Zera Shimshon Parshas Emor 2026 with Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger

Good evening, my river boys I and happy Pesach Sheni. Tonight's sheer both the Zera Shimshon and the Mar'eh Shiur are on the Sugya of Pesach Sheni. I have to admit it wasn't so easy to find Pesach Sheni in the Zera Shimshon. He talks about it once in Parshas Beha'alosecha page Tzadik Ches. Parshas Emor, so Pink had worked out it's Parshas Emor letter base. We did give this Shiur a few years ago on Tavshin Pay Gimmel, 3 years ago when Thursday night was Pesach Sheni. Well, this is the second time it's happened in the last 3 years. First of all, tonight's Zera Shimshon is generally is genuinely sponsored for a Refuah Sheleimah for Yeshua Shalom ben Yechaved Basya. He should He's a 2 and 1/2 year old, a very cute little boy. He should have a Refuah Sheleimah and I think Baruch Hashem he's getting better. It's le ilui nishmas my parents And for all of the people who are helping The Village, that's a sober community home that's doing their fundraiser. I just posted Thank you, Moishe, for giving Thank you, for Tolly, for giving for all the people who gave. And they're doing a great great job. They mamesh save lives. Save lives They don't only save lives, they put They bring people back into a community where they never were able to be in a community. So, the village is a very harsh of a cause. Thanks to everybody who's who's helped. You're making a difference. Thank you. Now, I must have Menachem on the birth of a grandson. Menachem? Okay, what is what is it? Besides reading a little bit of matzah. That's what we have now. Is that all we have? Much more. Much more. Let me learn in the Sugya. First, let's start with the just for a minute or two and then we'll go into the pages by the scroll. >> [clears throat] >> The Torah says It was the anniversary of the Mitra. And So, as a cloud is a made their carbon sack the way they were supposed to. They made the carbon sack They made it I know she and there were people the law They couldn't make on that day. by by you who And they on that day two times it says by you and my who >> Why is it the guilty hiccup is carbon ash on my other besides the Israel? The my first already talk about what kind of casual this is they knew the answer already and now who's name of an average order. That's a casual is discussed. Let me have a seat. I'm doing actually have a seat stand that I'm going to go to the average to she says my sure I been out of the confidence that the average to would talk to him. Not so positive you ever text somebody call somebody up and you want to speak to them especially if they're a kosher person they always answer you. Do they never right? My sure I been out was so confident in the extra my it's our shame my sure was so confident I bet you he would all of his humility he said it's nothing to do with me. You need the answer so I have to go to the average to he's going to answer you because of you not because of me. My sure took no credit whatsoever for that but he was so clear that the average to would answer them so he said for sure in your you have a good casual by your double ash on my show lay man indeed. When class you so will have it'll be the time to make the carbon face them but they won't be able to. Let them make it tonight. You doubt it right now it's already after the scheme and I have a sham added right some men too. >> [laughter] >> But they're already it's already you doubt it on the calendar and now a few thousand years, 3,000, about 332 years ago was when this time it was made to Moshe Rabbeinu. And this was Moshe Rabbeinu's answer to Hashem the Aibershter. All of the chukos of Pesach you should do. That's what happened then. What is the significance of Pesach Sheini? And what does it have to do with us today? How is it shiyach? Just eating a bit of matzah? I mean, okay, that's nice. And some of the people who are aveilim won't daven tomorrow but because they get a little break. That's the gantze Yom Tov. My rebbeim say it's a lot more. The Zera Shimshon beshas simcha is going to help us understand this Yom Tov. Follow me as we learn the Zera Shimshon and see some of the secrets of Pesach Sheini. Midrash Rabba Everything that the Aibershter told Moshe Rabbeinu He would explain to him the tumah and then the taharah. Everything would have a positive and a negative. The tumah and the taharah. When he came to this parsha, parshas Emor and Kohanim were contaminated betumas meis then Moshe Rabbeinu said "Amor lay Moshe Rabbeinu shiyaylim im nitma zeh bema tehei taharaso?" How will the people who become contaminated by these Kohanim, what will take them out of their tumah? Lo he shivri. Lo he shivri. The Aibishter did not answer. Lo yo shivri. Nischmaru ba'asei sham nischarmenu panav shel Moshe. Moshe's face turned dark. Some people when we say in Yiddish shvartz far the oigen. That's right. Shvartz far the oigen. It became like black. The Aibishter is not answering. Ki van shegela parshas parah adumah l'Yisrael mai de'Aibishter said oiseisha mai tilu chuma Kohanim. Av el martoli and you said back to me im nitma b'matei tarosah v'lo yishiv sicha zutah v'ra'osah. The Aibishter give back all the way till parah adumah. I don't know in time wise how long that was. Was it weeks, days, or months? Sure there's a way mistama there's a way to figure it out, but he waited till later on the Aibishter gezogt to Moshe Rabbeinu the kasha you asked me, I have not answered it until now. V'utamu v'nifla haflah v'haflah vos tut sachda. What's going on? Why didn't the Aibishter answer? Why did he wait for later? Why couldn't he answer? What's the sugya here? V'nira bi'urai. Now, this may or may not be so. If you're just joining us for his Zera Shimshon, this is one of the classic Zera Shimshon shiurim. Wait, wait, the Zera Shimshon gives us a little bit of an insight of a stutzach behind the scenes. What stutzach in oilam ha'zeh and down here through our actions. A little bit on the Kabbalistic side, aber kaf kainu will learn it to the best of our capabilities. It's well known, that's what he says. It's well known. There are two ways lidchoyis ha'chitzonim. I'll explain what that means. English, to push away the outside forces. There are two ways of purification, of filtering good away from bad, of being misaken oneself. For a person who has the capability or to bring down a great light, a great hashpa'ah. And you can then zap or nuke. You know what that means? You nuke the koachus ha'ra. They disintegrate. tzara godol. As a tremendous amount of kedusha, he's going to give a moshol about. As a tremendous amount of kedusha that comes into the world and that kedusha has a koach to release the evil that is entrapped in a person. It's a tremendous koach. Like a Yom Kippur azah, it's a tremendous koach. Or as he'll soon say, like a layl as seder, where the Aibershter says, "I need Yotzei El Mitzrayim." Where the kedusha of the Aibershter has a koach to release Klal Yisrael that are in the grips of mem tet sha'arei tumah. And Klal Yisrael is at the level of abyss, and we all say that "Ilu hoitzei'anu Kodsho Baruch Hu." What are the pshatim in the Maharal? In the Maharal Haggadah shel Pesach, why did the Aibershter have to do it? Cuz no malach could go into such a tum'dika place. It was so tum'ah, even a malach couldn't go there. That's one pshat that they say. A malach couldn't go in there. So, where can you al day tumah? How is Klal Yisrael going to get out? "Lo ani v'lo malach." The Aibershter has to go himself. The Aibershter has to take out Klal Yisrael. There ha'arah is called a ha'arah of kedusha that has a koach that any koach ha'tumah is paralyzed. Paralyzed from the kedusha of the Aibershter. "B'nei Yisrael b'cheiru Yisrael." And all any other koach that stands against him withers away. "Meis kol b'chor." That's the koach which any koach ha'ra, the b'chor of the ra, dies right away. For us, the awesome kedusha of the Aibershter. That's one way. "K'derech adam she'ein yakhol l'habit b'einayim k'neged or ha'shemesh." Just like you can't look at the sun, so too these koachas of ra cannot stay, cannot exist when the Aibershter exposes k'viyachol the kedusha, or when an or gadol comes down. "V'kimo she'hayah b'leil ha'yeishuv shel Pesach she'atzam Mitzrayim." That's the Aibershter derech. Muvan? Make sense? The o yesh derech. There's another way. We call this Entebbe. Entebbe. You go in and you pull out the captives. You pull out, you make a mifsa and you find the captives. You don't destroy the rah, but the rah stays where it is and you pull out the kedusha from amongst the tumah where it is. Going into like a base zoynis or into a bad place and there's a Yiddish and shuma and mishlepped them out of and you take them out of that bad place. The rah stays where it is, but you you take this person out. This derech achad the derech achad little mahem nitzotzei kedusha shibolah to remove the kedusha that they swallowed up. The whole nitzotzei ha aura shin izoynis mahem. That's the That's the the light that they the koach that they have comes from us. This is way beyond our pay grade. [snorts] Melech went to Har Hazeisim. It's brought down in the Real Kodesh. It's brought down by the Ramaz, by Sifrei Kabbalah that Melech went and was motzei kedusha from there. I want to learn this sugia. The afikavones asheivovem. This is also brought down by Sifrei Kabbalah. Yesh nei drachim eilu. Shekavones birchas hamapil. Vechidoyim ulahoy ir melamalashibazei tashach bimsulas yom kol chatoisa. There's one derech where you have the koach of of freezing or or destroying the bad. That's one the whatever this means. The the call a sec I sec I know The whole is kind of this line is the important line. The whole is kind of the a sec that we have that boy side lost to men and wealth. What do you do when you do Tyra and Mitzvahs? call a sec call a sec shall I know the Tyra and Mitzvahs aim the valley be ruined the schneid the rock and my Ella This is how we fix up our lives and the world. Be right over. Let's explain. Let's go back to olive base a few hack dummies. When I go to created Adam a relation all of human life was encompassed in one person. He was the seed of all of humanity. one man by the moral in a talks about whether there would be a need for other people to be born because Adam a relation encompass all of the he was the seed of all humanity. The moral says in he saw every single door. He saw every single person. He saw all the good throughout that's how got his 70 years because he saw he needed the time. So he gave him 70 years of his own. Adam a relation encompassed all of the good and all of the and Adam a relation should have lived forever. When Adam a relation would listen to the or to his wife and ate from the he the the other >> [laughter] >> You're lucky. you're not on the video, so your wife doesn't see you shaking your head. >> [laughter] >> When when Adam Harishon >> [snorts] >> I'm guessing from the eight sodas, when he ate at that point he was there was a hostile takeover of the tsuris of Adam. The Adam itself, the person, the body it's mistaken from lost its casher to its own neshama. While the person in original creation, by the up of nishmas chaim, and he was so connected to his agan in neshama that therefore neshama should not start to be to hurry. As long as the goof was connected to the neshama, it wasn't shiyach that he should be able to eat. He wouldn't eat. But something had to happen. His wife ate, the nachas spoke to him, there was a nituk, there was a separation, and he ate from the eight sodas, and it transformed the tsuris of Adam. He He didn't lose the tzelem Elokim, he was still tzelem Elokim, but tzelem Elokim never Adam, but the tzelem Elokim doesn't have that much kedusha attached to it anymore. The tzelem Elokim doesn't have that kedusha. How does and how does the That's what happened, the world started to deteriorate. His kids killed one, killed the other. Avodah zarah, giluy arayos, shfichus damim, until the whole world was destroyed. Adam Harishon before he ate from the eight sodas, was not given any mitzvos to do other than the avodah v'shamrah, to maintain the spiritual connection that he already had. His job was share sure may raw. Don't let that nourish poison you. You see it was a big avoid because of mice of the nourish beat him. Okay? But that was his avoid and those are the same level and he had to hold out until Shabbos Kodesh. If he would have held out to Shabbos Kodesh, he would have finished his job. That's right, a few hours. That's it. After he sinned let's fast forward. The Abishter has a nation called cloudy Israel. Those those people, those neshamos of cloudy Israel, those were the neshamos of Adam Harishon. They all come from Adam which through them you could be messakin the hate of Adam. >> [clears throat] >> Cloudy Israel became as 600,000 people unified Adam Harishon. And had it been through Kabbalas HaTorah, we would have been messakin the near market of the king. Adam will be near El Yon Kochem. We could have gotten back to that Madrega. But the way to get back to this Madrega is now Pesach Mitzvos. The way to get back is not just by believing and by being a good person, but by doing Mitzvos. What do the Mitzvos do? Ramach Shasa can I get the tsuris of Adam to rebuild every part of that tsuris of Adam that had become contaminated and controlled by the Kli Harah that hostile over I have to deal with all that raw. How am I going to do that? With doing Mitzvos. How's Mitzvos going to help? It'll reconnect you doing the ratzon Hashem, but it's even deeper. My rebbe there's a pen over here. Yeah, you have one give a hug. The rebbe gezogt said over the shame the shla. You know the secret we said this once. You know the secret of a mitzvah how it connects us to the Hashem. How do you spell mitzvah? Mem, tsadik, vav, hey. The word mitzvah mem, tsadik, vav, hey has two of the four letters of Yud Kay Vav Kay. It has the vav and the hey begilu. But it also has the other two letters. It has the other two letters as well. How? The mem and the tsadik are Yud and Hey in Atbash. Aleph, tav, bet, shin, resh, gimel. If you do the Atbash, so mem is Yud and tsadik is Hey. When a person does a mitzvah through the mitzvah if he he attaches himself to the Hashem. How? And listen to the cuz it's so nice. Listen to the this. The rebbe gezogt azoy. Two things. Two things I want to say. Number one, let's What is the difference between Atbash? What's the matter with Atbash? When we do this, aleph, bet, gimel, dalet, that's called Atbash. The Hashem gives his and his down. Sometimes he expects us to awaken and take the first step to be ourselves so that he should come and meet us in the middle. That's called iserusa de lesato. You, my dear, habo letayer mesayanoyse, take the first step. That's the atbash. That's the other direction, where it comes from the tav going up. That's the other side of the When a person is misoyer here, habo letayer mesayanoyse. The word mitzvah. My rebbe said, "Mitzvah, it's a funny word." Mitzvah, what do you mean it's a What does mitzvah mean? Le chiyur, it's a tzivuy. If you know Hebrew, right, ata metzuve. You're commanded. As omer ata metzuve, tzav es bnei yisrael, tzav, command. What's a mitzvah? But, the rebbe gezogt azoy, when we talk about, for example, he gave two examples. Let's talk about a loan. When you make a loan, what is a loan called? A loan is somebody who lends money, it's a malveh. The person who borrows it is called a loveh. The transaction is called a milveh. Milveh means the malveh gives the loveh money, beyachad, together, it's called a milveh. The word milveh is kolel, includes the lender, the borrower, and the money. Mishpat. You know what a mishpat is? What's a mishpat? >> [gasps] >> There's a shoyfet, that's the judge. There's the nishpat, the fellow who is being judged. Beyachad, it's a mishpat. The mishpat in loshon hakodesh is kaylo, the judge, he who is being judged, and the judgment. Mitzvah is like mil the and mish but the mitzva the mitzva and the connection between the two of them. Then do toast a mitzvah when you do a mitzvah you're you connect yourself to the mitzvah so that the mitzvah and the mitzvah create mitzvah. So you connect to the mitzvah to me mister. That's why the first two letters are mem tzadik cuz you take the initiative, you go the first step and together you have a deal of love came which is already been Nikola. The youth came is in the heir canister but the heir mister says I'll meet you in the middle. We'll do it together. We'll do it together. Do some mitzvah. Says the heir of shimshan yay the mitzvah gives a person the opportunity to be retired himself to bring the heir mister into his life and to free himself of all of those cleavers and all of those schlechter because when you bring the heir of Hashem in it pushes it out. You can do a mitzvah in two ways. You can do a mitzvah with grace of a cover now. Let me get some mikvah before you put on to fill in. You say him in the morning. You can sometimes do a mitzvah and it zaps the Hashem Zara. It has the to freeze all the the Hashem. To to to knock them. That's like lay low say there. That's that type of That's the mitzvah where you can bring the heir mister you bring Pesach matzah maror mitzvah mitzvah mitzvah mitzvah Those mitzvahs have a mitzvah to push away darkness. You may tire yourself plain and kosher. You kosher clean yourself. You get rid of the schlechte keit. You learn Torah. K'nei ner mitzvah v'Torah or. Torah has such a ko'ach has a ko'ach it burns up those ko'achas ha'ra, those schlechte machshavos. It has such a power. That's the Pesach Rishon. And then you have Pesach Sheini. V'hayu anashim asher hayu t'meim l'nefesh adam. Then you have Pesach Sheini. They are t'mei. And you have to pull out the kedusha from the tumah. The cheilek t'vein Pesach Rishon and Pesach Sheini is the two different d'rachim of how we're m'taher these type of klipus. Lama nigora? They have to ask. They have to take the initiative so that the Eibishter should respond. They create that mitzvah. If there was ever a time where you have any s'eirusa d'lasata, a his'airus from below, that brings the Eibishter into your shutfus, there isn't a better example than Pesach Sheini. To be able to get the or of Pesach because you asked for it. V'du ist es gebeten. Because ekvatl'cha. Because the bilti asur is because I can't do it. So the Eibishter says, "You want to do it? You can be m'galeh this mitzvah. You can make this chibur of Yud Kei Vav Kei through your initiative. The mitzvah that was nisgaleh through these people sh'hayu t'meim l'nefesh adam. The lama nigora, we want to have that shiyachus was a new opening in how to be m'vatel ko'achas ha'ra. You're stuck, I'll get you unstuck." Pesach Sheni says not just about eating matzah. Pesach Sheni the Kadusha are of this day is that in the was opportunity and you'd daled ear. And you'd daled Nissan was Nissan going to him. And you'd daled in Nissan it was the skies opened up. The night was no longer night. It was you didn't have to say good night. The whole thing turned there was nobody going to him. Shalom was going to him tonight. That was That's Pesach Rishon. Pesach Sheni God you so did it all. >> [snorts] >> A few people going to him. Never going to mention. But we want to do the mitzvah. Going to him tonight going to him says going to him. I'm sure the is going to meet you soon. He's going to say something. And going to him going to him going to him. That's the mitzvah Pesach Sheni. That's the going to him. Let's go a little bit inside. Going to him going to him going to him going to him. Going to him. Going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him. Going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going Why does it say going to him first? Going to him. Going to him going to him going to him. 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Going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going Every going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going to Going to him going to him going to him going to him going to Going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going Going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going to him going to >> So every single opportunity that we don't take and we do a a vera unfortunately we're creating tumor. It gives the courage to the tumor. The he knew he taught him How through every single mitzvah you're this Indian and how through every single mitzvah every mitzvah of a person has another of your body. The late today is the last day of Manassas in Manassas Manassas the last page says that there are mitzvahs we can't do today. If you can't do them today, so how are we going to be masters of ourselves? The answer is every mitzvah exists in multiple levels in multiple dimensions. They exist in the Hamas and they exist in the Hamas. That's called Tyra. Tyra mitzvahs you might not be able to do the mitzvah. But if you can learn the Tyra of the mitzvah, then you can be to the mitzvah through a higher elevated way. You can't do the mitzvah. You learn about color about I didn't do it. You're right. You didn't do it. But where did that mitzvah come from the Tyra? So you connected it to the higher to its higher reality. You connected it to it yourself to that that's the best I can do. So that's the way you get down. That's how you dimension for what do I have to learn for? Somebody asked me the other day and share. It's not practical. Often they he doesn't understand how practical it is. I first statement is how practical it is. You can't be Muslim yourself unless you have a shy to all this and all you have to you have to connect yourself to everything. If you don't then you're missing. You're missing. So you have to learn the whole Torah. You have to finish Shas. You have to be able to do the best you can to to connect yourself to be mevarer. That's the and it's mitzvah mitzvah. Today the mashma call mitzvahs I knew losses taking shiny little man your mitzvah is stuck in yourself. Your own mitzvah stuck in yourself. I like the show me how to be to hire a he. Look at that. You're such a good person. And we have such silly bosses. And we think of such silly things and we so make ourselves with all the mean of our bosses. I will listen that inside of a is called mitzvah at the mitzvah how am I supposed to get that out? You get that out through and mitzvahs. You get that out through connecting to the cuz we learned tonight that a mitzvah is a way to bring the down into your own and release the mitzvah that you have. To get to get that person next up. What do they call when the people are are are in captivity, right? Prisoners and you make an raid and you pull them out. These are the two types that's Pesach Rishon and that's Pesach Sheini. Pesach Rishon it gave Pesach Rishon was the greatest Pesach Sheini was Klal Yisrael wanting that connection and bringing that Kedusha in. We [snorts] have the opportunity to renew ourselves Pesach Rishon. We have the opportunity to renew ourselves Pesach Sheini to allow the Kedusha inside of us to connect to the Aibershter. I didn't finish the Zera Shimshon tonight, but I think we finished the Inyan at least the Pesach Sheini. So my Beis HaShem is Baruch BeShalom u'BePrat. To realize and actualize that Koach HaKedusha that we have inside of us to do Torah and Mitzvos. The better you do them, the more Kedusha u'BeTaharah. You go to davening, you know what I always say, you take your phone, you put it away. Let yourself just focus and allow the Mitzvah to do the best it can. You're learning leg off the phone. Don't let it be there because then it's just going to distract you. Doesn't let the Koach of Kedusha. It doesn't put the Klipus are right there. They're mamish happening in the middle of the text. Starting sentences. You have to put That's our Tikkun. That's our Birur to let the Torah and all of its Kedusha filter the Koachas that we have inside of us so we should be Meshabed HaShem the way we should. Reb Chananya ben Akasha Omen.