Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Sadducees or Pharisees - Who is correct?

[Music] hi everybody good evening I hope you're all having a good week and once again we are doing our share remotely Ravi Poston has done me the kindness of coming to our Sameach and be a threat hm we hope that we will be able to resume a live in-person Shearer very very soon as Chloe so in the world hopefully will well achieve a refer and the ability to vanquish the Magatha the plague that all of us are facing we are in the homestretch of the counting of the Omer and we've been talking about the counting of the Omer quite a lot and I still have a little more to share with you and that is the source of the mitzvot of counting the days routine patience Lewis is a puss hook that we read in the Torah two weeks ago in parsha same or loose parts am lucky me Maharaja Shabbos you start counting literally this means the day after Shabbos we'll come back to that me yo Mojave ahem yes Oh merits a new file from the day that you bring the owner offering the barley offering Sheva Shabbos owes to me most tiene four seven complete weeks and after seven complete weeks you bring sacrifices to God and that of course is the holiday of Shavuos now the Gemara records the Mishnah records a huge mock locus between our sacrament that are called the peru sham the pharisees again in the christian bible the Pharisees are the bad guys but the Pharisees are in fact our sages the repositories of the oral law and there was a huge McLucas between the peru shem Iselle and the stew Kim the Sadducees regarding how to interpret the verse me maharat ha Shabbat and that is the saddest took the Pusser quite literally they said Shabbos nine out of ten times 99 out of 100 times Shabbos means Saturday me maha-rathah Shabbos is Sunday the stew Kim took the position that the counting of the Oh Mayer is the first Sunday after the start of paisa so even if Pesach was on a Tuesday you would not start counting the Oh Mayer Tuesday night or Wednesday you would start on a Sunday because Shabbos in that Park is Shabbos veracious and this is consistent with the position of the SATA seas that we always interpret the Torah in a literal way and we don't accept rabbinic interpretations even if it is a halal emotion we see none but the Persian our sages took the position that Shabbos in this verse does not mean the Shabbos of Saturday but Shabbos refers to the first day of Pesa which is also a young tough and a young tough can also be called Shabbos because to some degree you must refrain from doing work and therefore me Maharaja Shabbos is the day after the first day of paisa ergo according to hustle according to the halacha Severus ah Amir starts on the second day of Pesach and the Gemara indicates that this was a mock locust that went on for hundreds of years and the cockamamy gave various proofs and analogies that sukham had counter arguments by the way just as a little bit of historical digression do not confuse the sudoku with a later movement that's actually very similar called the Quran or the carides they are actually two different movements although they share a very common philosophy the sukham were a movement that lived and flourished during the final decades of the Second Temple and the only reason they were called Sidhu Kim is because their founder was a person whose name was sadaqa and thus took him were people who did deny the oral law many of them were very wealthy politically well-connected in fact many of them were Helenus so in fact there was a strong correlation that people became stew him not because of a religious philosophy per se but it was kind of a convenient way of getting out of rabbinic legislation for political and social aims thus to him as a movement died out around the Corbyn by a chain around the destruction of the second temple in the year 70 so we do not hear of an organized movement of Dukan after the Corbin base a Mukesh by contrast the carides that are still around today albeit in small numbers the Karaites date from around the 11th century which is already after the Babylonian Talmud it was the time of the Ghanim in fact the founder of the Caracara right movement was a man named Ben David who originally was in fact a regular rabbinic scholar and when roof saadia gaon got the prestigious position of the Gaon of surah that Annenberg David wanted to have out of his jealousy and anger he started his own movements so we quite literally know that the historical origin of the Karaites was simply because they guy didn't get the job that he wanted to get be does it make kara in and stew Kim are not the same movement they are not descended from one another but they do have a common philosophy that they did not accept the Messiah the tradition of the oral law and the Karaites as well they will start counting the owner if you look at their website they have websites they start counting the omer the Sunday following Pesa so whether it's the stew can whether it's the quraíam we have this huge mut locust the quraíam and that stew Kim say that Shabbos in this park means Saturday and me Maharaja Shabbos is there for Sunday we however take the position that Shabbos does not refer to Saturday Shabbos refers to the first day of Pesa I mean Maharajah Shabbat is the second day of so the question becomes very very simple we accept of course the validity of the Taurus of all paths but the question becomes why does the Torah use a term that is so fraught with ambiguity and confusion why does it use the word Shabbos let the Torah clarify what date that it's talking about now the empanada has an interesting observation let's consider the alternative so let's say you don't want to say me ma Caressa Shabbos because of the possibility that you might confuse it with the position of the student what could it have said so the most likely candidate might be me Maharaja Tessa you shall count from the day following Pesa but the ebenezer points out that would be not satisfactory and this is an important point to keep in mind the term Pesa in the Torah never refers to the holiday of the 15th of Nisan the term Pesa in the Torah refers to Erev Pesach the 14th of Nisan when we bring the korban Pesach even though we don't eat it until that night so if it would have said me Macross a peasant I would have made a mistake I would have said cassock refers to the fourteenth me Maharaja pass off is the fifteenth and you start counting the over the first day of pizza therefore the Ebenezer says the Taira emphasizes it has to be the day after a day that your show based a day that you refrain from Malacca which is the fifteenth and that's why that's a semi mozzarella Shabbos because the lesson of the Taira the Terry describes the fifteenth of payoffs Nisan not as Pesa like we do it describes it as hog hot sauce but the truth of the matter is the Atman Asura's answer is not a complete answer because if it's true that me Maharaja Pesa would have given you the wrong day me Maharaja Shabbos can also give you the wrong day because it is susceptible to the misinterpretation of the Dukan so what could the Taira have said well the turret could have said either rusev artem la femme me Makarov hakama thought that would have been accurate or even better it could have given me a calendar date it could have said who sparked them love him Bo shisha asar la kodesh re shown you shall begin counting the Severus ro mer from the 16th of Nisan or the 16th day of the first month which is the month of Nisan so ultimately we're back to square one why does the Taira take the unusual step of referring to the first day of Peyser as Shabbos so here I want to share with you a beautiful thoughts from the messiyah hakama the art Sameach act his picture is right in back of me the great door Sameach is safer and Cornish is called to measure Kakuma he was niftier in the 1920s and he offers the following explanation if we look at her logic ideas we find there are two basic electric distinctions between Shabbos and Yom Tov both days are sacred both days are holy both days have Malachi restrictions that you're not allowed to do with certain categories of work but there are two fundamental differences between Shabbos and youngters food difference number one is on Shabbos melaka is categorically forbidden unless it's a matter of life and death if it's not because nephesh I am NOT allowed to do Malik on Shabbos Jung if on the other hand has a huge leniency yes the starting point is you're not allowed to do melaka on yom tov but there is a head there a dispensation that is called Oakville nefesh for food preparation and indeed this has been enlarged not only for food preparation but for any type of legitimate need that enhances your Yom Tov celebration you're allowed to cook you're allowed to carry you're allowed to do many many different activities that would normally be forbidden because there is a hectare that is called Oaks el nefes now it's a little complicated because it wouldn't be true to say that everything is mature for Oakland nephesh so for example even cooking you're allowed to cook even raw food and make it edible onions if but you have to work from a pre-existing fire you're not allowed to strike a match you're not allowed to turn on your gas oven or turn on your electric burner once you have a fire you can enlarge it you can even reduce it if necessary for the cooking process so I'm not going to get into the halacha details of when is there a hectare of vocal Memphis and when there is not but for our purposes the only thing we have to note is that the octave has such a concept Shabbos does not that is difference number one difference number two is the source of the Holiness Shabbos is sanctified by God even if there would God forbid there would not be a single Jew in the world of keep Shabbos when the seventh day of creation comes the holiness of Shabbos comes into the world now it is a little complicated because because of timezones the holiness of Shabbos hits the world at different times it's kind of a strange phenomenon the holiness of God's presence hits the world inherits estrella seven hours before it hits the world in New York that's a separate issue the kuzuri actually discusses the anomaly of God's presence coming into the world at different points based on time zones and the like but once again the holiness does not depend on us even for example a prayer that we recite called Kadesh no Kadosh does mean sanctification but it does not mean that we are sanctifying Shabbos we are acknowledging that God made the Shabbos day holy via VAR a a low-key Maceo my srivalli today show so God blessed the seventh day and God made it holy by contrast young Jeff is a very different situation the holiness of yom tov comes from this son sanctifying the new moon upon the testimony of witnesses and every young chief is X number of days from the designation of a day as Rosh Hodesh the new moon so if it's Rosh Hashanah that will be the very day of the new moon if it's yom kippur it's ten days after Tishrei risk for this dish right circuses fifteen Pesach is 15 after a tradition Eason now the mission in Russia shunning a very famous story makes an important point that even if the Sun Hedren sanctified the wrong day they sanctified the day that astronomically was not Rosh Chodesh the holiness of the holidays is calculated from their designated date rather than the astronomical reality in fact the Mishnah has a very famous case where the great rabbi yehoshua thought the Sanhedrin had erroneously declared the wrong day Rosh Hashanah and he felt that Rosh Hashanah was a different day and as a result his Yom Kippur would be a different day and Rabban Gamliel who was the head of the Sanhedrin ordered him to come on his calculated Yom Kippur Day with his money and with his staff and revere schewe didn't know what to do how could he desecrate Yom Kippur and rebbi akiva told him the day you think is Yom Kippur is definitionally not Yom Kippur because Yom Kippur is not the tenth day from the astronomical new moon in which case your calculation might very well be correct it is the tenth day from the designation of the Sanhedrin where even if they got it wrong it becomes right that's an amazing thing the color of the sanctification of yom tov depends exclusively on the determination of sanhedrin now you may ask the question if that's the case then how could there be on them tell them today today we don't have a Sun Hedren today we're working with the calendar we we just look at when we show dishes but according to what I said that's not Emma's going to what I said the holiness of Rosh Chodesh and the holidays is not based on the astronomy it's based on the actions of Claudius Rael acting through their son Hedren so how could there be on them tell them today and the answer is quite surprising the only reason we have youngnam totem today is that the last son Hedren which was several centuries after the corbin calculated all of the new moons up until the year 6000 I'll get to why they did that and they sanctified them which means we have young them tell them that because of the flesh bone we have young em totem only because of the sanctification of the Sanhedrin which declared these days sacred in advance that is the meaning of the statement that you will often encounter that the Jewish calendar will expire in the year 6000 there will be no Jewish calendar after the year 6000 now what does that mean the calculations of Pesach Shavuos Serkis Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur we can extrapolate those calculations indefinitely if you were to ask me what day will Pesach fall out a million years from now we would be able to figure that out so in what sense could it be said that the Jewish calendar expires in the year 6000 the answer is the calculations don't expire but the Sun Hedren was makka - the russia Hodesh only until the year 6,000 based on the belief that Messiah for sure is going to come before the year 6,000 then we'll go back to the old system of a Sun Hadron taking testimony which would mean if counterfactual it's not going to happen Koster Shalom there would be no mushiya by the year 6000 we would still keep Shabbos but we would literally have no basis to keep holidays no Rosh Hashanah no Yom Kippur no circus no pizza no Shabbos because without a key dish based in there is no holiness so this is difference number two difference number one Shabbos does not have a hat you're a vocal nephesh Yom Tov has they had to revoked on that fish difference number two the holiness of Shabbos comes from God the holiness of yom tov comes from bnei yisrael acting through their son Hedren this is reflected in the text of the sitter the blessing we recite both in kiddush and in the Amidah of Shabbos is Baruch Hashem blessed art you God my Kadesh Abbas who sanctifies Shabbos on Yom Tov we have a slightly different brother Baruch Hashem blessed are You Hashem Micah - yes Sara L for husband in you sanctify Israel and through the sanctification of Israel there is the sanctification of the hug him and that is why it's so consistent when it's both Shabbos and yom tov together the bracha reads this way Baruch Hashem my Kadesh Hodja bus via Israel as women you don't say Makeda she Israel waha Shabbos plasmon iam makatea Shabbos the holiness of Shabbos comes directly from God with Yom Tov it's Israel / has money so these are two the two huh logic differences between paisa I'm sorry between Yom Tov and Shabbos but then the metaphor goes on and says these two huh logic differences can actually be explained by a third philosophical difference that will be the key to understanding the other two and that is Shabbos represents a transcendent idea that is not directly connected to the existence of the Jewish people what is Shabbos it's a commemoration of the fact that God created the world in six days and he rested on Shabbos and I rest on Shabbos to commemorate God's creation now as a matter of pure logic that is not an idea that is limited to a Jew non-jews under the nullified code are supposed to believe in one God they're supposed to believe in the Torah's account that God made the world in six days and rested on Shabbos as a matter of pure logic Shabbos should be observed by non-jews as much as it is observed by Jews there is nothing inherently Jewish about what Shabbos represents and yet we know that Shabbos is described as a gift that God gave us now what is a gift something you didn't earn something you're not entitled to something that doesn't belong to you but there's an act of unlimited love it's given to you could they talk that the halacha actually is that a non-jew is not only exempt from keeping Shabbos but the non Jew is not even supposed to keep Shabbos in all of its particulars in non Jew she even in fact we're know like that even a non Jew that is studying for conversion should do one action on Shabbos that's an act of chiloé Shabbos now if it's true that Shabbos represents an idea that is not directly connected to the Jewish people we now understand why we are not the custodians over its holiness the holiness of Shabbos comes from God because Shabbos has nothing to do with me similarly Shabbos does not bend to my needs I want to cook I want to eat well Shabbos transcends me Shabbos is above me Shabbos is not going to be governed by me by me as a Jew because Shabbos represents an idea that transcends the existence of the Jewish people by contrast let's consider Yom Tov without a Jewish people there would be no young tough at all had the Jews not been taken out of myth Ryan there would be no paisa had God not given the Torah to ami Israel there would be no Shavuos had God not accepted our chuhwa of yom kippur and give us back the clouds of glory that surrounded us in the aftermath of our repentance for the hate Oh a go there wouldn't have been a circus yom tov is a celebration of god's unique relationship with the Jewish people in the absence of which there would be no young chief at all that is why we are the custodians of its holiness we are the ones that make it holy through the Sanhedrin and that is why I yom tov bends to us because since without us meaning without the jewish people there would be no young death yom tov becomes tough l young have become subordinate to my local nefesh and indeed the law is very clear you're not allowed to cook food for a non Jew young chief does not bend for the needs of the non Jew young chief Ben's only for the needs of the gym so it turns out therefore that this is the structure that we have there are two holic differences between Shabbos and Yom Tov one is Oakland FS and one is key dish based in but both of those emanates from a third distinction that Shabbos is something which we didn't turn which were not entitled to that is not directly connected to us as opposed to Yom Tov which is a direct celebration of God's unique relationship with on the Israel so that's kind of the introduction of understanding the structure of Shabbos and yom tov now if we take as a definition therefore that Shabbos represents that which we didn't earn which were not entitled to something that transcends us then of all of the young M Tobin paisa is actually the closest to Shabbos on one hand it is a young tip because without the Jewish people there would be no paisa but consider this in which I am we were supposed to be slaves and mizraim for 400 years that is what I am told opera but we were taken out a hundred and ninety years early after two hundred and ten years because in the course of that two hundred and ten years we had reached what is called the 49th level of impurity if you hit the 50th level your irredeemable and we had to be taken out not just early but literally to the minute in fact when it says that we didn't have time to let our dough rise the I Rizal explains the small amount of time that would have taken for dough to become her mystic we would have hit the 50th level and that's the one fifth that survived four-fifths of the Jewish people died in miss Ryan they had hit the 50th level so it turns out when we were taken out of nutrient we were unworthy we were undeserving we were not ready it was only God's infinite mercy and the love and the promise that he made to our forefathers that he took us out even though we were undeserving even though we were unworthy even though we were not ready but keep us on in a hurried manner so paisa is a Chaba sticker holiday because it also represents something we didn't learn unlike Phillips where by the time we get the Torah we've worked on ourselves and we've progressed step by step by step unlike circus where we went through the chuhwa and the penitence of yom kippur and we merit the joy of God's presence paisa was an undeserved gift that was given to us as divine love and that is why the Tiger refers to paisa as Shabbos in fact I might add to the metric achma that you know when the Taira permits ohel nephesh on yom tov the yom tov where it gives you the hetero vowel mefist explicitly is Pesach and we learned the other holidays from paisa one might suggest that the Torah has to say it for paisa because logically if ocal nefesh is because young TIFF bends to me because I'm the dumb in charge of it perhaps that would apply less to pacer where we didn't deserve that redemption and therefore the Taira had to say even paisa has a hectare of Oklahoma fresh cow bakoma the other holidays so this is the Mesha Huffman's answer of why pace that was called Shabbos to reinforce to us that the redemption of Pesa was something that we didn't deserve we didn't earn it was given to us as a MOT not to freedom I want to take this idea and I want to use it to answer another question that's very perplexing and that is ok let's let's accept what the hannam say what the halacha is that you start counting the Omer the second day of Pesach so here's the question why don't you start counting the only the first day of Pesach because we too are we've already spoken I think more than once that the whole concept of the Omer is to link the holiday of freedom with the holiday of Torah and make it one big yontiff the Rambam in fact says that Spheeris arm is like a colour mullet because freedom without Torah is the freedom of the wild animal remember that's why the Corbin of the Omer and Posadas barley which is animal father and the Corbin of Shavuos is wheat which is human food because they Pesach without a cheveux else you're simply a wild animal and I've mentioned to Gauri's beautiful metaphor of the violin string that only the string that is tied down can give it's beautiful music so all of that is good you want a link pacer to show us but if you wanna link pace of the slowest then start counting day one why wait today - why me mother message others so here let me share with you a thought from love not one of breslov who actually brings this from his great-grandfather who was none other than the Baal Shem Tov if not when the breast milk was a direct descendant of the Baal Shem Tov and the Baal Shem Tov race is the following interesting question that I think may resonate with a lot of people when a person first comes to Torah a person becomes about true of a person as a hozeva kuba they often find an extraordinary sweetness and excitement in their divine service every Shabbos is beautiful every Dominic is wonderful benching when I get to praise God is so fulfilling and meaningful but then what happens as time passes as you get used to the routine a person often loses the passion loses the excitement acts mechanically out of Road in fact there's all sorts of bad jokes which happened to be true unfortunately like how do you know when they kosair but chuva is fully integrated into the religious community the answer is when he convention one minute when he talks during governing when he spends Shabbos afternoon sleeping instead of learning but what Holly's made it again those things are said in jest but it's a jest that has a certain biting truth that is if you see somebody who's so very passionate about his via disguise he must be a newcomer but the baal shem tov asks the question why should that be so I know you're gonna say well like anything in life you do it over and over and over again it becomes a habit and it's less inspiring but that shouldn't work for mitzvahs because if we really believe every time I do a mitzvah I am closer to God then how can there be a concept of diminishing spiritual returns how could it be that the more I do the less I get out of it you again you could understand that logically in many areas of life but in the spiritual Aveda of mitzvahs how can it be that more is less and here's what the Baal Shem Tov says because the Baal Shem Tov is addressing the idea that people often have tremendous you read a tremendous declines after they've experienced great great elevations and he says imagine a baby learning how to walk and initially the parents are holding the baby under his arms or on his shoulders and the baby tatars forward and takes one step on another step and things are going good and the kid is laughing and smiling and at some point in the process the parents feel that the child is ready so they let go and as soon as they let go the baby is going to plop down on the floor now of course what's going to happen is this is really a talk for another time but I'm going to mention it the baby will pick himself up again and it's a law of nature that no matter how many times a baby falls learning to walk he will get up again the British allure said that that's one of the most powerful lessons we should learn from a child the child never gives up somehow as we get older you know we're not successful so we don't pursue things that child is hardwired not to give up in fact it's not only walking even crawling I remember when my son began crawling you know at six months or whenever kids begin crawling and crawling was so hard he was like grunting and groaning oh and I was thinking to myself why is he torturing himself to crawl on the floor let me just sit still and play what is pushing him the answer is God put into our personalities the the the unquenchable desire to keep on going to grow to accomplish and it's a magnificent thing that you see from the very beginning of life that is there that's a beautiful thought that's not my subject tonight I'm not gonna be marathon this but that's something to think about but the court the issue that the Baal Shem Tov is talking about is if the baby could verbalize his thoughts after his parents let go of his shoulders the baby might wonder why was it so easy to walk a minute ago and now I'm falling I'm only 18 months am i regressing but the answer is it was so easy for you to walk because your parents were holding on to you now you have to make it your own says the Baal Shem Tov when a person first comes to Hashem Torah they are so far from God and it's impossible how will they connect to God so God carries them he lifts them up he gives them an artificial high and when you have that artificial high everything is beautiful everything is vivid everything is effortless everything is so meaningful and spiritually beautiful but at some point God says I've shown you what you're able to be I've shown you what you can become now it's your job to make it your own by your work and your effort and your struggle and that's going to be hard it's not going to be so effortless and just like a Bernie me even after they let go of the baby they're always there to be sure that the baby doesn't fall and hurt himself Hashem is always there but part of growing up spiritually is you have to take what Hashem has given you and make it your Madre this is and therefore the Baal Shem Tov says somewhat counter-intuitively but if a person has struggles in Theravada session instead of those struggles being a source of despair instead of feeling that I'm a failure I'm slipping maybe it's God's Way of telling you I have confidence in you I'm able to let go a little bit because you're ready for the next step and therefore one should actually take the struggles SR Shems vote of confidence that you are ready to go on this may be the relationship of Pesach and Shavuos which is linked which are linked by the counting of the Omer Pesach is the gift that God gave us that we didn't earn that we weren't ready for that was not really part of our being he lifted us up he showed us amazing revelations of divinity the 10 plagues the splitting of the Red Sea because I'll say the lowly maid servants saw on the ants off' but even the great novia cusco did not see in the divine chariot and that's why the goal of Pesach is described as the feats of a demon jumping and skipping it says in she Reshiram the song of songs cold ID he neighbor in a Sabha the voice of my beloved he is coming middle a gala harem he is skipping over the mountains because Allah grows he is jumping over the hills and the Midrash says mountains refers to the of us Alfre music in Yaakov and the hills refer to the matriarch Sora rifki rock Alea billah and Zilpah and god skipping means God skipped over the allotted time we should have been there for hundred years he skipped over those years in the merit of the of us and the emos but you have to understand the concept of skipping over does not just mean he skipped over the years but he also skipped over the levels we did not achieve the spiritual level that we were able to perceive God as we did in with Ryan it's as if the general of the army took a private and he made him a four-star general or the president but the private was not prepared it was not a sustainable madruga Pesa god showed you what you're capable to become but what that happens he puts you down on the ground and he says I've shown you what you're able to become now it's your job to become it now unlike essa which is sudden revelation Shavuos is an incremental gradual process 49 days la Atlas meaning we were on the very top of the mountain Hashem then puts us down and says climb it gradually there are 49 days it is brought down Pirkei avos the six-pack of Pirkei avos talks about 48 ways to acquire the Torah different me doubts that we work on and it says that every day of Spira one works on a particular Mita and on the 49th day which is Arif spoofs you review the 48 ways Orica ballistically the weeks of the oma are connected to the different sphero's tested loving-kindness cavora because there are seven lower severe outs and seven days in the week and there are even guides that kind of tell you how to correlate your spiritual work with the Kabbalistic manifestations of god's presence through the sphero's but whichever way you describe it whether you describe it through the prism of the 48 paths of wisdom in Pirkei avos or you describe it cabbalistic alee to the lower seventh spirits the common denominator is the Aveda of sphere ax is incremental it is gradual in this step-by-step as opposed to the suddenness of pace on Pesach is God is holding you up Saphira and sheilas is I work to internalize God's gifts and make it my own and that is the connection between pacer and Shiraz is the connection of the baby that is walking because his parents are holding it versus the baby that learns to walk on his own in this connection the ballet Tania quotes another verse in Shira Shira Shira Shira is of course written as a romantic love poetry and in fact I think I mentioned a few weeks ago that that is why there was some controversy whether it should even be included in the biblical canon but Rabi Akiva got it in Rabi Akiva said if all of the songs of the Bible are holy Shira she rim is Kadosh Kadosh iam the holiest of holies because the passionate lover is none other than God and the beloved woman is none other than the Jewish people and in the beginning of Shira she rim the woman lover the beloved woman pleads with her lover and she says ma che me Haruka pull me after you nor roots ax so we can run together the bhava Tanya I believe brings from the ZOA pull me after you is pacer because Pesach God is dragging us we're not really ready we're not really there we're not capable but God is pulling us like a sack of potatoes my roots is Shiva loose where we internalize our Aveda and we run with the Almighty we run together we start off being passive recipients of God's grace and we end with being partners in bringing divinity and holiness into the world by internalizing all of the gifts that God has given us you know in life it is sometimes the case that God gives you gives us great beautiful inspirations experiences that come into the world that are so uplifting that are so sweet that are so beautiful and they are gifts of God that we savor and we appreciate but then comes the mundane details of everyday life in which we don't always have the enthusiasm we don't always have the inspirational encounters that move us life seems to be in Gray's rather than in multicolor but we have to realize that that is part and parcel of our spiritual growth we take the gifts that God has given us and we turn them into the gifts that we give God by our work by our efforts by our struggle by our incremental sense that even when we're not so inspired we stay the course because eventually we will get to a good and deep place and this explains finally why sphere Elsa Omar has to begin the day after Sabbath because Shabbos and first day of pessoas week for you too for is this tremendous gift that God gives you the inspiration that you didn't earn that you just received as a magnet phenom but Severus ah Homer is the tomorrow the next step the next place to go the place where you take that inspiration and you use it as part of your every decision and that's why it's the next day because it represents a new type of journey not the journey of God carrying you but the journey of you're carrying God within the innermost recesses of your soul and be as Ratish m as we conclude the period of the omer as we approach the receiving of God's Torah may we be so sure to take all of the gifts that God has given us and turn them into the gifts that we give back to God by the way we live our lives by the way we grow by the way we care and by the way we share because recession we chaiwallah a wonderful wonderful week and be as recession we should be together in person very very soon thank you [Music]