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ענייני השעור: בן שפחה לעומת בן מלך ,עניני טומאה, טהרה ונקיות , עניין הכהן ואיך זה לידי ביטוי בדורנו, המנהיגות של עם ישראל היבטים מצבים והשלכות שקשורים לתורה, לכבוד הילולת ר מאיר בעל הנס, לכבוד הילולת רבי שמעון בר יוחאי,

EMOR

1. This week hillullah (Yortzeit/Ascent) of Rabbi Meir Baal Haness (who laid down Mishnayot) and Rabbi Shimeon Bar Yochai (RaShBi – who wrote the Zohar) – both lived towards the end of the second temple and were the students of Rabbi Akiva. Both are very popular in our generation
2. Emor (Tell to the Kohanim or priests – parasha) is about instructing the Kohanim to be Holy marrying a virgin and not defile themselves
3. Tumah (spiritual contamination) comes in various levels – we are all Tamee Metim (contamination from corps); this is a spiritual contamination. Why worry about other lesser forms of Tumaa if we are already contaminated (from corps)?
4. G-d says we must be holy like him and not add contamination. Until Sinai we ate non kosher and were contaminated; but after Sinai we are asked to be like G-d and our father, holy. Israel is not like the rest of the nations (Am Segula or special) because G-d chose us to serve him. Why did He commanded us to refrain from Contamination (Tumah)? No one can come next to G-d unless he is holy.
5. The Jew is distinguished from the Goy by his eating habits – the Goy can eat anything because he is going to die (no Olam Habbah); the Jew goes to Olam Habbah, hence must watch what he eats. At the end of times, the entire world will know that Jews are G-d’s (King’s) children.
6. At Sinai we learned to eat properly and eat the right things, kashrut, wash our hands, personal hygiene, bless the food we eat, refrain from eating non kosher animals: because we have continuity beyond this world. Those who destined death need not worry about their diet; they may eat all they want including bad food (they are dying anyway – no continuity). But Jews have the after life
7. Death is like moving from one room to another room. We have eternal soul and infinite life in the world to come. One day G-d will cleanse us of the contamination; until then. Torah cleanses us and makes us holy. G-d will wash us with Tal (dew from heaven) and remove the Tumah from us.
8. All Israel are called Kohanim because Kohanim have special gene and special soul to heal and bless the Leopard (Metzorah). His blessings are valuable and count. One who marries of daughter of a Kohen must respect her or else be will be punished. The Kohen intercedes with G-d on our behalf therefore he must be Holy in order to come in front of G-d. Must have good wife, untouched virgin.
9. The entire blessings come because of the wife; she is the vessel to hold the blessings. If the vessel (wife) is blemished, the affluence has no place to go. A good wife is a blessing. She must be pretty, modest and loyal and untouched by others. A Kohen cannot marry a divorcee. Must wash his hands and legs before coming to the temple and must be sparkling clean, change his cloths often and have proper mediations when asking blessings from G-d for Israel.
10. Never belittle hand washing before meals, it helps being wealthy, pour lots of water and clean your body to remain healthy. Cleanliness is paramount to holiness, always dress nice and clean.
11. At night death is in control, sleep makes us contaminated because our soul leaves us and we are like dead corps. After waking up, we must clean our hands, mouth and face and go to bathroom (even after one hour of sleep) – to remove contamination from being in a state of sleep (death). Repeat all the morning blessings, put on Tefillin and Tzzissit to remove contamination (Tumah). Don’t just wake up to check your stocks – check you spiritual cleanliness and holiness.
12. Kohen has the power to bless; also the Rabbi, teachers and sages of the generation are like Kohanim. Anyone who learns Torah is like a Kohen (a Goy who observes 7 Noachite laws is like Kohen Gadol). There are 3 crowns: Torah, Wealth, and Kingship. The crown of Torah is the highest of them all. The key is to learn Torah because Torah cleanses us from contamination. Torah is G-d’s name, and like Mikvah cleanses us and gives us status of Kohen Gadol.
13. To get pregnant a woman must stay away from cemeteries. Women have a propensity for Tumah and that’s why women like to clean themselves more often. The must keep themselves clean at all times.
14. Tumah can cause a person to go insane; death causes the evil (klipot) to attach themselves to unclean people and places. Do not touch anything in the morning until you wash your hands and face; the finger nails must be especially clean. If a person who is not observant still washes his hands, he will eventually do Teshuvah. Do not defile yourselves with foul language, it adds contamination
15. Rabbi Meir Baal Haness – lived 50 years before the destruction of the 2^nd temple. The Romans sent Neron Cesar to destroy Jerusalem, but he was afraid of G-d, run from the Army and became Jewish, his grandson was Rabbi Meir. Romans worshiped idols, but start to love us and millions of them attached themselves to us by accepting Christianity.
16. Rabbi Meir was great in Torah, loved Torah more than anyone, same level as Rabbi Shimon – their teacher was Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Meir sat next to Rabbi Akiva while Rabbi Shimon sat in the back; Rabbi Akiva did that in order to bring closer Rabbi Meir to him and Judaism. Meir means light – the light of Torah.
17. Lavan was dishonest, gave hard time to Yaakov who went to him build spiritual words. Rabbi Meir was reincarnation of Yaakov
18. Rabbi Akiva was also son of converts. A convert (ger) is one who has Jewish soul which is prerequisite to becoming a Jew. One can reincarnate into a goy or even stone on the wall. The Ben Ish Hai prayed 7 years to free a soul from a wall. Murderer reincarnate into a leave of trees, they have tremendous suffering as leaves and can reincarnate into animals and Gentiles. A Jew reincarnating into a Gentile is a big suffering; when a Jewish soul reincarnate into a Goy and sees Jews do Commandments (mitzvot), but they can’t because of being Goy, they go thru a lot of suffering.
19. This is the secret of Yaakov going to Lavan HaArami to rectify him. The letters of the name Meir are the same as the letters Arami; Rabbi Meir came to rectify Lavan who reincarnated 3 times (Lavan, Bilam, Naval).
20. At The resurrection of the dead which body from the reincarnation will rise? If there were 3 reincarnations, all of them will rise (Ari). Our souls are split among many sparks that come here to be rectified in various reincarnations. Only those who believe in the resurrection of the death will rise up. The parts of the soul that get rectified do not come back and only the parts of the soul that require rectification reincarnate back. Sometimes souls come to assist or punish someone
21. With the Atom Bomb, we can imagine the end of the world. Our leaders reflect our image of who we are. The leader reflects the crowd they rule over. They must pray for our welfare. They are the mirror image of who we are. They are our messengers; they reflect who we are. Lawyers are the most dishonest; they know how to manipulate us with words. People get the leaders they deserve
22. Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi saw that torah will be forgotten, therefore he put it in witting. Sometimes we have to transgress the torah to preserve it – this is how Rebi preserved the Torah. In the past Torah was learned orally by Tradition. (oral Torah). 60 times 60 volumes – huge. Rabbi Meir was a scribe and chosen by Bebi to write the Mishnah from memory. Wrote Megilat Esther from memory. The tanaim then remembered everything by heart. Rabbi Meir arranged the 6 volumes of mishnah.
23. At the yortzeit day of a Tzaddik, G-d invites the Tzaddick to Gan Eden and fulfills his requests at the presence of other Tzaddikim. This is why we celebrate the Hillulah (death anniversary) of a Tzaddick – it's the time they get blessings from G-d to give us. And in the Tzaddick’s merit those who mention his name (and light a candle), get a blessing from G-d too. This is why we try to connect to tzaddikim. This explains going to his grave on the date of his yortzeit.
24. Rabbi Meir’s wife Bruriah was big Tzaddeket. On Shabbat their 3 kids died a wall fell on them; she said nothing until after havdalah. He asked about them and she did not tell him for the entire Shabbat and gave him the parable of giving back to the owner a deposited security (they gave back the children to G-d). He understood and said, “G-d giveth and G-d taketh away”. He suffered tremendously, his wife died too.
25. He used to visit his friend overseas every year, but one time went to see him and his wife did tell him his friend died (der husband). She proceeded to serve him wine and took him to bed and slept with him. At the morning he understood what happen and cried outside and tore his hair and shouted in public about his unintentional sin. The Rabbi of the community invited him to explain and he told him what happen. The Rabbi told him his rectification is to go to the forest, tie himself up to a tree and be eaten by a lion – he did but the Lion did not eat him. He told the Rabbi and he was advised to do it again and nothing happen (lion smells him and go). On the 3^rd time the lion broke his rib – now the Rabbi said you are forgiven. Rabbi Meir sought punishment even for an inadvertent transgression
26. The Romans took his sister in law to the whorehouse. He took money and bribed the guard to get in, he camouflaged himself and asked her to sleep with him but she refused and he saw that she is pure and he prayed to G-d to save her. He paid the soldier money but the soldier said he is afraid to be killed if the governor finds out. Rabbi Meir told the soldier put in me in a cage with your hungry large dog; but when the dog approached Rabbi Meir he just said “Elaha DeRabbi Meir Aneni” and the dog di not harm him. The soldier did the same and was not harmed by the dog. He agreed to release the girl. The soldiers found out and wanted to hang Rabbi Meir but he said the words “Elaha DeRabbi Meir Aneni” and the rope snapped; it happens 3 times. The Roman soldiers let him go. The king was inform and they did it again in front of the king who wanted to who gave him those words. The soldiers spread Rabbi Meir’s poster in the market and finally found him but before they could touch him he would turn to a blond being hugged by Elijah and was saved.
27. One woman who came to pray at his gravesite saw his grave open and saw him buried upright; he spoke to her and she asked him why do you stand? He told her I will be the first to resurrect and I want to be ready when the time comes.
28. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai – born to a couple who could not bear children, the husband wanted to divorce his wife but she cried all night and her husband had a dream seeing an angel in an orchard watering a dry tree that miraculously bore fruits. His wife went to Rabbi Akiva who solved the dream: A barren woman is like a dry tree but with tears a women can become pregnant. Therefore, Rabbi Akiva added: your tears watered the barren (dry) tree and you will get a baby. As it was the couple named the new baby Rabbi Shimeon Bar Yochai (RASHBI) who becomes a huge light that descended on the world that produced the Zohar that cleanses the soul and will bring the redemption to Am Israel. The Zohar contains huge secrets of the Torah. And Rashbi can single handedly redeem the world.
29. Three Rabbis spoke politics: Rashbi said the Romans are for themselves only (Gina), Rabbi Yossi said nothing (exiled), Rabbi Yehuda said nice things (became president) – Rashbi who did not compliment the Romans was ordered to be killed. His wife brought food to Shull where he and his son Elazzar were hiding, but being afraid that the Romans will force her to talk - they escaped to Pekiin and hid in a cave where a cherubs tree and a water stream appeared miraculously. The lived there for 12 years, naked in a ditch of sand to their throats.
30. After 12 years, Elijah the prophet told him the Roman Emperor died and they can come out. They saw people working and not learning Torah and just gazed at them and turned them into a pile of bones. They were sent back to the cave for one more year. When they got out his son was killing people but Rashbi revived them. They saw a man with haddasim (myrtle) and understood that people were working in this world (and kept Shabbat) to earn the next world to come.
31. His father in law (R Pinchas Ben Yair) saw him all bruised and cried – Rashbi told him because I and like this – I achieved all this greatness (of producing the Zohar). Rashbi was able to tell everyone where the dead is buried so the priest could find their way and remain pure.
32. We love Rashbi and we are close to him tied to him. Only the Tzaddiking like Rashbi can save our world and pray for us to meet our needs.

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