Tu B'Shevat - The Unusual Ancient Tu B'Shevat Custom of Vermaiza Reveals The Essence of the Day

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com so finally We Begin the there's a very interesting custom reported about tubishvat that's brought in two Defense Forum the first safer is brought in is the safer Hammond hagim of the kalkadish of our maiza the customs of vermeister this is reported by reviews because one of the early recorders of ancient and hagam it's also brought in the safer manhage varmaja minhag mikri dariki so there's an ancient custom in vermeister now we we spoke at a number of times that the region in Germany of armiso used to be called garmisa uh for instance the Reika as a revelation of garma Isa and then somehow it be called it became known as varamiso or what we call it as worms and we mentioned that the khidar writes in the safer magaltov in his diary that what happened was it used to be called garmisa however there was a certain dragon in garmisa and this Dragon would eat every day what would he eat but not just the kishka the entire yet whole it's actually probably very tasty this is what he would eat every day the dragon would be uh extremely Relentless and dangerous unless he was fed a yid and this occurred for a very long time until one particular day one yid was willing to be thrown to the dragon he went in with a sword the dragon swallowed him half from the bottom to the waist and then the top to the waist he was swallowed whole and from inside the dragon with his sword he vanquished the dragon and from that point on the region of garmisa was changed to be known as varmaiza the worm in memory of this worm it's a true story that Tejeda brings down in a safer amago type anyway what was the custom on tuba shot the custom on tubishmat was it was known take a look at him run Yama de methagori it was the day of matagary what does methagorey mean it's the Lush stuff she says basically the tamidim did not come to learn um especially the children what did they do it was a day off for the malamdim and the tamidim it was the yamichita they would give the tamidim alcohol and they would Rejoice that was the old custom on tuba shot basically you would not go to Yeshiva on tubishra here also is brought down that um certain days that they didn't go to learn in Yeshiva and one of them here in minhage vermeister was they would eat and yayin saraf and the tamidam would not pay for it it was on the house and this was the ancient custom on tubishvath and the question is what type of Min hug is this I'm sure nobody would complain if you had a day off to drink alcohol but nevertheless we know of a talmatograph why in the world would we give off on tubashvan it's not mentioned in other than the fact that you don't say but more than that we have no mention why would there be an Indian of um why would there be an Indian of not going to uh Yeshiva on tubishvan okay this is a question of the uh in his foreign and he brings down a very interesting thing and that is his said that every year on two bishvat when the the ugly tal who was Molly veg he was Margaret she felt that is where I'm just like a completely different level he felt that his his best his most fat why because we know that a man is compared to a tree where is a Man compared to a tree it's actually the plastic says when you when you uh come and Conquest the city don't chop down a fruit tree the plastic says is a tree a man meaning why are you chopping down the tree is the tree a man so it says it's sort of in like a rhetorical language it's a tria man but the gemara takes it literally a tree is a man meaning a person is compared to a tree and therefore what are a person's if a person is a tree then what are a person's fruits if on tubishvad is the day that the sap of the tree Rises up to be able to produce the fruits so too the it's the day where the ideas begin to develop in the inner recesses of the mind because again if a person is a tree and the fruits are his Torah so if on tubishi it's the day that the sap in the tree Rises up to produce fruits fat is a day where the ideas begin to so to speak germinate and and develop in like the inner recesses of the mind and therefore the day of the Swedish kadushim ishvat okay come along oh well alcohol always helps so um this is interesting thing take a look at number four this is in the shadows the Two of Us in Jewish aleph Elon murame zala Adam tree is an allusion to a person who hates like an apostle and it's also mirames it's also marames too a person shepher the egg lay tal would say that every year after tubishvat he was margish like a new flavor in his kadushe Tyra because the ikarashanahallah Ilan are going on now let's take a look at number six for a moment where the gemara Compares a person to a tree on my level of Zara review let the master come and teach Services I can't so he said okay if you can't teach at least it says about a fruit tree you should eat from it don't cut it off and then it says elsewhere about a tree you can cut it down how some people everybody's like a tree some people they have fruit some people don't if he's a Thomas you should eat from him and don't cut him down and if he's not then you should destroy him and cut him down so from this Gomorrah says ravasha wise look at number seven and we'll come back to number five in a moment AIDS is a person similar to Iran she says Remember by the maraglim it says go to Earth Israel and see Hayes imayan is there a tree or not so literally it means is a land fertile does it produce fruits does it have trees but is there a person that's kosher to protect in his like the gemara says in tightness or like Zara AIDS is a Remus tatara pre-aids is why does the Torah say to bring an egg says the gemara let something come that did not make payroids and be cut off in a place that doesn't produce on someone who was not given the opportunity to produce payrolls what payrolls it doesn't refer to the person who was murdered who did not have children so if that's the case then a zakane or a Swiss maybe we would not do uh the procedure rufa no it means Mitzvahs the Torah missus of a person are his payrolls and therefore what day is the new beginning and a good opportunity and a most uh inclined to allow a person's mind to develop new Torah ideas well says a fantastic idea that it could be the Minogue of not going to Yeshiva and tubishvat was for the following reason the rest of the year you have to learn from the rabba you have to learn Torah the rabbi's teaching and a person has to go learn but the one day a year that we say you know what don't go to the rebbe today today you're going to develop your own today you're gonna you're gonna come up with your own ideas in your own Novella your own novel thoughts that's tubish fan after all the avnenezer felt a special elevation in history take a look at number five sure the high no time of the Min hoga that could be the reason for the Min hug in worms that the tamiden would not come to the rebbies house to learn why because onto bishvad every could be masig therefore it's better to stay home and review and develop your own ideas now this is not the day to go to the rabbi the rest of the year you have to go to you have to learn from the rabbi this is the one day which is to develop your own so yeah I said alcohol always helps review the feathers we said earlier but Rabbi Sai well um I had the following idea very interesting idea and that is if that's the case what is the first time in the Torah that we have the teaching of the gemara says what's the difference between the first four books of the Torah and the fifth book The gemara says the first four books my show was saying on his own I'm not available but no no no no no please Maisha said it on his own so that means safer divarim is the first opportunity to begin to give over the oral law even though the varam is part of the Hamish nevertheless there is a dimension of tarsh about there's an idea that brings down that what's the comparison that that this concept that we're trying to develop that there's a connection between the Russia and the sap that rises in the tree and the person's Torah and his own what does the tree got to do with the person so further develops this idea and that is that there's a concept which means whatever we see in this world is just the physical concretization and representation of what's going on in shamayam that the physical hashbah and flourishing that we see in this world is a manifestation of the spiritual so if you see for instance on tubishvat which is the day that the majority of the rain has already fallen and that's the day that the sap begins to rise in the tree and the tree is primed to produce fruits it's just the physical manifestation of the spiritual fruits that are now primed to develop in if that's the case if somebody would start would want to start teaching tarsh about and teaching Torah to its seabor what would you think would be a very opportunity to teach to begin teaching the Torah tubish fact interesting it almost works out perfectly and that is if you look in the beginning of safer the varam when Maisha begins to teach the tarakal Israel when does Maisha begin to teach the taraka Israel so we would say ah on the 15th day of the 11th month right almost almost look at number eight it was in the 40th year in the 12th in the 11th month is amazingly what day did Masha begin teaching the toy rush about Israel just off by a little bit he didn't start teaching it on tubish fat two weeks earlier but you know what it actually works out perfectly but only if you're automat of shamai why is that look at number 11 on the first day of shrad Russia for trees says on the 15th day of shrad so you know this would be a beautiful advantara if beshamai started to teach the Tyra on you would say it's that the sap begins to rise that would be the opportunity to say hidusha now would be the opportunity to teach Torah the only thing is we pass can like hello but it does work out perfectly because reveals to us that we had two figures in back in the mid bar Misha and Aaron and what does say to Hashem Loi ends with an aleph ish ends in Hashem divarim ends in a meme spells out I'm not a man of words you know who I am I'm a shamai I can't be the leader of the Jewish people they're gonna come to me with all kinds of ridiculous questions uh Moshe convert me standing on one leg and I'm gonna smack them I don't tolerate that I'm The Magik I'm the law Giver there's no room for deviance am I the right guy I came through this Hashem said no who yeah he will be for you a mouth hello Aaron is hello there having me tell me them are in was well known to be talmad of Hillel mush on the other hand with shamai when somebody would come to Maisha mashallah I want to be kayangada but you're a guy moisha is not saying well you know let's see what we could do to work things out fly a kite go jump in the lake and maybe fly the kite while you're in the lake while you're at it he's the law Giver he's on the gather of shamai he's [Applause] what day do you think Maisha would choose to teach the Irish about medical Israel English so you say but we passed in my kilo yeah but everybody knows and the Melbourne brings us down and the album says that loss of love I we're gonna pass in like shamai so it's not like my job is going you should like um he was hoping to go into Arizona would have brought us entire to Israel then it would have brought the mashiach right away so much always on the gather of the uh Gula hasida bin was always primed for the Final Redemption so in the world of my shall we go like shamai so if there's a day on the calendar that moshabbin is going to teach the Tyra it's guess how safe begins when the um is a amazing day for a person to grow in Lima Tyra in khadushehatara and to develop one's own ideas in Torah now it's interesting does draw some connection here and I don't think I don't quite think he's saying what we said but he does draw a connection now I could have just taken two lines but uh if you guys if you told me a Camacho yesterday that Elon is 91 so the middle of nowhere I don't even know why he says it he says that Elon is 91. so I put it on the sheet look look even though he doesn't do anything with it but still but still you know you got to give credit where credit is due that's the second one remember a few weeks ago yeah so yeah yeah it's just high right so um but he ends off over here look he says very nicely says the near Muslim the end of number 10 foreign but for the rest of us in our uh Dimension that we live in um now that we passar bishvat is a great day uh first of all it's the Rosh Hashanah in terms of maiser peroice and it's a great day for hideous and learning Tyra and teaching Tyra so therefore in that vein I invite you to come join us tomorrow on PF license tomorrow we'll continue the Ezra's Hashem you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you byctoranytime.com