R’ Chaim: Hanging A Mezuzah, Checking Tefilin & Mezuzah & More

[Music] welcome back Rabbi Dr elazar brat it's a pleasure to be here with you this is my second episode in a row for those watching and keeping score I don't have a tie we should have make it a Kaka by BR has lots of interesting information to share today in episode 3 of season 3 on the SP of kki we once again thank our Anonymous sponsor who is dedicating this whole season all the knowledge and learning should be an for his and any questions comments suggestions dedication opportunities please reach out to myself or elazar brm ou.org or elzer BR gmail.com we will respond in kind BR what do you have to share with us today oh we'll see if we have anything of uh interest mam I hope it will be and let us begin over here okay so we um last week we last time sorry last time we talking about mostly about and relating Toki in actual practice of mza and we're going to continue a little a bit more about that and getting to fill in also so we we began this season saying that rki sat down in the 60s and he writes extremely thorough onza and so that's what he began that's why we're we're talking about some of the things from what he wrote about it so like this it's a famous thing everyone knows you many houses you walk in the house the muza is you hang it diagonally a little it's not straight so the question is why is that so and is there makus not to do it like that so to speak so there's a maril and as we've said already a bunch of times a lot of comes from the mar the ra has heavily based him so it says we put it like this why because between andash how it should be rash holds it should be straight up holds it be so to be so the mar says that that's what we're we're n we do it somewhere in the middle like a and I've heard many times that that's it's dka in a sh shom bias and a house it's supposed to remind you when you walk into a house right away you ready see we're making and this is shom this proper way of Shalom Bas but I don't know how early back that v um goes anyway so the Rama brings this down and he says like this that's what says that's what the Min is and it's coming off to my fine interesting in the saer pretty early work so he says like this after he talks about how you you put the he says so he says like this someone who's very into being doing all different and what does he do and he does okay now we're gonna discuss actually today a little bit more about rash Andi we'll get here soon pasin over here like Rashi and says you should do it straight you don't have to do it on this um not only is that it's also and it's already brought down on the page that what not not on an angle um and this is not only in the um today we now know that the myav which is p which was first published in the 1830s it was originally a earlier work from ear one of the main so they're also he ready in his original listing of that's how it sounds like the was not to do it like Mar F says sometimes and it's very possible some doors especially that they're not um the angle of the door the two small so since you could be you're being Rashi and and you're not able to do it um the it's fine fine and that is what the um and that is what says Okay now what's theki slash or earlier so as I mentioned already last week we were a few weeks ago to get a safer called which we'll be referring to more over the next few episodes so basically iski documented everything he saw or he heard or ctive from what he felt is reliable sources so over there in the sa it's called so he brings down what was of thees he also did um like Rashi he says cover fine now here the L is so it's like a drop he made it a drop and then he refers you to Pisa where the Pisa is bringing down the M RAV okay thei do when he did the muus um so we have um in his lifetime already came out we've quoted this in the past a safer called a gorgeous book with pictures documenting all aspects of and in recent I think this year artso put it out in a beautiful Edition with color pictures so we have over here in the pictures that they have also that's how he makes sure to do it it's a drop you say it's a drop so it's not like the gr where it's Mish not it's Mish like Rashi it's something in between the and the that was on okay interesting one um two more on this and we'll move on so first of all Maza talks about this um he talks about the suya talks about Rashi talks about and as usual over there he does not let us down and just to quote two interesting M that I've come across over time that is like this there's a saer which I've quoted in the past called ver so over there they say worms now then he brings down that he remember that no one did it even it was unheard of to do it in wor now what's the significance of this over here this on the also from an early from early sources over here and says like this why not because this is the city of who rashash rash says it should be not only that the B of Rashi this still was in existence when this man ver hundreds of a few hundred years back was public was sorry not published was written okay then he says some people start to do it on a slant basically the proper Min so to speak in worms the city of Rashi should do like Rashi and we find many times already back in the gar there Hana specifically for a city because that was the so you think in the city of Rashi they'll do like Rashi okay is the one that said to do it a different way and then and they start to do it but then he says he says even even though the people start to do it on a slant for the most part in worms when they're writing when when he's working when he's working on these they did it like Rashi which was straight up okay just one the times we find source a recent manuscript published was so there he brings down and then he says because we learn out from and and over here in this addition this person brings down some niceus about it fine okay so anyway this is one aspect in which is everyone sees it and this is what's a little bit behind the Hana and this is Thea of specifically okay now there's there's another famous and I'm specifically picking um light um because as I as I said already last time is much more complex and that's whyi chose to write a thorough Parish both on the sugas and on Thea there was no Mish on they were on this part so he wrote A M we mentioned already in the past he wrote a work on these so there's many comple it's it's it's not so simple it's very complicated and it's based on many garas and you have to understand and you have to know all different it's a very so I'm not going to pick complicated topics I pick specifically lighter ones that things were familiar with so there another thing this and this relates not only this gets us out of not only mza but we said that writes and that is checking so we know comes around talk a little bit about that is comes around El timea especially today CL Isel many places have the Min to check that fing they check so what's the story for this so here we have this goes back all the way to the gamar so the gamar Yuma the gar Yuma talks about when one is supposed to check the mza and over there it says um mza so it's a extreme over here on one hand the Y is twice a week and the Rabin let's say a if a is supposed to have it that's its own discussion or B Med whatever it is buildings of Rabin then that's twice over a period of 50 years says so then says okay rash over there says that basically is and that's what when basically is that they suspected this person of doing magic and um also brings down earlier than rash when he's so now what's happening is like this and that and that in itself also needs clarification and and Andi over here when this when he brings that when in in mza where talks about this where has this so to speak about when one supposed to check the Maas he deals with also and everything and what we see over here is a few points number one is that and this is cassader throughout the throughout the centuries especially in the Middle Ages Jews were always accused of being magicians and stuff so they didn't understand this is not this is going much early Rashi saying that and RAB saying but this is going back on the times of the gamar for sure there was many times accusations they saw strange things the Jews are doing and they accused them of doing types of magic so basically became you couldnot necessarily check yza because it's going to end up becoming a Sak or get a greatass okay that's that's sort of what going on over here and as I said already in the past it's to look at when you learn the and you look at how he sets up the it's fascinating now going on specifically about so there a and the says once every 12 months okay then it brings down it's about it um if one has to do it or not fine now then comes on the r and the ramb says okay now earlier on um the the question also is why is it that the rabins mza doesn't need to be checked if there's any problems why should it be that y why should there be a difference between Y and so thei says a fascinating sentence and this is a fascinating thing in human nature and we see that this played out m in the early of the way the was made which says like this basically everyone passes the buck to the next person so if we're gonna make it just the where so that he supposed to be checking the mza so often and we said that yil is for the the mza the Rabin what's going on Rashi gives tremendous Insight which obviously everyone could relate to even today it's very applicable so that's with mza and that so now that's why there's a between a and a this fascinating insight into into into into humans now L again referring to this m this m also publish a manuscript he brings down from a med not only he brings down from a once a year again an extreme on one hand one person says to do it yearly and the other hand someone says with thein to he didn't even check it he got it from his father be he never checked it so again we're seeing extremes over here fine what brought down so we find it says you don't need to check them again interesting Del far okay here what's the M for this so the be has bringing different from from from and there's a beautiful who also handles what to make S I just quoted a few different quotes but there's a lot of quotes some of them could be found again byki and one could see more about the exact quotes because it's an it's go what's going on up here but anyway moving on is the says the that you should about even though that you wear daily you it says because you get it gets ruined from sweat this is from where it's based on the which was a strong for the M around many times F says the M this is the word work written by the and his brother-in-law so he says like this again he's talking about he says two so one of them says and he opened them up and he found and now here he says something not like the he says that the M were problematic then he brings down now as we just saw from the is so there's two reasons going on over here fine and this is the of the you that one should check it now when to check it and how often even though we're seeing now because as I said the is saying that which we saw already goes back possibly from B that he didn't check it so we're seeing that there is a mus of checking it again here deals with it he deals with his he has a piece of from his father about it okay says when he talks about this in um gets messed up and therefore he says but he doesn't say when it's still up in the ear but he says there's something to do with the the ink is different now could be the ink in the olden days was much more powerful and maybe that's where we see that not necessarily one have to check okay what about M so there the says something else he says like this he brings the gar and he brings Rashi and then he says um in certain places where the m is kept where could get wet with his that he checked once a year you have to check all okay so we have over here that the saying that this Pro that there's something about muza that and and what we could explain um simply is there's out it's especially their outside in the in a lot of places the way the where the muas are so it needs to be checked okay we have a safer which we quoted already um previously um as a sa which is a sort of mus work and about different areas that he feels people should be that people needed to be aware of that they weren't and he says like this um in when he talks about different aspects of he says like this here this is a key thing and that already there's earlier on and I'm not going to list out old it's not once twice a week that's a little too much but it's once it's twice every seven years why because again from as similar to I said with and that's saying it once a year okay so we see already earlier this is this is going back to the it's actually we don't even know the exact date but it's estimated to be between the 1630s and 1650s fine another which I've quoted many times from Frankfurt on the B of the so he he writes um but if you know that it's that theas are gonna get messed up then you should do it once every three and a half years now obviously the question is what do you mean how do you know you have to check okay one of the um in one of the Maduras of the from who was a in Frankfurt and he says what was Lisa the Min in Frankfurt they checked it in and this is a me to be able to remember for them they used to check it an sh okay um now in this even though put out a beautiful edition of the for some reason this tiny littlea got lost and they didn't put it in into there although they made major improvements to the Y okay what about the Kish do we know anything about the Kish and checking muas and stuff like that so we do um that is in a we have aor from one of the people that was known to be very close to the Steinberg so he put um his family put out a book a few years ago called he's very in many of the the crazy man literature he's always quoted a different so he says like this and then he says like this he would give it to me to check especially the M outside because the rain and he would basically the was very concerned about checking it um even as I'm saying now even not just um not just even once a year even even more once every six months what's the so we know um and this is brought down in the the work of for beginning of he says they're checking and he says it's a so this is how the minig becomes very popular but others also bring down this Min just to mention fck the of also his encourages and we have even earlier Dr safer um that was a little um from this in the um 1760s it's first published we quoted it on the episode about leid it's a fascinating Dr safer because in the Dres of this person we get to see a glimpse of a lot of the different anagas that were going on in Europe at the time he was a and he gave many practical examples throughout his so here he talks about what about he says like this um he says you should make sure to check and then he writes by about this and he says why and he says um stuff could get which is what we've seen in all these different places and then he says like this and not only that we know so we see it's it's thing and we um and he says he encouraged strongly that make sure to check this month of so this is already going back to this Min is making it to L okay but the bottom line is from all these m that we've seen up till now it's a common Min to check the M okay now two last Pro with this are there some people are not so mock good about this is there any for that so just to throw out there there's a very nice um write up about this fromel in his beautiful work called the monthly discussion so he talks about about this and turns out there are two M that one could find that could we could see to be again not that should be but these are t as we'll see in a moment like this first so we mentioned there's a work of beautiful works on in the volume the first volume page it says like this says there's no reason to check it today is different than in earlier days especially people spent a lot of money in when they when you get youill so then you don't have to check it then what about muus he says um also the same thing why because we put it in and um so it's and he says so we have over here the great saying differently than all the that I was saying up till now from all different M okay question is is there what's behind it and is there any earlier that say like this so looking around there is one interesting there's a incredible from over there so inim he talks about where inim is the of checking the mza once twice every seven years so he says over there and that will give us the Insight um it's not that that um if you look in the sugya the concern is because maybe it got ruined maybe it got stolen all these things however once mzas were put in as a as says in the in a Sher or in a glass container and then he brings a whole bunch of makus about it then there's no longer the it's not going to get ruined from the rain and it's not and there's no reason to constantly check the m and as a matter of fact we saw let's say for we see that it that we see that even the olden days the b or depending on and and others that they you didn't have to he didn't check it at all now what's the story behind this what's what's the the story behind this so just very briefly and this is something we spoke about in the last episode and I just want to just tighten what I said in the last episode and just bring it out here a little clear for one or two minutes and that is like this when when you learn through hilus Maza and the garas you come across some interesting they put them we we we and to the way I brought it out was I started backwards we we handled about kissing the mza soer says no you shouldn't kiss the mza what do you mean you shouldn't kiss the mza because you're touching something and it's user to touch if it's not covered and because we said B so or similarly we said the gr said that you can't wrap it in anything so we spoke out already last time that different people handle the he doesn't believe the and old from and interestingly enough I came across in the newly published Tru of his from manuscript he also has a cha handling the gr but what's going on over here and the and the gr what are they talking about how did they put Theus so I spoke out last week already from onwards they used to put it in cases the and there's numerous numerous M to such a thing it's going down from the r many and they they put it in cases and there was reasons for putting the cases I spoke out with the Taz I spoke out with the B so what's going on when when you look in and the answer is like this when you look in the garas there's some very weird things this talks about putting a muza on a stick or putting it behind the door what I understand what's the big deal just do it right why was everyone looking for how to not do the mza properly so the answer is is and and what lies like this throughout cla's history many times they were xerus and the xerus caused that they were not able to do the properly so they try to come up withs how to do it and and this we pointed out based on Ras and Other M that even if they couldn't do it there should be some type of remembrance about it so the in his work on y so he handles this thing this nuda and he says like this whatat um specifically what I'm talking about he says because they were trying to hide it from them then he brings down a beautiful from the B Hill and this is if you look up in the B Hill it's the son of the B Hill who published it shamberg that the anim that they would still do that they did mitz they still did Mitzvah they hid Mitzvah because I guess they were still scared of the Inquisition stuff like that what do they do they had small and misus and they used to walk around having them as necklaces so what what's the what's the nud over here the answer is and and we see from this the everything and that's the these garas that Claus many times they did not have the they couldn't the mzas were either not rap aser and the ra but even if you don't go with with that many times they weren't in such proper uh places and that's why it needs to be that's so now at a certain point in time came straight up the is you put in AER you put in a case so if you did that says let's say today so there's no reason to run and check it there's no real but it seems from the that they still were he's that still it could still get in so we have an we have all I'm trying to do is that to explain of the background behind and because it goes into how the were done throughout the ages and that and that could be why the make okay anyway there's a lot to say about it but we're just moving on so now we get to Umi writes this is where actually he begins his perim in the 60s on and this parish is much smaller so of course when you go through it already even though he's he's his young his low 30s you get to see rki in the full Glory with the incredible that we get to know that he becomes famous for but already here he's G famous about so just a point have one nuda now and the next time we'll do a different nuda relating to tius of his is like this what about so I am definitely not going down the rabbit hole tus but just just to say two three this it says like this the end of it says okay so talks about so over here and sorry the earlier pieces okay so here what does he do he has two pages where he discusses some aspects of with his incredible and and the r and what's going on with it and he shows was up on the raid already then he quotes the twice over here and in his on R in the K over here he also manages to throw out he was aware of the and the about and he quotes what was the of the do we know about held so in the they have a whole interesting piece about it we'll go we'll go in order over here and that is like this again referring to the of is bringing down different things that he heard from reliable sources about he says like this they asked what about so he says like this so someone asked him if it doesn't this is the famous thing that many people ask what do I lose to do it so says there was someone that wore glasses without lenses says you don't there's no such thing you don't do such a thing you're doing you're accomplishing nothing it's not you're it's not that by doing it you're accomplishing something that was the's answer and this is what records in the um now the they bring that um in that someone had a whole conversation with him about it and he said he said that most people not like the that was at that time but this answer that's in the sounds like this is going on the on on more late possibly on another discovery of tus I'm not sure because it says was Manu but anyway then one other two other ideas is like this it says um they bring down one other aspect is that there was a pulus earlier on about if you could bring someone wanted to reinstitute a whole tum about being so they handled [Music] um one of the tinest over there was says the was you need Biga and we don't have so what so he says like this what what do you mean we could have had from this he was so K was bringing from that pulus already we see that they didn't hold um that there's any Asis with with with okay Rebel Yash is famous also deals with this and being we're talking about the the of rash sorryi so just a quote in his K Tris he has um in Simon Bay he was also asked byal cone of America about it and again the same thing you lose out by doing it so in he talks about it and he says similar to then he says basically it constantly gets changed so there's no the ented then he brings down the famous the B about it with with M okay soash also has it and also has some other tras relating to okay I'm just throwing this out there because because as I said the ending of cus has a passage two passages rela to deals with the suus of a little bit over there he devotes two pages to it okay um one other idea over here is I was I'm still looking is who uses who uses these so to speak so we in the first episode I already mentioned so I come across and I was all excited that maybe somehow even though he knew of the as I told you the I said in the first episode the conversation with him has with his father records about what theas are so I thought oh I found a piece where the be is quoting but it turns out it's not true what happens like this so the be it brings down he brings down something from I was like oh gal is bringing it down but then it turns out that two earlier he brings down tyus from the ran and that's where one of the makus one of the earliest makis that we have for um is from this so it's not that the gr so it means if someone sees this isolated gr they might think that what happens is the gr knew about the answer is he did not he knew that there exists but as he explained in the first episode it wasn't out in his time okay anyway that's um Rel to the and now just two moreas to close three more quick Yas number one discussing over there he writes this massive so we spoke already about checking it and referred to different things that he talks about that now in here there's a famous contess of his which is known as the contess E Yad what is the din of a lefty so for lefties andin this is a big Su and many lefties they end up today they end up giving a of lefties it's famous pretty famous kki wrote a cont about lefties his father the styler was a lefty and it seem as one of the times he wanted to give him something from he wrote a contr about lefties he publishes this contr in when it talks about lefties with so first has a a page or two where he discusses the sugas and and M he takes out from all the research that he did to make up the of and then has this is it's not so big it's about four pages and he basically goes through 88 different areas from a v of makis watch it in with a lefty this what's it then let's say putting on your shoes what does Lefty do umin taking off thein but he goes through many other areas that are not relating to so in his he has about that which we're not going to go in through a k all these different things collects information that he located from his tremendous in over here literally piece by piece and this has become imagine one of these days someone's going to put out a fancy addition of this of this just of course we're talking about talks so there he throws you out of when he talks about he brings something else from he has some other typical kki type of okay um and two other ideas this is it seems that maybe there was a possibility someone wanted to publish it separately so the stier encouraged him not to he said people are not going to end up on if they just publish it separately I think I saw that some in one of the places and one other places but but he's not so what that is the of the of the stier harz he puts out a massive work just mostly dealing with 200 Page safer going from the checking up every similar to what he did with he has a beautiful fromy from the and from his brother-in-law um where he deals with the and of course today it's for some reason I know that a few times I've tried to go locate to safer it's very hard to find it goes out a prino it's interesting such an exotic topic is it's still common enough in in the Jewish world and people are aware of this safer so it sells from time to time okay now just to mention the last two um the last two Yas over here is like this what so in we know that one of the the famous so early on already there's different in different places from the from all different places so again shows look over here and you see about so I was wondering the following question do we know anything about kki about ra or the stier or thees okay so this is what I decide to go look and I find like this the stier according to we just spoke about he it seems did at a certain point in time start wearing R but not in not openly and he has a whole page in volume one about sorry about the sers onus with weing ra what about the so again I refer now to the brings down over here hold on he did not wear say and this leads us to we're not going to go into discussion about but the did not wear ra he said if I end up having to do ra there's many other and I would have to be wearing many peers of fil the famous gr quoted in everyone knows this so here we see something interesting we have on one hand the the stier who we don't know so much M into being into the more so and therefore was not to wear so now what does r kki do that is the that is the million dollar question so here it turns out that he does not wear Rin and that is and one could find this again in the beautiful picture book of kki already they talk about the M I think it was maybe a grandson of his he says he wore once he put on ra once why because he says they say from the they're gonna ask him when he go up why didn't wear he says put it on once but he says his father at certain point in time someone gave him as a gift so his father did wear it then he asks um but isn't there many and all different things about it um and he tells to again this which is what writes is possibly the reason behind the not wearing it once we're talking about and getting to the and Ander and we will conclude with one more minute what about wearing the whole day so we know many many the whole day the whole the original D was TWD film the whole day this is a whole she or two at least to discuss throughout the ages when it switched but in all the pictures of one does not see him wearing the whole day ster they did not they were not of the camp of wearing film the whole day but interestingly enough this the gro did wear film the whole day so why certain things that they did they didn't someone I'm sure one day will write an write up a whole thing which an hugus and why certain anug take on like the certain not but he does talk about um wearing fil all day and now to um but not even though he something that I was hoping that he would talk about but he has a few times he says some interesting ideas about to conclude about one last idea is is that he quotes throughout and also what's is one of the most incredible works on from from the Mal but sadly we don't have it on all where do we have it till it's only it goes till Simon lamid B I think it is so it ends with anyway brings a cader throughout the safer of his many many times the was was very very into the safer L um I've seen this quote a few times but again referring to this um I quoted earlier shager Steinberg so he I think he might be even the source of it in the various places that I've seen it but he says like this the said that the is like the and in a different place I saw the said when it came out that M made um in the world but the fact is it only is 30 30 one it's first published in 1837 the second volume is published in 1860 and we don't and we never was for it why not so The Story Goes I will try to deal with this in a future episode where I'm dealing with the because someone learns quoted millions of times and also quotes a nice amount of times this is incredible incredible safer the Mal doesn't need any ASAS everyone knows about him as being the malum but less known is about this work which as I said was very into the is very into and it has incredible from theide from at the time which needs to be dealt with discussed and to discuss the method of it but what when I say that it's incredible safer is literally he had everything he thought of everything M was at his fingertips and he used it while discussing all different aspects in our so is going to like the saer especially as I'm saying that wasn't he even had even the safe that the stier had also interesting story about it which was that someone told him that someone went to ask a question as I just said had the safer so he says the went got off from to took out and he showed him what it says and then he says I he wrote wrote this in his thing where did I get this from the Mal so it's fascinating Andes got a kick out of that story okay fine and as they said he has different harus about him so one just to say one last sentence about this um in one of the places when he talks about he has a on the based onaj but he says it's not a problem don't worry about it he didn't see and therefore he said what he said but if he would have seen what he what the data that I have say he would have said differently and okay that's enough for right now with the next episode we'll discuss a few more aspects and we'll move on to the next topics amazing thank you very very much WoW kept it under 50 minutes for those who are watching the clock and we appreciate it and looking forward to being back for episode 4 four of season 3 Once Again questions comments suggestions always greatly appreciated sent to me SCH ou.org and or RAB elzer elzer BR gmail.com