excellence in which the land and the Jewish presence in the land is the most important value this is of kooks of sudden see you the cook understood his father that way the deck you have revenue town who pointed out there's a cook talked about morality and human rights more times that he talked about there's betrayal and relevant i'll actually argued approach would have been supportive of a two-state solution and Palestinian rise developers think this is what we call contested legacy in which a guzzle is so rich and so deep that they incorporate now almost contradictory ideas within their richness but different disciples only seeing one aspect of it so a cellist really wants to say that WT bad these two different groups of disciples and they didn't seem covered and of course the endpoint is commercial was that bro success in is IANA states were able to integrate both the learning of Torah and the political and security needs of the state in a single personality and therefore we can reach the gap in an integrative way that which is called for unity above the campus again it is very young I've never seen that take on the bono group coverage that was at but beer today at which you are a participant could be a year of young you July of those of you that are my age older little number probably still remember the great day in 1967 when General Gordon ounce higher bias be a venue of the Temple Mount is in our hand and explain the story that shortly after the color was liberated so the Hester boys were one of the first on the scene Italian pride into banking a champ and then there was a totally secular soldier who was also weeping and sobbing and his friends asked him what do you mean picked up you don't even know it just was about so he said we've been in trouble because I don't know why dare we bring each other and there must be something here and that's time many people did think even not religious too many people did think that this was a sign from God about Redemption the whole genesis of the modern ball trooper movement totally samara they started in the aftermath of the six-day one again and Yom Kippur War took away a little bit of me excitement because we saw that that we're not invincible I was an important person as well but it was a time of tremendous tremendous help and opportunity and I hope that in remembering your mission line we can try to recapture some of that enthusiasm that joy and then to always remember everyday the tremendous privilege we have to be in Eretz Israel and especially to be in neutral I'm you know kind of self-love