Lag BaOmer Lesson from Tzalmon - The Holy Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a
"Netzach within Netzach is our Rebbe, Hod within Hod is Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, for the entire matter is Hod within Hod, all the work is Hod within Hod, to rectify Hod within Hod, the smallest of the small, Rashbi rectifies even the smallest point of smallness in the world. There is no smallness that Rashbi does not rectify, even the smallest of smallness of the first level of Abba and Ima."
"For the first day, meaning the counting is seven weeks, always the first day of the week of the counting is the first greatness of Abba, the second day is the first greatness of Ima, then the third day of the week of the counting is the smallest of the smallness of the second level of Abba and Ima. The fourth is always the Sefirah of Netzach, the second greatness of Ima. The fifth day of the counting is the smallest of the smallness, Hod within Hod, Rashbi comes to rectify Hod within Hod, to see Hashem eye to eye, even in Hod within Hod – in the smallest of the smallness."
"The High Priest must change into linen garments, Rashbi is the High Priest who was in the cave for thirteen years in linen garments, until his entire body was consumed, 'And he shall put on the linen trousers upon his flesh' (Leviticus 6:3), 'Linen upon linen shall it be' (Exodus 30:34). Linen in Atbash is Shin Kuf, which is sack, Esau came against Jacob with 400 men and the sack cancels it, the 'sack' is the gematria of four hundred, this is 'the linen trousers upon his flesh'."
Rashbi merited 'the linen trousers upon his flesh'. Rashbi is the High Priest, he is in the aspect of the High Priest who enters the Holy of Holies, for the Rambam brings in the seventh foundation that Moshe entered the Holy of Holies every day. Every day, every moment, every second he is in the Holy of Holies. When one reaches Rashbi, they are in the Holy of Holies. Also, when one reaches the grave of our Rebbe, they are in the Holy of Holies, as Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Nachman said that the grave of our Rebbe is the Holy of Holies every second. What the High Priest does once a year, every second one is in the Holy of Holies."
Therefore, Abba Umna who traveled every eve of Rosh Chodesh to Uman, he merited peace from heaven every day (Taanit 21b), and every day he was in the Holy of Holies, even though Abba Umna was a bloodletter he was in the Holy of Holies, his entire life he was in the Holy of Holies, the work of Abba Umna was that his entire life he was in the Holy of Holies, so he merited to receive peace from heaven every day, Abaye only on the eve of (Yom Kippur) [Shabbat], and Rava who was the soul of Lot, 'And they took Lot and his possessions, the son of Abram's brother' (Genesis 14:12) the initials are Rava, Rava was a spark from Lot, he only received peace once a year on the eve of Yom Kippur."
"And Abaye every eve of Shabbat, Abaye initials 'Asher Becha Yerucham Yatom' (Hosea 14:4), and this is the secret of Yosef whose mother Rachel passed away in his youth, Yatom initials 'Yafeh To'ar Viyafeh Mareh' (Genesis 39:6), what is 'beautiful form and beautiful appearance', that he merited to be an orphan. This is the greatest level that a person merits to grow without a father and mother, so he serves Hashem alone not because he is educated, because he sees eye to eye."
"Now on Lag BaOmer we see Hashem eye to eye, the work of a person is to see Hashem eye to eye, a person comes to the world to see Hashem eye to eye, a person every second sees Hashem eye to eye. A person was created for only one thing – to see Hashem eye to eye, this is his entire creation, this is the entire purpose of Lag BaOmer, for this we travel to Meron on Lag BaOmer, to see Hashem eye to eye, whoever merits to come to Meron sees Hashem eye to eye. 'Eye to eye they will see when Hashem returns to Zion' (Isaiah 52:8), now we see Hashem eye to eye, we came to the world to see Hashem eye to eye, we were created to see Hashem eye to eye. 'No eye has seen, O God, besides You' (Isaiah 64:3), this is the Garden of Eden, inside the Garden of Eden sits the King Mashiach, and the Garden of Eden is outside the world, and at the entrance of the Garden of Eden sits the King Mashiach, this is what Rashi says, that the Garden of Eden is outside the world entirely, and the Mashiach connects between the Garden of Eden and the world."
"And the Mashiach is Rabbi Shimon, he is called Mashiach, 'You ascended on high, you captured captives' (Psalms 68:19), this is the initials of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, [-] Nachman ben Simcha, the work of a person is Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, this is the entire work of a person, to see Hashem eye to eye every second, every hour to see Hashem eye to eye, every minute to see Hashem eye to eye, wherever he goes to see Hashem eye to eye, 'And He called to Moshe' (Leviticus 1:1), that Hashem calls to a person every second, every minute. Every moment Hashem calls a person to come."
"And now is the moment when they call a person, now it is 'And He called to Moshe', now it is Lag BaOmer, when they call / are close to Hashem, Hod within Hod, to fix the shoes, because Rashbi was a shoemaker, Rashbi and Chanoch, he [-] Chanoch who sews shoes, for every stitch he says: Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom forever and ever, this is what the frog says, the bird of knowledge, because the frog the Rebbe says is the bird of knowledge, this is the true knowledge, that it sees Hashem eye to eye, we need to sew shoes for Hod within Hod, so that (the Shechinah?) can descend below, the tzaddikim sew shoes, the simpleton sews shoes, Rashbi sews shoes, our Rebbe sews shoes, our Rebbe is the simpleton – sews shoes, a person comes to the world to sew shoes, the entire work of a person is to sew for the Shechinah, 'For they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes' (Amos 2:6), everything is for the sake of shoes, therefore it is written in the halacha of Reza 2 that he put the shoes on the donkey[1], a donkey is 'Issachar is a strong-boned donkey' (Genesis 49:14), that a person should be like a donkey, all his life like a donkey – 'a strong-boned donkey', that does not need to sleep and does not need to eat, a Libyan donkey does not sleep and does not eat, for ten days it goes without eating without sleeping."
"This is the secret of Rashbi that in his life he did not sleep, he was in the cave, in the pit, for thirteen years he did not sleep at all, Elijah the Prophet taught him Torah, if a person does not sleep Elijah the Prophet himself reveals to him, [-] Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi came he wanted to enter, he said what am I in the World to Come, it is Rashbi who admits [-], all matters are decided by Rashbi, all matters from small to great are decided by Rashbi, everything that happened in the world is decided by Rashbi, everything that happens in Eretz Yisrael is a decision of Rashbi, that everyone should be in Eretz Yisrael, that everyone should ascend to Meron, and everyone should be at the lighting, this is a decision of Rashbi, and therefore Rashbi is the Holy of Holies, this is the true sanctuary, this is the true Holy of Holies, this is Rashbi, Rashbi is [the neshamah of] our Rebbe - Rebbe Nachman [-], until sunset it was Netzach within Hod, now it is Hod within Hod, we exchange the Shin and the Nun, and then we will merit the complete redemption speedily in our days, Amen."
[1] Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat - Siman Reza
Siman Reza - The law of an unpaid guardian from when he is obligated in guarding, and how is the guarding:
(a) An unpaid guardian is exempt with an oath from theft and loss, and is only liable to pay in negligence:
(b) An unpaid guardian is one who was entrusted with money or vessels or an animal or anything to guard and he accepted upon himself to guard it. And even if he did not explicitly accept, but said to him: place it before me, he is an unpaid guardian. But if he said to him: place it before you, or: place it, simply, (or said to him: here is the house before you) (Rambam Chapter 2 of Laws of Hiring and Tur), even an unpaid guardian he is not and is not obligated to swear at all, but he imposes a ban on one who took his deposit and does not return it to its owner. However, someone who was walking on the way and his friend said to him: take these shoes with you, and he said to him: place them here on the donkey, and he placed them there and the trustee did not take them in his hand but as the depositor placed them on the donkey so he carried them and did not tie them and went aside to relieve himself and left the donkey on the road and the shoes were lost, he is an unpaid guardian and he was negligent and is liable to pay: Gloss - We do not say that if he said: place, simply, he is not an unpaid guardian, except in a guarded place, but on the way and similar certainly he accepted upon himself guarding (Tur in the name of the Responsa of the Rosh). And there are those who disagree and hold that even in a place that is not guarded he is not an unpaid guardian, until he says: place before me. (Mordechai Chapter of the Craftsmen and his own opinion from the Gemara of the Chapter of the Craftsmen according to the Sages):
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