KABBALAH Reincarnation Secret of Birkat Ha’ilanot Blossoming Fruit Trees PESACH

0:10One of the very interesting things about Pesach is that in most parts of the world, it's the time when you do a bracha called Birkat HaIlanot. Birkat HaIlanot is a blessing over blossoming fruit trees. So, in many places around the world, this is the time when fruits blossom. Now, if you look at the halachot, if the fruit is already out, meaning it's, let's say, a full tree of apples, it's too late. But if, let's say, part of the tree already has fruits that came out and part of the tree is just blossoming, then you can do a blessing on it. shot, the simple reason is that we're blessing HaKadosh Baruch Hu that every year He renews every day. He renews the world, but every year He renews this tree. This tree gave out all the fruits, people took the fruits, nothing was left, and then you see winter come, it looks like the tree's dying and...

1:32the simple reason is that we're blessing Hakadosh Baruch Hu that every year He renews, every day He renews the world, but every year He renews this tree. This tree gave out all the fruits, people took the fruits, nothing was left, and then you see winter come, it looks like the tree is dying and... You know, all the leaves fall off, everything falls off. There are no fruits. There are no trees. There's nothing. It looks like a dead tree. If it's the first time you ever saw a tree, you would think, "Ah, this poor guy died." But then, as you would have it, you see this amazing tree blossom all over, brand new. All the petals come out, the flowers come out, the fruits come out, brand new, like unbelievable, every year, over and over and over again. Amazing. So you bless HaKadosh Baruch Hu for constantly and miraculously renewing things that to us, if we didn't know better, would look dead. If you go to somebody and you remove everything in his house, and you remove everything in his bank, by itself it's not going to come back. It's not going to blossom by itself. But if somehow you see the guy the next day, he has a smile on his face, he goes, what happened? He goes, oh, I won the lotto. What? You won the lotto? That's a miracle! Why, I just lost everything yesterday, and today you want even more than what he has! That's an essence of the tree. That's the pshat. The pshat is that you bless Hashem for renewing. You bless Hashem for His creation. That's the pshat. But we all know that there's a sod, the secret, the secret part of the Torah. The secret part of the Torah, for better or for worse, is very interesting but also scary.

2:56That's a miracle. Why? I just lost everything yesterday. Today, you want even more than what he has. That's the essence of the tree. That's the pshat. The pshat is that you bless Hashem for renewing, you bless Hashem for His creation. That's the pshat. But we all know that there's a sod, the secret. The secret part of the Torah, for better or for worse, is very interesting but also scary. So, Rav Chaim Palagi, zt”l, in Sefer Moed Lechol Chai, in chapter 1, halacha number 6, he says, what's the importance, what's the significance of this mitzvah, of the annual blessing over the blossoming of fruit trees? He says, the reason why is because if a person lives in this world and he doesn't do what HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, he doesn't keep Shabbat, she doesn't stay modest, they don't eat kosher food, they don't do what HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, they decide to do whatever their friends say, whatever their neighbors say, whatever the school says, and not just one time, their whole life, and they die like this...

3:58lives in this world and he doesn't do what HaKadosh Baruch Hu says. He doesn't keep Shabbat. She doesn't stay, you know, she's not modest. They don't eat kosher food. They don't do what HaKadosh Baruch Hu says. They decide to do whatever their friends say, whatever their neighbors say, whatever the school says. And not just one time, their whole life, and they die like this. Of course, HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't want to punish a soul forever. He wants to give everybody a chance to get to the higher stage. But if they mess up, if they mess up, they can't be given the same exact chances again. They have to be given a different chance. If you messed up in this family, next time you're going to get a different family. But that family the first time was a family of Jewish people. Next time, it could be a family of goyim, meaning you have to come to the world and reincarnate into the world as a goy, with your objective to become a Jew. That's your goal in life. But it could all—why could such a thing happen? Because maybe in your previous life, you married a goy; you married a goyah. You acted like a goy or goyah. Oh, you're going to come back as them with an actual... Next time, it could be a family of goyim, meaning you have to come to the world, reincarnate into the world, as a goy. Your objective is to become a Jew. That's your goal in life. But why could such a thing happen? Because maybe in your previous life, you married a goy, you married a goya. You acted like a goy or goya. Oh, you're gonna come back as them, with an actual...

5:18Objective and purpose that you have to become a Jew, you have to undo all the mistakes you made. But sometimes people make certain sins. For example, she decides that she wants to have a nice boyfriend from Argentina. That's not Jewish. She wants to have a nice boyfriend from Peru. That's not Jewish. He wants to have a nice girlfriend from Tahiti. It's not Jewish. So what happens? The Gemara says that if a Jew goes with a Goya, she'll be stuck to him like a dog. So, Chachamim say, what does it mean she'll be stuck to him like a dog? There are a few commentaries on it, but one of them is that he comes back like a dog. He comes back... reincarnates into the world like a dog with an objective to fix himself. Fix himself, obviously, can convert to be a Jew. He has to fix himself. He has to suffer as a dog. So Rabbi Chaim Palagi says one of the reasons why HaKadosh Baruch Hu has this mitzvah of Birkat Ha'ilanot is because there are different types of reincarnations.

6:45Sometimes a Jew can reincarnate as a goy. Sometimes a Jew can reincarnate; a male can reincarnate as a female, a female can reincarnate as a male. An Ashkenazi could reincarnate as a Sephardi; a Sephardi can reincarnate as an Ashkenazi. If you hated Sephardim but you are Ashkenazi, you'll reincarnate as a Sephardi and you'll feel the hate measure for measure. But if you messed up also again, you came back as a cow. Because you ate non-kosher food, you come back as a nice little cow that gets slaughtered. Hashem will show you a nice kosher slaughter. But it's not good. You still messed up. You didn't fulfill His will. A person can come back as a tzome'ach, can come back as a tree, can come back as a plant. A tikkun that's only possible if somebody goes to that tree and does the Birkat HaIlanot. So when you do Birkat HaIlanot, don't just think, "Oh, it's a nice mitzvah. Hashem's gonna be happy I made this mitzvah first, second, third time in my life, ten times in my life. Wow, Baruch Hashem." No, think also...

7:59have an opportunity right now to save a neshama. Take this neshama from this tree; it doesn’t get another chance. Hopefully, it comes back as a human being. Hopefully, it fixes itself. So, this is a Botanic HaOlam. It is a reality that there are souls that are trapped and reincarnated in the soil, plants, and fields, and And the only way that they can get to a final resting place in heaven, Rabbi Chaim Palagi says, is through this bracha. And this concept is in the Zohar, Parashat Balak, page 196b. And also the Chida. The Chida wrote the same thing in Moreh Be'Etzba, 199. And so did Rabbi Eliezer Papo. Inchesed L'Avraham, page 137, he comes back as a stone. Then there's a pasuk in the Torah that talks about those people that came back as a stone. It says that there are these stones that are screaming. Did you ever see a stone scream? Did you ever hear it scream? But the stones are screaming. You just can't hear them because Hashem did not give you the ability to...

9:17To hear everything that's around you. Because if you did hear or see everything that's really around you, the world would not be the same. You'd go crazy. But there's a pasuk in the Torah that says these screaming stones. Chachamim say, what are these screaming stones? Because these are the stones that actually have neshamot in them. And there's a scientific proof that there are stones with neshamot in them in different places around the world. I believe some in Nevada. They've recorded this, where there are stones that are in huge deserts. Huge deserts that people video. They put cameras there, station them there for a year, and came back a year later because you can't be there; you'll die. They station these cameras in the desert, recording stones. After a year, they saw that the stones moved completely, you know, a hundred, two hundred, three hundred feet down. Not because they slid; you see the streaks on the floor and... Like they were dragged, but there's nobody there. How? These stones have people, have neshamot in them. So, for all those people who don't like to believe in the mystical aspects of the Torah, you probably have to pick a different religion because the Torah is full of mysticism. It's full of mysticism. But from this mysticism, we also learn that there is reward and punishment. If we do good, we will get good. Simple.

10:44If we do bad, we will get bad. Simple.