by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
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Imagine for a moment a tattooed drug-dealing biker right out of the 1960’s, and in less than two months, an avreich learning in the top Brisk yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel.
Sounds impossible?
Well, we did it.
During the seven weeks of the Omer, Klal Yisroel underwent a remarkable transformation. Between exiting Mitzrayim on Pesach to Shavuos, when we received the Torah, we went from the lowest spiritual level to the loftiest ever – becoming the Dor De’ah – the greatest generation that ever lived. Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l states (MRA Vol. III p. 13) that during the period of Sfiras HaOmer – we too can orchestrate within ourselves a similar transformation.
He writes, following the path of the great Maharal of Prague, that each day of the Omer correlates to one of the 48 ways in which Torah is acquired (Pirkei Avos 6:6). Below is a sfira calendar with the corresponding method of acquiring Torah – along with a short explanation. There is a difference between how Rav Aharon dealt with the discrepancy of one – Rav Aharon zatzal put it toward the end, while the Maharal put it in teh beginning.
Below is a printable, downloadable 2 page pdf of the this method of growth. The author suggests printing it on 2 sides of the same page and keeping it in your siddur or printing it out and laminating it for the family’s use.
Rav Aharon Sefiras HaOmer lzchus
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Rabbi Yair Hoffman, I think it’s timely to write to the many of your 5 towners that are vacationing in Florida this Pesach (or anytime for that matter), that they should not be supporting and/or taking their children to any Disney theme parks. Look at what they are trying to do to our young children far and wide by corrupting them in a very anti-Torah way. Orthodox Jews/any G-d fearing person/anyone with family values, needs to stay far away from such disgusting people with disgusting ideologies. Rabbi Hoffman, would you have the tenacity to do the right thing, even though It may step on the toes of many of your followers? Huh??
” in the top Brisk yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel”
Stereotype much? Are you really suggesting that’s the pinnacle of success that one can go mekatzeh el katzeh? Not ponevetz or chevron or a dozen of other places? Why not just write from the lowest of the low to the highest peak? I don’t get the 1960s either, I think the crack epidemic of the 80s of the meth craze of the 2010s beats that by a mile.
Just read the Psukim and you’ll see that the Yidden were not so low in Mitzrayim and they were not so high by Matan Torah.
The problem is of course that in even less time (only forty days) we were worshipping the Eigel. Such quick transformations never work; anyone involved in kiruv will confirm it.
To the extent the account you present is true at all, it didn’t work then and it won’t work now.