Matos: 5782 - Rabbi Shimon Zonnenfeld: The Gemara tells that in Babylon, at the wedding celebration of a virgin bride, they would place oil on the heads of those present. A wonderful story in the name of the Rav of Jerusalem, Rabbi Yosef…

00:00 Speaker 1 So, please.

00:03 Speaker 2 We learned in the Gemara how they used to do things in Bavel, what they would do to a—

00:12 Speaker 1 Virgin.

00:12 Speaker 2 A virgin. They would rub oil on her, and so on and so forth. That reminded me—[unclear]. I remembered a story that once happened in Jerusalem on Pesach, during the Seder. At Shulchan Orech, they served soup to everyone at the table, and someone found grains of wheat in the soup. A grain of wheat is chametz—actual chametz. So what about all the food, the dishes, everything? They didn’t know what to do. So they went to the rabbi of Jerusalem.

00:51 Speaker 1 To my grandfather.

00:52 Speaker 2 Yes. And they told him. He said, “It’s all right. Finish the m-- you can continue eating from that bowl.” They asked him what he was basing that on. He said that one of the people at the table was a groom who had gotten married just before Pesach. Now, in Jerusalem, the custom is to throw wheat at the bride and groom. He was wearing his shtreimel, and apparently, while he was eating the soup, a grain fell from his shtreimel into that bowl. It wasn’t in the pot, which would have made everything forbidden; apparently it fell from his shtreimel. And that’s how it became clear that it was [unclear].

01:28 Speaker 1 Now, like this—