The Light of Lag BaOmer!

In this episode we are learning about Lag BaOmer! What is this mysterious day really about? Why do we light bonfires and dance? What is so unique and special about Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai that we celebrate his yurtzeit in this way? And what are we meant to get out of Lag BaOmer? We'll get into all that and more in this week's episode!

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Hello everyone. This is Rabbi Robbie Chernoff, and you are listening to the Hasids for Life podcast, the podcast where we learn a deep hasidic insight every single week and explore how it can lead us to a more meaningful, vibrant, and spiritually uplifted life. In this episode, we're learning about lag ba oer. What is this mysterious day about? Why do we like bonfires and dance around them? What was so unique and special about Rabbi Shimo Bar that we celebrate his yurt side in this way? And what are we meant to get out of La ba, OMI? We'll get into all that and more in this week's episode. If you wanna follow along inside, you can open up the na and the piece on La er entitled bar, or simply go to the show notes for a link to A PDF. But feel free to just sit back, listen, and enjoy the ride most people do. This week's episode is sponsored anonymously for a fuma, for Surah bas Tulsa. Thank you so much to this week's generous sponsor. Your sponsorships are what make this podcast happen. If you would like to sponsor an episode of the podcast, please email rabbi chernoff@gmail.com or see the show notes for more details. Alright, with that, let's jump into the de SIBO Shalom on Log Baer. We are in piece on. The day of the, the day of the Tite of ra, the 33rd day of the oer, it has such a special place that we don't find any other sodic put on a pedestal in the same way, in the same way that we practice. I. Like the other s the TA totally different level. It's so interesting in how we do that, right? The way that we celebrate is yurt side. It's not just, you know, in some places there's no hanon. It's not just some places there's, a re that the whole world lights up with bonfires singing and dancing and celebrating the yurt side of Hai Hai, one of the greatest koum ever lived. Who brought down the zo? What's happening with Hai? I even if we're not, so we come from the vm, our parents, our grandparents, our great-grandparents all the way back. Where do we come from? The VM that we have this desire baked into us going all the way back generations back to RPI that we wanna clinging to the light, the beautiful, brilliant light, the. They wanna explain the tremendous nature of this day. What did they see? What did our ancestors see to establish such a tremendous day of celebration in connecting to and celebrating and living the life of. It says the highest things about him says that, that you should come to whose face three times a year. What does the say? You wanna go and you wanna see the light of a Kash Bhu shining from a face. You wanna see the light of a Q B's face, so to speak, in this world. It means go and see the face of Rashmi. You see the face of Rabi and you see the shining forth of the face of a QB. It also says there. That rash is called Sha, that his MA's name is Sha. And if you've been learning for any length of time, SHA is the biggest of the biggest, the greatest of the great. Everything was back to Sha, and the Zora refers to Sha. He is Shabbas. And not only that. says is a reincarnation coming back into the world of the MO who hold on the opposite side. Very interestingly, as we follow along, we are in sphere omi. So SBA Yurt site is on Lag Ba er, the 33rd day of the oer. And as we've talked about in previous podcasts, every single day of the OER correlates to a very specific aspect of a single sphere. And so the week of the yurt site of s Bahai, the week of La Ba er is the week of Ho, and the day of lava ER is ho. It's the aspect of Hode within Hode. It's ho to the extreme. And that's very strange because hode is the lowest one of all of them adults. If we think about ho What does ho mean? Ho means to give thanks. When do you give thanks? You give thanks when somebody does something for you. Meaning you recognize that you had a certain limitation and that somebody had to do something for you that you couldn't do. It's a recognition of your limitations. That's ho. Another aspect of hode is hode means beauty, as we know, beauty is fleeting, beauty is passing. So it's the small meter. you consider it in contrast to Mos shaban nets. Soc was beforehand. Neta means victory, eternity, forever. That's why they're balancing medos. But hode is beauty. Limited, small finite. Admitting, thanking. How could it be that if he's the, he's a giggle of monu. He's Chaz Kish calling to see him. When you look at his face, you can see, you can see the face of Aku shining through him. So how is his yur the lowest of the spheres? She, as we know, as we just discussed, it's the lowest of the mitos, which is sending to a really lowly place. Like it says, says that specifically because the light Shimon is so great, his light is so big, his light is so beautiful, it's able to get to the farthest places, the lowest places light up the darkest corners. The same way that the light of the sun is able to light up the entire world, the light of rash brings light to every single Jew. That to the extent that it is greater, how? How can you tell how great at so is? Miss, then he is able to love Russia even more. The greater the Sadik, the greater, he's evil to love. Even the Russia, that's part of what makes him, because the light of the RA comes down and is even able to light up the darkest corners of the Russia. And therefore the malca is going to love the lowest of the low in Israel, just like he loves the, the same way what's going on with Rabi. So let's, let's stop for a second and just contemplate what Rabi is for a second. Who Rabi is for a second. It is the famous story of which is often told that lah Omer, which would make sense, the one from the Gamar, the Gamar, and Shabi. Fascinatingly gui. So you open up the Gamar d Gimo and you see the stories of Rabi. And very famously, just in very short, the story of Rabi is that's given over there, is that there were three people who were talking about the Roman Empire and one of them praised them. One of them was neutral, and one of them said the truth about the evil. Essence of the Roman Empire. And that person who told the truth, one of them told the government about him. He had a run into hiding. He goes from one place to another. Eventually they're worried that somebody's gonna turn him in or be tortured. So he and his son run off to the cave. And this is the famous story of the cave. So he goes to the cave with his son, rebel Lazar, And they go into the mud and they stay in the mud. They go into the mud up until they're next, and they're learning tour the entire time. They get up once a day to come out, put on their clothing, Davin, who sustains them through carbs and a flowing stream of water. It's like so much to unpack there. Obviously this is all on a shot level, but there's so much going on here in terms of every aspect of the story and what's being hinted to by a Kash Bfu to us through the reality of each of these aspects of the story. But we're just giving a simple overview of what happened. So he stays in there for a very long time. And finally he and his son come out, and when he and his son come out, they look at the world and they see all of these Jews involved in the lowly mundane activities. And after being in the cave for all those years, doing nothing but learning Torah, according to many, bringing down the zohart at that time, they come out and they're so on fire with Ms. Godliness with spirituality having been so distant from physicality that they walk out of the cave and they look at this physical world and everywhere that their eyes turn bursts into, flame comes down and he says, come on, this is what you're gonna do to my world. you sit and learn all this for all this time, and this is how you relate to my world. Go back into the cave. And so they go back for 12 months. Dean of Hamme is 12 months maximum. Finally a basto comes down and says, you've been in there long enough. It's, it's time to come out. And so they come out and here's the craziest part. So they come out and Belzer's son is still on such a spiritual level. I mean, how could you not be that he comes out and it doesn't matter, it's been another 11 months everywhere he looks bursts into flame. But now Shai everywhere he looks, no, no, no. It's not gonna burst into flame. And not only that, everywhere his son looks in it burst into flame looks. He heals it. He made a complete 180. When you engage and, and I'm speaking from what I understand and not from personal experience. But when you engage in the essence of citrate Torah and the essence of Kabbalah, and you're being as do through as Torah as you can possibly be, it totally makes sense that you would want to negate and turn your back on the physical world, that the physical world would burn when you look at it. Because who wants to be involved in physicality when all you want to do is connect to a Q Bko? Clinging to a Q Bko? Be purely spiritual. When Za came outta the cave the first time, it makes sense that everywhere they looked, halli, we should all reach a level where when you look, the world bursts into flames because you reject physicality and the meaninglessness of physical pursuits. It makes sense, but that's not the highest level and that's not the essence of where we're supposed to get to. Or goes back into the cave and when he comes out, he doesn't want 80 does Chuva on this point. And he comes out and he understands this point. No, the whole point is to be, the whole point is godliness, the whole point of spirituality, and that needs to come out in this world. And to do that, you need to see the beauty of the godliness within this world. I reject the physicality of this world, but I don't reject this world. I see the godliness in everything, and I see the godliness in every Jew. When his madurah lights up, when his bonfire lights up, it brings light even to the darkest of Jews. It brings light to a Jew who's so far away from a KBA and thinks that they're in total spiritual darkness. He can bring light anywhere because he sees, he sees the goodness. In every single Jew, he sees the godliness in every single Jew. He sees the Na Tova in every single Jew, and he brings that out. It's the craziest thing. If you've ever had the schools to go to Meron on lava er. And I know now it's a little bit taboo to say because yes, it was very horrible that one year. There was a tragedy there. But there are many tragedies that happen in many different places and we don't just wave them off of the hand forever and ever. We need to do better. I need to be more careful. But that doesn't change the fact that for generations in the past and there generations to come, there's no place to be on log, but Omar, like there is in Meron to be by the cover of Sheba Hai. It's a transcendent experience. You have to be responsible, but it's a transcendent experience. And you go there and you see the bonfires that are lit up in all these different places, and you see Jews grabbing each other's hands and singing and dancing their hearts out all night long with the fire of ever shown by high lighting up every quarter of the mountain. And you see something that you don't see anywhere else. In my experience, in any other time, in my experience, in any other part of the year, in my experience, all over etro. You see groups of Jews holding hands, and it doesn't matter what type of Jew you are, you see people with black and white and a black hat and a black jacket. You see behas and strel. You see, colored shirts and you see khakis and you see sandals and you see barefoot and you see t-shirts. It doesn't matter. And every circle has every type of Jew in it. Jews who on any other day of the year. Would look at each other, and all they can do is argue about their hashkafa and who's right and who's wrong, and what's the way to go and what's the way not to go. And there's so much, but the light of it washes away all of that. All I see on La Bame is the beauty of every single Jew. We're all Jews, we're all nehamas, we're all one, we're all connected. And that in of itself, that's what Torah, Tammi Star is all about. That's what the Cabalistic side of Torrah is all about. I once heard this from Rev Miller from Gross. He said so beautifully before, like Balmy was describing this concept. He said that Nicola, what is Nicola all about? What is the reveal Torah Gamara all about? It's all about making distinctions. That's what we need to have. We just heard this in ra, for those who follow along on Han That The whole goal of the K is, it's brought out in Parini is Ladi. Their job is to bedi is to distinguish. We need to be able to distinguish in this role between and Tara, between Kko and Cole, and the goal of the gemara is to go and say, what about this far out case? What about this extreme case? What about this unique case? What do I do in this situation? In this case, is it Tam? Is it tower? Is it CU is a hole. We have to figure that out. That's Nicola and it's a very, very critical, important part of living in the physical world that we live in and the life that we live in. We have to have that. Then there's Ani Star. Ani Star is the aspect of Torah. That's exactly the opposite. Ani star asks, okay, great. We've got all of our distinctions. We've got all of our uniqueness. You are unique in this way. You are special in that way. This is unique in this way. This is the special. In that way, all of these things are totally different, but where's the godliness that unites them? What's the unifying factor that brings them all together? Kabbalah is all about bringing it together, finding the oneness. That's the goal. Where's the godliness there? At the end of the day, Shamai Hashem hash is one, meaning he's the only singular unit. One deep aspect of a odo is, as I heard from one of my mentors, take every ode. Anytime you see something else that looks like an ode and make it a reveal that it's nothing. There's only godliness. There's only a q. Kabbalah seeks to reveal in a secretive way. Quietly in a secret to every single person, one at a time, to reveal the oneness that unifies everything. He looks at every single Jew. After he comes outta the cave, the second time, he looks at the whole world and all he sees is a Q. He's gotten so deep to the MS that it's not just a rejection of the physical world, it's an embracing of the godliness that's within everything. He looks at everything and he can heal it because he sees God in this. In it, he looks at every single Jew and he sees the beauty and the depth of it. To hear stories from ak, you can hear recordings of Smo Al. You could hear, people tell over his stories. There are great recordings. The B lava has beautiful stories that are written in his voice. So many of the stories of ACH are talking about siki who are taking care of like this low life. This guy who's a bum, this drunkard, this ne mo, the water carrier, this, you know, hot La Chava, who's sle things from the shuk. It's all about these little guys who are nothing. And sometimes it's about Rasha, it's about this guy, the Ghana of, and this guy, the thief, and whatever it is. Why are there so many stories of sad. We showing like what's shocked? And we relate to them. We feel they're, they're inspirational. We connect to them. They enlighten us. They inspire us. what's so exciting about that? Tell me a story about t sq, which he also tells, and there's plenty of stories about tsq, but so many stories about the SKUs with the Russia. Russia. Why that kus with the nobody. Why? Why does Hasid and why do these stories put these simple tins on such a big level, on such a big pedestal? The glory of the Sadik is to see the depth of every single Jew. The capacity of godliness, the reality of godliness in every single Jew. If they're connected to Kabbalah, they see the oneness within everything there's no other day, of sphera that la ba omer could have fallen on. It has to be ho be. How could it be on the lowest day of the O we're talking about, come on, give him some KaVo. Put him on the top of the top, put him at the height of the heights. Or can say, no, that's not where I'm needed. Where am I needed? I'm needed on ho behold, because I'm the only one who can bring light even to Hoshi. Behold, to light it up in a way that you've never seen. La Bohmer is about seeing the beauty in every single Jew about seeing the beauty in every single aspect of the world. About connecting to Abhai, to Kabbalah, to the revelation of Kabbalah that he brought out through the zohar, to seeing the oneness within everything. Grabbing the Jews' hand that's next to you, and singing and dancing together in celebration of the light of godliness that's being revealed in the world. Is so big. So big. How does it light up? Every Jew I once heard very beautifully from, another mentor of mine. He said, why is it that by a yurt site we light a candle? So on a yurt site we light a candle because kin Hashem the candle of a k who was in Nma and Thema is like a candle. And so we light a candle on the yurt site'cause there's a strength to the NMA on the day of the yurt site. He said that big, you wanna bring an hamma like HAI is down into the world. You need a bonfire. A candle's not gonna do it. You need a bonfire to bring an hamma that big down into the world and the whole world. it doesn't matter what hashkafa you are. It doesn't matter what school system you send your kids to in. It doesn't matter. Everybody's lighting a bonfire and everybody's singing and dancing, and everybody's celebrating. Everybody's celebrating. Everybody's celebrating.'cause everybody's feeling Rabi. It comes from the fact that they're feeling the love of and honestly. The love of a Q Bku as is expressed so deeply through Kawa CI Torah. So secret. We tell secrets which are intimate, innermost thoughts to those we care the most about. It's a revelation that we as cla Strala being whispered, the secrets of a Q bou because he loves us, he's intimate with us, he's close to us. He feel the intimacy of a Q bou. We feel the intimacy of being close to every Jew and everybody just burst forth and singing and dancing through the night with the fire of clarity that we're all one with each other and all one with K. It's an unbelievable explosion of light. It's the beautiful, beautiful thing ever Celebrate, to celebrate, to, to celebrate La Boer. It's a little bit of what he's hinting to here, A little bit of what he's hinting to here. back inside. We also find this, he got to the highest of high of the levels. To the level he was able to, and he was the greatest honor there ever was. He was the most humble person there ever was. When. And even, which had a tremendous rate that Mo himself says, this nation did a terrible sin. Even though he knew how big their sin was, he begs on their behalf. He says, I don't care how low they got, bear their sin. Forgive them, and if not, take me out of your safer. I want nothing to do with this to then. Take me out of your Torah if you're gonna wipe out this people. He says the, that he was even willing to give up his life for Claud sir, because of how high he was, dka. Because of the heights that he was on, he was willing to give his soul even for the lowest of people. When was he willing to give his life for Claus? Right on the outside, they look like nothing. On the outside. They look like they're the biggest sinners on the face of the planet. On the outside, they look like they deserve to. They do deserve to be wiped out. But if you're moo, if you're a moo, take me out of your Torah. Take me outta this world. I will not stand to watch these people who wiped out. They're too special. I care about them. I'm a shepherd. These are my sheep. I'm not going anywhere without them. I'm not going anywhere. I don't care how low they look. I don't care what they did. I'm their shepherd. I'm with them. I see the good in them. I know them. I know they can be better. They are better than this. They made horrible mistakes. They are better than this and they will endure. And if not, take me out of your book Tu. Is able to light up even the smallest, the lowest of places to the level of ho behold, even on the level of ho behold, the lowest of the low he can light up. Very famously, it's brought down in. He talks about this in one of the famous pieces, how it's not even just the ability of the, to see the greatness in another person. He says that it's so deep that if you look at someone and you only see their na tova, you look at someone and you see the greatness of the NMA that's inside of that person. You then go, and when you are relating to that person, you relate to them from the level of that truth of godliness and uniqueness that's inside of them. You literally change that person, A person who's sitting all the time. A person who's with a bad crowd, a person who's messing around all the time. Most people are gonna relate to such a person, like they're low and they're, and there's no hope for them. And it's one of those, and it becomes a self perpetuating cycle. That's how they're seen and that's how they view yourself and that's how they act and that's how they're seen and that's how they're related to. And it just keeps going around and around. You've ever had the experience where it's either happened to you or you've been that person for somebody else. When you actually, in an IC, genuine way look at a Jew who others look down on and you see them for who they really are.'cause every Jew is a. Every Jew is godliness. Every Jew is unique and a reason for being here. If you see that and hone in on that, and when you talk to the person from an STIC place, you only relate to that. You take that small little point that na. You open it up and you open it up and it becomes a bigger point and a bigger point, and now it's a, and now it's a part of them, and now it's a bigger part of them, and it can become their whole identity. It can become everything that they are. Think of how many people have told stories. Al of, I had this rabbi, I had this teacher, and they saw something incredible in me that nobody else saw. and I, I didn't see it in myself. And because they saw that in me, it changed my whole life. Where does that come from? It comes from loving every Jew. It comes from seeing the na tova, that person, and by relating to it, you expand it and they become that person. You change them through how you perceive them. Your perception of that person can elevate them. It can also break them, but it can elevate them to great heights. So many of those stories. Ma Lagan, who I think was the bato of that, that story he saw in him that he's able to go and he can sneak away and he can steal things from here and steal things from theirs. He gives him a brothel all the time. What was he seeing there? Somebody who was able to grab all anything he wants, he can grab. Can you imagine if he goes for pearls of wisdom? Can you imagine if he goes for the secrets of Torah? Can you imagine if he goes for a ka? Everything could just he, he could grab everything. He could bring light into the world that nobody could get.'cause mama, she knows how to get there. He knows how to tunnel under get, when you have capacity, you have capability. You know how many times I've been to have very, very special AMI them in my sheer, every year there's a few guys. Sometimes privately, often publicly, as the guys here can attest to are in my she Look at a guy and say, you're a bum. What's wrong with you, Val? You're the smartest guy in the shear. And if you would actually apply yourself to Tona Kahu a little bit, you'd be out of my shear in the top shear in a day. And the guy looks at you, he goes, you think. I'm saying Yeah, I've heard you answer questions. When I force you to answer a question, when you're up against the wall and you actually put in some effort, I've seen tremendous things from you and I mean it genuinely, you're the smartest guy in the room, whatcha wasting your own time for? And on the one end it comes off as harsh.'cause I'm not at exotic and I can't relate to it in a sweet way, but I try to bring it out in the best way that I can. But you look at a guy and you say that and a guy looks at you and goes, you really think it could be something? The answer's, yeah. You find that nata tova in someone and I can't always see the nacu, NATA tova in everybody. There's a lot of guys that just throw outta my shear that you can also attest to. If you've had my shear before, there's a lot of guys just throw outta my shear. But any guy who I can see the Nacu tova in them and the capacity within them and the potential with them, and it's appropriate for'em to be in my shear. It's not just every guy throws,'cause they, I can't, they don't have acuta Tova that I can see. Not just'cause they don't belong in this shear, but like you see that in Kuta Tobin. Like, I wanna keep that guy. I see so much potential here, and if you look at that guy and you see them as the potential that they have, they can become that you have a child, all of you, some of you already here, already have children. You have a child. A big part of the AVO of what it means to be a parent is to look at your child and to see into their soul the best of who they are. To praise that and to draw it out and to elevate it, and to let them become that. That's part of what it means to be a parent, a successful parent, is to draw that potential out. All any child wants is to be loved and appreciated and respected and accepted by their parents. You look at your child and when the child looks back at you, if they see your eyes glowing with pride for who they are. And there's two ways that can go wrong. There's a lot of children neba who never get to see pride from their parents and it can break them. And there's a lot of children who only see pride from their parents when they pretend to be the person that they think their parents wanna see. and both of those can be very, very big problems, but you key into who the child is. And they blossom because you're supporting who they are. They become their best self. They become their best self. And again, same thing by your friend. By your roommates, which can be really challenging, right. The second you start rooming with somebody, then all you see is they're the kudos RAs, right? That's the only, the only thing you see when you're rooming with somebody. You see their negative aspects. That's all that there is. And you dig deep and you see the greatness in every single person. The beauty in every single Jew, your friend, and you let your hamma grow and youma grow, and you try to be like the, you try at least in your best to be like the, to be like the Sade. And every time you go to shul, everybody, you look at what's the na tova. What good do they bring into the world? And I'm only, and I'm speaking to that, I'm seeing that you think it ends when you leave the cafeteria after sixth grade. It doesn't end. You look for the guy in shul who Neha sitting on the side and doesn't seem to have such great social skills and doesn't talk to so many people. What's his Nacu? Tova. And to bring it out and to bring him out and to draw his cohos out. You see the woman who comes to the women's social event. She's a little bit mouse and on the side and holding her cup really close and like anxious. you know, in the corner you go over and talk to her. What's the nva? Not, not in the way of Ed, but toes go over and say there's a person here whose hands are tied up against them and they're holding it. That means they're holding something inside. They don't believe in themselves to let themselves out. I wanna know who they are and what they are to help reveal to them. And so they can reveal to the world who they are to them become who they were meant to be, is doing that for every single Jew Moo. He did that for all 600,000 Jews when he became a nation. He's not letting any Jew go. No Jew is getting left behind in the desert. No way. No way. I see the greatness of every Jew froms. I see the greatness of every single Jew Kabbalah is lighting up the greatness inside of every single one of us. It's revealing the godliness in the world and the godliness inside of every single one. it's what Kabbalah is. What is? It's light. It's light in the darkness. Seeing the beauty in each other in the world, in Torah, answer the column. That's what it says, that he says that I could release the entire judgment of the entire world. what does it mean that he could release the judgment? At K would let the judgment for the entire world go. Of the next column, a Jew like this who loves every single Jew. Such a Jew has in his capacity to release the judgment of the entire world because he sees every Jew beautifully. He loves every Jew. He sees the truth and the goodness in every Jew. if AIC looks at the Jew and all he sees is good and he turns to a Kaj barko and says, why are you doing this? Look how beautiful this j is. KU is gonna see less in a Jew than at is gonna see, and he sees the greatness in that Jew. The beauty of the Jew KU responds in kind. Next paragraph, Voat. Now we can explain that, which says in the gamara and chais. The Gemara that we described earlier on in the podcast, SHA Azar, that when Rash and Azar, his son left the cave Re, they saw people working in the field. Amar man said, how could they leave behind? Connecting to the eternal, eternal life learning Torah, connecting to a Q, connecting to the infinite, and just be os in these mundane physical activities. How are they just standing in the field and working in the fields all day? That's insanity. And therefore, like we discussed, any place they turn, their eyes burst into flame. They went back into the cave for another year. Mre, why? Because they said m The time that, uh, Russia is inna maximum is 12 months. So the worst we can possibly be is a Russia. And the worst amount of time that we can possibly have to be punished for how we're seeing the world is 12 months. So they went back to the cave A came out after 12 months and said, go out of the cave. And it's, it's crazy to understand, okay, you wanna tell me that they did something wrong and a kashko was upset with them and they had to go and dova, I understand a was upset with'em and how they were looking at the world. The world was bursting into flames when they would look at it. But to say that a of. I'm sure there were, there are way bigger Rashim that will bi belzer where their biggest sin was, is that they were on fire with torin ms. And it lit the world on fire also. I don't know if that's on my list of Rashim, like really 12 months. How do we understand that? Val, based on what we said, and this to me is shot, at the beginning, they were lighting the world on fire with their own. But just like we said before, I've learned this piece before. I'm sure it's from the, I take no credit for this at all. It's just part of me at this point was like pumping in my blood. that was their problem. They were burning with Taha. That was their problem. If they truly were so, if they truly were so big, if they truly were such great sad, then they should have seen the greatness in the Jew who leaves behind Ola and is involved only in mundane physical activities because that's the definition of what it means to be kaho. It's the definition of what it means to be sodic. You can't be on fire with Kaha and only see rah. It's antithetical. If you're on fire with Kadu show, what it means is that you're dic. You see the good and everything. It was the opposite Sha Because the people who they're looking at, they're part of and Ka And because of how great they were, They needed to have a mish spot of Rasha and they had judgment of being like a Russia and go back to the cave for the amount of time. That's the maximum amount of time to go to Hanham for, in order to get to a place to work on this issue that if you're on fire of Kadu, has to bring you to a place where you love all of K Israel. You love the Jew that's in the field. You love the Jew. That's so far away. They're so precious to you because you could see the great light that's inside of them. Next paragraph, and it's for this reason that all of clings to just like literally like moths to the flame, clinging to the light of the godly Tana raspy Tana who was filled with godliness. Ham, which comes out uniquely on the day of his Tite. Rabon was for everyone he cared about every Jew he connected to every Jew. He was there for every Jew Ali who de Ali, every Jew is able to cling to a Q from the light of. and that's also why Ish's resting place Marone, his ke is so, so special. I share, we can't even explain how great the KAA of that place is. I've been there on OMI a few times. it's very challenging for me to pull an all nighter like that, so I don't do it as much, but the memories that I have. Of the times I've been to the ke of Shimo and er and the every year burning deep inside of me to go back to the keve of emo, to stand in that room, the electricity you feel there, The Kaa, you feel there. The s that you feel there, it's real. And Shimo is bringing that down. He's bringing down that capacity to connect to a Kash Bhu and his secrets, and to be close to him. He's bringing down that light and you feel it. If you have the opportunity to go to Meron, it's such a gift, has to be done carefully. It has to be done responsibly. Yeah, for sure. Of course. Of course. But to go, to go and be there, there's nothing like it. There's nothing like it. it's a day, like no other day on the Jewish calendar. It's a place on that day like no other place on the Jewish calendar. It's an incredibly beautiful experience. It's a transcendent experience. And how many thousands of the desire to connect to wa to return to wa, to cling to Q from being close to the light of SBA through the light of that place of meron. To the light of God is coming out through the light of spi. next paragraph. Um, and the greatness of this day. Omer is the Matan Torah of Torah. Of the secrets of Torah. Of Torah, Kabbalah. It's Matan, Torah of Torah, tanar. It's an incredible thing. Just like the cab Torah of who does that come through? It comes from Mo. So who's a Gil of Mos comes out this aspect of Torah, of Tara, of the secrets of Torah, of Kabbalah. And on this day, there's this light of rah, the light of the inside rah, the light of KA comes out and everyone can draw down on themselves. From the kadu of this day, the ability to connect to aspects of Torah, they felt close off to them. They felt they could never access. They felt we're too deeper, too far. And to receive the light of Ani Star of Kabbalah, through the light of Ani Star gives us life. Next page. As there's a Kabbalah in our hands as we've received that, the tour of the ar, the, the is, the and the zohar. And so too all of s from Na, all the way down meaning the Zohar Is bringing out Kabbalah in a way that it was never revealed before in a way that was on a certain level, accessible like it never was before. Not to simple people like myself, fine. The ZOA is still a complete mystery. But it was brought out in a way that it could be accessed by the Sadiki in a way that it couldn't beforehand. And the Arial is a, and then coming afterward, Hasid is an interpretation of that. And then therefore all of the has that extend from that. It's all coming from, and it's all going back to, it's all connected to the Zora and the light of us sitting here right now, whether we're live on Zoom, whether you're listening on the podcast. We're learning the light of Rabi. Right now, the only reason we're able to sit here together and learn is because of what s the world. Without the Zora, there's no ariza. Without the ari, there's no, without the, there's doesn't happen. It's all the light of spi. It's all because of the revelation and the planting of this light that SPI put into the world. He was with, they were together seven times. Because they were gonna go one time a year to visit him. It was gonna be, and the set table was ma set for a long time already. Amar bur, and one time he got. So lit up from the connection to omi and he got up at the table and he said, welcome, welcome. And everybody there fell down on their faces. And there was one time where he took the ZO and he placed it on his heart. From, and because of you, I'm able to. The revelation of the Zu, the revelation. It's an incredible time where the light of Terrani star comes out. It's a night where, and I would encourage all of you, wherever you are in the world, if you here in er, Israel, try to get to Miro. If you can't get to Miran, definitely go do to a Mada. There's here in Israel, there's bonfires everywhere, up and down, all over the country. You go to a bonfire, sing and dance with Jews. Maybe you never would've sang and danced with before Feel the joy and the intimacy with the q Boko and the revelation of a Q Bo's clarity while up like you never was before. And if you're not even able to do that or you're in, in a place where you don't have a bonfire, whatever the case may be, UR is coming out this night. The Zora Q is lighting up this night. Kabbalah is coming, coming out this night. It's the, it's the ka Torah of to star. Open up a safe air. You never thought you could open up. Open up a safe air. You've been intimidated by open up a safe air you bought because you heard a sheer about it once 10 years ago. And then you opened it up after you bought and you're like, I can understand this one. One day maybe. And you put it on a top shelf or maybe on a bottom shelf. On the bottom shelf, or it was dark and it got dusty and you can't see it and there's stuff in front of it. La ba, omi, the light goes to even the deepest of corners. Reach down and grab that safer on the bottom shelf in the corner that you forgot about, in the darkness with the cobwebs and the dirt, and blow off the dust and open it up. And let rub Shimon light up your eyes and let yourself see. See the beauty of Ani star, the beauty of Kabbalah. Let it light up for you and your Nima let it light up the safer for you. The puss that's always quoted this time of the year from te. G Na, open up my eyes. Let me gaze at me. The wonders of your Torah, David, be who opened up my eyes and let me see the beautiful wonders of your Torah. On what day can we truly open up our eyes and see the true wonders of the Torah? when can I be alai ga. Flip the letters on. Log on log. Ba Omar, I can open up my eyes and see the wonders of th. Take out a safer you never thought you could take out. Listen to a she you never thought you could understand. Open up your heart to citrate Torah. Open up your heart to sit on the day of his yurt Ham's mam in the world and he wants to connect with every single one of us. And to learn with him, to learn from him, to learn the Torah that he brought into the world, whether it's direct in your ma, the zohar, or indirect through him, the ariza and all of the Stan, all of the Kabbalah that came from him. Learn from every Jew because it's all one and live like of Shimon and learn from every single Jew. See the beauty of Akko in the world in every Jew, let it light up. And like he said before we move past the line, very quickly, he said before in the first paragraph, that's why Ash also is going to love the lowliest person, just like he loves. Because ULA comes when we let the secret out. The secret that we're all special, we're all unique. We're all united in godliness. That's the secret of La Baer. that's the ka rah of Ari Star. We see the light of Ari Star, the light of Kabbalah, the light of every single Jew, and through bringing out all of that light on this beautiful, glorious night of lag BH Omer. May it bring us like the MA one step closer to the ma, one step closer to the ULA for us all to come together in the oneness. That is the oneness that will be revealed at the end of days this year, but by all of us in all times. Everybody. Thank you so much for tuning into this week's episode. If you enjoyed the episode, please rate the podcast and hit the follow button and join us every week for a new episode. Once again, thank you so much to our sponsor, and a reminder that you, yes, you can sponsor an episode of the podcast email rabbi chernoff@gmail.com for more info or to share any thoughts, comments, or feedback on this week's episode. See you in the next one.