KLM: A Few More Seconds For Seferot HaOmer Changes Everything with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] to uh want to I want to welcome uh first of all the dear people who are um watching this on live zoom and uh the listeners of Torah any time and Y um as parrots mentioned we're going to have two parts to this um class the first is um spusa om cavanas for the spusa OM we're going to for the oldtimers we're going to review but I have some new ideas and for the new timers get ready and then in the second set uh the second section we're going to have a VOD where we're gonna I'm going to set down some some approaches we can take now to try to play our role in the tun of the death of the Tommy day rev aa's students right the Tommy day rev AA um and that'll be interactive this first part will be more of a presentation all right with that in mind let's get started spirus om uh is what I've called I've called meaning really it's based on the pher Israel Spira om is an easy Mitzvah and what's our instruction when it comes to easy Mitzvah well will be to be happy there easy but to run to them that's what it says in peris Ben aai AOS 42 says rla Mitzvah kala run to an easy Mitzvah and the fer Israel brings several categories I'm not going to give a sheer right now on easy mitvah but it's an amazing concept which provides amazing opportunities another time right now one of the categories says that par this real of an easy Mitzvah is simply it's easy to do and I think that's that that fits with the the Mitzvah of counting the OM right you use a sitter the blessing's right there for you and then the counting so there are so many online offline inshore out of shore reminders of what day it is so it's easy you just l count okay that that's the Mitzvah so how do you run to it what does it mean to run to an easy Mitzvah what that means is to according to feris isra is to do it with zis and to do it with Sim okay you can certainly muster up some joy for the 23 seconds that's what I I timed it one time it takes 23 seconds to bless and count um so get joyful right but what what we always try to do here is uncover or reveal the the main the the many layers that are in practically anything we do whether it's in quotes mundane whether it's with other people or whether it's between man and a Shem okay and for the oldtimers I had I came up with a new Matrix to help you um prompt yourself in situations realize what are my opportunities here okay so listen to this scheme it's a little twist on what we've done in the past the first thing you do is to ask yourself what is the main Mitzvah in this situation um and so here I'm going to do it for you the the first part's easy the main Mitzvah is counting the OM how about that and it's really important to ask yourself what's the main Mitzvah I'll give you an example uh Russia Shana the chauffeur is blown you many times right many many times many occasions now there's uh people discuss cavanas which is in this case it's not in I'm a little torn int itions thoughts anyway there are many things you could reflect upon while the Cher is blowing and if you Mo the RS SC uh sitter Russia Shan Moor and I'm sure many others uh list 10 uh cavanas if you will for blowing the chauffer from Raji now that's amazing and so there's a long list of these 10 things all sorts of ideas about um uh the chauffeur of the of the Redemption the chauffeur of horen Etc so one one musaf after uh our rebi Rabbi shim green schl he finished his Musa talk and there was a little bit of space before uh a little break that our Gabby Rabbi Michael gave us before the blowing started so I I saw the roshi Shiva standing by himself I ran over to him with my Russia Shan or in the 10 cavanas I say ra Rabbi what do you which which cavanas are you focused on what's your cavana when the chauffeur's blowing and he said um I have in mind to listen to the blowing of the chauffeur and then I listen in other words he hasn't mind the Mitzvah the main Mitzvah and you could get lost in the the chauffeur of the of the destruction of tamon and by the way that's in the prophets uh you could have all these things in in mind and you could miss the main missile which is listen to the darn blows okay so this is kind of easy when it comes to cavana fores which means intention to do the ACT have in mind the main Mitzvah is to bless well the main Mitzvah is to count the day of the OM and the week when it is relevant now so my first uh in my refreshed Matrix of to discover the opportunities in the situation you you now ask yourself what's the maintenance the next thing you do is ask yourself why does AEM what's hashem's purpose in having me do this Mitzvah now this could be confused with a um un uh doing understanding the actual reason for the Mitzvah there's a whole debate about reason for Mitzvah but you know there are Mitzvah that have for sure reasons that you should be Mitzvah of okay you should be mindful of the message okay those as we discussed by PES mitzah of adus right there the action is critical but you're supposed to kind of there's a purpose behind the action so if you ask yourself after you ask what is the main Mitzvah then you ask yourself what's the purpose why does Hashem want me to count the Omar just ask yourself that question not why did Hashem make the Commandment what what does he want me to do is there some things I'm supposed to think about reflect on and the answer is yes okay the the Mitzvah the OM and I came up this was a couple years ago the Mitzvah of the OM is um has Mitzvah of z uh remembrance or again it's sort of like being mindful uh of certain events in other words this is the bonus the purpose you know I had a good friend and uh uh by the way I want to welcome a uh a new uh friend to KLM uh Michael uh Curtis and also I want to thank my my my dear friend Elton Bondi for joining tonight um so the reason I bring up uh Michael is he pointed out and I think he um for a good reason he pointed out look you should let people know how much they can gain from if you're going to ask people to um break the the routine flow of their mental activity and G their loins to have intention beforehand let him know that this is going to be worth it okay so any so one of my RI very cin said that this is the scenario I want to present you before we look at the extra Mitzvah that are involved in this of the Mitzvah of counting the OM the the day and the week so he say you walk into a business meeting imagine you walk in the business meeting and um your you you go in and you actually close a deal for $5,000 now how would you feel if after you got out of the means someone said you know if you had just said three more points you would have walked Walked Out with $500,000 okay that's a underestimate for cavana lus okay so here we have that the main Mitzvah is to count the Omare and the day in the week so first of all have that intention before and that's the main Mitzvah but now when we look at what is the purpose of the counting we have three zers um two of them are uh I guess two of them are daisa and one is DIY cabala so that that's a that's way more than $500,000 okay let me um share screen and and show you what that is what they are okay give me a second okay okay parrot it's on screen yeah that's coming up not yeah it's good okay now I will go back to making this small screen but I want you to see this uh this is a the um if you're appreciating the beautiful art this is an um a religious Israeli painter whose Art Studio burnt down completely and I think he lost everything but uh like us Jews you can't keep you can't keep a good holy beautiful Jew down and he's uh his art studi back and producing gorgeous things like this okay so you see on the list here I I counted five mitzah in 25 seconds and if you look at number one that's the mitzah to count Omer okay days and weeks now I mentioned to you there are three Z and a zra means to remember or be mindful of okay just give me a second I'm going to shorten I'm going make this smaller okay parot people can still see the the the message right even though it's smaller yeah that that's fine yeah okay so the uh I'm going to explain this quickly uh but before I do one of the things I think that's so valuable like I said if you're going to intervene into your mind and change your normal habitual ritual thinking um you it it's not easy to do it's not easy to remember Etc one of the things that helps is acronyms all right so I came up with an acronym for this the acronym is not on this poster but the um if if I ask anybody this is a rhetorical question because most people who live in America at least know they answered to this who what is the name of the company that uh uh created the Post-it note in fact this not rhetorical can somebody pop in and tell me what's the name of the co uh the company turn off turn on your mic for a second were they was it 3M oh yeah perfect parrot go to the Head go to the head of M okay three M that the that's it there are three M's to remember all right now let's just go through them quickly and I'll save the hardest for the last oh that's a okay first of all it is z mdash m for mdash which means the temple right that is that when you bring we are we are doing this to remember the Bas of mdash and yearn that it's rebuilt and we can bring the Corvin om so that's M Migos right the Corbin om is meant to remind you and yearn for the rebuilt base of mdash beu that's M1 the second M I'm going with the easier ones the second m is mamad Hari to remember standing at harai now what does that have to do with the OM thank God I have a Reon to answer that the safer hen explains that we are not just counting from the offering of the OM on the 16th we're counting towards mammed harini remember one of the daus DI Dau if he had almost brought us close on seni that would have been it so it's it's a countdown towards shabos says the uh sa so again you walk into the meeting what do you want 5,000 or 50,000 that that's such an insult to the the reward and the vacas you get from from doing a mitvah but anyhow M number one is mdash right that that's that's added 50 let's say all right now let's add on mmed Hari which is a d That's a Torah commandment uh once a day at least okay finally and this is the less known uh idea is man okay the man that was given why is that the be ysep explains that it the it says in the Torah it refers uses the word om uh only twice it uses it by this Corbin of barley and the man because normally then you would mention in the Torah Aus a a tenth of an AP the measure of the flower but the word Omar is linked and when we were entering ER israil or getting close the man ran out uh and we had to start you know toiling by the sweat of our brow to make barley and other crops so says the bar uh ysep this is to remember this is one of the central uh messages uh we should always keep in mind is that our parasa our sustenance is always coming from hasem whether it's falling from the heaven and we just walk out and pick it up and bring it back or whether you're sweating and making deals and treating patients and uh being a gabby Etc whatever you're doing uh selling billong whatever you're doing that is the net results of your susten is from Hashem Now isn't that a great thing to remember okay so the 20 5 seconds is uh basically I have in mind the Mitzvah of counting the OM days and days and weeks and then that's the main Mitzvah the Z or the purpose of this Mitzvah is this is meant to remember that we had a base of mdash and we could offer the OM that's m one m uh the second M uh 2 m is z mad we're Counting towards CI and the third is Zan so that's 3M just like just like uh parro said so what you can add anybody by the way who's listening or watching and would like this uh gorgeous PDF uh just reach out to me Rabbi wre gmail.com or by WhatsApp anyhow but the point is this what you should add this year as a way to remember it because things move fast before you know it the the gabbi is going to be pushing you to say elen so what you want to do is just say you just memorize the three M's and then to say yourself 3M I asked uh one of the biggest poix postum in the world rev sha Vol Zimmerman if you can make codes in your mind to remember Mitzvah like every time you do a rabbi Mitzvah it's two uh Torah commandments so I have a I say to myself t squared when I'm doing a re and and he says yeah that's fine that counts okay so you if you know what you mean by 3M then say 3M all righty so that's the that's all I'm going to do I don't want to overload you this is the first half of the of the shear and these are the MS of Omare and I I just encourage you uh each each s and you know like I told you that metaphor uh RAB Kent had that 5,000 versus 500 okay so the the truth of the matter is it's incalculable as the U Bar he actually he's quoting the I believe or it's the bar himself that um there's um it's not comprehensible the reward one gets for this now those of you who are inspired how much reward I mean we are kind of reward oriented while we're alive but even if not we you could translate that into uh closeness in deas to Hashem and by the way that's another Mitzvah if you look on this poster it says Deus this is a b makum Mitzvah and therefore the treasure you can also attain is de's attachment and spiritual closeness to Hashem okay that's part one I want to thank the listeners from Toran time and Y and the people life and uh please try your best to make the OM count profoundly and for [Music] you here oh