Parashas Tzitzis: U’Re’isem Oso, Wearing Tzitzis at Night, and Guarding the Eyes

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The parshah of tzitzis. I'd like to go back to the parshah of tzitzis, because a lot of the re'isah maisa, the lo sasur acharei levavchem v'acharei eineichem, it's in the parshah of tzitzis. Mistama there's not just one limud, even though we spoke last week from the parshah of tzitzis, mistama there's a lot of limudim. A mitzvah has in it olamos. So mistama there's a lot more lessons and eitzes and safeguards in the tzitzis, as we'll learn. I want to begin from a nekudah. We pasken, laila lav zman tzitzis. It's in Shulchan Aruch, siman yud-ches in halachah lemaaseh. I'm sorry, siman yud-ches, se'if aleph: laila lav zman tzitzis. The im it—it's excluded because it says u're'isem oso. U're'isem oso means you got to see it, and since you can't see at night, me'eila, that is patur. You can look over there in Shulchan Aruch, the Rambam, the Rosh, two shitos. According to the Rambam, any ksus, even ksus yom, ba'lailah is patur. That's how far we take the nekudah of u're'isem, that it's mema'et ksus ba'lailah, tzitzis ba'lailah. So even if it's ksus yom, ksus yom ba'lailah, you're patur. According to the Rosh, it's not so pashut. There's the ksus yom ba'lailah might be chayav. Let's take it out, let's see it inside. Siman yud-ches, kedai to see it inside. So vilichora, shailah, rabosai, good shailah: the ptur of u're'isem, is a ptur laila, or it's a ptur re'isem? Is the ptur because laila lav zman tzitzis, gezeiras hakasuv? And the limud is doch l'isa maisai, that laila is lav zman tzitzis. Or it's more of a technical thing. You need a re'isa; it's a tnai in the mitzvah. Since there's no re'isa, there's no mitzvah. Read it inside first, and then you'll see where I got this from. This is nitztama... It's a real shaila. It's a real shaila. Laila lav zman tzitzis, who? The emet, me'urisim... The Rambam, kol ma shelo yovish balayla patur afilu hu miyuchad layom. So kol ma shelo yovish balayla, yeah, vos? Patur. Afilu hu miyuchad, yeah. Chayav afilu miyuchad balayla. Okay. The Rosh... patur afilu lo shebiyom. Right? It's patur even if he wears it in the day. Ksus yom will be chayav, because it's ksus yom. So efsher kemin zogen, beha gufa they're pligi, yeah, according to Rambam. Shaila, very poshut shaila. It says clearly. That's how—it's a Gemara Menachos, daf mem-gimmel. The Shulchan Aruch brings it down that way. That's how the Shulchan Aruch brings it down. It's lav zman tzitzis, because it's emit from urisim osoi. So it's not stam the Shulchan Aruch found it, that the din should be phrased with the limud of urisim osoi. It's interesting. All it just says, laila lav zman tzitzis, and finished. But the Gemara—don't bring all the Gemaras and the drashes. You see, ki'ilu hapis it's negea in the halacha itself, that it's emit because of urisim osoi. Okay? Good? Okay. So the shaila becomes: is it because laila is lav zman tzitzis, ki'ilu it's mitzvas shehazman gerama, which is raiden in Menachos; there's Briskerovs about it, there's Reb Berel, big shiurim on this topic. Is it zman tzitzis? Is it laila lav zman tzitzis? Is it a mitzvas shehazman gerama? Or the pshat is it's patur l'maaseh, urisim osoi. If you can't see it, you can't see it, so there's no tzitzis. Okay, so maybe you could say that's gufa machlokes. According to Rosh, since the inyan is re'isam, so ksus yom, malaila, right? Maybe he's chayiv because it's ksus yom. Mashenken, according to the Rambam, you have to have the re'isa mosai, so who cares it's ksus yom? An afkamina. L'maaseh, you don't have the re'isa mosai. A velt. Efsher kemen zogn azoi. But it's not stam a veltel. I'll tell you why. I saw—actually, I'll start this way. I actually asked a shaila b'zman hazeh, we have light, and you have beautiful lighting all day and all night. So maybe there's no patur re'isa mosai. If the patur is re'isa mosai, you don't have it. If it's layla lav zman tzitzis, good, so layla lav zman tzitzis. Oh, that's also—the Chazon Ish speaks about that shaila. It's a very nice shaila. What happens if you're by yom? There's a whole shaila, right? What happens if you're by yom and you can't see it because you're in a dark room? Efsher, das alt, there's a whole shaila. Okay, so I'll tell you where I found the sheinah mekor all the way in the Rishonim. Sefer HaPardes, Rashi, Hilchos Tzitzis, siman lamed-vav: if there's light, you...

For sure, p'seifa pardes. Avad, avad, avad, avad. Now you bestam thinking to yourself, is he gonna give a whole pilpul halacha shiur tonight? No. You'll soon see what I want. I was thinking the Rebbe can't get through a night without giving a little halacha. The what? The what? The Rebbe can't get through a night without giving at least a little halacha. So listen, what do you want from me? Yeah, I didn't complain. He said, You're thinking, that's what I was thinking. All right, at least you're honest in your thoughts. Isn't there an expression, penny for your thoughts, something special like that? Penny for your thoughts. For your thoughts, right? What is the lomdus behind that bracha? What exactly does it mean? That the person starts usin even with two cents. The person what? I'm kidding. But the person starts usin even worth two cents. So what's the literal translation of penny for your thoughts? It means that since you at least thought about me, or you care about me, at least you thought about me. It's worth... I want to hear what you're thinking. No, because I'm curious what you have to say. It means I'm curious what you're thinking. I want to know what you're thinking. It's a shavah prutah. Now it's a dime because it's a shavah prutah. Okay, now, kids, seif ha-pardes, all right? So this is, l'choira, the nafka mina. If you learn that it's layla lav zman mitzvah is b'etzem, so something shetamid ner. The Torah said it in a way of a reisha moshe, Chazal kiveya it that way. The pshat is, fakert, it's a tnai in the mitzvah reisha moshe. Reisha moshe is a tnai in the mitzvah. And lu yatzu, you can be mekayem the reisha moshe by layla, so you would be mechuyav. And if lu yatzu, you don't have the reisha moshe by yom, the Har Tzvi speaks about it, maybe it could be patur. L'maisa, this is all good in the tzivui. The tzivui, we could come and say, Chacham told us, laila lav zman tzitzis, and the kavanah is it's gezeiras hakasuv. But what's the ratzon Hashem? The ratzon Hashem. We all know that there's a chiluk between tzivui and ratzon. A Bechan v'asimim, ki yadua, speaks out from the pasuk, V'asu bamos laBaal, asher lo tzivisi, v'lo alsa al libi. Lo tzivisi, tzivui. Lo alsa al libi is what? Ratzon. So it's shayach to be mekayem the ratzon Hashem, right? I'm sorry, it's shayach to be mekayem the tzivui Hashem, but yet fall short on the ratzon Hashem. Example: a person finds a teirim, finds a teirim in the tzivui. Okay, so you're right, but that's not what the Eibishter wants, yeah? And the Rambam speaks by muktzah, that a person could do melachah all day, and l'maaseh he didn't over any of the tzivuyim that it says, shmiras Shabbos, and yet he wasn't mekayem the taam haTorah. The Torah says, l'maan yanuach. So I always told to that Rambam that you see the tzivui and ratzon. What the Eibishter wants: a person should sleep a whole Shabbos. You're right. V'shamru Bnei Yisrael. V'shamru. He wasn't over any issurim, but was it lasises haShabbos? Was it uvdin d'chol? So you got the shvus d'chol, so there's tzivui, and then there is ratzon. So v'asu bamos laBaal, beidin yonim, asher lo tzivisi, v'lo alsa al libi, beidin yonim. So I'm asking, could be laila lav zman tzitzis. In tzivui, you're right, by night you're patur. Ob, is there an inyan of lailazman tzitzis, legabei the halacha fun? Shalom Aleichem, tzaddik. How are you? I'm so happy to see you. I'm very happy to see you. You remind me of the good Jews from yesteryear, as they say, from yesteryear. Now, so my shaylah is: is there a ratzon Hashem in tzitzis balaylah? Why do I sleep with tzitzis? Arizal's brought down; Mishnah Berurah, Mishnah Berurah brings it down. We'll talk about it. Is there a ratzon Hashem? So in the tzivui Hashem, I hear. But vos is mideratzon Hashem? So let's see, let's see. L'choira we said that there's a tnai in the mitzvah, v'risa oisoi. Do you have that? Do you have it? So l'choira you could come and say that the tzivui may be a patur, but what's negea the ratzon Hashem maybe is that you should stack up wear tzitzis at night. What about when you're sleeping? Why not? I hear. I mean, anything that's patur, the patur... And we do it. They do it. Yeah, but whatever the karkevul is, there's a reason to do it. What do you mean? I understand.

But, like, maybe he says that the Torah made a drasha, the mechuteis say, but the Ratzon is not that way. Do you have a diyuk? Do you have a reason to say that? Do I have a reason to say it? To me, if the Torah says you're patur, like, certain things you could say that. So if you look at the Mishnah Berurah, Mishnah Berurah says even according to the Rambam— One second, that's a shailah l'Rishonim. But even according to the Rambam, that's patur by night, you're still saying that you should wear tzitzis according to Mishnah Berurah. Now, the pshat is that mi'bracha, the whole shailah of the Rambam is not that Mishnah Berurah. Mishnah Berurah says it's not legabei the way that—the Rambam never told you not to wear tzitzis at night. All the Rambam is saying is legabei bracha, but mitzad the chiyuv to wear, maybe he's maskim to Rashi, you would have to wear. Go ahead, look at the Mishnah Berurah, se'if katan beis, I think it is. That's because— And the hakhel. Right. The psak is, the safek brachos lehakel. Al kein ein levarech alav, v'al k'shelo yilbash b'yom. That's after we have a machlokes Rambam and Rosh, now the Mishnah Berurah says— The Mishnah Berurah says that even the Rambam— Even according to the Rambam, he says it in the Rambam. Can I see it again in the Mishnah Berurah? Because he just from where he's to make the drasha, but he doesn't say anywhere that k'sus laylah b'laylah, that there's ratzon of Hashem that you should do it even though the Torah says you're patur. Hagah: v'safek brachos lehakel. Al kein ein levarech alav, ela k'shelo... Okay, so you know what? Let's leave the Rambam. So let's knock the Rambam. Okay, l'maaseh, l'maaseh, balaylah do we have any in to wear tzitzis? Yes. No. Because it's a shittah. He never says k'sus laylah b'laylah is an issur. Huh? He never says k'sus laylah b'laylah is an issur. He says k'sus yom b'laylah, because since they're tzitzis, that it's chayiv, so you can't make a bracha, but you should do it anyway. Good. But laylah b'laylah, k'sus laylah b'laylah, he never said that there's— That's something that Hashem is interested in. Okay, so you know what? Granted, you only get to start a halacha shiur, and I really don't have the koach to argue. But what I do want to bring out is, how about when you're sleeping? That's zicher, right? It's laila, and you're not a bar re'iyah. You don't even have the tenai. Your eyes are closed, right? And you're not a bar chiyuv, not a bar kiyum. No, that's not— that's not. That's al tal... b'mitzvos. That's not al... mitzvos, man. Whatever. Maybe al shmirah. Okay, so let's discuss. Maybe al the shmirah it's good to wear. That's not al the... Now you know where I'm going? That's t'nai shmus. That's t'nai shmus in... He doesn't mean shmirah of— say night. He does mean that, sure he means. Shmirah like a mezuzah. Like a mezuzah, not shmirah. Mezuzah is also shmirah of shmirah say night. I know. Okay, so Rabbi... let me tell you what we discussed. You know where I'm going. All right, so therefore it's more shmirah for that than other stuff, but it's— we're getting there, we're getting there. Rabbi, listen to me carefully. I know that it's supposed to be a mussar, but every mussar starts with halacha l'maaseh. We gotta talk a little halacha. Okay. So let me zoom a little bit past the halacha part, okay? By night you're patur from tzitzis, and the reason is because you can't be mekayem a mitzvas aseh. So we're asking, so laila is not the time for tzitzis. Rabbi, can you repeat that? What did you say when it becomes night? But night you don't have to wear tzitzis. The question is because you can't see the tzitzis, and part of the tzitzis is to see it, the re'iyah. Just one second. If you're still wearing your clothes of the day, you still have to. It means like at night with pajamas. After, after, I just have to get out the information, then you can ask me. Write down all your questions and I'll answer them, no problem. So the question is, you have a risa moisai at night. You can't have it, so are you chayiv or you're patur? Are you chayiv or you're patur? So what happens if you could make the risa moisai at night? You put up lights. I showed them from Rashi, the sefer Pardes, that says you might be chayiv. So this is all for the night. What about when you sleep? Sleep, you ain't being mekayem a risa moisai, right? So if you hold laila is lav zman tzitzis, maybe you could say laila is zman tzitzis if you could have the risa moisai. But zechah yashen is lav zman mitzvos. You're sleeping, so you should be patur al yashen. Or, if you say that it has to do with the risa moisai, you're patur either way. It's like sukkah. It's exactly what I'm going to... Sukkah is a very famous... Everybody knows it. And when the guy falls asleep, you take him out. Why? Because a yashen is patur. He's called a poor guy. A frumer man, she wanted to sleep in the sukkah, so drag him out. Good, drag him out.

Yashen is patur min hamitzvah. It seems like everything. You can't surprise anybody with this. All right, so my shaylah is: yashen is patur min hamitzvah. No, no, but that's what I'm saying. When he goes, once he's yashen, he's taka patur, but he has to go into the sukkah. Maybe I wrote this down. If, when he's sleeping, he can take it off. My mother would come in, and I don't remember the tzitzis, because it's funny, because when we were children, that's what my mother used to do. My father used to make him go to sleep with tzitzis, and my mother was a very, very scared in nature. That's her personality, so she was afraid we'd get strangled. So we would fall asleep, and she would come and take off... But then we would wake up. My father put it back on. My father said, Now they have to have again the tzitzis. All night this happened. I don't know. I just remember that there were stories about the tzitzis. I remember there were stories about the tzitzis. ... by Yom. ... My mother was very tight by that. No, my mother didn't let us cross the street till we were married, and we weren't in her reshus anymore. Okay, the kids are ... you hear those ... So what happens by Yom? You're middle of the day, you're falling asleep. Take off your tzitzis, efshar. Yashen is patur min hamitzvah. Yashen is patur min hamitzvah. I'm telling you, this is the shaylah, this is the ... If you take it off, maybe it bothers you. You could take it off. You could take it off, maybe. It's hot. It's hot, whatever. Yeshivos atzal held that, you know, when you play ball, you don't have to wear the tzitzis. Moshe. I'm saying this is really a whole different ... Yeah, really? Because of ... Wait, did he say, right? Did he say because ... But I'm saying stam is like, because this is only ... Right, because you're not even mechuyiv. Moshe said that you're not mechuyiv because it's ... right? Oh, okay. Okay. Now, listen to me carefully. If we're going to spend time ... we're not going to get to the yesod. You hear a yesod building here. A yashan is patur, that's clear. And also, ... is a tenai in the mitzvah, to the point that you might be patur where there's no ... Someone that's sleeping, l'choira you're patur from mitzvos, and also you don't have ... So this is a kasha I always had. Granted, he came to ask this to me recently, Rabbi Yitzchok Kagan, Yitzi Kagan asked me this kasha recently. So I told him a pshat that there's chiyuv and kiyum. What did he ask you? ... there's a whole—oh, I'm sorry, I skipped, excuse me. So the Mishnah Berurah brings down from the Arizal, the Mishnah Berurah brings down from the Arizal, on the Rama in siman chaf-hei, se'if gimmel, that you're supposed to sleep with your tzitzis at night. It's brought down, and that's where my father got it from, that's where I got it from. Even when you don't wear tallis. And what do you do? Because the Mechaber is davening, and even the Rama says that—I'm sorry—and even the Magen Avraham says that the Mechaber ... shvach, because he has tzitzis mezuzah. That's the ... It's not really the time to go through the whole pilpul ... It's all ... The point is, there's an inyan to sleep with your tzitzis at night. The Mishnah Berurah brings it. Okay. Question is, are you patur from mitzvos? So you could come and say maybe it's the going to sleep, ... Maybe it's not about the— It's mashma that there's halacha while you're sleeping. Okay, so don't say shemiyah. So take out the Mishnah Berurah and learn it, meaning the olam should know it. I don't want it to be that I made up some Mishnah Berurah and I ... some mefurash Mishnah Berurah, okay? Mishnah Berurah, sif katan tes-vav, okay, that you're supposed to go to sleep and you're supposed to wear your tzitzis. So what's the pshat? So I said a pshat like this: a man is patur from mitzvos when he sleeps. It's not the taich that he doesn't have kiyum mitzvos. He does have kiyum mitzvos, but if it's possible to be a koifer in the middle of your sleep, so then there's no problem because you're patur min ha-mitzvos. A shoteh is patur min ha-mitzvos; he could be a koifer. A person dreams kefirah. Yeah, I'm saying if a person dreams, that could be an ones; that's why I didn't really want to go there. But if l'yatzur was shayach, whatever it is, whatever the pilpul is—I know, I was going there a little bit later, I'm going to get there a little bit later—whatever the pilpul is for right now, right? Right, I have to get to it eventually. So whatever the pilpul is on this, all right, there's kiyum mitzvah and there's chiyuv mitzvah. Avada the chiyuv you're patur when you're sleeping, but you're not going to say you're not mekayem mitzvos when you're ois yid, like a shoteh. A shoteh is patur min ha-mitzvos. So m'meila it's shayach to wear the tzitzis and get a kiyum mitzvah, vas ich lach. So Rav Branvig was passing by, it was by what's-his-name's...

My guess is the shloishim, so Reb Brambig was passing by at the end, and I answered this. I said, let's ask the Rosh Yeshiva, Reb Brambig. Mamish came out the same halachah, said the same halachah. Kiyum and this, it's clear. There's such a thing as a kiyum mitzvah when a guy sleeps. When you have a kiyum mitzvah, so he's sleeping. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The taas? Yeah, yeah. Start from a minute. It's true, you can start from when he's sleeping. What does that mean? There's such a thing, Mr. Burr. You can start one person sleeping. One person who's sleeping can be counted for a minyan. We said, we learned it. A minyan of ten people. You have nine and one guy sleeping, it's good enough. It's fine. That's good enough? Yeah. For ten. When you need ten for a minyan, if you have nine and one guy sleeping, because you should know most minyanim, that's what it is. You better find the heter, because that's the way it is. Nine with one guy sleeping is good enough. Okay. Technically he's ten. He's just sleeping. But you have to know who that person is that's sleeping. He has to know who he is. Yeah, sleeping. He doesn't know who he is. He's never going to wake up. L'maaseh, rabosai, I want to tie in a different vort. Yeah, yeah. So we're discussing the question at night, right, with the tzitzis, okay? So l'choira, we can come and say, halamdeshe svara, that the pshat is you're patur maybe in yashan, but you're not going to patter me in the risah. You're not going to tell me you have risah. That's really—this is all good to Torah in yashan, chayiv and patur mitzvahs. But what do you do if you hold the risah is a tenai in the mitzvah? You don't have it, so how could you say that I have tzitzis? What are you talking about? What's the teretz? So according to this, you have to say maybe it's the falling asleep. And grada, and grada, maybe takah you need the more shmira then. Maybe, maybe takah when a mensch goes to schlafen, that's the best time you're supposed to wear tzitzis. I'm assuming, show you a meydekeh from Ezra. Ezra says that the sheit mitut tzitzis, mitracht a talis by David. Lanias daiti, he says, that's nothing. That's only because of kriyas Shema. He says, uchsavtem, ukshartem, and we write and we talk about tzitzis. That's—but the main part of tzitzis is not by davening, because who's going to do aveiros by davening anyway? It's when you do aveiros, that's when you should be wearing tzitzis. We need Ezra, a meydekeh from Ezra. In the parsha tzitzis. Ah, such a meydekeh from Ezra. Right, do I take it out? Take it out. Schnell, schnell, schnell. Well, he's doing that schnell. How about, like, maybe what about when tzitzis during Shabbos? Different rules for Shabbos? No, no different rules. The Brisker Rav that says you're not allowed to walk in the street with tzitzis on Shabbos. Cannot walk in the street. Outside the eruv. Because we don't pasken like this Brisker Rav. We don't pasken. So you don't walk with tzitzis on Shabbos? You're allowed to wear. You are allowed. ... No, that's not his problem, because the mitzvah tzitzis doesn't have techeiles. He was the Brisker Rav. The Rambam says it needs to be mitzuyatzes kilchasah. So the Brisker Rav, it's not called mitzuyatzes kilchasah because it doesn't have the techeiles. It's only one of the kiyumim, so there— The Brisker don't wear the techeiles. You might not have the tzitzis, you have to be mechazek something else. This is the Brisker Rav by the Rambam by Yitzchok. Okay, guys, I know what you're talking about, but I never saw what I'm saying. That's great, maybe I— I never saw. Okay, go ahead. Yeah. On which words? A list, list of reisimois. It's chazak, reisim. Yeah, but we have the chazakah. Why do you have to be choshesh for? No, no, no, not the stem. The whole house is blowing up in the wind. Right. Not shayach itself over there. If it's keimarzi. Who? If it's keimarzi, or if it's not the— I mean, you're saying that the tal is gadol, you mean. Yeah, it's not like a lefush. That's why they tie it. If it goes up— if it goes up in the wind, I mean— I'm not sure what you want. Chai, not— no, because— ah, that's what I'm trying to figure out what you want. Yeah, okay, so tie it down. That's why the yeshiva ties it. Tie it around, or they put it on their— unless it goes all the way up. That's the heter that they use. Like the— whatever the lashon is, the— the yeshiva, the real bnei Torah, what they do is they put it over their jackets, or tie it. Stam a refuah— under the jacket? Under the coat. Under the coat. He does it for a separate reason. He doesn't feel that people should walk— Oh, what about the tie? Tie is— Can't imagine. Can't imagine. Okay, so let's go weiter. We became a whole hilchos tzitzis tonight, all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is more in the mussar. So Moshe, help me. Watch, I'm ready. They don't get to—

Oh, that's only because you have to be kriyas Shema ... about tzitzis. It's not by that. A person walking around in tallis, you hear? Not by that. That's a guy, he's not wearing a tallis. Wearing dafka not by davening, because the Even HaEzer says, don't wear it by davening. Why? Shas, the other times during the day, ... So let's go back. So let's go back, rabosai, to the shaila here. So the emes, the ikar is where you have a shaila of ... tzitzis. So maybe lishkav, maybe ... ... mekayem shlaf. ... a zman where a person can have hirhurim ra'im, and he needs a shmirah from the lo sasur acharei levavchem v'acharei eineichem. So bedavka then, but ein hachanami, once he falls asleep ... I want you to know something, rabosai. I want to give you good advice. You want the practical advice. Learn to train yourself to fall asleep with a sefer. Fall asleep with what? With a sefer. I'm learning. I always have that, like, pure ... Good, so you're doing the right thing. A person should fall asleep. Let me tell you the emes. You know, I mean, I do that only because I ... You don't even make it to the bed. No, I'd be bored. Otherwise I'd be bored otherwise. But the truth is, ... that's happening in Torah. You fall asleep with a sefer. It's a chiyuv. It's fall asleep, yeah. It's a chiyuv. You can have Torah. You put it before you go to sleep. You're supposed to learn. Chazal say, ... The ... night seder. It's not like unheard of. So b'shachbcha, when you get up, you're supposed to have a sefer. No, the sefer that you went to sleep with. It's still there. So as soon as you wake up, ... you know. Well, you gotta say Birchas HaTorah. Can't be right away, because you gotta say Birchas HaTorah. ... night seder. You want to know what's funny? Can I tell you? So I'm gonna write this. I wrote this down here. If the wife is makpid, okay, I don't want to tell you. Let me tell you something. Can I tell you the emes? Can I tell you, rabosai, I feel strange even saying it over, because to me it's like a davar pashut. I chapped today that when I take on for granted as a davar pashut, the Eibishter is wanting me to speak it out, like it's a story, you know? I mean, you know, I never saw anybody not fall asleep on a sefer. Yeah, people learning, but people don't think of that. You're a bachur. ... Whatever it is, that doesn't shain Rav Hutner's cheshbones. Whatever the point is, the point, the point is, a person should learn before he goes to sleep. A person should try. I'm being honest with you. To me it's a davar pashut. To me it's a davar pashut. So you see the cheshbon hanefesh. It doesn't work. ... The biggest shmira is Torah. So, b'neirhurim, shteit a klar, it's leiv panim min haTorah. The greatest leiv panim is when you go to sleep. What more do you have? Because during the day you're fanum mit andere zach, you're busy with life. You have time to think. ... I'll tell you, I'm being honest with you. You're saying this is good. To me this is so... this is the main thing, is what I want to say in the arizal, but you're saying this is the main thing. Yeah. I'm asking, I'm asking, listen. Ma'aseh l'maalah, I'll tell you the truth. I learned this from Rav... There's no me. It's not me. Whatever the oilam feels, that's what it is. That's what it is. Huh? Give it to me, from the mashgiach, he... Who's the mashgiach? I know, he gave me the book. Windows of the Soul. No, no, in Hebrew. It's in Hebrew. It's the same sefer in Hebrew, Windows of the Soul. I don't know, I can't read that. I'll be honest with you, I'm reading it. It's English. No, it's not it. Mashgiach told me it's the same sefer in English. He gave it to me. He says he's going to give me the one in Hebrew. I don't know. He told me he's going to give me the same one in Hebrew. It's by the same mechaber.

Okay, let's go. The kitza, you hear? Okay. Point B, not point C. Point B, yeah? Maybe the tzitzis is a limud, that b'shachbecha, when you go to sleep, you need shmirah. Efshar. But the truth is, I hold even more. I'm going to tell you a meidige chiddush. I was thinking about it, and I have a raya from Reb Chatzkel b'shem the Alter from Kelm. Afilu az mishloft, daf men hoben di tzitzis eich. The Alter tzaddik, heibishter megaleh in him something about a peled. Peled, you hear? The inyan of tzitzis, davka zogt men zol shlofen mit tzitzis. Do the Brisker sleep with tzitzis? Could you find out for me, please? I want to know if the Brisker rov slept with tzitzis. Is he mekayem this, this ...? It's interesting for me to know. My father is very makpid. The kitza, zogt the Arizal, Yashan is patur. And also he spoke out, orisa moisa ... it's not there. At twelve o'clock until he falls asleep. Orisa moisa, you hear? Orisa moisa is a tenai in the mitzvah. So a person sleeps ... So we said over a pshat that when you go to sleep, it's the going to sleep. There you're taka chayav when you go to sleep, and there is taka shayach hirhur. ... is very ... when a person goes to sleep, ... with tzitzis, ... and then we said over a person should learn. That's the way I grew up. I grew up at Yeshivas ... honestly. I'm not saying. A lot of people like to say ... aren't true. I'm telling you the truth. I never saw, not my zeide, not my father, my uncles, I never saw anybody not fall asleep in the sefer. I never saw it. Kitza. You look at the bed, the stand between the—it's full of sefarim. I don't know, inside and outside, by my mishpachah, it was always that way. Okay, unless the wife is going to throw you out of the room, basically, you have to figure out how to work that out. Now, ad efshar kemenzug, afilu as mishloft, afilu b'sha'as sheinah, you hear? A mensh ven a shloft meint men es toyt? It's not true. You know, even in chalomos, the chalomos are machshavos of the person. A mensh maybe needs shmirah ven a shloft. I lamaaseh, you're going to say there's no re'isa maisai. The Gemara states the klal: af al pi d'ihu lo yira, mazlei ra. Among such a musag as mezetes, even when you're not physically—re'isa means you're physically seeing, which is interesting, because re'isa maisai, what happens to people who don't keep their tzitzis out? People who don't keep their tznua? Mishnah Berurah says you're supposed to keep your tzitzis out. It's godly interesting, the Even Ezra taka learns, re'isa maisai, mitzvah sheyehei nirah. Interesting, the Even Ezra, mitzvah, that the mitzvah is sheyehei nirah, re'isa maisai. But that was ken and zen. So, but is it true you keep on looking there? So I'm asking, if a person didn't look at his tzitzis, it's not going to be a shmirah for him? It's mashma that it's a shmirah. And I want you to know the lashon of the Even Ezra is tamid. Look at the lashon by the shmirah chelek, that how does it watch you? He says, sheloy b'sha'as tefillah, k'dei sheyizkor what? No, no, no, zog shtark, no, zog shtark, shtark. What's—if a person looks at his tzitzis every minute? Good, even if— What's the b'chol sha'ah? Tamid. Earlier he says, ... she'kasuv bo bayom tamid. Tamid. You hear? Remember the lashon from there, tamid. And b'chol sha'ah. But a guy taka looks at his tzitzis every second, and the teretz is that whatever it is in tzitzis, even if you're not mamash looking at it, you have the re'isa, if you're wearing it. So efshar banachteichit, banacht shloft. Who knows what a person can uptachten banacht. Rishmarti mikol davar ra is one of the cases of hirhur ba'laylah. So tzitzis becomes, according to the Rishal, chiyuv by night — not chiyuv chiyuv, but kiyum, al kol panim kiyum. So I thought to myself, mitchayev? Tzitzis kiyum? Oh, this you missed. Rav Remmel Branberg — I spoke to Rav Remmel, because according ... yashen is patur. Tzitzis is a chiyuv, he's patur, but in kiyum maybe he's not patur. Ah, it's a gevaldige vort. I said it, and then I told — then he was ... he said this vort also. Pashut. Could be a yashen is in chiyuv. You missed a good vort. Okay, the kitzur, you hear? But okay, ... After, after. I'll tell you because we have to finish. There's a lot of information, and I don't mind sitting with you afterwards. Okay. You know where I saw this? Chatzkel, today I saw it today.

Right, guys. ... in ... das. Page shin nun vav. He brings from the Alter from Kelm here. He says like this: Shehinei matzav adam shenimtza tamid b'gidrei ha'avodah, ki libo v'ra'yonav einam shoktim v'nochim afilu l'rega. A person's rayonos don't even stop for a second, here. Not even for a second. Ela kol hazman po'elim v'yotzrim. They create. A person's mind works, here. V'lachein l'regaim tovim bacheinu, ma she'ein kein rega l'loi peulas libo machshavto, v'yitachen sheb'chol rega tehei l'adam yoredin afilu matzav. Any second, he can go up and down. A person from a second before is not the same that he is a second later. Wait, wait. U'kvar hizkarnu b'shem haSaba miKelm, af b'shaas hasheinah po'eles machshavto. Meiradik. A person sleeps. I jumped when I saw it. I jumped when I see—I'm—even when a person sleeps, he needs shmirah on his machshavah. Wait. And he says from the Alter from Kelm, that's why we say, Ashreinu, Hashem Elokeinu, l'shalom v'amadeinu, Elokeinu l'chayim. What's the bracha? And the emes is, I want to tell you quickly, just pay attention. I know it's a lot of information, but I have to say it, I have to get it out. Why do we say Ashreinu? The Gemara even says it's part of the Kriyas Shema. It's k'bracha arichta. How is it part of the Kriyas Shema? Why is it part of the Kriyas Shema? Wait a minute. So that's what I'm going to say after this, after the Alter from Kelm. So I want you to know, poshut, there's a medrash that says if you watch— The Ramach boisius in Kriyas Shema, I'll watch over your Ramach eivarim. It's the same. The Kriyas Shema has the same as the Ramach eivarim. So it's a medrash. If you'll watch the Ramach words in Kriyas Shema, I'll watch over. Okay, so it could be, once we say Kriyas Shema, we stick in also hashkiveinu Hashem shalom, shomer am Yisrael ad, that the Ribono Shel Olam should protect us. Okay. L'maaseh, I found a heledike zach. The Chida in Birkei Yosef brings from the Kutei... gevaldige zach a boisei, that you know Hashkiveinu was said in Mitzrayim. Klal Yisrael said it after Kriyas Shema in Mitzrayim. Yeah, gevald. Hashkiveinu. Sameir dika Birkei Yosef. Beautiful. Tell them where the Birkei Yosef is. Birkei Yosef on the bottom, this is where it is, Birkei Yosef. Yeah, why is it kegul Arichta? Yeah. So the Raivid brings down from who? From Yitzchak Levi, whatever, yeah. Good, good, good. It's not the Kri... Go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. They were told, Leseitzu ish mipesach beiso ad boker. Hashkiveinu was made up by the people in Mitzrayim. Yeah, no? Good, good. It comes from the Rishonim, so that's gula richta. It's kigula richta because it has to do with the geulah, and ... that's the basis. Dafka בלילה, dafka בלילה. The night, it's gevald. ... Okay. L'maaseh. Good, good, good, good. Let's go weiter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're in danger, we're in danger. Okay, now, b'kitzur, there's an interesting Gemara that the Gemara says in Brachos Yud-Beis that they wanted to put the story of Bilam in Kriyas Shema. Gemara has a shaila why; it's Yetzias Mitzrayim. Gemara says no. The real reason is because it says in the pasuk, Kara shachav kari u'klavi mi yakimenu. So, kara shachav — what's this to do with Kriyas Shema? So Rashi: shachav k'kumacha. Shachav in kuma, shachav in kuma, v'shachav ... k'kumacha. So I never understood this Gemara. Shachav k'kumacha is talking about mitzvahs. Rashi is talking about shmira, regular shmira. Look at the Rashi in Beis. Rashi in Beis. Rashi in Chumash mentions ... Kriyas Shema. Here is a shmira in the ... vu ... shachav k'kumacha, shachav k'kumacha. Okay, so let me tell you what I want. There's a whole shmooze here. Maybe I'll have a chance one day to go through it. I thought I would have, you know, listen, the tummel's in the middle, so I don't have time to say it.

So let me just tell you like this. Okay, let me tell you like this. He says, a modeh d'kavart. You see from here... Meilo what? That's ... kari u'mekabel ... That's a different one. This is ... This is now. It's a different one. That's what I'm saying. ... that they get up and they put away tzitzis right away. Okay. L'maaseh, what do we see? The mishmeres is the kiyum ha-mitzvah, right? Because you really ... mekabel ol mitzvos. And what is it? B'shachb'cha u'vkumecha, it's the shmirah for the b'shachb'cha u'vkumecha. Okay. Kitzur, ... chatzkel gevaldig. He says, you know what you see from all this? That a person needs constant, constant, constant, constant shmirah. Ha'ma'amik b'dvarim eilu yireh heich chiyuveinu b'limud mussar kol hayom. Sharei af ha-tzitzis me'ein limud mussar. Tzitzis is a mussar; it's a reminder. So what do you need? You need to do it constantly. And he says, from the Alter from Kelm, ... tefillin is also the same yesod. A person puts on tefillin, and he's not mekayem the inyanim of tefillin. He says, like a person, he tells him, put on an ois to make sure you don't forget. So he forgot the thing and he put on the ois. He said, here, I'm going to send you a reminder to make sure that you... He says, what happened? ... So he has to do something. Kitzur, he brings down this mashal from the Alter from Kelm. Okay, so, rabosai, we have to stop. I know that I'm rushing in the last minute. You know what the bottom line is? The point of this, and I'm gonna tell this to you, I say things straight. I think about what you're telling me. You're telling me that where I'm coming from, it doesn't shtel tzu to the nekudas that you need. I don't know if there's an answer to this problem, that at the end of the day, the person himself has to be misgaber. You know what all these eitzes? These are eitzes. They're good devices. The solution is in you. Nor vos, constant zichri. That's what Reb Chatzkel is saying. The tzitzis is constant. You speak about it week after week after week, the same thing over again and over again and over again, like the Mesillas Yesharim says. I'm not trying to be mechadesh anything. What does Mesillas Yesharim say? I'm taking things that everybody knows. Mechazek to say, betoisen, iber and iber, nachamal, till it becomes a part of you. I don't have a magic wand. You know, a magic... the Shmiras Einayim. What do I know? Don't do it. I don't know what to tell you. The twelve steps. The twelve steps is, if you want all the real truth, it's all the same steps. Don't do it. That's what it is. Don't do it because it is, and don't do it because it... Here what we're saying, when you have in your voice Rabbi Wolbe yelling at you every week, Don't do it. Tzenish kadai das ton. You're being metamei yourself. It's not good. It takes root. Chazara mitz... tzitzis. You know how many times you look? I looked at the... okay, I got... Tell me, the tzitzis is a new lesson every day. It's a... You had them, there's a... the tzitzis, the nachamal, the tzitzis. Tell me, it changed in the last forty years. I don't know, you guys are not forty. Okay, the last thirty years, twenty-five, whatever you guys are, okay? It didn't change, right? The tzitzis is the tzitzis. It's the same, nervos. U'schartem, u'schartem, u'schartem, mitnachamal, mitnachamal, mitnachamal, mitutis nisht, mitutis nisht, mitutis nisht. And I was in the Glatt store with my guy. You know, maybe I shouldn't say this b'rabim. I was in the Glatt store here, Provisions, whatever it's called, right over here, or Unlimited, right over here. Walked in there. I felt cheap. You feel cheap around ... which is ... I don't know what to tell you. You feel low. You train yourself to ... and then all this becomes a ... The way they dress, the women. It was the first time I said, you know what, maybe he's not ... Maybe he's right. I don't know, what do I know? My household. I felt very uncomfortable. I felt very low that I'm even in the same vicinity, same room as all this. Ugh, it was disgusting to me. And I don't know, just nervos. I trained myself. You're knocking into your head ... What am I? I'm a bit Torah. You know what a bit Torah is? You represent the Melech. You're standing there as a general in the Melech's army. This is tznius. It's low class. And the more you yell it, so you have the chazakah, and das sakter. That's all he's saying. It's constantly.

Chazering nachamol, mit nachamol, tamid, u'nachamol, u'nachamol, u'nachamol. And even when you sleep. That's what Reb Dalton ... saying: even when you sleep, it's mashpia on you. Tzitzis ... meileh is mushpa. ... Yeah, that's the vort. That's what the whole shiur is tonight. The whole point is, ... says, okay, sorry, shmuyes, vad, okay, whatever you want to call it. How's ...? Yeah, you're wearing tzitzis. How does it help you? And the tefillin, does it help you? Where's the reisim oisoi? Do you see anything at night? They have night vision, that while you're sleeping you see your tzitzis? It's mashpia. ... I'm wearing my tzitzis, and again, and I always wear my tzitzis. ... from the ... that even when you're sleeping, it's mashpia on you. ...

Amen. Amen. Amen.

Amen.

No. I guess you ... for tomorrow. ... I would like to remember Shabbos. ... I know tonight it was something. ... You want me to ...? Yes. ... Yeah. ... I follow you. ... I follow you. ... All right, so I guess ... Where are you parked? ... So I'll talk to you on the phone then. ... We'll talk to you another time. ... I'll just say good Shabbos. ... And I'll tell ... good Shabbos. Okay, good Shabbos. Good Shabbos. And with the tzitzit, it's like an ethic, an identity ethic, and also, let me ask you a parallel: Adam got kicked out of Shabbos and had tzitzit, right? So it's night. I mean, there was no tzitzit, I'm just the concept. You see what? Well, no, you're saying don't wear it at night. My thinking is the reminder that during nighttime Adam got kicked out. So no ethic, nothing. No identity, no tribe, nothing. You got me thinking. Is that pattern Zoharic book, right? What do you think? Nice, very nice. Don't wear it. Don't wear it. You know that, right? You missed the lecture. You should know tzitzit at night. No, he was the weird. You can wear it there. You should wear it all the time. You should. So wrap yourself in your tallit. ... I wanted to tell you ... Shabbos. Not here, but maybe ... sometime in the future. Good, you're always welcome. Okay, thank you. Love you too. We're here for the biggest rabbi. Let me tell you something. On the rabbi said, I was in Lakewood today and I saw this old ... I saw this rabbi ... So you see, I saw today, I don't see him a lot. You see? I saw this sacred man. I said, look like my rabbi, my rabbi. Twelve children, no time to study. I studied for two years, but I saw this man look like my rabbi. You see? I wanted to speak to my rabbi. I said, okay, just like that. ... What does the ... want? Okay, we're gonna go to the lecture. You go to the lecture. There's a Rav Pays from Israel. You go? I'm not going. Okay, we go, right? Mirchas Yitzchak. Yes. Okay, go with your place. The Mirchas Yitzchak. Can you get one minute? Tehim de'ikar. Actually, it's a chelek aleph. It's mat, mat, and the mat. You're gonna take her card. He holds that's the ikar one, the mat, mat, and the nachas. That's pshat mat, mat. Yeah, but mat, mat you don't have. So what should I do? He says that—he's whole thing. He wrote the teshuva to Rav Akshal. Rav Akshal was a big posek in England, and Rav Akshal wrote a book on how to take care of children, a famous book. And there he gives three methods on how to make a bottle on Shabbos, and one of them is the Mirchas Yitzchak, which to shake it.

Yeah. He's my oldest. The minute you left, I go, you left early. I said, I have to go after the ... Not the ... The ... learns that that's the ikar. You know what the bottom line is? Each one was learning a different shinui as the ikar, and the shivah ... gave clear hadrachah that none of them are negea everything else. It's only shesi v'erev is the only one, and by certain cases you could use matmat in certain cases. But ... said this ... Rav Chaim told me, he sent it back. The guy wrote down the words. My talmid wrote down. Yeah, you can check the bottom ... He's learning it's not a shinui in the melachah, it's a shinui in the way you do it. That's what shivah is saying, is it a shinui in the melachah or a shinui in the way you do it? At least the difference. The different shinuyim, one's in the melachah and one's in the ... This ... doesn't always work. Now the shinui ... This was yesterday's shiur, wasn't it? Klal, rabosai, take it to the Bnei Torah. They have no right to say that the shinuyim work or they don't work. It's not true. It's just not true. Only one that works universally is shesi v'erev. Shivah says it's klal. Matmat doesn't work. Shinui seidah doesn't work. He says a klal. He only uses shinui seidah. What, shinui seidah? ... We don't need ... We don't need ... Test. So this is the ... You have to do something right away. Right away. ... True, true. ... Next ... No, no, I'm saying the whole preparation. ... You made everything. ... starting like late tonight, and all through tomorrow morning. I'm looking at the mental preparation. You have to do some kind of ... Self-correcting. ... I'm not saying that. I'm saying that. That's my personal experience. Self-correction. You heard the ... Self-correction. Getting ready for Shabbos. I know, I learned so much in and around. Last second. ... That's your preparation for Shabbos. It's changed. It's still there. That's what I'm saying. It's changed. It's changed. The year of getting ready for Shabbos isn't there. Right? I mean, it's not there. That's so much. For some reason, with everything else, people aren't ready, and now we're ... It's still running at the last minute.