The Mysterious Shape of Israel
I imagine that you're watching this right now because you saw the title and you're curious as to the mysterious shape of Israel. Land of Israel, Erit Yisral, the Holy Land. What is it? What's going on? But before I delve into that, I just want to thank the sponsors for this video. I'm kidding, there actually were no sponsors, but if you'd like to sponsor a future video episode or something like that, please reach out to me and uh we could make it happen. So, Erit Yisrael, the holy land, the land of the Jewish people, the land that God promises, the land that's flowing with milk and honey, that land, it's it's unique. It's tiny. It seems like everybody wants at it. It seems like the whole world is focused on that, right? The main headlines on the news are about this tiny, tiny country the size of Rhode Island or something like that. I don't know if it's a little bigger or smaller. I don't have the exact coordinates, but maybe next time I should have prepared that in advance. What's going on? What what and the it's a it's a unique, I mean every country is uniquely shaped, right? Um and Ergy Strelb, though, the the Holy Land, it it's interesting. It's like almost like a line, right? Has a little fat in the middle and it goes down. What is the shape? And for years I've been trying to figure it out and wonder. And just a couple months ago, I chanced upon a safer, a book written by the the Nitziv, Hamek Davar. And in there he actually says something remarkable. And I want to share that with you because it's very relevant for the time, the tekufah that we're in right now, the time period of Svirus Omar, the journey from Pesach to Shavuas. How so? Let's put this all together. So says the Hamekdavar, the Nitziv, the shape of the Aretisral is the tsura of a dog. It's the shape of a fish. And it's not just any fish, it's an upside-down fish because the shape of Aretisral, he explains, is based on the Yerusha, on the inheritance of the Shvatim, where he describes the tribe of Yehuda in the Dharam in the south. That's like the point on the bottom, and then slowly it emerges up, and right there the Jerusalem, the capital, Yushalaim, is more in the in the center by the wider part. And then it gets thinner again. So if you could imagine a fish upside down, that's exactly Eritus' throat. It's like this and goes up like that, right? It's in a fascinating imagery because Klayus, the Jewish people, are indeed compared to the fish. One of the great blessings that Yaqovinu bestowed upon us was the yidgu laroyev bekarev ha'aretz, that you're going to be like fish. But literally, Bekarav'arets in the midst of the land, meaning the land, the shape of the land, explains Damik Dabra. He's going on that. The fact that the Pasik says the Tara tells us Bekarev Ha'aretz, that the land is going to be shaped like the tsurah, like the shape of a fish. And there's this tremendous imagery here because surrounded, it's the center of the world. We know that the morale tells us that, right? Every circle has a center, and the center of the world is Erath Kardash. It's the holy land, it's Israel. And that center is a fish. How interesting. And there's an important lesson here because Erit Israel is surrounded by so many people who hate it, by so many countries who want its annihilation and destruction, right? And in a world that is confronting against this holy land, the land of Israel stands with its imagery as an upside-down fish. What's the imagery of an upside-down fish? It's exactly how it sounds. An upside down fish represents a fish that swims, kneegat Hazarim, against the current. This is the simonym of a kosher fish. The simonitara to be of for a in order for a fish to be kosher, it needs to require it has two requirements. It has to have fins and scales. What does that do? And the the Mefarshim, the commentaries explain that what the fins and do allow is it allows the fish to swim, canegat haserim. It allows the fish to go against the current. There's so many species of fish that just gets swallowed up. Whatever the current of the sea is taking it, that's where they're gonna go. But the Jewish people are compared to the kosher fish, the fish. Artistral is a fish that's upside down. It's because we're meant to be with fins and scales to go against the current, where there could be a world, a boatload of shekar and falsehood coming against us, but we're meant to swim against that. And we're meant to combat that in a way. How do we combat that? We combat that with our moral compass. We combat that with learning Torah, we combat that by doing more mitzvous, we combat that by giving more to combat that by having shown bias, by we combat that with all the stuff that we do. We combat that with the tire that we have. And it's fascinating that this journey of Sphir Sa Omer is in the realm of fish as well. You know, Klay Sol, after they left Mitzraim, the Exodus, right? It what what happened seven days later, which by the way, seven is numerical value, Daled Gimel, which is dog, fish. Fish days later, dog days later, the Jewish people were at a were at a crossover, right? How are we gonna emerge? There's the Egyptians coming behind us, there's a raging sea in front of us, the Madras explains that there are wild animals on both sides, and they happened to be hungry at the time. The Jewish people were stuck. But what happened? The sea split and water surrounded them on all sides, and they emerged through the water. What's that imagery of us, the Jewish people, going through the sea, the Krias Yamsov? It's an imagery of us becoming fish. We left Mitzraim and now we needed to become fish. The Yidgularov, Bekar of Arts, and now we have a spiritual journey of where we're swimming through the world against the current, heading towards where the mountain. The mountain is where we received the tirah. The tirah is compared to water. That's ultimately our goal to get back into that water, right? In a state of Tumma, and in Mitraim was in the 49th level of Tummah, we were a fish out of water. We were grappling and grasping, and many of the Jewish people, four-fifths, in fact, perished. But there were a select few that tried that remained, quote unquote, in the water. They remained connected to that life source. And that's the journey of Svir Sa'imer is to connect to the Tarah is to connect to that water because at the end of the day, we need just like a fish needs water to survive. It doesn't even want to go onto the land. It has no desire to do so. We are meant to be like fish, right? By a ha what was it? The Torah describes the Jewish people going through the water. That it was like Bayamba, Yabasha. It was a mixture of water and on dry land. And that's the Jewish people. We're meant to be like fish, but Bekaravar, it's on the dry land. We're meant to be fish on this world. We are the manifestation, just like fish who live in their own isolated place and survive by swinging against the current with their fins in the scales, right? That's how these fish survive in the water. Claustral is that map is the manifestation of fish here as a people. And the Artistral is shaped like a fish. This is our this is who we are. And I'll tell you something fascinating I saw in a safer, one of the unmarried from Baranovich, and he said that he proves that the days of Sphir Salmar are so in fact connected with the idea of fish. How so? The Hebrew word for fish is dug, but the numerical, seminal numerical, the Aramaic word for fish is a nuna. A nuna is a fish. What is that word nuna? Nuna also means nun, which is fifty. How many days are in Sphir's Omar? 50. The entire 50 days represents a nuna. 50 days represents the fact that we are fish becoming more fishy, becoming more fish-like, becoming more connected to the water, more connected to the source, more connected to real life and vitality, more connected to swimming against the Zara, right? That's the Daisy Sphere, but I'll tell you something even more. Says that I saw this in that sefer from the the Admir. The Sefer is called Urvasukha, I believe. And he says that the if you look at the Svira is called Svira is uh Yesaper Nun to count 50, right? Saper nun means to count 50. What is that when you when you rearrange the letters of Yesaper Nun? So these are represent the fins and the scales. The senapir, the kaskes, senapier are the fins. Senapir is the same letters as yesaper nun to count 50. Kaskeses, which are the scales. Kaskeses has a numerical value of 1200. Do you know how many hours are in the 50-day period? How many hours are in the 50 days of Svirus Omer? How many? If you do the math, it equals exactly 1,200. There are 1,200 hours. 1200 is the match of Kaskesis. There's Kaskesis hours and they may have Svira. Sinopir is nun, you sap your nun to count 50. I'm telling you, you can't make this stuff up. These days of Sirius Olimer is all about becoming more fish-like. And it's an important reminder for us to stay connected to the water, to stay, to really try to think about what's our real thirst. Because we have we we, you know, in a physical world we're thirsty for this and thirsty for that for this uh desire and this, but our our soul truly desires one thing and one thing only, like something you could really be quenched. People, you know, after a long workout, you try to quench yourself with a bottle of soda, you're gonna be you're gonna not feel so good afterwards, and you're gonna still be thirsty. The only real way to quench yourself is with some type of either an energy drink, Power Aid or Vitamin Water, or something like that. Some might argue on that. But the main thing is water. Water really quenches, and the same thing in life. There's only we try to quench our thirst by all these different things that are out there. There's so much physical and there's so much materialism that that's out there. We try to quench our thirst for desire for connection with those things. When in reality, the only real thing that can do that for us, the only real thing is Hoitzum Elichol Umayan, right? It's the water of Tairah. It's that water that could really nourish us. It's that water, that connection that represents the real connection, the connection with the Ibishhthar, the connection with the Karashbarakua, and we should all talk about Isaiah, to embrace our fish-like status, to realize that we are that blessing of Yidgularo of Bekarva Arts, that we as a people are fish, our land is like a fish, and without any doubts, without any uh other types of focus, we are zeroed in and on a mission. We're staying in the water, we're staying in this water, and whatever it takes, we're gonna swim against the current, even if that current is strong and it does get stronger and stronger the closer we get to the end of time, and it gets stronger and stronger, but we have to remain stronger and become more connected to the tie reath, more connected to each other. But care of art also represents kirva, to be close to the people, right? This was a time period of shalonagu covod Zelezeb, and many it didn't perished, but it's a time period to work on becoming more carved to one another, to becoming more carved to Akurish Barku, more carved to ourselves, more carved to the things that are real, and Ritzhan we shall be to become the fish that we're meant to be. We should you all the best.
