Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger: Learning on Shabbos for Weekday Use

Evening. Another shir in Shabas. This week the discussion lim shabas learning on shabas because you need you need what you're learning for the weekday. A person who wants to prepare a can he read the migill and prepare on a person has a has a test or any test but the reason he's learning is for that test on shabases. On the one hand, it's a mitzvah, but on the other hand, you're doing it for the weekday who wants to prepare for his para. It's a few weeks away. So, he takes out a tikun and he opens up the tikun and he's learning it and he's preparing it not for this shabas, but from a different shabas. He's learning for Shabas. Is it mut or is it? Last week we learned about the sleeping on shabas for shabas of came out on a shabas or lea or was we saw last week there was a bar mitzvah. We talked about the fact that sleeping on shabas itself was a mitzvah. We talked about the whole of sleeping and we mentioned that it's a tug the riotes used to sleep on shabas. However, we said that sleeping on shabas for shabas you should be rested afterwards had a few problems. Number one, it was a zil for Shabas and saying that you're doing it was also so what's with can you do that? This sh is of course a standalone sh but it's a little bit gibite a little bit based on what we spoke about last week. Let's see it inside. So the opening page it looks like this. A person has to have a in middle of the week. Can he go ahead and learn prepare for the weekday for what he has to do during the weekday is the not allowed to do from Shabas to the week to a weekday is for doing actions that he does with his hands. The of is not a problem since it's not clear when he's learning. He looks like he's learning. What do we know of why he's learning? But so if you wanted to prepare a do it out of ash, not out of a tick and kum because then you see you're doing it for preparation. These are our shas. So >> it's a question. It's well it's more than a marine it's it's that it's soon we'll see in take let's go to page number one it's quote from the shabu we're talking about the of doing a or at the bottom would be page four one on top four at the bottom as such If you ate on dishes at the evening, you can wash those dishes so that you can use them again for shak and you can go ahead and wash them out. So you use it by because each time you're washing them, you're doing it. However, after you can't wash it because after you already had three sudas, but smaller cups, small plates, maybe a person's going to have a tea with a with a piece of cake or something like that. because there's no can you can drink almost up till that is not a problem of because it's quite possible in you're doing it for shabas who take a look in the on page number five at the bottom next page don't have to flip the page if there's a suda to eat For you see the action that you're doing is an action that is for shabas action that you're doing that which you're doing for after shabas is user folding clothing is the same thing. Turn to the next page please. Three on top six at the bottom. You can go ahead and fold your clothing because you're going to use them again on Shabas and Shabas Shabas. You can make your bed on a Friday e after on Friday evening for shabas in the morning after you wake up a but shabas but if you're preparing for shabas then it's already no good now interestingly enough on page number four on top seven at the bottom when it's brought down in regarding this den the mug of writes something very interesting Interesting. Of course, like it says in the you cannot prepare the beds on because you want to look nice for Shabas. But nearly if you have a bed in your living room, you know in I remember going to visit my and spend Shabases by my family called two bedrooms, not two bedrooms, two rooms. one bedroom in the back and one room the room front room was living room, dining room, children's room. So the bed over there was mishitten at the salon right everything was a one function was only two rooms in the whole house right so if you didn't make that bed it was a zilzel of shabas says the That could be. So sometimes if you want to get off of the hook and you say the bed the the you you rested on Shabas afternoon and now you're going to leave the the the covers in a disarray and it's a zill for Shabas. So then one can argue that you're not doing it so that look nice for mi Shabas. You're doing it for Shabases because you want it to look nice for Shabas then it's the basic is that when you're doing something for Shabas is mut when you're doing something for the week that it's which brings us to the next page page number five on top eight on the bottom a sh that was sent of Yeshua who was the tal of and wrote say form. He was asked the following question and this was published in a gillion called Maria and the following question was asked to him. If you see where the places a little bit the the the gray area a little bit on top of that three or four lines on top of that he says based on the way he's looking at only the are doing like either preparing the beds, folding You want to move tables, move chairs. I'm having guests coming from for for for the second night. So shabas, you want to go ahead and do from one day to the next. That's a problem. Or from yiff from one day to the next. That's a problem. like it brings in the bear. If you want to roll the safer tyra from one day to the next day, it should be mu. So you shouldn't have you can't do it from one day to the next. You could do it at night time when it's already the same day. That's all. if he does an action this Rav we don't know who he was he's as you'll soon see from's response the question he's asking the sh he's asking to is wherever he sees in sh that there's a prohibition of preparing from one day from yumpt to to to a different day from shabas to is talking about doing things an action. Therefore, it's user. But if I would ask a shah to arv I want to know tomorrow um I have a bris should I I'm going to be a sandic. Should I go to the mikvah? You're not allowed to ask that question. Why are you allowed to ask? You're not ask middle of the week. That's not called you're allowed to those are the things that are within the realm of the says you're only allowed to be involved in things that are not your things. Well, to speak about to to talk about If I talk about specifics, then it should be but if I'm just asking a question as long as he's not going and standing by his field and doing a which ma brings him to a question Is he allowed to be able to as a student allowed to learn where he's not doing anything? He's just gathering information. That's what this was asking and he wanted to that it's mut that's what he wanted to say. If you look at the next page and p which is right over there page nine you don't have to turn anything notice I'm reading the beginning of the terret that was 1970 that was 1960 was 1965 I think yes harav blank The question of preparing for all types of it's very prevalent This wanted to say it's if we right now he wants to say is it permissible our is what was asked right whatever it is. So he says, and now we go to the part that is um gray area, voracious. It's not gray area. It's in gray in this area, but it's actually pretty clear. Why is it? And we'll see that in a moment. The reason you can't wash the ka that we saw earlier is because you're because you're doing something which is a bubish a person can go to a and be on shabas on condition that it's noa to shabas and it's noa Now sir if it's not shabas now what did you do you did an action you just the shil that the ro over there said I want to ask him to do something I want to ask him about the weekday so if you're asking a shila is one thing but to go and ask something that or ask via It's not the Gmorrah says it's let's see it inside. >> What do you mean? And then there's a time limit that if you don't reverse it, it becomes >> the husband the father unless you unless you >> un that's regarding a husband and a wife a father and a daughter that's a separate >> if that would be such a case maybe maybe then it would be no gaya on shabas but if it had not it was a person's personal ne and he was being sh by the way That's not being that's making it's a different sug at page 15 at the bottom the quote from the rivid it says little little side over there where the ra talks about you can't wash plates but says the rivet you're doing a for the weekday something which is a for the weekday is okay. If you look in the right stay on the same page, what are the things you're allowed to do on Shabas and what are you not allowed to do? something which is your it's yours your object. You shouldn't have your even if you're not doing anything. A person has a property next to his property. He's looking to see my garden needs. I need to call the gardener. I need to go in and take care if there's a fence that's opened up. The deers are coming in. All these things that's and that's weekday things that's prohibited. You want to walk to the end. There's nothing wrong with walking. But if you're walking for cuz you need to go to the you need to go to one of these place to the and you want to be there. So you should be able to use the you can't do that on Shabas to go to the to the to get all of these things are not doing anything but says the mission brewer here on the bottom where it's recognizable He's standing by a field that you could see the field needs things. You could see he's he's walking by his car and there's a couple of dents and he's looking at it. Everybody can imagine it's not far that it's the way he's looking at it. He's eyeing to see what he needs to do. That's a problem. That's what's already over there down the block over there. Those are the That's where the is. Why is he walking there? Why is he hanging out there? Ah, because he wants to go. That's called. So then it's here's says the Mishna. If a person in his mind is walking to show and he's thinking about I have to take care of this, I have to take care of that. He wasn't an iser. Why? He didn't do anything about it. He didn't speak about it. He was just I'm not saying that you should do it. Aad you should try to put it out of your mind. But in the way the is explaining you weren't if you thought about it because her is mut. Therefore, he says that if the person was thinking about what he did or it's not nicker like he's standing walking by his field and he's taco looking he's walking back from shaw and he's looking but it's not that he's looking to see what to fix. Then it's here and it's not user. We learn a big from here. We learned that when it's that you're doing something for the weekday, then it's a problem. If it's not, meaning when you're doing something that's for the week, then it does it looks like those are your stuff. And when it looks like your stuff, there's a prohibition. If it's not so then it's not it doesn't look like it's it's hearer and then it's at least not user. Let's go back now to our Shiloh and let's see how some of the discuss this. Take a look at page 19. He has to respond after Shabas to a question that was asked or if he's writing and he needs to finish off right he's he's writing a safer He's writing a contress and he needs to finish doing the research. He needs to finish off and he's preparing now on Shabas. He's going to look now on Shabas for the weekday. There's a why because it's like everything I said until now. You're doing all of these things for tomorrow. That's is didn't we say last week you can't go to sleep on Shabas even though sleeping itself is a mitzvah. It's a we said but if you're doing it for the shabas you're not doing it for shabas. It's user cuz you're being we saw. So maybe learning is also user even though there's a to say that it could be I have a to says the I have a to say that it's not a problem. Do you know why what he's doing is being therefore when do I say that there's a problem of if what I'm doing now you can't say is a mitzvah if however for example I was looking at the things even if I'm going to sleep which we said was a mitzvah but it's only a mitzvah if the tug is a tik for shabas a shabas is a mitzvah but as soon as you say I'm sleeping not for shabas I'm sleeping for shab so where's the mitzvah then so it's not for shabas is a mitzvah no matter what is a mitzvah what should make If I'm learning for a or if I'm learning because I have to answer a sh if I'm learning because I want to learn on Shabas in the afternoon at the end of the day I'm learning. So says the while is but maybe there's a good and strong to say that under these circumstances while you're doing learning it does and this you find prevalent in many of the let's go to page 22 at the bottom this is from Ruben Zim 13 on top, 22 at the bottom. And he wants to learn on there are two things. If It's a tless in itself to know what you're learning even if you wouldn't be taking a test. So you're doing a mitzvah. Now take a look at You might be looking afterwards in that you're not allowed to look at if it's not shabas. If it's stam 100% taking a look on page 23 next page from someone asked him a question I'm learning I'm preparing but I'm using a ton on the one hand I'm learning. Maybe it doesn't seem like I'm doing it for other weeks and maybe therefore maybe I'm doing it for today. On the other hand, the fact is that from the outside it does look like a tikun. So it's maybe nicker that it's not being done for shabas. So maybe it should be user. He writes, take a look on the next page, page 24. He answers him if it's not for this. He says the person is when we talk about the says you want to read a safer and you want to be the safer after shabas you want to arate you if it has you can't look at it for the purpose of being mia but here you're not looking to be mia you're looking just and it's called limora And me holds its muted. >> What's that? >> You mean edit? >> Yes. >> Yes. So take a look at a person who prepares even though since it has a shame even to be ma even if it's recognizable he holds its mut his opinion rail is that it's mut even in such a face. Take a look at letter. That's page 25. The same page or for him when he's learning. He's acquiring knowledge. The fact that he's going to get a during the week on that couldn't care less. You have a tactless in what you're doing. And if you look at number 34, he writes from finally on page 27. This is from the to read the Here we see that he says do it in a way you just look like you're learning for the sake of learning not for the sake of a but earlier we saw other other of the present who said that even if it's 100% it's mut to do why because tless you're learning Tyra. It's very different than all of the other things that we talked about doing where we talked about either a miso or if it was sleeping that we said if you're doing it it's a mitzvah but as soon as you're not doing it shabas it no longer is a mitzvah is a not like of course would be on the last page Okay. If he this was what the other chuba wanted to say that if you want to look at something which is notes when it would be permissible on the condition that you can't see what he's doing. So it should be her like the mishab but ruben ruben I quoted for you earlier said no it was al that's correct it said he disallowed it okay now talking about the Indian of kadusha shabas in general hashem this comes from the m I think it's from Aaron Belzer No, Aaron. Excuse me. Aaron. He gave us the shabes. And he gave this to even though we're used to hearing or truth is that this mitzvah was given to us After right away they came Shabas was already said many weeks before as an introduction to the gans the abisher gave us the mitzvah of Shabas. He gives a mush about this about the Indian of how the gave us a mitzvah before all of before the before all the other mitzvah. Once upon a time there was a person a big doctor who went to a place where they knew nothing about medicine. When a person would become sick, they would just if they didn't get better on their own, they would die. They didn't know about anything like medicine. And the doctor came there and he saw what they're doing. He wanted to tell them these people are dying for nothing. They're dying for nothing. So he said, "Who wants medicine?" They didn't know what he was talking about. No one's interested because they were so ignorant. They had no idea. One day he sees somebody walking full of I want you to know I'm a doctor. I can make you better. Give me an opportunity and I'll take care of you. He took one wound. when the person saw that the doctor could heal him. So then right he said please heal me soon everybody saw look at this I don't have to suffer I don't have to be in pain there's somebody can take care of He became so wealthy. The first person who was got the freebie, the person, he was the one who got the discount. He was the one who actually was healed before anybody because he did it. The right says to give us the gan had no idea what it was. They were in full of mak. There was nothing. If a person was there was nothing to heal him the back before he gave him the whole he gave them shabases. This was the first thing that a person should be able to enjoy shabas and shabas is the key to and it's coming now the summer months a person wants to know is he can you make it are you going to be okay there it's a very simple thing kum shabas isn't until 8:00 at night, 8:30. You go to schul in the morning. You dab, you come home, you eat mish, you get up at whatever time, 4:00, 5:00. Now, what are you doing? Shabas isn't over for another 4 hours. If a person can sit and learn and can enjoy shabas and he's not waiting on his watch and saying, "When is this thing finally going to end?" Then he's comfortable with Shabas. He'll be comfortable in you know you made it. It's a very good test that a person can see where they're holding as long as Shabas Shabas is then you can enjoy Shabas you know you can enjoy when you get there. If a person is still dying to get out of Shabas because when's it over already? When's it going to be finished? then you still need a little bit more kadusha in your life and a little bit more Tom Shabas. You want to know how you get to that? How you get to that Tom Shabas? So first of all a person himself has to be Miss Ban on what Shabas is and has to be Miss B on the relationship with >> you want to go. So bin right now I just ran out of time but bin the kasha that is asking is how do you give it to young gen the answer the 30 second answer is if you enjoy it they'll see it and they're going to wonder what is it that you have and they'll want to emulate but you can't tell them to enjoy shabas just like you can't tell a person I want you to like a banana or you can't explain to them what it tastes like you can peel it and Give it to him and say here do you like it? So too you can show them how much you enjoy it and then be hashem they'll enjoy it too.