176 | The Deep Connection Between Nasso, Tehillim 119, and Bava Basra

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Um just by means of introduction, my brother Rafi and I are playing in the Jewels pickleball tournament in a couple of weeks.

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So if anyone has a lot of their spectator seats.

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There are. Well, there's for the price you pay, you could buy tickets. Um, and the money does go to jewels. So if you'd like to support Rafi and I. Last year we came in uh fourth place, actually. So I was very excited. Wow, out of a thousand, no, out of how many teams were there? 26 last year. Yeah, 26 teams or something like that. Yeah, I think it's a good thing.

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Where do you put pickleball? Of course, at Netherage.

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Oh, yeah? That would be great. That'd be great. Where do you put it the tournaments at Bounce? You know, by the Hilton. Yeah, or June 21st, Sunday. So okay, just put that out there. Um, so I have two things, uh, two two ideas. Okay, my brain is all over the place. Uh I had three people who actually reached out to me um with like a questionslash ha'ara to think about, and my sheer tonight was a preparation was was an answer to that, but unintentionally, meaning I put out, I said, hey, seven, I I put on the chat, most I think most of you are on the chat, I put out hey, rabbit tonight, Bezoshem, and somebody asked a question, um, which brought me down a tremendously long rabbit hole, which I'm gonna save that for next week. It's a whole thing with Christopher Columbus and the words Bezoshem, Mirthishem, Barch Heshem, different things like that. So stay tuned for next week. I momish, I have I have a lot of material. I was gonna do it this week, but then somebody else reached out to me, not part of the shear. He said, he said, well, two, so two things, two people. Okay, you ready for this? So one person said he's speaking at a sudden's prada this week. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida, actually. And he's speaking at a Sudas Prada, and he he wanted to know if I had any any Mahshavos related to him. So he asked me at the beginning of the week, and I I got back to him with the following, which I just want to share with you, and then I'll get to the second thing. Okay. Didn't Columbus have those three letters on the top of the side. Oh, yeah, we'll get that. I brought some pictures too, but next it'll be for next week. Because I don't, unless we have time, I don't think we're gonna get to it. And it's really Nogea, the parsha's balosha, actually. Which if we were in our Tisrol, it'll be Givalde, because they're leaning Balosha this week. They're a week ahead, because last week, right? They only keep one day of Yante. Fine. Um okay, so the question was like this Sudas Preda, what shaichas to this week's parsha? And I think it's very Nogeah because this is this is a huge praeda, where a prada is when you take when you take leave after being somewhere for a certain amount of time. But in Yiddishkai, it's a little bit different, right? So Klaisa, we just had Shivuas, we just had Matantara, and Nasa, which always falls out right after Shivuas, that becomes the Prada week. That becomes the week where we become Chashom, separated from Kharish Park, but it's the week after the Chasana, right? It's the and if there's a takeaway message, it's this week's parsha, where we have the model for keeping the inspiration alive. That's the model of the sota and where chazal teaches us that why the why is the why is the nazir doing what he's doing? Why? Because he sees, he's witnessing what happened. He sees the sota, bikyolkula, in her inner state of distress, in her state of misery. He sees what's going on, and then he can't just leave and walk away completely unchanged as a person. That would be uh pointless, right? If we go through an experience and walk away the same person, not any different, not any better, then it's almost pointless. What was it for? So Hazel learned from the sota-nuzir relationship, this is a lesson, this is a model for growth, for spirituality. That you see something, you do something. You see something, you say something. That's what the claw says. Well, we Jewish people say you see something, you do something. And the Nazir sees the sota, he has to now do something. He has to now separate. You know, in his own life, okay, for him, it's not touching wine, etc. But for anybody, when they take leave of something, when they have that preda and you take something with you, then in reality what happens is you never really separate. So that's the idea with the Tara is that yes, it's this, it's the we it's the day after, it's the week after, it's the it's parshnoso, it's no longer Shavu, it's no longer the Khasna. But if we could find something to take with us, then we keep the inspiration alive. And that that leads me to the next thing. And that was a question somebody asked me about the number 176. This is a relatively well-known idea that Parshish Naso is the longest parshnatar. It's not only the Hashem, he probably had in mind that my twin brother and I, not Rafi, Rafi's my older brother, but my twin brother and I, our Brahmisa Parsha be parshnaso. So I'm sure he had that in mind when he said, hey, let's make it the longest parsha. That way we could split it up. Fine, very good. But I think there's probably bigger, maybe deeper ideas. The longest parshnatora is 176 pushim, which has been pointed out in Svarim, is the exact same as the number of sukim in the longest capital of Telim, which is capital Kufy of Tas, 119. That's the one if everyone's on anyone's on a Telim chat, right? You pick okay, one through five, and all of a sudden when it gets to 118, like someone picks that and then it just stops. The chat becomes quiet, right? And you wait for you know what's happening out. I feel like we can really and then finally somebody says, Okay, uh, olive through base, right? And then finally you get to it, fine, you get to the 176 seconds a lot, but it's not coincidence, it's the exact same number. And we find a third example, which is any takers? Bababastra. So Bababastra, although not longest by words, bracos is longer, it by dothim, it is the longest. Now, if you look in, if you count, it really starts from doth base, which means it's really 175 daphim. But if you look, the last doth is kuf ayanv. It's really what it's called 176, and that's a separate discussion why we start from base. But the it's still 176, 176, 176. Um, so the question becomes what's what's Pesha? So I want to share with you um a couple of makeshabos on that. And it's it's not just a challenge, but it's it's it's an amazing thing to be able to talk about this, and I'll explain to you why. There's a sefa called Otser Plaosatora, which goes through wondrous um sections and wondrous topics, wondrous insights in the Torah, and he brings down this idea of the 176th Psukim of Parshas Noso. And he says it's a pellet, it's Mammisha wonder, the Ayyin B sefer Michal Hamayim. Look in the sefer Michal Hamayim, who brings this down. A lot of people throw out this idea: 176, 176, 176. It's not really clear exactly where the source is. He brings down a source from the sefer Michal Hamayim, and then he says something amazing, he says the Khoss of he writes, Kaksha Matiya Messiah. I have heard this is the Messiah, this is our tradition. Umisha Yo Dea Lidrosh Tam Bazh Yavo. Whoever um can come up, or whoever can try to darshin and come up with the Pshat of what's going on. 176 Psukin longest, longest kpeto, longest um Gemarah, let him come. Yavo, he should come, the Sharo Kaffulman Shemayim, and his reward is great. So I think it's an amazing opportunity for us gathered here to come together to try to um to learn something about uh about this. Um okay, so I want to share with you just a couple ideas and a few Gematrias. First of all, one of the most startling things to me that I utilized my calculator for was just figuring out something very simple math, and that is where do these three areas of tira fall? Meaning to say, Parshisnoso is what number partia of the tira? It's very easy to find out. You just count from Boracious. Took me a whole bunch of tries, and I did it twice. I used the stone chemic, which is amazing, and it hasn't the beginning, and it's the 35th, the 35th. So if you keep a khebrin, can you keep a khewrin? 35, 35th partiha, the terror is parsnoso. Very good. Plus. Capital Tess is pretty easy. It's capital, it's the 119th chapter of Tehelan. So 35 plus 119. And then we just have to figure out Baba Bansra, where does that fall in Shas? So you don't count Shgal. If you look, if you go through the Dafyomi and you count from the art scroll Shas, you're gonna be off because you're gonna count Shkolum, right? Because so you get to 23. But really, you don't count Shalam because that's part of your shallow me. It's just part of our Dafyomi tradition. Really, it's 22. If you add another 22, what do you get? 176. 176. I I I was fell out of my seat. Isn't that amazing? It's the again, obviously the the fact that they're all 176 is not is not random, but even their placement in their specific section of Tyra is it equals 176, which I thought was fascinating. Um that's Gamatria A. Gamatria B is like this. If you take 176 times three, why times three? Because what's the significance of 528? So, where's oh, here's my homage. If you look in this, a lot of times you want to try to find what the first time something appears in the tira, and there's tremendous significance. Obviously, any word in the tira has significance, but certainly the first time. So, what's the 528th word of the tira?

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Nothing. No. 177.

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The word the 107. Oh, no. Actually, I didn't even no, no. No. Um 528 is 528, sorry, just um it's a very significant, yeah.

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What number is that? Bob Raser.

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Bobasar is 176 staff.

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I know, but it's um where it's the it's the 22nd. 22nd the second.

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Yeah, it's the 22nd the second. So it equals 176 on the money. Okay, says the the Tara. Um in chapter two, Pasuk, I had it, now I lost it. So Shem, let me find it. Oh, here it is. Verse 7. Shem made us from the ground. Right, meaning we're a guf, that's the source that we are a guh. We're made from the lowest of the low. We mentioned before in this year that there's four elements, fundamental elements of creation. There's fire, there's wind, there's water, and the most magusham, the most gloryistic, the most physical, mundane is the earth. And we, the Jewish people, are created from the lowest, lowest earth, but we also have a soul, which is like the fire, which is is the highest of the high. And we're that combination. Adam, Adama ground, but also Adam Eloshun Adamed to become similar, Adam Le El Yod. That we have this capacity, okay? Adam is osios ma'od, very much, how much is very much? Well, I don't know. It's beyond measure, it's infinite, because that's the potentiality of man. So let's get to 528. Keep going in the past. God blew into man a living soul, a living spirit, and man became in the lushan of Unculus, Laruach Ma Malala, a talking spirit, meaning he was a mispalal, a davan or a prior. Lanefish Chaya means he became alive. The soul is what made a person into a chaya, meaning chai, chius, chai in life. That word, the end of that posak, chayah, is the 528th word of the tyran. So that's amazing in a couple of realms. Number one, first of all, this is the posak for the soul of man. The posak for the soul of man. Not only that, but that word chhaya, the Gemara Darshins, the Gomara Darshans in Tynus. Um, I'm not checking my WhatsApp right now because I have it on the phone and I was trying to see where it went. Oh the Gemar in Tynus. 212B. Omar Rabbiuda, Omar Rav, Rabbihuda said the name of Rav, my taimud rabiyosi. What's the reason of Rabbiosi? What does that mean? says the Gemar. Nishama Shinasati Bekha Hachyeh. The soul that I have given to you, preserve and sustain it. Our job and responsibility is Chaya. God blew into us a soul. Our job is to now sustain it, to preserve it. We'll see what's the most fundamental way to preserve the soul and to keep it alive, to keep to fan the with the bellows. What's the best way to do it? It's through the Tara. It's by living according to the Tarah. It's by learning to and by studying it and by living by it. And what's amazing is that word also, 528, not only is that word cha, which is our responsibility to preserve and sustain our Nishama, 528 is the Gemanchi of Mafteah, which means a key. Mafteach is the key. If we want to know the key, what the key is, maftah, the key to success, the key to life, how we're gonna open up doors towards a brighter future, towards a more meaningful present. The key is this. It's chaya, it's connecting to the soul, it's it's by fulfilling what the Gemara tells us, Haqyah, to sustain the Nishama. How do we do that? That's where I believe this 176 comes into play. 176 represents the longest chilec of Taira Shib Khsab. It's the longest chilec of Taira of Nach, Navim Ksuven, which is the right capital Kufiatas, and it's the longest shilek of Taira Shabalpet, which is Gomorrah Balabasa. So how amazing is that that and that it's Namish so what's Pashat the longest, by the way? Well, okay, we we're not the Yvanim, we don't care about uh medals. Okay, you have the longest. Well, we just said in Mar, right? The Torah is called length. The Torah is called long, right? What do we say about the Torah? Kihim Chayenu, it's our life. We're saying Chaya. Kihim Chayenu, the Uyrech, the menu, right, uh, yam valila, the Torah is the length of our days. So I was thinking about that. What does it mean the length of our days? It means that, right, length, uyrech is a is a measure. It's a measure of distance, it's a measure of length, a measure of height. Uyrech means that if you take a yardstick and try to measure this table, so so you'd use, you'd utilize every single, right? When you take a measuring stick and you utilize every single detail. Now you might be measuring in by feet, or you might be measuring by inches, but if you look very closely, there's little notches and dot and and lines, the more sophisticated of um, what's it called? A measuring tape, whatever it's a measuring tape, yeah, that's what it's called. But the more sophisticated is the more lines it has. You could go in detail and you and there's it's it's infinite levels and met ways of of measuring. The Torah is the yardstick, the Torah is our measuring block. The Torah is called Urich, the Torah is length because there's nothing in this world that's not taira in potential, meaning everything in our life, everything throughout our day can be one long taira, right? The the waking up to to to go to minion and and and go to work, and and obviously being kavayitim and having shalom bayas and and being mechanic children and whatever to going attending to Shirem, the entire day can be filled with taira when it's done in the proper way, when it's done in the proper context. This is the key. This is the maftech. And it's specifically the longest, because and I saw this idea actually brought down in the sefer from Ravellio Kitov and the Sefer Hato. Um, and that is right after Shavuas, the day when we were Makabal the Tira, that's specifically the time when we read Parsha's Nassa, the longest Parsha, because right, what right after Achasna, what do you do? So, yeah, a person can say Khasasham Lashanhar, but you rehash, right? You rehash the events and you talk about it, right? Especially if you're a female, you you talk, you talk, talk, talk about it. And we say this on Pesach, this concept, the Khalha Marbe, Hareza Meshubach. And that's the idea with Sipa Y T S Mut's trying. We're so in love, and it's it's such an amazing time. And the more you love something, the more you talk about it. The same idea is with the Tira. The Mishnah Pirgyeva says, um says the lush of Marbah and Hachaim, right? The more, the more, I forgot the lush exactly, but it says the more the more you increase in it, the more life you have. And there's this idea that the we specifically read the longest parsha in the taira right after Shavuas is because we don't want to let it go. We don't want there to be a prada. We we we want to continue it. We want to, we want to, we we're showing how much we we love it. We're showing how much it's the mamash imamish is the urechymenu. It fills every area and every aspect of our lives. There's nothing in our life that's that's not taira in potential. I mean, obviously, as sometimes we could turn up blindside and we could do to do wrong things, of course, we're human beings, but in I in the ideal realm, tirah is urechymenu. It's the length of our days. Every single notch, whether you're measuring in feet and inches and centimeters, millimilimeters, millipedes, centipedes, whatever, however it is you might be measuring, the millipedes and centipedes, those aren't measured, those are bugs, okay. But however it is you're measuring, it we're we're meant to infuse it with the tire. And so what what's amazing that emerges it becomes 176 in the tire, in the Nvsuvim, and in the tire Shabbal Pet, all it together is 528, which is the Mafteh, which is the key. What's that key? The key is this, the key is the chaya, the key is the ability, that that the ability to open that lock to uh to channel through and to be able to open new doorways, new vistas, new opportunities. And even in particular case, you may wonder, okay, well, so what are they about? I mean, so what fine, I get the the number, 176, the all of it, but what about what what is it about parsajnoso? And you could argue Paj Nasso, this it's not Mamash at the center, but one of the central elements of Parj Naso is the Birkas Kohanim. And the Birkas Kohanim is ultimate is ultimately a bracha of Tara. Like the Medrish says, right? It says, We're asking Kurushbar that he should illuminate his countenance. Uh Torah is called R, and the Medrish picks up on this, it says, this refers to the Mu'ur Tara, to the light of the Torah. The the Sefri points this out. The Squorno makes a connection between here and Tira. So there's a central part of Parsh's Nas in particular that represents the light of the Tara with the Birkaskayan. How do you find where do you find this idea of Torah as it relates to Kapital Kufiatas? So also Arts Grove has this beautiful payrish, and in it it actually brings down, it says that the lengthiest book of Tahilim in alphabetical arrangement, eight verses for each letter, it describes the ceaseless striving to faithfully live a Torah of true life, regardless of time, place, or circumstance or social environment. That's Mamish this idea that the Torah is Orech Yameinu. It's the length of our days. There's nothing, it's the yardstick, there's nothing that's not Torah. Whatever time, whatever place, whatever circumstance, whatever social environment, and that's learned Mamash from this capital, Kapital um Kofiotas, and then Bababasra, I don't know if this is more of a stretch, but we could think about it. Bababasra is the last of Baba, first of all, is a gate, right? And so it's interesting that we're talking about a key, because you need a key for a gate. Um, but Bababasra is the last, which talks a lot a bit about Rushuiah and transactions um and kinyonim. And ultimately, our goal, obviously, beyond the materialistic kinyonim, is we're to make a kinyon and to realize that um there's there to make a kinyan with the Tara that we have and to make to make that part of our Rushas, to make that part of our domain. And so, you know, putting all these ideas together, um, I think it comes out just an interesting um connection between all these 176. And I'll just share with you another idea. The Gemaran Brachlos 4b tells us, it refers to this capital and kofiotes as Tamanya Apin. It's eight, it's called eightfold. So it's in the realm of eight. Eight is Lamaila Munateva. And is specifically we're connecting to the idea, right? Eight is 22 times, eight is twenty two times eight, right? 20, sorry, 176 divided by eight. 176 divided by eight. There's 22, yeah. Okay, so there, so 22 letters in the ter to in the tire, right? Which uh Hashem looked in the terror creator. So the 22 letters are represent like the fabric of the of this world, times eight, eight is the number that's one element of taba, and that equals 176. This capital is called in the Gummar Timmania app, and it's eightfold because it's 22 sections. All it goes through all 22 letters and it's eight verses each, hence you have 176. And it's interesting again, this is right after Shavuas. Shavuas is Meloshun Shabbat, which is seven. Right, you shall count seven weeks, seven days. It's right, we were talking about that the Shavuas is connected to the Shivanakiyim. We were talking about that, right? Yeah, so Shivu, the the Sphere Salimir is all in the realm of seven. Seven times seven is 49. It represents Shivanaki. But what happens after that? Then there's mikveh, right? Then there's tirah. After seven, there becomes eight. It becomes the Mailamanateva, and it's specifically Parshish Nat. So it's specifically, which is 176, which is 22 times 8. It's specifically 176 linked to all the other 176s. Baba Basu, longest darishabapa. And then the and then this capital, Kufiotas. We're tapping into the Tamani appa into the eightfold. Eightfold means we're tapping into the Nateva. We're tapping into Nitsdays, we're tapping into eternity. This, my friends, I believe, is the key. This is the key for the Chaya. This is the key for that Nishama to sustain it, to protect it, is by tapping into the Torah. And it's a special sagula and opportunity that we have to connect it not just in moments of our day, but in every single moment if we have the right frame of mind. And we should be Zoika that the Torah shouldn't just be, it should be ki inchayenu, but it also should be the Urich Yamenu. It should be the length of the days, it should be the yardstick in which we measure everything and everything.