Rabbi Mordechai Becher�s VLog - Lights in the Darkness - Parshat Emor 5781

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[Music] in his commentary on the torah tells us that the time between pesach and shavus the seven weeks period between pesach when we got out of egypt and schwarz when god gave us the torah on sinai he says it's a chalam it is an intermediate days intermediate days it is the intermediate days of a festival it's a joyous wonderful happy time just like the seven days in between the first and last days of sukkos the seven days between the first and last days of pesach are a joyous wonderful quasi-festive not quasi a real festive time so the ramban says it's a lengthy seven week period of holloma ed joyous happy time between paisa and schwarz unfortunately events in our history unfortunately events in our history threw a black cloth over that time and muted the joy and the happiness that we are actually supposed to feel at this time there was the death of the students of rabia kiva uh according to one source the gemara 24 000 of them horrific a devastation of the world of torah a devastation of the jewish world a loss of an entire generation of torah transmitters um because uh apparently the gomorrah um because uh apparently the gomorrah says they didn't have sufficient respect with sufficient honor for each other something we have to think about and then the sages throughout the sa the the the centuries made it into a time that we are supposed to have a level of mourning for these students of rabia give enhance my pursuit state and my lengthy hippie-like hair uh i apologize to think about that

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1. 0:00[Music] in his commentary on the torah tells us that the time between pesach and shavus…
2. 0:31intermediate days it is the intermediate days of a festival it's a joyous wonderful happy time…
3. 1:03unfortunately events in our history threw a black cloth over that time and muted the joy…
4. 1:36um because uh apparently the gomorrah says they didn't have sufficient respect with sufficient honor for…
5. 2:06hair uh i apologize to think about that type of behavior think about respect for each…
6. 2:36kiva but a more recent morning during that time but we should know that there are…
7. 3:06who are exempt from the passover celebrations the passover offering the korban pesach they said lama…
8. 3:36prayer of penitence that we usually say but at happy occasions we don't say it it's…
9. 4:06hence the bonfires it was also the the end of the plague on the students of…
10. 4:38did happen but still a good time preparation for the torah preparation for shavuos and a…

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