פנורמה של הלכה 18

00:55 Speaker 1 Tonight's, tonight's, uh, shiur is dedicated to the Bar Mitzvah, forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of my grandson, which is to be he-held, BeEzrat Hashem, this Monday evening in New York. And if anyone knows a legal way how I can get there, please let me know afterwards. Meanwhile, we're very grateful for the oc-- that the occasion of the Bar Mitzvah and that everyone is well and, and BeEzrat Hashem we should, uh, have nachas from him in good health. As, uh, my participation for the, for the celebration, I put together a... This is a paperback. Not to be confused with the other sefer, which is a reprint of, uh, „Nesivim Beseder Shlichus“ chelek alef, which BeEzrat Hashem will go to print shortly. This is a separate, um, s-separate sefer. We're taking a lot of articles which have been written over the last 30, 40 years and put them together into a sefer. So that's what this is. And BeEzrat Hashem will be reprinted and be available for the tzibur. So that's dedicated for the, for the Bar Mitzvah and still hopeful. I'm sure there will be some way to get there. But let's, let's get on to the shiur. So I want to first, bimashlim, make up for the discussion last week whether, whether the Purim seudah on Friday has to be before chatzos or is it okay to be before sha aseres, which is the last quarter of the day. So I mentioned this briefly last week, and I had a bit more time this, this pa-- this

02:44 Speaker 1 past week, the beginning of the week, to look into this more carefully. So if you have, let's say, a bris on a Friday. So there, the Ramah says you can make the seudah any time of the day. Magen Avraham and the Alter Rebbe says you should make the bris-- the, the seudah of the bris, uh, before the last quarter of the day, before sha aseres. That's, that's the-- what's written in, in Hilchos Shabbos. And here in Hilchos Purim, the Magen A-- the Ramah says something about chatzo-- ba-ba-ba-boiker. Should make the seudah boiker. So where does it come from? If there's-- When it comes in Hilchos Shabbos, they say that the latest, the cutoff time is the last quarter of the day. And here we've got it should be boiker. And w-what you have at the top of the page here is from the Sefer Ketzos Hashulchan from Rav Chaim Neuer. And in Hilchos Shabbos, I think it's in siman samach tes, he says the, the Mishnah Berurah in reish mem tes, he says, "Make a bris, better do it in the-- before chatzos." Just like the Ramah says for Purim, uh, which is on a Friday, do it before chatzos. The same thing, you have a bris on Friday, do the bri-- the seudah before chatzos. So the-- You can see here the Mishnah Berurah-- the Rav Chaim Neuer, uh, um, addresses this. He writes here, "The Ketzos HaMishnah Berurah, l'chatchilah mitzvah lehakdim o bashacharis, as mentioned in Ohr HaChai, which is in Purim." To

04:21 Speaker 1 this, Rav Chaim Neuer challenges, responds to the, uh, to, to the Mishnah Berurah, and he says, "Mi Purim-- misudas Purim ein raya kol cach." The fact that by Purim, the Ramah says to do it boiker is not a proof that the bris has to be done before chatzos. "The shani Purim, shebsha-- sheshchiacha shichdus." Because the s-- Purim seudah is more indulgent in, in wine, et cetera. "L'chayav livsumi b'purya." Because there's a mitzvah to be intoxicated on Purim. "V'eino domem le sheha amisha shamitzva." You can't compare a, a, uh, semi-sober, um, bris milah meal to a seudas Purim. And that's why he's explaining why the Ramah instituted to do it before chatzos. Although in Hilchos, uh, Shabbos, we have a cutoff point of, of the, the, the, the last quarter of the day. U'mikol. Okay. Parshat nikol, ma shemakdim o yesh odif. He also agrees it's a good idea to have it in the morning. And he says, indeed, if you have a bris on Friday, you'd have it in the morning. So that is ... So meanwhile, we're seeing that what I had thought was, uh, that because the Alter Rebbe says the last quarter of the day, uh, for, for a bris, therefore the same for Purim. So he says, no, for Purim is-- there's more reason to try to get it in the morning. Now, I'm going to confess that I did not get it in time for Pu-- for, for chatzos. Um, by the time I finished davening, by the time I--

05:57 Speaker 1 well, at least one shlach manos, and with a bit of Stamford Hill traffic, it was covered Purim, so I didn't manage to start my meal before chatzos. So if in case you are in the same predicament as me, so I'm just gonna give you a bit of consolation that on Purim, on Shushan Purim, the same kvitz as this year in Tofshin Lamed Zayin. So the Rebbe says, "Icha nechtin gered mit a Yid." I was speaking yesterday with a Yid. I asked him, "How come that it's on Friday?" It is on Shabbos, Rebbe speaking. On Friday, I spoke to someone, "How come you're still not Adoloyoda?" So he said, "Because Purim is on Friday, and the, the Pur- the meal isn't in the morning so that it shouldn't disrupt the preparations for Shabbos." Therefore, he, he, he's, he's, he's, uh, f- frightened to be Adoloyoda because he's, uh, in case he'll miss out something in the preparations for Shabbos. Then the Rebbe throws in, "Oso bedafta kemachen de suda ba baker." One should be making the Suda in the morning. "But," he says, "she'eitin shechen aroch." I mean, referring to Ramoh. "Bedafo b'nit b'daig zayin um kuchen afen seger. Tsisis koyn chatzois oder lache chatzois." To be so, um, worried whether it's a minute before chatzois or a minute after chatzois. So I just felt a little bit, uh, you know. So I didn't manage to get it for chatzois or I just, I aimed. I aimed for chatzois. Lepeil, um, I once heard Satmar Rav

07:21 Speaker 1 was, w- once said he, he would daven at, I don't know, very late. No, davening is nine o'seger. Nine, nine o'clock in the morning is, is Shacharis. I sometimes vet vershelep for this, that, and the other. It was like being a standard thing. There was always delays. So anyway, we aimed for chatzo- before chatzois and, uh, so all right. Let's move on. Now, the next thing which I have on the list is the first, uh, the first item on the list. This was just a hashlomah. This is making up for last week and hemshoch to Purim. So I got this question from a, someone who lives actually in Spain, and they, they li- their next-door neighbor, the kid plays sometimes throws the ball over the, um, it falls into their yard. Are they allowed to throw the ball back over the fence? So two points. Number one, if the n- there's, uh, this might come as a surprise to some of you. There's no isur to pass over the fence to a goy if it's a goy's premises. The isur of carrying, let's explain this clearly. The isur of carrying from private to public or public to private, that is the isur of hachitzah and hachanosah. That's, that's the melacha in the Torah. To carry from private to private, from my n- house, my garden to my next-door neighbor, from one reshus ha'yochid to reshus ha'yochid, is a isur derabbanan. And it's isur derabbanan because of the lack of eruv. If I want to carry

08:55 Speaker 1 to my neighbor, I have to have an eruv with my neighbor, which is done with a loaf of bread, et cetera, and we have to have access. With a goy, there's no need for an eruv. And therefore, you are allowed to pass something over the fence to your goyish neighbor, and there's no isur of hachitzah. There's no, no chiruv of eruv, and therefore there's no isur of hachitzah. I have my next-door neighbor-

09:22 Speaker 2 Isn't it only if the, the object belongs in the garden?

09:25 Speaker 1 No, I'm gonna come to that in a moment. No, no.

09:27 Speaker 2 Okay.

09:28 Speaker 1 No, no. This is with a goy. Now, I have a next-door neighbor is a goy, and so let's say I live number thirty-seven, and number thirty-five is a goy. And then there's a Yid who's nei- neighboring with him, let's say. Can I pass it over to my neighbor, and then it goes to the Yid? And the answer is no. That doesn't work. If the, uh, uh, the, uh, in- intent is to go from res- one Yisrael to another Yisrael, even if it goes through a goyish reshus, that's not permitted because ultimately there's no eruv between me and number thirty-three or thirty-whatever it is. So that's not okay. But for me to pass something to a goyish neighbor is no, there's no isur at all. No is in the first place. Then there's a separate thing, and that is that if, even if it was a Yidish, uh, uh, a neighbor, then we have a klal that kelim, um, sheshavsu b'chatzer. If at the onset of Shabbos, that ball had been in the open air, then you are allowed to pass it over the fence. So for example, if I have a garden chair, which I leave in the garden, and I don't have an ei- an eruv with my neighbor. Now, there's an eruv in Tottenham, so I, there's an eruv, uh, in the Municha Freck. But they, let's say I don't, I d- I d- I want, there's no eruv with my next-door neighbor. But if it's a chair which was left and was,

10:57 Speaker 1 and when Shabbos came in, it was in the chatzer, I'm allowed to pass it over the fence to my neighbor because anything which was left in the open air at the onset of Shabbos, so all reshus, all, all open air reshus ha'yochids are, are, uh, considered one entity. So I am allowed to pass the chair over the fence of the neighbor, but he mustn't take it into the house. Okay. Let's go further. Um, Rav Gershon, I'm, I'm going to, um, ignore about the Poris Mapam Hakadish, um, because it's now, I think we're gonna have to, we'll put it in, in the freezer for the next time we have to worry about it. Now, Rav Ari is pointing out if there, now, if there is a, a chatzer where there are Goyim and two Yidden, has to be two Yidden in, in the complex. And the Goy, once there's a shared, there's two types of need for reshus, uh, for a, um, eruv. There is when we've got a shared common area, like in a block of flats. That's one form. Another form is when each one is a separate thing, a passing over the fence. For both, I need an eruv. If there is a shared area where there is a goy and two Yidden, that's where we have a whole gesheft, we have to do schirus rechus. But if it's just passing over the... Just, there's just me and the goy and no one else there, I don't need to have an eruv. And

12:24 Speaker 1 same thing if you live in a block of flats, and there's 20 flats, and you're the only Yid who lives in the block of flats, you'll have to carry in the whole building because there's no need for an eruv with a goy. If there's another Yid, once you need an eruv, then you need an eruv, and then you need to have, uh, mezuzahs rechus, which is a whole performance. Let's move on. Okay. Um, here, Baruch Hashem is a shliach in a, in a town somewhere in Europe, moved in a new apartment and is asking this question. So he's asking this question about this archway. Now, I wanna first, before I forget... And before I forget, that is that according to the Rambam, a doorway which does not have a door is potim in hamazuz. That's the shitas harambam. And because of that, because of the shitas harambam, when there's no door, just a doorway, we would put up a mezuzah because other poskim disagree with the Rambam. We put up a mezuzah, but we would not make a bracha. So that's, that's just one little detail. The complication here is because of the archway. And so the minimum size of a doorway is ten tefachim high and four tefachim wide. The question here is, as I'm pointing, the top four-- the, the, the four tefachim towards the top. Okay. Can you hear me?

14:23 Speaker 2 Yes, can hear you.

14:30 Speaker 1 Okay. So the, the, the, the top four tefachim, let's say that's the horizontal. That's the, the lintel. Question is: Where do we say where does the vertical end, and where does the horizontal begin, begin? Or the other way around. Where does the horizontal end and the vertical begin? The question is because the mezuzah should be in the top third. So fortunately, I mean, he sent me exact measurements. Fortunately, he was able to put the mezuzah high enough that it should be, uh, even if you'd say that the, the, the full height comes, the, the, the till, it's, it goes all the way till the top. And still, where it begins, um, curving is within the top third. So therefore, you could put the mezuzah within the top third and per-per-perhaps just one tefach lower than where it starts curving. So here, this was-- we were able to resolve this. The problem would be if you'd have a curve starting much lower. And I've seen this in some houses where they've got a, a curved archway between, let's say between, uh, like a through lounge, and the curve starts very low. And that really becomes a, quite a, a headache how to establish where to put the mezuzah because we wouldn't want to put a mezuzah on the, uh, on the lintel, obviously. So that, that's, that is a, a concern. But meanwhile, this one we were able to solve. Okay. Um, one of our participants is asking a question. Apparently, a rab- the rabbi of

16:03 Speaker 1 a mainstream kehilla, um, said it's perfectly within halacha to hear Megillah via Zoom, even to answer amen to the brachos. Um, should read-- told his congregants perfectly. Listen, um, what should I say? The- there's two issues. About answering brachos, I agree with him 100%. You can answer brachos. But to be yoitzer Megillah, according to the, the, the, uh, majority of contemporary poskim, you're not yoitzer because it wasn't, uh, because it's not from a human voice. Okay. Um, Roman, thank you for your question. Which side of the-- Which direction? Of course, when you've got such a doorway, you're gonna have to establish which direction we go because the mezuzah has to be on the right side. And what-- One of the simple rules which I follow is that you've got a more important room and a less important room. And the mezuzah, let's say, and I beg forgiveness for any of the housewives if I, if they are offended, but between the kitchen and the dining room, the dining room is the more important room. The kitchen is where the food is prepared to serve at the dining table. And as a result, if you had such an archway between the kitchen and the dining room, it would be on the right as you go to the dining room. Because, uh, let's say, when you mukatan, you come round, you bring them to the dining room, et cetera. All right. So that's, that's one of the, uh, uh, one of the criteria. There are other criteria.

17:41 Speaker 1 And so if it comes up, the question, of course, one has to discuss it, and there are various ways of addressing that. Now, the next question, interesting. This is from a different person, also a mezuzah question, beginning of the week. And the mezuzah... So the mezuzah is in a kind of tube, and there's a rubber stopper. So here's the, uh, the... To, to take out the mezuzah, to check the mezuzah, you just pull out. Let's imagine if there's a test tube which is somehow being held, and you pull out the, the, the, the stopper, you take out the mezuzah- And then when you check it, then you pop it back in. So then how you've done likbekya mezuzah? If all you've done is that, and, and it could be in-in-inside, could be at the top. Imagine there's a slot. You just drop the mezuzah in. Is that called likbekya mezuzah? And we've gone through this about using, um, uh, what's it called? This, um, this, uh, Blu Tack and things like that. It's not good enough. It has to be something which is like a permanent thing. But here you've got a permanent fixture, a permanent holder, and the mezuzah just drops in. So I wasn't really happy about that. But it turns out that this particular type is such a firm stopper that actually sometimes you d- wouldn't be able to remove it with your fingers. You'd have to use some kind of pliers, some kind of tweezers or something to pull it out.

19:05 Speaker 1 If that's the case, then that, that would be a definition of being fixed. If it requires, like in Halachot Shabbos, if it requires gevura v'umanut, if it requires strength and skill, and/or skill to be able to remove it, then that's called built-in. So, uh, in that ca- in that kind of stop, I think was adequate. Right.

19:30 Speaker 2 Can I just clarify? Are you saying that the actual mezuzah has to be fixed-

19:35 Speaker 1 It has to be fixed

19:36 Speaker 2 ... somehow?

19:37 Speaker 1 Yes.

19:37 Speaker 2 And not just resting in a cavity?

19:40 Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.

19:41 Speaker 2 Because, uh, I was in the old city after the Six-Day War, a few, a couple of weeks after the war, and I, you know, went around and to the, in the Jewish quarter, and I saw mezuzah, uh, in the, the, the walls, the stone.

19:59 Speaker 1 Niches. Niches.

20:00 Speaker 2 Niches.

20:01 Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.

20:02 Speaker 2 So they'd carved out a niche. They obviously just put the mezuzah in the niche and covered it.

20:07 Speaker 1 Yes.

20:07 Speaker 2 So it wasn't fixed.

20:08 Speaker 1 That, exactly. That's, they, they, that's the... You can see Aria Freeman's commenting a very similar thing. The word which I'm saying here is, there has to be some kind of... Once the mezuzah is sitting snugly inside, then there has to be a pe'ula which makes it a permanent thing. It's not just-

20:24 Speaker 2 So by covering it?

20:25 Speaker 1 By, by, by then you plaster over it. Yes. They'd plaster over and, and in, in Bnei Brak, yeshiva also had that. Because when it was onto the main, you know, the Road of Petit Château, they often would be vandalized. So they had it built in. Had a niche carved out, and there was a, a test tube, and then it was plastered over. You all, you can see the Shem Shmuel David, and that's, uh, that was, that's okay.

20:47 Speaker 2 Right. Right.

20:48 Speaker 1 Okay, let's move on. Okay. Um, now Pesach question because it's like a

23:37 Speaker 2 Just at this point about smelling,

24:43 Speaker 1 That, that, that means you're not punishable from Elul, but still also. Yeah. It says, "Semastim beforit ish uvedoch." Okay. The emotzer beShabbat be Yom Tov, chem sei shel nochri sh'nisgagal le-gagah. So now, if you, if it, i-i-if it's on a day where you are allowed to handle it, so we said you should handle it indirectly with a stick. If it is on a, a Shabbat or Yom Tov, so then, lo yidchef ben dibekona. You're not allowed to move it with a stick either. Sh'areh metal to muktze. That's called moving muktzeh. Interesting, I didn't look about it, uh, before. The Alter Rebbe in, in Ichas Muktzeh disagrees with the Taz. The Taz says... Let's say you got crumbs on the table which are muktzeh. He says, if you move it with a knife, he calls that . The, the says you're allowed to. The Alter Rebbe disagrees with the Taz and he says it's . Moving with a knife is not a, doesn't, is not a heter. So here, I mean, I don't know what the Taz's position is over here, but, uh, the Alter Rebbe says you're not allowed to kick it w-with, with a kni- with a stick because that's also moving muktzeh. So as discussed in Shiur Da'al. All right, you can read further inside the, what he discusses. If it's on Shabbos, you're gonna have to take a, cover it over until the end of Shabbos, end of Yom Tov. Uh, at which point you'd go and, and, and take it and

26:01 Speaker 1 destroy it. Right. Um, let's, let's come back to the questions over here. So someone is asking, going back... So, uh- Reiya Chlav Nuft. Doesn't the Gemara say reiya chlav nuft? We, we just... I just said that already. That's, uh, that's not mission again for Pesach. You're not allowed. Um, for, you know, Pesach is similar to Aveida Zara. Like Aveida Zara is a Isur Mashchu, same thing Pesach is a Isur Mashchu. But the Aveida is all a different Taryag. But Isur Mashchu. I remember once I was sitting with, um, Dan Greenhouse, uh, Schlitter, and, uh, he had gone to some kind of factory and it was for f-something for Pesach. And he was... They were looking for every tiny speck and the, the goy, the, the manager of the factory, he was like a little, um, puzzled. What's, what are they so, so what they're concerned. So he, he said, I've forgotten what it was. Uh, there was a time where the people, there was a whole scare. They were putting like, um, powder in, into letters. Anthrax. A-anthrax. Oh. So, so Dan Greenhouse said to the, to the manager, "For us, Chametz on Pesach is like anthrax." I think he's like, "Oh, yes, Vashteh." The guy said he understands. Okay, um, let's move on. Someone is saying here, asking, most, uh, mezuzah cases open, are open and have a stopper at the bottom. It's putting that stopper into the case after signing into the case which is already fixed there. If the, the, the Kitsur

27:34 Speaker 1 is, if it requires a degree of Gevurah V'omnus, that's called Krivus. If it's simple that you can just take it out without any, any Gevurah V'omnus, then I'm concerned of it not being Kavua. Right. You're asking, if the garden is fenced, it cannot be kicked or batted back. Um, right. Right. That, that is a problem, and you're going to have to somehow indirectly, uh... So you, you'll use a, a, a, a shovel or something and take it out of the house and, um, either throw it over the fence or get it out of the house. Right. Um, okay, we'll have to, to go into details about this later, about the, the stopper. Okay. Um, right. So the question about the second arch with a shorter straight part, the mitzvah of the mezuzah would go into the curve. That would be a serious problem and, and, and, you know, I'm going to have to le-leave it for now. Okay, let's move on. Let's go on to a totally different topic, a totally different part of Shulchan Aruch, and that is that there's a s-someone who's one of our listeners. He is, uh, considering to sell his house and so the neighbors, uh, heard about it, okay? So he's got now his next door neighbor is renting. So it's this Reuven owns the house and Shimon is renting. And in the Hamisha areas, the houses are, are difficult to come by, so both the landlord and the tenant both are keen to buy the house. Now, there

29:14 Speaker 1 is a Halacha in, in Shulchan Aruch, a, a concept called Dinah DeBar Mitzra. Which means that the priority should be given... When you want to sell a property, priority should be given to a neighbor. The original, uh, Halacha about this is pri- is talking about a field. In order to... If you've got two fields next to one another, so instead of having to schlep the equipment from one place to the other, you've got two fields, you can just push, schlep the equipment from one to the other. Some Poskim say that, that, uh, Rabbi Nachman holds that it doesn't apply to houses. But the, the Halacha is not like the, the both Poskim disagree with that and they say that Bar Mitzvah does apply to houses. Although they say the reason why Bar Mitzvah applies to houses is because of the convenience, that you are able to make an opening from one house to the other, from th-through the wall. You can join the two houses together and therefore Dinah DeBar Mitzvah ap-applies to two houses also. Okay, so that's the main Halacha. It does apply. Here, we've got two people. One is a tenant and one is a landlord. And so the question is, does either of them have priority over the other in the Halacha of Bar Mitzvah? It's a fascinating Halacha, this. The Dinah, Dinah DeBar Mitzvah is so powerful that if you sold it to someone else, to a, an un... You know, uh, uh, not to a neighbor, that, that then

30:41 Speaker 1 the Bar Mitzvah would be able to kind of by Beis Din force the, the, the buyer to sell it to him as the neighbor, um, obviously at the same price which the, which that person paid. Okay, so now we have here a Din in Shulchan Aruch, and so long siman, as you see, this is Sif Samech. So it's quite a long siman. The majority are talking about Ben Metzer. So we have here the mamash, this question. Mi Shelo Yesh Lo Bayis Bizchidus. So you have someone who is a tenant. Or Bayis She'etz Lo Nimker, and next door is up for sale. Eino Yachol Lizkus Bo Midin Ben HaMetzer. The fact that you are a tenant doesn't entitle you to have priority to buy the next door house. Furthermore, V'im Kodem V'kono Ben HaMetzer, if a, uh, bona fide Ben HaMetzer did buy it, then Yachol L'salku. So let's say one, one... another neighbor had bought it, uh, uh, wants to buy it, and you, who was just a tenant, you had bought it. So the Shechinach says that you... that, that other person would be able to evict you in Bezdin because you're not an authentic Ben HaMetzer. V'yesh Mi SheChoil. Now, this is in the Rashi letters. That's from the Ramoh. V'yesh Mi SheChoil. Osviru Ladi Yesh Bizchidus Din Matzrams. The Ramoh says that no, that, uh, that even as a tenant, you can also claim the, uh, privilege of priority because you're a neighbor to be able to buy it. So that's what

32:23 Speaker 1 the Ramoh says. And so m- m- I mean, the, obviously, the weight is more towards the landlord than to the tenant. I have one little problem and, uh, to say the following. What's the reason for Ben Metzer? Because for a- another buyer, you can buy a property another place. This location is not so important for you. You can buy another location. If you own, own a property next door, to have two properties next to one another, so then and you can have the two working together. So that's a prior- that's a, a, a, in the lotions, V'osisah Yoshvat Toiv. We have a... Yeah, there's a moral priority for you. You understand? If the next... If this tenant wants-- he wants to buy this property, is he going to m- is he going to, uh, stay a tenant and join the two houses together, or he wants to move there? If he just wants to move there, so then, uh, I don't see why he's got the, the quality of Ben, Ben HaMetzer. He could b- buy a house anywhere. Because, because the one-off moving, that's not the issue. It's the, the, the joining of the two properties. He's not in-- There's no intent to join the two properties, so why has he got the din of Ben HaMetzer altogether? It could very well be that the halacha here or the Ramoh is talking about is when the Ben-- the, the tenant wants to buy next door as well as remain a tenant over here. So

33:41 Speaker 1 I'm, I'm not sure. But at any rate, this is, this is, this is the halacha in Shechinach. The Rab- Ha- Habah says the landlord has got the, uh, the rights of Ben HaMetzer and the, the tenant has nothing. The Ramoh says the tenant does. Okay. He's saying he likes the position. Yeah, likes the position. That's, that's, uh, still, uh, that doesn't have the power. The power of, of, of, of din of Ben Metzer is because I own a, a, a pro- prese- a premises right near here, right mamash next door, therefore, uh, therefore, the, the Ha- Chachamim gave a, gave a certain precedence. Uh, let's read this question. If the next-door neighbor is a property investor and has other properties, does this pri- take priority over someone is liv- buying in a house to live in? That's a very good question. Um, because what you're asking is what, wh- where, where is the Osisah Yoshvat Toiv? And I, I understand the, the moral, uh, dilemma here because the, the, the owner, he's just, uh, he's how you say, he's a speculator. He's in-- wants to buy properties. Uh, and the, and the tenant is, is, you know, is, is desperate to fi- find a roof over his head. I understand where the, the sympathy, uh, on, on the, on the, on the other way. Yeah, I understand that. Um, it could be, though, if the next-door neighbor wants to join the two properties into one large property, which, uh, it does happen sometimes, then I

35:06 Speaker 1 understand that he has the din of Ben Metzer. If he just wants to have another property to, as an investment, then I don't understand why, uh, then I'd call upon him. I don't have the sympathies. I don't know what the halacha is. I don't know what happened in Bezdin, but I, I don't... he doesn't have my sympathy, um, over the, uh, over the, uh, c- current tenant. Okay. But my sympathies don't necessarily have sway in Bezdin. Okay, let's move on. We had a discussion last week about double sinks. So one of our listeners, Rabbi Meyer Zirkind, who lives in Western Florida. So he's not listening now, but he, he does, uh, uh, get the recording and sends lots of helpful, uh, uh, Horas. This is r- He's a, a Adam Ravaben Sin Haknel of Shalom. So he, he, he sh- sent me two copies of the two def- separate sfatim, where they take a, a much more lenient view about the double sink. So here, this is from a Sefer, as you can see, from it's called Boser B'cholov. Some... And he writes here, uh, in the... I didn't copy the notes onto the screen, but Ki Ur Kofel, a double sink. Mitbach Ba'al Shnei Kiyurim Mehubarim. A double sink. Asum Miksha Achad. Well, we know that from these Parashat, from Parashat Trumah, yeah. Miksha Achad is one piece of metal. Ein Zeh Nechshev K'Ki Ur Echad L'inyan Zeh. Don't look at them as one sink. L've'einak Ki Ur Echad Nese Machmas Hashimush B'Ki Ur

36:32 Speaker 1 Ha'acher. The one sink doesn't become also because of the use of the other one. And in the notes, he talks about the temperature, and he talks about various things that... And I, I, personally, I haven't checked this out. His, his discov- his question is, when one sink becomes very hot, is the other sink hot to touch that you can't really hold? You know, there's this concept called, called Yad Soledet Bo, which means you touch it, you recoil. And I've never had the, uh, uh, interest actually to start tampering with hot sinks to see. And so that's why he takes it. I still think that- You don't go into shailas. Um, I want to just mention a story. The Rebbe Rashab never had fillings. He had pa- he had, uh, he never had fillings. He had, he had toothache, toothaches, and he never had fillings. And he was worried. Same filling for fleishigs, for milchigs, for Pesach. So he never had fillings. And one time, the Rebbe had traveled to somewhere in Austria or some kind of spa for his health. At the same time, there was also there the Erloyer Rov. I'm thinking perhaps the name is Ehrenfeld. I don't remember now. And the Erloyer Rov was also there. And the Rebbetzin, the Rebbe Rashab's wife, she notices how this Rov from Hungary or whatever, but they got on very well with her. She, he, she, the, the, the way her husband, the Rebbe Rashab, was talking with this Erloyer Rov. And so she was,

38:08 Speaker 1 uh, she thought, "Oh." She went to ask, "Can I have a private conversation?" And she spoke to the Erloyer Rov and she says, "My husband, he has shmertsn." Yiddish. Shmertsn is pain. He has tremendous pain from his teeth. «אבער לויך זיך נישט היילן.» He refuses to go to a, a doctor to have, to have, uh, fillings, et cetera. So can you-- "I see that you, you, you know, you, you've got a very good conversation with him. Perhaps you could persuade him that he should allow himself to have, uh, medical treat- um, dental treatment." So he says, "I'll do what I can." The story was told over by Reb Zvi Greenwald, who lived in Far Chabad, uh, who passed away a few years ago. Reb Zvi Greenwald, he heard it from the Erloyer Rov himself because he worked as a young man. He lo- worked in the moises of Erloi in, in Yerushalayim. So he heard it from the Erloyer Rov himself. So the, the Erloyer Rov says to the Rebbe, "I, uh, uh, he's, uh, going away. He was in the Birchas Peredor." Meanwhile, he said, "I heard that the Rov, that the Rebbe doesn't, refuses to have, um, um, dental care, the dental, uh, intervention." And, um, you know, he says, "I understand there are concerns." But he uses, you know, in Hungarian Yiddish. «זה נו a חשושה דחושושה.» It's a very remote concern, very far, far-fetched concern. So the Rebbe told him that sometimes you have a shailah on a chicken or something,

39:37 Speaker 1 and you're paskin it. It's a one-off shailah. But for me to live day in, day out with a חשושה דחושושה," he repeated the same notion. "To me, for me to live day in, day out with a חשושה דחושושה, that's too-- I can't handle that." I'm saying this in refer-reference to the double sink. It's probably, uh, also a חשושה דחושושה. It's quite remote. But if you're spending the money and putting in a, a, a, a, a sink, uh, why do you have to have the חשושה דחושושה? You may put two separate sinks and then, and, uh... If you can't do it, then it's okay as it is. But yeah. Let's move on. Um, all right. So this is a question which I received from someone, uh, asking a question. Um, is it op-appropriate for a kallah to give a choson a gift? I think it's a very important yesod here, and that's why I wanted to address it. A choson and a kallah are not related. They're not karevim. They're not cousins. They are two separate people. They're not, they're not, they're no- It's a shame they get married of course Um, do you need a mechitza between two sinks? You should have a mechitza between two sinks or alternatively, you can get a kind of lid. There are these kind of chopping boards which serve as lids, which are shaped to the size of the sink. And when you're doing the milchige dishes, so the fleishig sink is covered. And when you're doing the milchige,

43:33 Speaker 1 the fleishig, the fleishig is covered, et cetera. That would be, uh, an alternative to actually building a wall, which may not always be, um, so, so, um, practical. Th-thank you. You, you mentioned Rebbe-- Chaim Od mentioned about the engagement ring. The Rebbe took exception to using, to giving engagement rings. And you have to understand a little bit more. And, and he also takes exception, and I'm mentioning this as a broad forum, the use of ploni or ploni or plonis me'orasim. In modern Hebrew, they use the word engagement, they use the word of erusin. Now, erusin is a very strong, um, you know, it's kiddushin. If a, if a couple of, are me'orasim, if they break that engagement, they would I mean, the erusin, they can have-- this can only be re-- I don't know how you say, dissolved through a, through a get. And so, the Rebbe took exception to the use of the term me'orasim. Bo bekishe shiduchin. Chabad, you see, we don't use the term me'orasim. We'll use the term bo bekishe kiddushin. Uh, be ki- sorry, bekidush-- kishe shiduchin. It's a long term instead of a short term, me'orasim. But to avoid the, uh... Now, there's another thing. In-- what does it mean, engagement? And let's take a look in the outside society. Why does a c- a, a bride wear a ring? She comes one day to work or to college, and she has a ring on her finger. The ring is saying that I am committed to someone. So the

45:00 Speaker 1 word which kiddushin means, the The message of kiddushin, to say that I am committed to someone and therefore I'm forbidden to everyone else, that engagement ring, engagement ring is saying that. So, chas v'shalom to say it's a, it's, uh, you know, it's mamash the same as kiddushin. But there is reason to keep away from it because we don't want to have a situation that it should be perceived as kiddushin. And therefore, the Rebbe d- he was, uh, he discouraged the giving of engagement rings. After the chasuna, you can give two rings. But, but until the, until the chasuna, you can give bracelets and other Sachen. But, uh, you can give Havdalah to them tachshitin. But, uh, keep a, keep a, keep the rings for afterwards. Okay. Um, what else do we have here? We have two Pesach questions. One is, Erev Pesach is on Shabbos. When is the chametz sold, on Friday or on Shabbos? And I want to share with you, first of all, there is in the Reshimas, in the, in the diary, the memoirs rather, of the Rebbe's mother, of Rebbetzin Chana. And she describes Erev Pesach, the sale of chametz by the Rebbe, by her husband. And she describes how tense he was to make sure that everything go- works out. And I just wanted to, uh, share with you. Once you sell the chametz and you say to the goy, "Now it's all yours. It's all yours." And, you know, and you hand him the files and the key, whatever

46:37 Speaker 1 it may be, and now you can ta-- relax. It's all, it's all, uh, you know, It's all the goy's, and you can walk away. That, it can only be done on Friday. To make a mechira on Friday, it's not chal on Friday. It's gonna go to chal on Shabbos. The, the whole mechiras chametz is to a certain degree, it is what we call a haram. It's, it's, it's, it's kind of, you know, creating some kind of interesting, uh, whatever, whatever, however you want to translate the word haram. It's binding, it's, it's, it's legal, et cetera. But after all, it is, it, it has a, it has an element of haram to it. Therefore, to counter that, we make it as shtick-free as possible. And therefore, to say that there's a mechira not gonna chal now, it's gonna chal on Shabbos, which is in itself a question whether you can have mechira chal on Shabbos. But it should be as, as, as seamless as possible. And therefore, I just wanna say that's the way I'm gonna do it, and that's what I've seen in sefer. Sell the mechira, the mechira is done on, on Friday. And, uh, once I've sold it, it's sold. I must tell you, every year I get calls after this mechira is done. A-and most often it, it's, there's nothing I can help them because it's, it's, you call me two o'clock on Erev Pesach afternoon, I can't help you. This year, I will have a solution. If someone calls me at

47:59 Speaker 1 two o'clock on Friday, I'll tell them, "Go to an American website and, or to American rabbi and put your details there," because he can sell it in America. It'll still be before zman karov. So this year, we'll be able to, the latecomers will still have a Yeshua. Other years, uh, you come two o'clock, there's nothing to be done. It's already And you're gonna have to just destroy it. And once that someone came to me, Erev Pesach, he had forgotten to sell his chametz. And I said, "You're gonna have to burn it." He says, uh, uh, he say, I thought, you know, how much-- who has-- how much chametz do you have Erev Pesach? I have, uh, actually, a couple of Weetabix left. He, it proved to you, happened to be a person who's into very, how do you say, um, uh, natural foods. And he had a whole cupboard full of, full of, uh, grain and this and that. What's coming up? Right. I just remember now as a kid, Manny Borsuk, alav ha-shalom. Um, oh, you remember him, don't you? So he forgot to sell his chametz. And he had a whole cupboard, cocktail cabinet full of whiskey. And I remember, I don't-- didn't see it, but I remember it was He took the whole cupboard one by one, all these whiskeys, and he poured it down the toilet, and he was, uh, that was what he did. Okay. Yehi zihron baruch. And, um, should women-- Next thing we have, should women and dependent

49:18 Speaker 1 children say kol chamira? So I don't have But what I remember from the past is that nowadays people have, even children, they have pocket money and they have, therefore, they can buy something. So they can have a, a, a shtickel. They could have a shtickel chametz. And therefore, it could be their own chametz. And therefore, I would encourage that when you say kol chamira on Pesach, on, sorry, on Erev Pesach, on Shabbos, whether it's gonna be a, check on the calendar, eleven o'clock-ish. That, around that time when you say kol chamira, let the women and the children, let them all say kol chamira. I have every year children coming. They have in their, their lockers in school, this, that. Let them say all kol chamira. It doesn't cost anything. And, um, and, and join in, in the, in the bitter of chametz. And then they can say the Yehirot, et cetera. One last thing which I want to share with you, and that is, this is a letter from the Rebbe. And in, uh, from Tov Shin Mem Alef. And he writes the-- So let's all go, go to the letter. "Nocha inyim furbundim dem Purim speziell." Something related to this Purim, especially. "Vem Purim kumt eis fraite." Purim's on a Friday. "Iz in Yerushalayim ira kodesh tzit zikh Purim over nimshch bikame ynionim in dem zunt iknoch dem." So the Purim kind of spills over also to Sunday. Sudas Purim. The, the, the tomorrow in Yerushalayim, they're gonna have Sudas Purim. "Smechem besimchas Purim."

50:46 Speaker 1 That is for sure. They're gonna-- you're gonna see the, uh, the, uh, celebration of Purim and Mishloach Manot zey veyter. This actually is not semaforish in Shulchan Aruch but, uh, that's what the Rebbe is quoting here. That Mishloach Manot, because Mishloach Manot for some Poposkim has got to do with the suda. So if, if the suda is on, on, on Sunday, so is Mishloach Manot also on Sunday. So here the Rebbe brings an interesting thing. "Gleich beim oneg fun galus nod em ershtn Beis Hamikdash." Just after-- at the beginning of Galus Bavel, after the destruction of the first Beis Hamikdash. "Habe idn ongenumen ef zir keyn mol nisht tsu fargesen Yerushalayim." Idn had resolved never to forget Yerushalayim. "Gedenken ir un oysheybn ir ib eyde simcha." To mention in every celebration, to mention to remember Yerushalayim. That as you have, "Al yesh Yerushalayim ulrei simchosi," et cetera, in, in, in Kapitel kuf lamed zayin in Tehillim. "Vi Dovid nim zi mir es Yisroel zokt in Tehillim." It's interesting, the Rebbe does not quote the lotion of the, um, of, of the posek of, you know, now in our days Bavel. It just says that Dovid sa- mentions this, the idea of I will always remember Yerushalayim. "Un derfar vod geven pas ikun gut." Therefore, it would be fitting and would be good. "Gor gut." It's ver-very well, very good. "Az idn umitum zolen dem zuntik yomt erishn Parshas Shemini." That this Sunday, the first day of Parshas Shemini. This year, it's gonna be Parshas, the

52:22 Speaker 1 first day of Parshas Ki Tisa. "Sug eibn in merere ynionim fun simcha." So this Sunday, we have to increase in aspects of simcha. "Be divey Torah ve'achazaynu doch mesamech ive." To increase in Torah, which is Torah is mesamech ive. So when do you find time to le-learn extra Torah? You're busy, yeah? All right, so then you have a choice whether to wash the car this Sunday or next Sunday. Or say you'll wash the car next Sunday and this Sunday you'll be more severe in limit of Torah. "Mesameach zayn idn mit tech avos Yisroel." And to gladden the hearts of idn through avos Yisroel. "Un oy pasik oder noytik." Interesting. Look at this lotion. "Oy pasik oder noytik." If suitable or necessary. "Doch Mishloach Manot ish la'rei'ehu matanos lev yochid." If you see the need, it's okay to give Mishloach Manot t-t-tomorrow and matanos lev yon is okay. Um, the Rebbe puts this, uh, quite in a-- He's quite careful. He doesn't want to institute a new thing, that you give shlach-- a chiyuv to give Mishloach Manot or a minhag to give Mishloach Manot. "Be divin pasik oder noytik." So I want to just say for myself, I, I went f-on Friday delivering Mishloach Manot, and there was someone, I don't know who's listening here. Um, someone, I came to the house and rang the bell. There was no answer. I spoke to him on the phone. He was, uh, he wasn't in the area. Said, "Leave it with the neighbor." There was no answer

53:42 Speaker 1 by the neighbor either. So I didn't leave, I, w-well I didn't, didn't leave the Mishloach Manot. So Be'ezras Hashem, tomorrow I will bring Mishloach Manot to this person. Uh, you know, um, I hope it will be appreciated even though it's, uh, a day after. But I felt that's a suitable thing. And then the Rebbe adds, "Machen kinusim if shtarken yiddishkeit." To make-- This is the Rebbe's main emphasis, I guess. To ma-make kinusim, ga-gather idn together in a way of str-fortifying Yiddishkeit im tech Yerushalayim. In a way, spirit of Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim means Yirushaleimu, a, a complete, a whole fear, uh, as Hashem, a fear of Hashem. So we have here, so we have here a letter of the Rebbe that tomorrow there's still a little bit, a kind of identifying with Yerushalayim to inc-to increase in Torah and to increase in idn coming together. So I guess we're, what we're doing now, idn coming together, Baruch Hashem, we have here, uh, uh, eighty-two people or eighty-two machines. Each machine can be more than one person. So we are gathered together and so be more severe. I would just want to add this idea of, of, of identifying with Yerushalayim. Um, Al pi Ha'Arizal, Simchas-- Al pi Halacha, Simchas Torah has got to do with the fact that you're finishing the Torah. So in Chutz La'aretz, when do we finish the Torah? Simchas Torah. So therefore, the Hakafos is Simchas Torah. When is Simchas Torah in Eretz Yisroel? Shemini Atzeres. Therefore, Simchas Torah is on, on Shemini

55:10 Speaker 1 Atzeres. Then we have the Hakafos on Shemini Atzeres. But then Al pi Ha'Arizal, in Eretz Yisroel, Motzei Shemini Atzeres, they celebrate also Hakafos Shnas to identify with the Yidden in Chutz La'aretz who are celebrating Simchas Torah. Similarly, we in Chutz La'aretz, we celebrate the Hakafos, the night of Shemini Atzeres, to identify with the Yidden in Eretz Yisroel. So there we have, uh, um, this kind of a similar idea that by-- to identify with the Yidden in, in Yerushalayim. So the Rebbe's encouraging by sofrim, Torah, et cetera. Um, someone's asking whether skipping Tachnun tomorrow. I wanna just sh-share with you. I have another minute. My, uh, I w-I was, I'm a talmid of Rabbi Heller. Rabbi Heller, he learned previously in Brisk, et cetera. When he came to Lubavitch, he went to the Rebbe to yechidas- And he asked the Rebbe, there are certain aspects in, in, uh, you know, in mitzvahs where in Chabad, the more machmir. There are certain things which are Chabad, they're more and more lenient. So at what stage should he take on and switch over? So the Rebbe told him, "First take on the chumras which are taking-- which are, are applicable in Chabad, which Chabad are more machmir. Once you're comfortable with that, then you can consider of taking on the, the kulot of Chabad also." Okay. Let's, let's finish off the... Look at the, the, um, chats. The Manchester Beis Din has included with their current contract with the goy that it includes even those who forgot to

56:44 Speaker 1 sell it, the, uh, if they usually do it through them. I do that also. Also anybody who's letter-- That is in my contract, I also have that lashon. That the late comers or the, who are, who are usual, you're-- That's like the bakire kehuna. You're regular. I can't, I can't make a, a mechiras chametz for someone who has no connection with me. But someone who is my, a regular client, then I would be able to include him and, and I've unfortunately have had to rely on that in, in some cases where for some reason their form got lost, et cetera. And we've relied on that, that the mechirah is including them. And sometimes there's, sometimes there, there's crisis and, uh, so I realize and I put in the name even though they don't ask me because, and just in case they will, they'll forget. The name is included. Um, right. That's last thing here. Is the reason for not eating matzah from now due to taste? If so, what about those who eat only hand-baked? And what about matzah crackers? And what about the jar chrain which tastes more like beetroot? The chrain of Adar, there's no... I've never heard of being, pe-pe-people keeping off chrain for 30 days. Um, with the, with the machine matzahs probably and one also can, if necessary, one could be make or to use the machine matzahs and only be worried about the, uh, the minhag of not eating matzah re-, um, from, uh, mamash the matzahs with which

58:05 Speaker 1 you'll use the, to be mechayav the mitzvah. to eat machine matzah, uh, because, uh, many, many fine Yidden are using that for mechuyav mitzvah. So to be motzi laz and say, but, but, uh, otherwise, if, uh, necessary, you don't have the appetite, you don't have available, um, regular bread and you have only machine matzah. So I guess you can be make on that. All right. Um, something that contains of fried and... Don't worry. The, the, at the moment, the not eating matzah is purely on a, purely on the level of minhag and therefore if it's mixed into your, maybe the, the fish or fried, it's, it's really not, not a worry. Um, Rabbi Levitansky is asking, is there any value in selling the chametz of all the Yidden in my area who don't even know? I know a lot of shluchim do that. And, uh, you put in the list and, uh, uh, whether it's-- What would happen if in middle of Pesach he'll become a baal teshuva? Uh, so I don't know what the answer will be. Um, what is the difference between the minhagim of not eating matzah from Rosh Chodesh or from Purim? You have different kehillahs. Some people have s-sta-taken it on already from that's already have a duty to start gearing up. And some people start from Rosh, Rosh Chodesh. I'm not sure why they start from Rosh Chodesh. Okay. I guess, uh, the heat is on a little bit more. Okay, I'll wish everyone a guten nacht. And, uh,

59:36 Speaker 1 we're still, we're still in Adar, so still marbin b'simcha. So you can be marbin b'simcha, a whole of Adar and and, uh, and, uh, kol tuv. Guten nacht. Guten nacht.