What Is the Origin of the Names of the Jewish Months?

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Today's shar is dedicated by our dear friend Brookke in loving memory of adva yetal bas his daughter in tribute to her yard site on the 24th day of tamos. May she be a gut better for her entire family and all of her loved ones and all the Jewish people and continue to be a source of blessing and inspiration her soul that was taken at a young age [snorts] until the great moment of thank you very should have only a lot of from the Amen. Today we're going to begin learning a by the lab that's titled MAS of Shia presented a presented by the lab on Shabas parishes mischangan of Shabas matas and mas and a part of it also from Shabas Emir Z emmer 1977 and it deals with an incredible theme that's connected to the three weeks that's connected to the nine days that's connected specifically to the month of the month of [snorts] which we're going to usher in this week this coming Shabas it's also of is connected to the parishas of matis and ma. I chose it not just because of the relevance to the time, but as you will see that the labavat here opens up vistas to incredibly powerful and revolutionary insights into how the Tyra views the relationship of mind, body, soul, exile, redemption, our relationship with God, what God gives us and what we give back. It's very very deep, extremely deep and extremely powerful of the Reba. And let's begin the journey. It's a long sa and it's, as I said, it's extremely app propo for this time of the year because that's what it deals with. But its messages are really

Jump to a moment

1. 0:00Today's shar is dedicated by our dear friend Brookke in loving memory of adva yetal bas…
2. 6:23or two. We begin some shabas and then we conclude some it happens to be that…
3. 12:33and it's not just a custom you know it's an expression it's relevant in law practically…
4. 18:55And when you said the number, you knew which month it was. So when did we…
5. 25:05You just said that it's named that way because just it was just Babylonian names and…
6. 31:22you want to ask something It's clear. How do you say miracle in Hebrew? [snorts] It's…
7. 37:05a long time. So mas when is it going to finish? In other words, we always…
8. 43:17we understand any way you want to spin it that you can also translate the names…
9. 49:30part of their languages. When t uses a word in ancient Greek or a word in…
10. 55:47Our sages tell us the beginning of that God cries and says, "Woe unto a father…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library of Torah, music and shiurim. No ads, no comments, no autoplay.