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1 Rabbi Mansour 2010 Shabbat Morning class This class was attended by Mr. Moises Saba, who loved the words of Torah and especially the classes of the Rabbi. The class and its notes are dedicated Leilui Nishmat Moises and his wife, son, & daughter in law. לעילוי נשמת משה בן ויקטוריה אברהם בן אדלה אדלה בת אסטריה יהודית בת מרים פרשת שמות name? And when they say to me, what is his - ואמרו לי מה שמו מה אמר אליהם" What shall I say to them? Moshe Rabeinu asked Hashem which name to use when the Jews asked who he was sent by. What exactly was Moshe asking? Hashem has several names- why not just pick any name and tell it to the Jews?! Rav Yehonatan Aibshetz answers that Moshe Rabeinu had a speech impediment which prevented him from pronouncing כבד פה וכבד לשון certain sounds clearly. In the Pasuk Moshe describes himself as heavy of mouth and speech. כבד פה is a problem with the mouth and כבוד לשון is a problem with the tongue. The letters in the Hebrew Aleph Beit that are pronounced with.ז,ס,ש,ר,צ are:. The letters that are pronounced with the tongue ד,ט,ל,נ,ת are: the mouth Moshe Rabeinu was asking Hashem which name to say, since he wanted to pronounce Hashem s name clearly and almost all of Hashem s names contain a letter Page 1 of 8
2 pronounced with the פה and -לשון mouth and tongue! Hashem s answer was to say the name of א-ה-י -ה since its letters are sounded only from the throat, and would not be a problem for Moshe to pronounce clearly. Another answer as to what Moshe was asking and why Hashem chose specifically the name of א-ה-י -ה is that the seal of Hashem is. truth -אמת The Torah begins with the words בראשית ברא אלקים and speaks of Hashem s creation of the world. The last letters of the words בראשית ברא אלקים spell the word אמת like it says: the Torah starts discussing אמת the beginning of your words are ראש דבריך אמת" the creation of the world with.אמת At the completion of creation the Pasuk ends off: Like a painter.אמת the last letters of these words spell the word -ברא אלקים לעשות when he completes a beautiful painting he puts his signature and seal in the corner, so.אמת too Hashem after he created the world stamped his seal of Hashem told Avraham that the Jews will work for 400 years. Moshe was asking Hashem you are אמת- truth and you seal is!אמת The Jews have only worked for 210 years how can you take them out 190 years early?! That s not what you said?! Hashem explained to Moshe that when he said 400 years it meant 400 years worth of work and the Jews, through there intense backbreaking work have completed 400 years worth of work in 210 years! They have indeed completed the 400 years and it s time to go (this is hinted to in the טעמים (cantorial notes on top of the words of the Torah) of the words ; literally -קדמה ואזלא are טעמים they - וימררו embittered their lives the את חייהם preceded and left. The טעמים are explaining that through the bitter work they were able to precede and leave early! The name א-ה.. is numerically 21.Hashem said:.אמת so 21x21=441 which is the same numerical value as the word,א-ה-י-ה אשר א-ה-י -ה Hashem used the name of א-ה-י -ה to explain to Moshe and the Jews that to leave.אמת Egypt now was the perfect nation. A portion of Hashem is his - "כי חלק ה' עמו" Each and every Jew is made up of a little piece of Hashem, and since we have this piece of Hashem in us we actually have the entire essence of Hashem inside of us. It s comparable for example to DNA, that when we have a small sample of someone s saliva we are able to find out the complete make up of the person. Or for example a pie of pizza even if we only get a small slice from the pie we are able to see all the details of the entire pie; the cheese sauce etc.. Our small piece of Hashem Page 2 of 8
3 contains the entire essence and make up of Hashem. This is why it says that man has a אלקים an -צלם image of Hashem. Where is this image? Is it on his face, his eyes, and nose? No, this image is in our Neshama, our soul, the part of the body that contains this piece of Hashem. The soul is located in the mind and that is why we pay special respect to our head in which the mind and Neshama is encased - and when we bathe we must first wash our head and only afterwards the rest of the body. The spirit of Hashem is comprised of 613 lights that correspond to the 613 Mitzvot. Our our -גוף body, which houses the spirit of Hashem, also has 613- it has 365 tendons and ligaments and 248 bones =613, so the body is a perfect קדשים תהיו כי קדוש אני receptacle for the spirit of Hashem. This is why the Pasuk says you must be holy since I Hashem is holy and it says, we might have thought we -ה' have to be as holy as Hashem so the Pasuk tells us קדוש אני -כי only I am holy to such a degree, you however do not have to maintain my level of holiness only your own level of holiness. We see from this statement that at first we actually thought that we have to be as holy as Hashem! How can this be?! Now we can understand that since we actually have a bit of Hashem in us we would have thought that we are required to actually have the same holiness of Hashem himself! So the Pasuk is teaching us that it s ok, we only have to keep our own level of holiness, not Hashem s. "זה שמי לעולם וזה This concept is hinted to in what Hashem told Moshe when he said generations. this -זכרי is my name forever and this is my remembrance for the לדר דר" What is the difference between שמי and?זכרי The word שמי corresponds to י -ה and the.י-ה-ו -ה together they form Hashem s name the name of,ו -ה corresponds to זכרי word The word שמי is numerically 350. When we add the -ה,( 15 )י it equals 365. זכרי is numerically 237 when we add the ו -ה (11),it equals 248. This corresponds to the 365 negative -לא commandments, which תעשה- 248 positive commandments and -מצות עשה together total 613. שמי plus י -ה and זכרי plus ו -ה equal 613 showing that this is the essence )כביכול( of Hashem. שיר השירים, incidentally )קהלת Shelomo Hamelech wrote It is written at the end of where he starts השירים אשר לשלמה" "שיר describing himself simply as Shelomo. However in Kohelet he קהלת בן דוד מלך בירושלים": begins Kohelet -"דברי son of David king of Jerusalem why so much detail about who he is in Kohelet and in Shir Hashirim he refers to himself simply as Shelomo? Because Shir Hashirim is full of praise for the Jews ex ; אני ונאוה I -"שחורה am dark(from my sins) but I am beautiful, when we complement people they don t really care about who we are and what our credentials Page 3 of 8
4 are. However in Kohelet, Shelomo gives rebuke to the people- הבלים" "הבל the physical is all meaningless. When we give rebuke, people say: who is he to criticize me! Where did he come from! So Shelomo answers; I am the son of King David so I have pedigree, I am King, so I know what it s like to have money, and not just any king, I am the King of Jerusalem! Only after this introduction can Shelomo begin with the.(מוסר strong words of the -"סוף sum of the דבר הכל נשמע את הלקים ירא ואת מצותו שמור כי זה כל האדם" matter when all has been heard, fear Hashem and keep his commandments for that is man s whole duty מצות לא תעשה refers to the "את האלקים ירא" concept; This Pasuk shows us this מצותו is fear- to be afraid to do something wrong) and ירא) negative commandments "כי זה כל האדם " concludes positive commandments. The Pasuk -מצות עשה is the שמור this is man the 613 total Mitzvot of positive and negative commandments is what man is made up of and is the case that holds the spirit of Hashem that has the 613 lights. These 613 lights of Hashem is where Berachah comes from, and as it makes its way down to this world it takes on a physical form such as money, a house, or various material things that a person is blessed with. The origin of the blessing is the light of Hashem, and the end result is the material blessing that we enjoy. The Tzadikim however, would rather there Berachah remain as the holy light from Hashem and they prefer that the Berachah remain in Shamayim in its spiritual form so that they can enjoy it in the future world. This is why the Gemarah says about Rav Chanina Ben Dosa that Hashem said about him all the world is sustained on the merit of R Chanina - but R Chanina himself is satisfied with just a חרוב -קב a measure of carob- from Erev Shabbat to Erev Shabbat. The word carob -חרוב is also the word for -חרוב destruction. He didn t want to destroy the heavenly light by making it come down to this world and turn physical. It says he was sustained from Ereb Shabbat to Ereb Shabbat (why not say from Tuesday to Tuesday?) since Ereb Shabbat represents the day before Shabbat before the main day - which is like this world where we are before the main world of This all alludes to the reason why R Chanina wanted to preserve his reward.עולם הבא for the next world. This little piece of Hashem that we have in us is like a candle taken from a giant fire. The Pasuk says ה' נשמת אדם" the -"נר Neshama of man is like a candle from.נפש, רוח, נשמה Hashem. This Pasuk also alludes to the 3 parts that man is made of The word נר stands for רוח.נפש In addition, Hashem is in us, as well as the Neshama. So נר ה' נשמת אדם is the total make up of man. Page 4 of 8
5 Hidden in the נפש רוח נשמה of man is the name of Hashem and 613 lights that man is made of. The outer letters of נפש רוח נשמה are: נ פ ש ר ו ח נשמה The נ,ר,נ total 300 and the ש,ח,ה total 313 together they are 613. Alluding to the 613 lights of Hashem, corresponding to the 613 parts of our body. If one of these parts are not functioning properly (ex: a person is deaf- cannot hear etc..) it is from a problem in the connection of that body part to its corresponding heavenly light, since all our capacities come from our Neshama and not from the -גוף the body. The proof to this is that a dead body even though it has ears, cannot hear! This is because its Neshama has left it. Man is אדם and the word אדם itself hints to the holiness of Hashem. אדם is numerically 45, the מילוי of the name of Hashem of הויה is 45 (when we spell out each.( 45 =יוד,הא,ואו,הא letter It was mentioned above that שמי represents י -ה and זכרי represents -ה.ו The letters י -ה only have two other 2 letter configurations that equal -ה.( 15 )י They are : So. 15 -י-ה There are no other two letters that combine to equal.( 8+7 )ח -ז (9+6) and ט -ו The middle letters of נפש, רוח, נשמה are ו,שמ.פ, The פ,ו total 86 which is numerical value of אלקים and the שמ total 340, which is the numerical value of the names of Hashem of -ה & ש-ד -י.הוי In our נפש, רוח, נשמה is hidden the 613 lights- Mitzvot that we are made of, as well as the holy names of Hashem! (י-ה/ט-ו/ח -ז 15: in total we have 3 times 15 (for the 3- two letter combinations that make which total 45. (45 are the numbers of אמת since they total 9 (4+5=9) and 9 is the number of,אמת since whatever we multiply 9 by, it will always bring us back to 9. Ex: 2x9=18,1+8=9. 3x9=27, 2+7=9. 4x9=36, 3+6=9 etc.. it will always come back to 9. Nine- like אמת never changes, therefore it is the number that represents the אמת and Hashem is.אמת So י -ה is 45 which is,אמת as is the מילוי of שם הויה that totals 45 as mentioned previously). Page 5 of 8
6 ז- only has four other 2 letter configuration that totals 11. They are ( 11 )ו -ה The in total there are 5 two letter combinations that ( 10+1 )י -א,( 9+2 )ט -ב,( 8+3 )ח -ג,( 7+4 )ד make 11 (the 4 mentioned plus the א -ה itself). These total 55 (5x11=55). This gives us Shabbat,,together they equal 100. This is why in the Gemarah in 55 -ו-ה 45 -י-ה plus refers to the letter ק בריך הוא- as.קודשא Why the,ק' why not the ה' or the?יוד Now we ו -ה plus י -ה -which is numerically 100- is the combination of ק' understand that the.ה' 55+45, and this is why it refers to "מה ה' With this we also understand what the Gemarah says about the Pasuk what -אלקיך does Hashem ask from you? Only to fear him. The שואל ממך כי אם ליראה" Gemarah says don t read it מה ; what, - אלא מאה ; only 100- referring to the 100 Berachot we make every day. We now understand deeper, that the 100 -מאה refer to!ה' אלקיך 100 -מאה is a reference to 55+45, so ו -ה and י -ה the combination of We now also understand the true depth behind two words that we say during "על כן אברים שפלגת בנו ורוח ונשמה שנפחת באפינו ולשון אשר say: Shaharit of Shabbat. We with the limbs and spirit and tongue you שמת בפינו הן הם יודו ויברכו וישבחו ויפארו..." gave us, they will praise you etc Why is it necessary to say הם -הן two words that have essentially the same meaning? Just say הן or??הם Now we can understand, since הן is 55 and the הם is 45- it is really referring to the י -ה and the -ה.ו We are talking about the י -ה and ו -ה, when we say ויברכו וישבחו יודו we thank, bless, and glorify, etc... the holy name of Hashem! The number 100- besides for being connected to representing Hashem s name-, is also connected to. peace -שלום There are 15 words in the blessing of כהנים,ברכת the first 14 correspond to the 14 joints of the hand (3 joints in the fingers and 2 joints in the thumb total 14, that s why a hand is called יד which is numerically 14) the 15 th and final word of כהנים is,שלום what does the word שלום correspond to? The,כף the palm of the hand. כף is numerically 100, so we see the connection between שלום an 100- כף. This is why it says in Pirkei Avot that we should judge our fellow זכות" -"לכף giving the benefit of the doubt. Why does it say זכות,כף just say?לזכות The חכמים were hinting to us the reason to judge favorably and that is for the sake of and -שלום כף the 100. which are,שכינה This is why when people greet each other they shake hands; they connect the palms which is a connection to the שלום of -כף to enhance peace. Page 6 of 8
7 The name of Hashem of הויה can be rearranged and spelled in 12 different formations. The 12 formations correspond to the 12 months of the year; each month has a different formation, for example: the month of ניסן is -ה,י-ה-ו straight and the month of,אב when the Jews experience much hardship is the name of הויה totally backwards -י.ה-ו-ה The month of אב is called,אב which literally means father since only a father hits a child (as we see for example in synagogue, when you see a man giving a child a candy you cannot tell if the man is the boy s father. Perhaps he is a stranger that is just being nice and giving the boy a candy! However, when you see the man reprimanding and hitting the boy, we know it must be the father, since only the father would hit a child to discipline him) the month is called אב since this is the month that Hashem made it clear that he is our father through giving us the hardships. המקום ינחם we say,אבל Another example of this concept is when we go visit an may the place (Hashem) console you. Why now do we specifically refer to -אתכם Hashem as?המקום Since at this time the אבל has been dealt a difficult blow and it is the greatest manifestation of Hashem s fatherly love for the person. If we take the name of Hashem of הויה and multiply each letter by itself as such; ( 10x10=100 )י' xי' גמט',( 5x5=25 )ה' xה' =186 which is the exact ( 6x6=36 )ו' xו' ( 5x5=25 )ה' xה' as the word מקום By referring to Hashem as,מקום we are reminding the אבל that this is the most intense kindness of Hashem as hinted to by the multiplying of the letters of הויה against themselves. The 12 configurations of the name of Hashem that corresponds to the 12 months of the year also correspond to the 12 tribes as is hinted in the beginning of the Parasha. When it says שמות בני ישראל,ואלה the numerical value of the first letters of (26x12=312). is 312. The 12 configurations of Hashem s name total 312 שמות בני ישראל So each tribe -שבט represents another configuration of Hashem s name. The first letters י -ב-שמות are hinting to the שמות בני ישראל 12. The words -יב are בני ישראל of the words שמות בני tribes- names of Hashem, as well as the 12 -שמות the 12 combinations of.יב ' שבטים is Roshei Tevot ישראל This is the reason why we see people that have different natures and different views and opinions. Since they are from different שבטים and represent different combinations of Hashem s name, resulting in different attributes and character. We need to remember this when we see people that do not necessarily see eye to eye with us. They are holy, they have a piece of Hashem in them, as do we. They have the holiness of a combination of the name of Hashem, they are not supposed to be Page 7 of 8
8 exactly like us and it is understandable why they may have different views. We must,שלום, and through י -ה ו -ה Hashem -כף which represents the,שלום maintain we will be זוכה to the ultimate שלום and redemption. Page 8 of 8
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