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Counting The Omer - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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having a good good we're of course we are of course in the uh in the month of Ear and uh Ra Feinstein they said the shabas of he always had a certain amount of sadness because khazal say that uh the redemption will come in the month of Nissan even though Mashiach can come any day but Nissan is the greatest probability the highest probability of gaul is in the month of Nissan. So every time the month of Nissan is over, we kind of passed the optimal time for Mashiach coming. So he had a certain amount of sadness uh in the month of Eeyore because it's not Nissan and therefore uh the Zman of the Gaul is not at its highest point. At the same time, Eeyore has something very special. Uh it is brought down in the cif kabala that the month of is connected to healing. Uh if you take the letters Eeyore alf yud. So alf could be an abbreviation. The alf is ani yud yud is hashem's name. So ani hashem and the re is roof. I am the god that heals you. This is actually aish itself. So Eeyore is msugal. Eeyore is designated for healing. And of course healing can take different forms. There is what is called refuesh. There is what is called healing of the well rafu healing of the body and rafuesh is healing of the soul. So hopefully uh all of you will be blessed with healing of the body. But as you begin a new man, may the month of Eeyore also bring healing of the soul. You know the Rambam himself uh was of course a doctor as well. And the Rambam analogizes spiritual healing to physical healing because he says when a person has bad midos, bad character traits, that is called a sickness of the soul.

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  1. 0:00having a good good we're of course we are of course in the uh in the
  2. 4:32that barley was primarily animal f. This is before they invented chollet, right? Barley was uh
  3. 8:48explain I don't want I don't drive you crazy uh life is hard enough as it
  4. 13:38sunsets and they'll dab in my right after sunsets. Even though this it's not yet dark.
  5. 18:00circumcised if if medic if it's medically okay on the eighth day. Okay. Now let's say
  6. 22:56brisk but in a case where this might be a uh kind of a quiz question
  7. 27:21hours from sunset. Uh min kitana is welling two and a half hours before I'm sorry
  8. 31:50according to tovos that the counting of the omare today when there's no corbin of the
  9. 36:37Mishkas has a fascinating interesting shila about um a who converts in the middle of the
  10. 41:02only what why is there uh no No makina is not relevant if you dive into

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