Hilchos Rechitzah and Krias HaMegillah: Washing on Shabbos, Night and Day Readings, and Minyan

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I mean, I don't... I don't... I don't... I don't know anything. I was hoping Rabbi Yaakov Levine would be there. He didn't show up. He was supposed to be there. What happened? My brother set me up to sit right next to him, so I was way... I came with a whole list of things that I wanted to ask him, choshem mishpat. So, and then between that, he didn't show up, and between the story that they killed Grossman, it was a little umedik, a little umedik last night. All right. I'm usually not like that. I'm usually pretty upbeat. Okay. Anyways, yesterday and the day before, whatever, we were talking that it's very shayach that the whole issur is only when you do it derech rechitzah. If you don't do it derech rechitzah, it's not a problem. It's not a problem. So, lo yitzur, I take a cloth. I take a cloth, and I want to wash my forehead, hand, face, right? Even b'chamin shehuchmu b'Shabbos, that's not where the problem is. The problem is rechitzah. They didn't asser, you know, nikui ha'panim al yedei mayim, or nikui... I'll tell you— I think it's all... I don't think they asser. I'll tell you the emes. So why did they do that? First, give me one second. I'll explain to you what I mean. I'll explain to you. But Mar says, Poneh yadav v'raglav derech rechitzah. Poneh yadav v'raglav derech rechitzah. Just washcloth on your face. Put a washcloth on my face. Oh, so that's— so that's l'choira would be a raya not like what I'm saying. Right, l'choira that would be a raya, and the ish sheleveshes levanim, Mishnah Berurah. Yeah, that's what bothers me. But I'll tell you why I'm saying this. The truth, first of all, mitztayer, I showed him, the Shmiras Shabbos K'hilchasah writes clearly that the case of the biur halacha is that a guy takes a shower every day and he feels uncomfortable for not taking a shower. That's called a mitztayer. No, that's not what he brings. He brings this biur halacha. He quotes this biur halacha, mitztayer. That's what it means, a mitztayer. Any guy is over— We're not going to say that somebody that takes a shower every day is called an istenis. That's pretty accepted. He's trying— Istenis means an abnormal person. That was in those days abnormal. Nowadays, Shabbos, when a guy walks and he's hot and he feels mitztayer, it's the same mitztayer. What's the difference? That's called mitztayer. Whatever it is, when a guy is sweating and he's mitztayer, he's mitztayer. That's what it means. That's all it means. It's the same thing. Stam somebody's uncomfortable. But that's what the case is. A guy takes a shower every day and he feels uncomfortable. That's what it says. Who doesn't take a shower every day? Everybody takes a shower every day. We're talking— Shmiras Shabbos K'hilchasah, not Rav Gamliel. Not Rav Gamliel. He's talking about a halachah l'maaseh. Shmiras Shabbos K'hilchasah is telling a story. In those days it was an istenis because he was— Nowadays it's not one person who does it; it's a lot of people that do it. So he's telling you that you're allowed to do it. So I'm asking, why are you allowed to do it? So why are you allowed to do it? It's a higher degree of discomfort. A guy who wants to take a shower because he takes every day, that's called— that's a higher degree of discomfort. If he meant istenis, he would say istenis. He's not talking about istenis. Istenis is a real word. It's a real word. It's a famous term. Because it's unusual. You're pushing it without being accepting. You have to accept that if a guy takes a shower every day and it's normal for him, it's what he's trying to say. He feels he doesn't feel comfortable. That's what he's saying. The mitzta'er means very—it's a very small darga of mitzta'er. The Shmiras Shabbos K'hilchasa, that's the case he brings. That's how he learns up the halacha. You see, in he quotes this halacha. It's clear that this is clear. A mitzta'er is very little. Okay. The second nekudah is, the second nekudah that I want to bring out is—I told him that the Shmiras Shabbos K'hilchasa says clearly that the case of the halacha of mitzta'er is when a guy showers every day and he doesn't feel very uncomfortable, he does a shower. That's all it is. That's already called a mitzta'er. Yeah, that's pashut. Now the other shaila that I want to bring out is that when a person washes panav, yadav, v'raglav, could be it's all three together. It's—the guy is bathing himself that way. But if a guy wants to wash his face in a sink, there's a problem of panav, yadav, v'raglav. Ah, chidush nifla. It's a chidush nifla. How do you do all of them together? In a bath. The guy walks into a bath. That's what I'm trying to tell you. A guy walks into a bathtub and he can wash panav, yadav, v'raglav only. L'maaseh, that's called—if you read the Mechaber, it's there in the Mechaber. It's there. Read it. Read the Mechaber. He talks about b'kli or b'karka. What is b'kli or b'karka? What does that mean? Let me explain what b'kli or b'karka means.

That's what he means. He means a mikvah. I thought the rabbi was saying at one time. What I mean to say is that if a guy would take a cloth and wash his face with a cloth, there's no problem l'chalateis. That's what I want to tell you. Period. End of story. I, that Mishnah Berurah that talks about nashim, maybe it's that she wants to walk into a bath and clean herself that way. That's the story. She wants to shower herself. But ein hachanami, maybe she could clean herself. He says you should do it. I don't know. I know, I try to sell to a few talmidei chacham yesterday by the bar mitzvah. They didn't buy it, but I don't think they know that we're ... you know, I don't think, you know. No, what I mean to say is you got to really want to know the pshat. You got to really want to say, 'Vas steht in Shulchan Aruch.' He talks about a kli. Does he talk about karka? Does he say bohem? Does it say clearly, 'Asur lirchotz panim'? Is that what it said? It doesn't say it anywhere. It doesn't say it. It doesn't say that. It talks about that you want—read it. Read the lashon. What does bein bekli—what does that mean? What's the difference what it is? If there's an issur of chitzah, it makes a difference where the water comes from? Can you explain that to me? Huh? Because that's what I'm trying to say. You see that it has some shaychus to be domeh to. Why don't you just say, 'Andal wash your face, finished, end of story.' Why don't you just say, 'You're not allowed to wash any of your parts of your body, finished, end of story.' I'll tell you really where I have a shtikel raya to this. The Aruch HaShulchan takke brings down that by the case of daled in hei, it's not talking about poishrim, poishrim; it's talking about very hot water. I showed it to Rabbi ... in the morning. Why? Because he says it doesn't make sense. Poishrim is not derech rechitzah, and the way he's doing is not derech rechitzah, and it has to be that it's only asur derech rechitzah. You see the brackets? Go ahead, read those brackets on daled. So you see that there's a yesod called derech rechitzah. You see clearly there's something called derech rechitzah. I don't know. Stam to go and wash, take some hot, warm water and wash your face with it. I don't know. I'm not asking. I'm just not asking the whole thing. Chocham Erev Shabbos? Chocham Erev Shabbos anyway, with the panim yafos raglav. I'm talking even if it was Chocham on Shabbos. Yeah, something, it's Chocham on Shabbos where you can't wash your face with it. It's a rechitzah. They assered rechitzah. They didn't asser to clean your face out with warm water. They assered rechitzah. They did not asser cleaning your face. Okay, you don't like it, I like it. I hold of it, and one day you'll see that it's going to be accepted. Maybe not. ... when you're ... called gufa, that's not when you're going to the bath. No, but he goes even ... So that's what I'm telling you. So that's what I'm telling you. So that's what I'm telling you. You see that even in the sugya of ... you want to shtell it back to the gezeirah with keli and then karka has to do with a mikvah, but it has nothing to do with keli and it has nothing to do with karka. It's a problem. Who said? Who said? Who said we're trying to shtell it back to? A person never washes ... in the bathtub. Sure you do. How else do you wash ...? Raglav? In the sink? I don't know. Raglav and panav ... in the sink. Because ... a Muslim washes the feet in the sink. That was the whole ta'ina today, that you know the ta'ina. The world is not worldly enough for me. I need the world to be more worldly a little bit. One of the biggest lawsuits now in Detroit is Detroit is full of Muslims. So they have in the, that they go into the... They want their feet in the sinks of the bathroom. The eilem is chalishi. What's that mean? They stand up in the sinks? No, they put their feet in the sink. First of all, you have a... They sit on the counter. They sit on the counter, and they put their feet in the sinks, and they wash. It was a whole lawsuit. So they make now special foot sinks for them in Detroit. You guys are tzaddikim. You're mufka from the... What? After using the basic... they clean themselves differently. Okay, I hear. Let me tell you, when you're pera adam, it's not a kashya. Whatever the beheimos do, that's what they do. Okay, rabosai, b'kitzur, that's sugya number two. It could be that the issur is bathing. That's it. Okay. And again, what about the tinok? I don't know. So maybe the pshat in the tinok is the same story, that you take him in a bathtub and wash him, and put him in one of those things and you wash him. But l'chanami, to take a rag and to put it on a person's face and wash his face... Was that water with the tinok? That's schitah already, to use a rag. If you don't do it derech schitah, there's a way to do it which is not derech schitah. The water with the tinok? The water with the tinok? When, by the mohel, by the story with the tough kuf yud aleph, you mean? With this? Yeah, it's patur. It's even hot.

For hot, I understand why there's no heter. So poshut bichlal shaila that we discussed yesterday is poshut. I mean, that I did already. I'm not going to go—Chacham Tzvi is beautiful. I don't know if you decided, I read the whole thing this morning. It's a classic. It's a classic teshuva. Beautiful, beautiful teshuva. Whatever it is, he wanted it to be b'tafel ben hashmashos; he saw the whole teshuva. Who brought me the teshuva? You brought it to me. Yo, you brought it to me? Who put it on my shtender? It's beautiful. Rabosai, take it home with you. It's a Chacham Tzvi. He says that could be the heter is only bein hashmashos, that she should go to the mikveh bein hashmashos. Are you not supposed to go bein hashmashos? Maaseh, you allowed, you—it's a heter. The washing, so maybe she should be matir the bein hashmashos. A beautiful teshuva. Amalek and teshuva, rabosai, Amalek and teshuva is נגד כל העולם, and they looked at every angle at the sugya. They looked at every angle of it. Then he brings down that Yerushalayim is different; you're not supposed to later. It's a beautiful teshuva. Bottom line, this Mishnah Berurah is not klar that there's a heter poshut. The way I learned up the Mishnah Berurah could be it's only by mikveh, mitzvah, but stam poshut is not a heter. Good? That's what we came out, a maskanah from that Mishnah Berurah, right? Then when the Mishnah Berurah says poshut, maybe it's only together with mikveh. Okay, what's the shiur of poshut? That's another tumah of Acharonim, and then we'll start moving on. Shiur poshut: tila l'David, anything that you feel hot, hot is hot. Who says a shiur? As long as it's hot, it's hot, okay. What does he mean by that? I don't know. He needs to say—hot is awesome. I don't know. Right, a little more than chaim brayk. He says whatever is hot, it's hot, that's what he says. And then it's asur. That's asur. Ramaisha in the teshuvos, chelek daled, seif siman ayin daled, says it depends on what normal of the weekday is. What's a normal hot shower? Anything less than that is called poishim mutar. Why? Because the maisah is learning, it has to do with the gezeirah. Whatever the Bavlonim do, so meileh anything less. יפה לתש. Maisah, not litfish. This is what it is. It has to tie it back to the gezeirah. Hilchos rechitzah is not a din. I'm sure you could say it is. There are those that probably say it's a din. ... it's a din choim, it's a din poishim, whatever the shiurim are. He wants to say this way. Whatever choim, yatzi ledes, whatever the shiurim are, ... He's right. I mean, yeah. Okay. The Chashulchan says whatever is called choim. Whatever the olam calls choim is called choim. Whatever the olam calls poishim is called poishim, and that's it. Now, Rav Zalman has a very nice chiddush, that if I mix together hot together with cold, then it could be mutar. Why? Because that's not called hot. That's called warming up the cold; it shouldn't be cold. Even in the issur poishim— no, so you could have a lot. Let's say you have a lot of cold water, put in boiling hot water, it's mutar, because right, it becomes cold. Chatagav, it becomes, right, if you have much more, so it's mutar. But now it's poishim. Poishim is asur, right? Mishnah Berurah, we learned the Mishnah Berurah. That's not called poishim. That's not called cham, because you just did it to take off the sting of the cold. So he says that's mutar. So I had a shaylah: what happens if it's the other way around then? Let's say you start off with the hot water. You put in the cold. Bishlema you start with the cold. No, but you put a lot, tons of cold water. Mamash cools it off right away. If you put cold water, keep something—what's it called? It's mutar. Halacha, both kei we learned this in Hilchos Bishul. If you put so much cold water, it's mutar. So I just clarified in Reb Shlomo Zalman's psak what happens. Why? You could say if the pshat is I'm just cooling off, I'm just heating up the cold. What if it's the other way? I take mamash hot water, which you're not allowed to use on Shabbos, I put tons of cold water in this. But what? Mechaseis, chamin. It's not how you do it; it's again, domeh to mekarea. If it's a certain temperature, it's not— Good, I agree with you, but I'll tell you the answer. I want to move because I want to get to the Megillah. I gave out a kuntres on Megillah. Okay, last final thing: tzonen. How about cold water? You're allowed to wash in cold water. Shmir Shabbos, chelek chas, perek yud-beis, se'if yud-alef. Shmir Shabbos brings down, chashash chita v'ha'itza, and therefore the minhag is not to be tovel, even though technically there should be no problem. The whole thing is mayim tzonen and poser. So if it's not chamin and poser, it should be mutar. No, but you have a problem of chita and ha'itza, therefore the minhag, he says, became this. Okay. R' Moshe says in the teshuvos, if lo yetzuyar, there's no problem of ha'itza.

So then you're allowed to go into the... What? So I guess shechitah says you should do it in a way that there should be no shechitah. Lekech shash. So igros Moshe, chelek daled, siman ayin hei, if there's no chash of oytza, efsher kemeikel zayin. What do you do with shechitah? So maybe the pshat is that he's not washing his hair. Maybe if the guy's not going to wash his hair, then it should be mutar. Not drying his hair. No, not washing. He's going to mikvah. But you have a chash shechitah; he might come to dry it. Isn't that one of the problems? B'choishesh that he might come to dry it. That's the chash. He might come to be meitzi, he might come to dry it. That's the chash. I didn't bring the Shemiras Shabbos k'hilchasah. That's his chash. He brings from the Maharil that since he might come to be meitzi, or he might come to dry it here, therefore it's asur. So Rav Moshe comes out and he says that if it's noch shash oytza, what about the shechitah? I guess maybe you're not washing it here. He says washing... he says, he says, ayin l'kaman chaf alef. He says, kasav poskim d'nogea l'halochah klal, even by tzonen, b'naru b'mikvah, d'mutar l'vadei shechitas se'ar, because you have a problem of—because mikvah is very heavy, I mean. I don't know what. What about showering? He doesn't say in your house. Right, right. It's mashma that even the minhag doesn't apply to the house. Does that make sense? Maybe, maybe. I mean, I'm just being medayek. No, I'm saying that that's the case. What's the reason why there's more likely to be shechitah by the nar or the mikvah? It's a lot. Am I backed up or not? Well, you don't have oytza in the house. That's what he wants. What about the shechitah, chelek? He only mentions shechitah. I'll look into it. ... take showers on Shabbos. It's cold water. There's no problem. ... No, because there's no chash. ... Mutar. Mutar. ... shaas l'tziyin, perek lamed hei, reish, pei, reish, nun alef. Hev af b'beis merchatz, shegilazia bo, it's all mutar. Why? Because it's ... mutar. Shin chavav, sif alef: poisher mutar, sheburah, that's it. You see, he cheats a little bit, you know that, right? ... right? I told you that's not ... Erev Shabbos. Unless you learn ... Erev Shabbos. I don't know. But whatever it is, he's definitely learning the ... that poisher is mutar. You see, that's how he's learning this ... Okay, that's what I wanted to show you. Okay? ... let's move on. That's it, okay? We touched enough. Shabbos, don't take showers on Shabbos. Next. Now, Hilchos Kriyas ... even with all my heterim, don't do it. Now, Hilchos Kriyas HaMegillah, right? Let's go, rabosai. So for the next two weeks we have to ... Chag b'Chag. This because already we started four weeks ago, Chag b'Chag. All right, we'll do it with two weeks. Okay, so here's a kuntres, rabosai. Huh? ... No, they're phenomenal ... beautiful ... by the way, ... we'll get to it. Rather the yeshiva put out kuntres also, same type of kuntres. I'll get you all these things, you'll get it. Huh? Next week is ... Okay, so here, take out the— you take a Mishnah Berurah, I'll hold notes. You take Mishnah Berurah, you hold notes. So let's go. So together we'll— and by tomorrow I'll figure out how I can get you all notes. That's it. Okay. How many times, rabosai, you read the Megillah twice? Okay, does everybody know? It says in my notes. How many times you read the Megillah on Purim? Twice. That's good. Unless you're ... Or your Briska, whatever. Good. So chayav likros the Megillah pamayim b'Purim, okay, achas balaylah v'achas bayom. The only thing is there's a very big tumul which was the ikar krias haMegillah, that you know, right? That's a machlokes Rishonim. The day, Tosafos. Okay. So mi ikar mitzvasa bayom, ayin Tosafos Megillah, daled amud aleph, Rosh, Ran, Rashba, Ritva, shem Rabbeinu Tam, okay. And even according to the Rambam that you mevarech shehecheyanu bayom, yeah, ayin Gra, shemevarech shelo chelek al zeh haRambam, okay. Right, v'afilu haRambam mevarech shehecheyanu, l'choira when do you mevarech the shehecheyanu? It's the Rambam holds ikar is the day, ikar bayom. So why is he making the mistake? It's supposed to be, ayin Tosafos Megillah. Afilu haRambam mevarech shehecheyanu, the Rambam holds you mevarech shehecheyanu balaylah. It's a mistake, mistake. Even the Rambam that says you make shehecheyanu by day, so you might want to bring a raya from there—oh, that he holds ikar bayom. Yes, it's a mistake. It's a mistake. Yes, that's what it should have said. It's a mistake. Rambam says you mevarech shehecheyanu twice. That's what he means.

It's me, it's funny. So where are your notes? Where are my notes? Tell me they made a small mistake. I'd rather beautiful; it's rather written very well, so don't worry. Okay. Chanukah Megillah. Right, so machlokes when you make the shehecheyanu. Zmanim, zmanim, zmanim. Okay, so basically what I try to bring out is that really there's no nafkamina l'maaseh, right? What's the nafkamina, which one is ikar, which one's tafel, right? L'chora I have a shtickel nafkamina. Let's say you're only able to do one. I mean, they're both chiyuvs; what's the chiyuv? No, but once ... kabbalah. Oh, so I talk about that. That's not so pashut; we'll talk about that. ... that's only בלילה. בלילה, I know it's בלילה. It's a mistake. It's a printer mistake. ... That's what it means. ... you see, so right away the first line is already a mistake. It's supposed to be ... So maybe you want to prove from here that ... No, the Gaon explains, because since the mitzvah, it's the first time you're doing it, so m'meila it doesn't mean that it's ikar and tafel. Okay, so that's the Gaon. ... There is a ... Chabir balaila. Shain, aber l'maaseh, l'maaseh, there's a ... because balaila it's a das yachid, shain. V'al pi zeh danu haposkim. The poskim come out with a shaila: mishu sheyachol kayem rak chad meihem, eizeh מהם יעשה? Ratbaz, or Chashulchan, hisik sheyikra shel laila. The Aruch HaShulchan says even though the ikur is bayom, you should still read the one of the laila, right? Why? Because you never know, you know. Whatever's in front of you, right? That's the Aruch HaShulchan, right? L'maaseh, it's in front of you now; you can make a cheshbon. Now is now. Yiddish sagt, vos iz zikh, iz zikh, right? Now you can do it. That's what he's saying. That's what the Aruch HaShulchan says. That's what he means. That's what he means. It's the Aruch HaShulchan like this. The Aruch HaShulchan, you'll have to pay attention because a lot of things within—it's written in a way that I wanted it. I wanted it to be very b'kitzur. I don't know if you see: ein Ratbaz, Aruch HaShulchan hisik sheyikra shel laila. You don't even know what that means. But even if we learn ikur bayom, the Aruch HaShulchan paskens you're still supposed to choose the laila one. But most poskim say not like that. Ein chai adam shemechakeh mehayom l'machar b'mitzvos. That's the klal, that we wait. That if you could do today and you could do tomorrow and you know that tomorrow is more important, okay. Ein chamtzi, kov v'od. Point being that there are many acharonim metzayen, since the ikur is bayom, wait for the yom. If it's a question of two, wait for the yom, okay? So this is the shakla v'tarya in the bekitzur over there. I feel bad because if they would see it inside, there's a lot of things going on in here. Okay, anyways, miyu, dugma zu kayam lo shchicha. L'maisa, what's the negeiah today? You know, anybody that's negeiah has to make a decision between Yom and layla, if it's really relevant, right? It's come out not shayach, the whole story. If negeiah she'adam rak yachol kayem rak chad, ha-makrius. Somebody's in the hospital and only one person could— a guy could come in one time. It's a little— okay, you know of such cases, it's shvere cases. The point being that this is where the tosefes negeiah, for a person has to choose. If a person has to choose between night and day, since day is by yom, so we pick the yom, okay? L'maisa, then I come and I say— exactly. That's where I say, now beis, aval l'choira, yehei negeiah l'inyan zeh. Okay, you can read it, go ahead. Ki yehei zeh l'inyan zeh. Go ahead, why not? L'choira yehei negeiah l'inyan zeh. Al ha-ktinah shekvisa megilas chichin lachs achar minyan asarah, v'rak im yesh ba'asarah koinsim yachad. Shulchan Aruch, go ahead, look it up, tof reish tzaddik sif yud ches. You're supposed to have a minyan of asarah. V'im beis hahi koren oysa b'tzibur beis haknesses, okay? Afilu yesh lo kuf noshim b'veiso, mitzvah leich la'beis haknesses, mishum b'rov am hadras melech, mishtabrus yifkon samei b'shem magen Avraham, u'kvar danu ha-poskim. What, in your house you have a hundred and in the shul you have two hundred?

F200. So there's halachah, that's how the halachah shulchan learns, mevatel Torah l'shmor mikra Megillah. Reb Chaim learns the mevatel Torah because it's a kamas haneichas. פירוש, Reb Chaim. Krias Megillah is doch Torah. Torah says, No, it's not. It's like zalgen tefillin. ... Some are maskim that Krias Megillah is different because it doesn't have a din Torah. Right, kiyum mitzvah shel Torah. Okay. But that's pashut not what Reb Chaim meant. Reb Chaim meant— Okay, now, our shulchan learns a little different. Mevatel Torah is to go for the b'rov am hadras melech. A guy sitting and learning, so he has to stop learning to travel to the big beis medrash for the b'rov am hadras melech. That's pshat mevatel Torah l'shmor mikra Megillah. That's not bittul Torah. Right. To stop a— No, it's a gathering of Torah. But that's the bittul Torah. I'm just saying. He said, for krias— I'm not sure that would be called bittul Torah. Sure it's bittul Torah. Stopping. Why not? You're stopping to learn. You're taking a waste of time. You're wasting time. You're doing a mitzvah. But you're not doing the mitzvah; the mitzvah you could do anyway. It's for the b'rov am. No one understood Reb Chaim. Why? What's the shver Reb Chaim? I hope every yeshiva guy must know that Reb Chaim. You know that? Must know it. That krias— not must know that they must; meaning must, they're mechuyav to know it. That's right. Reb Chaim says krias Megillah is docheh lan Torah. So how can you be mevatel talmud Torah l'shmor mikra Megillah? Torah says a Megillah says pesukim and you have to— pesukim. What are you talking about? No one ever says mevatel talmud Torah mishum krias haTorah every week. Let me tell you something. I grew up— I grew up— Yes. Yes. Yes. That's the chinuch that we in Litta. That was the chinuch in Litta. I grew up hearing this Reb Chaim from a child. How could you say that? What was bothering him? Tillim zogers. What was his question? Lit deflect from Shchayim. You know, I still hear it ringing in my ears. The litvish yid was like a shayn, ‘Tillim zogers, tillim zogers.’ I grew up, the view, a kotzeger tillim. My father told me a very... My father told me, till today, he can't touch them. In my house, we never had the mayanos shel Torah. See, today nobody touches mayanos shel Torah, because they have the shulchan... the litvish mayanos shel Torah. But l'maaseh, mayanos shel Torah was a classic. Who didn't touch a mayanos shel Torah? Every Yid learned mayanos shel Torah, yeah? My father didn't have it in the house. My father didn't touch it, and he told me why, because when he was a bachur in yeshiva in Beis HaTalmud, my father's a tremendous masmid, an unbelievable masmid, so by breakfast he used to take the mayanos shel Torah and sit with it. He says one day he sees like a towering figure, like a shadow on top of him. Reb Leib was very tall. Reb Leib was staring over his shoulder, and he sees that he's learning mayanos shel Torah. ‘Un andersh past ich nisht.’ So he told him, ‘Mayanos shel Torah...’ They have a hatred to the mayanos, I'm telling you. Listen to me. The Litvish olam hates the mayanos shel Torah. It's like a— because it's easy. He took easy and he made it easy. It was vertlach. My father said since then, Reb Leib Zog was choider l'toich libo with such fear that he could never touch my yarmulke. And my father's not like that. My father's such an easy... I'm telling you, I'm telling you a maise I heard from my father a hundred times. My father told me my yarmulke, he never brought it into the house, he never touched it. And my father's not the type. He's not like a chasid Reb Leib Malin follower. My father, Baruch Hashem, he doesn't care. My father doesn't care about anything. He's very liberal, open-minded. But he said that the fear that Reb Leib instilled in him for touching a thing left mamash l'dorei doros. My father, I'm telling you, you come to the Shabbos table with the yarmulke, he doesn't look there. I'm telling you, it's like a pachad, the yarmulke. How was Reb Leib? How was Reb Leib? My father told me another very nice maise. During breakfast, he was eating breakfast in yeshiva in Bais... My father told me another maise that my aunt was in the bungalow colony by my zeide, I'm saying for the summer. He was during the week in yeshiva, my father, so my aunt asked him to bring her a dress for Shabbos. So he hung it up on the hook. You know, in those days they used to have a hook.

But I'm saying, see, so kids, Reb Leib walked over to my father and he tells him, Meisha, du veist vos hengt ba dir in kar? My father's thinking, what's hanging by me in my car? He says, A froi's dress hengt ba dir in fenster ba di kar. He said they instilled such pachad. And my father told me that he ripped the further thing out of the, you know, what's the Reb Leizer Hordetsky, he ripped the water fountain out of the— Reb Leizer, they brought a water fountain into Beis HaTalmud, in the hallway. They brought a water fountain. It was in the hallway. Reb Leib said, he said Beis Medrash is niskin park. He said, dos iz niskin, a Beis Medrash kein park. So Reb Leizer, he was very strong, Reb Leizer Hordetsky. They used to call him Reb Leizer HaGodol. Reb Leizer Hordetsky. Reb Leizer said it. Reb Leizer went and he ripped it out of the floor. He ripped it, it was attached to the floor. Reb Leizer Hordetsky, b'smash niskin park. And he took and he ripped it out of the floor. Reb Leizer was one of those mirrors there. No, he was one of the mirrors, no? I mean from the— Reb Leizer, Reb Leizer HaGodol, they were gedolei olam, they were. In learning they were gedolei olam. Reb Leizer killed a guy, you know that. Killed a guy? Avada. It was a guy who walked into the yeshiva and he was stealing things. Reb Leizer went and killed him. He was stealing? Reb Leizer gave him a frask and knocked his neck. The guy fell on the floor. Died? Smadersh. Dead. What did he want to do? He wanted to steal? He was stealing. They caught a guy stealing in yeshiva. Reb Leizer went and gave him a frask and he killed him. He was very strong. No, not... Chayav misa. Al tinah... Yeah. It's not beirecha. What? Why do we need a beis? I don't know. Yeah, Rambam. Okay. Kitzur, rabosai. Let's keep... All right, the difference of avmalin today. Go to the coffee room in yeshiva. Could be al פי הדעת. It could be... but Yaakov Avinu, they wanted there should be a beis. There still needed a beis. By Shechem there was no beis din. Shechem there was no beis din. That was the whole vort, yeah. So that's what the Ramban says. Okay. V'kitzur, kvar danu... kvar danu, come, let's go back. Kvar danu ha-poskim, nashim tzrichin lizaher sheyehei kri'asan b'veis haknesses b'rovam. Now, the women have—women are mechuyav in kri'as haMegillah, but how much are we mechayev them? We're mechayev them with all the pratim of b'rov am. So let's look at the Rama, right? ... afilu sheha-minyan nashim... Huh? Why? They don't have a chiyuv to learn it; they have a chiyuv to listen to it. So what? Maybe it's b'rov am. Yeah, b'rov am means listening. If ten אנשים are chayav in a thing, right, each guy has an individual chiyuv—not a minyan, right? In a minyan you need ten people, but if you have an individual chiyuv, just because we're doing the same as a minyan, that means... Yeah, so that's the safek. The hargu for the safek. First of all, the safek if they're shayach to b'rov am, because they can't be mitztaref to a minyan. And the second shaylah is maybe their chiyuv is different than men. That's a different... This is the reid. This is—you’re saying... in the reid. Yeah. By shofar, the mitzvah might be shmiah, and there's a sugya of b'rov am. The whole reason why they... That's the mitzvah. That's the mitzvah, maybe. So what are you talking— You're saying women's chiyuv is only shmiah anyway, so who says they have a different b'rov am? By shofar it's lishmoa, the shofar. Is there b'rov am if ten people are making Kiddush in this room at the same time? Oh, ten people, or the mitzvah, five people, or ten people, fifteen people, is there a rivam there? Exactly. Okay, that part is. But let's say, stam, an individual mitzvah, each one has to... Huh? The mitzvah do gugul of the rav. Yeah, someone can be... Here's levana, here's levana, right? There's enough ravam to be mitzvah. What? She is a krah. What? She's a krah. In yeshivas they do that. They make a guy make one, guy makes the bracha, right? More mechavana. Okay. Yeah, but that's different because everybody has a chiyuv to say it. Here the question maybe women don't even have the whole sugya of ravam. And even if they do, maybe their chiyuv is not a different type of chiyuv. It's a chiyuv shmia, it's a chiyuv kria. This is the rate. So let's say there is a chiyuv of k'rovam by women, okay? So let's clarify a shaila: which is more important, the Krias HaYam? Women go to shul at night; they don't go by day, you know that? Most women who go will go by night. To hear it. To hear it, yeah, they'll go by night.

But by day they have somebody reading for them. It's a husband, a daughter, a son. ... No, I mean to say is that this thing with the going to shul, they do it. But if the pshat is that the ikar kriyah is by day, and there is some chiyuv of b'rov am, so maybe they should be mesader more to go by day instead of going by night. The chiyuv would be more by day than to go by night. The ikar kriyah is by day. That's what I'm saying. That's one nafka. What about the shehecheyanu? What do they do with the shehecheyanu? Why? What's the shehecheyanu? We make shehecheyanu twice anyway. What's the shehecheyanu? I'm saying on the mitzvah hayom. On the mitzvah hayom, let's not go only in the day. There's no b'rov am on the... Anyways, al kol panim, over here they bring down that in Taf Shin Samech Ches, I pointed out that the kuntres came out from Reb Elyashiv, that Reb Elyashiv says women don't have any way, b'rov am, so they could stay home both times. There's no chiyuv for them. The only shaila is, do they have the chiyuv of the minyan? It's an interesting shaila. Let's see takanas halacha. ... Let's look at the Shulchan Aruch, Taf Reish Tzadik, se'if yud ches. Go ahead. Okay, they need ten. Yeah, so that's mitztarefes la'sarah. Now, oh, since it's only a pirsumei nisa, so you're allowed to have nashim. So what is Ramatzah safek in the Rama, huh? So what's the ma'aseh? Bottom line is, would you force a woman to go to shul? Maybe not. I mean, I don't mean force with a gun. That's not what I mean. I don't mean that either. Force if it's difficult for her. Let me tell you, period. The goyim didn't let her. My bub didn't know what shul was, and the shul was in her house. Shabbos morning she would go to shul, and every Shabbos—I hold you were right—every Shabbos she would come and ask, What the parshah's ...? Every Shabbos. What parshah? ... Every week she would ask my father, Meisalev, what's the haintige parshah? Could you find it for me? She couldn't find it. ... This woman was. I remember looking at a child. You should be matzliach in the derech in a certain thing. How often does the ... go out of her house already? You know, those things ... It was different. It was different. It was different. Yiddish ... was much, much different. Okay, al kaponim, rabosai, you hear? So what would you say lhalachah l'maaseh? I don't know. For women it's ... What? I don't mean force with a gun. I'm saying, should you tell her—encourage? No, should you tell her to go, or maybe she should leave her alone? ... But according to one ... she needs ... What's the shibur on that? Maybe that's why she did what she did. You can look at the reverse. If he forced the girl, she went to give him the apple. They had das. All right, let's go weiter. Okay, al kol panim, al kol panim, there's no b'reivam. Minyan, l'choira, is a din of b'reivam, zogt the Rama. So l'choira, that's what Rabbi Yoshua was saying. They don't have to go to shul, basically. Women don't have to go to shul. Okay. When is the zman of Kriyas Megillah? Let's see, taka, when is it? It's in the beginning, tof reish, the first se'if. When is Kriyas Megillah? Kol hayom, the mitzvahs... yeah? Tof pei zayin, tof pei zayin. Okay, alois hashachar. Now, what about from alois till netz?

No, from a los. ... It's posul from neitz. ... from neitz. Okay, but you can say from a los. No, no, you can't say. We're talking about the night one. We're talking about the night one, not the day one. Oh, what about the other way around? We're talking about the night one. That's only. ... which is what? Tefilas neitz. And for an emergency, neitz. Such a baki when I have the sheets in front of me. Steve, go. That's it. Steve, go. ... You said you can already do both of them? No. You can. Maybe. It could be shayach ... They talk about that by Kriishma. You could take Kriishma until alos. The question is, could you do both, or is there a ...? And then he says there's a safek, right? ... ... You can do all the ... You can. Okay, you can't, I can't. He says I can't, but not a ... up to neitz, so I can't. I can. ... You can't. ... So let me show you. So the Magen Avraham brings down from the halachos of taanis. That there's a tzad that you could do it even after ad hanetz. ... that it's therefore you should read without a bracha. Now what's a negel maisa? If a guy had a medical emergency at night, or what other cases? Why would a guy not read the Megillah? Fell asleep. Right, fell asleep. What else? If a guy fell asleep and he woke up, let him just read the Megillah. ... because they have the next morning, which is Shushan. I was waiting four o'clock in the morning to get to minyan till late. I was... fell asleep. I know, I know. The next morning I couldn't get up. I woke up so late because they made me wake up in the morning. I couldn't get a minyan. I was drunk, people. No, that's the case. Okay, okay. But if the guy has a medical emergency, let's say after alos hashachar, ... can be meikel to read till netz. Okay. Mitzvasa kol halayla. What about before chatzos? Any reason to read before chatzos? Mishnah doesn't talk about it, yeah? No? No? Before chatzos? Yeah. It's called... like Krishma, if it's a derabbanan. So you tell me. It's a derabbanan. So tell me, no? It's another nafka mina. No. Megillah is a derabbanan. What? No, but it's not derabbanan the night, only the day. Only the day is derabbanan. So could you read me the Mishnah Berurah? Does the Mishnah Berurah say anything about reading it before chatzos? Let's say a guy wants to make a minyan at one o'clock in the morning to read the Megillah. There's a lot to do it, l'choira, huh? There's no Mishnah Berurah on it, huh? Mitzvasa kol halayla. Anywhere that you have to come and read the Megillah right away, you have to watch. So maybe, so I bring down the chiddush, and then I bring down that this year, Rav Shlomo ... because the kuntres that came out from ... and he brings down that— Can I tell you the emes? Rav ... brings down that there's a din of zrizin makdimin, and therefore you're supposed to do it right away, at the beginning of the night. You don't have to ... the place. What about ... over here? Like, ... is worried about it, huh? If I can't get a minyan, ... myself the Megillah? ... Of course. If I can't ... minyan, if I should do it myself or should wait for— Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. ... It's a good shaylah, maybe. That's the shaylah. That's the shaylah, what's the zman? Which maaseh ... For what? He couldn't have a— he didn't have a Megillah. He was traveling, ... He missed the minyan. He just came after. He couldn't get a minyan. He paid ten people to come with the Megillah, and as soon as started reading, they started laughing and they walked out on him.

Why did he start laughing at him? I don't know, because they took his money and ran off. He ran away. He was all involved. You mean he was in Golus? You mean he was... I don't know. This guy... Who is this? Famous maaser. Famous maaser. I don't know. So what are they trying to bring out from this maaser? The girl was upset for a long time in his life, that he couldn't... He should have lent it. It was, I think... There's something else. There's a story behind this. The what? You just said something. What was the limud from the story? I was trying to be right, that's all. Yeah, but I don't... You mean he wasn't yotzei Megillah because he wasn't... Yeah, but you said that they all walked out, so he didn't have ten people. He was very upset. He was upset for... He was upset for... He was upset because... Why didn't he make a... There's a story about a kehillah that then you have... and there was like a storm, whatever, and like one of the kids was supposed to bring it from elsewhere, didn't bring it, and they're waiting and צריכים, should they read, whatever, this and that, until finally he came very, very late, whatever, the whole congregation. So that's an interesting scenario. What would happen if they're waiting for a Megillah, they don't have a Megillah, people are waiting to eat, should they eat and then...? Eating is something else. Eating is a different... Fine, but I'm saying... That we'll get to later. I hope you'll not eat before Megillah. I'll show you later. That's for sure. Okay, we'll talk. What do you mean? It's a mitzvah to eat. ... What do you mean? I remember... Eating is different. Not eat before mitzvah. We'll talk about it if you're allowed to eat before Megillah. I remember Rav Moshe's levaya on the bus back from New York to Baltimore. When the taanis was over, they made an announcement, there's cake if anybody needs to eat, they could have it, because it was a taanis. First of all, it's Rav Moshe's shita that once this zman haMegillah comes, you're allowed to eat. You made the announcement on the way back? On our bus, the ... bus, they made an announcement. Yeah, if anybody's hungry, we have cake, you could eat. Most people waited. First of all, there's a ... We'll talk about all these halachos. We're going to get to it. Fifty, rabosai, fifty-eight chidushim. We have fifty-eight chidushei halacha, and we only did four, so let's move along. We have a lot to do here. Okay, zman Krias HaLeilah in America is fifty minutes from shkias hachamah, okay? It says fifty. Says Rav Moshe, why? Because it's only derabbanan, v'lav d'Oraisa, okay? Igros Moshe, chelek daled, siman samech beis, fifty minutes. Rav Moshe held for every derabbanan it's fifty minutes. Why not? That was a p'sak from Rav Moshe? I thought the range of derabbanan, I thought derabbanan was forty-two, forty-five. Forty-one officially. Forty-two. Forty-two. And Rav David hiked it up to forty-four, forty-five. Rav David made a cheshbon; he was cholek on Rav Moshe. He hiked it up, and as soon as Rav Moshe was niftar, they changed the calendars. That was the first Yerushalayim calendars, forty-five, and then for Shabbos it's either fifty-five or sixty. That's Rav Moshe. He says since it's only derabbanan, so therefore you can be meikel. I asked this to what's-his-name, I asked this to Blue, Rav Blue's taanis, or Blue told me, yeah. Blue told me that from himself, he waited seventy-two. He came to visit Shimmy once. Shimmy's, what's his name, he waited seventy-two. Shimmy the mail. What's his name again? Shimmy Hess. He's an eid by Reb Bluth. So when he came to visit Reb Bluth, what time tomorrow? What time? Where is it? Where is it? ... Where is it? ... I know where Carinet is. You almost lived there. Wait a minute, doesn't what's his name have the shul over there, the Rabbi? No. Rabbi Cohen. ... Close around and around. This Carinet is before sunset, right before sunset. Okay, rabosai, okay, we'll find it, we'll find it. Now, I have a shtikel kasha. What do you do with this Mishnah Berurah? Mishnah Berurah taf-reish tzadik beis, seif katan tezayin. The Mishnah Berurah says that it's a very chama d'Rabbanan because actually it's close to d'Oraisa d'Rabbanan. Taf-reish tzadik beis, seif katan tezayin. Go ahead. So Mishnah Berurah brings down if he was safek kares on Megillah, why don't you say safek d'Rabbanan l'kula? Says the Mishnah Berurah because it's actually more chamur; it's divrei Kabbalah.

Okay, let's see. Go ahead. Go ahead. So, evel zogt a סתם about tag. It's going by day, dafka. We're talking about eating over here. We want to eat something. We want to eat something. What's it talking about? I knew that this was going to happen. Okay, it's talking about the night. The case is talking about the night. Maybe it's chamah. So actually, keeping machria for a maiseh, no, it's not so chamah. Maiseh is Rabbanan. You could be somech that it's על כל דרבנן, huh? Unless it's an halachah, chomer, zman. It's not stam a derabbanan. You have to wait, no? Like the Aruch. Like it. It's a beautiful Aruch. Beautiful ha'arah. Beautiful ha'arah. Now, there's 58 of these ha'aros. It gets more and more interesting. I talk about things that nobody else talks about: hearing aids and microphones and all this stuff. Yeah, hearing aids. No, but... I remember Pupa Ruv. Pupa Ruv's chronicle of ruach, he used to say on the microphone. I remember, I heard it by ... I heard ... from him on the... Eisberg took me to the Pupa Ruv. Why? Eisberg used to—Eisberg was my rebbe, my eighth-grade rebbe, and he lived in Williamsburg. It was a big thing to go to his house. If you were the best kid in the class, like, you would go to his house for Purim. You guys got a good story out of me, because nobody. What happened was, he used to get me to go. So if you were the best kid, the three best kids in the class would get to go to his house for Purim. It was supposed to be very... Kids... Hey kid, ... ... The ... used to... ... you know, the ... used to put ... was considered a big poisik. You'll see. So, by the night, we finished up with drink. We drank vodka, ... It was a Purim. ... Now, the yeast inside the vodka, יחד with the challah, makes the vodka much, much, much worse. It burnt my mouth like you never saw. Burnt my mouth like you never saw. So bad, I can't even tell you how painful. Kids, he was laughing, and I got כזה... No, my rebbe. And the more it was burning me, the more he told me, ... It was getting worse. I'll tell you part B to the story. There's a part B to the story. You'll get it. You'll get it eventually. By Purim you'll get it. There's no... It's different. I took the... All right. He used to make his coffee... ... Okay, let's go. Still don't have minyan? Okay, so let's go weiter. So let's go weiter. ... Still no minyan? Finish. Anyway, we have to wait. We can't make copies. It's all first. ... Where is it? Where is it? ... Make a right, and the second house on the right. ... The corner is the guy who was built over Yannai.

Schweitzerhoff? Do you have enough for that? I think that changed from last time. I think that changed from last time. I don't think it was Schweitzerhoff last time. Yeah, yeah. But there's another guy that gets you confused with them. Remember who's that other guy's name? Oh yeah, Suria. Suria. Why do I get you two guys? I don't know. Where's he at? You don't see him a lot. I don't know. He's very good though. He's very learned. Ready for Mari? Oh, wait. No, may I ask you a quick question? Week? With... Shacharis, it's like, think of like Abraham and then... But yeah, okay, keep this in mind, think about parsha with each one.

en 大发时时彩 Amen.