Today is the
second day of Adar Bet  

Or the
second Adar  

Explain
lunar vs solar  

​כג וְדָבָ֖ר
בְּעִתּ֣וֹ מַה־טּֽוֹב: 

354 vs 365  

Chinese New
Year 

Ramadan  

“We can’t do
that because we’re guided by our Torah, which says Passover must come in the spring
when we plant, and that things need to be growing during the time of Shavuot
and harvested during Sukkot. Hillel realized that, if we stayed strictly lunar,
things would soon get out of kilter, and he put in a system to fix that with
the leap year.” 

We are all
familiar with a leap year 

This year we
had a February 29th – Every four years we have a leap year with the
exception of the Century year  

Tradition
has it that it was the great sage Hillel, head of the Sanhedrin from 320 to 385
C.E. who created the Jewish calendar through some pretty sophisticated
mathematical and astronomical calculations. And without a computer or
calculator. (and although some months can be off by a day, we stick with it)
The result: A 19-year cycle with seven leap years to anchor the holidays in
their rightful place. 

Prior
to that time, the Torah told us to DECLARE the New Moon by the Testimony of two
witnesses. In other words, Man declares the New Moon and the moon and sun
adjust their relationship to comply with the consciousness of man. IN OTHER
WORDS this Mitzvah to declare the New Moon is a manifestation of Mind Over
Matter and it is important in the individuals spiritual growth to achieve this
level of consciousness. 

In
this calendar, in use today, there are 7 years in a total of 19 years where we
add an additional month for a total of 13 months. In Hebrew the word that is
used (usually translated as leap year) Shanah Me'uberet, has a Shoresh (root)
that means pregnant. The explanation for this is that we need to keep the
Holiday of Pesach in the Spring which is called Aviv in the Torah. 

Prior
to this current calendar, other criteria was used to determine which years had
an additional month. An additional month was added when 2 of the following 3
criteria were met. The 3 Criteria are  

1) The
state of the barley crop at the end of the 12th month;  

2) the
fruits of the Trees; and  

3)
the equinox.  

As
we can see from the Talmud and Baraita below, the main issue is the state of
the barley crop. The teaching is that the state of the barley crop must reach a
level called Aviv, such that in 2 to 3 weeks the barley can be brought to the
Temple as a wave offering. If the barley does not reach this level of growth by
the end of the 12th month then the Bringing of the Omer on the second day of
Pesach cannot be done with the new crop. 

Why Adar  

Tosafot
Sanhedrin 12 

Only Adar  

Based on
Esther  

12th month
is Adar  

Adar must be
12  

Add one
afterwards  

If you add
another month before, than Adar wouldn’t be 12 

Increase joy
Adar  

If choice to
double joy 

Adar  

Lubavitcher Rebbe  

Batel
beshishim  

All have
troubles  

60 days of
joy  

Nullify
trouble  

Why
is the word in Hebrew that means leap year using the Shoresh that means
Pregnant. Pregnancy is a state of development manifesting potential. What does
this mean? When a child is born he is beginning the manifestation of all of the
light that he will reveal in his life. At the moment of birth he is starting to
reveal his potential. Will he achieve all that he can be? No one knows at that
moment but his potential is beginning its manifestation. Therefore, the
pregnancy is actually the manifestation of what that child can achieve in
potential. 

The
13th month represents a state of potential relating to unity.  

We’ll
come back to unity relating to 13, but if I forget remind me.  

In less than
two weeks, we celebrate Purim  

Why call it Purim
?  

Purim is the name of the holiday that is
explained in the Megillah as being al shem haPur, hu hagoral.  

Isn’t that
bad day ?  

Lottery
against us.  

Maybe name the
day Yom Hafucha – The Day of reversal? Or day of salvation  

Also why Pruim which is plural  

Come back to that !  

Halachot
Ketanot - Rabbi yisrael yaakov Hagiz  

Jacob Hagiz (1620–1674) (Hebrew: יעקב חגיז Fes, Morocco.
 

1646, Ḥagiz went to Italy for the purpose of publishing his books,
and remained there until after 1656, supporting himself by teaching.  

Samuel di Pam, rabbi
at Livorno, calls himself a pupil of Ḥagiz.  

About 1657, Ḥagiz left Livorno for Jerusalem,
where the Vega brothers of Livorno had founded a beit
midrash for him,[2] and where he became a member of the
rabbinical college.   

Many
students  

R. Chizkiyah
da Silva author of Pri Chadash 

Well known
story  

Two brothers
 

Reuben born
first  

Shimon
second  

Shimon bar
mitzvah first  

How  

Born leap
year  

Reuben 29 of
aleph  

Shimon 1
Adar bet  

Bar mitzvah
non leap  

Shimon first
 

He goes on,
and he states that when it comes to brothers respecting one, another, the older
brother based on birth has to respect the younger brother based on months  

He also
brings this with regard to Yibum  

He suggests
the possibility that this situation occurred between Jacob and his brother Esav 

Esav was
born last day Adar 1, while Jacob came out first day Adar 2  

Although
this is puzzling based on the verse holding his brothers heel  

And even that is puzzling as same amniotic sack?   

A single placenta normally supports a single fetus. When the situation
arises in which two fetuses have to share a single placenta, complications may
sometimes develop. Identical twins that share a single placenta are called
monochorionic twins (MC). “Chorion” is the Latin root that refers to the
placenta, while the word “amnion” refers to the sac, or “membranes” that
surround each fetus. While fraternal twins (2 eggs and 2 sperm) are always
surrounded in their own sacs and have their own individual placentas, 70% of
identical twins may end up sharing a single placenta. Only 1% of identical
twins share both a single placenta and a single sac, and this poses significant
risk. 

Were they identical ? 

Rabbi suggest yes, other than red and ruddy.  

twins with identical DNA can also show variations by the time
they are born, which may result in different hair. 

They get equal amounts of nuclear DNA(comes from both parents) but not
neccessarily equal amounts of mitochondiral DNA (different DNA only from the
mother). This can appear as minor differences in how they look. They still have
identical DNA but not always the same amount of mitochondiral DNA. 

But lets
stick with the Rabbi’s suggestion  

Rabbi
Mansour asks  

Why Goyim
have so many Gezerot against declaring month  

I would
suggest they don’t want us to control time  

But perhaps
it has to do with declaring a leap year  

Maybe relating
to the birthright of Jacob vs Esau 

Gemarah of Yevamot
tells of two rabbis sabotaged by edomi  

Maharsha
goes so far to suggest there is a Military advantage here  

Shmuel Eidels (1555 – 1631) (Hebrew: שמואל אליעזר הלוי איידלס Shmuel Eliezer HaLevi Eidels) was a
renowned rabbi and Talmudist famous
for his commentary on the Talmud, Chiddushei Halachot. Eidels is
also known as Maharsha (מהרש'א,[1] a Hebrew acronym for 'Our Teacher, the Rabbi Shmuel
Eidels'). 

his mother Gitel was a
cousin of Rabbi Yehuda
Loew, the Maharal of
Prague, and his father 'was a direct descendant of Rabbi Yehuda HaChasid.' 

Our Rabbi, Haham Ezra
Attieh, 31 January 1885 – 25 May 1970) who was the head of Porat Yosef
stated that of all the commentaries written on the Torah, that of the Maharsha
was the favorite  

Just to keep in mind: His
students included: Ovadia Yosef and Mordechai Eliyahu, future Sephardic Chief
Rabbis of
Israel; Yitzchak
Kaduri, renowned
kabbalist; Yehuda
Tzadka, who succeeded
him as rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef; Ben Zion Abba Shaul; Baruch Ben Haim,
who became a leader of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York; Eliyahu
Ben Haim, rabbi of the
Mashadi community in Great Neck, New York; and Zion Levy,
Chief Rabbi of Panama. 

Yishmael  

Esav 

Normally
hate each other  

Except when
it comes to us. That is unfortunately when they can get together it is
extremely dangerous 

We
mentioned: Esau took Mahalath from the
house of Ishmael to be his wife, after seeing that Canaanite wives displeased
his father, Isaac (Genesis 28:6–9). We also had a class on how Yaakov counters
this.  

After Esau saw that his
father Isaac had ordered Jacob not to take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,
he abandoned his evil ways and married Mahalath, the daughter of his uncle Ishmael. By merit
of this marriage, the Holy One, blessed be He, forgave Esau all his sins
(Jerusalem Talmud Bikkurim 3:3,
65c–d). Mahalath’s name indicates that God pardoned (mahal) Esau.  

However, according to
another view, Esau did not mend his ways and Mahalath was as evil as his
first two wives (Midrash Aggadah). This
later marriage was also the result of negative motives: Esau plotted together
with Ishmael to kill Isaac and Jacob, to marry the daughter of Ishmael, and to
inherit both families.  

Accordingly, his marriage to
Mahalath was ke-mahalah (as
an affliction) and only increased the pain his parents had suffered upon his
first marriages Gen. Rabbah 

The Rabbi
brings that Esav is associated with 12  

Yishmael 12
families  

Yisrael seem
12  

How?  

· Twelve tribes of Israel - שנים עשר שיבטיא - Sons of Jacob 

· Ritual items frequently came in twelves to represent the
role of each tribe. The high priest's breastplate (hoshen) had twelve precious stones embedded
within them, representing the 12 tribes. Elijah built his altar with 12 stones
to represent the tribes,[11] Moses
built 12 pillars at Sinai representing the tribes,[12] and
Joshua erected twelve memorial stones at the Jordan River representing the
tribes.[13] 

· 'All of God's creations are equal in number to the 12
tribes: 12 astrological signs, 12 months, 12 hours of
the day, 12 hours of the night, 12 stones that Aaron [the high priest] would
wear.'[14] 

· The Temple
Mount could be accessed through twelve gates 

· There were twelve loaves of show-bread on the shulchan (table)
in the Beit
Hamikdash 

· Number of springs of water Elim 

But Yaakov
gives double to Yosef  

12 plus one  

When does
the 13th take affect? 

It takes
affect during the leap year when we have the 13th month and that’s why in the
leap year when we have the 13th month, we are more tuned to overcome our
enemies because 13 will overcome the 12. 

(I think
also that the 13 in many ways corresponds to the Levi’s and the question of
Bringing the scholars in to fight is an interesting one as it relates to this.) 

Maharsha says
that each of the 12 months is broken down to one of the tribes and the 12th
month relates to JOSEPH and I’m guessing this is part of the idea behind the
Pisces fish. 

And when
there’s a 13th month it relates to the additional tribe of JOSEPH. 

It’s
interesting to guess – is the world afraid of the number 13 and does the world
associate 13 with black magic, because just as Moses is depicted with horns by
Michael Angelo in his misunderstanding of Keren Or, the devil is depicted with
similar horns, do they associate the negativity of 13 with us? 

There are
Jews still alive who can remember being told that they could not possibly be
Jews because they had no horns on their heads. I am one of them. Until recently
this belief was fairly common in backward rural areas both in Europe and in the
United States—areas where normally no Jews were to be seen. It may well persist
in remote corners even today. 

I was
perhaps 17 and met a girl in the Electronics store where I worked on Fifth
Avenue. She had just arrived in the states from Northern parts of Norway.  

In a similar
way : Researchers estimate that as many as 10 percent of the U.S. population
has a huge fear of the number 13, and each year the even more specific fear of
Friday the 13th, known as paraskevidekatriaphobia, results in financial losses
in excess of a billion dollars annually, as people avoid marrying, traveling or
in the most severe cases, even working. But what’s so unlucky about the number
13, and how did this numerical superstition get started? 

An early
myth surrounding the origin of the fear involved one of the world’s oldest
legal documents, the Code of Hammurabi, which reportedly omitted a 13th law
from its list of legal rules.  

Mathematicians
and scientists, meanwhile, point to preeminence of the number 12, often
considered a “perfect” number, in the ancient world. The ancient Sumerians
developed numeral system based on the use of 12 that is still used for
measuring time today. Most calendars have 12 months; a single day is comprised
of two 12-hour half days, etc. Following so closely on the heels of a “perfect”
number, some argue, that 13 was sure to be found lacking and unusual.  

This fear of
the unknown would seem to play into two other popular theories for the number’s
unlucky connotation, both of which revolve around the appearance of a 13th
guest at two ancient events:  

ancient
Norse lore holds that evil and turmoil were first introduced in the world by
the appearance of the treacherous and mischievous god Loki at a dinner party in
Valhalla. He was the 13th guest, upsetting the balance of the 12 gods already
in attendance. 

But more
relative to us, Christians hold that Judas was the 13th guest to arrive at the
Last Supper, is the person who betrays Yeshu – and obviously relates to their
hatred of us and accusations of Deicide finaly refuted by the Church in 1965  

According to
the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina,
more than 80 percent of hi-rise buildings in the United States do not have a
13th floor, and the vast majority of hotels, hospitals and airports avoid using
the number for rooms and gates as well.  

Returning to
Yosef who relates to both number 12 and 13 through Ephraim and Menashe  

Additionally,
we know that Joseph was blessed to multiply like the fish below the sea, and we
also relate the fish below the sea to those beyond the evil eye, and not
susceptible to the evil eye,  

Additionally,
the only sign of the horoscope, which is a two distinct individual Images is
the sign of Pisces which is fish. Gemini may relate to twins, but they are Siamese
twins, who are one and connected.  

Pisces
relates to this month which can be two or one 

There is no
13th astrological sign 

And perhaps
this relates to the idea of En Mazal  

Each Rosh
Hodesh  

Count words
of blessings  

חַדֵּשׁ עָלֵינוּ אֶת
הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לְטוֹבָה וְלִבְרָכָה, לְשָׂשׂוֹן וּלְשִׂמְחָה, לִישׁוּעָה
וּלְנֶחָמָה, לְפַרְנָסָה וּלְכַלְכָּלָה, לְחַיִּים טוֹבִים וּלְשָׁלוֹם,
לִמְחִילַת חֵטְא, וְלִסְלִיחַת עָוֹן, בשנה מעוברת אומרים: וּלְכַפָּרַת פֶּשַׁע.
וְיִהְיֶה רֹאשׁ הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה סוֹף וָקֵץ לכָל צָרוֹתֵינוּ, תְּחִלָּה וָרֹאשׁ
לְפִדְיוֹן נַפְשֵׁנוּ, כִּי בְעַמְּךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל מִכָּל הָאֻמּוֹת בָּחַרְתָּ,
וְחֻקֵּי רָאשֵׁי חֳדָשִׁים לָהֶם קָבָעְתָּ: בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה , מְקַדֵּשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל וְרָאשֵׁי חֳדָשִׁים: 

12  

Relates to
each per month  

Leap year we
change  

Kapara pesha
 

Pesha
criminal committing sins continually  

This month  

End
suffering  

Beginning
our redemption  

Baruch Atah
Hashem  

Seruf of
Havaya  

Relate to
verse  

Adar Bet  

Think all  

Carries
blessing of all 12  

In the
blessing of the month there is a kavana – a thought when saying Hashems name we
imagine it in one of 12 combinations  

Also found
it interesting that the thought during the blessing of the month for this 13th
month is to take all of the names and combine them. 

So the power
for the children of Israel is compounded when there is a leap year relating to
the 13. 

We mentioned
in the class on Sunday the words of Rabbeynu Bachya when it comes to the war
with AMALEK  

בחר לנו אנשים,
“choose men for us!” The Amalekites were expert astrologers (compare Rashi; our
edition מכשפים, sorcerers). Moses meant that Joshua should select men who
according to their horoscopes would not die during the current year, something
Moses was aware of due to his own knowledge of astrology. The two armies facing
each other would all consist of soldiers who according to their respective
horoscopes would not die during that year.  

The Rabbi
suggested that Amalek chose warriors who’s birthday was that day and Joshua
chose those born in Adar Bet who whold not be subject to the sorcery of Amalek  

As a result
of these considerations neither army inflicted fatal casualties on the other
during this encounter. This is what is meant when the Torah reports the outcome
of the battle as: “Joshua weakened Amalek and his people by the sword.” The
Torah carefully refrained from mentioning that the Israelites actually killed
any of the Amalekites.  

Returning to
Purim:  

We had
mentioned the previous years that the rabbi suggested that how did Mordechai
mess up Herman‘s plans? He declared the year a leap year, thus realigning
astrological impact. 

We need to
ask: Did Purim fall in First or Second Adar?  

some say
(based on the Talmud Yerushalmi) that the miracle of Purim happened on a leap
year in the first Adar, (that makes sense to me as the Megillah speaks of the
12th month) nevertheless, the commentaries on the Yerushalmi (Korban HaEdah is a running commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud
by Rabbi David ben Naphtali Frankel, chief rabbi of Berlin in the mid-18th
century. And The Penei
Moshe (“The Face of Moses”) is the
earliest known commentary on the entire Jerusalem Talmud, composed in the 18th
century by Rabbi Moshe Margalit.) explain that the miracle of Purim actually occurred in the
second Adar.  

Thus, we too
shall begin to increase our joy beginning from Rosh Chodesh Adar II. ! 

Benai
Issachar  

But the
Benai Issachar says that when we look at the verses in the book of Esther,  

בַּחֹ֤דֶשׁ
הָרִאשׁוֹן֙ הוּא־חֹ֣דֶשׁ נִיסָ֔ן בִּשְׁנַת֙ שְׁתֵּ֣ים עֶשְׂרֵ֔ה לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ
אֲחַשְׁוֵר֑וֹשׁ הִפִּ֣יל פּוּר֩ ה֨וּא הַגּוֹרָ֜ל לִפְנֵ֣י הָמָ֗ן
מִיּ֧וֹם ׀ לְי֛וֹם וּמֵחֹ֛דֶשׁ לְחֹ֥דֶשׁ שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֖ר הוּא־חֹ֥דֶשׁ אֲדָֽר 

which tells
us about he set up a drawing, we don’t define he, but it was set up in front of
Haman.  

Considering
that it was in front of Heyman that it must’ve been someone else who set this
up  

Even Rashi: Whoever cast, cast, and the verse does not specify who [cast the pur].
This is an abbreviated verse. 

and he
suggests that someone else, the He, is none other than God, who set this up
With Haman thinking that it was him so he should fall into a trap. 

Now some
might suggest that due to his blind hatred, he didn’t realize that this was in
fact, a trap and dangerous as this month had negative ramifications for his
ancestor piece of, and also for his ancestor Who fought in the war. 

But I would
like to suggest that he believed otherwise. 

The
mazal[1] of the month of Adar, as is well-known, is dagim – fish. 

There
is a well-known Gemara: When Haman cast lots (purim) in order to decide which
month to destroy the Jewish people, it landed on the month of Adar, the month
where Moshe Rabbeinu left the world, and therefore he grew very happy, taking
this is a sign that it will be a month of bad mazal for the Jewish people.[2] 

Elsewhere,
Chazal state a different reason of why Haman rejoiced. In the words of the
Midrash in Esther Rabbah, Haman was happy that the lot fell on Adar because the
mazal of Adar is fish, and fish can be swallowed.[3] 

The
Gemara elsewhere says that “Just as big fish swallow the smaller fish, so would
people swallow each other, if not for fear of the government”. Amalek did not
fear Hashem when they attacked the Jewish people in the desert. They were
missing fear of a higher authority, so they did not care to swallow others.
Haman, who descended from Amalek - the nation that does not fear Hashem – was
ready to ‘swallow’ the Jewish people, for his lot landed on the month of Adar,
the mazal of fish, which can get swallowed alive. Thus, we can now better
understand why Haman rejoiced when the lot that he cast fell on the month Adar. 

What was Haman’s downfall? Chazal
say that Haman overlooked the fact that “Just as fish can swallow, so can they
be swallowed.”[4] 

Additionally, The
Gemara says that “the fish do not meet the sunlight, because they are always
covered by the water. There is also a Gemara that says that “The face of Moshe
is like the face of the sun.”[5] In other words, the spiritual light of Moshe
Rabbeinu, which is compared to the sunlight, cannot reach where the fish are. 

Thus,
the depth of why Haman rejoiced was not simply because it was the month where
Moshe expired (as is well-known, Moshe expired on the 7th of Adar, and the
number 7 in Hebrew is ז, which is equal in gematria to the word דג\fish).
Rather, it is because the spiritual power of Moshe is compared to the sun’s
light, which does not reach the fish. 

That
is the depth of why Haman rejoiced: since the mazal of Adar is fish, he thought
that Moshe Rabbeinu’s merits would not be able to protect the Jews in the month
of Adar, because the light of the “sun” cannot reach the “fish”. So it wasn’t
simply because Adar was the month where Moshe left the world; it was because
even if Moshe were to have remained alive in the month of Adar, his light
cannot reach the “fish”. This insight made Haman confident that in the month of
Adar, he will be able to destroy all the Jews. 

Returning to
Benai Issachar says 

He is
suggesting that he knew it would be a leap year and I guess sometimes you can
know based on Passover needing to come out in the spring and he was happy
selecting the 13th day of the 13th month. To him that might’ve been the most
unlucky day.   

Returning to
the question: We asked why we call it Purim  

God picked
pur  

G-d set
everything in motion  

And although
there was a Pur below, it was governed by the Pur above 

Perhaps this
is the plural Purim.  

Deciding on
leap year 

Midrash 

Vayikra  

29/4 

R Yehoshua  

Discusses
what occurs when the leap year is reviewed. 

The Rabbis
meet to review the parameters, and it says that God basically leaves his
business of heaven and constricts Himself so that his presence is fully bound with
them because they are deciding the calendar and whether they are mistaken or
correct He Agrees with whatever decision they make and blesses it 

So this 13th
month is something that is imbued with an extra blessing from above 

So in
essence, Haman made all of these calculations and thought he was right, but was
subject to something completely beyond nature. 

It’s
impossible for us not to think, even though we can never try to imagine, we
understand heaven‘s thoughts, that this month, and this year, With our month
coinciding with the Muslim month of Ramadan, and even the Christian where they will
celebrate Easter, which normally coincides with Passover but not this year  

and where Sinwar
Y’S who we can call Amalek, is justifying not having a cease-fire, because he
thinks that the power of this month of Ramadan is with him to lead him to force
the Jewish people because of the Muslim holiday,  

that’s the
month that he should fall.  

At the same
time we’ve come so far because we’ve shown unity and I shudder, and I’m so
afraid that this whole discussion of conscripting, the students will not
backfire. Because the only way that we can have success is when we have unity. 

Explain 13
Unity  

Finally
relating to Friday the 13th  

Each day we
say the Mizmor of the day  

Hayom yom echad,
sheni or shelishi  

But on
Friday Not You shishi 

Yom hashishi
 

We add the
Heh  

Rabbis
suggest  

Ha/5 

Shishi/ 6 

Letters / 3 

365 

We can say
Shesah Gidey  

But I heard
from Rabbi Galimidi   

Third month
Sivan  

Sixth day of
month  

Five books  

Yom Hashishi
vayechilu hashamayim  

The entire
world for based on Torah 

This is
Friday  

And what
about 13 

13 bar
mitzvah  

Yag midot  

Rules
learning  

In
Yishtabach - . א שִׁיר, ב וּשְׁבָחָה, ג הַלֵּל, ד וְזִמְרָה, ה עֹז,
ו וּמֶמְשָׁלָה, ז נֶֽצַח, ח גְּדֻלָּה, ט גְּבוּרָה, י תְּהִלָּה, יא
וְתִפְאֶֽרֶת, יב קְדֻשָּׁה, יג וּמַלְכוּת. 

Vehu rachum  

Love ahava  

One echad  

Avot  

Imahot  

13 beyond
nature  

13 reminds
us we are beyond nature 

Everything
in Judaism is to go beyond nature 

Our
existence is beyond nature  

7 is nature  

But we
relate to 8 – Brit Milah, Hanukkah  

49 Nature,
we strive for 50  

Same way 12
is nature 

World Happy
with that  

This 13th
month is truly a month beyond natural limitations of 12  

Everything
in Judaism is to go beyond nature 

Our
existence is beyond nature  

This is a
month without limitations  

Without
blockages  

Where
anything is possible  

Lets take
advantage and connect