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The Pesach (Passover) Seder in Bnei Brak By Rabbi Dr. Ahron Adler
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Delivered 7 Nisan 5784 - April 15, 2024 Rabbi Adler's Series for the Year 2024 has been dedicated L'Ilui Nishmat Elisheva Sima bat Zalman www.ouisrael.org facebook.com/ouisrael #OUisrael #torah #judaism #torahlectures #pesach #passover #seder
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B there there are new pages here on the
table
okay just going to to begin with Source
number three on the page which actually
is uh lifted out of last week's par sh
two days ago I'm sure we still
remembera tazria has two chapters you
bet 12 and yud gimal 13 where the first
peric has a whole eight psuk Kim and the
second has 59 Pim so a little bit
imbalanced but the 59 Pim are all about
neat leprosy which connects to this
week's para which is
pars so the
um no no it's
okay we hear you
the now she's trying to
trying to put the no she's not she's
trying to fix the um the it's in the act
of Duty it's in the line of duty
yeah it's not leprosy that's the English
translation in the King James version so
um it's some type of um appearance in
the skin in the um clothing in the house
the ramam tells us that in the clothing
and in the house so that's clearly
miraculous um but he said that the neat
of the skin was physiological so however
you want to describe it but that's not
my concern because I'm not going to deal
with the 59 Pim I want to deal with the
eim of parri which talks about child
birth uh and the aftermath of child
birth from the where there are two
significant uh pieces of information
here one has to do with Corban
that after the birth of a a child the
woman will bring a Corban to bet mikdash
and that's a sheer in itself what
exactly is that Corban uh must probably
a blend of a Corban toada a Thanksgiving
offering parallel to our saying G and
then there was a Corban sin offering
which defies explanation there are
explanations why in the world would a
woman have to bring a Corban Kat but
that's not the issue here there there
are corote and there's
also there's another speech here and
that is why is with with boys it's 7even
days and with girls it's 14 days and
then there's a period of tar for boys
it's 33 days and for girls it's 66 days
those are independent details everything
is important but that's not my concern
right now but there is this concept
of that there is there is blood and and
and that leads to to some type of level
of tum that woman will have to go
through tahar at some point the um those
are the two big parts of the story then
there's a sideshow and has to do
with on the
day now that's not big news because if
you
remember in we heard about Brit already
yet every time the Torah repeats any
particular Mitzvah excuse me that we may
have heard already so obviously they're
addons they're they're important
information so number one to wants to
stress that the eighth day now we know
that sometimes a brid is made on the
ninth day and the 25th day it has
something to do with the health of the
baby and if for whatever reason the
doctors feel that they would be
injurious to the baby's Health to
perform the Brit on the e8th day usually
for premature babies Pim they won't do
it on time they wait till the baby has
achieved a certain weight level and
that sometimes differs between doctor
and doctor and Mo and mo but um
nevertheless there is this guy there but
also there's a difference
between
andal on time and a Brit that's delayed
now obviously if there's a delay abin
had a delayed mil he was 99 years old so
okay it's not the end of the world but
um if there's a choice between doing it
on the e8th day or doing it on the 11th
day because somebody's coming from from
some grandparent wants to be there will
you postpone a bridge just because some
the answer is categorically not there is
a qualitative edge of doing Brit mil
there's a new page here the qualitative
edge of doing the Brit on time mil bis
man now so much so that if it's on time
it um def first Shabbat so we know we've
been to brot on Shabbat already
so
says now that's not going to happen if
it's a delayed Brit so if the Brit is on
the ninth day or on the 25th day so you
can't say oh shabas is a great day to do
it people are around you can't do it it
has to be mil bis so that's number one
number two bis a let let's just
postulate and say not just postulate but
uh definitely point out that there are
two ways that children come into this
world one is natural delivery and one is
through a a um an intervention a
surgical Intervention which is a
cesarian section or known by the mishna
as Yan now the phrase y Doan literally
means coming out of the side which means
they made an incision in the abdomen of
the woman in the side and they took out
the baby that phrase Yan became an
idiomatic expression in modern day
Hebrew meaning anything highly unusual
highly unusual in one word it's called
something that's very unusual will say
so people a lot of times they don't even
know where the source is it happens to
be
a so we have a a baby that comes out of
the abdomen which means it's not the
normal way so you have two different
ways of uh babies coming into this world
and let me just digress for a second
there's a um there's a mishna in the eth
chapter
of that talks about how could there be
two sons born in the same family and
both are a
firstborn well one second if there two
sons Sons one's going to be the second
born and the mishna says there's a
possibility where one is the B for pen
and the other one is going to be a B
foral for inheritance because the B is
supposed to receive two parts of the of
the yusha so um the uh so how could that
be so the Raam tells us in his mishna
commentary that were talking about twins
where the first one is born by a Ian
section and and it comes out first but
the second one was born naturally so if
that happens the first one is the first
born for purposes of n of inheritance
but is not the he's not the first one to
come out of the re naturally so there's
no p on the first one but the second one
was the P so it would be a pen on the
second one but then the raham says and
the mother would die why would the
brother die up until the 19 19th century
No Woman survived a cesarian section and
the reason is because they didn't know
how to control the the excessive
bleeding and the and uh zum infection
they didn't have do it so it could be
she may have died a few days later but
she never survived in the 19th century
where modern medicine began to
understand how to deal with congealing
blood so they were able to be able to
deal with bleeding and deal with
antibiotics deal with um infection so in
the late 19th century people have
survived women have survived cesarian
injection today cesarian section is just
routine it's just very routine not just
routine but once upon a time when I was
young I remember I heard that a woman
had a cesarian section they limited her
to how many children she can have
afterwards or they said all subsequent
births have to be cesarian section and
today that's been put out the pasture
and a woman can have as many babies as
she wants after cesan section and
naturally and I have two a daughter and
a daughter-in-law from my family who
passed the test who both had cesarians
for the first time and plenty of
children afterwards naturally so the so
the ramban he he he living in the 12th
century and he says there are some books
that write that that a woman can survive
can get pregnant have a cesarian and and
then get pregnant again R says I don't
understand that can happen that woman's
dead you know that I've never seen says
a so raak in his addition to the parish
Mish he says what was a p was a Wonder
to the rambam
is is routine today today it's routine
but the ramb 800 years ago it was a how
could you say something like that so so
you have this difference between Yan a
cesarian so the Yan cesarian causes four
different changes in number one there's
no because it's not two if there's a
cesarian on Shabbat then the next
Shabbat there's no Brit there's only a
Brit on Shabbat if it was a natural
birth that's to two number three there's
no T there's no T woman won't have to go
to the Mikvah afterwards but this I will
say with a little bit of caution that's
only if the cesarian was done before the
birth process started a lot of times
many times in the hospitals today the
doctors will opt for a cesarian when the
pro when the birth process has already
commenced and then they see some type of
complication for example the uh
umbilical cord around the neck so
they'll intercede right away because if
they don't they're going to have a baby
that's not breathing so uh so they can
do that but then the birth process
started already and halachically there
is tumat but if there's a scenario where
there's really no opening and no no
blood no bleeding so there's no tumat La
down whatsoever and in the case of bet
mdash there's also no Corban Le after a
cesarian so um of course you may say
because the woman's not going to be
alive to bring the Corban but even today
where woman would be third bet mikdash
the answer is there is no Corban and
that becomes theologically important so
we see that there's a difference between
a baby coming into this world naturally
and a baby coming into this world in a
side
show
yeah after no
no no D and noban four
there four that make a market difference
between this type of child birth and
that type of child birth now what does
this have to do with PES except for the
fact that t we read you know before PES
so if we look at source number two
oural gave us two different schemes of
how our Redemption G is going to come
about Alexandri what's a nice name to
have Alexander some people have that
name right Alexander I know I know you
know middle name Alexander it was the
name of some great rebba there was a
rebba from Alexander there the town was
called Alexander he was called Admore
from Alexander but the Alexander is a
name Alexandri
Ru means he contrasted it says
in let's just read the whole out
loud it's it's the end of it's the end
of the
so we always read it at the end of the
summer before rash and it means I am
God in its
time I will accelerate the process and
thought that this
phrase is what we call in literature in
oxymoron so what's oxymoron in my family
we always say I know who the I know who
the is but who's the ax right in
axim so axim is when you
have two words that seem to mean
contradictory ideas uh they use um um
one of the right a Wise Fool fine okay
okay lambent Darkness lamant Darkness
one of the great English light writers
hopefully good hopefully good is not
awfully oh awfully good awfully good I
thought you said awfully good awfully
good right right right so you have they
have this concept of uh of of
of something and it's opposite and it's
supposed to create I I think um Simon
and go unle The Sound of Silence Sound
of Silence you can't get better than
that so um so here we have in its time I
will accelerate well let's one second
let's take is it going to be in its time
in its time means in a natural
progression of
events means accelerated stepping on the
gas so how can you
have
so says it means if Isel is going to
very quickly make a turn around toh big
chuva process then will push the step on
the gas the whole process will be
accelerated if not there's going to be G
anyway but it's going to be in a very
natural progression of events and that's
called be with the word IR eight in its
time it'll happen in its time so the way
it's normally understood is means
natural and and means Supernatural it's
going to be miraculous and so on so you
have two possibilities so much so that
when the rambam in the end of the very
end of the talks about two chapters of
Mia time he
says nobody really knows how things are
going to unfold and therefore the Raman
believes don't put all your eggs in one
basket don't bed on one way because you
might be wrong and he said in theim we
have different possibil ities so it's
not that one's right and one's wrong but
the Nim was suggesting it could be this
way and it could be that way so it could
be you know people say there's no kib go
of people Exiles coming toel before the
building of mashiah and they'll prove it
with a in but then you look at J and you
see just the opposite so the Raam says
don't put your eggs in one basket here
don't bet on
everything we don't know because there's
no tradition there's no iron clad
tradition right Biden used that word a
lot Ironclad there's no Ironclad
tradition of of how the G will unfold
quite the contrary K spoke of multiple
possibilities it could be this way it
could be that way it could be natural it
could be Supernatural we have to see I
mean we are in the driver's seat also to
try to maybe pull ourselves together and
create a a a accelerated uh
situation but what pointing out isal
have used as an image of childbirth it's
called now many of us sings meot if
you're a litvak you don't sings meot but
if you're Aid you sings meot on chabas
because you know the litox they didn't
produce great singers you know they they
produced a lot of
big but um I I I once heard
um RAB rabstein my great B he quoted
the's brother R Sal who quoted the balat
the author of the T founder of kabad who
said that three levels of nunim of songs
one is a nigun with words that's one
level a higher level of spirituality is
a nigun without words it's just a melody
and there's even a higher level it's a
nigun without a nigun a Melody without a
Melody so I went over to ra I said I
think I understand what a nigan without
a nigan is he said what do you think it
is I said it's a Lan that's a l he I
even got a half a laugh out of him I
even got a half a laugh
says I've never heard wow what a
great never heard that in my life
but you know V those are are class they
you know they sang the Poland and so on
so so you you have so so he sing smro
Friday night and Shabbat
we will be freed and exempt and saved
and spared fromia the birth pangs
ofia called it birth pangs and it's not
just a poet of of the of the it's says
at various places that there are three
different ways to be saved
from it's a phrase that will use which
means they saw the emerging
Redemption as a birth process and if
that's the case then when
say in its time I will hasten it there
are two different possibilities of the
birth process of the Gula one is natural
and one is
accelerated if it's natural so like in
natural birth what's going to come along
for the ride is going to be a lot of
pain a lot of sacrifice and a lot of
blood that's what's that's the price
it's going to happen and if you just
look at our last 180 years 130 years
here in Earth Israel from the time of
the end of the 19th century of the
restoration of yesu vit Israel until the
establishment of state and then the
various Wars the until this very day
there are corbane there's Dam there's
pain but we see it in the process of
gula so people say where's the GAA here
we're burying har Herz is full of
that's part of the G of but then there's
a possibility of of having AA process of
a birth process that's going to
be and now I'm using the modern phrase
highly unusual and and Supernatural and
that will be painless without blood
without sacrifice I mean that's
something to look forward to so this
idea of having
which is the real G remember there was a
a game in a TV game game show in the
states I'm dating myself now to tell the
truth and they would have a panel of
people will the real so and so please
stand up so will the real G please stand
up are we looking at or looking at what
are we looking at and I believe this is
the contention of a between rabaka and R
aarya let's go to Source number one and
now I'm going to move ourselves to to B
and the story of the Seder night in
B so we know the story those of us from
which I think is most of us here if not
everybody had two in so we know this
story very very
wellu number one First Source First
Source on top of the page the story of
the
five and raron
they did the S there they were reclining
in they were discussing
the the entire
night the students came and they
said morning so there's historical
import here they couldn't see the window
I mean what was the the shades were
closed the tree were closed this has to
do with the bar era we're in the
hadrianic persecutions it was forbidden
to perform mitzvot publicly and that's
why the mishna talks about blowing
schifer in a pit you know and so on to
just be out of sight so here they had
two students outside watching for Roman
guards and centries and police that uh
so so they whispered down they said okay
the S is over it's already morning but
they downstairs in this dungeon didn't
know that uh that the say that it was
morning yet so they had to be informed
this is the story and why is it brought
into the to teach us what we just said
in
the the more the mara the more you talk
about on the night of the S the better
and can you get an Allstar list better
than
raru who sat the whole night they didn't
you know break up at 1:30 in the morning
but they were there all night that's
really The Story of
B is that the story of Abra some claim
that they were actually discussing
whether to go for the Barba Revolution
or not that that's what they were
discussing bringing us out of the galut
and RAB AA
believed that it's going to be a natural
Redemption and as a natural Redemption
we're going to have to fight our way out
of the Roman um bondage of sorts and
rebuild bet mikdash we're going to have
to do it it's a human I idea and it's
going to it's going to be costly
there'll be there'll be sacrifices on
the way and it's going to be painful but
we have to do it and we'll see in a
moment
that he thought that aosh is going to
intervene and there's going to be a very
very Supernatural event that will bring
about the G what's the starting point of
this discussion until what time can one
eat the Corban PES on seder night now we
don't have cor P so we have a
mat in its place so you ready you're
saying midnight why do you say
midnight that's I read that's what you
read that's good that's good okay but
that's only half the story that's RAR he
believes that the end point of of eating
Corban p is midnight but Raba argues and
he says you can eat the Corb P until the
morning till the break of d
break of D now that we'll see in a
moment what the source for that is but
that's
the as a COR to
that we know that if you're eating a mat
to remember the Corban P so well if the
is
like then you got to get the mat in
before midnight so what's midnight
Midnight's not 12 on the clock it's half
the distance between a Sundown and the
and sunrise in the morning so I can
already tell you it's 12:36 a.m. I
looked it up 12:36 a.m. on S night next
Monday night is going to be so you
figured by then you'll get up to
the says Hal can be after you know can
be after you don't have to close up the
table at 12:36 you have to get to the a
matah by 12:36 but not only is the
become an issue but you remember in the
four Sons
right
R so there it brings us into the med
on May from We're supposed to start
talking about the Mitzvah of no no
no no
only on that day which is that day the
day that apparently that were bringing
the P which
is no says the
the it's because of
this when mat in front of you when is
the mat in front of you s night s night
now just to be fair the version of this
mishna of this medish rather as it
existed in the days of mdash before the
destruction
was and that version is actually
preserved in some of the medeval they
still have that
version so what do we see from there we
until what time do we have the unique
Mitzvah of why do I emphasize unique my
gosh there's a Mitzvah the whole year to
remember
remember and in the morning in and the
night time in we make a mention of of of
every
Kish we say it every time we make Kish
every Friday night
every so
so is a Round the Clock annual Mitzvah
it's it's every not an annual Mitzvah
it's a daily Mitzvah and ACC we'll see
soon day and night Mitzvah so so we we
know about this
Mitzvah is something else it's the
Mitzvah not to give a a token mentioning
to but to elaborate about what happened
and that's only the night of the Seder
so now you have to Define what is called
the night of the Seder so the answer is
it's measured by the Mitzvah of eating
the Corban P okay so now we know there's
a m there's a dispute according
toar eating cor p only till midnight so
the Seder as we know it in terms
of what we call in
theu until the second cup G that's
linked to the Seder and according toar
the Seder is until and therefore the
Seder effectively ends with eating the
mat of the AF that's until or in the
days of mdash eating theban p r says no
you can eat Corb P until the morning you
can't eat it during the morning but
until the
morning until the break of so according
to Raba the S there is until the morning
not until midnight not until midnight at
all now why did they sit
in because RAB was the raav of the place
how do I know he was the raav of the
place and and they did it in accordance
with his opinion because he sat Fe mod a
talmid a student before his own primary
rebi because of cavod should not sit
leaning reclining and rabi Taron was RAB
aka's rebi but because the say and and
RAB taron's at the Seder he's the fifth
name of the five but because this seder
took place in B and Raba was the marra
was the r of the Mak of the place so he
also sits Bea said they were all
sitting doesn't say they kept they set
up a Seder says they were they were
all and because was the marra they kept
that Sor going until the break of
dawn and the students had to just tell
them when was the break of dawn now
who's also a participant who's one of
the five R aarya he's the one who hold
held against the ra RAB AKA he held that
the Seder was only until midnight so
what do you think happened at midnight
when the Clock Struck 12 you know the
the the the the Snow White appear what
happened when the clock says
KRA L
to he wasn't going to do that I mean
sitting there you're not going to get up
and walk away but he did say something
what did he say now we all familiar in
the hag that after the second of the
story there's a quote from aish
in I am like 70 years
old and I never was able to convince
the that we should make mention
of not only at the daytime but also at
nighttime now when do we mention in the
third section of shma in the section of
tius
and it
says now everybody said you had to say
that third par in the morning but there
was a contention and said you know we
should repeat
it because what was done was they were
only saying two at night
and
until but they didn't say didn't say why
not because there's no TI at night time
so why do we have to say the mitzah of
at night
time said forget about the mitzah
of and we should be saying it at night
time as well and he said you know I'm 70
I'm like 70 years old there's a
between what did he mean by this did he
mean I'm like 70 but I'm only 18 years
old or according to RI I'm like any
other 70 year old and I couldn't get it
through I'm an old man already and
people B but now I came I heard this
great D from Ben who
said argued and they said
no now before the coming of mhia we have
to
mention even in we're not going to
forget
about but Ben who argues says you know
when it comes to y mashia
going to be small potatoes who's going
to mention it there's going to be
greater things to talk about when the
Messiah comes so we're not even going to
mention the idea
of so there the says what
is it means nighttime andah convinces
the to go along with thisas and that's
why R in the mishna puts it into the end
of the first chapter
of we mention even at night time
most people and I'm talking about
99.9% of the people will if given the
the question if you have two sources you
have a mishna and you have the story as
found in the
ha after theur of
B where is the source and where is the
transfer anytime you have a parallel in
kazal it's always wise to know where was
the source is the source the mishna and
then it was moved over was cut and
pasted onto grafted onto the haod or is
the story in the hag somehow we have to
answer what that means what is the ha
and it was transferred to the mishna if
that's the case then the source is a
very old
Source Very Old Source now we know that
the haadam is a compilation of sources
there's a whole medish on
that we say in the hag that means that
when they put the hag together they took
a medish Lock Stock and Barrel and put
it into the hag that's what it means or
Manana they took the Manana from the
mishna and incorporated into
the now the story of of RAB AKA and the
other four was a medish and was
incorporated into where does that story
end so most people think
when the students came and they said
knocked on the door it's morning s their
time is over most people think that's
where it is and then they go on to the
next paragraph and the next paragraph as
it's printed in the
is and then people ask the question what
in the world is this mishna doing here
has nothing to do with s night it has to
do
with remember MIT a token me me
remembrance of MIT whether you have to
do it once a day or twice a day is it a
once a day multiple vitamin or twice a
day vitamin that that's nothing to do
with pesak and there are zillion answers
to that question but when we see it in
the context of the way I printed it here
from the rambam's haod we'll understand
that and aarya said what he said I'm am
now like 70 years old he said it at the
Seder of raka in B and how do I know
that because look how look how it says
in the fourth line in Source number one
and it's it's emphasized and
underlined
rarar in all of your the word does not
appear it just
says and it's a next paragraph the
printers printed it as next paragraph
and once you see a new paragraph what
goes into your head it's something new
oh I know this mishna from m that was
brought over but when you read it in the
rambam it's not a new paragraph
It's rabar said to them to whom to RAB
AKA to RAB Taron to RAB Yeshua and what
did he say
argue and by the way argue that's in the
mishna but in the manuscripts of the
it's not there it's not there because
it's not relevant all we're interested
is
RAR quoting the of Benz that you have to
say the third this third par ofma at
night time why is
razar speaking up at RAB s and teaching
us this Al because it came midnight and
RAB AA is continuing with the S there
because he believes that you eat Corb P
the whole night and hence you
have the whole night RAR argues and says
that the Seder has now come to an end
because at that midnight there's no more
p and therefore there's no more seder
there's no
more but
saysa I'm not walking out I'm going to
continue sitting here and talking about
MIT with you
but I've now moved to a different
category of a Mitzvah I am no longer in
the category of the Mitzvah
of the unique Mitzvah that applies only
for S night in the time framework of
eating cor P but I'm now in the every
night mode every night mode I believe
that you're supposed to make mentioning
of so normally we fulfill that in about
30 seconds by saying the third part
tonight I'm going to fill it with 5
hours I'm going to sit with you from
Midnight until 5: in the morning what's
the difference there's no maximum on
this but you should understand that it's
not because
of but it's
because it's the every night Mitzvah
that I believe and I'm in Conformity
with
Ren that this story ofar
is part and partial of the story of this
of the Seder in B with RAB AKA and
that's exactly where it was said and
then
rabud editing the mishna has this story
of B why shouldn't he have it he's a
student of rabi Maya who's a student of
RAB AKA so he had this medish and he
lifts out of context the part of
raria and he puts it in grafts it onto
the mishna the end the first chapter
of so there in all the word is been
deleted because it's not relevant it's
not he's not talking to anybody it's
Just Once Upon a Time said who cares
when in the mishna but in the in the
which is the source of this story
it's so much so that in
thei version of the miss
the word Lem actually still appears
which means the transfer from The Story
of B to the mishna was done without any
deletions but in the mishna as it
appears in the word Lem was actually
deleted okay so that's the story of two
different possibilities of
gar believed that the birth process of
gah is going to be miraculous and it's
going to be cut in the middle of the
night and Raba said it's going to be a
natural process we're going to have to
go through the whole night of the galute
of the Exile and arrive gradually at the
morning there's even a interesting
medish based on
a something like the morning so there
were two tanim walking on the arbel
mountain which overlooks Taria and you
know that the is in the days of the Tami
were not in Yim was unfortunately I hate
to use the word from the Shah UD free of
Jews there was the the the Romans built
capitalia a a a temple a a temple on the
place of this is before the Muslims took
it over there was a temple there it was
called Alia capalona and there were no
Jews there so where were the Jewish
communities in AR Israel at the time in
the Galil and it's really the lower
Galil primarily but also the upper Galil
from the coast quesaria cesaria
toori to Taria it's it's root uh there's
one Kish that go now it's Route 77 and
connects to Route 25 but U that that
route 65 rather so that's me from from
quesaria seori to um Taria so
overlooking Taria you have the arbel
mountains and one of the tanim said to
the other as they were walking in the M
end of the night take a look how the
Night comes to an end there's the aakar
which is known as the morning star a
star that appears at the end of the
night and then comes the break of dawn
and then comes Sunrise she says you see
that the way the night exits into or
transforms into the day is gradual there
are different
stages that's the way the Redemption is
going to
be step by step gradual gradual gradual
and that's the way RAB AA saw it RAB AA
saw it as a gradual progression of
events in its time and rabay saw it as a
intervention and he saw it more in terms
of middle of the night is gonna all of a
sudden middle of the gut as if to sayh
is going to cause it to immediately stop
okay so what's the in this great
between
and so we'll say for starters if you
look at the source number 16 on the SEC
17 on the second
page do you all do you all have Source
number 17 it's a tovot do I have the
most Pages you should have
it the last Source right so tovot there
actually tells
us to actually tells us
that the is
like which means that the Corb P would
have to be eaten until midnight which
means that mat of had to be until
midnight which means effectively the
Seder is until midnight and that view
became adopted by ashkenazim that's why
the r rais brings it but he puts in an
add on he says you know what the Hal can
go can go Beyond but we talk about the S
we're talking about the the the core of
the the eating mat eating da so that
should be you got to get that done
before and I say again it's 12:36 a.m. U
this this next Monday
night what happens with the
Ramba the Ramba don't worry about
that the rambam always makes trouble for
us right I have one of my great teachers
at yes University Professor Fel Blum
don't worry they're taking care of it
who said if the rambam wouldn't have had
um stumbling blocks in the book nobody
would have learned it nobody would have
read
it somebody opened the door or something
whatever it's an emergency there's no
emergency don't worry nothing nothing to
be alarmed about so the ramam has all
kinds of stumbling blocks like
contradictions like
irregularities and changes of mind and
you've heard this from me often enough
the rambam in his mishna
commentary first draft and for those who
haven't heard this from me before I'm
just going to repeat rambam writes his
mishna commentary when he's 23 years old
and it takes him seven years to write it
he's writing it under very very
difficult conditions in travel in trans
it raham was born in Cordova Spain at
age 13 He flee he and his family they
flee Spain for North Africa they get to
Morocco Fez from there they start
traveling again and they make it all the
way ter
Israel
now the the the L non-stop from
Barcelona wasn't flying that day so it
took years to make that trip and each
time you get to a station you stay there
for a year or two or three
and they get on a boat and and
everything was a local you know the one
port to the next port to the next Port
he makes a ter is and he's almost 30
years old but they only stay here for
less than a half a year and then he
backtracks to Egypt and he makes it to
Alexandria and then from Alexandria he
goes south to Old Cairo which is called
fostat we even know the Sho one of the
shoes that the rambam seemed to have
gone to it still exists today the old
Sho of Cairo fine and the then age 30 he
dies at age 66 most of his adult life is
on Egyptian soil that's where he writes
his mishna commentary in relative
relative uh tranquility and he has
sources available when the rambam writes
his mishna commentary early on in
transit he didn't have a laptop he
didn't have a disc on key with all his
sources he's writing for memory and even
the great rambam is going to make
changes when he hits U Egyptian soil and
there are multiple changes between the
way he writes the in his mishna
commentary as the way he does later on
in the mishna Torah and I what I've done
in my Works in my books I've
systematized all these things fine one
of the changes has to do with the
r on this this dispute between manaria
and rabaka in in his early writings he
went along with razam manaria
and the reason I have I have some
reasons for it I don't want to bore you
through all the details but there's a
whole slew of anonymous Mish that seem
to indicate that that's the for example
the most popular is found in the Sid
because before you start there's still
some people who say the in theid
after and one of the sections of is the
fifth chapter
of and there one of the talks about
p no dispute there it just says P until
midnight that's it Undisputed and at the
end of it says that the Corb P after
midnight becomes notar notar means it's
it's left over and you can't eat it it's
not like my house Sunday night is left
over Monday night is left over Tuesday
night is left over you know there was a
great Pierre pinchik May some of you may
have heard the name and he had a great
piece on R the shabas which only says
instead of Bin Friday night Ros the
shabas and he gave a concert my father
told me this he gave a concert on
Tuesday night he did everything in his
repertoire except R the shabas and
everybody came to hear that and they
started yelling as an encore R the
shabas r the shabas and pinck says did
you have eat chant on
Tuesday well I could tell them that I
did
but you know what chant on Tuesday does
not taste like chant on
chabas
what no yeah that's only that's only
from Friday night to shavas morning CH
on Tuesday or Wednesday
is and it's goes in this good last night
it was good last night okay MIT okay so
you went to B Mitzvah fine okay so you
had chant fresh it was fresh okay but
normally children if you eat in a
weekday it's because it was leftover so
so leftovers in the kitchen you you can
eat that's okay but left over mikdash
you can't if anything was left over from
the time framework of eating a Corban
had to be burnt fine so you couldn't eat
the Corb P according to in the morning
once the morning broke that's it but
according toar after no midnight
Midnight so the Mish says
you can't F so so so you see there are
that actually reflect the opinion of
this impacted on young rambam young
rambam went along with what's called St
the anonymous Mish and that was the but
things happened in the that caused the
ram to reink his position and he says
you know what's going on in the they're
identifying these anonymous
as a single opinion was called a in
accordance
withar implying that everybody else is
against it you know this bishna Ah
that's
RAR but everybody else actually argues
and who's the everybody else
theim
and the big name is RAB AKA so Ram
changes his mind he changed his mind he
says the is you can eat the the whole
night but
said just to train yourself don't get
used to eating
theb in the second half of the night get
used to finishing it until midnight now
that means
midan rically speaking there's a Time FR
Factor
until but if you missed it you can still
eat theb p and it's the identical idea
ofma at night time the Mish
says that at night should be until
midnight and says in the Mish until
break of
D and then the the M says that even
believe that it's still the break of Da
except
that just to prevent person go sleep at
10 o00 says I I have time to reach shma
and everything then he's going to
overshoot he's going to sleep through it
and therefore just get used to saying
shma at night before midnight so you'll
be on the safe side and the raah says
the same thing with regard to Cor just
be safe be on the safe side to to to eat
the
P so do it until midnight so you don't
overshoot it but if you over sh shot it
you can eat it and that's why Rama
believes that the Sader in terms of
talking
about is
like so you have these this and this
change in the ram so
Ino thei adopts the rambam's opinion
that you can have the say during the
whole night but the Rama who accepts the
TOs opinion he says that you should be
careful
until but he makes this little idea he
says you know by the way Hal and the
other stuff that can be after you know
you you don't have to be careful about
midnight for the extras that go on
afterwards do you remember one of the
poems that we say at the end towards the
end
before before
we have two poems that well
this and then
there's
now they split it the first night we
said and the second night we said the
second poem but here in Israel we don't
have to SAR so we say both you know on
the on the night of the
SED you have to really really get a good
translation and somebody who's going to
explain to you it's a a walk along the
poet takes you through tanak every
important event that happened at
midnight so obviously the first
important event is going to
be when did the
of and it was exactly
midnight God Smite all the and that was
like the that was the end that's when
parro came out in his pajamas just like
we had M shabas at 2: in the morning we
had a pajama party in the miklat you
know for those of you who didn't hear
the the the siren and just slept through
it you
know there you go never heard it there
was plenty left first of all there was a
boom of of and there were two booms two
booms right and and then there was the
so my my siren so my house we have 16
Apartments so everybody came down and K
with little Kindel and babies and
everything I'm telling you it was a
pajama party including the adults
because you know it's now's not the time
for a fashion show although uh there
were people like my wife who considered
the real option that there's going to be
a siren so at least to wear a sweater to
have a hat available to put on but there
was some women who didn't even get that
far um you know nothing
was compromised in any way or manner but
you know you normally don't see some of
the neighbors like that in their pajamas
you know so I called it a pajama party
that's all so parro that's how we would
taught his
kids and then par ran in his pajamas
to out of here out of here out of here
fast fast
fast we got time we have to pack you
know we have to ask the neighbors you
know for for belongings and Par is
pushing pushing pushing pushing so
that's the first but then the poem goes
on to other episodes in Tanakh that
happened exactly at midnight the last
one is really beautiful
K that the day should come quickly which
day the day that is neither day nor
night that's a very funny expression but
it comes out of zakar
per where that phrase comes from the
talks of the end of days the most famous
in
the that's
there we read it for first day ofk and
there it talks about the day which will
be neither day nor night what does that
mean so the pan the PO poet explains he
says
God should illuminate the darkness of
the night in a beautiful fashion of
light what does that mean that this is
an expression of
mid and it was and it will be at
midnight is going to be in the thick of
the galut and all of a sudden the lights
are going to go on the G is just going
to happen this is the a The Accelerated
as the poet the poet hopes that that
would happen not weighed out be in its
time but it's going to be
accelerated and this is uh an
unbelievable expression of of
faith in the midst of the darkness of
the night it's going to be a bright
light and this is an interesting thing
because we know that how
we only say in the daytime there's only
a Mitzvah of saying Hal in daytime all
the we say it after in daytime the only
exception to saying Hal at nighttime is
s the night the only time that we have
say Hal so the said it's not that we're
saying Hal at night time but
by is daytime it's the moment where the
middle of the night will be transformed
to
or great light and that's why we say Hal
at night because the night time has
become daytime
when at midnight and this is what was
all about and just going to end with a
um a Dr that my
sonan so what so he's an L pilot and I
show off about him so what he's also a
Daran and he said a greatan he says Anem
so I spelled it out for
you which means which means a time which
mean time he says you can read it also
with a t and you know what with a t
means means a kick he says God says when
is going to get a kick in the pants then
then things are going to start rolling
and start moving I exactly what's
happening in the world
now those who haven't had the of being
here are getting a kick in the pants and
everybody's getting
jolted means getting jolted jolted
jolted jolted and hopefully will will
accelerate the whole
process if if we need such a kick in the
pants with a tet as my sonan said it
should be uh quickly and so on let me
wish you each and every one of
you it's going to be with three for on
economica on bleach you can rest assured
but don't drink the bleach do me a favor
don't drink it even though you'll have
real clean insides but do not drink the
bleach and on things that you don't know
is for so my father said what are you
starting up with the they're making a
parosa they have to make a living okay
so let them all make a living the next
year that I will be here for is going to
be May 20th