Birchos HaTorah: The Joy of Torah and the Responsibility for Every Jewish Child
Original title: Biur Tefila: Birchos Hatorah: The everlasting legacy of Torah
This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. Today, בעזרת השם יתברך, we learn Birchas HaTorah. In the seder of the davening, we're still holding Birchas HaShachar, Birchas...
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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. Today, בעזרת השם יתברך, we learn Birchas HaTorah. In the seder of the davening, we're still holding Birchas HaShachar, Birchas HaTorah. As an introduction, daf men iberredn, we have to speak out the dinim של חנוך and the Mishnah Berurah in siman mem-zayin. Birchas HaTorah, צריך ליזהר בה מאוד. To be very careful, to be nizhar in Birchas HaTorah. This is the Shulchan Aruch, mem-zayin סעיף א'. Says the Mishnah Berurah, מאוד — he's being medayek on the word מאוד, extremely. Be extremely careful. And l'choirah, if yeder zach darf men zayn zahir, on everything you have to be careful. Everything that the Torah, that the chachamim tell us to do, we got to be careful to do. What's me'od? Extremely careful, extremely careful. The mechaber in Shulchan Aruch, me'od, magdish. And it's not just agav orcha dik; it's not just he happens to put in that it's important, but he makes a whole seif out of it, a whole halacha out of it. It's halacha. Not just agav nesiros, right? Not just, you have to be mesayer, to be careful, chizuk, nein. It's a din. It's halacha. Tzarich lizaher bo. Me'od, says the Mishnah Berurah, why? Shelo yilmod ad sheyevarech. That's the kavanah. You're not allowed to learn till you make this bracha. And also, the lizaher means, veyevarech osah b'simchah. So Mishnah Berurah is learning that there's two parts to the zehirus. One is the zehirus to make sure you do it before you start learning, and the other part of the zehirus is that it should be what? B'simchah. So the word lizaher—Chofetz Chaim, the holy Chofetz Chaim is learning up the word lizaher. What does lizaher mean? Lizaher, make sure you do it, chas v'shalom not do it. And lizaher means in how you do it. It has to be done properly, fully, b'simchah. It has to be done with happiness. Gedoy demetzinu shel omru Chazal, says the Mishnah Berurah, why? Because we find Chazal tell us al ma avdah haaretz, al ma avdah haaretz, why? Was there a churban? Why the destruction of Yerushalayim? ויאמר ה' על עזבם את תורתי. אמרו חזל שדבר זה נשאל לנביאים. Chazal tell us that nobody knew. They asked the neviim, they asked around. Nobody knew the answer. Till the Ribbono Shel Olam said, what's the reason? Because shelo berchu baTorah techilah. They didn't do birchas haTorah. They were learning. עוסקים כל זמן שעוסקים בתורה. They were osek in Torah. ולכן לא ידעו מעבדו. הקדוש ברוך הוא הבוחן לבבות, says the Mishnah Berurah, the Ribbono Shel Olam, who sees deep into the hearts of people, בוחן לבבות ידע, כי אף על פי שהיו עוסקים בתורה, even though they were osek in Torah, they were osekin l'shem limud haTorah, אין לקיימו שלומדים, שחכמס. It was like any other chochmah. They were learning it, ממילא they weren't what? מברך בתורה תחילה. שלא היתה התורה חשובה בעיניהם, ולכן לא הגינה. That's why it didn't protect.
Should have protected him, Torah's meginah. Says the Mishnah Berurah, ולכן צריך ליזהר מאוד, וליתן הודות שבחבונו, ונעשה לנו כלי חמדת. The Rabbeinu gave us the Torah. Gam אמרו חזל, שאין זוכה חס ושלום להיות לו בן תלמיד חכם. That a person will not have children talmidei chachamim. Abur zeh, because of this issue that he's not מברך בתורה תחילה, שאין הניזק מברך חס התורה. So here we have zehirus. You got to be careful in birchas haTorah. Why do you have to be careful in birchas haTorah? Many things, destruction to the world came because they didn't do birchas haTorah. Also, if you're not נזהר in birchas haTorah, your children won't be talmidei chachamim. So the Mishnah Berurah is telling us, remuz, remuz, הוי נזהר, and it's for your own good. It's for your own good, because when a person's נזהר, it wards off, it wards off all the problems, right? Habeisai, nu. Everybody wonders why there were so many problems. I don't know, maybe if you learn Mishnah Berurah. Sometimes the answers are right in front of us, and we look for grace at Tirutzim, we look for answers, and the truth is that's pshat in the Chazal, על מה אבדה הארץ. They were looking for big answers, and they went here and they searched there and... And Chazal said that it's very simple, it's right in front of you: שלֹא בַּחוּ בַּתּוֹרָה תְּחִלָּה. Now what is שלֹא בַּחוּ בַּתּוֹרָה תְּחִלָּה? The Mishnah Berurah says you got to make sure you do it, and you also have to do it with what? That's the two things that we learn from the Mishnah Berurah. We also see from the Mishnah Berurah the consequence. What is the consequence of the ארץ and kinda? Then נִשְׁתַּלְמִי דְּחַכָּמִים. Rabosai, let's learn Birchas HaTorah a bit. Interesting, three brachos. Most mitzvahs have one, maybe two. Three? Three is out of the question. Chanukah had that. להדליק נר של חנוכה, שעשה ניסים. Once the Torah, two dinim, right? There's two parts to neiros Chanukah. You see everyone smiling, they're already excited for Chanukah to come. ... Chanukah echad, it's going around the corner. But דאת מִדְרַי בְּרָכוֹת, there's three brachos of Birchas HaTorah. Why? Why does one mitzvah—you write, it's a very big mitzvah, the greatest mitzvah, תלמוד תורה כנגד כולם, it's the greatest of mitzvahs, good. Why three brachos? Rabosai, let's learn a little bit: what is Birchas HaTorah? What is—every mitzvah has a birchas hamitzvos. Before you do the mitzvah, people don't realize, with the dank of the Ribono Shel Olam that He gave us this mitzvah. We're so lucky, oisher, that we got a mitzvah. There's birchas haTorah, birchas hamitzvos. There's an interesting Beis Halevi. The Beis Halevi in Parshas Mishpatim questions why do women make birchas haTorah if they don't have the mitzvah of Talmud Torah. Sagt der Beis Halevi, it's not schwer, because they do have a mitzvah of Talmud Torah. Even though we learn out, shanantam levanecha v'lo bnosecha, it's not for women Talmud Torah. They have a mitzvah of Talmud Torah. The mitzvahs that are nogea to them, they're mechuyav to learn. Nogea to a mesyankev, there's a Talmud Torah de'halacha there. They learn about hadlakas neiros, kashrus, zaken that are nogea to them. There's a famous teshuva from the Alter Zeide. It was one of the big topics in its time. They created the Beis Yankevs. Is it on the same level as the yeshiva? What was the negea? If you donated money to a yeshiva, could you switch it? Could you take that money, tochegem, and give it for a yeshiva? It was a Beis Yankev, a yeshiva.
So the truth is, I doubt. Ask any beis Yankev, ... chayzer, chayei yeshiva bachur, da yeshiva meidel, chves, whatever you want to call it. Good, it's all good, sounds good. Mitzayerl tamaiseh. They say over a story that they once went over to a bachur in yeshiva, and they said, I have a shidduch for you, so-and-so. She knows Tanach, knows Yeves, Maharal, knows Yeves, Chamban, the whole list of zachen sheyves. At the end of the conversation, he asked the bachur, Nu, you interested? He said, For a wife, not, but maybe for a second seder chavrusa. Good. Efsher, for a second seder chavrusa, mitzlach. Good, Baruch Hashem, we learned. So is it a yeshiva? Is it a talmud Torah that if I give money to a yeshiva, can I switch it? Can I switch it for a beis Yankev? The Alter Zeide goes through the sugya b'arichus, and he comes out that you could switch it. L'maaseh, there's talmud Torah for women in the halachos that they have, and this is this Beis Halevi. Nu, so the Beis Halevi is learning Birchas HaTorah is vas? Birchas ha-mitzvos, right? Brisker Rav brings from Reb Chaim a different teretz to this kasha. I don't know either he paid attention to this Beis Halevi, or he was cholek on this Beis Halevi. I don't know how to work that out exactly. Maybe all the different pshat that it needs more of a teretz. Chassidus gives a different teretz to the kasha: why women make birchas haTorah, huh? Good, that we could. The Brisker Rav's yedua, שאין ויגאל, דאשיינע בריסקער רב. The Brisker Rav said, Birchas haTorah is not a birchas hamitzvah; it's a birchas hodaah. It's a birchas hodaah. Praise the Ribono Shel Olam, thank the Ribono Shel Olam for the Torah. Women, even though they don't have mitzvahs talmud Torah like men, it's interesting, we make the bracha, אשר קידשנו במצוותיו וציוונו לעסוק בדברי תורה. Esek haTorah is a klal, not just שייכות to frei. Esek — far vin lernen? No, no. They have to learn to know what to do. Sefardim, based on Rishonim, have different nusach habrachah: אשר קידשנו במצוותיו וציוונו על דברי תורה. They took out the l'asok. They have a mitzvah of Talmud Torah, but not l'asok b'divrei Torah, huh? They don't have to be osek. We could talk about it. There's an interesting Tosafos. Tosafos in Kiddushin says, Torah is lashon zachar, lashon nekeivah. Says Tosafos in Kiddushin, because shekein derech — it is the way of men lilmod Torah. So it could be it's a lashon zachar. You look at the Tosafos over there. The Rosh changes the girsa, shekein derech... So derech of men, lasik b'Teirah changes it. Limud haTorah they have, but lasik haTorah they don't have. Shein. They can have pilpul on that side. But the Brisker Rav is saying that the birchas haTorah is a birchas ha'oda. Yeder mensch, even a lady, thanking the Ribono Shel Olam asher nasan lanu es Toraso. Her husband's a different man because he learns Torah. The mainstas, a man, is a good husband, is because he's learning Torah, l'stam. That's what's happening. Dafn zich opdanken dem Ribono Shel Olam, of the klei chemdah vos er git geven Torah, yeah? Birchas ha'oda of Torah mitalmud Torah. Shein. Regad de'su, a beautiful pshat, and it's תלוי בדברים למי שאמרם. In Steipler, in Kehilos Yaakov, in the end of Brachos, he says, l'cheira, hayitachen seudah birchas haTorah by women? Ay, there's no mitzvah Talmud Torah by women. So he wants to say it's a birchas hanehenin. S'kishmak.
Az eige geshmak. Az eidi used to tell me over that when the Chofetz Chaim gezogt a geshmake vort, he used to make with his mouth. When I'm in the yeshiva, I always tell people, this vort, if you have diabetes, you can't be by the table to hear it. It could cause diabetic shock, az a vort, a sheine vort. Zis, teires, zis, teires, sweet. A birchas hanehenin, yes, staple. It's pas for the staples, that a teisvis, az evi a shtikel cake. Mimeila, az evi memacht a bracha on a shtikel cake, pas macht a bracha vos? A Teisvis. Nu? Shein birchas hanehenin. Interesting, I saw a proving find, chassidish l'vracha. Shivim Tevadas was originally from Bnei Brak, and his hakdamah to Bein HaMishpatayim says the same thing. Maseches Brachos, in hakdamah, l'alter, says birchas hanehenin. You see gedolim think the same. Teires az is a zach shein. So now we can say that could be that's why there's three brachos. The first bracha is birchas ha-mitzvos. The second bracha is a birchas hanehenin. The third one, zis, v'ein l'shleima, Teires dos zis, sweet. בס'ה, thank you. Thank you to the Ribono Shel Olam for this zchus. Then there's, Asher bachar banu, ... בכלל. As the Ribono Shel Olam gave us a Torah. Hey, good, maskim. ... Nacha nekudah do. V'harav noa, Hashem Elokecha. ... I was once by Rav Shach, the tzaddik livrachah, the yeshiva zatzal, Rav Shach. He told me a megedike vort. Chazal say על מה אבדה הארץ? על שלא ברכו בתורה תחילה. You know, the meforshim ask a kasha: Why didn't they make a birchas haTorah? How long does it take to make a birchas haTorah? ... So I always thought to myself, you think they didn't make a birchas haTorah? ... They were so involved in learning that when they woke up in the morning ... They were so involved in Torah, ... They woke up and they were so involved. No, no, it was wrong. Thank you to the Ribono Shel Olam. It didn't come from a sinister, a schlechte nekudah. It came from ... How many people... I'm learning, learning, medaven. They're so busy, מיטן davening, learning. They have to learn to be medaven. I'm not giving mussar, rabosai, because the truth is, ... I remember Reb Shmuel Birnbaum, ... I used to learn by Chazoras HaShatz. Used to learn by Chazoras HaShatz. I know people spoke halacha, shteiging, chashivah. How could you sit in front and learn with the Chazoras HaShatz, eh? Hakutah. So his teretz was, I want to see the Gehenim ... I want to see. Okay, you know what? ... What's the Gehenim ...? Chaisa mentioned, I have a different mahalach. Kleine mentioned, should daven, and you should be bechas haTorah, and you should do everything on time. This is not a yesod; it's an idea. ... Baruchu baTorah techilah, they were so oisek in Torah, they didn't stop to make what? A birchas haTorah. Not chas v'shalom it came from disrespecting the Torah. But most meforshim don't learn like this. Most meforshim learn, שלא יברכו בתורה תחילה.
Something was wrong. Something was missing. Something was missing. Something was missing. Why? Well, vaharavna. You had the mitzvah. They didn't make a hadlik neiros Chanukah before they lit the menorah. Why would they not do that? Reb Shach told me, from the Vilna Maggid, of course they made asher kid'shanu b'mitzvosav v'tzivanu. The bracha on the mitzvah they made, but the techilah, the bracha of the haravna, they didn't make. It's interesting, there's tefillah brachos. Birchas hamitzvos, asher kid'shanu... But shelo... baTorah, techilah, bakashah, the tefillah, the vaharavna, they didn't make. Very interesting. Here, the problem was that they didn't say vaharavna. You know, a lot of times people have a lot of cheres, Torah, Torah, they talk Torah. What's the vaharavna? You know, what exactly is the hashkafah of the person? Torah is very important, but is it that important as das is de gantze leben baym, vefinu v'fi amcha Beis Yisrael, v'ni anachnu v'tzetzaeinu v'tzetza amcha Beis Yisrael. The kinder. What do you show in the house? Are you an example of vaharavna? Huh? It's very nice that a person can get up in public and talk about how beautiful Torah is. What's in the house? What do you see in the house? Ani anachnu, it's etzleinu. Is that the ikur? Is that the most important thing? Maybe al mah avdah eretz was that. It wasn't sheloi barchu baTorah techilah, that they didn't say the words Vaharivno. It wasn't the actual bracha. It was the hasnem pasakundesage Vaharivno. It was, Az eich schlecht, Vaharivno. The problem is that the whole bracha just נישט געלעבט. Vaharivno, Hashem Elokeinu, es divrei Torasecha, befinu uvfi amcha Beis Yisrael. I saw Reb Chaim Kanievsky asks, why is this the only mitzvah that we discuss the children also? Whenever you make a birchas hamitzvah, ... Ich chiyanu v'kiyamanu v'higianu to do it, and my children also. Why all of a sudden, V'ni, anachnu, v'etzeleinu, v'etzel amcha Beis Yisrael? Reb Chaim Kanievsky asks this kasha. So he says an interesting teretz. Zogt Reb Chaim, zogt Reb Chaim, oh, oh, zogt Reb Chaim like this: B'Torah ksiv, V'yadata l'vanecha ulivnei vanecha. U'ksiv, and we just had this in this week's parsha, Ki yedativ l'maan asher yetzaveh es banav v'es beiso acharav. So you see that a person is responsible. Not just zein lernen, but the kind's lernen echad. So it's a chelek of your learning is to make sure your kids also. On the bottom, they bring here from the Steipler. The Steipler writes that could be that part of the tefillah for your Torah is your children's Torah too. Because the pshat is, v'shinantam levanecha is a chelek of the mitzvah. It's not two separate mitzvahs. It's a mitzvah that I should learn Torah and my son should learn Torah. So my birchas haTorah has to include my son also. K'sha'av po'el b'tefilasei al limud Torah shel tza'ar, harei mekayemu b'zeh mitzvas v'shinantam. So the mitzvah of v'shinantam is v'shinantam levanecha, you and your children. Mameila the birchas haTorah is you and your children. I saw an interesting zach. There's a sefer called Ano Avdo. It's a sefer, Ano Avdo. In sefer Ano Avdo, it brings down Reb Shmuel Tzvi Kvulalsky. I don't know who it is, but I read the story there. Interesting. He was asked—
Has to be a sandik by a bris right before he was niftar. He was asked to be a sandik. He calls up and he says, I can't be the sandik, I'm too weak. I ask you a favor, do me a big favor. Do a, a presentliche teivah. When you daven every day and you say Birchas HaTorah, V'nihyeh anachnu v'tze'etzaeinu v'tzeiza'ei amcha Beis Yisrael, mention every one of your children. Say, Der Yingele Ben, the momma's nomen. Der Yingele Ben, the momma's nomen. Every single individual. And he says, I'm making a gzech. He's very moved by it. He says, you know, we don't always have time to learn with our children. You have time to learn with every child, and even if we already learn with our children, are we giving him the proper amount of time? Who knows? It's very hard. But since it says over here that there's a segulah that if you say Birchas HaTorah, your children will be what? Nu? Talmidei chachamim. So when you say Birchas HaTorah, and you're mechaven for your children specific, dos alein a kiyum v'shinantam levanecha. Here's, I made a gzech, aveisa, geholfen. Nu, aveisa, geholfen, is doch tzchok. A person comes and he makes a Birchas HaTorah. This is a segulah that will help his children to become gedolei Torah. It's just as if I sat and I learned with them a Tosafos. Just like when I learned with him a Tosafos, it's a kiyum of v'shinantam levanecha. This is also v'shinantam levanecha, because I'm mevarech, I yeig the birchas haTorah, and I have in mind specifically the child, that itself. So, says the meiredik, yeah? I got to saw that the Steipler, in Brachos siman yud-gimmel, says a meiredike zach. The Gemara says that if a person is oisek in tefillah, he's yotzei. That what? Tefillah, shemishtameres b'kirboi. The Gemara says the Chassidim and Rishonim, how did they keep their Torah? Because they davened. So when you daven, it's a talmid Torah dika halachah echad. Says a meiredik, he says, because since there's a halachah, you have to—no, echad. So can you shtell zach a farment: Vos tustu, esich lachen? What's he doing saying birchas haTorah and he's davening Shemoneh Esrei? Dos heist gelacht! Atachein antanu, atacheinu l'daas, melameid l'enosh binah. Dos heist gelacht! Nu, vos zogstu? Geshmak Steipler, Kehilos Yaakov, Chadashim brachos siman yud-gimmel. I think this is what Rav Tzvi Kvalski was saying. I said, ken— I don't know who it is, but it's a meiredik, because a meiredike ainfall. People spend so much money on tutoring for children. You want to know, I have a good advice. I'm not saying you shouldn't spend money on the tutoring; that's not the kavanah. But you want to tutor your child? Zog birchas haTorah b'kavanah. You having geshmak in there? ... Shtayt, it says the same yesod. Since when I daven, Tehorasai mishtaneges. So when I daven for learning, that's heiskalach. Shtark. U'meileh, kemezogt, that's the pshat in the Birchas HaTorah alone. ... befinu, befi osamcha Beis Yisrael. That's Birchas HaTorah, because what is the Birchas HaTorah? Learning. Learning, make the kinder. It's all a chelek of the same limud, the limud haTorah, Birchas HaTorah, yeah? That says ... So just like when I daven for learning, that's called learning. I daven, and I say Birchas HaTorah, and I have in mind my children. Let me end. I see everyone's looking at the clock. All right, what should I do? The clock is ... the clock paskens. All right. I always had a kasha that bothered me, yeah. V'ni anachnu? Yeah, good. Who's anachnu? Us. V'et ze'einu? Our children.
V’tzetzoeinu, tetzoeinu, amachleik. It’s good. The goy in the bach, you say it, you don’t say it. The goy learns tetzoeinu means me and my children. And since there’s two doros, mimeila the Torah won’t be mifsak, I don’t have to go on the third generation, right? Torah machzeres al halashoniyos shelo, mimeila tetzoeinu. The what? I can’t hear. He means to say, I’m telling you, mimeila means… He’s saying tetzoeinu is two doros. I say the goy in brachos. I know, so you have it. And the bach learns that, I don’t know, for some reason he was not medayek this, and he says, so according to him, avudram… all amazing. Good. Oh, so let’s talk now, yeah? I have to care about what? Anachnu, tetzoeinu, and let’s say tetzoei, tetzoeinu. V’tetzoei kol amcha beis Yisrael. So what’s kulanu? You already got everybody. Something’s missing here, no? What? However you paint the part, the kasha. Yiddish mechas teireh, Yiddish mechas teireh. The goyim, Yiddish mechas teireh is the shemes HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Nu, yidalach, let me throw out to you a yesod. After Mashiach comes… You know how much I love you. You know how many days and months and years I came to say this shiur just because of you. I come here because chaviv li. If you only knew how when I prepare, you think it's easy. You think I have koiches, I have time. I don't have none of it. Ein ze chaviv, ela chidud v'yichud zitzen. That's what I have, and I come for that. And I will always come for that. Ad meah v'esrim, till as long as the Eibishter gives me koiches, I'm here for you, hear? Yodei shmecha does not mean Rabbeinu Shlolem's great name, the Mashiach. It means teirah. Shemo shel HaKadosh Baruch Hu is teirah. Yodei shmecha is teirah. There's shteit in the ... So what's viln? I'm gonna end with a maaseh, all right? And the maaseh I was moved by, by a vort from the Teiras Chaim. Who is the Teiras Chaim? Who is? Teiras Chaim given, dat talmid from the Alter. Teiras Chaim. Sure, it's before the Alter, before, way before. Takes a short to tell me that I'm wrong about that. You know what the word shur means in Hebrew? It means gerecht. Shur means gerecht. Okay. The Teiras Chaim says a meredike vort in Bamidbar, in naaseches hapayalim. He says, why would they not levarech techilah? Why not? Why? What? What? What was the reason? And this was terrible. This was so bad. You know what the answer is? He says, remember I told you Rav Shach learns it was the ... As divrei ... He says, no, that's not what the problem was. Vi es am ha'aretz basis, tzo'einu v'tzetzoamcha, yenems kinder. For zich, they were very interested in Teiras Chaim. V'harivnas, Hashem, divrei serascha befinu, az ich ken lernen. Das, das, that was very important to them. But tzo'emcha beis Yisrael, az yenems kinder kenn lernen, that was not so important to them. Hear that, beis? A half a feller. Half of a feller. It's half of a feller, a Torahs Chaim, half of a feller. I originally heard this vort in Beis Ruvin Kaminetz, and my sons, they made a siyum of a masechta for the end of the year, and the menahel, Rabbi Grzowski, got up and he said it. And Reb Shmuel Meir Katz, from the great dayanim down in Stettl, he was sitting there. I saw he was jumping. He was jumping. He was so taken. And then I walked over to him. He says to him, the Torahs Chaim, yeah, the Torahs Chaim. Mehedik. And together we realized the gadlus of what it was saying. Az mah atah lib Torah? It's not about your Torah. It's about the Ribono Shel Olam's Torah. It's about...
Ganz klar Yisroel. Azoy vi ich bet, v'nia nachnu b'tzo'einu, b'tzoei amcha, bet vayenems kind eich. Tavos v'nia nachnu kulanu yodei Shemecha. HaRibbono Shel Olam, vos vil ich? I want, ganz klar Yisroel. That's what I want. I want Torah b'yad yidzel haben, a zchus haTorah. It's not my Torah. It's not about me. Zeide said over once a maiseh, and with this I'll end. My zeide told me over that Reb Chaim Brisker once made an asifah. What was the asifah? They came from a different town. They came from a different town to collect for the yeshiva of the town. The balabatim in Brisk, they said, I can't give you. We can't give you. We have our own mosad over here. We have our own yeshiva we have to support. How are we going to give for the mosad? We don't have. We can't. All our money we throw into here. Reb Chaim called an asifah. He said, Rabosai, it's the hardest thing. I can't believe I heard such a thing. Mein yeshiva, unser mosad. He says, mashal l'mah hadavar domeh. He says, imagine there's a big store, big store that sells alech feitzim, and there's a menahel, what do you call that, a person who runs the whole, what do we call it, a supervisor, huh? A manager. A manager. The balabos saw that his business is so good, so he went on the other side of town. And he opened up a branch, opened up a branch. Somebody who lives closer to that side of town, that branch would use, instead of going here, he would go there. He meets the manager, and he starts telling the manager, I'm so sorry, I don't come into your store anymore. There's a branch a mile away, you know, so I go over there. Chuldik, I'm chuldik. What did the manager tell him? They cooked him a meshugeneh. What's the difference? It's the same business. Why he goes to the same pocket. The Chaltzelba Balabas. It's the same owner. What's the difference? This store, that store. Rav Chaim gezagt, tzvei yeshivos in tzvei shtetlach, tchaltzelba Balabas. V'ni anachnu kulanu yodei shmecha, v'loimdei seirasecha. Chah. See, dein Torah, the Ribono Shel Olam. See, yodei shmecha, v'meileh tzkulanu. And the dos is the tefillah and the bakashah v'harifenu, and the dos is the Torahs Chaim, that they didn't have that. And that's really the sinas chinam. It's really the same Chazal, the sinas chinam. What was the sinas chinam, Rabbeisai? What, what, what? It was this. It was zicher nisht yedn. Fakert, fakert. It was open sinas chinam. You think mamash mit gegangen mit geshalten yidden. Chas v'shalom, chas v'shalom. Ober nit farshtanen, v'ni anachnu kulanu yodei shmecha. You've just experienced another Torah class, brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.