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[00:00:00] Fantastic. Thank you. I'm going to share my screen because that's always what I like to do. Okay. And I'm going to try to put.
[00:00:09] I have your. I'm looking at those of you who are here. I really appreciate those of you who have your videos on, so I can see you. So thank you so much. So I'm going to be teaching to you.
[00:00:21] Okay. So this month, I was asked to speak about the model of er, and the model is a little bit complicated to speak about because it's. And I'm sure you've already been to a number of, like, I haven't been to other shiram. Sorry.
[00:00:37] As I've said, I've been preparing g'shia almost exclusively at this point. And learning about the mazel of month is a little complex because it's almost beyond what I can understand. It's related to a spiritual reality and metaphysical reality. So preparing this really gave me a window into a different world. So I'd like to try to bring the messages of what is the mazel of er, which is a shor, which is an ox, to something that relates to us. I'd also first, before I begin, I want to thank Andrea for inviting me to talk. It's hard giving up teaching, but at bar Hashem, I have some other big things going on, which should be finishing up.
[00:01:22] I'm starting my proposal for my dissertation now. So hopefully that means that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Okay, so this is a picture from when my husband was much younger. If anybody knows him, he now has gray, and his beard is SAP grey. But this was back in the days when it was all black. So when. Where's this picture from? So there's a place 45 minutes away from Rochester, New York, which is a living history museum. And what they did is they brought homes from all over the region from the before the industrial revolution into one area, and they brought all the animals into one area, and you could tour it. And so we went to tour this living history museum on sukkis to see what are some of the halachos and hill hashabas that relate that we can learn from looking at times before there was electricity and before the industrial revolution, technology was sort of stagnant before that, and then it became much more commonplace. And all of technology was basically the same from the time of the Gemara until the mid 19th century, and then it changed very rapidly. So this brings you back to what it was like in the time of the Gemara. So when I was there and to get to why you have this picture. When I was there, it was remarkable. There was this ox. These are two oxen that are sitting right, a little 10ft away. Now, I don't know if you could tell the proportions, but I was amazed by the size and the power of these oxen. We're not. We're used to seeing cows, right? You go, you drive by the road and you see cows. You know what cows look like? Cows that provide meat, cows that provide milk. And they're kind of cute animals. An ox is not cute. So what I want to do tonight is to try to understand what does this powerful animal have to do with the month of er? So first we're going to review what's happened in eR. And probably most of us are going to know what that is. And then we're going to look at what is the nature of an ox. Now, there are two levels on which we can describe what an ox is. There is the physical level that what you're looking at on this screen is an ox. That's an ox. Right? So how. What does this ox, the physical nature of the ox, tell us about the month of the year? But then there's another reality, and that's the metaphysical reality.
[00:03:45] The shore is the physical manifestation of the shore represents something in the spiritual realm. And so the way we understand what's going on, the spiritual realm is we try to understand it through this physical animal. But there is a spiritual, spiritual reality that sort of supersedes and is beyond what happens in this world. And we're going to discuss that as well, and how it relates to the month of the year. Okay, so my son, let's see if I can get this to.
[00:04:17] There we go. My son told me that whenever you talk about mazzellos, I need to show you three pictures, which I will. So the first is what the stars look like in the sky. And you're going to go to me, this is Taurus. How does this relate to an ox? And there you go. Then you get the outline with the stars drawn in. And somehow this is supposed to look like an ox, but in all the spharim, the way it looks is like this, where this is the month, the mazel of er is ashore. And that's Taurus, and it is the animal that is working the grounds.
[00:04:51] Okay, so what is. Where do we get this idea of mazzellos from? So it's mentioned in the safer Hayatzirah in Parake. It tells us all the months, what they represent, and what letters are associated with each month, which persons associated with each month. And so that's where we get our basic foundation of the meaning of the month. Many of the more kabbalistic far lean on the sefer yet, Sira. So we're going to look at this a little closely and see what are the themes that are within this paragraph, and then that's going to help us understand the Mazel moving forward. So there is the safer the sefer. Yitzerah says that the month of ER is associated with the letter vav, with the concept, with the sense of thought. So some months are associated with taste, with smell, with sight. This month is associated with thought. It's associated with an ox, and that's the month of year. And then it also adds later that it's associated with the shavet of Yisakhar. So what do all these things have to do with each other? So we're gonna have to do a little bit of detective work to understand it. Okay, so let's start with what has happened in the month of year. So some of these things might be familiar with you, some might not. Let's do a quick review. This might be, this is, this is the time for story time. So deepeney Yisrael, they got out of Mitzrayim. That's what Nisan, we just talked about that a lot, a lot, a lot at the seder at all. And then B'nai Israel were in the midbar. Now when they left the midbar, when he leave Mitzrayim, Mitzrayim has something very important. It has something called water. There's the Nile, there's, there's ways, there's, they can drink. They left Mitzrayim and they're traveling and they have no water because they're going into the wilderness, into a desert. And so they complain to Moshe Rabbeinu and they say, oh, so first they arrive at a, before they complain about the water, they arrive at this place, Mara, where there's water, but it's very bitter. So they complain to Moshe rabbeinu, and Moshe rabbeinu provides them with sweetened water.
[00:07:08] Marah is also where we got the halachos of three halachos we got, including hilchoshabis. So this is the first thing we got. Our first taste of halacha comes in the month of year, and B'naisrael get water. The second thing that happens was that when B'naisra left Mitsrayim, what did they carry on their backs? They carried their matzos. We know about the matzos, and that food lasted them for exactly one month. After one month they had no food. So they came to Moshe and they said, we need food. And Haqarachu agreed with this, with this complaint. It wasn't necessarily said in the most refined manner. They were rather panicky. And he first at night he sent them poultry, and then in the daytime, Haakash Baruch Hu made munfall with a layer of dew, followed by the mun, followed by another layer of dew. And this month was completely absorbed into their body. So they were now being fed directly from Haqadesh Baruch Hu.
[00:08:03] There are those that say that the mun started and began to fall on Tesvav er. And there are others that say that B'naishval complains on the 15th of er, but they had enough left for another three days, and the month began to fall on Yuchas Ir, which would become lagbomer. So that's the month. So, so far they've gotten water, miraculous water. They've been provided for with this bread that came from Shemayim.
[00:08:31] Next they were traveling, and again there was no water, and they asked for water. Moshe Rabinu hit the rock, and water flowed forth. And B'nai Yisrael were now provided with a rock that provided them water for, for their entire travels.
[00:08:47] As they were traveling, a nation called, they came to Rafidim, and a nation called Amalek decided to attack. They were Asher Karcher, Badarach. They happened to come upon them and they attacked. And the Moshe Rabbeinu asks Yehoshua, who's from shavet, Yosef, to go fight against Amalek. And whenever Moshe held up his hands, B'nai Israel won. Whenever B'nai Israel, whenever Moshe Rabinu put down his hands, they lost. So Moshe Rabeinu's hands were held up high. Yosef sorry, Yeshua, who's from the shevid of Ephraim, who's the child of Yosef, was tasked to fight Asav, because Yosef is the, is the shavet, who is going to always be the one who fights ace to fight Amalek. And Amalek's power is the power of belief in coincidence. They don't believe in a connection to Hashem. So so far we have the b'nai Yisrael are connecting more takash Brachu through the way they get their water, through the way they get their food, through the halacha. And now Amalek is coming to battle them.
[00:09:55] The next incident that happens, which is mentioned explicitly in the Torah, is Pesach Sheinin. So what was Pesach? Sheeni? So we're gonna hear another name, a name that we've already heard so far. And that is there's a group of men who are carrying Yosef's bones and Yosef bones, because they were carrying Yosef bones through the desert, they were not eligible to eat the carbon Pesach at the right time because they were tummy. And so they came to Moshe Rabbeinu and said, moshe Rabbeinu, we would like to be able to participate in the carbon Pesach. And so Hashem made a special dispensation, ahalachah, that they could bring the carbon Pesach one month later in the month of year. So this idea of carbon Pesach also came in the month of Eir.
[00:10:38] And finally, the last incident in Tanakh. There's another thing that we're going to mention next. But the last incident in Tanakh was the building of the first base, Hamnidash by Shlomo. What took place began in Khodeshi, and the navi calls this month Kodesh Aziv, a month of clarity where B'nai, Israel, began to reconnect Taqa de Sparachu, where there was a special clarity that came a site, a vision that came. It's a bright vision that came to the. To the jewish people. So these are the incidents that happened in er. So the other important overarching theme that we see in the month of er is the idea that every single day of er has a mitzvah. Now, while every other nisan has the holiday of Pesach, which is one of the shlosher, Galen and Shavuos is in Sivan and Tishrei has many holidays. But there is no month that where every single day of the month has a mitzvah from the Torah, that it's related to that time. And that is what happens in Iyar. There is the mahalofah of Sphera.
[00:11:55] So what is this month about? What is this sphere about? Sadhguru tells us that the month of Sivan is going to be the month where we accept the Torah. So the month of er is the time in which we are preparing to get to accept the Torah in order to be purified and to become holy and to be prepared. So the reason that we're the days of sphere are days of preparation.
[00:12:25] And this, in fact, according to the Sefer Hachinoch, is exactly why we count the sphere. So if you think about it, why are we counting 12345 from the second day of Keza all the way to all the way to Shavas? So the seferachanof tells us the following. It says that the root of the mitzvah is that B'nai Yisrael didn't get out of Mitzrayim so they could be free. That wasn't our goal. The goal of getting out of Mitzrayim, of having Pesach, was not so that we could be a nation like any other nation. Rather, the entire world was created and was waiting for the jewish people to accept the Torah on Babsivan. And so the entire reason that we got out of Mitsrayim was so that we could accept the Torah on vav Stevan. So hashem comes and says, I want you to start counting as if you are desperate, as if you're counting down the days to, you know, when my, when my, when my son is coming home from Eretz Yisrael, we were counting down the days. So how come we don't count down the days when it comes to sphere, we count up. So there are many explanations, but one of them is, it would be too depressing if we start by the number 49. That would be a big number. So instead, we go, one, two, three. It's less depressing. And once we're already in the rhythm, we don't, we don't switch in the middle, but we're trying to get ourselves ready for Mata and Torah, and focusing that this is the essential time. This is what we are doing right now. We are preparing for Mata and Torah. And so we start counting. So you might say, well, why don't we start counting from the first day of Pesach? And so the Sevres says, well, you need to have at least little bit of time in order to get ready for.
[00:14:16] You need to have a little bit of time to acknowledge the miracles of Pesach. So that first day, we leave it as a day unto itself to acknowledge the miracles. And starting from a very special mitzvah, the mitzvah of Omer, we start counting two shavuos. So we connect it to. We don't want to say, you know, this is the first day to the second day after Pesach. That would be weird. So there's a carbon that's brought on the second day, the carbon Umer, which is very special. And so we connect the mitzvah from the carbon omer, and that's how we count. In order to get us ready to show that our entire desire is to have is to get this mitzvah and to get the Torah at Harcinai.
[00:14:59] And so this connects two things. First, there's above, we said that this month is connected to the letter vav, right? The letter vav is a line. It's a line of connection. If I want to say I have milk and eggs, I would say, right, I will use the vav to connect two things. Right?
[00:15:24] The vav is Khibur, it's connection. And if you look at the vav, it's also a line. So it's connecting what's above to that which is below. So the letter vav is connecting the hashem to its people. So the month of Iyar is the connection of Hashem to his people.
[00:15:43] The person who represents this month is Yasachar. Ysachar is the shavet, who is compared to a chamor, who's compared to a donkey, because he bears the burden of Torah. He, he, the Torah calls him Yoda, eats him. He is the one who is the Tammu deichach. He made up the sanhedrin, he learned all the halachos. So Yusachar is the one who represents this month, because this is the month of preparation for Torah. And we're going to see later why that's important as it relates to the shore. Okay. There is another, something else that's related to this month, which I thought was interesting in it. An interesting concept to discuss is that the avos, it says the rabbi Yeshua Omer Minajin benisa noldu avos shanamonam shana barbim barbamoshana, let's say.
[00:16:50] So it tells us that there's a certain number of months from when the, from when the avos were born. And it says in the fourth year in the Chodesh Ziv, and Rashi says, chodesh Ziv is ir shenolu Bozivasteni, Olam Kishanis kadesh ivar binisan. So what is it saying? It's saying that this month is called.
[00:17:15] It brings a proof that. How do we know that our avos were born in Nisan? It's because we called the month of Iyar Zivir and because by the time Er came around, all the others were born.
[00:17:28] So the principle that's being just, that's being recognized here is that, er has a different status than every other month. If you look at Nissan, Nissan, half of Nissan, we were still in Abdus, half of Nissan, the others weren't born, half of Nissan. We were, we didn't have it. Great. But come Iyar, for the entire month of er, this is the first 1st month where we could say we are free men. This is the first month where we could say the Avos exists. This is the first month where we could say the mishkan was standing for the entire month. And so this month represents the completion, the connection between B'nai Yisroel and whatever mitzvah started in Nisan. So it's a little bit more special than just Nisan.
[00:18:17] We think it's the beginning, but really its full power only came to be in the month of the year. Okay, so how does all this, all these topics connect to what we know about the ox? So if you remember the picture of the ox, what do we know about the ox? So the ox is very powerful. The ox, if you saw it in that picture, it was living off by itself. There weren't other animals in its enclosure. The ox is not an animal that can, that does well with other animals. It can be with its partner, who pulls the plow with it. But they don't put the cows and the oxen together because the oxen are more violent, which is probably why the entire Gemara and the precious mishpatim are all about these ox like oars, because oxen are not famous for being patient animals, and they're very powerful. And this is what the, the Torah says about the shore.
[00:19:14] Be'en alaphim e vos bar. So alaphim is another name for oxen. So when there are no oxen, your fridge is going to be empty. It's like when you didn't go shopping after Pesach and everybody ate you out of house and home, all of Pesach. I don't know if this has happened to you, but it happened to me, right? You go and you're like. You open up, expecting there to be some leftovers and nothing's left. So that's what happens. That's what happens if you don't have any oxen. Your fridge, your pantry is going to be cleaned out. The raft hashore, and most of the produce is going to come from the power of this ox. The ox is very powerful, as the Maharaj tells us, there's nothing more powerful than the shore. The Gemara Khagigah adds about the physical power of the shore that the Melech Shabbat chayos Ari, the king of the animals, when we think of a king of animal, right? That's the lion. The lion is the king of all animals.
[00:20:14] Shore. But there's another class of animals, and those are the animals that are brought as carbonos, that are domesticated animals, and those are the behemoth. They don't eat and harm other animals. And the king of these animals are the shore. So the shore is the most powerful, but it's not as powerful as the lion.
[00:20:36] Something else that will help us understand the depth of the month of masal, of er, is to look at the name of the animal.
[00:20:47] So the shore, in its power, it's strong. It has Gvura. Right? Which is a third line. That's the power of the shore. There's nothing stronger than the shore in Nisan. We got out of Mitsrayim through the midz of Chesed, through the midz of Hashem, just giving to us because he loved us, because we're the children of Avramir Sagniyakov. The month of Iyar has the koah of the shore, which represents Gvura, which represents Din, which represents the strict lines and boundaries. There's consequence, there's direction. And we can see this in the name. The name shor comes from the root shura, which is either, which is at once. There are rows, which are boundaries. There's a way to go. And if you go off one side or go off the other side, you've fallen off the edges. Right.
[00:21:40] If a person's going on a road, you can't veer to the right or the left. And in Aramaic, the word shura means wall a choma. There are boundaries. There's things you can do and things you can't do. We see this also with the name Bokar, which is cattle. So Bokhar is related to the word boker. Morning. What happens in morning? So at night, everything sort of looks fuzzy. It's romantic, it's unclear. Boker comes, day comes, and all of a sudden I have clarity. I can see what's good, what's bad. I can see distance, I can recognize people.
[00:22:18] So clarity means that there's going to be a right and wrong, because it's not that things are fuzzy and I can. And I can wiggle around. So Bakar also comes from the root of beaucaire, which means that there is a clarity, that things can be checked out, also means that you're going to check out what's going on with a person. And Boker also means, from the language of mubukaris, that it's separate, it doesn't live with other animals, that there's a place where it lives. And place where other animals lives, there's a distinction. And finally, har, which is the female, yes, it provides milk and meats, which is from the language of Paru, that it's increasing. But that root also comes into play with lahafrid, to separate, to make a breach. The root peiresh, also means separation, division.
[00:23:19] So the word shore is somehow represents justice. And so this is what I found is safer, incredible, safer called, which goes through the months and how they relate to the mazel by Ravar and Schwab. And he says, nimsa Shah sur Masamil is han Haggas Hadim Shpaolam. We find that the ox represents the attribute of justice in the world. The yeshladin, madu ahre han Hakash al Mazal, Harisha and Tzleh. After the first month, we had this month, which was a sheep, why? Which represents the fessid of Hashem. Why are we now coming with a din with injustice of the shore, of the ox?
[00:24:07] And so this is going to bring some of what we've learned together, you know, on the physical level. So if you think about the animals. So what do you think about a sheep? Right? Look, think about a sheep, okay? Imagine it in your head. It's white, it's fluffy, it's cute. You know, we have, I have, like, a lot of stuffed animals in my house of sheep, right? Shepzilla and I could have brought them and held all of them up. They're all adorable.
[00:24:34] A sheep can't really take care of itself. It needs its master to take care of it. And it needs to the story that we have about the sheep, right from David Hamnilach, where? David where? Moshe Rabbeinu, I think it was Moshe, where he saw a little sheep. And first he let the weak, the little baby sheep out to feed on the softest grass. And then he let the older sheep out so that they would get the next grass. And then he let out the middle aged sheep to get the hardest grass. And when he had a sheep that ran away, he had to run after it and hold it and carry it back to the flock. And that was how Kashbar, who knew he was ready to take care of Kleisro. So sheep really need a lot of nurturing, and that's the mazel of the first month of Nisan. It's this nurturing nature that took care of us, that he loves us, that he treats us as his sheep. In Eeyore, here is a different idea. Er is already the mazel of the shore, Eir, is the mazel of the ox. An ox works hard. The ox is a physical animal. The ox is there to represent that. The month of er is when we need to buckle down and start to accept the Torah for ourselves. That is not enough that a pesh, Baruch Hu, gave us the love of the kodesh of Nisan, of taking us out of the mitsrayim. Now, in the month of er, we are doing the work. We are going to work hard to become like a shore, to become like an ox, where we will accept the Torah. And so through that event, through that acceptance, and through that hard work, what happens? We come to the month of Sivan, where now we're like twins. We are connected to. Kashmir is the month where we connect Hashem through our hard work, so that we become like people, and we become David to Hashem, or become close to Hashem, like twins. And that's the mazel of the month of Sivan. And so Iyar has this idea that the shavit of Yasakar is going to be the shavette of the month, because we need to work hard at learning Torah. We need to work hard at accepting the Torah in order to become able to accept the Torah in the month of Siva.
[00:26:59] Okay? So the pre hadosh of Sadok tells us the following. He says, what happens? You look back on the month of Nisan, and maybe it was. You know, we were. I don't know how I had the strength, Baruch Hashem. I had the strength to make Pesach. And the amount of effort that we put in. Into making Pesach is really miraculous every single year. But in terms of the cleaning, the organization, the spreadsheets, right. It's really somehow the rest of the year, I don't think I work as hard physically getting ready for Pesach, and every day I'm cooking lunch and supper. There's a lot of just coah that I just. That we just get. That allows us to, you know, persevere through Pesach.
[00:27:45] And we might say, I wish I had that now. Somehow, I'm exhausted. Right. Making dinner tonight was hard, and so we did take out, but it was like, I can't. I can't cook anymore. Right? What's happening? And so we might say that we miss it. And this is actually the way it's set up for us, that the month of the Lavitzrayim, there is this inspiration, and then it says in the second line, it goes away.
[00:28:15] And then B'nai Yisrael came to Kriyamsuf and Hakash Baruch was split the sea. And even the shaykh falayam, even the most, the little, the maid servant saw Hashem and got navua. And then it went away. And we might look at it and say, which is the fourth line from Rabbina, rabbinim al Tamar shaym hari shonem tovin me ela kilo mechachma. Sheila Salza.
[00:28:43] Don't say that. The original days, those days of Nissan, when things were coming to us and we were happy and joyful and had energy, that those were the right days. Oh, I wish I had those. But don't get nostalgic. Shahiba rak b'Sheila. It's coming, and I hope I print. I don't know if the Nakudas were right, but it's coming just as alone. The Rev. Tatz has this book living inspired, where he describes how a person is going through darkness, and all of a sudden they're going through darkness and there's a bolt of lightning and it comes in and lights up, and they can see everywhere where they're supposed to go, and the path is clear. And then the lightning goes away and they have to get through the path on their own. That's what Pesach is. Pesach is a bolt of lightning that lights us up, that gives us inspiration. We attain levels that we can't attain naturally.
[00:29:30] And then comes the month of er and the month of er. And so that's so in LA. Adam Mash Yukoleknos, Ayde. So we are able to see that, which we can do if we work hard.
[00:29:47] And Sivan, we're actually going to get there. So what do we need to do? We need to work hard in the month of Eir to get to the point that we were in Nisan, so that when we come to Sivan, we can accept it. And this is why there is. It says at the end, this is why it has that letter vav, because the vav is connecting us. The vav is connecting us from the month of Nisan to the month of Sivan. Somehow we need to be able to get from point a to point c. And the way we get there is through hard work of the shore. That brings us to the month, through the month of er, every single day, saying, counting the Omer, where we say, today, I'm working hard so that I can get to those levels. I know that I can be patient. Today I'm working on my patients. Today I'm working on my middle. Today I'm learning pirchi Avos. Today I'm understanding. I'm working on whatever mitzvah it is so that I can make this as a kenyan.
[00:30:46] Okay?
[00:30:48] And so the Seamus mole says something which is actually remarkable. He says, so what happens? You're so inspired in Isan, right? And you're able to go to Shul and Daven and cook meals and, like, all these things. The peace of is like, wow, you're totally. You're there. And all of a sudden, it's gone away.
[00:31:06] And we're kind of feeling bummed, like, okay, now I'm just like, it's May, right? I can't believe it's May. But this is. This is. Now I need to. Now I need to. How do I deal with this?
[00:31:17] And so the sheik Mishmuel said says, you start to feel a lack, and you start to feel not as great about yourself. Because all of Nissan, I was able to achieve such greatness, and now I'm not. Now I'm exhausted. And so a person could start hating themselves. And he says this Vinasa sonias Atsimo, you can start to hate yourself. And that seems to be, like, a really bad position to be in. We should love ourselves.
[00:31:45] But the Seamusmol says something that's remarkable. He says, what's happened until now? So what's happened until now is we've been walking with our blinders on, not recognizing what our potential was, that we didn't realize that we could actually achieve anything. So we're walking around in life that we think we're great. We think we're fantastic, and everything's good. And then comes Nissan, and we see how great we could be, and then it's taken away from us. And then we start to say, wow, I'm not so great. What have we just become? Yes, there's that element of self hatred, which is how the Shemishmo puts it. But we've also Hashem Izbach shome.
[00:32:21] Hashem hears that we now have that means of Anava. We're now at a feeling low, and Wakash Baraku always comes and supports those who are feeling low. That feeling of depression, of sadness, is actually a place where a kaddish baruch hu could enter. Because when we're feeling complete, there's no place for a Kadash Baruch hut to come and support us. But when we're feeling lacking, that there's something more I can achieve, but I'm not there yet. That's when a kashbarachu can step in, and he can bring up. He can bring us higher.
[00:32:57] So the fact that a person feels far from who they really should be, that's when a kaddish parachut can come and help one. And that's the vav that this sense that we're not where we were, but we know where we want to get to. That's the vav, where we're now connected more to.
[00:33:16] Okay, and so now let's connect this to the shore.
[00:33:21] So this comes from the tsukupas hashanah, which is by Shmuel Stern. He says that the.
[00:33:31] The shore is the king of the behemoth. So what do we bring for spheres? Ha. Omer. So the omer is brought from Barley, and the barley and the. I believe this is written in the sea of Shalom. The barley is an animal. It's a mindful of animals, right? This is what animals eat. They eat barley. On Shavuos, we're bringing the. The carbon of the shteyalachem, which is made from wheat. So we're becoming. We're bringing the carbon which is fit for man. So we get from Kesach, where we were all inspired, but we're really just animals, and we're getting to Shavuos, which is the carbon of man.
[00:34:13] And so we move from the Nisan, which is the tle, which is the sheep, and to Eeyore, which is the shore. And then we move to Sivan, where were people. And this is the connection that we're moving from this, from these barley through to becoming people by the hard work that we're doing. Like an ox right now. We're working very hard, and that's the way it's meant to be, because that's how we become people. We don't become a person by having everything given to us. Rather, we only become a person by working hard and connecting Hashem.
[00:34:50] Okay. There's another idea that I think is important that's related to the physical manifestations of the shur. And I thought this was a beautiful idea. This is from the imre Noah. Okay? So the shur is the physical animal. It works really hard. And we've discussed this already, and it's somehow in this month of Iyar, with the month of Yusachar, we're going to find that Sivan, which is the month of the Torah of the Tuumim, has with it connected, is the month of Zivulun. So the imre Noam says the following. He says, I'm about to give you the torah. I don't want you to think that the ideal way to live is to be completely with only learning Torah. I want you to realize him, Ain Kamath. In ToRaH, if you don't work, if there's no physical labor, if there's no laboring for your ParNaSsA, then there's no torah.
[00:35:54] And if there's no torah, you're not going to have food either. And so the month of the shore, the month of that axe that is providing all of our Tzuvua, all of our, all of our, all of our produce, is the month connected to Yasakhar. The two of them have to be together. You can't have one without the other. And the second idea, and since Sivan, when we get the Torah, that's where Zvulun comes in. Zvulun is the shavet that represented that he went and earned a living for Yusachar. So the two things are always working together. That the shor is with Yasachar, Zvulun is with its umim, that we always have to be working to elevate the Gashmius and the roughness. We don't just live in a spiritual world, and we don't just live in a physical world. We live in a world where we elevate the physical to become spiritual. And this is what we are doing. In the month of sphere, we are counting that. The sqarno says we're supposed to count seven complete weeks. What does this mean? So the svarna says that we have to be. What is Tamim? The knee. Hashleimosha eli kafiha esher. It's like, what does it mean to be pure? It means to be complete. That we resemble Haqqadish Baruch Hu as much as possible. So how do we do this? We need to become Tamim. We need to be resembling Hashem as much as possible. And we do that by every single day, when we are working hard, elevating every single thing we're doing to a mitzvah, to making sure that we're doing this with the correct intention, that Hashem has made us living in this gashmi's world. We don't have special holidays where we're completely removed from, like on Yancif, where we were Pesachshavos or sukkits, where we're removed from that, from regular life and are focused completely on rohanias. Rather, the month of er, every single day. Were counting sphere, but were always involved in our regular lives. Because this is what we are meant to do. Were meant to take this month and elevate it and make it full and make it Tamim. And combine the brooknius and the gashmiyas. And thats where the hard work is, right? When we think about it, the hard work is not in going to shul. Listen to Shira. The hard work is figuring out how am I going to fit in. Davening and learning something and working on myself and all my different things, and going to work and talking to my family and going to the doctor and remembering that everything is from Hashem. That's where the hard work is. The hard work is in the everyday life. Remembering that Gash BaRuch was there. And so that is the work of er, where we're trying to elevate the gashmiyas to the Rohanius. And that's what it means to be Tamim, to be whole, is that our everyday life is pure. Okay? And so this is from Rav Schwab. He says, this beautiful idea that we look at this month and we could say, so we have two Shabbatim who represent this idea of Ruchnius and Gashmius. Right? Right. There's, sorry, not Rachman Sagashvitz. We have two shvatim who represent Torah. There's Levi, who represents Torah. And there's Sachar, who represents Torah. So how come in this month of preparation for receiving the Torah, are we not connected to Levi?
[00:39:39] So the Rov Shwab says, this is Shimon Schwab's grandson, who lives near Israel. So he says the following. He says, sheva Levi is a different kind of. Is very different. Shavit, Levi, they, they were disconnected. They were so close to Torah that they were disconnected to other people. They didn't serve the ego. When Moshe Rabin, who said milasheme lied, they went and said, and they were going to kill. They were, they were not good. They didn't know who their brothers were. They were ready to kill anybody who served their vodusarah.
[00:40:15] They were completely removed from Gashmius, right. They were completely connected to Torah to such a degree that they didn't even get a nacholah. They didn't even get a portion in the lands of Israel.
[00:40:30] Contrast this to Yasachar, the shiva. Yasachar served the ego. When, after Moshe Rabbeinu came down from Harsinai and he threw down the luchos. Yasacher was part of the group that were serving the egalitarian. And they have a nachla in Arabs, Yisrael. They're connected to the physical. And so they are the ones who are meant to teach us how to use the physical to connect.
[00:40:53] And they do this through the Misiros Nefesh, through working hard, through sacrifice, through being like that shore, being like that ox that gives up things in order to achieve greatness. And that's why they are the representatives of this, of this month. Okay? So in the time that we have left, I want to now look at the different aspect of the shore. And that is, so far, we've discussed the shore as the physical, as the hard work, as connection between the physical and the spiritual.
[00:41:26] And really, in the month of Sivan, as a. As a. As a month of effort. Now, I want to look at a little bit differently, a little bit of a different theme, which is how has the shore manifested itself in spirit, in the spiritual descriptions, in the Torah? So, the first place that I think is most important to mention is that in Sefer Yecheskal, there is something called the merkava, which is how Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
[00:41:57] Okay, so it's described as having. Is a kissea kavo, that there's a chair that has four, excuse me, four different faces of animals on it. And it says, there's an aryeh, there's a. There's a man, which is Yaakov of Inu, and then there's a lion, and then there is a shore. There is an ox, and then there is an eagle. And so this represents how hapodesh Baruch Hu influences the world. And we don't really understand what it means, but we see that the shore is one of the faces that's on the Kisei haqqavod of Hashem. And so it's not just a physical animal. Rather, it represents wealth. It represents the abundance in the world. And so that's just something to keep in mind that there is that important role that it plays.
[00:42:49] We see also that there is a person who's compared to Ashur, and that is Yosef Hazard in the bracha that Moshe Rabbeinu gives to.
[00:43:01] Gives to the shape, to the shvatim at the end of his life. It says, behor sha ro chadar lo. The firstborn of his herd Majesty is his Vikarni Reem Karnav Bahem Amim Yanagaya. And it tells us that it compares Yosef to this shore. So now, as we said before, as we said at the beginning, we had. Yosef was the one who fought Amalek, right? So we had this in this month. So Yosef, who's the shore, is fighting against Amalek.
[00:43:34] We also have another place in the Torah where the shore is mentioned. So when Yose Ya'aqob is meeting Asaph, after he's. He's leaving Laban's house and Asaph is coming to attack him. He sends Asa the message and he says to him, vai he shor Vahmor. I have to me a ox and a donkey. Shor Zayosef. This shor is Yosef Shanamar Bahor Shiroha low Hamor Zayasakar. And Hamar is Yisakar Jakhtev. Y Sahar Hamor. Garem oben Binochal. Yosef. Ome the kalosas, Amalek. And Yosef, his son is going to destroy Amalek. Shanemar Velo she osho us amalek ves amir amolefi Kharef. Which is what we mentioned. This was the battle that took place in er. Ubunav Shaya Sahar Yodin Masha Kadesh bar.
[00:44:25] And this is Yossachar is the ones who are the ones who are the Torah scholars. So we see that the medrash, when Yaakov is coming to fight against Asaph, who does he mention? He mentions the shore, who is Yosef. And he mentions Yusachar, who represents the month of. Of er. So these two individuals, on a spiritual level have been pre Yaakov Avinu said, these are though. These are my powers that are going to fight against Asaph, which is Amalek, which is taking place in this month of er. And what that means might be beyond this, but it's something to think about, that Amalig was the one who came. And Asher Karachabadarach, he's coming to. To fight. He's saying everything is happenstance. And what does Yosef and what does Yusachar come to say? They have that Vava Kibar. They have that vava of connection to say, no, we're always connected to Hakash Brachu. There's no mistakes, there's no coincidences. We're here to fight against you. And the idea that you represent that there ever could be coincidences.
[00:45:36] And this is what happened in the Mohan Hassan Ali. They stop learning Torah. When you stop learning Torah when there's a lack of connection to Hashem. Then Asher Karacha Badarach. So then Amalek comes and says, you think you're not connected to Kashvarachu? Well, we're telling you there's not.
[00:45:54] There's no connection to Hashem. And so Yosef B'nai Yosef, who were that shore, had to say, no, there is a connection to Hakodesh Baruch Hu and that we are connected to the shore, which is on the ki say Haqabod.
[00:46:07] And so they came and they connected the Khomriyas al Hatorah, and they fixed that pagan. Now there's somebody else. I'm not sure if I bring this up later, I think. Yeah, I will. Okay, so there's another. Just another spiritual message that happens in this time period, and that is Tehsach Sheeni.
[00:46:33] So what happens with Pesach Sheinin? And this is also. It's a little spiritual. It's connected to the spiritual idea. But I thought it was important to bring because I saw many sources brought this down. Okay, so what was Pesach Sheeni? So Pesach Sheini was. They were carrying Yosef's bones. Again, Yosef is being mentioned. He's the one who they're connected to somehow. And they wanted to have the carbon Pesach. And so the.
[00:47:06] The Schneiduch has. Habris tells us, the hazal say that this was being Mitaher, the sin of the ego. So this month, the fact that it's a shore, the fact that it's in a shore is somehow connecting to the fact that they were wanted to serve the eagle, and it's fixing that sin. So what happened? So the people who are coming out of Mitzrayim, the Erev rav, so the entire.
[00:47:40] All of the Makos taught Bneisrael that there was no of Odazara. There was no power other than Hashem. And that was done in the month of Nisan, when there was the sheep, which was the most powerful of Odazara of the Egyptians. And so it was knocked out. And it was meant to teach them that there is no other power aside from Hashem.
[00:48:01] That means no sheep and no other avodazara as well. Well, this arab rav saw that there was no sheep. And so come the month comes, they worship. They're worshipping. They decided, well, this sheep is the most powerful of Odazara. That's knocked out. But maybe we should serve the second most powerful of Odazara. Let's serve an egal.
[00:48:24] And so they decided, okay, we're going to serve the next power, which is the egal. And so they. This was what their intention was. The Arun did not have this attention. He was connecting to the shore, which was connected to the. To the Keisei kavod but these Arugav was trying to connect to the avodazara, and they. They were completely foolish. Comes the Pesach Shemi, and they're saying, no, we recognize that there is no power aside from Hashem. The sheep don't have power. The egal doesn't have power. We are serving you, and we want to bring in this month of the power of the shore, of the power of the ox. We want to bring a.
[00:49:10] We want to bring a sled. We want to bring a shoe to show that there is no avodazara available.
[00:49:20] And so this is how it connects. So the mazel the shore shows that there is a connection, and they made an egal. They didn't call it a shore because they wanted to get away from this idea that there's a shore that connects us, from us as clients who are working hard. Hakotesh baruch hu, to the mas, to the Merkava. Rather, they were looking at this shore who had the. Which is how it's described by the astrologers Shor OcHEL Esev, that it's a sheep, it's an ox that eats grass, that there is a power of the shore that's very connected to the physical, that is not connected to the spiritual.
[00:50:02] And so that's why we say that it's called the Chet hagel, because the shore. And this is from Yashaya, the shore is known.
[00:50:12] The shore knows its master. The shore stays connected, but the egal can be disconnected. And so the Amalek and Yishmal, they each represent a different power from the chamor and the shore. They are the ones who try to remove us and say, no, you're not going to have the Tavaj Baruch Hu. Whereas Yusachar and Yosef say, you're still connected to Hashem. Now, if we go to the Avanim, fast forward a number of years, it tells us, and this is from Roshwab. Again, he says, what did they ask want us to do? They wanted us to take our oxen and to write on those oxen horns that they wanted us to take, that acts that shows that we're connected to Hashem, that we work hard, and Hashem has the merkava of the shore, and we're connected. They wanted us to write on there and say, no, there's nothing going on. You're not connected at all. It's all just an eagle. It's all just happenstance. And so this was.
[00:51:13] And so this. It says that in Chavzain, iyar this. This decree from Ahashverosh was. Was gotten rid of because we became once again connected to our whole.
[00:51:27] And so what is the lesson we're supposed to learn from this? So the. And this is from the Ursa de.
[00:51:37] Something I could read very small.
[00:51:40] It says that we're supposed to look at this time on Pesach Sheeni. And what was the faith of the egal where they said, this is your elo hacha Yisrael. This is the God you should serve that we're supposed to see? What are those things that are drawing us away from Hashem? Those things that are drawing us away from being connected to Hashem and setting themselves up as alternatives for how we can improve ourselves, for how we can connect, for how we can. For what we should stay.
[00:52:12] For what we should do.
[00:52:15] Whether they're false other religions, whether they're people who are espousing false ideologies, whether they're things that take our time and move them into areas that are not pure. This month is a time when we're working on that Pesach Sheeni idea where we're trying to say no. We recognize that there are people who are going to have an ego, but we're staying connected to this concept of shor. We know that there is no power not to the se, not to the egal. There is no power outside Havashem.
[00:52:48] And so.
[00:52:49] And this is what's it called? And he says that also, this is why Yoravam brought the khait at this time also, that this month of er is where we're rejecting external ideas that are. That are challenging for us, that are challenging our connection to Hashem. Okay? So I think we're going to just go through. And now we can see how does this all relate to er and how does this relate to the. To. To the shore? So in this month, the month began, right? We got food which hit us in this world, but we're completely connected to Hashem from this food. Mara, we got the Torah. We got halacha, which is the Dala, the Amos of halacha, which is where we connect Hashem through our ability to keep halacha is how we connect Hashem Mohem.
[00:53:36] They came with the power of that they were coming, that there's only happenstance, that everything's. Everything is just the way it should be. But Yosef, the power of Yosef, who is the power of the shore, came and fought against Amalek. They were always connected to Hashem. Pesach Sheeni. They wanted to serve Avodazara. But we brought the power of, the correct power of the shor to play where we now are rejecting the ego and saying that Yadash or Konehu, that ashore knows its master. We know what is the right thing. The binyan based Bayes Rishon. The beginning of the big building of the Mishkan is because we're connecting Paakash Baruch, who we're getting Nisan, to Sivan, we're working hard to bring, to elevate the gashmiyas to the Rachniyas, and the Yeme sphere. Again, is that connection of working hard and moving us from one direction to the other. So now this is, now we can go back to the Sefer yitzvah. And I think we can all understand it that there's the os vav, which is the letter we saw, the Khibur we didn't mention. What is Kirhor? Kirhor is where is all this taking place? All this is taking place in our minds. Right. There's no mitzvahs that we need to do in specific. There's nothing that says, when a person does a chesed for somebody, the difference between whether it's a mitzvah or not is really all in their thoughts. So this month is a month of intention. Do we think about what we're doing and how do we think about what we're doing and make it service of Hashem versus not? So that's the osvav that's here. Who are we explained how the shore is that physical animal. It represents Yosef. It's on the merkava. And that all connects to the month of year. Okay? So that is the connection. I'm going to stop the share. Okay. Now that was a big overview a lot. Are there any questions?
[00:55:33] I'm just going to do gallery view so I can see your beautiful faces. I can see everybody here. So if you, if you, if you have any questions.
[00:55:44] Okay, is that a no? I don't see any questions. Okay.
[00:55:50] So I hope it was clear.
[00:55:53] You explained it very well, Shira. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
[00:55:58] Okay.
[00:56:01] Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm gonna wait till after. Safe for. Yes. Thank you, Sira. Okay, thank you. And it's good to see all my neighbors and my coworkers here also. So thank you for having.
[00:56:15] And I'll see you at the gym.
[00:56:18] Okay? Yes.
[00:56:20] Thank you, Sira. Have a good night. We'll hope to see everybody this week at classes. Yes.
[00:56:26] Okay.
[00:56:28] Understood, everybody.
