Torah L’Chayim // Counting of the Omer/Acharei Mot 5784
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then it took me a while to put the CH together so anyway so welcome to Brandon Davy grosman we have Priscilla care holy Mandel Kern welcome welcome to the class so we are going to study today even though it might be a little late it might be a little late for some of you have you been counting the OM have you been counting the Omas occasionally that’s the wrong answer because the OM has to be counted every single night from PES to sh we just passed number n I know but what happened is I get it because of the the way pesak played out this this year we didn’t have a class on h pesak no we didn’t so I didn’t have a chance to teach about the OM earlier okay so this is something that I hope I hope if you haven’t been counting the OM you can still start now the only restriction I will tell you right away out of the bat is that you do it without a blessing okay is the I would say is the only Mitzvah that it’s not every day is not an independent day they’re all linked together so if you miss one day then you cannot continue counting with blessings because let’s say that you have say that again if you miss if you miss one day you didn’t count yeah right then the next evening you have to count without blessing all the way to the end or not or not cool or not so but let’s say for example that you celebrate sukot you have to say Le basuka every every day and let’s say that you forget one day to say leuka but then doesn’t matter because the day after you keep saying it because every day is an independent Mitzvah but counting of the OM because of the way is presented in the Torah continuation okay so if you miss one and you interrupted the chain you can you still have to count but you cannot say the blessing so the the tricks the tricks that we have or the tools the tools that we have in these days to make our life easier number one is get an app for your phone I’ve had it since it first came out and it notifies you when it’s time to the problem is that and now it even goes home and says today is number blah blah blah count yet so number one is that number two and the most effective and the one that it was the most popular way in the Jewish world and listen to this is to join a Minion for the counting of the Omer yeah that is the the the the the best you know foolproof way to avoid forgetting and we don’t see that anymore but if you talk to other synagog especially more traditional synagogues they will say that they have a bumping attendance yes during the OM from all the people that they don’t want to miss it the other ways that I recommend is uh print a chart there you can download charts we have one at Temple Shalom so the governor can check the box and put it on the night table Yeah we used to do that in the chapel it’s the same one Once Upon a Time it’s the same one we still print it and we put after the ERS but if you want you you take one at home you put it on the night table so you will remember to count just before you shut the light at night before you take your glasses off and take your pills C own you take the we forgot that it’s a Jewish practice right oh well yes of course Jewish people always something always a pill right it’s like do you know the comedian we have a pill for that you know the comedian Modi yes yeah it’s very funny and he was saying that the co covid questioners are anti-semitic I said because he said he said your name one Jew doesn’t wake up every day with at least four covid symptoms the guy is funny the guy is funny see Rabbi hello Rabbi you’re smile you’re on camera who am I talking to and why my my audience this is T to the world the world this is T yes Rabbi finle here everyone so yeah oh welcome aaro welcome to the class she’s there okay so let’s study a little bit about the the OM and hopefully we’ll have time to study a little bit about the mod also the partial for this week taking this away from which is um want AAR mod it’s a very interesting thing with Rashi says about it but let’s see if we can do it okay let me bring let me bring the class here I want this there there so um let’s start by studing why we count the H okay why do we count the H is the H is the mids of the H from the Torah or from the rabbis and the answer is from the Torah how we do it is from the rabbis but the mid by itself of counting Counting from pesak to shabat is from the Torah okay in in fact without counting Counting the the days and the weeks the Festival of shav Vu Festival of the weeks wouldn’t wouldn’t make any sense right if you call the festival Festival of the weeks it means that we are celebrating the completion of counting weeks and that’s what we do with the counting of the OM that’s what you will see we count days and weeks okay Leviticus chapter 23: 9 to1 okay you know it okay God spoke to Moses saying speak to the children of Israel and say to them when you come to the land that I’m giving you and you reap the Harvest okay you shall bring the Omer of the first of your Harvest to the coin to the priest he shall wave the OM before God to be an appeasement for you on the day following the shabat then the coin shall waveing okay so listen to this because this is very number one what the heck is I think your your your volume is is [Music] on thank you it will Loop what is anomer [Music] but nobody asked I’ve been reading the OM om om and nobody said hey what is it’s a she of but I’ve forgotten what but the the OM we don’t really know what it is how much it is an OM it’s an amount of cereal I’m about to say she barley or wheat from the first cut from The First Cut of barley oh it’s barley wheat is not ready yet it’s too early in the season it’s true you will see on the on the fields it’s too early in the season for that okay so that’s why I didn’t translate it and that’s why we keep talking about the OM Without Really explaining what it is okay they are different so you could just say grain generically no but it’s it used to be the no but the the the the amount of grain so om used to be like a pound right or a kilo or but we don’t know exactly how much it was and some people believe that om was an amount that equals what one person will eat right in a day yeah some people believe that om used to be a synonym of handful so so basically this is an you have a b you have a container full of grain and you do this some people said that’s what the H is why do we say that because if you read here you it you take the H you take it to the coin and he should waver W wave it before the Lord so you take it and you go sorry is it an well an a pement also yeah is it it used to be understood D that what you do is you offer to God the very first bit of the crops the best so God will bless you with good crops all the way to the end so you give to God the first bit right as a token and then the rest is going to be blessed so it’s which makes sense hi hello hello so it’s another first fruits except it’s grain it’s grain but it’s but but that’s again specifically how has to be the barley because that was the first thing okay now when do we start counting the OM you start you start on the second Sor so basically after second s or the day after the second no so but the day after starts with with it basically it has to be the day day after Passover this is really but you say whoa whoa whoa whoa hold on hold on a minute Passover is a week long no it’s not Passover is one night that’s right the rest is K that’s why we get confused if we don’t use proper names okay Passover was theban P eaten on the say okay we losers in the diaspora have two SS but people in Israel they will have only one right they don’t need two SS so we have to do that so basically we do it as part of the second Sader in Israel will be done as part of Minion the second night okay because it’s basically halachically the day after Passover right because starts at night right so that’s what starts the day after Passover but the Torah doesn’t say the day after Passover it says the day following the Shabbat it does say this in the context of PES okay if you go read the Torah before and after talking about pesak so the rabbis understand Shabbat as another way of talking about pesak because pesak is also a day of rest sorry like it’s like Shabbat yeah yeah so the day after Shabbat the rabbi said it’s obvious that he talking about the day after pesak the day after the the day of rest of the H of the H of the festival comes the day of rest yeah but then we have I always mentioned confused with the the other day of rest there were groups of Jews that they wanted to understand the day after the Shabbat that you have to start counting the day after the first Shabbat that the day after the Shabbat that comes after PESA after the first Sor okay that’s the way the carides do it so the problem with that is you never know in advance when it’s going to be shab what you know it’s going to be on a Sunday right because it’s cycle of 49 and if you start a day after p the day after Shabbat which is a Sunday you’re going to finish on a Sunday so they do know right away that shabat is always going to be in a Sunday for the kites for us the rabbis I will say conveniently decided to read Shabbat as PESA so you can always put a fixed date to sh why because the rabbis were early early at doops of mathematical or they call it AR arithmetical calendars while other sects within Judaism they did not they still wanted to continue basing the calendar counting the new moon okay so when you have a fixed calendar the way the rabbis is always dreamed with it’s better if you have a fixed date and not to say it’s going to be in a Sunday but Sunday when okay although it will be more convenient for us to have shab always on a Sunday kids don’t go to school we’ll have way more people coming to sh anyway so anyway anyway that’s the way it works so we believe that Shabbat there means Pak so we start counting the OM second s okay isn’t the hagada it is right right before gya is there many people skip it because they don’t know what it is okay but that’s what it is so why do we C why do we call it the counting of the OM say that again why we to count but why of the H why don’t you call it counting to shav the over the uh what you get to the but it’s only only one day you don’t do it every day so long St is it because the OM was that one day but we still count until we get to the 49th so we just continue to use that name it’s because it’s the first visible visible Mitzvah attached to the counting okay so basically the the long name will be the counting that’s the counting that you start after the OM okay so we just say counting of the OM but the Omer you presented only once at the beginning you don’t have to bring an Omer as an offering every day of the cting so that’s why we say this is day whatever of the counting of the owner yes as though we were because we’re counting from the first from the first one so because we are counting from the time that the Omer was presented yeah got it okay that’s why the counting that started with the over yeah that’s why we call it that way and that’s what I said that the Mitzvah is from the Torah but the details are rinal yeah because the counting start with the omen no but it doesn’t that’s the way it became known counting of the omat how but it start with the OM anyway I know I know rock if we if we the judges taking something at face value if we were in charge we’ll do things differently right okay next uh who else is here uh Braya welcome from the UK look we have like a UK we have like a UK weather today it’s raining outside it’s a lot green there right now it’s a lot gray I’m going to fall asleep you know every time that it’s gets cloudy and it rains it get sleepy but it has to do with the the pressure no the pressure the environmental pressure is different and it makes me sleepy very true yeah so the period of the Omer derives its name from a special sacrificial offering that was brought in the temple okay before any newly grown grains with bar oats Ryan spelt may be eaten the equivalent of one’s day worth of barley flour for one person must be offering in the temple on the second day of PES this offering of barley flower is known as the OM offering okay again in this interpretation is the it’s the measure of flow that one person will eat in one day but that’s one interpretation of the the meaning of over okay let’s continue now why we do that and I will present just one rabbi’s opinion but you will see that how easy it is to agree with him rabeka manoah also known asuni famous Rabbi from France he said it will not be appropriate to eat from the new Harvest without bringing a portion of it as a gift of thanks to God sense right so it’s just uh just the way we do things gratitude should be a value in everything we do so we starting the Harvest hopefully it’s going to be great we’re going to have food for us for our family and even to sell somebody else to make a profit right so it is proper to share that with God as well and the way used to be done in the past is you bring it to the temple usually will be burned yes you know the the thing that people used to believe that when you burn thing the smoke smoke goes up right so God will that that’s a way for God to enjoy it if I were God it would make me more hungry right but that’s so uh Baya from the UK she said hopefully no Thunder Thunderbolts like we had last night well to be honest with you Braya if we had I had no clue because I slept like a baby I was so tired uh my son and I R we we went to a a professional wrestling match and it finished really late it finished after 10: so then we still have to come home and it was way past our bedtime way past our bedtime so and even more than thunderstorms what keeps me up at night you’re going to laugh Ducks oh the geese no ducks oh that’s right you’ve got ducks in your the ducks like I have ducks in my pool so it will be 3: in the morning and you will a water well now will bewhere there’s a cool water when I turn on the heater eventually and it becomes over chlorinated they don’t come anymore they don’t like that but right now that is cold it’s perfect they do you’re going to have you’re going to have duck floating around back next so let’s let’s keep talking about this rabi yanai said okay the way of the world is that when a person buys some meat from the market he must expend much effort and hard work work until he cooks it right the fact that you have the meat doesn’t mean that you can eat it right away yet yet while people are sleeping God makes this God God makes the wind blow and brings the cloud which cause the plants to grow and nourish the fruits and we only pay him the value of an omor so B I like that I said do you realize the bargain that you got here it is rain only at night not during the no no no but it said for no no I it for the miracle of God managing nature right so you can have the crops just a little bit of grain and that’s all good C needs it’s a great bargain that’s a lot of grain cuz everybody’s bringing grain everybody’s bringing an so this is the meaning of the verse right this is the beginning of the verse you should bring an Omer of the first of your Harvest to the coin okay of the first and the first usually is not even the best but you can always you can bring that right usually the longer you live a little bit special with fruits and things but no God want just the just the first we do the same with the Hala yes in fact that’s what Hala is but Hala is the bread that is the piece you take from the dough and you burn it that’s why you said the the Mitzvah that that that is a Mitzvah of taking Kal okay and the fact in Israel or places where you have large observant populations and you go to buy a Kala you know have a little sticker on has been Tak and it’ll say has been yeah anything to do with social action making sure there’s something set aside for the poor no no no no no that is more that that topic is going to yeah when we talk about cleanings on the corner of the field and forgotten forgotten sheeps right there were three things three things corner of the field that by law you couldn’t harest although it doesn’t say exactly how much from the corners that’s why the talmud said this is one of the Mitzvah that they have no limits the more you leave for the poor in the corners the better because it’s not not really Sedaka in the sense that you don’t handle the things they have to go and harvest themselves okay so it’s more uh enabling empowering yeah it’s more D them an active part it it dignifies the person more the other one is the the other one is the uh gleaning I think it’s called gleaning is let’s say that you are a a farmer you put together the she right when when you are moving the shears things are falling all right you cannot stop and put it back so that it will be difficult because you will have a bunch of poor people walking behind the carts or and getting everything that was falling and the other thing is and this is easy to see here in Manitoba when you drive to the beach for example you will see the big shifts yes right and how they’re doing sections at a time so you do a section you move everything but then you realize that there were two shs that you forgot them there you can’t go back to get them they don’t and people still don’t do that they still follow that even knowing what they’re so you leave it behind and the poor people have the right to go and take it if they find one one of those okay so that’s what they are those are the the mths of that that deal with social justice when we are talking about farming now the interesting thing is those three MV that we just mentioned when somebody wants to convert to Judaism according to the talmud that has to be the warning that the rabbis gives to the potential convert do you know that now if you convert you will have to leave the corners of the field for the poor you will have to allow them to take everything that falls from your cart if you forgot a ship you can’t go back to get it do you still want to become a Jew and then he says if he says yes you circumcise it right away and then you take to the migb so no Second Chances second so the is wasted is wasted yes okay next next now the the book that counts mitzvas right I again I always said you can go to Art scroll and buy the entire book it’s amazing seph is at the 613 Ms vote catalog just catalog with a little explanation of each one of them to me is one of the most amazing books ever published right and just holding an art scroll book is another but we always talk about we always talk about Jews have 613 mes vot do you know them well no no no I I I take your word for it but do you know them where can I find 63 mitzvot all in one collection get the sephra MIT there are two sephra mitzvot SE they’re similar and they catalog the 6 613 commandments so when we are talking about counting of the Omer is the Mitzvah 306 it’s like ordering Chinese 306 they bring you the OM 47 um so what’s the difference between the two is one and another is spy or one is one one Rabbi and why the difference between the two the two what why are there two books why are there two books what’s the difference between the fundamental difference between different authors that’s it that’s it because the talmud mentions that we have 613 Commandments without mentioning which ones so we know the number okay and then different rabbis will count will find a slightly different list okay so go down the hallway to the end to the right sirious sir okay why we count the that’s the other question a MIT but why I know it’s leading we never ask why right taking us to on another path to another I if you say because the Torah said so right point for Rocky yes because it’s always a good answer it’s always a good answer except when you’re talking to your parents low hanging so listen to this seph tried to explain why because that’s when I think of sephra is not only presented the M vot but try to explain why okay which is if you you ask me it sounds like a good idea try to explain why we do what we do so the simple explanation is that the essence of the Jewish people is the Torah do we agree and because of the Torah the heavens the Earth and Israel were created as the verse States if not for my Covenant of Torah day and night I will not have appointed the laws of Heaven and Earth okay that’s Jeremiah Torah is the foundation and the reason that we were redeemed and left Egypt in order to receive the Torah at SI and to keep it okay since the acceptance of Torah was the goal of our Redemption and serve as a foundation of the Jewish people and through it we achieve our greatness we were commanded to count from the day after the first day of pesak until the day that the Torah was given so when was the Torah given shab even though the Torah never says that no it doesn’t say this is my birth is my birth no we’ll talk about that in a minute this manifests our great desire for that awesome day which our hearts yearn for just as a servant yearns for shade we count constantly when when will the day come that we yearn for the day that we let slavery because counting towards a certain date shows a person that all his desire and and longing is to reach that time okay we can’t this basically said we are humans we count for everything right we count for retirement I I we have friends that they actually used to have a a Magneto like like like a so many more days into until retirement it was a countdown okay in years days hours minutes and seconds uh we count for birthdays we do we count for holidays birthdays weddings right how long until next trip and stuff like that we do we do how long after I yeah okay but the thing here is that so we come count until the Torah because the Torah is so important for us that we count every day in expectation now the problem with this philosophy if I may is that when we count towards a day right yes we count but the days in between are like irrelevant the day is not special by itself right we count it by the day doesn’t have a meaning it’s just another day in the counting of the OM yes we count an expectation for the Torah but at the same time every day counts and has a meaning every day is a special by itself okay so that will be a little a little bit of a difference the concept of counting because something is important just for you to remember are there any other instances in our prac system OB service [Music] where there’s a similar counting of special days that we count toward something yeah yeah but we don’t do it with we don’t we don’t count with blessings or anything with blessings yeah but we still count don’t count our way to something else yeah I know not like that now so we cannot talk about counting of the OM without talking about Shabu because you have pesak in one end shabat in the other and then all the dots in between okay it’s like a one Big Dot another Big Dot and 49 little dots in between it’s like like a bridge right I almost imagine that it’s like a log bridge but you look at it from the side yes and what you see it’s all the little dots but it’s it’s a bridge it’s connecting one to the other and you have to go step by step yeah right like that so rambam the myones he will say in his guide for the perplexed shabat is the time of the giving of the Torah in order to honor and Elevate this day this day we count the days from the previous Festival until it arrives like someone who is waiting for a loved one to arrive who counts the day by the hours this is the reason for counting the OM from the day that we left Egypt until the day of the giving of the Torah as this was the ultimate purpose of leaving Egypt and I will bring them to me so what we have to understand from here is that counting of the OM all of a sudden became a preparation type right and when I say that when we count days the days in between have no meaning yes and no I’ve seen some cases where the days in between do have meaning if you work in a company okay and you have a you have a deadline chances are if you know what you’re doing that you will have like a chart with all the days you have until completion and you will write on every day what you supposed to do every day day three day 10 to guarantee that you will be ready at the end and then you will know right away for example if you are ahead of schedule or behind the schedule true right because you will say day 15 and it is there you know sample should go to Pro to production and you don’t have to sample so you’re already one day below schedule is there any evidence though that Israelites coming out of Egypt were knew they were working toward M SI of the Torah so the thing is is there any evidence that the Torah was revealed on sh no is there any evidence that that there was an expectation oh yeah yeah yeah now TR no because that’s what Moshe was keep telling he keep telling uh Pharaoh all the time right let my people go so they will go serve God in the mountain okay so they knew they knew that they were leaving Egypt to go to the mountain to Mount Si and then I guess Moses told him exactly what was going to happen then uh but then the the a better question is any evidence that the Torah was revealed on Shabu because the Torah doesn’t mention that there’s no archaological evidence no no forget about that I know it is forget about that I mean if if we are going to try to read this as you know analyzing every fact you can how much time there gold and finally what this is basically how much time was in between the Exodus and the Revelation the Revelation was before golden cup so what happened is God revealed the Torah orally remember the Torah says that they were the Thunders right and they they they it was so intense that they were able to see to see the they saw the voice of God wom mean they saw they no well it was it was so intense that they it was so intense that the senses got confused okay after that finished God said to Moses now come to the mountain and that after those 40 days when when they did the Golden C okay but is there any so but when that happened that God said all the Commandments on the Revelation it the Torah doesn’t provide with the date but but based on all the date provided by the Torah and calculating how long it will take of a group of you know 600 people million people going from each to sign and camp and this is not so off the first group might have been there 40 days but the but the tail end of the group could have been 40 plus so basically it’s it’s not it’s not one of the things that is too crazy and stretches said eh never happened what this one I cannot prove it exactly that happened but it’s the timeline the T line the timeline is it can’t be too off from the date of Shabu for the re relation considering what happened in between so okay so this is not a crazy one this is not a crazy one they ever adjust date the C calendar dates or set dates or yum dates once they decided this is going to be the day that but God God said it basically the first commandment after everything else they were still in Egypt God said to to Moses Nissan is going to be the first month for you implied on that is you need a calendar not how can you calculate that this is going to be the first month if you don’t have a calendar okay okay that was the first Mitzvah we have a beginning that was the first Mitzvah the calendar so let’s continue the OM on PES was oh I love this one listen to this the omon pesak was from barley harvest the offering on shavu was from wheat barley is mainly food for animals that’s why I never had the barley soup here wheat is food for human beings right with bread the Torah hints us that physical independence by itself still lives man from the Torah perspective on the animal level so when we left Egypt spiritually we still animals so what do we offer barley the counting of the 49 days signifies a Sevenfold Sevenfold So it’s 7 time 7 right yeah refining process and marks our progress to full human status with our acceptance of the Torah at Sinai 7 weeks after The Exodus that’s what we call shabat so this is very important because again it comes to prove that every day between p and shab is a preparation day so there is something that we have to achieve every day in order to be fully prepared to receive the Torah yeah and that’s why when we count the Omer we also study P aot every day uh I think I did it last year that we did P aot every week between p and Sh but that’s why it was the first time we did since Rabbi green did well but I did it that way yeah um because that what weed was a weekly class which took if I remember correctly a little over two and a half years but that what happened we we started Perot because the best tool we have to learn ethics absolutely right uh uh San Bailey welcome from soal soal yeah Southern California um so let’s continue if a person uh usually listen to this if a person forgot and did not count at night okay he might count during the day without reciting a blessing but then you go back to count with blessings after so let’s say that I for God forbid I forget tonight get a jail card come from no no it’s like this let’s say that I forget to count with a blessing tonight okay I can count during the day without a blessing yes you can okay yeah but the interesting thing is uh I’m still counting for the day so I can go back and use the blessing the next night if you forgot a full day of count oh I see what you’re saying okay then you can never go back to the blessing until next year so as long as you’re in that sort of linal space between okay let’s let’s wrap up this listen it says if he forgot to count on any of the days whether the first day or any of the other days he should continue counting of all subsequent days without reciting a blessing however if he is uncertain whether he skipped the day he shall count the rest of the day with a blessing got to be honest God I don’t know who could be uncertain if they counted or not I don’t know it’s not something that we do every day right so well it does happen sometimes the the rabbis deal with this uncertainties during prayers all the time for example you know that if you if you’re doing the Mida right sometimes we say Mas sometimes you sayal you go halfway into the mid and then you said did I say mosh but did they say today they give you the benefit of the D doubt right but but only depends but only depends how far you are from the time that there is the switch Hub right yeah and then the r say if it’s within the week after the so you have to presuppose that you made a mistake and you have to go back to the beginning and start again and if it’s in the middle of the season for yeah so the the benefit goes to you so this is the same thing right because we don’t do it all the time maybe you forgot one they we said okay you keep counting with blessings next now the other thing that is important that we have to learn about the counting of the OM is the 33rd day of the Omer LBA which is a a milestone during the county okay the 33rd day is a milestone and lots of things happen there it’s a day of Celebration why is that listen to this Raba yakiba says if you have learned Torah in your youth you must continue to learn Torah in your old age if you have had students in your youth you must continue to have students in your old age as the verse says in the morning plant your seeds and in the evening do not let your hand rest they said that rabay yaka had 12,000 pairs of students 12,000 P how many students 24,000 because back in the day you will never have one student always auta so the numbers always came on pairs okay so here 12,000 person student from Gat to anti Prat and they all died During the period of time because they did not treat each other with respect the world was desolate until rabaka came to the rabbis of the South and taught them okay who were these new rabbis they were Rabbi May RAB Yuda RAB Yosi RAB Shimon RAB elazar shamua it was they who reestablished the Torah at the time so basically it was them to revitalize rinic Judaism it was taught that 24,000 students all die between pesak and shabat okay when between PES and shabat can you give me a date because we are talking about we are talking about a 50 day range right can you narrow it down well the rabbi said yes say yes Rabbi Aba perhaps it was Rabbi hi bar Ain said that they all died a terrible death what type of death does this referred to rabi nman said ascara death by choking now because they died during pesak and shabat the rabbi said that there was a semi mning period we mourn for the death of the students of rabay yaka okay so no shaving etcc remember or no no no music and no parties okay and that is in the tal and especially because you have to understand that the students of raaka they died because they treated themselves with disrespect during P shab it’s all the opposite what we should be learning so the understanding is they got this harsh punishment because they were considered to be at a higher standard so they were punished differently they were supposed to know so but listen to this it says yeah Raba yiva said to his new students my sons the first one only died because they did not look generously towards one another pay attention that you don’t act like them but then the rabbi say that basically all the the students of RAB akas stop dying which day 33rd day of the H so that is the day where the morning gets lifted so that’s they stop where we get our we we know this how rinic tradition this is way after the Torah so it was docu documented by contemporaries so is that where we get our rule ofi the number of days no this was that was too easy question yeah so so basically basically sh will say it is customary not to get married between PES and shab because the student of raaka di during that time period but is permissible to get engaged soim you can DOA you cannot it is customary not to shave or take a haircut until l B lag means 33 in Hebrew lamed giml 33 until L bom when they say that the students stop dying okay even even the sharu they say okay they said hey so many centuries after who am I to to argue that right if that was the belief that they stopped dying on L om we believe it as well now yeah so well 1256 I I won’t continue with another topic um but what I wanted to say about this is that the other reason of La Bomer being a celebration is because it’s the your site of who bohai rabi Shimon bohai who was rabi Shimon why Rabbi Shimon is so important because according to Rabin tradition he wrote the Zohar the Zohar the most important book of kabala okay and what is funny about the Zohar is that the Zohar supposedly was lost for centuries until A Man Called Moses de Leon in Spain yeah founded okay most Scholars argue that Moses de Leon Penn the book The zohor and I said why will did he say that it was from Rabbi Shimon bohai if he wrote it if you write a book will you say that I wrote it if you wrote it doesn’t make any sense right why would why would claim ownership of something that you didn’t why would Moses the Leon say that RAB shimai wrote it because Moses de Leon well one of two reasons one because it really was true or two because he didn’t want to he wanted to give honor to rather than or he knew it was going to be controversial and he didn’t want it falling on his head wanted to disassociate himself actually what happened is he realized he realized that if he will put his name to the book nobody will read it nobody will buy it right if I if I say that I I don’t know that I I I found a book written by somebody who died centuries ago right which he won’t come back to collect royalties or anything but it was a famous person and I can actually get away with with making you believe that somebody you should read this uh everybody will want to read it I thought that he so Moses de Leon he said that hey I’m the one who found it I found the manuscripts right but then there are testimonies of his wife saying that she actually saw his H her husband writing but he was not copying from anywhere so long story short in their traditional Rabin World they will say that rimai wrote the zohor most liberal Scholars will say no it was Moses the Leon in Spain who wrote it and it’s a brilliant book right and we can we kind of understand why he’d have to trick everybody because otherwise nobody will read it and in this day and age you know to and say hey it was MOS de Leon after the book is already written and so popular should be good for him from rinic rabbis they refused to do that uh Orthodox ra sorry they refus to do that and they give the full credit to Rabbi shiman bohai who died on LBA who said to his students I want you to celebrate myor side [Music] okay he was he was a Mystic anyway to begin with he did teach kabala R shimai but we don’t know to the point right in the Z so he said you know I’m you know after I died I want you to celebrate on my yite he died in LBA and that’s why if you go to Israel right now you can go to visit his grave on Mount meon Mount meon and you have this hundreds of thousands of Orthodox going into his grave every L Bomer and they dance and they jump to the point that is not uncommon that many people die because of you know they and the frenzy and false Google it don’t believe me Google it go to Google and Google the uh LBA accident okay some of them they were tragic one was during covid because God forbid the government will tell them no you cannot get together because there is a pandemic they defy the order they went to Maron they did it and then the platform collapsed was a huge and H died it was it was huge yeah anyway okay how we started the oh I have to stop so we can talk we can keep talking after I would stop the thing sorry we are 2 minutes over time if you missed anything I can see here Maggie said you Miss part of this please uh you can replay tonight at 8:00 p.m. central Time it’s going to be rebroadcasted or you can still find it after this class is over on our YouTube channel anyway depends what method you prefer okay so have a wonderful rest of your day everyone I I hope you will start counting the OM even if it’s without a blessing and as I said at the beginning best way to do it join the minion you can count with Leon or Jerome every night okay thank you everyone have a wonderful rest of your day uh