CHAZARAH - Menachos Daf 85 | "Nothing but the Daf" with R' Eli Stefansky

[music] >> A good morning to all boys. So, after the holiday you might have pay hey on the 11th. Three lines from the top. The whole on in a boys Ella min hamufar. When you make a mincha, you have to bring the best of the best silos. Silos is the the top of the top flower. They bring the best. Says the Gamara story. There were two Uh, I don't know if you call them We'll call them a hashfin. Black magic, sorcerers. The Medrish says that these two people, Yochana and Mamre, Yochani, sometimes they're called Yochani and Mamre. They tried to get out of the Krias Yam Suf, the drowning in the Yam Suf. So, they created wings for themselves and they started flying away. And uh in one safer that I saw, it says that Gavriel Hamalach came and grabbed him by the hair and drowned him. The other one said that Gavriel had a big problem with them, that they were stronger than Gavriel. So, the Hakadosh Baruch Hu himself came and drowned them. Akupam, these are tremendous kishuf machers. And they tell Moshe Rabbeinu, Tavin at the machlis le'Ephraim. What are you going to sell ice to the Eskimos? How are you going to do kishuf in Mitzrayim? We're known for our kishuf. How are you going to teach us kishuf? What are you going to do with kishuf? Amar lehu, so Moshe Rabbeinu says, "I mean, she So, people say, there's a saying, "L'masai yarka yarka shkoy." If you want to sell vegetables, where are you going to go? You're going to go to the vegetable market. You go to You go to Shuk Machaneh Yehudah. What do you have over there? You have a lot of people selling different pitzuchim, the nuts. But, there's dozens of them. But, that's where you go. If you want to buy a diamond, where do you go? Go to the diamond district, where everybody sells diamonds. That's where you go. You go to You want to make more money, go to a mall. You You open up a store in a in a mall. You don't You don't worry about the competition. That's where people go. Zog the Gamara Zog says the Mishnah, "Meivi'im lo min Beis Hashlachim." You don't bring wheat for the omer from a field that was fertilized. "V'lo min Beis Hashlachim." Not from a field that has to be irrigated as so. Why not? Because it's not the same quality. The wheat is not the same quality. "V'lo min Beis Ha'ilan." Not a field that has trees. "Im heivi," but if you brought wheat from these kind of places, kosher. After the fact, it's okay. "Keitzad oisah?" What's the best way to get the best wheat? "Norah shanah rishonah." First, you plow the field and you don't do anything. "U'vashanah shniyah, zore'ah kodem la'Pesach." Ah! It says Pesach in our Mishnah. "Shiv'im yom." You plant it 70 days before Pesach. "V'oisah soiles merubah." And that's going to give you a tremendous amount. So, as we're going to see in the Gamara, right now in the Mishnah we understand that one year you plow, you don't you don't seed it at all. You don't plant anything. The second year you plow again and you put in seeds. But, we're going to see in the Gamara that perhaps it means you plow three times, not two times. "Keitzad boded?" How do you check to see that it's the right quality? "Ha'gizbar d'Gabai machnis yado l'socho." He puts his hand inside the flower. "Al uvak." If dust goes on his hand. Now, dust is what we call today flower. Flower is no good. That's the first stuff that comes out. We want soiles. Soiles is the thicker stuff. You take that thick stuff and you or produce and you grind that and you come out with flower. But, the initial flower that comes out to your hand, no good. "Psulah ad she'einah penuyah." It's possul until this whole uh batch that you have here is possul until you put it through the sifter. "V'im itliyah." And if the the kernels, the grain has worms as such, I forgot to ask Yossi if this is AI or real. We're going to say that it's real. Although there's a lot of moving stuff there. know. But, it's gross. So, if it has worms, it's wormy, psulah, it's possul. Says the Gamara, "Keitzad oisah? Norah shanah rishonah." You plow the field the first year. "Yiboy lo." "Hachi kamar?" What did he mean? "Norah shanah rishonah." "U'shniyah norah v'zeirah." Is year one a year that he plows and doesn't plant? Year two, he plows and then he plants? In other words, anytime, so this we Rabboisai, we have to remember, anytime you plant, you have to plow. So, when the Gamara says "U'shniyah," "Norah." First, he plows and then he plants. It means he plows, plows and plants. Cuz zeirah comes with plant with a with a plow. Anytime you do zeirah, anytime you seed, you have to do a plow. So, again, it says "Shniyah norah." So, that's plow number one. "Zeirah." Is seeding with another plow. So, then we're going to have three plows. Why? "Norah shanah rishonah." The first year you plow. "Shniyah norah." A second plow. "V'zeirah." A third plow. First year he plows. Doesn't do anything. Doesn't plant. Second year, he plows. And then when he gets ready to to seed it, he plows again. That's the third time. And then he seeds it. He plows. "Tashma." "Disanyo." "Amar Rabbi Yossi." So, I want to know, does he plow two times? Uh oh, maybe I didn't say it well. Let me say it well. "O idim o perhaps norah shanah rishonah." He only plows once in the first year. "U'shniyah zeirah b'lo norah." In the second year, he only plows while he when he's seeding. So, it's only two plows total, not three. That's how Rashi explains "Tashma." I'll bring you right. "Disanyo Amar Rabbi Yossi, af chitei Chrazayim u'farchin il malei smuchin l'Yerushalayim." This These two places, Chrazayim and Farchin, if they since they're far away from Yerushalayim, "Hoy mevi'im minhem." If they were close to Yerushalayim, they we would have brought from them. But, because they're far away from Yerushalayim, we don't bring the wheat for the omer from them. "V'ishain mevi'im es ha'omer elah min asoles hamudromis." Only from fields We only bring the omer from fields that are south of Yerushalayim. That's according to Rashi. We're going with Rashi. He says it says it means every field in Eretz Yisrael has a southern If it's on a mountain, it has the southern side of the mountain and the northern side. So, only the southern side. But, Rashi says it means south of Yerushalayim. Here we go. There's a wheat field south of the Beis Hamikdash. You can see the Beis Hamikdash in the background. Great. "V'amen norois l'kach." And they were plowed specifically for this purpose. "Shebahem chamas zeirachas u'mahem chamishah kas." The The sun rises on the field. In other words, it has sun all day long. And the And the sun also sets on the field. "Keitzad oisah?" So, here's our raya. How do you do this? "Norah shanah rishonah." First year, you plow the field. So, that's one. "U'shniyah." And in the second year, "charish." That's two. "V'shainah." And that's three. You repeat. So, that answers the question. It's three times. "V'zeirah." And then you plant "kodem la'Pesach shiv'im yom." 70 days before Pesach. Pesach. "K'dei she'yeish smuch l'chamah." We want a field We want a time of the year that has a lot of sun. "V'oisah konah zeires." And if you do that, each stalk is going to be a zeires. "V'she boiles." And uh um how do you say the she boiles in English? The the wheat that comes off, the I I I I forgot how to say it. The Mark, you remember? She boiles. Shiboles. The Because of the grain, the zeires time is double. It's two zeireses. "V'koitzer." And you harvest. "U'ma'amer." And you gather it. "V'dosh." And you you uh separate. "V'zeirah." And you throw it up in the air and the wind comes and separates the uh the the shaft. "U'voirer." And then you could uh select and and and and choose and pick the good stuff from the bad. "V'toichen." And you grind it. "U'meraked." And then you put it in the sifter. "U'meivi es ha'gizbar." What do they do? They bring it to the shamash. "V'gizbar machnis yado l'socho." And the gizbar sticks his hand inside the batch. "Im oseh uvak." And if he detects flower, the dust, "Omer leih, chazor v'af oisah shniyah." Go back and sift it for a second time. "Mishum Rabbi Nosson Omru." They said in the name of Rabbi Nosson, "Gizbar sach yado l'shamen." First, he puts his hand in oil. You know what happens when you put your hand in oil and then you put your hand into like floury stuff, my my l'socho she'malei kol." you trap you it's like glue. So, all the the flour will stick to your hand. Bottom line says the bottom line is it says that in the second year you plow for a second time and a third time. So, you see that you plow three times not two times in order to get the best of the best crap for the Omer. The barley for the Omer. You're you're explaining to me you bring a right from the braces. So, how come the our mission doesn't use the word China that it repeats? That they hate all my days. Right so it kind of China but in the braces doesn't use the word China. Says the cashier. Come by with machine of Buddha. This is a good carrots. The word says because we're talking about that before the first year, the year before the first year, two years earlier he already did a Buddha. He already plowed the the field. So, if you plow the field you only need two times. Come machine of Buddha but in the braces where he didn't work the field before that, so he's going to need three times a plow. So, the explains I don't like this carrots. So, what the bottom line is what do we do? Do you have to plow the field two times or three times? So, we're going to come out here that you only need two times. Touch my that nor heads your the area heads your nor heads your the area heads your. We'll see a little bit more in the in the in the next tomorrow. But basically you plow the field once but you only put seeds on half the field on 50% on let's say the right side of the field. The following year you plow the entire field again and then you put seeds on the left side of the field. So, comes out and then you repeat. The next year you plow the entire field and you put seeds on the right. Next year you put plow the whole field put seeds on the left. Comes out that each area the right and the left before you put the seeds you plow two times but not three times. So, that answers the question. We're only plowing the field two times not three times. So, the word Omer and >> [clears throat] >> only bring the Omer from fields according to Russia that are south of your slime there's constant sun the sun goes up and goes down on the field and the show Omer. Omer because make law. The Omer comes from a place called base make law. How large was it it was three saw. It's like 20 27 or 25,000 square feet something like that. Not so large. The southern we see from here that the field was a southern field. We remember it's a field that has constant sun. nor heads your the area heads your They plowed the field and only and only put seeds barley seeds on half nor heads your the area heads your. I know it says half over here but I'm learning that it they plow the entire field and only put seeds on half. It's actually a street in not in the it's called the area. And he used to have a field in the corner nor heads your the area heads your nor heads your the area heads your. He did this trick that he only planted seeds on half. So, he gained that he didn't have to work as hard. He didn't have to go the whole distance. But and every year his field produced double the amount of a regular field. It was a very very good quality and he and he sold it for the silos. Anybody that wanted silos would buy from him. the clearly up solo If the flower has worms it's possible. So, what are we talking about? The flower the wheat if the flower itself has in the majority of it worms it's possible. And if the wheat has a majority that's that has worms so it's by area has a question where if it's so are we looking at the majority of the field? And that means that even if you find wheat that doesn't have any worms it's still possible. Or we're looking at each wheat individual and say oh this stalk of wheat 51% has worms gone. But another wheat that doesn't have worms that you could use. Comes out a tremendous that from the same field on the side that we go wheat by wheat so each wheat you look at it if it's the majority wormy then you can't use it but the next one that's not majority worm then you could use it. Or no we look at the total field and we say 51% of the stalks here have worms so the 49 that doesn't have worms are also possible. What do you do? Take the shower on. So, now let's pay attention to this question because we're going to have it number of times. Another one today and then tomorrow as well. Same exact question. What happens if you go and take this wormy wheat and you make it you get because just like if somebody makes an animal who has a blemish he makes it he says I'm I'm I'm giving to the dog. That's also So, we're here also if you take the wheat and you and it's a moment has it has it's wormy it's like a moment. You you make it maybe should get like that guy that that's it's animal that has a moment. Given the since it's possible it's like a I don't or perhaps the whole idea of a moment is only in the animal take all. Not also something similar. College possibly is this piece of wood is this possible? Is there a way out of it? So, look what the word says here. College possibly if it has worms it's possible. And the last that's only if the wood is moist. I this wood looks kind of dry to me. You could scrape out the area that's wormy and then it's kosher. Same question as we had before what if he takes this piece of wood and makes it mouse will this person individual get because he donated something that has a moment of God. Given the possible since this wood is possible like an animal that has a blemish and therefore it's maybe the whole concept of a moment is only by an animal. Take all. End of that. So, we're going to start the mission. Easy mission and immediately we go into a whole story of a whole for the rest of the moment. The the place called the also the same. We had a similar lotion by wheat. So, that the is number one is the it's the it's the number one for oil. That's where we should get oil for the for the oil. Just to remind we had just recently we had the that tells us that was a of him by a client. And when was in the wanted to bring the oil for to the bathhouse on this and he carried it through the the rooftops and he fights. That was also in the area. Number two on the list if you can't find oil from the you go to the area after you go over the Jordan and over there there's a place called the area and you can get oil. All of this all oil is kosher. It seems like also so maybe when it says maybe it's referring to all cities all over the world. Last time it said it meant only in that was that's a special but the but now it says Mhm. Got to look that up. I was wondering that in the Hebrew here I didn't say anything. Now I'm now I have a that I'm wrong because it says the area is good for for oil. So, maybe means the entire world. Mhm. Even though are okay but the was number one. I may be willing. You cannot bring oil same you can't bring oil from a from orchard that they they use fertilizer because it ruins the taste of the according to and not from a place that they the the orchard the the olive trees. And not in a place where they plant something between the olive trees. But maybe but if you brought out from this kind of place it's kosher. I may be unpacked. So, we're going to explain unpacked on is that it grew a third. I may be kosher and the guy is over here possible. Kosher or possible? Possible. Going to go with the possible. Do not bring from the the olives they can't really squeeze them they're too young so you put them in water you you soak them in water similar to the olives that we have today that are pickled. And not from olives that are boiled that are cooked. I may be possible. This is different than the beginning of the mission that if you brought from something that's that's kosher. Here it is possible. If you bring pickled olives or olives that were soaked or cooked, no good for the oil of a mincha. Starting that guy that the rabbi said, it says by Isha Yoav the Koya. This is the story when Avshalom killed his brother Amnon. The whole story Amnon and Tamar. And David Hamelach distanced himself from Avshalom. They stopped talking. And Yoav wanted to make peace between father and son, between David Hamelach and Avshalom. So, he came up he devised a tactic where he brought a very smart woman from Tekoa. He sent to find a really smart woman. And the place that he sent was to Tekoa. He figured in Tekoa he'll find a smart woman. And the the plan was that she should ask David Hamelach, I have two sons, one killed the other, should I talk to him, etc. to make a similar situation where David is going to have to paskin on her and then he's going to realize the situation. So, it says by Isha Yoav Tekoa. He sent out to Tekoa he he got a very smart woman. Why is she in Tekoa? Why did he send to Tekoa? Why didn't he send to Beersheba to to Jerusalem? Omer Yochana because she grew up in Shemen Zayis. Since the people of Tekoa they consume olive oil chachma metzuya bahen. They have extra amount of chachma. Don't worry about it. Here comes the story. It says in the pasuk about Asher the tovel b'shemen raglav. He he soaked his feet in oil. Z'chalke sh'el Asher. This is in shevet of Asher sh'mishach sh'Moshe shemen k'mayon. He has tremendous amount of oil. Amru [clears throat] said b'machas tzuf l'hem anshei Lutkiya b'shemen. There's a place called Lutkiya. I'm not exactly sure. Maybe it's in I'm just guessing. But I'm a bad guess. Maybe it's in Turkey. Where is Lutkiya? I don't know. I didn't look it up. Lutkiya. Maybe maybe Mark you could look it up on ChatGPT. Where is Lutkiya? Lamed vav dalet kuf yud alef. Where is it? Spain, Turkey, I don't know. People in Chutz La'aretz they needed a lot of oil. You know l'amud hamusaf echad so they they hired one of their men, a guy a guy that could do this. Amru lo yeilech v'yavei lo shemen b'mei ribo. Go bring us listen to this amount. 1 million which is actually 4 million coins. Go bring us that amount of oil. Tremendous amount of oil. Halach l'Yerushalayim. So, he went to Jerusalem. Amru lo, no no you came to the wrong place. Lech l'Tzur. Go to Tyre. Halach l'Tzur. Go to Lebanon I think. Halach l'Tzur. So, he went there. Amru lo, no. Lech l'Gush Chalav. You went to the wrong place. Go to Gush Chalav. Halach l'Gush Chalav. So, he went to Gush Chalav. Amru lo, lech l'Aplanin. In Gush Chalav he said we don't have 4 million worth or million 4 million. Rashi says each one of those four coins. 4 million golden coins. You hear this tremendous amount. I don't we don't have it. So, go to this guy. There's a guy Amru lo, lech l'Aplanin l'sod alaz. Go to that field you'll find him. M'tzo m'tzoi she'hu osek tachas eitzav. He finds this guy that could sell him millions of dollars worth of oil. What's he busy with? He's busy digging around the trees. Amru lo, he tells him yesh lo shemen b'mei ribo sh'ani tzorech. So, he figures if you offer a guy a deal, I want to buy from you a million 4 million coins worth of oil the guy is going to faint on the spot. He'll drop his his shovel and and bring the oil right away. So, listen to this. He finds a guy that could potentially do the deal of his life and the guy says sorry. Amru lo, im ten li achshav same lachti. This is one of the biggest problems I have with the story. I don't understand why this guy was so stubborn. What was so important for him to finish he owned the whole orchard the whole thing what why does he have to finish? Okay. Listen. Basically he's telling him I don't care. I couldn't care less if you buy from me you don't buy from me. I have plenty. You want to buy buy. You want to buy wait for me for an hour. I have to finish. I have a hole here to make. I have another couple trees. When I get done then we'll talk. Hinten achshav same lachti. So, he waited patiently. L'achas same lachto. When he was done hishil keilav v'acharei v'yom asaku b'va derech. This man takes his clothing throws it on his shoulder and starts walking. As he's walking he bumps into stones. He bends down picks up a stone puts it on the side another stone. He clears the path. Like a pauper. Not like a multi multi millionaire. Amru lo. So, he he's he's questioning what's going on here. Yesh lo shemen b'mei ribo? Do you really have a million golden coins 4 million golden coins? K'mi duma nisha chike sachal b'yud am. I think that the Jews made just played a played a prank on me. You know guy that can sell me a million golden coins worth of oil? You're a guy that that that you're a peasant. You pick up stones. You move things. K'nishei gila eeroi once he got to the city hotzi lo chosai ovel sh'manas a slave comes out kumkum shel chamin she brings a hot boiling hot water v'rochatz b'yado v'raglav and he washes his hands and his feet. Hotzi lo sefel shel zahav malei ashamen she brought out a um a jug golden jug full of oil. V'taval b'yado v'raglav and he dunked his feet and his his hands and his feet in it. Imamesh says the Gemara sticks in it k'yuma sh'ne'emar v'tovel b'shemen raglav. He wanted to be m'kayem where he was m'kayem the famous pasuk v'tovel b'shemen raglav the bracha for shevet Asher. He's from shevet Asher. That he should dunk his his his feet in oil. So, she he realized right away that this guy is a wealthy person. He has golden kaylim. L'achas achlu v'shasu. This is where we get today that when you do a business deal you sit down in a restaurant to eat and you drink. Mad lo shemen b'mei ribo. He went ahead and he measured a million coins a million golden coins worth of oil. Amru lo, k'lum atzorech l'yoser. Says the owner over there the bal habayis. That's it? You only need a million? Maybe you need a little more? Amru lo, ain. So, the shliach says yes I need more. El she'ain li damim. I didn't bring enough money. Amru lo, im atah rotzeh l'kachecha. If you want I'll give you more. V'ani eilech chavat damim. I'll go with you. I'll accompany you all the way to Lutkiya and I'll I'll I'll get the rest. Mad lo shemen mishmonas ribo. He gave him another 180,000 coins worth. Amru lo, amru lo yiniach ish lo sus v'li pered v'li gamal v'li chamor b'Eretz Yisrael. The guy had to rent every truck every pickup truck every car sh'lo sachar he had to rent everything for the amount of oil that he's bringing back to Syria. K'nishei gila eeroi once he came to the city yatzu anshei eeroi l'kalsei. The people came out to give him kavod. Amru lo, lo likalsuni. Don't give me kavod ela l'zeh sh'ba imi. Give this guy. Sh'mad lo shemen b'mei ribo. Look how much oil he gave me. V'rei noish sh'vi mishmonas ribo. And he he's giving me even another 180,000 coins worth. The guy am sh'ne'emar yesh m'asher v'ein kol. There's a a lot of us are like this. Yesh m'asher v'ein kol. You get into credit card debt and all this stuff. You don't have the money. Yesh m'asher he pretends he's rich v'ein kol he doesn't have a dime. M'sroiyash but there's a a lot of very poor people. V'ayin rav. And they have tremendous amount of money. Like like Warren Buffett. One of the richest people in the world he drives around he used to drive around like a 19 2001 Buick. I don't know what he has today. Maybe it broke down already. But a 20 year old car. He lives in the same house that he bought when he got married. A little ranch somewhere. No 20,000 square foot home that you'd expect from a 50,000 square foot home like Bill Gates has. No no no. Simple. If you looked at him in the street m'sroiyash v'ayin rav. He looks like a pauper but has a tremendous amount. Rabbosai, have a wonderful day. And a good tomorrow. >> [music] >> Merit the z'chus of spreading Torah throughout the world. Sponsor a shiur today. mdy.sponsor.com or sponsor.mdy.com.