Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Tazria-Metzorah (Video 226)

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

The Arizal says, first of all, good evening. I hope that Yom Tov with all the hashpa'ah, the shefa coming from Yom Tov of Pesach, that it drenched each and every one of you in the fullest sense of the word, and that you're leaving with the birkas hamoya'ah derechah in its fullest form and state. Uh the Arizal says, says, and the Bnei Yissachar is meyarich in it, about the fact that tfillin, Rashi tfillin, is the Olam HaBeriah, which is the third highest plateau of the four, Asiyah, Yetzirah, Beriah, and Atzilut, and that Rashi tfillin falls in in that category, that level, category, that level, and Rabbeinu Tam tfillin falls into the highest. And to the Olam Atzilut. And obviously, the Arizal felt the need to explain because we come out of Chodesh Nissan, that it's the biggest Yom Tov, the biggest biggest days of any Chodesh, so how could it be that Iyar is >> [clears throat] >> higher in that respect, and it corresponds to the Rabbeinu Tam tfillin? So, Rashi explains, the Arizal explains, that there is a major difference between Nissan and Iyar, Iyar, and that is that Iyar has a full month of counting the Omer. That the power of the Omer is so unbelievable, and it takes a person through the day after he counts, and it envelops him in the realm of that day, the source of that day, and it's mesakein, it fixes, it repairs, and it's mesakein, it fixes, it repairs, it reconstructs, it it does 10 different things, but it takes the person through the day in a royal fashion, leaving him heightened with dy- dynamics that's unbelievable. In other words, if we took a day [clears throat] and counted it in the middle of July, it would be absolutely nothing. But on these days, it has that magnetic

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