Rebbi Akiva and the Soul of Yom Kippur

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com welcome everyone we have an amazing subject today this is our last year before the empire I thank everybody for coming today we're all familiar Min hug Israel is that we begin the services and in the Yom Kippur service of calnidre we begin with the pasig oh here's a rule outside and it is certainly worthy of our attention why do we begin the amkipper services with this romanticio Solomon explained that what we're trying to do is in this world we're planting light we're planting light so that ultimately in oil we will reap these seeds that we planted but let's try to explain what is the connection what is the deeper meaning of simcha to the start of Yom hakipuram another thing we have to think about is the last mission of masakta Yuma begins Israel with name how fortunate you are cloudy Israel before whom do you purify yourselves and who purifies you your father in Heaven like it says foreign the balha memra the one who made this statement was none other than the great town of rabi Akiva he illuminated our eyes how fortunate we are that and there's certainly no coincidence look anybody could have said that do we need to read the Akiva to tell me that the one before whom we're purifying ourselves is to tell me that that the one before whom we imperializes that cause tell me that any school child knows we go to shul on your makipuram and every day to purify ourselves before our College barucho why Rabbi Akiva why is he the Bal hamemra foreign what does he have to say before whom do we purify ourselves Before Our Father in heaven why we should say and I just saw this morning a friend of mine called me from Fair Lawn New Jersey Rabbi Rabbi Ellie Bellazon and he referred me to this week's mimer of the svilei pinchas who he quotes was a student of was a student of Hassam Seifer but I don't know that he was a descendant of the Hassam Cipher said that every single year before kolnidre was darsh with the doireish the statement of Israel and he said and I the smallest of the Tamil would also would uh darshan about this memra and I was always wondering why would the Hassam Cipher choose this memra to always speak about before some Cipher before Colony Dre furthermore it dawned on me says the Yuma end with this statement of rabi Akiva ashrika Israel um foreign he teaches us that Israel that proves we have a dinner the fact that Yom Kippur is that proves we have a dinner now we all we all know we know and this is an idea we spoke out many many times that the fact that shuva works is only because we're hashem's children because the only reason shuva works is because our father but we want to so we understand why rabi Akiva would say before whom do we purify ourselves before yes it has to become because the fact that caparo works that indicates that was our father but let us delve into this more what is the connection between Yuma end with this wonderous statement of Ravi Akiva let's learn a few things about Ravi Akiva number one tells us in brachice one time the Romans decreed that claudiso cannot be oystick and Tyra so Papas then you that came and he found Rabbi Akiva he was gathering many kahili's barabim and yusuic entire said Akiva you're not worried about the malchus so we keep it said I'll give you a martial what it's similar to to a fox that was going on the road and he was going by the river and he saw fish that were gathering in the river he said why are you in the river um and why are you running fish he said well we're running from people trying to catch them catch us so the fox said why don't you come up on the dry land with me I'll protect you and we'll live together because my parents and your parents they used to live together so let's stay let's live together so the fish says to the facts you're the smartest you're considered the slightest and the smartest if in a place where you're alive if in a place of our life we're in danger in a place of our death without water or all the more so said um the same if in the Torah which is danger certainly if we leave the title we're in danger so they stayed they were toy festival and they put him in jail and they were Toy face Papa span Yehuda and they in jailed him and Publishing you said that you were in jail for director woe to me that I was jailed for advanced when it came time to take out rebe Akiva it was Usman krishma and they would they were raking his flesh with Combs of Steel and he was being so students said Khan he said my whole life I was with star on this pasok when will I be able to fulfill giving up my life foreign has some sofa rights in a chuva that we know sometimes in Shahs Ravi akiva's name is spelled with a hey and sometimes it's spelled with an olive well foreign that's the gemara so from this Camaro we learn out that rabi Akiva was nifter at the time of krishma presumably you would have said chakras I mean that's how people Imagine The Story it was the daytime krishima however if you look in the mounters he brings there's a story that rabikiva was in jail Andrew Garcia his student was serving him it was Era of yamakipurim rabies went home to eat Elio came and he was standing by the doorway so everybody said so uh he said you need anything he said who are you he said I'm a queen I came to tell you Ruby Kiva died in jail so the two of them went to the jail they found the door was open the the warden was sleeping everyone who was tied up was sleeping and they took out Ravi Akiva so what we see from here we have Yeshua hagarsi the student of Akiva left him on ervium Kippur and Elio Novi came to tell him that robikiva died that night if that's the case then ravia Kiva didn't die at the time of Christmas he died at the time of Christmas so that's a big hiddish says passed away at the time of krishma shell Arvis okay when on Yom Kippur so Yom Kippur is the yard side of the great Tana rebiakiva well says that now he understands why the Hassan sofa would always speak about the my mother Israel on the night of Yom Kippur because Ravi Akiva passed away on Yom Kippur Yom Kippur is the yard side of Ravi Akiva and we want rabi akiva's subsav to be doif a voice that he should be mavakes and now we also understand the Minogue that there okay and that also explains why revi would complete the message to Yuma with the statement of raviakiva because since Yuma Yom Kippur is the yard center of the Akiva so therefore he revi appropriately concludes masecta Yuma speaking about Ravi Akiva but let's take this a little further we know that was the student of Ravi Akiva revision was his primary student with shiman would say to his tamidam my children learn my teachings learn my Midas because my Midas are true mice of shall Rabbi Akiva says now we find something very interesting foreign happened to our forefathers that we should fast on the first day of Nissan the beneiron died on the 10th day of Nisan Miriam died on the 26th day of Nisan yahushua benun died on the 10th day of er aliakayan died and his two sons and we fast one should fast on these days on the 28th day of ER small hanavi on the 25th day of shimagamlia on the 27th day of tamus um Let's see we have on the 23rd day of Sivan on the 28th 25th day of Sivan on the 27th day nisrath whether on the first day of arunach on the 17th day Diner maravi went out in the times of akhas on the 17th of died on the first day of Av Arena on the 5th of tishray 20 Jews died and rabi Akiva was imprisoned on the fifth day of schwat there's a canaanim be May Yeshua on the seventh day of Adam died so we see there are many many days that are worthy to fast on because sadiqam died and yet which is the death of many Jews they have accustomed to make a pilgrimage to the ceoin of the rajbian mehrin and they celebrate the rikudim dancing singing and this custom is sourced in the holiest of sources in the cavanois foreign to go to the cover of the rashvi and Rabbi Lazar is well known they eat there they drink their they Rejoice there Abram halavi testified he went there and every day he would say in and when he went there he said and after he finished the reason said I don't understand I saw the Rashmi was standing on his cover and he said why do you say knock him on my day of Joy you're going to be in consolation soon and the Never his son passed away because he was mourning on the day of lagwamer likewise in the Marvel is the symbol of the Rashmi it's yomahila so I don't understand because I'm sorry for asks in his draw choiceadhi that we just learned that in the day of the passing of at Sadiq is a tragic day is a fast day if a person says I'm not going to eat meat I'm not going to drink wine like today my rebby passed away it's a fast zyanador is a fast if zainab there's a fast and the 26 of Nissan is a faster is then why is the day of the Patera of the Rashmi a happy day I mean that's a Pella atsuma normally when a Sadiq passes away it's a fast day why all of a sudden when the Rashmi passes away is it a joyous day this is a question of the Shalom and shouts why would there be a whole semen in about the days that we fast when Sadiq and passed away and yet when it comes to the rajvi the day of his passing is a joyous day has a wondrous amazing explanation for why the day of life is a joyous day and we're going to adopt and we're going to tweak it just a little bit and embarrass us Hashem says in mishley is the words of the sages are like pegs are like darvanize the words of the sages are like um nails and firmly implanted pegs given from one Shepherd says the medrish when are the words of the Torah firmly implanted in a person's heart when the rebbe passes on from this world so long as a rebbe is alive a person says okay I listen I listen with a half an ear because if I don't get it I could always ask the rubby later I could listen to a video I could I could listen to a tape I could ask him on a different occasion I could read it somewhere but when the Revy pass is about to pass away then the person says oh no I better understand what he's saying now because I'll never be able to hear it again so when is the Torah firmly implanted in a person's heart that's when the teacher leaves this world and this is a piece that rabiank of Hillel speaks about at length he wrote a safer called Aid hagal that's very much principled upon this say this teaching and he's dealing with this question of why is the day of the Patera of my shrabino a fast day and the day of the patira of yehoshua benon and shmuel and Ali fast days and on the day of the patira of shiman a joyous happy day and he says an amazing thing we just learned from the medrish then on the day of the rebbies passing that's the day that his toyra is firmly implanted and engraved in the hearts of the student because the student says this is my last opportunity to understand the Torah of the Remy now that means on the day of the passing of Arabia it should be a very joyous day it's Kabbalah Satora that's the day that his teaching will be firmly implanted in the hearts of Claudia strong that's the day um of that is the day that the teaching of the rebbe is firmly ingrained and implanted in the hearts of the Jewish people so really the day of the passing of itsadiq should be a very very joyous day because that's Kabbalah Satora so says that does not apply to the Patera of moisture abeno or yahushua benon or shmuel because they were sages from the time of the written law the tarsav and therefore we can learn their Torah from what they wrote down so when they left this world it's not that all of a sudden everybody applied themselves to gain as much as they could from these sadiqib because these Sadiq left over the written Legacy they were sages we still have their document the only thing is on the day they passed away we lost them so on the day of the passing of a sage from the written law it's a very very tragic day nothing is gained it's not like their teaching is ingrained in our hearts because we didn't need them for their teaching because their teaching is written it's it's conveyed through the written law through the Tara but on the day of the Patera of a sage from the Torah shabao pair says then that's the day that their teaching is engraved and imbued and implanted and pegged and nailed into the hearts of the student so on the day of the passing of a sage of the oral law that is the day of the Kabbalah of that particular Sage that seeds that Sage is um that stage conveys and gives over the Torah to their student on the day of their passing so really then any time passes away it should be a great simcha Now who is the greatest Sage of all the oral law rebia Kiva like it says in sanhajans is so so then it should come out on the day that rubikiva passed away says reptilica to be the greatest yantev of the year so he says really it should but because he was murdered it can't be a yamdev and when the other tanoim of the oral law passed away like they were murdered it can't be a yamtif so how do we properly Rejoice on the day of the passing of the greatest Sage of the oral law the answer is because he had a student and his student was the rashbe so if we can't Rejoice on the day of the passing of the rebbe then we have no choice but to Rejoice on the day of the passing of the student who gave over the Torah of rabi Akiva as the rajvi said learn my teachings my children because my teachings are truma is from the truma is but I would humble humbly based on RAB sadik say slightly different than rap sadik rupt sadik argues that really Yom Kippur should be the happiest day of the Earth because it's a day of the passing Arabia Kiva I would humbly assert it is the happiest day of the year doesn't the gemara say in the end of tyness there were no greater days of joy for the Jewish people like yomaki Purim so the reason he gives is Yom Kippur is the happiest day of the year because it's the day the lucration is Forgiven but now we can add not only is it the day that was given it's the day the oral law the tors was given why was the touch about pet given on Yom Kippur because it's the day of the death of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Akiva is the master of the oral law the kulan Kiva um they all go according to rabi Akiva so in a way Yom Kippur is not only the happiest date of the year because it's a day of atonement not only the happiest day of the year because it's a day of the giving of the written law it's the happiest day of the year because it's a day of the giving of the oral law because you'll be keeping the master of the oral law passed away on Yom Kippur when the sage of the Orla passes away that's when his Torah is given to the Jewish people and therefore we could say an amazing thing we know and feel as most of Yom Kippur we say this about the death of rabi Akiva we talk about the uh as right do you ever notice we talk about the Asus why why do we talk about yemaki Parma we understand because Yom Kippur is the day of the patira of rabi Akiva he's the one who taught the world Israel so since Yom Kippur is the Day of His Misa and it's the day that his Torah was nicked by in our hearts so we whereby Akiva was neraganyom keeper and we resulted human capitals therefore we mentioned as Misa now we could understand why rabi Akiva is the balha memra who said ashraecham Israel here in Kipper is the day of rabikiva's Misa it's the day that the Taurus engraved in the hearts of Israel who recognizes the power of Yom Kippur more than rabi Akiva that's the day that the Torah shabao pair which is even greater than the tars of is given over to the Jewish people so who could reveal the power of the kadusha of Yom Kippur greater than the holy Tana rabi Akiva now now we could understand I saw this morning from the safer I am quoted by the svilei pinchhas that the reason why we begin called nidre with the pasok arzola sadik because we know famously that the reason why rabbitsuk me Vina called his safer or zarua is because he was writing Sheamus begin and he didn't know how to spell the word Akiva so he had a dream and in the dream they showed him the pasig is hey and from there he learned that we spell Akiva with the hey by the way we posca not like that we spell with an aleph we mentioned before said Rabbi Cuba's name changed because so now his name is spelled with an aleph in the end so the pasuk are that person Akiva oh now I understand why my rabbit some Cipher always darshan the statement of rabi Akiva of ashraicham Israel the night of konidre and why we begin call Nidra with arzola Sadiq because Yom Kippur is the yard side of rabi Akiva but we're saying more not only is Yom kippa and this is brought in the safe air come outside in the name of small mayor that that's why we start off Leo yum Kipper with the Posse hidden for Rabbi Akiva and we're adding further not only are we saying as a hidden husband for rabikiva but we're saying that since Yom Kippur is the day that the Torah of rabiakiva was taught to the Jewish people and rabikiva was the one who's magala to us the kayak of Yom Kippur therefore we begin the avoid of Yom Kippur with his name because this on this day the Torah shabao pair there's no greater moment in the calendar than the day that the tars about pear was given to the Jewish people and when was it given to the Jewish people upon the death of rabi Akiva and therefore we begin Yom Kippur with the remnants to the idea now this they will be keeper passed on and he gave over to the Jewish people the entire Shabbat now let's take this even further the matters tells us in the out good they asked wisdom what should be the fate of The Sinner wisdom said they should be pursued in sin they should be pursued and Evil they asked navua what should be the fate of The Sinner The Sinner should die they asked the Torah what should happen to The Sinner the terrorist said he should bring a carbon what is the fate of The Sinner what should be his faith he says he should do chuva what do we learn from here that wisdom prophecy even they don't allow for chuva now when it says the Torah says works that's the Turkish about pear now we understand why revi Akiva is the Tana who teaches us the purity of Yom Kippur and why he refers to college because we know who is the Tana Marvel who is the Tana who taught Israel that we are born the Jewish people are beloved that they are called the children of Hashem foreign who illuminated to cloudy Israel that we are the children of akadesh Barko and Shiva only works as we mentioned many many times because we are the children of akata now we know why rabi Akiva refers to the Jewish people as avihem Shabbat shamayam in the context of yamakipuram foreign and only the only the master of the tarsh about pet is able to understand the efficacy of chuva he is the source of the teaching that we are born and on the day that he passed away that's the day that his teaching is imbued and ingrained and implanted and pegged and nailed into the Arts of cloud Israel great teaching is we are and along with that magala the Purity and the power of that on this day he is so is there any Wonder then that we begin yaimaki Purim what is Yom Kippur what happens on Yom Kippur Hashem purifies us how does he purify us but we sinned there's no there's no way out for a sinner wisdom doesn't see any way out prophecy doesn't see any way out the Torah doesn't see any way out only Rabbi Akiva says sees the way out through the tarsh about path only chuva chuva is called IMA Ilah from the world of Bina from the world of the tarshibao and it's the master of the tors Kiva who was magala to the Jewish people the power of Yom Kippur Ravi Akiva on the day of his passing all of his tarshabalpel was imbued in the hearts of kalistram and therefore it's worthy of great celebration and in fact Yom Kippur is the happiest day of the year like Israel and we're learning not only because it's the day of the Lucas giving others not only because it's a day of sleep but it's also the day the oral law was taught to Claud Israel it's also the day that the great teaching of Claudia of rabi Akiva that were banam was imbued in the hearts of Claudia Israel and therefore masakta Yuma ends off with the primary mechanism of the whole operation of Yom Kippur and that Israel with name and what could be a greater source of joy than not only to hear the words not only to learn the teaching but to have that teaching imbued in our hearts on the day of the passing of this great teacher rebi Akiva and I actually saw this morning that the srile pinchas suggests that just like the soul of rabi Akiva we also conclude the day of Ravi Akiva with Shema Israel Hashem okay I wish everybody thank you for joining and remindsrael and we should be to ashnas Yeshua is awesome you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com