0692 - Being a Fool is an Issur D'oraisa - R' Shmuel Levitin

00:01 I once heard from Rav Shmuel Avidin. He was very smart. He was known to be a pikeach. So I once heard from him a word. He said that it was known by Chassidim that to be a sheite, a fool, is a Yishar Deraysa. Why is it Yishar Deraysa? Because we know in Tanya it says, You should not be a sheite. And it goes on to other things. But the lotion is don't be a sheite. Now, Tanya by Chassidim was known to be the terishim iksav of Chassidus, the written date of Chassidus, which is like the Chumash, Chumash of Chassidus. And since Chumash is Deraysa, and since it says in Tanya, do not be a sheite, the mele is Yishar Deraysa. That's what Chassidim used to say. Then he says, and if it would be only Yishar Derabbonon, wouldn't be enough. It has to be davka Yishar Deraysa. Even if it would be Yishar Derabbonon, it would also be something that we know is wrong and you shouldn't do. So what's the pshada that's Yishar Deraysa? So he said there's a big nafkemina if it's Yishar Deraysa and Yishar Derabbonon. Nafkemina would be legabe if it's a sofek sheite. We know the halach is that if there's a sofek in a din, if it's a sofek in a Derabbonon, it's lakula, you're mekel. If it's a sofek in Deraysa, you're machmir. So what happens if a person is a sofek sheite? So since we're saying it's Yishar Deraysa, we know a sofek sheite is also the

01:24 chumre. That has a lot of depth because it was always known that Chassidim can't be sheitim, et cetera, et cetera, whatever the explanation shall be. So here we see that even a sofek sheite is also a big problem.