40 Days at Kotel, Fires Near Bet Shemesh, Checking The Shul’s Camera, & More Fascinating Insights

Good morning. Welcome and welcome to our viewers on Torah anytime and his family should see apparent and revealed in everything they do. Starts with a commandment. When you come to the land that I give you should rest years you should work in your field and the seventh you should rest. Seemingly the order should be reversed. First you work the land for six years and then you rest. But here the says as soon as you come into the land doesn't really work out. when you come to the land. No, when you come to the land, you should work six years and then let the land rest for a year. But the switches around why is that the came I think it was the yearindal. So that's 81 years ago. And he stayed in Tel Aviv. That's where he lived. There was once upon a time a big city with a lot of rebes a big city I mean with a lot of rebes that live there. He had a guy by the name of Rabbi Kleps and he told this Gabby go buy some gardening tools. He had a big yard and start taking care of this yard and we want to plant all kinds of things as some that grass and they had some trees. Want to make sure everything works out here. go get some uh hoses. We should water the place. And almost every single day, he would ask the gaba. What's going on with our little garden? How's he coming along? Every single day. And sometimes he would actually go down to the garden to check it out. And everybody wondered because the bel was not into you know there's two types of of people. He's into the guy who's into and some people while they're here, they're already there. The was one of those people. So for him to come every single day and to look at the garden to check out what's going on, is this growing? Is this okay? Well, it was so strange. But then hey came along 80 years ago and that was so he comes to his says until you there you did such a good job taking care of the guard. Such a good job. It looks great. But now we have a new mitzvah to catch. Please take all the gardening tools, lock them up. We're going to store them for the whole year. And then everybody understood the BB was interested the whole year in what's going on in his little garden to ensure that he can do the mitzvah called to rest from working the land. Which means we always thought you have to work the land. And somehow on the seventh year you have to rest. So we have to find all kinds of how to deal with it. It's the opposite. You have to rest in the when you come to the land. The whole essence of coming is to do the mitzvah to rest. In order to rest, you're going to have to work. So the says rest. That's the essence of the mitz. Are you asking me how you should work? Six years. You're going to have to work. Unfortunately, you're going to have to work. It's exactly the opposite of what we always thought. We tend to think working is a mitzvah. when they tell us to rest a whole year not to take care of my my field it's so hard okay I'm going to try to find out a way how to do it it's exactly the opposite try to deal with the fact that they tell you you have to go and work 6 years that's the hard thing not the hard thing to rest it's a mitzvah to rest on the seventh not to work the land somehow okay fine we have to try and work for six years we're going to try to do that but it's exactly the opposite of how we normally look at this And not only that, the schmita writes the whole mitzvah comes to beaz our that comes from and not from our doings. So the whole the whole six years and this is not just regarding obviously person who doesn't have a field who always works throughout all the years his is not the one that gives him the hisadus is something which was required but it's only the gives you just like in the mitzvah is to rest and you're going to have to work during for six days six years in order to increase your what really gives me so what really yields everything that grows in my field is it me doing for six years always and yet for whatever reason I'm required to do some kind of but this is true in every profession whatever one does on one hand they're telling us you got to do and yet the dynamic balance that has to be met to know that your yields nothing The end of writes he defines whatus really is and how working should be addressed and what is our attitude towards working and the says that after the sin of there's like attacks imposed on all humanity you have to go to work but to think that the is actually what makes you gives you the panasa a kushb who knows exactly where you live. He even knows your shoe size and your passport number. So if he wants he can send you a check. He doesn't need you to work but there's like a tax imposed on all humanity. He calls it an unnecessary evil. It does nothing. That's his language. The says working does nothing and yet you have to do it because they want you to be involved in doing something to have an is it really me doing it sending me which means based on what the says if a person sees that he wants a little more income so instead of working let's say he works 8 hours instead of working 8 hours he's going to work 10 hours he needs more that's like a person going to the income tax office. Hello. Yes. I see that I owe you $50,000. Can I pay you $75,000? Working is so would you want to increase the curse in you? Why would you want to do that? That's an order do all those things that tell us give working is a the language of the is once you do something something your now go and be involved in other things go and do and do everything else not if you sit home and do nothing and eat bomb buns on your couch is not coming that's called too as long is you're not involved in working and you're involved in says okay no problem now I can share him with so that's the essence of the that's the essence of the ongoing even if you don't have a field and that is the real it's the time the is it's the is so so that means every we should take a break from working as much as possible possible. It's a curse. If you involved yourself in at that time, you're doing the greatest work possible. You're working for all the of in this are in the singular everything is in the singular. When it comes to the jubilee year, suddenly switches and now everything is Why is that the brings from his brother the only applies when the majority of soil are here that's why but the even applies to an individual even when no one is here and he's here by himself he still has to keep the mime when it comes to the speaks in because this applies to every single one of us only applies when is here. Are we uh keeping track of when that's going to happen or do we not know? Of course, we're keeping track and the truth is we don't need to keep track because once it happens and he comes, he will tell us 321 take in shot. So, you think this is going to neglect it? Tell us. Not a problem. Are we going to is this going to happen? We can see that the majority of Israel is here or we can't really see that. That's also applies no matter what applies. The question is only at the time that are here the majority of I don't know exactly how you're going to count and exactly find out but it applies doesn't even apply doesn't kick in at all is always going to be here whether on the level of or level of but it always is here and therefore it is even applies to it only applies to also need a [Music] declarative Jew. How do you know that? Did you go and count? No, people tell you. Do you believe people? Yes. Why not people? Who are the people telling you? People who know. Who are the people who know? The people who know are sitting in best madish. I'm not sure that they go out there and try to count everyone in. Not sure that you can believe the numbers that are coming out in different places because numbers keep changing. I'm not sure. Everybody says most people say who's the most people not sure about your statistics where you're getting your statistics. Okay. Every world says it's burden of proof than them and we look into and we try to ask them what they hope they believe. That's why Mashia says we have a majority. That's what they're saying. We'll see. You should count and counting a lot of counting going on. You should count seven units of seven years for the to count not only for us to count the which we do every night. There's another count in the doesn't apply today but there's a lot of counting going on any relevance to us. What is this essence of all this counting? So explains this is to tell us a declaration that everything belongs to and after 50 years your land that you thought is yours and you work it and you do to improve it you work it's so hard at the end it goes back to the original owners because when you know this you're not going to come to steal from others and you're going to distance yourself from other people's land that's the reason my dear Lewis a new interpretation. He says just like there's a count regarding your land, there's another count and something else that goes back to original owner that is on an also goes back to the original owner to where it comes from the heavenly throne comes out that just like counting till 50 applies to the land that goes back to the original owner. So too there's another count of 50. Why 50? And say one is not punished in up to the age of 20. So the only count starts from age 20 and up. So from 20 to 70 is 50. And that is your own private count to remind us. You're not keeping this nama here forever. You're not staying here forever. Ultimately one goes out. One goes upstairs. And according to us really works well because you shall be hold that of is actually 50 not 60 like the that's the case we want to make sure that we keep counting counting and counting and counting on on a regular basis to remember ultimately is not going to be here. So you have to make sure that every day counts and therefore you're going to distance yourself from the wrong things. Get close to the right things so you have your own jubilee count which really counts because every single day counts. How's it looking to 50 or 60 being the time of cars because you see up to the age of 50 is a big number. It's 50 years from zero from 0 to 50. According to the first calculation we said from 20 to 70 but the you have 50 years to take care of and what do you do takes care of you. This idea appears brings this idea start to charge. Oh yeah of your own count of 50. He he says about the symbolism of the 50 years it's the from 20 to 70 he does the same the same math it starts paras talks about riddle of the week is there any connection between and of yer one that we have to stay away from and ribbies. Any connection between the two that applies not to applies to anything. What about him? again as both. So you're allowed to take from he's allowed to [Music] take is very very severe. But where is there a source that says the way of the is to be regarding and regarding because he's talking about the Ashkenazim because the Ashkenazim live among the go and therefore the is not to be Mel and his regarding these two matters. That's the only connection that I found between the two. And the safar always lived with the uh I guess they lived more in a community secluded by themselves less interaction with a that's what the says and it's what happened till later right what's that what came earlier was the farm living in their own communities or or the I I think it depends depends where so when he says make what in certain there's many regarding regarding the many times tends to be more so than the and the ask why is that says cuz he lives among the go so he must be otherwise it's going to be very hard for them um to get any but that's what the the [Music] says is to prevent interar with yeah but today there's no real today almost no real today everything is almost so there's much room for leniency because all the A boy listen to a galdic. A guy from Besh gets a phone call from his friend a very rich guy in Flatbush New York and he says to him this happened one day after Pes and he says to him I have a big big big problem big problem big and I need you to help me. How can I help you here from Bish? He says, "I know that you're a trustworthy individual and you're loyal. I want you to go from Bamesh to the for 40 days straight every single day the same time. Daven for me, but I don't want you to do you know some people go 40 days to the what do they do? They go on Sunday 5 minutes before they d their 20 minutes in. Oh, I went Sunday and Monday." No, no, no, no, no. That's 20 days. I want you to go for 40 days straight. No shak. Don't send anyone. I want you to go 40 days. I know you're fearless. They listen to you upstairs. 40 days. If you do that, I'm going to give you $5,000. If you miss one day, one day the whole thing is canceled. But the don't ask me for a dollar because you're not going to get it. He says, "What? What about Shab Shab? inval only for Shabas. It's not going to help you for Sunday. It's not going to help you for Friday. You have to go yourself. Are you in or not? Says, "Yeah, $5,000. $5,000." Great. This happened one day after Pes two weeks later. There was gorgeous weather in Bamesh. The whole week except for Wednesday, BA 3 weeks ago. Everybody remembers very very hot major wind and a fire breaks out all over and the residents of Bamesh are locked in their city and they cannot go anywhere. This guy started driving and they closed the roads and he can't get to the he now. He got stuck. He calls the rich guy in New York and he says, "I'm so sorry. I wanted to I really wanted to. I actually went into the car and started driving." They closed the door. Close all the roads. What can I do? So, I wasn't able to get there. But I'm going to continue from tomorrow. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. There's no continuing. I told you and you agreed. 40 days back to back. Not even a break of one day. And if you do stop for one day, doesn't make a difference to me. Why? You don't get a dollar. Where do you go? If not, to tell us what should be done. The rich guy claims, "Look, a deal is a deal. A deal is a deal. We agree together." And you accept it. That you go every single day. Imagine that you're coming to me to sell me some merchandise and you call me and you say, "Listen, I got stuck. Don't ask. There's a big fire. It is considered that you came here, you're going to get money for not delivering the goods." You didn't deliver the goods. I understand it's annoyance. I understand. But you didn't go and the agreement was you have to go every single day and if not sorry and maybe is counted between you and maybe counted as if you did what you were supposed to do but it doesn't work. It's a business deal. You didn't deliver the goods. You shouldn't be compensated even a dollar. The shal the guy from he says this and it's not it's true that we agreed but we agreed for a regularness not this is an act of god this is a crazy oness that nobody could have expected and it comes out that if you're not going to pay me I went from to for two weeks for nothing for free I don't think that if I stop for one day with this type of annoyance that's the What do you say? And therefore, I'm trying to make a parallel with the the laws of how can we make a parallel is what is hired to do a certain job? Why is there? And he told him ahead of time, if you miss one day, I don't care why. If you miss one day, you're not going to be compensated. No, it sounds like you cannot get compensated at all. He didn't he wasn't able to. It's an it's sad. We feel bad for him, but they might say he didn't deliver the goods. You don't get anything. And he's stopped after two weeks if he wants. Is that what you're saying? Finished. No whatsoever. So the guy drove to two weeks straight for nothing. Uh that was the agreement. That was the agreement. Yeah. But he he delivered some value because they were a couple of weeks off the field. So he he had something but the but the condition was made ahead of time and you agreed that if you stop in the middle for whatever reason you don't get compensated. I didn't say I'm going to compensated for 2 weeks at I said it's the all or none principle 40 days or nothing. And you said yes. Unless the contract assumes all correct except for case of honest this is not. So what do you want to give him? What do you want to give him? Sorry. So what do you want to give him? I don't know. Two weeks of the 40 days. Two weeks. Two weeks worth. After two weeks of you want to say something that something happens to a person like feel. So it's the bad luck of the Yes. So he loses out. Why was allow he lost? Yeah. But why couldn't he actually on that day? You could have found someone in Jerusalem. No. The guy told him, "No, only on Shabas. If you're not in your allowed, otherwise I want you to go." Imagine no train or nothing. All the roads are closed. Imagine that. Imagine the Hashir wanted a certain object and he paid him money to get it from A to B. He stops in the middle. He didn't get the object. So the that's exactly the t of the rich guy in business. This is business. You don't come and deliver the goods. You don't get paid. Even though I feel terrible for you, but why would you be paid? What's your difference? That's what the rich guy said other time. If you go, you get paid. You don't go. I don't care why you don't get paid. That he accepted when the when the guy was accepted, he didn't have mind of the anointing. He was for sure he was going to do it. And now that this came up, he could I think even that he's the only he's he's on the country. He's allowed to continue doing it. Should he uh should you get paid? I think he should continue to get paid. He should get paid for 40 days. He should continue. I think should continue and we ignore the fact that he broke there was a breach in the contract and we'll totally ignore it. I think he broke even contract. I think that by the member from But what about our condition that you agreed to? You can get conditions by others also between people and still get paper. You have because if you want to take out money from the rich man's pocket, you got to provide a proof. I if I borrow money and you make a clause in the contract um saying what? Someone that's over the top that that's that's not like if I can't pay it back in 30 days then I'm going to become your slave. No. And then for some reason you can't get back in 30 days that remind me the man is slave. You would say oh the business of business between me and you. No no you would say then and therefore it's not a slave. Even 35 days you can still pay it back. You know the potential if the conduct continues then it's a day back a solution. He should he he's calling him the day of. Yeah. This is happening today. He can't make it. He's telling him the roads open up at night. You missed that day. Finish. It's over. So I would have told him he should have done his at home and had in mind maybe he never put a picture of the quis so I can do it he doesn't need you to do it could be it could be but it could be but that was that was his onest to get to the not on us to do the ta he could have done the ta where he was and then continue he ded all day long for him but I told you I want you to go to the to and that you didn't that was the condition you agreed you agreed to it was there no other way to get no other unless you provide me a chopper or or he takes me on his wings from the south as roads were closed completely a coal camera by the way if you want to so that he can do from New York as well he doesn't need to be guy salesmen don't get paid unless they deliver the goods no no until the customer pays the supplier okay's the right time not to pay commission once he gets paid Once the once the seller gets paid from the customer, then the salesman gets his commission. All right. You mean he was supposed to pay in 30 days and the customer took 60 days? The contract between them is No, I still get my commission when the customer pays. The contract between them was very clear and it's different. The contract is you go 40 days whether my problem is solved or not, but you went 40 days for me. I believe it has a to change things upstairs. I'm going to pay you before I get paid by a kesh before the trouble is removed. Doesn't make a difference. This is the condition between us. Do you agree? And the guy said yes. You want to say something with Naz. If Nazia takes the becomes Nazia and he comes and what happens comes to then he just the days that he was in Nazia they fall aside and he starts again the count for his own. So consciousness is about comparably and you can compare the of a unique standalone type of gave to monetary laws and conditions and contracts was going to connect it to the spirit really let's see I'm not sure about that this is a monetary question has to do with that happened two weeks ago everybody remembers the more what and therefore it's not called that he came he didn't do it so it's called so he doesn't get compensated get his so the fact that he went two weeks to you don't care about you get him give him nothing for that you're afraid to say yes according to according to the agreement was like that he doesn't get anything you said before One needs to do a certain amount of one has to do certain shadows. Yeah. And you go into a contract what stops you doing it. Okay. So that's it. There was a contract. You couldn't fulfill it. The guy doesn't get his bra because coach didn't want his man to get his bra and you're going to get your your $5,000. You're going to get your coach. You've got to stop to both people benefiting. Who's arguing there's nothing to say? First of all, we'll see if there's nothing to say. And second of all, maybe aeshu wants to provide a partial gave us. He told us what to do in situation like this. Maybe addresses this and then say you're not going to get the 5,000 and maybe he will get the 5,000. Let's see. The rich guy is 100% right. Why do I have to pay for your it's not my problem says he brings the opinion that if I obligate myself to do something that I'm not this is the case guy is not to do this not putting on in the morning he commits himself to go every single day to the because the rich guy asked him and he and he commits himself if something happens to him on why should the rich guy have to pay him because of is and therefore the says he's exempt. Why? Because we have a rule is exempting you from but we don't have a rule tells you you have to pay when somebody else has an you exempt. In other words, there not going to be any claim on you. You had to do a mitzvah. You weren't able to. Something happened. Fine. But we don't say such a thing. So it's not my problem says the rich guy and the seems to agree with him. If my friend didn't fulfill his condition, it's his problem, not mine. It's the same thing by us. You had an on the road, you weren't able to drive. If you had to go for a mid, we say, "Don't worry about it." But it's not like you actually went, you didn't go to the you never got there. You didn't dive in there. And therefore, how can we obligate the rich guy to pay him? And even though he started to drive and he got stuck says if you hire workers, you want some workers to come into your field and water the place tomorrow morning. So you call them tonight, you say come tomorrow morning, not shab come on Sunday morning. They come on Sunday, they drove a long way. They get there and says, "Sorry, I don't need you to do any any work here because do you see what happened last night? It rained so much. I don't know if you rained where you come from, but it didn't stop raining the whole night. I don't need you to work. Does he have to pay?" He hired them to come. They came all the way. I don't need to work here. Is he doesn't have to pay a dime to the workers. Especially in our case, it's a makina. It's not something something local. It's all over spread all over. It's not something by somebody did as a specific onus where somebody said somebody they became sick or something that this is something from above. He doesn't need to pay. However, we don't care about can decide afterwards if he wants to be a nice guy. We want to know what is until now he doesn't have to pay. But it seems that for what he did until now, the two weeks that he did drive to the Kil, he will have to pay even though the agreement clearly says if it's no 40 days, you are exempt. And we said that if a worker there was an oess, a balab there was an oess, he doesn't have to pay a dollar because the rule is if you want to take out money from my pocket, the burden of proof is on you. The says this clearly plus one say any onus that happened to the worker or to the he doesn't have to pay the worker knows when he is hired that if any on is going to come about he is the one that loses out however what we say we don't pay the worker is going on from here forward not going back for what he already worked if I hire the workers to come work in my field and there's some kind of an onest that prevents them from working so I don't have pay them for what they're not going to do. They're not going to do it. I don't have to work them. They pay them for the whole day that they're would would have worked because they're not going to work. But for what they did work until now, you have to pay. So this guy worked. He drove two weeks straight to and this is similar to a person who rents a donkey. He hires a donkey. hires a car and he drives and he's supposed to go from here all the way down to Beva and he starts driving or riding the animal and halfway through the animal dies. The car breaks down. Does he have to pay or not? Says the boy, he has to pay. He has to pay up to the point where he arrived. Even though the u the guy who hired it can say to the owner, but I didn't want to come here. I wanted to go all the way down to not to stop halfway through. So explains because the guy can tell him, listen, you can hire a car from here. It's going to be cheaper. You only have to pay half the price. Or says that you had merchandise to sell and you can also sell it in this place even though you didn't intend to go initially. So how much more so here he went two weeks for sure that he helped the rich guy. We have a f fervent belief there is no that goes unanswered says it many times sometimes you don't hear who says okay I will grant you what you request but there's no such thing as a that goes unanswered so I went two weeks on your behalf and I ded I worked if I worked and you did get some of the goods you have to pay for it more than that if he's going to continue to go every single day from here on In other words, there was two weeks, one day break and now he has to get to 40 days. He has to pay him the entire 5,000. Why at the end of brings who deals in if a person who wasn't able to circumcise his son, let's say the first and second kids died as a result of the so we don't circumcise the third one. Why? It's called if his brothers died as a result of and we don't circumcise the third one may he may die as well. Is he considered in the eyes of as a person who circumcised? It's annoying. We wanted to do it. He wants to do it but we can't. Who said go and circumcise him says don't do it because this guy may die. Is he considered a person who is circumcised or not? So this is dependent on when a person is faced with annoyance. Is it considered that he actually did what he was supposed to do? It's just the didn't do it. But it's counted up upstairs as if he did or not. We like the brought before. When you have an it's as if you did not fulfill what you were supposed to do. So if that's the case, he is not considered circumcised. But says the when do we say this between man and when you have annoyance cancel it as if you did because says one wanted to do a mitzvah and he wasn't able to he was forced not to do it as if you did do the mitzvah so in the eyes of him this kid is considered as if his mah he is circumcised When do we say that's a technical thing when do we say that it's between if I want you to do a certain business for me and you didn't then we don't say it's like I did it no you didn't do between man and it is counted as if you did between man and his friend it is counted as if you didn't do based on this the says why is it that says that when the kohanim give us Those people in the fields are also blessed. Let them come to the why would they be blessed as well? They're not here because they can't be here. If you're this that comes from can't all those people who weren't able to be here as if they were here because in the world of as if you have fulfilled it. The same thing applies here. This rich guy needs he needs the blessing of blesses the people in the fields even though will bless the rich guy even though this guy wasn't able to get to the but we should reject that but wait a second you're right inesh's eyes the person as if went but that's reward coming from we're talking about monetary loss reward coming from the rich guy and then we said between Adam if you have an it is not counted as if you performed what you were supposed to cancel. Why should he pay him? So doesn't have to pay him for the rest of the two weeks. But if he's going to continue and again get to day 41, then he'll have to give him the entire 5,000 because is counted as if you did not go. But on is not a heck in on doesn't stop the continuous ongoing back to back every single day. It's an you didn't go. You're right. But if you're going to continue and get to day 41, so you have 40 days that you did go to the and we're not going to count the as a break between the 40 days. He will have to pay him the entire 5,000 if he gets to day 41. So to summarize it, What does that have to do with why is nothing why is on if you didn't go because you're lazy because you're tired for whatever reason that's but if stopped you from going we don't count it as a we count it as you didn't go so you can't get paid for that day but get to day 41 you have 40 straight days and honestly should not be counted as a you have 40 straight days because in the eyes of and that's what you need there is no the guy always went so now he has even an extra day What's that? Because of you still. Say it again. I can't hear you. If you didn't count because of still that's coming in one second. We're going to talk about that. Can I ask a question as well? If he if he stops at the for two weeks, does the the the rich guy have to pay the 5,000 or just expenses of uh only the two weeks because they might say he benefited from the fossil. Let's assume it was a billion dollars, not 5,000. He pays one/3. No, no, the expenses that he had for going to for two weeks because the deal was 5,000 doesn't represent his expenses. Is it represents the 40 days a special bonus that I give you for going 40 straight days. But if you only provide it two weeks, you're going to get two weeks worth, which means the expenses, not the 40 divided into is 2500. No, not divided in per days. We'll just calculate and estimate how much it cost you to get from here to the coil, your gas, your wear and tear, your time, and you'll be paid for that. Time is money. What do you mean? Time is money, but your time is not $5,000 worth of money. So the 5,000 is a bonus for going 40 days straight. For two weeks you'll get what normal people get for which is two hours of your time for two weeks. Regarding the and the men in the field we say that when we say that you have to stand in front of the to be blessed but someone stands further up in back of the yeah facing them. So therefore over there why he's not blessed because he could come and therefore he doesn't have the that's what the say unless the guy is in the unless the guy is the kazin in the way situated in the sh is that stand in front of the so be honest he's be honest he's just like the people in the fields and he will be blessed how does that connect some workers was it some workers were carrying bottles of wine Oh, here's the ayah. Thank you. What's the it's not a we're saying if it's 40 days and there's a break in the middle. If it's not a break, it doesn't stop the if you continue 41 days. The is from what you're saying if the brings what the says a person who hired a boat to transfer some wine and something happened an accident and the boat drowned and the wine if he's able to provide another boat to transfer more wine it is counted as if it's one big long rental agreement. We don't say that's what you meant. We don't count it as two separate rental agreements. You see that it doesn't cause a break in the it's one big rental agreement and that would apply here as well. No episode and they maybe through you know they were not careless and you broke the bowels and another told me what it looked like. Yeah. You don't you have to pay them not you have to pay them even though they cause you damage. have to pay them for the work they did here. They did some work and they caused some damage. Not sure we can compare. He didn't cause any damage. He just didn't provide the work necessary. Why do you have to pay them for what? They have to pay them their wages because they needed the wages for their food or something like that. Fine. But how do you compare that to our case? Um because it not they've not fulfilled what they were supposed to do. But the question over there, they caused damage. They broke the barrels of wine here. It didn't cause any damage. It just didn't do extra like you expect him to do. You're asking what's the connection to Sha to what you were asking about the fires from two and a half weeks ago. If somebody wants to connect, go ahead. I'll be very happy to, but we don't need to connect it with topical events. Rabbi said another question. What's that? You started off how is how is religion? Oh, okay. Fine. All right. It's a stretch, but why not? Yeah, we have a connection. Not exactly, but in a roundabout way. Another question which somebody asked over there in the back about let's talk about very very relevant to us and counting and counting and counting. A guy goes, "It's time to count." And then he starts thinking, "Wait a second. Did I count yesterday? I'm not sure I counted. I know for a fact I went to shul." And by definition in a they count, but I don't remember counting and I don't remember yesterday's count. Did I count or not? Not true. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. He decided to continue counting with. Is he right? Yes. That's why is it because it's this double suffic here first of all maybe you did count and second of all maybe if one forgets an entire day it didn't count he is able to continue counting that's the opinion of the majority of point the bahag doesn't hold like that the b says this is not 49 individual mitzvah this is one long mitzvah so if you miss one day you lost the whole thing so we are to the of the and because of that if you have one safet you don't count. But if you have double suffix, you're not sure if you count it. And we're not sure if the bahag is right or majority of right. That is 49 independent mitzvah. The is he is right. And he continues to count. And that's what he did. 5 minutes after he counts, he started thinking, wait a second, why should I be in the dark about this? And he called the gab of the shul. Gabe, my favorite. Can you check the cameras of the shul? Tell me if I count it or not. Sure, no problem. Today there's cameras. The guy faces his his seat is right in front of the camera. The guy calls him after 5 minutes. He says, "You know, last night's kazin was very very fast. You were in the middle of and I see the way you ding such by the time you finish, everybody already left the shoe and I see you ding and immediately a little and then you went home." So now he remembers for a fact he didn't count at home. So now his question from before did I count or not was answered. He didn't count. So now he comes and he asks do I needed to do this? Did I need to call the gaba to find out today when you have a safik which can very easily be resolved by having the gaba check the cameras. Can you take the technology piece out of it and say this? Just ask the person that was standing next to you. Oh, forget about technology. If you can call your friend and ask him cuz you know he instead of dinging, he just looks around. That's what he does. There's no cameras. What would you know some people they finish and they turn around to look what's going on here today? Oh, this guy came. Oh, finally. Yeah, nice shirt. Oh, there new shoes. Why am I saying this? because there's a underrated very important says when one finishes he's not allowed to turn around not allowed to and people do it all the time you finish you have time to hang out until the cousin starts let's see what's going on and they do the fan action they scan the whole shoe who's here who's not and what's going on it's terrible the mishnab brings two reasons from the levush why that is why are you not allowed to look to look back fascinating reasons either because you are disturbing his kavana when somebody is and you feel somebody's looking at you it wrecks your kavana not less interesting in the second answer because if you turn around people may start suspecting you how is it possible I'm in mim and this guy finished I think he skipped a few words how is it possible he's so fast people are going to suspect you and the pu says You should be clean in the eyes of and the eyes of and in the eyes of don't do things that people may suspect you. So until the kazin starts his repetition, you're not allowed to turn around. So let's say you had this guy who was a turnarounder. Oh, he already ded. He just happens to sit there. He sits there facing and sees you and he likes watching you. He gets a a special charge spirituality from the way you d it and you can call him and find out. It's not adus. It's the camera is also not adus. It's something which is clear. You just you're not sure and I'll tell you what you did. Are you required to say no? This is not technology. It's a way to reveal something which you are doubtful about. If you can't find out if you can tell if you can't find we know what Allah is. You have a double suffix, you continue counting. But if you can find out, do you do it or not? And you can verify you can't do that. I don't It's a It's like a The question is, am I supposed to find out? I suff it when I can. No, in this case, no, because it won't matter. Even if you'll find out, you didn't count. We can keep because it was that we don't say since we are to the if one loses one day it's one long mitzvah not 49 independent mitzvah he is not allowed to continue counting that's the nariness doesn't make a difference in this case it's not going to help us but if there's a double suffix so then we allow him to continue so we need to know if he wants to continue counting with It wasn't I don't know if it is irrelevant or not but it makes me think that someone has a big bucket full of money should not count it on it but if you count it it's already and therefore I think how is this relevant this is in order to allow you to say not to be blessed by in a secret Hey question, can we compare what what's the extent in which you have to check looking for bugs in the lettuce? We're looking for bugs in the lettuce. How you in in the lettuce, right? As far as I use the normal eyesight, you don't have to get out your magnifying glass, right? You're not expected to go beyond. So, can we use that as a comp situation here? We only had CCT cameras very recently. It's not something that is known. No, but but forget about a camera. Let's say you know your friend was there and you can call and ask him or go tomorrow morning and ask him did I count or not? Forget about technology because it's something new. Conceptually when you have a suffic I'm not required to. The says when I have a suffic I know what to do. That's the question. If if the friend is there there's no suffic the friend is there and watching there's no suffect but when I go home and I start doubting myself am I required to remove that suffic when you have a suff says that when you have a set of you have to check it with the computer because now that the there's the option exists then you have to use it there is no complete obligation to check with a computer because if it was good for our forefathers, the seaf is going to be kosher when you check it. But you got to be foolish not to do that. You want to make sure the seaf is kosher. The kamina is if you tell me this that you're about to read was not checked with a computer. But only 15 topim checked it all. So I can't use it. Of course I can. No problem. But when you write a new seafur or if you go senator to be fixed and you want to check it why wouldn't you want to use the top technology to make sure and many times in the computer they find what so do not find but you can't say it's a complete obligation it's a strong recommendation it's the right thing to do but it's not a complete obligation so let's see if rights even when you have an issue you can remove it when you have a double double suffic you can remove an isu even though it's talking about you can go and check the lung of the you don't need to right now there's a fake in front of you we can say this thing is mut however the sha over there brings that the opinion of the is that if you can go and check and remove your suffik you have to so the says if there's something that you can check and there's no loss involved doesn't cost you any you need to check. But if that's not the case, you don't need to be you don't have to be and you can pass in like the that you can even remove an when you have a theim writing doesn't involve any it's not a big burden not a big deal one has to ask for example asking my friend but and the is from somebody I think mentioned before You go and you rent a place for PES. You come all the homes of everybody checks. Do I have to go and ask the landlord did you check last night because I do why can't you rely on the all middens? Everybody checks for no because when it's so easy just ask what's the big deal. Ask the guy did you check last night because or not? So we don't rely on and when you can easily check and we require you to check in other words to ask in order to to find out if there is a suffocate or not. I was recently asked there's a cousin the guy's in a so he's a cousin I think he's six months into it he says every single day when I finish my private I look back and the guy says you're fine you can go there's more than 10 people here start and I start it's 6 months straight not even one day that I finished my and the people weren't ready and I had to wait for them do I have to continue looking back every single day when I finish I can rely on the kazaka he says somebody told me that I can rely on the 6 months straight. So I don't have to look back. I told him of course you cannot rely on the is similar to every single day you take your talis and you check your strings. Why do you check them? Make sure nothing to there's no tear. There's no knots or anything. Why you have to check them? That's 25 years you check them and there was no problem. Do you ever remember that you actually had a problem? I don't don't recall any 25 30 years that I'm using a talis. I never had a problem with my talis. Every single morning I fold them up. I put them back in. Nobody uses them. 12 hours later I take them out. There's no problem. And yet something which can easily be checked. It's very easily can check. You do check and you don't rely on a you don't rely on. And especially in the Kazin's case, it's a very weak type of who says the same guys from yesterday came today. Who says the same guys from yesterday came today and they didn't go to the bathroom right when they finished? Maybe you didn't realize, but today you ding faster than your normal speed. A million reasons why you can't rely. And it's something that so easily can be found out. Turn your head around, look for the to give you the signal and start. Do not rely on and you have to check. Same thing over here. The question is here when I call the gaba gaba go check the cameras for me it's very easy pick up the phone gaba go check for me is that considered something which is easily can be checked for the gaba it's a little more difficult has to do with a gaba's ease of checking and not mine if it's a big deal it's going to take them 3 hours to find exactly where the recording is from that time we don't care call it that's something which is easily can be checked but if it's something is very easy. He knows how to do it. Within 5 seconds, he finds that segment of Dav and he can find out that's something that can be checked. But even though we're saying that it's so easy to check and one should check here, you don't have to. When you have a spec and we said before that you have to check according to some opinions, that's when you can remove both sphus here. You're only going to remove one. You're never going to decide between the bahag and the other pers that say it's 49 independent mitzvah or the bag is one long mitz. You're going to find out if last night you can't turn it out but it's still not going to remove the two fakus. So when you have two you do not have to go and check in order just to remove one. When we require require you to go and check it's in order to remove both fus and not one about this and both say that if only one suffic will be revealed you don't have to go and check the holds that in a case like this you still have to go even though you won't be able to remove both speakers. the behind this is do you have to check find out what the suffik is until we will find out what exactly is the but when I'm never going to find out what the halak is why should I check I'm never going to find out what the really is between the and all the rest of the game it's not at my hands to decide the already decide that we go to the I'm never going to be able to find that out I don't have to check or as long as you have a suffix that can be revealed. It's not a suffix. A suffic is something that you don't know but when you can find out it's not called a suffic. So the he deals with this at length and he brings it to him and he says according to Rashi hold it you go and you find out since there is a in front of us talking again about and stuff like that. If there's some kind of something went sour in front of us and you are able to go and check you should the say you do not have to go check because when there is a it's as if there is no issues as if there's ignore the isue so I don't have to go and create a problem when there is no one so according to that even according to rashi everybody would agree when there is no USA and I didn't nothing went sour and that is exactly because I'm just doubtful I'm not sure what happened last night everybody would agree that I don't have to go check and I can continue counting with a and especially that according to most it's really 49 independent mitzvah it's just the we say maybe it's one long mitzvah and you can't count but in this specific case after the already checked now you're stuck now we know for a fact it's not an adus it's telling you you didn't you didn't count. It's not a of a it's a we know for a fact I'm not and I know after I didn't go home then I know for sure it's not a suffic in my mind. So at that point when the guy told you that you didn't count you cannot continue with so about yesterday's I'm not sure it's because when you said the you did the right thing you didn't have to check and the says you're allowed to continue. Now you're finding out that you weren't able to continue. So yesterday's was valid. Hereafter you're not allowed to continue counting. So summarize it. There's a few reasons why you don't have to go and check. It's a if it is a for the because all this were not going to be resolved. There is no in front of us. Nothing went that causes us to go and check. And the majority opinion of is that one who forgot to say what the is actually can continue the following day. And in this case that one does go and check the recordings. If you find out you didn't count, you will have to stop and you cannot continue counting with Aba. Should it be more like him also? No. If the says that you're allowed to count when you have a double, you're allowed to continue giving saying the every single day. You don't have to worry about anything. You have to beat and more than the allow you to continue saying. Since we're on top of so the best would have been should not have asked should have right he didn't have he didn't have to ask and once he asked he wrecked it for himself and he cannot continue saying with he asked because now we found out and the other one doesn't have to ask because of him he ask no sometimes it's called in this case since we talked about interesting The ref said that the gab after he's waiting for people to finish to make sure there's 10 people started because about so kindly also say the gaba is a gaba that says the gaba that says and if it's somebody else who's appointed to do this that's fine but other people that's not what they do they just turn around to see what's going on in the says you're not allowed to do this the waiting for you to look towards him to signify that you finished. So you're not allowed to do that. Once you walk back, the guy sees that you walked back or if you missed it, so he sees that you're not engaging in intense ding. He sees that you're just hanging out. A Gabby, a qualified Gabby knows how to do it. Don't worry. That's what we have. Very very qualified Gabby. There's a who is a so therefore he's a cousin every single night. Last night he counted. He forgot to count. It's a famous sh tonight. He has to count again. Or in a place where he's not the cousin, but they honor the rabbi. Many many do that. Not the but they honor the rabbi. The rabbi he should count out loud. He forgot to count. He's not allowed to count anymore with the embarrassment. If the looks at him, I can't. You do it. Imagine what a Big big embarrassment. What does he do? So we find six opinions about that. Opinion number one, some say the rabbi should go ahead of time before to one of the people in say listen don't say a don't count to the I'll say it for you and I'll be you. Nobody needs to know when he hears my and he says it's if he said it. So I didn't do it for myself. I'm not allowed to do it for myself. I did it for him. I was him. Nobody needs to know. And I'm able to continue counting with number two. Some say is so great that the can even continue to count without being anyone because overrides according to most it's and therefore he can continue without all these inventions. So on the first one there are something about that one has to do itself. I cannot ask someone to do for me a shakur or that's because when I'm about to eat something if you're not going to eat it you can't say the for me but one can be you didd you come back home and you need to doda again for some people who are not able to do it you're able to able to but some people don't like this every that I'm going to give except for the last I think some people challenge so we have two already third the of the nezer regarding something else but we can apply it here. Take out a ham, rabbi. Take the put it right on the y. Nobody needs to see. Learn the of learn quietly. And when the says, "And thou shall say that." Say loud. When you're learning, you're allowed to say. So say it loud and then continue again quietly. And nobody needs to know. Give an some people don't like it. Another is to himself. Yeah. The says every night when nobody needs to know what you do. I'm learning. I'm learn to learn another problem. They're not I'm not trying to mutate. Everybody counts to themselves. No problem. If you we go back to the first so much someone else. But today I would not anyone because everybody's on their own. Can they answer? They should not. They should not. Am I them, stumbling them? We're saying anal. I think will override anal if according to many opinions it overrides a little less than the says when you count today you can say and then say today is not the first day. So say today is the 40th day. That's what told me I'm applying I'm I'm learning the applying it. What if it would be today? It's a great when you're learning and you say you say you don't say hashem and many opinions say you can say many opinions according to that there's no issue. Another opinion says if you put in yourself a tremendous yearning for this mitzvah learn the get excited about it. You can say the is just before getting all excited about it and you finish a few about the big of get excited and say the iss Heat said the says you can't start inventing new says you can't count. You can't count. Are you worried? People are going to say people are going to say look at how humble our rabbi is. He's not embarrassed. He is humble. He's realizes he did something I don't want to say wrong. Probably was behind us. He was probably with his wife in the hospital the whole night last night. That's why he forgot. He realize what the Allah is. He doesn't try to to create new inventions and he teaches us what the Allah is and he teaches us humility. That's says I have a new I think it's the best of all the it works. Take your kid or any other kid from the put him right next to you says look I'm about to teach you now. Say after me this is how we say count out loud just like you do. We do it all the time in you teach the kids how to bench. You'll say it a hundred times sometimes until they get it. Who's Hashem's name? It's I don't care about I'm not trying to be Muslim. I'm trying to give a to my kid or to somebody else's kid. Nobody needs to know why I'm doing it. There's a kid in bring him over. Nobody needs to know why you're doing this. Teach him. Look, follow me. Say just like me. You cover all bases. Agreed that this is a fantastic. Another interesting one. Imagine you're doubling along and the guy next to you is already the guy next to you is counting and instead of saying today is 40 days he said 41 or 39. Should you stop in the middle of to correct him because you want to avoid his you want to make sure that is a very severe very severe says the says no don't say Hashem's name in vain the world shook very very very severe very severe so am I allowed to raise my voice just for a second 40 41 40 40 days 40 I can speak and I can in the middle to help my friend. He can say I don't know what he wants till tomorrow and then there's definitely going to be a big fake by 5 minutes when he realize wait it's ready after one is not allowed to stop unless he's doing so to remove an but according to we said before is and therefore one will not be able to but there's an if you happen to in the middle of over there you can add whatever you want. So you say say out loud today is 40 days to the I would love to have in my learning. Is that a lie? Is that something to say that? Hopefully your friend is smart enough to listen to you and to understand what you're doing. There's an that can work. Otherwise you can't stop the losing his own because he said that before. Today is 40th day of what? I don't know. 40th day. Say it in a smart way. Today is the 40th day. I don't know what. Today's the 40th day. The friend will hear will pick up hopefully and you help him. Say yesterday. Yesterday was 39 days already that I'm trying to tomorrow is going to be 41 days in the middle of like that like say you don't have to invent something. This is to remove an iso I don't want my friend to do. So I'm helping him out in this way. Last thing, the grandson of Abdul Lando Schlita sometimes is there to help him out, help his great-grandfather. One day he gets a phone call from a a guy who's a big he's a Lando is a big himself. And this says this was 4 p.m. He says, "Please tell your grandfather this very very important message. Today I lost 35 shekels. you lost 35 sh please make sure you tell him today guy hangs up and he starts thinking I'm used to strange phone calls people say all kinds of strange things that I should say to my grandfather but this maybe is the strangest 35 shekels he's lost so what he wants me he wants my grandfather to go and raise money from big donors to give him back 35 does he want my grandfather to pay him 35 shekels kind of strange should I waste my grandfather's precious time with this but it's a So he wasn't sure what to do. He ended decided he's going to say to his grandfather this he's going to deliver the message even though potentially he's wasting his time. Sabah this rabbi this he called before to say that today he lost 35 shekels looks at him and says oh that's so nice he should have a long healthy life. He should have abundance in gashmai. So nice. The grandson looks at him and says, "Sabah, can you explain?" He says, "What do you mean? He said he lost 35 today. Don't you understand?" He says, "No, obviously it's his birthday today." How'd you get that? He says the says from the age of 20 to 60, one's value is 50 shekels. From 60 and up, his value drops to 15 shekels. So today, as if he he lost 35 shekels. In other words, I'm 60 years old. Reb, give me a That's why he called when it was 4 p.m. and he said, "Make sure you deliver this message today because today is my birthday. I want a from the purity in the of when they hear something." We hear all kinds of things. We think about our pocket. Oh, you know, 25 is not too much. They see everything in this world is toy in the eyes of we should have that pure pure vision. Amen. Amen.