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But of Hashem, we are live from the Soulwards House streaming 10:30 approximately in the AM Eastern time, Cambria Heights time. We are on paras. We started this journey back in the beginning of the new Torah cycle with Parasius, right after the high holidays. And I got to tell you something goes through the books of andro and it ends with including the lagras are inai in Olive. So that means that next week is a sem of kale olive. So we want to invite everyone to come on down to the soulwards house just a half a block away from the aisle to celebrate with us in person the summ of alf and then I got to decide if I'm going to start base which will take us through the books of bidbar and dvarim meaning take us back to through the high holidays and then we'll be back to braces. Then you could say, "Well, will you do gimmel then?" I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Hashem should help me to get through the rest of which means this today and and next week. Okay. One second. I'm going to make a bar mitzvah para, wasn't it? >> Yeah. You sponsored today's year should have good health success. Yeah. All right. Happy birthday is birthday is >> we used to call him tffy the tffy. I think uh >> oh yeah tonight. Okay. You gonna have a faban? >> Okay. Let me know. All right. the month of Hey Isl's birthdays. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um Rahul's birthday, Tess Vavier. Ha's birthday, your Tessa. Moishi was our new not newest edition but new edition my son-in-law is what is we got a bunch of birthdays in the family interesting trivia question nothing in Judaism is trivial but by the way did you test the sound because you didn't do That weird thing that always shocks me. You did it quietly. Okay. >> Okay. >> Forward. >> Interesting trivia question. What month of the Jewish year is the only month where you have a special mitzvah every single day of the month? The answer is ear. Why? Because every day of you have a day of spir. And the spir is a mitzvah. It's a different special mitzvah each day. So that's the only month of the year like that. Now you're going to say, "Well, there's the you put on fill in every day." Yeah, but that's not special to a particular month. That's all the time. We're talking about a mitzvah that you only do at a certain time of year. What mitzvah like that? Um what month has a mitzvah like that and is the only month like that? And the answer is is the last part of the month is connected with spir just the first few days until but the whole month is connected with You're going to ask what about you don't say during those days those are special days. So yeah, even though it's true that the whole that the most of and the entire you don't say and regarding this and it says the Torah says this is the first of the months says wow is not just the head of the year but every month every day of the month of Nissan is like another. That's what the shalah says. That's cool. However, the special qualities of are not connected with the work that people do at that time. Actually, it's something separate from what we're doing. It's its own thing. of us is but the special quality of is connected with something that we do particularly counting you understand and they have special qualities but that has to do with the time has special qualities here we're talking about something that we do that's different that's special and is the only month that has something like that where you do something special every single day of the month. And namely, what is that special thing? Counting the spir of each day. is. Now the relationship between the days of spir and the actual counting of spir is more of a connection than other mitzvah that you do on special days. You understand there are mitzvah that you do on special days. So therefore clearly the mitzvah is connected to that day. But the mitzvah of spir is more connected to the day on which you do it than regular mitzvah that have special days where you do them. We're going to explain in and other mitzvah you do on special times. Yeah, you do them at a special time, but the mitzvah itself isn't connected to the special time. It's just done at that time. Like eating matzah on pes is The mitzvah the mitzvah itself. Thanks for turning on the light. The mitzvah is a separate concept from the time from V is invit. It's just that the obligation happens on that day. But you're actually counting that day. So it's not just the mitzvah happening on that day. It's the mitzvah happening with that day. By the way, there's some newspaper sitting out front. You know about it? Okay. They put these free newspapers on our front lawn and I don't like it. They're like all advertisements. I never open them. Okay. So the the special quality of is that every day is connect the day itself is connected to the mitzvah. You understand? It's even deeper than that. It's not just what special month has a mitzvah that you do on every day of the month. It's more than that. It's what month has a mitzvah that you do with that day. that the day itself is the object of the the object with which you do the mitzvah. It's like eating the matzah. This is like if the you you eat the matzah on the 15th of niss, but the mitzvah is the matzah. Here is not that you do the mitzvah on the day. You do the mitzvah with the day. It's like you're eating the day. Don't eat the day. Oh, there's a foster cat here. Can you remove him? Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, maybe people might be surprised that cat just jumped up there. These two kittens were found on the street in New Jersey and they're trying to find homes for them. So, I let them hang out here a little bit cuz they're really good with people and we're trying to get them adopted. So, if you want to adopt a kitten, there's a boy and a girl. They're a bonded sibling pair. They're really really uh comfortable with people. They played with my one-year-old grandson and they were very relaxed around him. Okay. Can you make sure he doesn't jump up here again? Because Okay. >> Program going on. Okay. All right. Base. I knew that was going to happen, by the way. >> Really? >> I was 100% sure the cat was going to jump on the table at some point. See, that's what happens from being old and experienced. I know. Okay. Base. >> No, you can leave them here. It's okay. Just All right. Yeah. >> Coffee. >> I I'm running out of my I brought a coffee from home, but I'm running out. So, you could definitely Miss Miss Know like the old guys at the restaurants. They're like, "Miss miss miss." They like point at their coffee. You know what I'm talking about? >> Yeah. Okay. He click the finger. Tap the finger. Miss. Miss. Okay. Base. Ah. Why did I just blink? is valid every single day. And also the counting of every day is connected to all the other days to the previous days and the coming days. And it all affects the general preparation for receiving the you understand what we're saying. You don't count the days in isolation of each other. It's a continuum to the extent that there's even an opinion. I mean this is why you know we have the concept of someone who loses their braha. I can't count with a braha anymore that there's at least one perspective that what are you doing >> that we're in the right place. >> Yeah. Um there's a perspective at least that it's all connected and if you're missing one day then you can't do the whole thing. Um you should still count without it. But the point is that all each each day is connected to all of the days. It's like one entity, one unit is in. And this virtue is equally uh equally present in every single one of the days of spir meaning to say it's not like day 49 is more important than day one or or vice versa. Every single day is equally important. has a aspect to it where every single day is equal. By the way, that light is flickering. >> It's always flickering. Front light, gorgeous jewel light in the foyer and it always flickers. Can you get it taken care of? You're the manager of Solart's house. Can you please get it taken taken care of? Okay. So ear has an aspect to which of it in which every single day not only every single day has a special quality special mitzvah but it's all equal. It's all equal. Every single day is equally as important. In general, there's a difference between the first days of the month and the end days of the month. Waxing and waning. You know, months have to do with the moon. You know that? Yeah. You can mix them. Yeah. Thank you. And um you have the the beginning of the month where the moon is waxing. It's getting bigger. And then tazv it's the full moon. And then you have the end of the month where the moon is waning. It's getting smaller. So there's a difference between the first half and second half of the month in parades. Parades means state. The 12 months of the year correspond to the 12 different possible configurations of explains it is four letters. Every month has four weeks. then the extra days because you have 29 and a fraction days of a month. Those extra days just become connected to the um the four weeks. So every month there's 12 different possible configurations permutations of Shimavaya. Every month is a different one of those and there's each week corresponds to one of the letters in a given order particular to that month. for all right just like so it's understood from It's understood from this that just like in sheava you have four letters and there's an advantage of the top two letters over the bottom two. Why do I call them top and bottom? Because you have to imagine yudk vke written vertically from you know yud on the top and then hey and then vv and then hey and then yud k that's the higher two letters that's uh called the hidden worlds and then you have vav which is lower two worlds which is the the revealed worlds. So you have a prioritization higher and lower uh letters of shimavaya that's if sheava is written cedidra in order which that's the first sided the first combination of yud kvk is yud kv and then it starts switching the orders but the the first the first way that it's done it's done in regular order. Um, oh, we have people here. Welcome. Grab a safer. You here to learn? >> Okay, awesome. We ran out of bagels. >> Okay, the therapy cats are here. Yes. >> Okay. We call them therapy cats, but that's just a Yeah, we're on page um 264. >> You'll be YouTube famous if you walk across right there. >> You're good on that edge. Yeah. >> Okay. You know next week >> we're finishing al of is the end of Alf. So this is the penultimate class of >> Yeah. Well, next week is like >> the ultimate. >> Yeah. You have to do both. Yeah. Okay. So we're talking about the different shame the ofaya. um that the first two letters good K have an advantage over the the second two letters of K. Um so based on that it's understood that one week is going to have an advantage over another week like the first two weeks corresponding to Yudke will have an advantage over the later two weeks corresponding to Vav. Make sense? Yeah. Yeah, we said that. Yeah, we're at the very end of ice. That's why, for instance, I mean, we're not so careful about this nowadays because it's important just to get people married, but um ideally, especially in the past, they would be choosy about making sure a wedding should be in the first half of the month, not in the second half. But is special and that all the days are equal. Why? Because like we said, every day is the object of a mitzvah, a different mitzvah, a mitzvah of counting. So normally months have their highs and their lows, es and flows, peaks and valleys. Can think of another synonym. But year is special in that every day is equally a mitzvah. Aren't you so honored that your birthday is in? >> You know what I like about my birthday? >> What do you like about your birthday? >> Which way you count it? >> Yeah. Is birthday is there's different ways of counting. is mil like so for instance which is base year which is birthday that's if you're counting the way we normally count it but if you count it upwards you know from bottom to top then it's actually which is why and and bas have a connection to each other yeah but >> 25 is always 25 right whether you count up or you count 25 will always be 25 will always be right because are actually mirror images of each other and if you're counting from above to below or below to above then yeah but uh all right you ready for >> you ready to flip the page okay as How do you make that every day should be equal of them? Is there the hint is in the name of the month itself. You know that I I'm not that old, but I remember like versions of Lakota where that re was a dollid. Oh, go grab the remember the that Izzy gave us that Clappy Clappy gave us. He said we don't have to mention that he gave it to us, but can you look on page 264 of the original edition? Cuz I've seen where it instead of saying raglay hammer, it says dlay ham like gull like flags which makes banners which makes no sense. And I remember when I was a bacha learning and being like what are oh can you show in the camera? Isn't it interesting that I remembered a typo inas? So, in the first edition, can you point to it? Where is it? Under your pinky. Uh, dllay. Yeah, it's a doll. It's clearly a dollid. And now look. Um, now show them the way >> on the screen. >> Yeah, but show them also in real life how it was fixed. Yeah, banners. But it's not in context. It doesn't make sense. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. The golem are banners, but would have nothing to do with marova. Raglam marova makes sense. Okay. So, the four feet of the chariot. Yeah. Let me look in the in in the sikas in English that in English provides us and just see how they translate it. They these four serve as the four supports of the divine chariot. They call them supports. Okay. Um oh you know where this concept comes from Israel? >> From your ancestor the Megala Mukes. My ancestor as well. Yeah. We are descendants of the Megala Mukes. So is the one who came up with this concept. Okay. In fact, this concept is even brought in not just in the cabalistic teachings but also in the legalistic teachings. Yeah, there there's a footnote here where it's brought in connection with chapter 126. Okay. What's the concept of a chariot? Like it talks about where does it speak about the marava? You know, sounds familiar. So in chapter 23 he's speaking about when you learn to you become one with Hashem when you do mitzvah you become a marova to Hashem what's the idea of a marava although I have some questions about the marava mushel now you know last night what you forgot to flip the page I was in Greenwich last night I was in Greenwich for the whole Shabas after Shabas had a lovely Shabas at Kabad of Greenwich with Darren and after Shabas I had to get my talis from Shaw this guy drove me from the Darren's house to Kabad in a Tesla self-driving not my first time in a self-driving Tesla like my second or third time but we have this mushel of a marova marova means it doesn't have any will of its own it only does what the driver tells it to What's going to happen? It's like when the Zar died and theam said, "Now we're going to lose the mushel for what a king really is." The whole concept of a chariot is it just goes where you drive it. Doesn't have any will of its own. Self-driving cars. >> Do they do they have a will of their own? So it's based on their programming. >> And the rules that people created >> so they can't just decide like a movie. >> Yeah. You know in the 70s there was a car when I was a kid in the 70s there's a car called Herby the love bug. If you are watching and you know Herby the love bug please comment in YouTube because if so you are the guy that the entire algorithm was constructed to bring to me. If you're watching in Yiddish and you know Herby the love bug please comment below. Her love bug was a Volkswagen Beetle and he was he he had human emotions. It's not real yus. Okay, JFYIVA is a classic metaphor chariot for that which has no will of its own. So in chapter 23 of Tanya talks about this shak and why are related to the marava? What's the deal with all please? Okay. Why are related to the meava? So, you're not going to believe this in the YouTube chat. Southern mass 3947. By the way, is that what it says? Southern No. Southern SAS. Southern Sassuh 3947. wrote, "I know Herby the love bug." exclamation point. We have just found the target audience of soul words person who's sitting learning in Yiddish on a Sunday morning live and knows Herby the love bug. You are our target audience. Okay. So chariot, what does it say about that? That the shik a kulam. that all of their limbs the patriarchs all of their limbs were separate from mundane worldly matters is bish that means to say they didn't have any agenda they didn't have any drive of their own they were completely surrendered to God's will and they let god make use of them like a car is made makes itself doesn't make itself Just is uh surrender to the will of the driver. man is normal as nor when a person has no interest, personal interest at And even in material matters uses the the wording of King Solomon here. In all of your ways you should know him. So even in all of your ways meaning his mundane affairs, he's actually just knowing Hashem. He's not doing it for his own personal reasons. So when a person's life is completely devoted to godliness, he becomes like a chariot whose entire purpose is only to carry out the will of the driver. And then what happens is all of his days are equal. So we're getting back to that concept of every day of year is equal. What does that have to do with it being like a chariot? that when a person is surrendered to God, then all of his days are equal because everything is only godliness. It's all equally godly. Like if it's based on your own agenda and your own will, you have good days, you have bad days. Not saying good days and bad days, like what happens to you. I'm saying like how well you serve Hashem. Sometimes I serve a little better. Sometimes I serve a little worse. You know, sometimes in a mood, sometimes I'm not in the mood for it. Sometimes uh you know sometimes I ate my wedies in the morning and I'm got energy for it. Sometimes I didn't whatever. But if you're a if you're surrendered to Hashem then you're serving Hashem equally all the time. for and then what happens is becomes the perfect intermediary, the perfect in between phase between Niss and Civ. Nissan is when Hashem took the Jewish people out of Egypt in order to what? serve him on this mountain. This mountain means hari. When was that? Inabal and kabala means to accept the yoke of tyra like an avid like a servant. And that happened in the third month the month of my birthday. JFYI you can get me a birthday present which is called the third month with a three-fold ta. Why is Tyra called a three-fold given to a three-fold people? Why are the Jews called a three-fold people that is from Shabas? Yeah. So, yeah, that's uh the first we do a little synopsis. first actually doesn't have anything specifically to do with paras maybe maybe it does encoded but explicitly it doesn't have anything to do with with with with paras it's about it's the idea that is the unique month in which there's a special mitzvah to do every day of the month you do the mitzvah not just on the day of the month but with the day of the month and in that sense every day is equal normally Normally months have higher points and lower points, different uh different energies of different days, but is equal every day of the month and it's similar to the idea of a marava that when you serve Hashem with complete surrender like a marava then what happens is you are equally connected to Hashem at all times in every mode every phase of life and that is why ear serves as the perfect intermediary between Nissan where we were taken out from slavery to P and taken into being servants of Hashem. Okay, that was the first. Now we are on uh hey, you see we're on page 265. First column, bottom of the first column, page 265. Ice hay. the end of what? No, it's a different. Yeah. Um, generally the way that looks works is you'll have like a bunch of different that all have to do with the para. Sometimes there'll be like a theme that continues from one to the other. But like look here, we just ended. So it says from Shabas. Okay. So that's the the Reb said this on the week of AK. It wasn't even it was a and it was your test. Now go to page um go to page it's a longer. Yeah. Go to page 270 270. Look at the end of ice tion and it says that this next was compiled from actually from two which is unusual and meaning a completely different source. Yeah. The thing about lookas is that so we we we spoke about this in the very first class in Berius you know months and months ago that there are transcriptions of the rebasans which are fairly faithful to the flow the actual words the said at the but they're not edited the advantage of look is that it's edited the edited every single footnote every word and the arrangement of everything. So yeah, the flow of everything, the the structure, it's all the way that Ibet wanted it. Okay. So here we have a new Sikha page 265 bottom of the first column is hey yeah it's a completely I mean I I don't want to say it's a completely different concept because it also um is related to but it's from a completely different source from actually like we said the second of is compiled from two mym two different myodm from two different years interestingly Okay, just on a personal level, this is one of my favorite. I remember learning this and getting very excited about this particular FYI for whatever it's worth. Okay, regarding the mitzvah, the verse says, "You should count for yourselves from the day after Shabas says as a shabas made me shabas. Zik, the Busumim who were a sect of uh heretical Jews, they made an error. They took the word Shabas literally and they said that has to be on a Sunday because if you start counting from the day after Shabas like Shabases, Shabas means seventh day of the week. That means you start counting on a Sunday and that means the culmination of the seven weeks will be on uh on a Sunday. So they took the verse literally and that's how they calculated. They were wrong. We had to debate them and show them with many proofs that Shabas here doesn't mean the seventh day of the week. Shabas Shabas means Yam Yam is also called Shabas is which Yam we're talking about PES. You start counting the day after Pes. That's why first night of spir is the second seder because uh the day after the first day of y of pes is when you start counting the said it's uh the day after shabas meaning like today okayish The Reb asked the question, but why did the verse say it in a confusing way? Would have been more clear if it would have said from the day after PES. Instead, it says from the day after Shabas and Shabas here means Pes. Why do that? Okay. Regarding going out from Egypt, Hashem told Misha, this is at the burning bush. First time Hashem is speaking to Misha that I'm going to take them out from take going to take the Jewish people out from Egypt for what purpose to serve Hashem on this mountain which mountaini that's where the snare the burning bush took place the purpose of the exodus was the giving of the Torah at Sinai is. Now between those two points, between going out from Egypt and being uh given the Tyra at Hari, you have counting of the That means is somehow the necessary intermediate step between being taken out of Egypt and being given the Tyra. Not just that chronologically that's the in between time. It's procedurally a necessary step. You want to get from point A to point B. So there's a bridge between the two and spir is that bridge. canal. So it comes out like this that the Exodus from Egypt is mentioned in connection with three months niss that's the time we're actually taken out the time of counting and like we mentioned in the previous that's a time when every day is equal and when the was given parenthesis Yes, it's true. The first days of are also part of is so we're trying to answer we're saying like year is the spher month well Steven also has spher you have the first six days you're counting sphere So the Reb says, "Yeah, but in um by the time we get to the counting of the first three days of the seventh week, meaning the Mus has already been done and are the primary mid, all the other mids are offshoots or tributaries of them. So we really basically finished. I mean once you have of malus you know you're basically done. So doesn't really count so much as a month. What does it count as? It's a time of the giving of the Tyra. Like the Gumar says in the third month they came well the pusk says in the third month they came to uh the desert of si and then the gum says the three-fold as we mentioned earlier was given in the third month which is third month okay um key regarding this. It says in the month of the spring for in it you went out of regarding it says in the second in in the second uh month in the second year of from their going out from Mit. gate there is and in parenthesis we say although according to the plain meaning after they went out of the land of Egypt refers to in the second year it's known in the it's it's known that the zy says that the second month and the second year is one concept. Therefore, after they went out of the land of Egypt also refers to the second month regarding it says in the third month after they went out from Okay. At any rate, the point is that specifically relates all of these three months, and with going out of Egypt in different verses. He calls it the first month, calls Nissen the first month from going out of Egypt, and calls the second month from going out of Egypt. Calls even the third month from going out of Egypt. All three of these months are they're not just they are also one, two, and three because Nissan is the first month. that the lunar calendar was established in a month of Nissen. So the year as far as months starts with Nissen, but we're saying more than that. Not just that these are called Risha Sheni Schlishi 123, but that specifically the first month of going out of Egypt, the second month of going out of Egypt, the third month of going out of Egypt. So all these months, these three months are connected with going out of Egypt. Is there norm although all of the months are counted from Niss which is the head of the months but the theme of going out of Mitim that is only explicitly mentioned Regarding these three months, is there time of them? is. The reason is that these three concepts here, the Exodus, counting the amir and receiving the Tyra, they are threeanim that means ways and madreus levels. I think the difference between ephanim and madregus is like qualitative and quantitative. three different ways is like quality different different manners qualitatively they differ from each other. Madreas though that's quantitative like one is higher than the other. So there are three different ways and three different levels of in going out of Egypt because the completion of going out of Egypt is the receiving of the toy. Okay. So you hear that we got these three months, three phases, three levels. of going out of Egypt. So far so good. >> Yeah. You're not listening Israel. You're putting seltzers in the thing. Isel is stocking the mini fridge in the sheni. By the way, isn't it interesting that your birthday is ini and you're stocking the mini fridge in the sheni? >> That is >> that can't be a coincidence. That cannot be a coincidence. Um, we're having an art show. Did you know we're having an art show? We're having a solo exhibition of a local artist here from 4 to 4:00 to 7 o'clock today. Yeah. So, you have the flyer. Pull. Show me the flyer. Okay. Um, so you saw stocking the mini fridge to make sure there's plenty of seltzer >> water. >> And water. Yeah. Don't think you're going to come here and you're not going to get water. >> Personal size. >> Personal size mini waters. >> Don't mess around. >> We don't mess around. Yeah. >> By the way, I hate to tell you this, but uh No, no, no, no. You're right. Oh, I I didn't even see you. You advanced the page. I didn't even see you. Okay. Bottom of first column of 266. Yeah, that's where we are. Yeah. Okay. The three times, three phases is U is connected with eating matzah. Counting the is connected with barley comm. You know what are? It's plural for mka. You know what a mka is? It's a meal offering. You know what a meal offering is? My whole life until I was probably in my 40s, I didn't realize I thought like a meal offering like a meal, you know, like have a little uh appetizer and yeah, can we get some um can we get some onion rings with that sir? You know, I was like meal? Why is it called a meal offering? And then I realized >> meal is like mel in Yiddish you say mel. Mel means flour. Meal is like one of these like Anglo-Saxon words. >> Old English. >> Old English. Old English 800. >> Yeah. >> Literally. >> Yeah. Mel Mel is flower. Not Mel like Mel's Diner, but Mel like um flower and meal means >> Yeah. Not like the janitor Detroit m of Mel. I thought he was Melvin. >> Whatever. Okay. Mel is meal. Meal offerings means flower offerings. Mines are flower offering. I mean, look, I always knew were flower offerings. I just know didn't know why they were called meal offerings. But then I realized meal just means >> they're not called meal. >> By the way, JFYI, it's connected to another word. Can we just do like etmological fun facts every year? Can I But hold on. >> Mill. You ever heard of a mill? What is a mill? >> What does a mill do? What a mill stones do? They grind the grain, crack it open, separate the chaff from the >> grain, and they create. So the mill makes the mel so you can have your meal. Matamel. Yeah. What do you want to say? >> I was going to say we have to do a segment segment. Whatever your brain like >> we have to do a stream of consciousness. >> No, I'm still Oh, no. I'm still censoring myself. >> Oh, I'm censoring myself. >> Anytime you say that any >> Yeah. >> show. >> The callin show. No, I'm No, I'm structuring myself. I'm I'm not just >> Oh, yeah. I'm I'm No, but I'm still structuring myself. He's saying like literally like sodium pentathol level of like >> start a topic. >> You know what that is? Truth serum. I'm doing it right now. Stream of consciousness. They when they want the spies to talk, they give him sod sodium pentathol. It's truth serum and they just let it all out. I want to tell you a quick story. I have a friend who had surgery and he had to have general anesthetic. And you know people say weird things when they're going under. So, uh, he woke up and the nurses were like coming over to him and when he woke up, they're like, "Wow, you were saying some really interesting things when you're going under." He was like so embarrassed. A friend of me is a he was like so embarrassed and he finally was like, "What was I saying?" And they said, "Well, we were saying that we have to increase in acts of goodness and kindness. We have to bring the Messiah and it's going to be a perfect world for everybody and you're part of it. You're part of it. You're part of it." So he was so relieved that under uh anesthesia where did his subconscious go? He was talking about Msiah >> at any rate. >> At any rate, come on. So are meal offerings. Every min is flour. Sorry, they're all flour, but is is wheat flour with one exception, which is actually two exceptions. Um the meal offering that a sait brings is barley and the meal offering of the is barley. Just agriculturally speaking the barley is uh harvestable earlier than the wheat. So the second day of pesak is pretty early in the year. Like this year we didn't even have we couldn't even do beer casalones until like the end of Nissen. So think about like the early crop. Barley apparently is is ripe and harvestable earlier. So the is an exception. It's barley instead of wheat. All are wheat and is connected with the two breads, two loaves which are you should bake them as leav. Okay. So basically I got three phases connected with three types of hami mazinus the manus I think or it's an interesting question with the brah I think they're mus um listen to this you got they're all carbs though that's the point three phases three types of carbs pes is matzah sphero No, don't skip. Is barley barley meal offering is the two leavenven loaves that were part of the offering the public uh communal sacrifice on sh. Okay, just keep that in mind. matzah barley meal offering and the two loaves two loaves is so it's not understood olive why is the offering from barley which is different than all other all other meal offerings of if you want to say well the suspected adulteress she also brings barley. Yeah but over there it says the reason gives the reason very clearly just as she behaved in an animalistic fashion sequestering herself with this suspicious man. So too her offering is from animal feed. Wheat is considered human feed and barley is considered animal feed is but why is the offering from barley from animal feed base since it's forbidden to eat because why like we explained before indic indicates ego. The puffiness of it indicates ego. Then it's weird if is like poison like a mashu even a tiny speck of it get you cannot have it around get rid of it destroy it right no we don't want any of it so then but then the rest of the year it's totally kosher and in fact on shv it's part of a mitzvah it's part of the necessary uh offering the communal offering the sacrificial offering that's brought so it's very strange like I can understand something that's really really bad, stay away from it. It's poison for one week of the year and then the rest of the year just leave it alone. Like okay, like you know, you don't have to be so careful, but you know, just ignore it. But here we're saying no pes it's like one speck of it is super super dangerous and then the rest of the year go ahead and eat it as much as you want. And in fact on you have to have it. that you not an individual has to eat it, but it's part of the sacrifice on that they would bring in the in the bas in the holy temple. So it's a little bit like strange how the status of hums goes from like one extreme to the other and in fact pretty rapidly because think about it it's only seven weeks on pes it's like even a speck of ktz is is spiritually toxic and then seven weeks later specifically is part of the offering in the temple to celebrate the um like what happened how did it go go from the worst thing to like holy in such a short period of time. Okay. All right. This is a from Song of Songs. Song of Solomon. Um, King Solomon wrote a love poem to describe the unique relationship between Hashem and the Jewish people. And there's a verse Mashi, draw me. I'm just going to read the verse one. One one, you know, just going to read it simple, straightforward. Mashi, draw me. This is um the woman speaking to the man. We will run after you. The king has brought me into his chambers, his innermost chambers. So the Reb says like this, These three phrases in this verse correspond to these three phases of time that we spoke about. Three phrases. Three phases. Hey, how you like that? It's good. It has a ring to it. Three phrases for three phases. Draw me is the exodus which is will run after you. is the counting time which is and the king has brought me into his innermost chambers of that is the giving of the ati which is okay so we got 1 2 3 we got me will run after you of the king has brought me into his innermost chambers and we've matzah. Stay away from Kmetz. That's phase one. Um, bringing barley as a meal offering and you can eat if you want. That's phase two. And then we have you got to have because it's part of the special offering in the temple. That's phase three. All right. Is so here's the explanation of all this. What's the difference between draw me and we will run is in there's a few differences not just one difference few few different aspects is to draw like pull uh is to run. So those are totally different verbs. pulling, drawing and running base. Another difference is their tight do you pull me. So the Jewish people are saying to Hashem, pull me up from above. Lane we will run from below to above understand. So the second difference okay so the first difference between is the verbs are just different words means to draw or to pull means to run. Okay. Second difference is mashi is passive. We are the object of it. We are being pulled from above to below. Hashem is pulling us from above to below. So, we're receiving it. The second phrase, we will run after you. It's active. We are running. In the first phrase, we're the object of the verb. In the second phrase, we're the subject. You know, grammar, we're running after him. We say we will run after you. Pull us out. We will run after you phase one. Pull us out. Phase two. Then we will run after you. >> Pulling us out isn't to a destination, right? It's just pulling us out. First, get us out of the pit. >> Yeah. And we're going to explain this more. Okay. Gimmel. Another difference between these two phrases singular and plural. So draw me is singular. Draw me. We will that non makes it plural. We will run after you. What's where did that? What >> a screen saver. Why the screen saver pop up? We're good. Yeah, but now you got to flip the page anyways. Page 267. Oh, you did it. Flip the page. Okay. All right. So, we have the three phrases in Shirid that correspond to the three phases of Nissan ER7. Let's just go through them. Reb highlights three differences between the first two phrases. Okay. One difference is just the meanings of the verbs. Mashi means to draw or to pull. Means to run. Second difference active and passive. Very good. So in we are being drawn. We're the recipients. We are the ones who are running active. Third difference you can look inside. singular and plural. We will run after you. Okay, great. All right, we're on the top of 267. Beautiful. Okay. and mushukes. At the time the Jews were taken out of Mitim, they were immersed in the 49th gate of impurity. The 50th gate there's no coming back from. They were on the brink of spiritual extinction. Just like there are nun share bina in the positive holy realm there are uh 50 gates of impurity and you can only go to 49. Once you go to 50 you're gone, god forbid. So they were as low as you could possibly descend. They'd been surrounded by idolatry. They were enslaved for all of those years. Of course they had their, you know, certain merits. People are going to ask me, well, didn't they have the merits of they didn't change their uh culture? Yeah, so they did. But that's the whole point is that even though theologically they were exposed to a lot of negative negativity, they did have a certain distinct identity, they retained a certain distinct identity culturally, but they were not spiritually they were not spiritually in a great place. Like don't think that the worst thing about Mitim was some taskmaster with a whip. I mean, that's also not fun. But the mit was a time of spiritual decay. So they were on the 49th gate. They were they were immersed in the 49th gate of impurity. They were not they were not vessels for godliness. They were not receptive to godliness. They were just not ready for it. Or like we say in the you were naked. What does it mean naked? They were spiritually naked. It's just Hashem, holy one, blessed be revealed himself to them and pulled them out of there. In other words, they were in no position to extract themselves. They were in a very very low place. So how did they get out? Because Hashem pulled them out. It was Hashem's choice. He did it. He took them out. The bald is a since this did not come about as a result of their work. They weren't in a position to do soil, but rather it came about their liberation came about because of an intense revelation from above. That's why they didn't absorb it internally because they were not receptive. They were not vessels for it. It's just that this great revelation came and drew them close to godliness. You understand? It wasn't something they worked on. It wasn't something they were prepared for. It wasn't something that was a product of their efforts. It's something that happened to them passively. And therefore, they couldn't really hold on to it. You know, when when someone teaches you how to do something and gets you to do it, then then you have it. But if they just do it for you, you know, you don't have it. So that's that's what happened. Wasn't like Hashem made them capable of, okay, I'll redeem you and now you know how to redeem yourselves. It wasn't like that at all. It was like he pulled them out of and they were unchanged. They were the same slaves. I mean, the only thing that changed is they didn't have the guys cracking the whips, but spiritually they were no different a second before redemption, a second after. So another thing that is understood now uh in inidic terms we say like this this revelation that happened to them only affected their godly soul because the godly soul is receptive to godliness but it did not affect the animal soul. Bahamas is at the time of being taken out of Egypt. Their animal souls remained in in in it in their original strength. Um the the the negativity inside of themselves remained the same. Okay. In other words, was not a transformative experience. They were the same people a second before and a second after. The only difference was now they were safe. Now they were out of the we said they were on the precipice of spiritual extinction. So they were yanked back from that edge of the cliff. But they hadn't undergone any actual change precisely because it was something that was completely passive. It just happened to them. It was be was beyond their ability to internalize the actually explains why the says and the nation fled. This is after mit were devastated. This is right before the splitting of the sea. They could have sauntered out very casually and yet they're fleeing. Fleeing from whom? Egypt was in ruins. So the alterba explains, by the way, where is this? It's in Tanya. What chapter of Tanya? So he explains the explains why did the Jewish people have to flee from Mitim? Why couldn't they just saunter out all cash? Seemingly it doesn't make sense at that moment. If they would have told P that they're going out forever, he would have had to agree. So why did they have to run? Because the alter explains because when they were brought out of their internal negativity remained in its initial state of strength and that's why they had to run. They weren't running because they were afraid the Egyptians would come grab them and pull them back in. They were running from themselves. They were afraid if they didn't get away from there, they would choose to remain because they were still attracted to the negativity there. So that's the point in the first phase which we're calling mashi draw me. It is very passive. It's something happens that happens to you. That's why also we say that the the the time for their bread to rise. Surprise. What does that mean? It means it's not something that I worked on. It's something that it happened out of nowhere. I mean, what do you mean it happened out of nowhere? The the the 10 plagues were going on for a year. They knew it was coming. The point is even when it came because it was something God was doing for them, they weren't equipped to internalize it. So that that's that's the first phase. All right. Uh light dem is fashandic. You see where uh where we are here like dean. >> Yeah. Yeah. The very very bottom of the first column of 267. Now we can break down this word in all of the above mentioned uh aspect of it. Why does it mean pull kin? Okay. So a little bit we'll do a little side uh explanation here about kenyan. Kenyan means acquisition. It's a legal term in Jewish law. Um how does one acquire something? One way is pulling something. Another way of making acquisition is means uh establishing fact like somebody lives in a household that he's not a squatter. He must be the rightful owner. Mashia is you take the object and you pull it toward you and it it represents the transfer of ownership. as gate as gate nor mia nothing changes in the object itself I guess I shouldn't say it like this when I talk about could be like a homeowner who makes improvements or we don't know if he's the homeowner but he was making improvements So then it's established that he must be the owner. So with there's a change in the objects is there's no change in the object. It just moves from the domain of the seller to the domain of the buyer. There was no change to the Jews. They were just transferred. They were transferred from audits, the lwdness of the land, meaning which was a sick place to a domain of of holiness. But they didn't change. Like they say, you can take the uh the Jews out of Mitim, but it's not so simple to take the mitim out of the Jews. Obviously eventually it was extracted but that was not phase one. Phase one was just getting them out of there. So that's what it means. Mashi pull me out. Just pull me out. Just get me out of here. Just get me safe. Bam. Another thing is like we said before it's happening from above to below. It's happening to us. We are passive. We are recipients. We are the object not the subject. Va s is because there was no aveda yet. There was no it wasn't something that we were doing something that Hashem was doing to us for us. And now we understand why it's singular not plural because it singular grammar here signifies that the experience only affected the godly soul. It didn't affect the animal soul. The animal soul was not receptive. Now, obviously, animal soul was kind of forced to go along because it's in the body and they were physically taken out of Egypt. So, the animal soul is like sort of forced to go along for this whole thing. But, it wasn't transformative for the animal soul. The animal soul hadn't become refined in any way. It was the same animal soul as it was back in Egypt. So, that's why it's singular. Okay. Um, we're on the second column of 267 right in the middle. The the point of everything is the godly soul should refine the animal soul. This concept really changed my life. Really, I I live with this all the time. I I've said this thousands of times. I said it yesterday in Greenwich at Shabaton. If the purpose of life is the godly soul, the godly soul could have stayed in heaven. In fact, it would be much happier there. That's where the godly soul comes from. That's where it should have stayed. That's its natural habitat. The godly soul only comes down to the world for the sake of affecting the animal soul. This is a concept. The itself meaning the godly soul does not need any rectification. It's fine. It's perfect. The purpose of its descent below is to refine the animal soul like it says. Yeah. What? >> Uh, yeah, I do without looking. >> Tess, what does it say? about. Oh says the sh itself did not need to come down to this world is not okay. Um yeah. So the point of coming down here, yeah, what does that mean? Not uh like our sages say the sages say with both of your inclinations, with both your hearts. That's the double base. And then this is the cool part. Through the refinement of the animal soul, the godly soul is also elevated. Spoke about this before. When you help someone, you're actually helping yourself. So it's interesting. The godly soul doesn't need any perfection because it it is already perfect. But when it helps the animal soul, which needs a lot of help, it receives an elevation. So a tikun, this is you have to be precise. A tikun is unnecessary for the godly soul because it's already perfection. But an aliyah aliyah could always go to a higher level. And how does the the nephil get how does anelakis get an aliyah? How does a godly soul get an aliyah? By being involved in perfecting the animal soul. So when the godly soul refineses the animal soul, the the godly soul receives an an elevation and that's the yield of the axe. King Solomon says in Proverbs, there is much produce from the strength of an axe. What was he giving farming tips? No, he's saying like this that the animal, you literally take the animal, the ox, and put a yolk on his back and he pulls the the the plow and then you can plant and can harvest. But here, what it means is the the yield from the ox means the gain that the godly soul receives from the animal soul. When the godly soul helps the animal soul, so the godly soul ends up receiving something it couldn't receive any other way. And that's the purpose why the godly soul comes to the world. Is what's the difference between a person and an animal? A person has an intellect and therefore his will and his emotions are not as passionate. them control it because thank God a person's emotions and his will are modified. They are um attenuated by the fact that they're controlled by his mind at least hopefully. Hopefully a person is controlling himself. But in contrast in animals an animal everything it wants it wants it with a real intensity because it doesn't have the intellect to control it. And so too in the person himself. That was the difference between a person and an animal. But in in a person himself is the the will of the godly soul is not as intense as the will of the animal soul. The animal soul is more intense. The Reb explains the mechanics of how the godly soul actually ends up gaining from the the animal soul. He says because the animal soul inherently has a much more intense drive than the godly soul. So when the godly soul gets the animal soul to transfer its desires over to godliness. So then what's happening is all that intensity is being brought over to godliness. So there's a certain intensity that the animal soul has that the godly soul does not have. that when the godly soul can get the animal soul over to its side, it's co-opting that intensity and and and gaining thereby. Okay, you flip the page. I know how to page one second. Yeah, I do. Okay. You should all told me you just pressed the arrows. Nothing other than the You did the arrow. It's not letting you. So, we're trying to flip the page and it's not working. Please turn over the tape to the other side. Not at all. Old old enough to know what that is. All right. Yeah. >> No, we didn't get it. You still listen to tape? Oh, you still listen to tapes? >> Yeah. How come it didn't work? >> She pushed the arrow and nothing happened. Okay, now you can't leave because you're controlling the Okay, where are you going? >> Amazing savings. We're in five towns. wine glasses. >> Fake wine glasses for the art show later today. You know, we're having an art show. >> Very bougie. >> Okay. Very bougie art show. Where did you learn this word bougie? >> Yeah. >> Bgeoisi. >> Yeah. >> Middle class. >> I used that word yesterday in Greenwich. >> I was giving a parenting class and I said, "What's the point of life to raise your kid to be able to get good SAT scores?" so he can get an Ivy League school, so he can get the right degree, so he can get the right job, so that he can have enough money to buy a house in the right neighborhood, so he can send so he can send his kids to the right school, so they can get good SATs, so they can get into the right school, to get the right degree, to get the right job. I said, this this craziness that the the the Jewish American immigrant experience of the obsession of like a degree and a professional, you know, the Jewish doctor, a stereotype. I said th this this bgeoa obsession with having this this security that comes from professional status. I said please understand that that is a total aberration in the in the greater uh context of Jewish history. And so something I said listen I myself relate to it. My great-grandparents rolled cigars for for a penny an hour and then it was they were so proud that their son my grandfather was the first professional. He was a lawyer and but you have to understand historically that's not how Jewish history was. You taught your child to so I told them I'm giving him a whole speech from Greenwich yesterday. I said AI is going to come and make all these professions irrelevant and it's not going to matter that you have these degrees >> and we're going to be forced to go back to the good old tried and true and teach our children to >> at any rate. No, but it's actually whatever it is. It's actually middle class. >> Yeah, it is middle class. >> But everyone uses to mean like, oh, super fancy. >> No, >> it's like the difference between like the the the the what do you call it? >> It's the middle class. It's technically the people who work in like bureaucracy, but it's like the the point of it is the difference between like nuvoish and the old money. So, you know, like the old blue blood like waspy people, they don't show off their money. They don't show. They wear khakis and a sweater. That's it. You will not know. >> No, that's not at all. >> He walks around. >> That's a different thing. The Bushes for instance, like George Bush, okay? See how Barbara Bush very like understated the people come from money. They're Mayflower, you know, people. They they don't flaunt their wealth. >> Okay. >> Bougie is a person. They're all excited about their money. They want they never had it before. They don't know how to handle it. Okay. Do I need anything else? By the way, someone wrote in the YouTube mind-blowing, but I don't know what they wrote mind-blowing about. >> How long ago was it? >> How long ago was it? There's no time codes. >> What was mindblowing? >> Blueberry 20 2250. Blueberry 20250. Can you please tell me what was mind-blowing and what your um image is there? Is that like some type of kanji something? Okay. >> Southern Sash 3947 says, "Don't make me feel old about my tapes." >> Okay. Where are we up to? Yeah. Two. Yeah. Okay. No, no, no. We said uh the difference between a a person and an animal is that a animal is much more intense, passionate. So internally also the animal soul is more intense and passionate. When the godly soul redirects the animal soul, it gains by taking over that passion that it was lacking. The godly soul doesn't have the same passion like the animal soul. And it gets access to that passion. Now we understand why phase two is connected with barley because barley is animal food. And what's the whole point of phase two? Is bringing the animal aboard. Aha. Okay. So, phase one, mashi, draw me out of here. Pull me out. I'm unchanged. You're just taking me from place to place. That's matzah. Matzah is something happens so quick you're not even prepared for it. Not even for your bread, your bread to rise. Um, phase two is now that I'm safe, let's start working on ourselves. Let's start self-refinement process. Animal salt. Ah, now we're eating barley. Okay. Did we flip the page? Yeah. Okay. Good base. Now, in case you're going to ask, how do we actually refine these? Oh, somebody answered in the we got what was mind-blowing. It was mind-blowing that the animal soul redirects its willpower towards holiness after being tamed. Yeah, that is pretty cool. And that that is advantageous to the godly soul. Kimberly Duke 2567 says, "Non-Jew and learning so much. I don't speak the language." Uh, please excuse my ignorance. I'm new here. I am amazed that someone who's not Jewish, who doesn't understand. This is Yiddish, by the way. Um, that you're learning with us. But welcome. That's pretty cool. Okay. Um, yeah. So, we explained the animalism of it. It's uh the second phase is all about getting the animal involved and refining the animal to the advantage of the godly soul. Um, How do we refine the emotional traits through meditation, deep thought, contemplation? When a person meditates, thinks deeply about godliness, he becomes aroused to love and awe of Hashem. is neat of his. Now when at the beginning phase when a person is still at risk of committing a sin because he's not in a good place spiritually there's no time for meditation. We got to just get out of there. Like it says and the nation fled. They fled. Get out of there. You got to force yourself to run away from the evil. But after you're free, you're out of the lewd place to tyus place of illicit passion and temptation is. So now he's not at risk of falling into these bad things. Now what happens? Now he's He's not at risk of doing prohibi prohibited things. Now he's got to refine himself regarding the permissible things. We spoke about it uh last week and if you're watching this in a leap year, it wouldn't be last week. Actually, it would be because it was in kadeshim. So it would be last week. We spoke about in the of uh and even in permissible things you have to be refined. Don't do it in a self-indulgent way. So the first thing was get away from the risk of sinning actually transgressing doing things that are prohibited. Once you're safe from that now you can start to refine yourself even in permissible areas. then you can actually start to meditate and you can start to transform these negative traits and to internalize this whole process in an inner way. Okay. So basically what we're saying is like this phase one machini is I'm in danger. I'm on the precipice of spiritual collapse. I don't have time to meditate. I just got to get out of here. Okay? You're in a burning building. You got to get out. So phase one IS MASHI. DRAW ME OUT OF HERE. PULL me out. It's not about me. It's like they got to come rescue me. Literally, come rescue me. Now you're out of the burning building. You've been rescued. So phase two is the work. The work begins in phase two. So that is refining the animal soul. That's like we said a shift from where my struggles are with prohibited things in phase one. In phase two, now I'm trying to refine myself even in permissible matters, even in things that are kosher, trying to do them more mindfully, refining the animal soul. First phase was just the rescue of the godly soul. The animal soul was just pulled along for the ride. It had nothing to do with it. Second phase, I'm actively engaging my animal soul and trying to refine it, approaching each of its character traits. And that's what we're doing during so on so forth. refining. Spo means counting, but spir also means sappier. Shining, shining each of those traits, trying to get them more um refined. Okay. Light dem. Yeah, light dem. We're in the middle of the second column on page 269. Oh, yeah. What? Where are we? like damn fresh. Yeah. Where are we? Uh, yud gimmel. Yeah, I was on the wrong page. Okay. Um, very bottom of 268. Sorry. very bottom of 268. Now we're going to understand why it uses a language of running. Before we were asking why does it go from phase one of draw me to phase two where it says we will run. Why does the verb change? We also said why is one active and one one is the first one is passive and the second is active. We also asked why is the first one uh singular and the second is plural. Okayen nit. So the first difference life and knit gain running not walking the animal soul's passions are you know its desires are very very intense. So then when we when we can accomplish that the animal soul should also want godliness. Then the animal soul's desire for godliness will actually be, ironically enough, more intense than the godly soul's desire for godliness. The animal soul is not immoral. It's amoral. Doesn't want to do bad things. It just wants to do whatever it thinks will be good for it. Its default is to be, you know, non- selective about godliness. It doesn't mean anything to me. But after you have refined it and taught it and trained it, then it does want godliness. It will gravitate toward godliness with the same intensity as it gravitated toward anything else that it felt it wanted. So that's the running. Running isn't just walking. Running. It's like fast. It's intense. It's turbocharged. That's the the gain that we uh uniquely receive from the animal soul which has that intensity. base is the other change is that it comes now from below to above what we're calling active as opposed to passive because phase one draw me that was from above to below I was the recipient of it we will run after you I'm now the subject of the verb I am doing it I'm active or what we call below to above which means I'm working on myself phase one I'm not working on myself I'm just allowing myself to be rescued Phase two, I'm working on myself. I'm looking at my character traits one by one, so on and so forth, and I'm polishing them and redirecting them. All right, we switched from the the the singular to the plural, right? Draw me. We will run after you. Why did we switch from singular to plural? We went from singular to plural because singular was draw me only my godly soul. Phase two, we will run after you. My godly soul is now teamed up with my animal soul. In fact, the running is the product of that new partnership with the animal soul. And that's why it is plural because both souls are actively engaged. ask a valid question. Okay. Many times if we say this we will say that the transformation is truly perfectly righteous. Whereas everyone else is isafia is subjugation. They can't transform the evil. They can just put it in its place and keep it under control. And we speak about that like two different categories, two different styles, two different approaches. That's true. We do. Very good. We do say that quite often in here we're talking about it in a way that is relevant to everyone. Not just someone who is technically called a perfectly righteous individual, but relative to everyone there is both transformation and is scafia subjugation. So if we were to look at it in terms of these phases phase one is escafia where we're just we can't change the evil. There's nothing we can do to put a dent in it but we can sort of make it a non-factor. We can just behave in spite of it. Phase two is we're going to actually start to deal with it. we're going to actually start to transform it. You're right. In other places, it'll say that's not really possible for everyone to do. But on a certain level, relatively speaking, there is a concept of transforming the the traits of the animal soul to actually to actually transform them, not just to control them. That's the difference. Controlling them means I haven't changed them, but I sort of figure out how to work around them. Um, transformation means no, they're working for me now. They're act they they've joined my side. So that that's that's what we're describing in phase two. All right. >> Just looking at the chat. >> Okay. Lot of interesting conversation going on over there. Um yeah. So we switched from plural. Switch from singular to plural. Mirutza. And we say the term Nutsa Lian Mirut. Um running as That becomes a runner. We said before that the godly soul is not a runner. The godly soul is kind of mellow, kind of laidback. Animal soul is kind of crazy. So it's a runner. So when the godly soul gets the animal soul to team up with it, not only is it making the animal soul stop being a problem, it's actually causing the animal soul to add qualities to the godly soul that it didn't have on its own. It be it also becomes a runner. So we will run after you means who's running? Both souls. So the godly soul godly soul never ran before. Now it's running. Why is it running? Because we've included the animal soul. Okay. We're on the bottom. We're on 268. Bottom of the second column. All right. So, we did phase two. We did phases one and two. Phase two was the counting the self-refinement getting the animal involved. That's why it's from barley which is animal feed. That's why it's plural. We are running. That's why it's running because it's active. It has that turbo boost of the animal involvement. Now let's get to the next phase. Phase three. Third phase is the revelation at Sinai. The giving of the Torah at Sinai was base given. What was the condition that was created at the time of the revelation at Sinai? Means that you lose your separate selfhood. You become totally absorbed in the oneness. became bets. Phase two refinement is notas. It's not where it's not where you become completely subsumed in the oneness. It's an intellectual process. Well, like we said, it's through meditation. So when you're in a a a meditative state, that's a deliberate state. That's a conscious state. It's not where you're completely just losing yourself. You're you're you're in control. It's a very like lucid state of of focused contemplation. So in phase two where you're refining your animal soul, you're very much still in your selfhood. You're just refining that selfhood. Is at the revelation at Sinai says every time Hashem spoke one of the commandments, their souls took flight. Their souls just flew out of their bodies. They couldn't remain in their separate selfhood. Okay. So, that's a difference between phase two and phase three. Phase two is you're in your separate selfhood and you're making a better version of that. You're refining that. In phase three, you're losing your separate selfhood. You're just becoming blown away and to the point where you just become one with with the all. is as now let's go back to this other question we had about the status of we said it's funny that during pes during the seven or eight days of pes is poison like you can't even have a speck of it and then the rest of the year is just normal and on which is only six weeks after the end of pes is is part of a mitzvah. It's part of an a holy offering sacrifice in the temple. Like what's the deal with it? Why why does the spiritual status oft fluctuate so much? Okay by at the beginning of our service. Did you flip the page by the way? Wow. Stealth. I didn't even see that. We're on 269. The beginning of our service of when the inner negativity is still in its strength. You have to set aside your intellect because it could be misappropriated. You can use intellect for evil. So that's at the beginning. That's like phase one. Phase one we said is not time for meditation. You're not even going to be capable of. First of all, there's no time for it because you're at risk. Second of all, I can't even trust you to meditate in phase one because the the inner negativity is so strong it'll just hijack your brain and you won't be able to think straight. But during this counting time, which is phase two, we're safe now. We've been delivered from danger. That's the second phase, the middle phase. Now you can tolerate intellect as that you don't misappropriate misuse your intellect through the process of counting. We are not just counting sphere but refining our attributes. So we refine all of the internal negativity until you come to a level of complete surrender to godliness until the point where you have no separate selfhood. You become one with Godz then becomes a mitzvah because then your intellect is also receptive to godliness because all of you has been given over to godliness. So basically we say like this phase one you are in a very bad place. You're in Egypt. You can't even help yourself. you need to be saved. Just Hashem has to swoop down and rescue you and you your part is just to let him just stay out of the way and let him. Okay? So at that point, which represents selfhood is toxic. Why? Because yourself is in such a sick situation, you're going to get yourself in trouble. So your your best relationship with self right now is just ignore yourself. Don't try to think too much because you're just going to make things worse and just let yourself be saved. Okay, phase two. Now you're safe. Now you're you're out of the pit. Okay, now it's time to get to work on yourself. Now we're going to start to incorporate the self. So now the comets, which represent self, is no longer toxic. It's no longer poison. It's no longer prohibited. It's normal. Then you're going to do that for so long and so thoroughly so well, you're going to actually come to a point of phase three where yourself is it went from from one extreme to the other. Now yourself is so refined it's one with godliness. So selfhood is is synonymous with godliness. And now the which represents selfhood not only it's permissible it's part of a mitzvah. You have to have an there was a there was there was a sacrifice that was brought in the holy temple where they they they had to have loaves the two loaves. So it's very interesting that in phase one when you're in a really spiritually sick place like you are your own worst enemy like just stay out of your own business because you're going to make things worse. Phase two, when you're out of danger, then you start to work on yourself, making yourself more and more refined. By phase three, you're so refined, you are no longer a problem. You are now part of the solution. You are now totally one with with godliness and you're not opposing godliness. And to the contrary, now go ahead and assert yourself because it's not separate selfhood. It's a selfhood which is an extension of of God. Pretty cool stuff. Okay, alen uh tesv we're in the we're on page two at 269 in the middle of the first column al okay our sages state in every single generation that's the edition says adds A person must see himself as if he left today from every day. You have to live, you have to relive the Exodus. So everything we just described although we described it in terms of the three months it actually in microcosm exists on a daily basis. We had the three phases broken down to Nissan. So in the the cycle of the year which commemorates those events, the Exodus and Nissan being like in that trans transitional phase in the wilderness and ear receiving the Torah and even that's that's like the annual cycle. But you know everything's like in mathematics you have the fractals like the shape of the leaf of the tree is the same as the the shape of the tree, the outline, the contour of the tree. Um you have the same pattern expressed on a daily basis as well. How does the day begin? The the day begins with maidi. First thing you say before you even get out of bed, before you even wash your hands, you say mi meani means I give thanks. But it also has a double meaning. Means I acknowledge. I acknowledge I did not wake myself up. I did not put myself here. Hashem put me here. Surrender. Then we start to pray. The morning prayer begins with the words is the same etmological root as maid. Same meaning again recognition acknowledgement. The beginning of the aida the beginning of our divine service is humble acknowledgement. I didn't do anything. I'm I'm just the recipient. Hashem is the one who did it. I'm just showing up. He has no understanding. He has no feelings. state of humble admission and a general surrender to godliness. And that resembles phase one which we call the first month is I don't know how to do this. I can't do this. I'm in a bad way. But if Hashem's going to come yank me out of here, I'm going to let him. That's the beginning of the cycle. We begin with humble admission, surrender. This is not me. I'm not doing this. I'm allowing it to happen. I'm allowing Hashem to do his will with me. That's phase one. That's how we start the day. You're saying it sounds also like phase three because the BL aspect involved. It's a different kind of a Bittal. It's a great observation you're making. Phase one is bit because I realized I'm my own worst enemy and I it's it's it's a bit of I have this self but myself is making my life worse. So I'm just maidani is I don't want to bring myself in here. I don't want to involve myself. I'm going to mess things up. I'm going to let Hashem do it all. Phase three is also bal, but it's a different kind of bal. It's where I'm I'm so surrendered now. I can trust myself again. I'm sane again. My intuition is returned. >> Yeah. >> Because I'm so on track like there there's again it's like the it's like the continuum of oft represents my my identity, my selfhood. In phase one, Kmetz is is completely toxic because in phase one, I can't even trust myself. Phase three, comet becomes a holy offering in the temple because by the end of the process, not only I can trust myself, like I I I'm I'm aligned with God's will. Like the things that I'm thinking are actually good things, are holy things, but that's the end of the process. understand there's two different types of >> ble in a on a practical level means I did not wake myself up. So I'm admitting the moment I become conscious I'm not here on my terms. I'm here to to to to live life on God's terms, not on my terms. So, it's like this this surrender. It's like I'm my life is none of my business. I'm going to let God take over that. Maidani has that expression of like I'm putting myself aside right now. By phase three, I'm not putting myself aside. I've become integrated with the with this whole process. be it became natural to me. I'm aligned with it now. It's a totally different feeling. We're going to we're going to explain it more. Okay. Then after that, okay, we're going to continue through our day. So we woke up, we said we said now we're in the which are the verses of praise generally mostly taken from psalms and then the blessings before the shma and the schma. You know what's supposed to happen during that time of doning? That's when you're supposed to think and you're supposed to savor the words and you're supposed to allow the meaning of the words to trigger emotional reactions and to build up your love of Hashem and your awe of Hashem. That's very phase two like in the annual cycle of it. Phase two was spir the self-refinement process. So on and on and the daily cycle of it phase two is a nice thoughtful dvening where you're letting the words affect you. It's changing what your desires are because you wake up with a default anim animalistic agenda, just self-perpetuation. And then through the the process of domining, you're you're reminding yourself what really matters, what you should really be attracted to. It's it's a refinement process. Okay, that's very phase two. So you have all that stuff is you're meditating. I mean if you're dabbing properly you're meditating and in fact even the first verse of schma means listen but it means understand so it's all it's all about understanding phase one is not about understanding you don't have to understand you just need to let it happen like please I don't have time to explain it to you your understanding is irrelevant phase one your understanding is irrelevant like please I cannot explain this to You just you get in the car, let's go. Phase two is all about you understanding. It's all about you understanding. That's how the refinement process takes place is through your understanding. And so then we understand and we refine the mid we refine the the the emotional traits until we come to the highest levels of love of Hashem. again with the double vase. That's very phase two. That's very like we said before is the month where every day is involved in which is self-refinement. So that phase where we're dvening meditatively and we're allowing the words to affect us and we're understanding it and we're convincing ourselves and we're having the emotional transformative experience of changing what we're we normally are attracted to. Instead of being instead of being drawn after worldly things now we're getting excited about godly things. That's all very very phase two. Okay. is however he's still a he's still a separate entity that exists very now he's very refined but he's still a separate existence then you come to the 18 blessings the central prayer what we call the amida the standing prayer what happens during the the amida or the standing prayer like a sl like a slave in front of his master. There is complete ble complete non uh like non-existence. He can't even speak. What do we say before the we say Hashem open up my mouth meaning you're channeling when you it's not you anymore. The beginning part of ding it's you. The whole point is it has to be you because you're trying to get yourself back on track and start to change what you care about. But then it works and you get to the point of the and now it's not you anymore. You're literally channeling. You're a conduit. You're just a conduit. Hashem, open up my m my mouth. Hashem, speak through me. Is nor he's like one who answers after the reader. Like you're just uh repeating like you have the little earpiece. You know, they tell the politicians what to say. You're just saying you don't even know what you're saying. You're just repeating what they tell you to say. and that is phase three. That's you're standing at and you're losing your separate selfhood. You're just becoming one with Hashem. And that's what happens in the is it's not me anymore. I worked on myself, but now I graduated. I'm at this place of just synergy now. Now, now it's just flowing. Not even me. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's where I thought we were before. 269, middle of the second column. Now going back to our original question in the we said the used to make a mistake. They thought to take it literally when the toy says you should start counting. You should bring the sacrifice and counting on the day after Shabas. We know that means the day after the holiday of Pesak. They thought it meant literally Shabas the seventh day of the week. Meaning the day after the seventh day is Yimish the first day what we call uh Sunday in America. And we said, we asked, being that we know that it's really referring to the day after Pes, why didn't the Tor just make that clear and just say that the day after PES? Why does it refer to PES as Shabas in a way that frankly can lead to confusion? So now we're going to understand that as well. In order to refine the animal soul, you have to have a special power given from above. Like the saying, anything that comes from higher descends to lower. So similarly when when the Eden were in Mitim they were on a very low level they were on the level 49 gates of impurity and therefore to get them out of that they needed a very high level which is Hashem revealed himself. He didn't send, it says in Hagad, he didn't send an emissary. He didn't send an angel. Rather, he himself. Uhoh. What happened to the Maybe I don't know. I just saw the screen saver pop up. Yeah, I did for a second. Oh, you got you caught it. Okay, thank you. Yeah, I have a delay. I have like a five second delay. Yeah. Um, so they were on a very low level. The lowest actually, like we said, the lowest possible level. You can't go lower than that. And to be rescued from there, it was Hashem had to reveal himself on a very high level. Like we say in the Hagod, Hashem did not send an emissary. He did not send an angel. but rather the he himself in his full glory. What we call atmos the essence of godliness not a revelation of godliness but godliness itself because they were on such a low level they required rescue being rescued by by the highest level. It was only that level that could bring them out of such a low place. Dorton Gishong. And like the Arizal explains that another reason Hashem didn't send an angelic messenger is that not only would that angelic messenger not be capable of pulling the Jews out of their lowly state, but that the angelic messenger itself would have become uh overwhelmed and swallowed up there. So they were in a really low place. Only Hashem himself could take them out. And like we said, that phase one is merely going out from evil. No actual internal change is taking place. It's just going from one place to another place. Going from inside the burning building to outside. canon if in order to get out of the negative place and not experience any internal change because of it. But we needed this massively high power in order to facilitate that. So how much more so in phase two when we're actually trying to work on ourselves and change and transform our traits, how much more so do we need this really high power to assist us. Follow if just to be pulled out of mitz which was phase one we needed this super high power meaning hashem's essence itself. So in phase two where we're actually trying to transform ourselves. So we also need this super high power. That's why it says when does this whole process start? On the day after Shabas. Why does that say that? Shabas is Shabas is the highest level in time. In fact that's why when you get there you just start over. There's no whether we count first day, second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day, sixth day, seventh day. So after you get to the shabas, that's it. You can only come back again. Um it's a spiral. It does not literally coming back. It's coming back but on a higher level. Um so Shabas is the highest level in time. However, that is within the limitations of time in terms of the cycle of the seven days. And so in the sevenday cycle, Shabas is the highest day. Seven-day cycle originates obviously from the seven days of creation. So 7-day cycle is not just the source of the seven days of creation. 7-day cycle is representative of the limitations of creation. In other words, what we call the natural order. So the scale 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 that represents the limitations or the confines of nature of the created reality. Okay. Or like it says the sages say on the verse and Hashem create of completed on the seventh day. What was the world lacking? It was lacking rest. Meaning the seventh day is also part of creation. But he didn't create anything. uh but created so to speak the concept of rest. The only thing they didn't they didn't have yet by the seventh day was rest. The seventh day introduced the concept of restab is still part of the seven still part of the structure of limited created worlds time space finite reality. to Shabas. But the day after Shabas, one beyond Shabas, these amps go to 11. Someone in YouTube comments will understand that reference is Shabas. That however is higher than Shabas. Shabas is the highest level. Mo Shabas is higher than the highest level. Just a whole other ballpark. That's what we call fancyic phrasing here. But the light that's higher than from you know which means chainless means the chainlike process of the creation of the worlds. The order the system of how the infinite brings the finite into being. So we have this system and in that system Shabas is the culmination is the the peak and yet we also have beyond the system higher than what does it mean beyond the system you have to remember God himself self is not contained by his creation. Even the loftiest levels of creation, meaning the spiritual realms, even the highest spiritual realms don't contain God. God is beyond that. So there are levels of godliness which are beyond being contained even by the highest levels within creation. So Shabas represents the pinnacle of what exists within the system. The day after Shabas represents going one more beyond that outside of the framework. That's what it means. You should count for yourselves meaning engage in the self-refinement process when how from that level which is one more beyond chabas beyond what is the highest level in the system in order to count the days in order to take the 49 days which after all are what these days these 49 days are also So the character traits of the animal soul and the so on and so forth and to polish them refine them again doesn't just mean counting does means to count but also it's sapi shining illumination. So in order to do that, in order to accomplish the refinement of the animal soul, you're not going to be able to do that with regular energy that exists in the confines of the system. You got to go higher. You got to go beyond. You have to take from the level that's called one beyond shabas. one beyond the highest level meaning from beyond the system of sedas. I told you this is one of my favorite sikhas maybe my favorite sikh changed my life and as you said this is based on two myim from tiny olive and Indian maid from tshinyud gimmel we'll do a quick we always do a little synopsis of every so we'll do a little synopsis here let's do a little synopsis uh three months three phases niss year seven uh they correspond to three phrases in um that basically we have the idea of in phase one get out of the way let God do the work and that's just being rescued and in a yearly basis that's that's pes where we re relive Hashem coming in and rescuing us from this terrible situation that we could not take ourselves out from and in Daily represents you wake up. You just surrender. You just admit I'm not here on my terms. I'm here for you. And that's it. Phase two is a self-refinement process. Getting the animal on board in terms of the daily process. That's a proper meditative dvening. Phase three is mountain ta. You're standing at harinai and you're just becoming one with hashem. In our daily process, that's the amida. when we allow Hashem to just speak through us. And all of that comes from a place that's beyond the ordinary system. It comes from a place called moasabas. One more beyond. Okay, that was the second of paras. By the way, you notice the first from was not about the para. Second was not about the para. It's all about now you you can say that it is para related because is not just the amor is not just a para that we read during but the mitzvah of appears in par. So I guess I guess it is partial related to that extent. Okay. Um normally I would say it's getting late and the only person who has to be crazy enough to stay here is me because I made a commit commitment that I'm going to finish every word of and I would say you can go. You don't have to stay here but I need you to push the button. But if you don't want to push the button then I'll I'll push the button myself. Okay, you're happy to do it. Okay. All right. So, now where are we up to? We are on page I lost my place. 27. We're on page 270. This is the third. This is much shorter. The third of pious emo page 270 parious am top of the second column. Okay. Their iselman with if you miss a day could happen. You miss a day. By the way, I forgot to count. Is it too late to count? Yep. It's the next day already. It didn't count. Not you don't count, but you didn't do the action of count. I'm not saying I'm not saying a person, God forbid, you don't count. You don't matter. I just want to make sure that it's not what it sounds like. You You didn't count yesterday. Still sounds like it's saying you didn't matter yesterday. You failed to engage in the activity called counting the day. If you missed a day, you do not recite the blessing over the mitzvah of counting for the subsequent days. you can no longer make the blessing. Why can you no longer make the blessing? Because a blessing contains Hashem's name. And you don't say Hashem's name in vain. And if you're not sure whether or not you can make the blessing, then you don't say the blessing. Why would you not be sure that you can make the blessing as we're about to explain? Because it is possible that the mitzvah of counting is not just counting each day, but counting all days. So unless you do all of them, you're not really doing the mitzvah, at least according to one perspective. And if you're not really doing the mitzvah, then you shouldn't be making that blessing on doing the mitzvah. And therefore, you should continue counting, but you shouldn't recite the blessing. Make sense? Okay. Okay. The Okay. The is that if you don't if you miss a day, you don't make not there but there but not all opinions say that that's the case because there are two different perspectives. One perspective is each day is its own thing independent of the other days. The other perspective is the entire counting the whole 49day process. That's that's one thing. It's just broken into 49 parts. Where does this become relevant? If a person has a doubt, they say, "I don't know if I counted." Sometimes someone will say, "I know I didn't count. I know I didn't count. I missed a day." Other times they'll say, "You know what? I may have counted. I may not. I don't remember. I don't know." So in that case, they can continue counting with. Why? Because it's called what it's it's what's called a spake fake. A doubt on top of a doubt. Okay. Very good. So there's two levels of doubt. One doubt is the person's individual doubt. They don't know what they did yesterday. The second doubt is like you're saying we don't know how to accurately categorize the sphere. Is it one mitzvah that is done in 49 parts or are they 49 separate mitzvah that independently have value apart from each other? Follow. Okay. >> Yeah. >> No, no, no. You can't. No, no. Wait. You missed a day. Oh, it was only because of a >> suffic. Oh. >> Oh, so the original time when you stopped making a braha is because you had a suffic. You're not sure if you counted that day. You may be able to pick up your braha again. Askov. Don't ask me. Don't ask me. But no, that's a legitimate question for you may be able to pick up your braha again. Yeah, because your original and you've been counting since then and the only time was was was based on a doubt meaning you just can't remember what happened. >> Okay. So, ask it's very possible that you could pick up your bra again. >> Oh, did you pass the international date during >> you? Okay, so this is another fascinating discussion. Uh were you from Melbourne? Okay. So you went there for PES. Okay. And then you came back to New York after Pes meaning during Spir. And so like a crazy labature instead of doing the normal thing of flying over the Pacific. So we should explain to everybody what happens if you fly from Australia to I mean the flight is is do they have direct flights from Melbourne to LA or to Sydney to LA? You have to do that. New York to New Zealand. Yeah, that's Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, what did you do? You went Melbourne to Sydney, a short little domestic flight, and then you went Sydney to LA. >> Oh, no. You didn't do what you normally would do. You normally do um what? Like Sydney to to LA on United. >> We American Airlines stop in Honolulu. Okay. All right. Um, the normal way to do it would be to fly over the Pacific. You're going to fly over the international date line. What's happening? So, I'm explaining to people who don't know this. If you're not Australian or know any Australians, you probably never even thought about this. You fly over the international date line from Australia to the United States. What happens is um, you go back in time. You go back in time. So it's an interesting thing is that for you time has moved forward. So like you're let's let's say it's right after PES. So after PES let's say you're on day eight. Um yeah the night of you count seven. So after PES is all over you count eight. So let's say you're on day eight. You're flying the day after Pesak is all over. You fly over the international date line. It land in LA and you need to count nine that night, but everyone else around you is counting eight and you'll come to and you'll be at a day earlier than everybody which is the problem. The deba was very against it and therefore the deba encouraged people not to cross the international date line during so what did you do let me guess how did you get you flew through okay in the olden days they would fly through South Africa okay that's not what you did but that was a that was a popular thing fly through South Africa nowadays it's possible I don't know in 2026 but like five years ago you would have done emirate and gone to uh UAE and because that's a big hub. Go from go from Australia to UAE and then from there to New York. That's also not what you did. Um H let me guess. Let me this is just fun. Oh, is what you did? Oh, you did Emirates to to to uh to Dubai. >> Yeah, Vietnam. >> Hold on a second. You went from Melbourne direct to Vietnam. >> Oh, that was just fun. >> Okay. and then emirates >> to Dubai >> and then Dubai direct to New York. >> Okay. >> I, by the way, everyone can see now I'm I'm a little bit of a Dan Deals type guy. I I like like airline itineraries and stuff like that. Right. >> Okay. So, you bring up something interesting that has nothing to do with liqu and people are going to either love it or hate it, but you're right. There are routes that are so far, meaning it's so, look, if you're flying from New York to LA, let's say, which is a relatively close flight, >> you're not there's not two different ways you're going to go. You're always going to the same way. But I'll give you an example. Uh, they don't have this flight anymore, I don't think. But New York to Singapore, they would choose like an hour before the flight which direction they fly because it's so far. They still have it now. I think for a while they didn't have it. But like New York to Singapore, it's so far it's literally the other side of the world that it's basically equidistant to fly one way or the other way. And they'll just decide on a whim, not on a whim, but based on factors um which way they're going to go. So yeah, when you're going um so such a long distance where it's basically halfway across the world, which is the farthest the farthest distance is halfway across the world because if it's more than half, then it becomes less than half. You understand how a ball works. >> Okay. But yes, you have to be careful certain routes where they could decide they are going to fly you over the date line, >> right? So, you have to really do something like like what you did. Australia to UAE, they're never going to go over the date line. That's never going to happen, right? That's a safe that's a safe flight. Okay, back on track. But thank you for bringing it up because actually the Reba was very passionate about this subject and spent a lot of time and effort to warn people not to create the dilemma of crossing the date line during. So, it's a good thing that you didn't cross the date line during I'm sure it increased in your his extra hours of sitting in a plane being uncomfortable, but he did it because >> yeah. Okay. All right. Um, where are we up to the third? And we said, yeah. Oh, so we're talking about is one big mitzvah has 49 parts or are each day separate mitzvah? And it has to do with what happens if you miss a day. Can you make can can you continue with okay of them as one opinion is the 49 days are separate mitzvah. So even if you miss a day according to that opinion even if you miss a day it doesn't have anything to do with the other days because every day is a separate mitzvah is but then there's another perspective the whole thing is just one mitzvah like the verse says complete complete weekselo So if you miss even one day, you're missing the completeness. You can no longer do the mitzvah because the mitzvah is to get them all. Compromise is you continue to count but you do not make a so we don't understand if we are to assume that all 49 days are one of then how do we make 49as The whole mitzv the whole the mitzvah is the whole counting. So why are you making 49 different if each day is a is a phase or a part of the mitzvah? Why are you making a bra each time? Good question. that >> well it should be at least it should be at least the concept of in a case of a doubt to make of of of we avoid it right. So why do we make a every time nine we make 49 blessings we should make one and the says either at the beginning or at the end either on the first day I'm about to start this process maybe you do it at the end when you finish them all depends whatever we're not going to get into that but the point is why 49 N distinct. Another thing that we don't understand is if you go according to the opinion that one day missing affects all other days doesn't just affect the coming days it affects the previous days. It's all one mitzvah. The law should be you're not allowed to make a because you don't know what's going to happen. If really it's all one mitzvah, how are you allowed to make when you have no guarantee you're going to finish? Because you have a a worry. Maybe you'll forget one day. And then according to that opinion, all of the previous days will have been a blessing in vain. But yet we don't that's not the that's not that's not what we actually do. But if such an opinion exists and we worry for that opinion to the extent that if you miss a day you don't make anymore then the by the same token you shouldn't make previously because you don't know if you're going to continue counting every day. >> How's it going? >> How's it going you good? >> You went to Amazing Savings. >> Yeah. >> You went to Cole Sav. You see, did you see Mandy Herz? >> I'm at his house. >> Oh, you went to his house. Oh, is he going to come for the art show? >> Nobody has return. >> Okay. Cuz you couldn't get wine on a Sunday. >> I could I just like No, but I have at home. >> Okay. He said, "Oh, we had a very interesting conversation about crossing the international date line on during Spir." Yeah. >> Yeah. She's from Australia. >> So she did the thing and when she came back from Melbourne after Basov, she flew the opposite way. She flew through. >> She stayed on track. She stayed with the She stayed with the normal count. >> If you Oh, someone asked you a fill-in question on the way there. That's cool. >> You had no idea. >> Yeah. Yeah. I remember I went to Australia twice in one summer. >> It's uh and the shy you got to repeat it. Okay. It's interesting stuff. Okay. >> Okay. So, we're asking if we're concerned about the opinion that says the mitzvah is one mitzvah of 49 parts. And if you're missing any of those parts, you don't have the mitzvah. So, then we should have the same concern for the previous days. Maybe you're going to miss a day and then you won't have the mitzvah and you'll have said, God forbid, blessings in vain. Yeah. Where are we up to? Okay. Is so say like this. The truth is every night is a separate mitzvah. The mitzvah is really the way to look at it is like this. The first night the mitzvah is to count the first. Second night the mitzvah is to count the second sphere. In other words, each each night is a separate mitzvah. separate in as much as you're counting a different number each night. Therefore, if you miss one day, you can't miss you can't count further. For instance, if you miss the second night, you can no longer say three days or four days because you can't have a third and a fourth without a second. Therefore, it comes out logically that missing a day only affects the later days, not the previous days. Because if the mitzvah is the count in order ordinal numbers, then whatever point you made it up to, that was true. first was the first, the second was the second, the third is the third. Once you miss though, now you have a problem because if you didn't say a certain number and now what? You're going to just catch up with everybody else, but you don't have that number. So for you, it's not really that number because you're missing a number. So that's why that's how we explain why it would only be a problem if you didn't count previous. It would only be a problem if you missed a night. it would be only a problem for counting further future days. It wouldn't really affect the previous days. Those were all true. And again, we're looking at it from a perspective that every day is a separate mitzvah, not that you need all of them to to to do one mitzvah, which is counting all 49 days. We're on uh the middle of first column of 271. There's a means like a a a thoughtful query like it's a almost like a uh a quandry a uh I don't want to call it a thought experiment but like literally means investigation but it means there's an examination into the nature of spiral is a mitusvah. Is it that the counting of a unit of time itself is significant? And the toyra says that counting such a thing whether it's or counting the years until the sabbatical year or the jubilee year thera comes and says that that is a mitzvah other or alternatively as that by itself if it weren't a mitzvah is as there's no significance to the counting Because counting is not a reality. It's an interesting point. Let's get back to it a second. But the mitzvah comes in is its mitzvah makes it significant. It becomes significant. You understand there's it's very philosophical. Is counting a real thing? And in these cases, Toyota comes and makes that counting a mitzvah. Or is counting not even a real thing? It's an arbitrary thing. It doesn't there's counting doesn't create any reality. Counting is a is a label that we put on reality. It doesn't have any significance unto itself. It's completely subjective. Just our way of keeping track of things. It's it's it's a taxonomy. It's a way for us to to categorize things. But it it's not a real thing. It doesn't change anything. It doesn't doesn't make anything certainly. But when Toyota comes and tells you to count up because Toyota has significance, then the counting becomes significant. There's two perspectives. It's a philosophical query. Now the philosophical query has practical implications. The navina meaning that which emerges from it practically. is so here's the ramification of that philosophical question. Does counting exist or does it not exist? Does toyra come and take something called counting that already exists and make it a mitzvah or does counting not even really exist but by of it making counting a mitzvah has elevated it to something that is significant and exists an let's say in the days when they had biblical slavery an eid that's one status that's one hikic status is becomes free in the middle of his status changes. Meaning his level of obligation to keep mitzvah changes is an he was a good from slave and he was counting during the time he was a slave. Can he now start counting with a blessing? If you say that counting is a real thing, it exists. It has significance on its own. Since he was counting as a slave, he can continue counting with a blessing. But if you say no, the counting is only significant when it is a commandment to do so. Is is by mitzvah because previously it wasn't a mitzvah. He was he was he was exempt from that mitzvah is so had no significance. His he was counting but it's not significant. It would in fact it would in fact be no different than had he not counted at all. Therefore, he cannot make a blessing. Or let's talk about another scenario. A convert who converts in the middle of is Kylin. there you don't have a question because with a convert we say it's it is like a newborn child. So there you say whatever counting he did before that was as a different person and now he's a different person. So just like you know you can't count because someone else is someone else is counting. So his own counting that he did previously that wouldn't carry over because he's a new person now. Okay. this question. The minor also discusses minor is a safer that goes through the different uh mitzvah as they're enumerated by the uh so it's a commentary on the different mitzvah. Zitzvah. However, in his discussion doesn't focus on the fact that the very existence of the days is lacking. Instead, he focuses on the concept that counting all 49 days is one mitzvah. Therefore, he asks the question from a different perspective. He doesn't just ask about a slave who becomes free. when when it's I should explain for people who don't have context. When a slave is freed, he becomes a full Jewish person uh with all of the obligations of Jewish law like any other Jew. Okay. So, the minik talks about this. He doesn't just ask about the status of a slave who becomes free in the middle of he also asks about a child who becomes an adult. So a girl who turns 12 that's called bas mitzvah or a boy who turns 13 that's called bar mitzvah >> that happened to me >> that happened to you >> your birthday is yud you became >> bar mitzvah in the middle of >> ask me what I did I forgot >> and we spoke about this so many times like a year before your bar mitzvah I was telling you about this do you remember that at least >> a year before this before your baritzvah I was telling you about And I was so excited about this is what's going to happen to you. Okay. Is the shot by because the is asking from the other perspective. He's he's he's asking he's asking from the possibility that all the days are one mitzvah. So therefore, it also affects a we're in a live stream right now. So just don't walk in front of the camera or try your best not to walk in front of the camera. >> Yeah. Um, so he's asking from the perspective of if all of the days are really one mitzvah. So what do you do about a kid who so to speak becomes obligated in the middle? He can't do all the days. It's not possible to do all the days because he didn't have the obligation until the middle of even though there was a mitzvah for the child account. What mitzvah? The mitzvah of education as norm. However, the mitzvah of the mitzvah, the obligation to educate a child is rabbitic uh level. canvon there's a concept a rabbitic version of a mitzvah cannot be used to trans translate into uh the obligation of a biblical mitzvah which is two different worlds mitzvah however if we look at it from the other perspective that every day is a separate mitzvah And the only reason that we have a problem if you miss a day is because you can't have a third day without a second day. is the fact that we need previous days is not because of the mitzvah in them norm. It's because of the existence of them. You understand the difference? Did the previous days serve the function of being mitzvah? And the mitzvah is you need all the days. Without all the days, you don't have the mitzvah. Or to the previous days, even if they're done in a way that wasn't a mitzvah, like a child who doesn't perform a mitzvah by doing it because he's not obligated yet to do it, but in fact, he counted. And that counting has significance. It does exist. It has it has uh significance. So do we need the previous days for the mitzvah of them with a child who turned an adult in the middle fitter? We don't have a we don't have a mitzvah. Or do we need the previous days because of the mitsus because of the reality of them that they exist. Well, he counted them. He really counted them. He might may have been a child but he was counting. is norabi. Therefore, the question is not on the child who turns an adult because he did count and we were careful that you counted all of the days as a bar mitzvah until and then you continued. >> Okay. >> You were kazin. Yeah, I think I remember that. Probably here at the aisle. >> Oh, you were kazin here at the aisle for your for your birthday. I remember that you were so little and cute. Now you're big and cute. >> Tell me I was so big and >> No, you were little and cute. You look like a little baby. It's very cute when you were bar mitzvah boy with a hat. You look like a toddler with a hat. It was very cute. But now you're a big full grown man and you're a tati yourself. Okay. Uh so the question is not about the the boy who turns an adult or the girl turns an adult. It's rather only about the the slave who becomes free. Yeah. Because before there was no mitzvah at all. Ah, okay. I'm sorry. The child was doing it. There there was a mitzvas because he was doing it as a mitzvah. What mitzvah? It wasn't a mitzvah. Ah, the mitzvah. Yeah, but that is only rabbitic. It can't translate into biblical. Yeah, but in order to give it enough significance for it to have existed, it's enough. But with the slave who becomes freed, then there's no mitzvah at all. And therefore, there's no existence because the child had some level of mitzvah. It was only a rabbitic level of obligation, but that's enough to give it importance, to give it significance. Okay. >> What? >> Yeah. Numbers are not real. They're just arbitrary um labels. When you count as a mitzvah, then they are real. And it could even be any level of mitzvah, even a rabbitic uh level of obligation. Oh, you got to flip the page. Oh, you did flip the page. Good. You're hired. Coming back next week for the summ. Okay. God willing, next week we're going to complete with and You know, there's an art show going on here in a couple hours. Okay, let's finish off the live stream. >> Yeah. All right. >> We're on the last page. That which emerges from all of this So the Reb says like this, we are waiting every day for Msiah. Mashiach is going to be here tonight or at the latest tomorrow morning. So in the middle of right now we're in the middle of Spir and Mashiach is going to come right in the middle of And as the once spoke about Msiah's coming that Mashiah's going to come and it's but he spoke about it at a time when for various reasons they say that's not a time when Mashiah can come. So somebody had the tearity to ask the are you talking how's that possible says if can't come during that time answered let me come and then when he comes he's going to answer all the questions all the tus and You think vetman'll answer also that question. How is it possible that he came at a time when we traditionally say is not a time that he could come is so the Reb says like this there are those opinions that today is only rebbitic that it's the mitzvah is only biblical if you have an actual ual offering that you're counting from. If you don't have the offering, the actual sacrifice, the offering in the temple. So we're counting symbolically as a other opinions are no it remains a mitzvah even without the offering without the temple. This the mitzvah of is still a mitzvah is a mitzvah. But there are those opinions that no really our counting isn't the real counting. Rabbitically the the the rabbis told us to continue counting like commemorative of what would normally be going on during this time. So there is such an opinion. Now according to that opinion that says our counting isn't real counting or it's only rabbitic counting. If Msiah comes in the middle of and now all of a sudden we have a biblical mitzvah of of will we continue counting with says the yes. Just like a child who becomes a bar mitzvah in the middle of spir will continue counting even though his previous counting was only rabbitic. So too who were counting by dent of a rabbitic obligation even according to that opinion that it's only rabbitic will continue counting with after mashia comes. Okay. Yeah. And of course there are others who say that even today our counting is is biblical. But even according to those who say it's only rabbitic. We'll just do the same thing that is did when he had his barit. Okay? meaning we'll continue counting with a brah uh to the last top of the second column page 272 last chapter is so the sages say elaborates as the mitzvah is mimining The mitzvah we do today are called markers indications of the mitzvah that we'll do in the future. The real mitzvah is only when mashia comes. So today what are we doing is like a glimmer of that. Like we say, we say it in the mus of Yam that then we will offer the sacrifices according to the mitzvah of your will. Meaning then when the B mdish is rebuilt, when comes then we'll be able to do the mitzvah of Hashem's will. Mitzvah we're doing today are not the ultimate form and they are just preparatory for the mitzvah as we will do them when Mashiah comes. Nevertheless, you should nevertheless not decrease in your perception of the preciousness of mitzvah that we do now the way that we do them now before Mashiah's coming because it's the mitzvah that we're doing now that bring about the coming of Mashiah so that we'll be able to really do mitzvah later. is and is it's a known principle that which causes something is higher than the thing that it causes which is why it's the cause and not the effect. The ability to be a cause shows that it has a higher power. So in an interesting way even if we're to say qualitatively the mitzvah we do today are are on a lower level than the mitzvah that we will do when mashia comes. But what gets us to the point when mashia comes the mitzvah that we do today mitzvah we do today bring mashia closer. So the mitzvah we do today even though on one from one perspective they're on a lower level from another perspective they're on a higher level because that the mitzvah we do today are what is going to cause mashia to come so we can do mitzvah on a higher level and you see this especially in the mitzvah of counting is the purpose of as we said is to prepare for the revelation of the Like we said, our counting now will allow us to continue counting with a blessing even after Mashia's coming. So now from this you see the advantage of the situation now even in Golus or especially in Galas. Like the sages say, greater is one moment of good deeds and repentance in this world than all of the revelations, all the life of the world to come. You see that even though yes, what's going to happen is going to be a whole new level of revelation and our mitzvah will be on a whole new level, but there's a certain preciousness. Do not discount the preciousness of the mitzvah we do today. That is what brings us to that place and that and therefore the mitzvah we're doing today are especially precious. They have that leverage, that power of bringing us to the point where we can really do mitzvah. So it's the mitzvah that are not the highest level mitzvah that give us the leverage to do the mitzvah on the highest level. So in some way those mitzvah are are even higher. Okay. And that was based on a from obviously you can understand the connection to because that's uh when you finish the first you finish uh the uh attributes and uh yeah that was the third oh we'd always do a synopsis. So what was the synopsis of the third? We're speaking about the whole question of the status of counting. What is the mitzvah? Is it separate days? Is it one big day? And the conclusion of it was that the way we count today, even if you're going to say it's only rabbitic, that is a reflection on the significance of all the mitzvah we do in golas, which even if you say they're a lower level, they are the mitzvah that are going to bring Msiah and enable us to do the mitzvah on a higher level. Amazing. Again, we just want to say come next week 10:30 a.m. our regular time, Sundays live from the Soulwards house, 10:30 a.m. live streaming and we will be finishing with the Bahares and we'll uh we'll celebrate together and thank you for joining us. We'll see you next week in good health and happiness. And happy birthday, Yro.