Rabbi Yitzchak Adler Hilchos Tzedakah Shiur at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim Night Kollel

It's always a pleasure to be here and to see your [clears throat] bright faces and you're sitting there waiting for a good fight. All right, [clears throat] I'm ready. And to Raer Skak for having me. [clears throat] For about 15, 20 years, I was giving a shear to a group of lawyers in 61 Broadway downtown. He was given the firm of Browner Baron Roven Swagen Klein. [clears throat] Mr. Klene walks in one day and says, "Well, I finally did it." Finally did what? He was a very, very brilliant lawyer. And two of his most illustrious clients were the Marcuses. I don't know if you know who they were. Ferdinand and Amald Marcos who were the president of the Philippines and two other people, the ambassador to the Philippine and this guy Vasquez. They were all multi-billionaires stealing all the money from the United States and their largest uh money-m accounts were through the sugar industry. Mr. Hind was the ranking lawyer in the commodities markets of sugar in the United States. They were his clients. He finally walked in one day and he said, "I did it." What was it? Well, Vasquez had enough paying taxes in different countries. So, he gave Klein the job to make sure he'll never ever pay taxes again for the rest of his life. And that day, it finally came about. He told him, "You have to buy yourself a 200 [clears throat] foot yacht." He told him exactly where to place it off the Philippines in international waters. You have to give up all your citizenship. Then you have to go to a postal company nearby and tell them to deliver a mail to you at least once a month, which they will do cuz you'll fly in onto your helipad on on on your boat. and then you'll be free of taxes for the rest of your life. Nobody can tax you for anything you do. And that's the week in which he started living on his yacht. [clears throat] Inside this room were two other people. They were businessmen. They weren't lawyers. They came to the shere without [clears throat] mentioning their names. They were both very, very wealthy. Let's call one and one. Yanka gets up and says, "Fine." He says, "Stanley, the name is Stanley Klein. Get me a boat. Get me a yacht. Not that big, but I can use a hundred foot yacht and I'm going to go right alongside Vasquez." He said, "Cuz I've had enough." So client tells him, "Wait, how had enough of what? What do you have enough of? Had enough of taxes? I know I'm your tax lawyer. That's my job. You don't pay taxes. You're 90% in real estate. I give you so many so many real estate uh uh uh cushions. What are you worried about? You don't have a tax problem. I don't have a tax problem. He says, "Why don't you come to my office every day?" Right? 20 times a g day taxis roll up with five people inside and all they ask for money. I can't refuse them. I have to give them a decent check. Everyone I I can't handle it anymore. Okay. Wonderful. I go inside the yacht. I'll do business from there. Now, how going to find me? All right. And I come be on my helicopter out there. So the other yeid says to him, [clears throat] he says to him, he says," [laughter] he says to him, which loosely translated means that yank, you're making an irrational, illogical statement and you will not be able to beat the system because anyway, [clears throat] you're gonna have to take off my So So what are you gonna gain through this whole to his whole camouflage to which Yank answered him and said listen my father was very wealthy and when I became bar mitzvah he told me listen to me there's something called micer what is it we don't know no one know really knows what it is it's not even it's anata listen don't take it upon yourself right now I tell you don't take it we have too much money. Don't take it upon yourself. It's not a there are a lot of other things you have to do before you become a mench. This is not the number one hanoga you have to do. So don't take it upon yourself. Oh, he says, "So now I'm free." That's that's the story exactly how it happened. Now what does it point to? It points to this question which is always a little bit a looming question as you read through these because you got to make a decision of what's considered stock and what's considered miser but this is a good example right the answer is that they're very very closely related the [clears throat] Gmorra doesn't have the idea of mess we know that Tossis has its ideas of where it comes from and but basically the way we look at it the way most postum look at it today is that it's a continuum. There's something called stock. That's a dinda. You have to give a certain amount. Whatever that amount is you know that I'm sure it's a very interesting it's one of those sliding scale mitzvah that have a minimum and then they have a maximum, right? Do you know any other mitzvah like that that have minimas and maxims? No. Not what? Yeah. you know uh but it has a shear. It has a minimum shear. In has a maximum shear, right? Um, right. How many komodas you bring when you go to shalailay? It has a minimum and has a maximum. So this has an interesting shear attached to it. Stucker. But the difference is that stuck is a shear. you give have to give the and then that's that's it then there's another level of it which means if someone comes to you and he's in need and it's you may have to give him a lot of money okay fine but if he's not going to come to you all you have to give him which is a small amount of money fine so weren't happy with that that's not such a good idea because you can get away giving very small amount ounts. So they they they they kind of encapsulated the whole M stucker in another idea called mice suffen and that means you give 10%. Okay, that's a strict number. Okay, so so that's not stalker that's messer. So everyone will will separate messer and what will it do? Well, if you know the Gammoras and Baabasa, I mean, the idea behind Rishodum is that it'll it'll keep a pool of money, which means that even if in your particular district, you live in a wealthy area in in in in Muny and there are no anemium there. Fine. So, keep separating. One day you'll need the money and you'll have the money in, you know, in an endowment fund uh like all big uh universities have. And uh and when you need it, it'll be around. They didn't want you to get away with so it's a kind of extension of the so when you learn it you kind of look at it as one long continuum. Are you with me? You understand what I'm saying? Okay. That's the way I think most most most can look at it today. Good. [clears throat] Now [cough] I do uh I do spend time on [clears throat] but at the same time my training is a little bit on the lumbish side. So what I'd like to do is in a sense um I haven't learned uh as recently as you have but I'd like [clears throat] to go through at least 10 in together with you but I will begin it by telling you okay which I think is the when it comes to and on the basis What I would like to do is to show you how that appears in these places here. I don't know how much how much time we have and what we'll get to. But I want to give you the and then go through from me and on and show you where in the you can find the and where the makus that you get there are based upon the and then as you go through the remainder of time in the you hopefully will be able to find many other such references. The is the base that you have by every single mitzvah I say and is whether the mitzvah is the mitzvah or the mitzvah or the mitzvah. The mitzvah is to do the act or the mitzvah is to bring about a a certain effect. Right? And that you can apply to every single mitzvah. For example, right? What's the mitzvah? What's a mitzvah? >> Huh? [clears throat] So says the mitzvah is but the mitzvah is let's say to have a boy and a girl. Right? So and and many other people argue with that and say Moshe has his long essays on it. He say it's impossible. Impossible. You cannot determine whether you will have a boy and a girl. You can't determine it. Not through regular means. Today you can go through a test tube, but you can't do it to regular mean. It's impossible to know whether you'll have a boy and a girl. But Mosha has that never gave you a mitzvah that you cannot control the maybe you won't be rich enough to do it but you can't build to to control the schem if you can't control that you'll have a boy and a girl my parents had a lot of children but and ended up they only had boys so my parents never makia fine it's not under their control you can't have a mitzvah like that mitzvah gives you the Means if you use the ordinary things that you do in life, you will one day be able to get to the kamitsa, right? Depending on your financial status, but that's the technicality, but not physically you can't do it. You can't physically do something that you'll have in a boy and a girl. So that's not the mitzvah. So Mosha claims the mitzvah is the that's the end of the story. The mitzvah is the mabia. Of course, the idea is as you point out to have a boy and a girl, but that's not the mitzvah. Okay. So, so how do you look at that when the bash how do you look at that? What's the about the is now how you do the mitzvah? How to do the mitzvah is you do a what's the is at what point are you put from keep on doing that mitzah? the ma mits you have to do every single time you have a chance until you reach the point that you mitah a boy and a girl in the mitsah now you're free from any further be because you've done that that's the way it is and that and that and and what according to the mit is to have a boy and a girl so then the it's just a mitzvah okay good so that's that that is that is that is cle and that is similar to what we're doing over here. Question over here is the same issue. What's the mit stucker? Is the mit stucker the mina to the or is the mit stucker caring for his needs making sure he has something to eat. Now everybody knows that it's obvious that the the mitzer is to make sure anem are taken care of or yeshivas or whatever it else happens to be. Of course we all agree in that that is generally the reason that generally you have a boy and a girl because we understand that wants to keep the uh uh uh uh um expanding of that's push but the question is this of course the general idea is to take care of the anemium but the question is did that idea that you would take care of the anemium If did that now is that so strong that it tells you exactly what the mitzvah is which means if through the act that you do you're not taking care of the anam then that's not part of the mitzvah or no the idea on a general level is take care of the anem but that's not the misa mitzah the msa mitzvah is to give money that's the msa mitzah of course there is a general end to it but that's not the way that's not the way kazal formulated the actual mitzvah You have to know how kazar formulated the mitzah not just what they how it fits into the scheme of the world. So here the question is is the mitz I mean giving the money to the oni or is it a that is seeing to that they are cared for. That's the idea. Okay. The first is the most famous of of all the questions in this and it's a beautiful piece to read. It's the first in the druss of the basi and [clears throat] his his his question was whether or not you need cavana for sodaka I'm sure you know that question did you come across that any place you come across it in any place in the do you need kavana when you give an oni money right now when I give an oni money in the morning I have no kavana I usually do it when it comes to shu I basically basically don't you can't even see the words on the page. I'm still like 3/4 asleep. Okay. So I don't even know what I'm reading now. I'm supposed to give money to a and have a kava giving money. I don't know. Too hard at that time in the morning. So is that a we believe? Yes. If you don't it's zero. It's nothing. You've done nothing. Zero. So again over here if you don't have the mitzvah do you get nothing for it that's the question if the mitzvah is that you give only money then that's the act that you do when you do the act you have to have kavana if the idea is that he has to have his needs taken care of who cares about your kavana if he has the money game is over he's m the mitzvah everything is done you're m the mitzvah there's no kavan involved it's not the m there's no mitzvah it's just a it's just the that one day he'll be able to use he'll be able to use the money and that's it you've done the mitzvah >> but anybody say that if you didn't have kona and you had a boy or a girl >> okay so if you if you go to a very good right capable understanding rashifa who's your kaducian right right he should when he's kaducian right talk to that boy right before he comes in and says you have to have in that you are doing the misa thing and then when you have your ma you have to have mitzvah yes it's very very crucial right that is that is a good point yes so now wrote this here and he says you know you're going to tell me that now he tells when he first starts he now I don't know if you read bas you have to know what he is because he was a bucket in all men all tan and every got into anything you can imagine and he could use it to do anything what he wanted with it but at the beginning he tells you it's two days in the bas but he tells you you know had this discussion but when he told him he you know he his tina was against it says all the Torah likes to give them money to live on what do you have to make them suffer so we give answer to them anu >> [clears throat] >> Migam that's all the reason created this thing called stock had nothing to do with the and the reason is that we should be able to have the mitzah to give him money and then will be from so he points out that the two day I'm not going to go through it right now but he says that day clearly indicates that the the mitzvah has nothing to do with taking care of the an why not when you give money to a what should you be mindset be I'm giving money to an audi mitz as I say and give money and what and what oh what I'm such a great guy listen he's going to go out and get himself a cup of coffee okay and I'm going to feel so good that now he's eating because of my input no you're poor no it's not right you're not right he's not The unique sonam he doesn't need you to take care of him. I know exactly what he needs today. A cup of coffee. He'll get it. If you don't give him the money, I'll give it to someone else to give it to him. You don't take care of any accord says I take care of the anem. Whatever they're supposed to get, they will get. Don't think that you give money to yeshiva. You're such a great guy because you took care of the yeshiva. They'll get the money anyway if they deserve it. You do nothing. What do you do? You nit them. your miser is to in order to save your life. It has nothing to do with the for for the for the for the because he'll be taking care of you don't take care of any takes care of an imam as he takes care of everything else in the world. So this is the idea right this is this is how he sets it up that you see for many gumaras that it has nothing to do with the care of the anal it's a mitzah like every other mitzvah just do it and have kavana for it how it ends not your business how it ends this would be that sad that you don't that you need kavana because it's a if it's a he points out just to care for the who cares who cares you know you know right that If if uh right tells you in that if if you have a hole in your pocket, you don't even know you have a hole in your pocket and you do you you drop a dollar out of your pocket and then and then and then and then an unie picks it up and he uses it. You never even know knew that you had the money there. You're m the midsoft stucker. Okay. So here you know no kavana no anything. You [laughter] didn't even know you lost the money, right? That's clearly an indication that it all that cares that the oni bought a cup of coffee from your dollar had nothing to do with you. That's certainly the sad that you don't need. And the important thing is only the mix. Now I want to go. So that that is the beginning of it. That's let's call that number one. That's how it all starts in these suggest. All right. So now again if you read I don't want to go to there's so much to go on this. I don't know how much time you have. If you read through you get you got to feel that does have a certain look. You can feel already what's going on, right? just from reading the beginning because he tells you that [clears throat] I mean he he tells you that okay he tells you here that you can be pretty wild idea if you don't give it you can be over seems a little bit uh seems a little bit beyond but okay so here you know the Gmoran the Gmoran titus that this he didn't he didn't he he he wasted an extra few seconds and the person who asked him for food had died. So, so again here would certainly be an indication of the fact that it's much more the after than anything else. I would agree with that. And then he tells you inos and you can be matim giving. What does that have to do with anything? What does that have to do with the first how does that work? If you give mats, why? What about the mitzvah? That's not good enough. It's whatever it is. I'm not here to to do to I don't know how that works. I don't know the one toone correspondence between acts and effects and and and you see there that there's there's an independent idea to stuck that is just to give no one's no one's interested in what the effect is. Okay, that's generally >> are we clearing if not but there's no question about that you can't argue on that the tells you the rash in the beginning of um tells you right that right right it it falls on falls on is is definitely across the board a mitz and the righteous are straight. There's no question about it. You know, there's no other way to look at it. Uh like I said, the general idea is to take care of the anam. That doesn't mean that tells you that that's also the mahusa the mitzah. The mahusa the mitzvah uh which is the actual misa could be just the giving of it. And whatever happens afterwards, you just you're just flowing scheme. You're helping him find a way of doing what he wants to do. So I want to go through some nas that's called kavan to the first one and also this idea can you be kind when you don't even know about it no come on which is at rashi in pari now let's go to um let's go to uh over here in right the next so the mahaba tells you um um no based in kofen also K for him. So they force him to give to taco. So over here the shaka already tells you the the the the kushistosis in vabasa and and meas in in in umubis right that any so then there's no on it and here it says in in ray so therefore so so therefore But it should be it's not so you should have no on it. So for that the tells the answer is because that's only true by an then there's no but this has a low so the ins that if the mountain see that you don't do that's only if it's your if it's your mitzvah and and we and we and we want you to do the mitzah So I'll say if you're so stupid that the Torah gives you the and you won't do the mitzvah we're not going to force you not going to bother. The Torah very infrequently tells you and here they told you to and you don't want to do it so we should go ahead and force you. No so you should get thear. No way. But is different because the says it's not meant for you. It's meant for the oni. If we don't call for you, the oni will lose out. So we have to be called for you because we don't want the oni to use out. So those two answers depend on how you look at mitz. If you look at it as a pure ma mitzvah, right? So then you have to answer that this case because of the fact that there is a low. But if you believe that the mitzvah is taking care of the oni so that's what says in that case you do ya because why should the oni lose out? Because because you cuz because you don't do the next is over here again in me if you look at the he quotes the basil what happens if what happens he gives talk to he doesn't accept it okay so the tells you um who okay you know there big big about this but that's what he says over here that's the question of people don't like this but that's the same issue if you hold that the mitzvah is taking care of the honey then you're not taking care of the he doesn't take it what do you hold the mitzvah is do the m did the mina the fact that the person doesn't want to take it that's not your problem your problem is do the m as much as you can do that's the m see can't force the food down his gut, you know. So you give it to him. That's the M seed. He doesn't want to take it. Spills it on the floor. That's not your problem. That would be the third. Now if you go to, right? So here this is the that tells you that I'm sure you've been through this that right here. you have to work a little hard on it because already tells you um that there are two versions of this. One is and then I'm sorry there's an there's a called you and you save you're not happy about it. Ah, at the worst thing I do, give my money away all day long to these disgusting people. That's one thing to do it. And then there's another way to give it which is okay. But [clears throat] so here's a question. The already knows the difference between them. Okay. What do do you not get any scar if you don't give it to the to the person with a happy face is like you're giving nothing or no you get you getar but you don't get that muchar so says the shak says maybe it depends how bad your face looks there's something called something called that's much worse if you go to that same comes to all right is that what that if you if Your mother tells you, "Take the garbage out." That can't always stand you. Give me take the garbage out. You always make me do things I hate to do. And you finally do it because you're a good boy. But is what that? All right. You give him the best the best steak from the best steak. Huh? That sounds like you're not getting any star. That's worse than that. So that's the question here. If you if you if you have do will you get the shak says it depends perhaps how bad you look when you give it but that's the question some people say you will get scar but less scar some people say you'll get no scar you again that's the same question if you take care of the yi he got the stuff you should get somear right not the best because you didn't do it the nicest way if you hold that the whole mitzvah is just the ma mitzah then you ruined it entirely then you should get noar If you give it part of the Zafos >> in this case is he he's he's recognizing that or not >> who >> of course >> maybe more harm than good in giving it. >> Why is that? >> In the recipient >> he received it. He felt lousy. He didn't heard. >> Yeah. But can he eat it? Will it will it give him sustenance? >> I don't know. Uh uh. Okay. Hey, I hear I hear I hear you could you could cla You could you could make many more out of it. The fifth one I want to talk about is this one here that this is a r let's go to ram test. Yeah. Um uh it says here it says here that what you should do is let's see the next one is how much do you have to give? Okay, how much how much stucker do you have to give? So that's a little bit how much what's the smallest amount. So to pron let's say you give less than a pa. So everyone knows the mariskin right has this thing in he tells you that that's that's just a misnomer. You give you give an any amount of money could be even a penny could be a nickel. Maybe nigger's less than a pa today. It doesn't make a difference, right? There's no real sha. There's a sha. Yes. When it comes to mites that have a kalos to them and similar things like that that doesn't count saying right then you need a but you he says you don't need a for and always uses the term. That's the same question. If it's a question of the mice, the mice has to have the same idea of what is the smallest she is. If you hold taking care of the wait and buy a piece of gum, whatever you can, he can buy something with a smaller amount of money. So you should be kind even if it's less than a next is in this is the famous first. So he has a two days here. Does every person have to give him? If he comes to you and there's no one else around you, you have to give him deoro. No. No. One person has to give him deor. No. Everyone together has to give him not one person. So therefore you never have to have the one person two days where the one person has to have the to give or no one person has no to do that. No, no one person can do that. Ramos says even though seems to say that he comes to you and you're there, you have to give it to him. So that's the same that's the same idea that if the idea is that you have to just do you have to you have to do the mice. So the mice is to give him stuck. It's not to give him to make sure he takes care of all his needs. That's a different story. your ma mitzah could be done by just giving a part of that. If you believe that the stab that the mitzvah is to take care of his needs and he needs and doesn't need $100, he needs $5,000, then you haven't done a mitzvah cuz he can't continue his life. He's psychologically hurt if he doesn't have the $5,000. So if you hold for take his needs then the needs are whatever it is. If you hold that's not the mitzvah it's just the mina then that end is on the whole community not just upon you. So whether or not is entirely on one person is is is a nafina that's the six nftina then you have olive you have this question which is all over the right and that is whether or not whether or not on has to give to taka so I'm sure you know that well doesn't give taka tough question right so you you can go back at the very beginning Right. [clears throat] It says, "So over here tells you you're talking going on." You're not going to You're talking about You're talking about whom you talking about whom? Everybody. Anie. What's an ani? Anie is a person who doesn't make enough money to support himself. That's 90% of the Jewish population today. Would you agree? Huh? >> Yes or no? >> H >> yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. So, so that person there, right? Is he So, so 90% of the Jewish population from So, so tells you stucker. [laughter] How's the has no money going to give stucker? It don't make any sense. He's taking stuck. How's he giving stucker? Shak tells you. He tells you all over. He tells you in in re no tells you the same thing. It just wouldn't make sense for someone to say that an aie would have to give stuck if he would be allowed to take stuck. The whole thing doesn't make sense. So the shak always tells you that whenever it says it doesn't mean the way you think of it. It means anie who is not very rich and you can say well I I would need the money for myself. True. But you have money so you'll eat a little less today. Well, a little less today. If I give it to Stucker and then I'm going to have less money and I do that every day. Then when my washing machine breaks down, what am I going to do? Because I don't have extra money. So you tell them when your washing machine breaks down, right? You're right. It'll be very hard for you. Then you use your credit card, you buy a washing machine, you play it off slowly. Okay, that person has to give stuck. But a real onie says it's not. It doesn't have any pen. So why would he give stucker? The same thing here. If you hold it's just the mice in the so it's the mice in the cena. That's it. Everyone has to do it. There's no question asked. It's not a question of taking care of anybody. If you're whole, no, you have to take care. You have to take care of people's needs. How is an aie who need who needs the money himself going to give it to someone else? Doesn't make any sense. The shak says, right? If if if to make sure other people are taken care of, you can't do it at your own expense. So then on would not give to taka as a keeps telling you in giml. Next is the question of a rabbi. Is that even a mispa? >> What's that? >> Someone gives to a rami. >> A what? >> A ra person wasn't. He didn't need it. >> He gave it to an asher, >> right? >> Give it to an you give it to sh. >> What do you want to know? I don't think so. >> Yo, when the spot, >> right? >> Was that even a vice? Do they need the money or >> I guess they needed something. I don't know exactly. So or does it fall into this? If again if it depends that if if the person if a person doesn't fall under what's called he doesn't have an on status at all then why should why should you be kind to mitakers give to ani oh I would say anybody who deserves who can deserve what however you go through these a person who you're allowed to give stuck to if you're not allowed to give them stuck then you it's like throwing the money in garbage I would think so then you have the the shak in in um in right that tells you that uh what about can you give with me? I'm sure you've seen that. Uh is whether you can give uh since we know and therefore you can do it if whenever you need a matana like for like but will it work for stuck? So shak two deas again they depend on this question if you hold it say so you give it to him because it's mat but if you hold you have to take care of his need how you take care of his needs he can't use it he has to give it back to you that doesn't make any sense and then in re um nes right you have this this question here ra wants to know about um mish You have money in your pocket. You don't remember it is it stuck money not money. So okay there's over here that girl points out if you have do you have to give it to stucker? Can you say no? I don't know if it's stuck so I'll keep it myself. You got that? That depends on this question. If the mitzvah da is the mino then it's a suffic issa. If the mitz is to take care of the other person's needs then it's a suffic mama. That's that's the split and you already have this in the says and it depends whether you hold it's an isser or it's a or it's a it's so then you keep it. If it's an then you have to go. So that's also this makos over here. You have suffic moment stock. What do you do with it? And then uh it's getting late. There are many other navas that you have here. Right. And the um the right for example, do you make a brah stuck? Do you make a brahan stuck? No. Why not? So rajma says because you know this at all. >> They don't make a somebody else. >> What? Okay. Hey, wait a minute. Not why that says gives you, right? So again, that's this question over here. The raj must believe that it's the it's the and if he doesn't take it, you get nothing. And if you get nothing the other people will answer like the other answers you know no because it's you never know how much you have to give to someone can go up theirs there's no sheav both higher and lower so he doesn't he doesn't think you can make a fine so and there's no manav either he says no kav how do you get stuck morning night so there all these things there are multiple answers and if you'll see and look at them carefully you see that they that they will somehow relate to this question whether you look at more like an issa or just in closing I just tell you one idea that always bothered me throughout my learning that now I'm not telling you how to learn this from over here whether that applies to my or also only to my that's another question good but wait a minute it don't work. Have you seen anybody walk up to you and says, "I gave this year my miser self and I became a billionaire." Do you know of any onetoone correspondence like this? Now, of course, we know the gor when it comes to um being a sandic, right? Which should be a a bravashir. So maybe the answer is that that's not true. I don't know. Maybe it's not true. Maybe someone made that up. But here is now you could say it doesn't apply to my right. That's a mus right here. But let's say it does apply to my so in there is a very good English book. I believe it's the best English thing and one of the best written on stucker and micer. It's written by Tub and if if you if you finish you should pick it up and read through it. It's it's it's a very very good the problem is it's not it's not it's not doesn't have a good index to it but it's it's done very well in he does ask this question and he gives you some of the answers that are given throughout the years like for example the fact that we live in a closed system called Yahadus and therefore there's no way to test anything in the world. You know what I'm talking about? How do you know? What do you know what it means? That if you give stucker bazos, then things will work out well for you. Would it work out well for you? Well, if you wouldn't have given stucker, then if you wouldn't have given stucker then, huh? >> Who knows? >> Who knows? Right. If you if that's the answer to the question, then it's not a question. You have five more minutes or you don't. I don't know. You have to what? I see all most of you are sleeping. What? That's a very that's every place, right? There was there was a great there was a great the greatest thinkers in the world got together, right, in Vienna one day and they had a council and they were going to make a determination of how you could tell whether or not any any any sentence that you state could have a truth functional value. It means you can say I made a statement is it true or false? So they got together to say only certain types of statements have a truth functional value. Other types of statements they can't be true they can't be false. Of course a lot of them were trying to fight against religion. Okay. But they came up with this idea. They sat for 3 weeks and said how which type of statement can have a truth function or value? They came up with this. any statement such that you can provide for it the conditions of its falsehood. A statement can be true or false only if when you make the statement you can tell someone what conditions would exist to make that statement false. Okay, it's a very very very tifa idea. That's why inad which is a closed system you can't have true or false statement is a very person all right fine walk out do you stub your toe you did it because if you had gone out of the door he would have slammed your face on that and they would have hurt okay fine you go down the steps you break one ankle next step two ankle you go down walk to the driveway over here the driveway here then you break one knee then the other I tore my miscus over and then you go down there then you break one leg then the other leg then one hand and the other hand then both arms at what point you're going to say I don't believe a bar exists they never no matter what will happen to you and you get hit by a car you'll never say it there's there's no you can't create a condition which will tell you that this is not true so so a statement like that is so you can say you can tell me no matter you gave money one year and you give gift and you lose all your money you lose everything you had and you'll still say, well, it would have been worse the other way. So, it's very hard to know what that means. But he does quote zan who tells you he knows the problem and he says the answer is this. These things are true. They're true. They're 100% true. But they are not true when there is there's no there's no they're not true. It only works when there's giddish around when runs the world and there's a onetoone correspondence between what you do and how runs the world when there's hest upon him nothing is clear everything is muddled everything you can't see straight this is true too these brahas right you can't expect them to take place when this has been through our learning through our limit through our clarity most important thing is clarity and understanding what say what where they come from. You reach the point that your uh and you and your and thereby bring about and then your kits my will and gender that you will get uh >> yeah I I do I do write on this I my whole uh so a lot of what I told you is safer to get up one Okay, that's high leg.