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Orchos Yosher of Rav Chaim Kanievsky | with Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Brodt
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Introduction About the sefer & why he wrote it Sources Bitul Torah Zerizus Mikvah Overspending Beards & shaving Success comes from learning a lot R’ Yehoshua Heller Chinuch: when & how Hitting children Tefilah Mitzvos b’simcha & doing more Kavod of a talmid chacham Ruach Hakodesh
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[Music]
Welcome back to another episode on
Kanyevski. We've taken a break, but
we're back. And this promises to be a
fascinating episode on the
arguably the most popular safer or the
most learned safer that Kany published.
I'm sure we'll talk about this a little
bit more, but this is a safer which is
easily accessible on so many levels to
so many people. It's been published by
Art Scroll in English. A wonderful job
by them. And once again, this episode
has been sponsored anonymously in memory
of Benali.
And it's Friday. It's right before
Shabas. It is the eve or post um the
Israeli attacks on Iran and is here.
He's in his shelter with his farm. We're
very grateful for taking the time to
record this and it should be and for all
of Claudius for all those on the front
lines those fighting the ones who are
initial
around the world. Rabbi Dr. Brat
Shalom. Okay. So we're gonna talk about
the safer. So is printed approximately
in 1997.
Now the pro the reason I can't say for
sure is because it's very hard to find
the first edition of this work and it
was instant I remember when it came out
it was a leap year and it sold out
instantly. I heard in when I was in I
was in America at the time at learning
yeshiva I remember it sold out with
either 24 hours 48 hour or 48 hours. Now
this is before social media. This is
before the internet. All these things
they say for instantly people grabbed
it. It was printed again and again many
times with so let's say I can't tell you
the exact date is cuz mine is like it
says the 12th edition. So it was a leap
year and we already discussed didky
really write a safer because it was the
leap year or not. Is it that was the
reason why he wrote the safer that year?
Bottom line is became popular instantly
and remained popular until today.
There's many editions of the safer.
There's additions that have burum and
Hebrew fancy to be mafarish all
different things in the safer. There's a
fancy art scroll edition. I did not see
it but I heard um talking to someone
last week. He told me it's incredible.
They did an excellent job um putting
together all different things relating
to the safer from other stuff stories of
his is Rebbitson and everything like
that. Now I did not check and see what
art scroll claims or what other people
say about the safer. is my um readings
of the safer and um so I fully take
responsibility I say it could be many
other people have different ways of
looking at the safer now what is the
safer that's the first question is it a
musafer is ashkafer so if you look right
away can ask you said this many times he
is he says a lot of times things about
his safer for example the which he wrote
he says it's a collection from
to give in these areas.
Okay, there's something like 30.
Now he then has
he says he first he brings down
four things. What are they?
And Rashi says he brings down Rashi.
So that's the first thing that he sets
out of then he says
to beam.
So already in the first episode of Kvki
I claimed that he's influenced from many
people but four people in particular and
these four people were the
and his father. All four of these people
wrote such the GR um one of his first
actually publishes the GR Mish um
definitely a work that has materials
relating to Muser
people or to
the wrote many in which some will
mention from later on today
besides for the we were to that we had
after he was nif but we have also
and then his father he wrote a
so that's the first thing then he says
then adds
not every d is the sameness
now this is a very important sentence
and a lot can be read into it but I
think that's a very valid reason why you
need all these different things there's
different
number three how does he know what are
everyone knows this is the thing
everyone spoke to ask you from day one
he was completely absorbed in learning
never read a newspaper never was
anywhere he didn't know anything going
on no
he got he knew what was going on because
he got hundreds of thousands of
questions in all areas the lines are out
the door to him so he picked up what the
are what the problems are of this
particular generation from that we'll
see some of the different things and he
talks about the amazing advice that he
gives in
So he set out
then he says of course I'm not so but he
says okay um why he could still anyway
do it. Okay so this is a short um which
gives us already some insight into the
safer. Now to be clear, one of the first
farm which you already spoke about back
in season one was his
which is also a somewhat possible Musra
and we discussed it was and certainly
yes it's learned during and over there
went all out um finishing it in the when
in his low 20s and already demonstrating
the year his crazy yeda and kakula so
there also it's some type of musa but
there it's different he's just writing
per he's writing a parish or burim for
the existing cafer. Here he's saying
himself he's picking a topic and then he
goes through the topic. So it has 30
chapters. So the question was why did he
pick these 30 chapters? So he already
answered it pretty much. He said these
are the things that go on. So they asked
him why he write more. So again we've
quoted many times the says what
you can't just write. It was some type
of thing that he felt Hashem told him to
write gave him the told him whatever and
we'll see maybe this might relate to a
chapter which he has over here about
Kaidesh and where he defines what Kadesh
is a different time he said
they asked him again probably asked him
a million times about it like everything
else they asked him they asked him on
everything but he said I need to have
time to write my which was a which sadly
we only got a small part of that and I
have to answer 80 letters a Hey, at
least so we get our own busy. So this is
what I um wrote and that's it. Lisa um
it seems according to some he wrote a
paric a day because it took very fast
when when they told him it's such a
great safer so he says I don't know what
nothing in here is mine it's all from
okay when you go through the safer you
could see um um they bring from other
people there's a certain in the safer
and um
there's a certain in the safer and Even
though but he made it he played it down
fine. Um two other points one is that
the money for the the profits of this
safer he he made he was this should go
for similar to whereab that he had from
his father. His father was
also all the monies went to Sudaka.
Another thing was is at the end of this
safer chapter 30 is all about tons of
different things about fel in general
and then he has um about 46 I think
different on Hagus alus um that one has
to be in all areas of so this was
actually published earlier in a contress
called which was published by his
son-in-law but there it didn't say the
name it was published a few years before
like three four years before and it for
some reason he didn't want his name out
then that it was him but later on it was
put into here
and I guess he allowed them he I mean he
was the one to publish it so he I guess
it came out that that he was the author
of the earlier work which is interesting
because in general all the works as far
as we know he wrote his name on now one
last story um that they say so as I said
I remember this also is that basically
the safer was a bestseller immediately
um here it said thousands of copies in
the safe it says thousands of copies are
sold in a month and again and And the
kids he was right at this time he was
hospitalized. He was very sick.
So they say here
said it was on the amazing
of the safer. So they told this to the
senses said how could that be? The kaz
said and there's no eye in har.
Um so the but the the rebbitson she said
in the hospital which is not in bra you
need a rafua so she he was masked to
have his brother-in-law Falavin son of
Rabbar Lavina who was very legendary
famous to removing iron haras and they
had iron removed from him possibly
because of the great success of this
safer. So these are some of the pitchkas
that they throw out in the safar and
from there pretty much in many the other
they take it sometimes attributing and
sometimes not and one other thing is
they they bring a story I'm not going to
go into but the story is to the fact
that um there was
in the time of the and it seems this
person was
in learning he was a machir everything
unbelievable
and he goes up to after may have him and
um Mikitzer he saw that since he was not
in the same dar as his
fellow of the city the schlaw and the
reason turns out was because wrote mafer
and this person never wrote muser so
they say so the safer so he felt he also
has to write a mus cafer okay this is
what they bring down from that maybe
told them some type of messiah about
this is also quoted in different um of
the works on kski anyway Okay. So bottom
line is
what is there anything more to say about
um this cifer?
So first of all what is his sources? So
I keep on saying he says himself the
sources are from so we see here his
crazy he inula and when we talk about
does not mean you know just
it means all madrashim it means it means
it means
which we we'll get to in one of the
episodes
used this this a lot
that was published from a university
press he quotes um in in this work and
then a lot of Rambam throughout the
works of the Rambam in Yam he pulls
through pulls out
and you'll find here and there pieces of
the he's also very fond of okay
but in all the chapters you could
usually find that he's a few different
things so first to mention briefly some
cafer one chapter is about um he talks
about
so he says it's a terrible he brings you
a bunch of kazals from everywhere all
different
and then
he says the f he asked the famous
question why is it that there's the par
why is the way spend so much time why
what's the great tya of talking smooing
and everything like that so he brings
based on a that the because the mitzvah
is so great so and there's
So a lot of times you find that the the
the
and is so great and that's what makes it
that there's such a tya to speak
this is based on a and now then um which
I said also he's very we mentioned
numerous times of he's very fond of the
but then he asks a famous question um
how do not he not ask he tries to find a
solution how does one um save himself
from Tyra. So he says basically hero
um it's a it's a battle but you got to
you can't let the the is always going to
find exclusive roots and reasons to from
you and you have to fight the then he
says a fascinating words he says
once you um fight it and you're aware of
all this then it's not such a big deal
mean to say he he's taking an approach
which is a deal amongst different people
that the some people say that the is
more powerful than anyone. His approach
is that once you get used to it and you
you you're able to overcome it,
there is a he's not saying there's no
but it's it's it's less that he's
bringing this down. So this is an
interesting if you go with this at least
this approach of
then he says but what's
[Music]
the what is the amount of you know it's
all these things how much ever so he
brings down interestingly from the that
together is if you speak more than 10
minutes furthermore he brings down
interesting hakda from the base iron
from vulcan that heard had a mess that
yes You're allowed to speak a little.
The point is not to speak a lot and it's
sometimes it's important to speak. If
you're just going to learn the whole
time, it could end up having an opposite
effect. Okay. So, it's interesting here.
You have at least so you have a head to
10 minutes is how and how often is it
per hour? Obviously not. Is it in a day?
Is it that he doesn't specify it could
be I would imagine that maybe some
people answer Kyki. Many people might
have asked how can ask when we get the
when they put out the volume of maybe
over there they'll have exact of the sh
that people asked of how long is um this
is it say anyway but the point is these
are some fascinating um um practical
makudis in that he brings down then he
has a chapter all about davus
so okay everyone knows he start out with
a mission novice and he brings all
different kazals and it's fascinating
when you read this chapter you could see
that he probably struggling. He on one
hand he wanted to talk about
but even when he was bringing down every
that he was bringing down a quote from a
gamar right away he's like there's a
that has a different gear and then he's
reading to he has a problem with there's
a maybe a problem of ribbus in this
gamar there's another problem of like he
couldn't shut down his mind at the same
time while he's learning this text he's
bringing it for muser purposes to
inspire etc okay another chapter which
is a chapter um zizus
So there also he has he brings the
importance of reasons and um from from
many different uh mus. And of course
here he ends off this chapter with the
and that they were that um
he says that he knew of they was reason
but that whatever they had to do they
would do right away
and others. And then he then he brings
down even a discussion if someone pushes
off something and he writes his very his
point is of this chapter is concept of
and he brings down
from all different and other fine now um
so fine you could go through each one of
the chapters in the safer and um see
different things. Now what's interesting
is is that on one hand he says that it's
but you see in certain chapters there's
an element of a certain type of
um that he wrote were things that were
bothering him that he saw that based on
what he says already in the from the
things that from looking at people as
we're going to mention shortly or
hearing what people asked about. Now he
got this messiah already from the
earlier musam that I said's father. So
the one chapter which we spoke about
back in one of the episodes is a chapter
where the where the stipler comes out in
the chapter all about shabas against. So
there was a
of other things besides of the problems
that of the generation that the stipler
talks about but there was like a sort of
a piece that he left in even
also is
without getting into the has to do with
his take on Muser what he held about
Muser he was anti-certain accudis in
Muser and there's a certain element some
of the chapters has a certain level of
canois Knega what he felt is not
authentic um is not authentic enough. So
Kaim Kfski got this type of messiah. So
some of the chapters you could sense
such a type of thing. I'm going to
mention just a few of them. So one
chapter he has he it's called
so he talks about he says
you have to go to the mikvah and he
brings down different sources
and then what does he do? He brings you
down
from
all these people talking about pro that
the great of and not only that he ends
he says a fascinating thing
that many did not were not from titling
and then he says I saw
But then he says, "What about chabas?"
And there he talks about and there you
see his lit and that he brings out about
talking about the and what his father's
unhagger was how to do it if he could do
it that he also talks about. But the
point is that here you have a chapter
which which you see that he's saying and
he's saying fascinating things and he's
using not your typical he's going with a
I guess a cabalistic Messiah um over
here that it is a tremendous Indian and
and this were accepted to and clas you
see it's known that that was what was
that these were yidden that were on okay
so if I just saw
such a chapter I'd say Okay, maybe one
time but you see it again and again. I'm
just going to mention a few other
examples.
So he talks about and this chapter is
again
he quotes various myrus about the
importance of sneer. He has some kazal
and then he then again some zars he
throws in and then he refers you to
women that they have to be
two orangutan and they're getting
dressed up
again
from. So you see again over here um an
element that he saw um he saw he was
aware of um this is what people were not
in we're talking about our generation
sne is a problem okay another chapter is
about kima jealousy
so again this is you do the kamida which
already the talk about and the and the
so he brings that down and then all of a
sudden
he talks about different cases of kino
know when is it? So we know is a thing
he talks about that well what's it going
on fine but that's that's a different
and then he starts talking the the rest
of the chapter is very sharp he says
many people in our generation they spend
without they see other people spend it
they feel they have to spend it and they
get into major
and they have to sell their house so
they travel to and it gets worse and
worse
Um now he blames it on in part women
whatever they see by their husband they
by their um spouses. Okay, this is a
this today um when one listens to all
different speeches of all different you
see that men are definitely in this
plenty also but he refers you to
that talks about you know if you should
make sure to spend money what about the
rest of the week you should make sure
not to
um
talking
and they just spend honey like crazy and
that's we're talking about before World
War II
he
also blames it on the women and then
refers you to a conscious of his called
where he's about this so here
interestingly enough the
so after bringing down this
tells you to various letters of the
lashel not to borrow says not to borrow
money from people um
because it ends up causing lots of
problems and then he tells about about
these things. Now obviously some people
when they hear this they're going to say
this there's obviously clashes with
others on hugus of of our generation um
but this is what he says over here
clearly black and white um and probably
because of the feedback this is what he
says again back in Agdama from what he
was able to see people were claim
complaining to him they don't have money
etc etc now there's one chapter another
chapter this is a um a known chapter a
known sheet of his it's called pedic
hagras panim
So here this is a very sharp chapter
very very sharp. Um he begins with about
shaving.
So he first he says as follows very
sharp sentence
only in recent times.
Then he brings down that is
bring and then he has other mus and then
basically his approach through this per
is through of
his father and including the
he shows that it's user gummer to shave
and he must have a beard. So he brings
down and not only and even the shavers.
So he quotes you
is very against it. um um he has over
here and these these shavers that
they're not they're not good
also was very against it. Not only that
he's
had wrote a whole called ferris where he
says shaving is very problematic and
is using over there a lot
were very very anti-shaving.
Now he also brings other quotes to the
Khaz with the claiming it's um learn
from the Gim and and and he says that he
quotes a powerful sentence from his
father
when a person will come into him with a
chup or with um someone that shaved he
said that he wanted to throw up is what
the stiper said.
He also he says his father was not pro
putting the pis behind the ears.
So it sounds like you're being you're
embarrassed from the mitzvah. The kitser
this is a very very vicious um chapter
where he comes out very strongly and
he'sing it based on the um as I said his
his heroes the the stipler and the
mishnaber and and over here he's quoting
you the mishnaber in various places
and his country. Now there it's clear
over here even the tut this long this
beautiful he brings from it's influence
of cabala over here. Okay. Now
interestingly enough this quote I said
that the the stipler was very that he
was so nauseated when people would not
have a beard. So also from the same base
medish also it's brought down a similar
type of quote
and um
okay now
What's interesting is this was a thing
that seemed to be very bothersome to the
wrote many and not all the are as
popular. So one of his is and in Israel
he also has against shaving and talking
about it and this was a when you didn't
want to go back to go live in America.
So he wrote a whole about how to
different things that you know the stuff
and this is one and he very mir
similarly he had he wrote a he wrote a
safer um this is it's a known safer but
not really used is for soldiers
also over there he's very m about
shaving trying that you should try to
avoid it as much as possible point is
that
it comes out very strong not to shave
not to and you have to have a beard
Now, interestingly enough, the this is a
huge huge topic and we're not claiming
in this episode to discuss it just to
mention one um one or two marus about it
and then to move on. No, it's
interesting is that one of the great
mubalum that we had throughout our
generations was a yid rabar
raman zaryano.
He's born in 1548 and dies in 1620. He's
one the raami panu one of the great
makubalim
he was influenced from the of that he
was a was successfully able to get also
and
besides for the conversation of shaving
there's also kabala and which is what is
bringing and this is what is quoting so
some wanted to bring proof that the api
kabala there's no problem to shave and
that was based on an haga claiming that
the raman pano shaved
There was a chuv bik he claimed he was
he was someone that was a talm of the
son-in-law of the raam pano he says that
he shaved the she seem to have trust
this claim
others say that there's a picture of the
raam pano with a beard this is old um um
discussion a lot has been written about
it okay in 1903 a b biography on the
raami pano came out very nice biography
and this biography even has a from
Dumplky the bala
and at the end he has a whole chapter we
have to discuss he says what's the story
about pano did he shave or not so he
discusses it and lo biker a few years
earlier David calfman do calfman printed
in a French journal I believe it was in
1899 a picture showing that the rami
pano had a beard but what's going on the
very s there very su So it's always it's
always a problem when you find a picture
from 300 years later. How much could you
rely on it? Who said it really is the
picture? Or maybe at different times he
changed his mind. It's also possible.
Not only that, anyone who knows that the
Rami pano he revised his whole world of
Cabala after he got heami pan before he
got to then afterwards. So maybe this
affected. I have no idea. This is way
above my pay grade. But anyway, the
point is that was willing to accept that
he passively shaved. And so the part of
the discussion is is if you have an of
what of
mubalum from Italian they did shave.
Okay. As I said, we're not going into
um Elliot Huritz has a various articles
about this where he discusses it in da
which also we're not going to go into
the it appears amongst the many titus
that people had on him which are also
not a fascinating topic maybe one day to
go into was that he shaved and he was a
makub okay he was also from Italy. Now
just to um one last nakuda what two last
about this is number one a highly
interesting safer to put it mildly
started coming out back um 2013 called
Misha from
so it have various
including from who equates it to the um
the autobiography of
of
okay because he says it's and
discussions over here of Mosa was mal
about shaving
and does one have to have a beard and
there there's a lot to talk about it the
point is in this volume one of this
cafer there's four page discussion of
the handling the of it incredible
incredible language or says he's grat
also handling this raami pano he's also
handling the the kuda of cabala what the
messiah was and he says that people
always shaved. He he comes out um
that many people that it's not just the
Raami P that might have shaved. many
people shaved um and this is a obviously
a conversation that needs a lot of um
but just as it's Friday time is short
anyway it's not the main point of the
episode is just to show there's a
different approach now already in the
my justification of quoting this is
because in the someone asked something
he says I'm not someone to argue I'm not
about to argue on so it's that there is
at least for Some people today including
myself lenu I don't have a beard and
that I was told actually some people
don't listen to my episode because I
don't have a beard okay it happens but
anyway of is in those pages it's
fascinating to see what he talks about
okay now what in a book called letters
from mir which is written uh wrote back
letters to his parents in the 1930s in
the mir it's clear that many shaved and
that and what's his name also talks
about the meaning of it It was
definitely clear that before World War
II many of them okay we say now is there
any other in this fascinating so time is
short so we'll just mention a few more
briefly number one
so of course we're going to find in this
safer material about so he he so first
of all a excellent um again doesn't mean
but an excellent chapter and he says he
begins the People
come again this is clear this is what
people were coming to complaint him were
asking for that it's not going easy no
learning he says
it doesn't come easy it's only
end of discussion so first you see this
was a question now you want to be
there's no shortcuts then he says a
fascinating thing which many Bali
Muslims say
And people testify to be true. And I
think there's um in my own experience
there's also truth to this.
It wasn't
and then he brings from his father also
about this. So you see any um um some
fascinating information that he says
about this concept of
then he says which he doesn't say often.
So this safer um what's his name? This
Yeshua was written by the great Gabisha
Heler, a great Palm Muser but also a
tremendous literatur
of the famous
Heler. And he was a Talmud by the M the
Davidi. He has in the cafer to this
incredible safer Yeshua where he says um
you he talks about his relationship with
this
and and this is and he gets this
beautiful from him about the safer and
and it's I could testify this is a a
fascinating fascinating safer well worth
to learn it's not a light read in
general this farmer
I highly recommend them and it's
interesting this is the stipler
it's in the back in the in the beginning
of the second volume he recommends force
farm to learn. One of those force farm
is a different safer of Yeshua Heler
which is also um I could testify I agree
with the stipler over here not that he
needs but it's called a fascinating
safer um he also recommends the Yeshua
and the Yeshua. So also the stipler was
into this part.
So that's this is another practical
chapter of we could see what's going on
things that he was asked. Okay. Now then
here's a a chapter I would say this is
probably a famous chapter of raki very
controversial especially in recent years
um this discussion and we're just going
to mention a few brief um topics that
are found in this chapter but first this
chapter is called is chapter
so chapter is called okay so in this
chapter mish I hold is kadai to learn
carefully you're a parent and even if
you're not a parent it's kadai to learn
before because as they Okay, as we're
about to say over here, he talks about
there's a there's a question out a lot
of ink has been spilled. Who's
responsible for the children? Is it the
school or the parents?
So Sovi already he's and says that the
point is that the the house has
unbelievable hashbah on the of the
children. So number one I'd like to
mention over here on this major makum
that's kadai to read and learn carefully
falh
in um it was published se you could buy
it separately but there's the collected
writings of falh volume I think it's
seven is about of of educ of and how to
educate in those volume in that volume
of education there's an incredible
chapter a few chapters where he talks
about when does begin so he says it's
not when he goes to school, it's right
when the kid is born and he how he talks
about it and it's so current even what
he says. It's amazing how he was able to
um first it's the translation into
English. I mean I didn't read the German
but the English is beautifully tra I
think it's very accurate um but it's
written very well and how he puts it
down and the importance that a parent
must understand the begins early on and
it's to read what writes over there and
to keep in mind when you see this is one
very big another thing is that talks
about is people sometimes have a kid
that's very gifted so they praise him a
lot he says no this is not good even
though you mean good, but it gives the
kid GAVA and later on it could come and
backfire.
Okay, this is also a very important
piece of advice and he writes it out um
he writes it out beautifully about
praising a kid too much. Then he says
people ask this is a question I know
many people ask is when do you start
ding for a kid? He says you have to ding
for the kid all the time. They should be
another he talks about is when do you
should start learning. So he says ready
at the age of seven his father was mi
people to learn with their children even
five minutes a day is he says such as
our so these are to so speak things read
to see how he puts it down but then
earlier on in this chapter I would say
this is probably one of the most quoted
chapters of his he talks about a
question which is may one or should one
hit a child. So here begins the chapter
You can't touch a child.
They should figure it out themselves,
but and certainly not to smack them.
He didn't say he doesn't say to beat
them.
Not that you shouldn't punish them at
all. And then he brings down obviously
the famous
tell me took him a mish etc etc. So he
comes out that you should smack your
child when necessary.
Not only that um um he brings some other
he discusses it over here. Mame he has
three four pages about it. He says
not to beat and not to do
how to do it. But the point is that you
see um and even a teacher it sounds like
he holds yes there there is such a thing
of punishing the student but
um again he's not encouraging um mameish
beating the living daylights out of the
children but and he shows it in even
which again goes back to our theme of
also playing on him. So now the point is
that this chapter um some people
disagree with it and say okay maybe held
like that maybe this was in the 1990s
when the came today okay now obviously
I'm not an educator I'm not a pisk I'm
not a rabbi so I'm not taking any
opinion um I am off the hook I don't
have to I'm not taking any um
I'm not saying anything what's a over
here just interesting some very quickly
three four on this topic Number
one is let's say educating in children
we find um
hagra okay so this is always this is
fascinating it's a it's it's even known
piece of the of the hagra the gro wrote
when he went to Israel which ended up he
ended up not going in the end but he
wrote to his wife a whole fascinating um
letter go through so then he talks about
um certain things that you have to
to hit them mamish if they're if they um
curse if they swear
they have to hit the children.
Okay. So now what's interesting is like
this right away can't be that he says
such a thing and not only that but
so some people say you have to take out
that gear in the letters but research
has shown that in the earlier versions
of the ear many of the earliest versions
including what was in front of
rece
and others the wasarius
Now
lamashand there's a addition of the
garisra from my friend ra common
reddish. So he brings you down various
gras in pl in other places where he
talks about it um that you do have to
hit your child um to teach him your
hashem and everything but obviously
there is hagdaras not to beat the living
daylights out of him etc. Kadai to see
all the different pieces inside of the
Gro talks about it and how
talks about it how he brings it out from
the different places to see what it is
exactly that he's what he's pro but even
who also we've mentioned in the past
from the influence from the so he also
says in in he has in
he talks about and he says
he says
But he says
though you have to do it moderately
fine now and even though but so there
has to be some moderation in it but the
point is from the seems to be the
consensus of various people is that one
is able to hit their child that's what
Um
mentioned Ravuli um Lashel in his
letters he has a whole chapter uh he has
a whole letter about punishing children
and he says um
he seems to not be pro today and this is
in 19 this letter was written in 1988
not punishing the child um with physical
things. Okay. So you have to obviously
as a parent you have to ask your the
people that you're your
the people that you're mi with but the
point is says at least on some level it
has to what was done throughout the
generations. So okay besides the GR do
we have any earlier sources? So we have
plenty of sources that they hit besides
obviously Mish just throughout one
about this is there was a published in
Yiddish that was very very popular
called Mitsum. This was written by the
great masses
Talmud of the Ram and the Marshall. He
wrote a safer in Yiddish for women on
hillid
over there. He talks about that the
women have to make sure when that they
shouldn't have on their children when
they see um them doing something wrong
and they should make sure at times they
need to smack them and if you don't
smack them this is this muser and he
throws out this.
So this isn't a now recently this was
translated into Hebrew. At one point it
was translated into English by um
professor from but anyway the point is
this was this is a work a tremendous
work early on and we could bring many
about it but we're not going to that's
not the point of this is just to give us
a little sampling. Okay, now just to
conclude with one with a few last very
brief points as time is late over here
on my end and like this
the last chapter is a chapter all about
file I mentioned it was published
earlier this is a um a friend of mine
Ben Ginsburg he told me that he
recommended he he had tidum they weren't
sure they were having difficulties with
file so he told them learn carefully the
chapter on file and They came back
reporting that it had an unbelievable
effect. You have to learn it very
carefully. The first part of the chapter
is is fascinating material how he weaves
in all different things
and other things and he takes some
strong stance on certain issues.
He's very proit and um
other aspects. It's it's a very very
nice
chapter to go through. And then he has
sometimes because they don't know and
whatever. And each one of those um
46 that he has are very important to
look into. They're based a lot on the
Mishna Bura. Okay, fine. That's one um
famous chapter of the thing. I think as
a matter of fact, I think someone even
wrote a just on that chapter explaining
it, handling it. Um they came out maybe
after he was nifa. Okay. He has a
chapter called mitzvah after. So here um
he tells Sue a bunch of mccaris about
it. um in the world they're very fond of
this you know oh they don't know
anything about
that you know just do a mitz because
told you but okay he brings you the
famous
that talks about it he has some other
interesting mus and then he says a whole
nuda a different nuda in the concept of
mitzvah to be misar to do mitzvah you
try should be mim as many of mitzvah
that you could do and he tells you from
the and he says also on his father that
he would try to do as many mitzvah as he
could he says He saw his father
um that he should be with and if you
look in the pictures in the various
picture books you see they always
brought him he's also tried to do this
and which goes back to my theme again
and again these were important
highlights these people but he also
talks about more about this bringing a
fascinating long piece from Vital about
behind this okay Now there's one last
decide in the safer that um we will
conclude with this very briefly and that
is as follows
throughout the safer there are many
chapters where the emphasis is
and the all different aspects of which
which play out with the greatness of the
respect one has to give
he has a chapter called
now this is actually the stipler also
has in his farm and the and the also has
the greatness of that everything they
were able to see in the they got it
through the
now interestingly enough I'm just going
to mention right now he does not he says
that the
they learned to they knew a lot and he
brings you many um different
that all that they knew was through the
tyra means they various science and
different they learned knew through the
tyra so fascinating is I would think
that punk this chapter which in many
other chapters that he does
he says which
has a whole chapter so I would think he
would end off the chapter and with he
doesn't um which is we'll we'll discuss
this more in a different episode um with
about this but he has a chapter which is
called um
also going with this of where he talks
about these type
And throughout he has a chapter which is
called
seeing the greatness of that you have to
listen to with some fascinating stories
that he um from the and other makers and
throughout the book you see that in the
beginning I mentioned oh you know he
read he quotes all he he he um he read
books and that's why in the chapter
which I already mentioned earlier about
um he he says
say he read these books and throughout
his writings in this he sprinkles it
with not only from that he knew
firsthand from his father and from
different like that now so it's
basically mean what I'm trying to get at
is it's an important point for him a
theme in various of the chapters the
greatness of of
etc so this is a fascinating chapter and
with this I conclude is it's the chapter
about
so so in this chapter
imamish talks about again I recommend
reading it again they're this book the
safer is available on Hebrew books so
one could easily um go through it I'm
not going to quote all the different
things that he says when he talks about
but here he has a chapter and and so so
he says in the conclusion of the chapter
so he says the
also had this different aspects of
It's
says
now he's saying a different that when
people the why is it because the person
who asks believes
and he brings a say such a thing.
So this is a fascinating the whole but
he talks about
starting with brings down
and other aspects of this. Now
he says you could see that there was a
power of one quote
what's going on.
Okay, fine. Anyway, I I um not going to
go into all the different
but the the the would like to be Messiah
was like this. It's interesting is that
the
talks a little bit about the stapler in
has a whole showing how hadesho
and then he has a few cases of it and
then here he namish has a whole per
about
is it precedent when is the president to
talk about in liter circles so it's
interesting is that the one of the first
works of about a
um a called to from which is a work on
the younger brother
of the so in that book already about um
and it's interesting like this after
that work came out um various wrote a
bunch of different introductions about
the gr and never was the concept of msa
mentioned in the earlier introductions
until mish the last one what changed
And and not only that in the first
edition of the he also didn't talk about
he played it down he doesn't talk about
until later on and you see they're
talking a little bit about and they're
very not like the way you would predict
how litfac don't believe in mim stories
or what changed so it seems and this is
a theory of mine to be in a different
time but the point is it was this was
the time were very into this discussing
it so over time the the already
and even the on they started talking
about these things that they weren't
comfortable talking about you say yeah
they spoke about it but if you look from
after you rarely will ever see such
language discussions of this now but
slowly slowly not only it's like a
regular part of it so even the has a
little bit about it the stipler has more
and he had to he's magic about because
today it's it's pett it's it's a it's a
given people talk about it what does it
mean so he puts down in very nice
context some of the nudis behind what is
anyway the point is these are some of
the many different things that one could
gain from learning the safer there's a
beautiful beautiful safer very well
written and one could learn it very
easily to be on and all the different
accudists I'm sure there's a lot going
on um why he picked these gumaras and
all these things this is not there's
above my pay grade but I believe others
have attempted to do some about that
thank you Rabbi Bratz so when are you
beginning your share onesh for uh
broader community that I can't say I
leave it up to others others that are
more much more royal than me about that
I could just say some points about it
that's it okay and those who you
suggested may not listen to your
episodes because you don't have a beard
so that's why we have a special audio
only track so they don't even have to
look at your face
yes that's a good idea okay thank you
very much have a wonderful shabas you