Daf Yomi Avodah Zarah Daf 46 by R' Eli Stefansky

[Music] Good morning or good boy. We're sitting here in Miami in a bedroom. And this is sheer number four out of four. I have to say grac to Mark Ashkanazi sitting here doing this with me. He's a my chabas. So today we are going to do an a bridged version or uh a shorter I'm not going to say bridge it's it's a shorter version. We're going to take out a lot of stuff and I'm going to go on a pacem. So I hope you had an unbelievable tish, a meaningful tishabove and uh we should see mashia just a few not to skip the whole email section completely email from yse I just got it literally maybe two hours ago we were just learning about the coach grasshoppers of my father Ezra Ezra wrote a whole presentation on it many years ago and I think you would really enjoy it. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank Rebe for changing my life. 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As Rashi pointed out, even more so with the animal, the guy worshiping gets the mis even though it's not really woripped, even though he didn't make a change in the mountain itself. Let me ask you a question. this mountain that's woripped and nothing happens to it. Can you use parts of the mountain for the B mdash to build the B md to build let's say so you're going to say why not nothing happened the has a question all in the bottom of the whether or not it has an effect there's a certain sensitivity so to speak when it comes to when it comes to that maybe it's no good and if somebody worships the seeds and the vegetables that are connected to the found. So we're talking about somebody planted these and later on he decided to worship it. The vegetables themselves become the added part of it and those who worship it get the death penalty. That is exactly what we learned yesterday. Here it is. on the side that according to it's referring to a tree that was planted without intent for and later on he worshiped and that's what the is going to ask who told you this great secret if you planted something and later on you worshiped it like in the picture take a look at the picture here he planted it and then and he worships it also becomes awesome asking why do you have to go to such great lengths and say that's talking about a funny case where he planted it but later on I have a much better idea but he planted it for what do I gain by that and then it's not you don't have to go according to one in this goes according to Raban as well if you somebody plants a vegetable It's awesome. And he gets a death penalty. Says that I would never think about such something like that. Why do what does it say? It says the worships the the the mountain and the hill and the worships vegetables. It's one sentence. It's one. So the vegetables have to be similar to the mountain just like a mountain. You didn't plant a mountain planted it wasn't planted before was planted originally not [Music] is between the sons of about a mountain who uh stole this lodge from the mountain and rolled down the mountain. So we were just now in Austria. Why not mention it again? Wherever you go over there, especially on the highways or when you go on certain hikes and waterfalls, you'll see like these massive nets made out of metal that catch falling stones. It's a common thing over there. In fact, we're on one of these bridges overlooking this waterfall and I pointed out to the guys, you see the railing is all dented and like who dented it? What? Somebody came with a hammer and dented it. and you you realize that there's stones falling all the time and they indent these things. In fact, we we were looking at some of these nets and on the bottom of the net, you see it actually caught these massive boulders that could just come off the happens here in America also everywhere. So what happens when a stone dislodges itself and falls down and somebody worships that stone? Gomorra is going to explain what the suffering is. So we have we don't know who says what and we won't know the tries to say maybe's kid said this but at the end we don't know the sons of who who are they just as a as a note as a random information sons and were twins but they were born believe it or not three months apart. One was in the seventh month one is in the ninth month. The other thing is that twins had sister twins. It's not random piece of information. And they argued with if you worship a stone that dislodged from a mountain, the stone becomes becomes why would it be like a mountain just like a mountain has no human intervention. was created by and therefore it's a human being has no intervention with this uh boulder that's dislodged from the mountain roll down the mountain which I got to show you hold on you know what let me show you this also because I didn't show it yesterday at the end of is when you have a vizar that has a name he thinks he's all high should make him Oh, I guess he's insulted cuz he called him a name. He's a bold. [Music] He worshiped it. So excuse me says okay so since this boulder had no human intervention so it should be motor you can't put a desar can't aar doesn't cling to says the okay so we could go through it in a chart very very simple the question on the top is a stone that fell down so it's like a mountain that has no human intervention so the Gmorra says but wait a minute a mountain is connected to the ground but this boulder is not so that's a problem I could prove it from an animal. So now I have two things going here. I have a a mountain and an animal. That's all we have. That what that a mountain is connected. Fine. That's like a reason why I shouldn't learn a boulder from it. But on the other hand, the boulder is similar to an animal. And if I worship an animal, the animal remains mut. I'm allowed to use the animal. Somebody worshiped the animal, the animal doesn't become. So said, "Wait a minute." But there's something special about an animal. An animal is a living thing. It's a living organism. And for that I'll prove from a mountain a mountain is not a living thing. So don't tell me that the reason why an animal is mut is because it's living. A mountain is living and it's also motor. But a mountain is is connected. So an animal is not connected but an animal is alive but a mountain is not alive. And you go in a circle in a circle. What is that called? It's called a you keep on going in a circle and it's a catch 22. You never stop. But the bottom line is if I take these two items, there are only two items, a mountain and and an animal. I take these two items, I come up with one common denominator. The common denominator from these two things is let's see it inside. It's alive. The mount will prove that's not alive. Keeps it going in a circle. Each one has a a pro and a con. But the common the neighbor the one thing in common the common denominator between the two of them there's no human intervention a human being did not create an animal human being did not create a mountain and they're both a and therefore I can learn from this like a like a stone like there's no human intervention mut so the stone even though you worshiped it it should remain mut Wait a minute. A mountain and an animal. Nothing changed in the way they were created. But this stone, something changed. Before it was part of a mountain. Now it's not. Hold on. Let me just push one more button here. Here says that there's no human intervention. But now the says, but wait a minute. the mountain and the animal have something in common that the the rolling stone doesn't have. Oh, I shouldn't have said that. That the something changed in the way they were created. Whereas the what's the better word? Not a rolling stone. A dislodged stone has something that is different. It used to be part of a mountain and now it's no longer part of the mountain. So says, "You're right. Okay, you know what? Let's do this. We'll do the same thing. I just I took what Yoshi did and I just added imm. It's an animal. We'll learn it from an animal with a was born complete 100% perfect like Hashem creates a an animal and something happened to it. It lost its leg. It's now about yet if you worship it, the does not stick to it. So it's like a mountain that doesn't stick to it. So I can learn from those two things. They can learn the dislodge stone. It's the same thing. I'm just going to talk about an animal that has uh into it. The two of them together in a mountain or you want two other things, a complete animal without the tree is a dried out tree. Oh, so that's the reason to say that it's mut. I can learn this stone that fell off the mountain from a mountain and an animal that has a to say that it's awesome. The tells us that we should hate it should be disgusting in our eyes should be it should be as they say in it should be disgusting to us. That's a big in the even though I just showed you a whole circle that Yoshi did. I could learn it out from a catch 22 that it should be mut. Nevertheless, I'm gonna say it's because of this P that should always be disgusting in your eyes, which teaches us that even if you have a reason to say that, it's so check out this Rashy over here. Rashi says it says that Don't learn it for goes on to say I just highlighted if you could something only do for the bad to make it also the only time I can say something that's actually listen to It's only when the says that this is straight out, not through because through I have to always learn it for the because it says the Gar just goes on a little bit off topic here just to say not off topic but in the topic who said it maybe I could prove that this time or maybe it's said that This stone is the one that they they're the ones that said it's different is the one that said it's awesome. Why? So if somebody took an egg and stood it up, an egg typically lays flat. This one you're able to stand it up. Whatever you did, it's in a in in some sand. I don't know what you dented the bottom of it. You stood it up. Now the understands that an egg is similar to a boulder that fell off a mountain. Why? Because a chicken you can't make a chicken user through a desire. Let's say somebody worshiped the chicken. Chicken is a bai doesn't become oscer yet the egg is like a boulder that was attached to the mountain. The egg is attached to the chicken and the and it came out of the chicken and somebody took this egg and and then and put it on the side to to bow to it. Ma what's that? So this is in other words and said he asked this question. The question was if you put this egg on the side to bow to it and he bowed to it when he took the egg from a laying position and stood it up. Perhaps that's an act. That's human intervention. But if he just bowed to an egg that came out of a chicken that has no human intervention, not so you see from here that wants to say that it's motive [Music] happens to be that they'll say no. We could be say no no they'll say then in such a cases also And if you bow to it even though you didn't lift it up, it's a not what happened was first of all he wanted to uh worship it but he didn't. So what's going on with the man according to which is this? when a Jew acquires does become right away or he has to worship it. So if you say they have to worship it right away. So this is a case it should be and if you say that you have to worship it at the end of the day he didn't worship it. So why should be says tell you why it's the Jew didn't worship it but a guy stepped in and he worshiped it. He put it in position. He stood it up to worship it. And then a guy, a random guy came and worshiped it. Now think about it for a second. If a guy comes to my egg and worships it, am I allowed to eat the egg? Yes. Because that guy has no right to worship my egg and to ask for my egg. David Black asked yesterday, the kid, right? He asked, "What about um Yanessa?" Yeah, this looks different to Cravis. We're not going to go into it. But if I say that this egg here, I'm standing my egg up. I'm taking it from a laying position and I'm standing it up. In other words, I'm getting it ready to do. Then I'm allowing the random guy to come by and worship it and make my egg also. If it wasn't in the position, then he can't. But since I put in the position, then he could. So now we have the same idea. Person takes a brick and he stands it up. It was laying down. He stands it up. Is the same idea. Says, "Well, there's a little bit of a boy and a guy came along even though it's not his." The guy is like, it becomes a They come and they ask a question is because look when you have the the the brick is very narrow on the side and long this way. Right? So if it's this when it's laying down like this then it's very noticeable when you stand it up. It's super noticeable like in this picture. But if you take an egg and you stand it up, it's not that noticeable. I what I did and I just took this picture. I do I I copied it and I put it sideways. It's hard. It's not that noticeable, right? The difference in height between the the width and the height is not that much. Maybe there's no difference. It's one of these questions we don't have an an answer to. very so it goes like this. There's an idea called nead. What does nead mean? If I have an animal which we we just discussed, I have an animal. I have a a sheep and I worship the sheep of nothing happens to the sheep. Almost nothing happens to the sheep. I'm allowed to eat the sheep. I'm allowed to sell the sheep. I'm allowed to have But there's one thing that happens. It's called nead. It was worshiped. It's a nead. Somebody did a void to it and therefore you cannot bring it as a carb in the bdash. The b mdlish is super sensitive to these things and it becomes you're right. Nothing happened. Now the question is as follows. When somebody worships a mountain mentioned it all the way in the beginning of the sh. Somebody worships a mountain. We said nothing happens to the mountain. You you can't make a mountain up. But am I allowed to quarry what's the word? Chop some stones from it and and create a misbehensity to it. I'll give you an example. Let's say you go to India and in India you know that the cows there are kadesh and they hold the cows are you know how to touch them. They walk around in the streets. You're not allowed to bother them. You're not allowed to beep at them. They worship these cows. Are you allowed to drink the milk of such a cow? The answer is yes. Why? Because the worshiping of the desire doesn't take effect on the animal. But are you allowed to bring this animal as a no. Why? because it's so good. If you worship the mountain, can I use those stones for the What's the question here? Another example. What about if somebody worships wheat that is attached to the ground? Do we say so you're not maybe perhaps you can't bring the sweet on the as can't make flour out of it or perhaps there's no such thing as being worshiped when it comes to something that's attached to the ground when it comes to the B of Now here's the here's the interesting question this stone these stones that I quarry out of the mountain are different than wheat why because the wheat you want to use as a carbon itself it's the milk itself These stones are one step removed. You want to make a then on the bring. But what about carbon? This is just a step away from the carbon. is to allow the carbon to be brought on carbon is it similar to the carbon itself says the turning of the dod global mdy wow taco big pella you're talking about maybe 40 minutes before chabas and there are how many people did he say 30 people on YouTube or something he said at least 30 I read Okay. Global wise enjoying the benefit of clients create more anonymous and says the pay attention here. There's a beautiful from very very nice and if you don't like it that much that's okay because in two minutes we'll be on to the next. So Rabbi says like this I could prove to you whether or not something that's iser in the md why so there's something called that that is the somebody paid a z for her services that is not allowed to be brought as a carbon somebody gave the zina a sheep she can't bring it as a carbon but she could use it for herself. So says as follows, she's permitted to use the sheep for herself. Nevertheless, if somebody pays her with, let's say, a tree that's attached to the ground, she cannot give that tree to the mdash to build a bdash. Fact is a it just keeps on going the is saying they shouldn't bring it for the md I want to point out here before we go on this is the contention that has with why because it doesn't say anywhere that is raba made that up figured but that since the doesn't make a distinction between attached and detached so there's no difference but says who told Maybe attached is motor. So let's do it again. If a detached animal is motor to a human being yet when it comes to the yet the connected is for the it doesn't matter whether it is connected or not connected. You hear this niggan that I'm doing the says calls because there's a niggan like this points out it's called a question because it's like of a question but it's not a question but anyway [Music] so when it comes to worshiping of a desire that is also when you have a disconnected something that's not detached is also For a human being, if somebody worships a detached thing, it be the owner becomes into it. Takes a piece of wood, it makes it becomes doesn't matter whether it's attached or detached. Sorry. The the the detach becomes certainly says attached. So certainly when it comes attached to the who told you your whole is on the premise that is and you know what I'm going to tell you is I'm going to have the reverse Oh, when it comes detaches is yet I say the opposite of you is the mountain which is cannot be a god doesn't matter whether it's the individual or you see I say that is you can make a out of So the I'm going to take it a step further says the the the money she made it for her services which is she's allowed to use the sheep for herself. Certainly she's allowed to take a tree that she got for her service and give it to What about this that says uh you shouldn't bring you shouldn't give to the Hashem's house. No, no, no, no. That's for a different says what if the Zer received for her services she received a para adumo a $2 million cow. She received your stop. Let's say she could donate it to the Bikdash. Why? Because we learned from the it's only something that goes into the Bisher. But a parad check it out like this picture. What do you do? You do it on facing the Bish. But it's outside of the Bish. Where does the take place? Outside right there on that spot. So that is M for her to donate to the Bish. How do I know it? from these words. It's not coming to say the opposite. You thought comes to say that she cannot donate to the opposite. It's going to say you could donate a say no what she's not allowed to donate. She cannot donate is a plate crush like a flat plate of gold that they used to put on the wall that they used to decorate the wall like their uh wallpaper was made out of gold in the B that you cannot donate. So says like this I have to be and say do not use these stones for the m you have to say to be that you could use these stones for who wins I win says you go with the not with the do when you have a you should go with you should ask the questions So Rashi says it doesn't mean ask a question says means means you do say every is called it's said in a in a in a in a song of a of a question. Fine. You just established that if you you could say you could say you should go. It's not true. Do we have anybody greater than the greatest that ever lived? He says that if you have a you go and the gumar is going to answer I'm just telling you the end of the gar is gonna answer nos that you go but he said because he was just trying to be nice to his rebel he wanted to wake him up and remind him something but he didn't in fact believe in what he was saying he made up that didn't even make sense to himself was just to get his rebi to remember something so it says like You don't do the case where a person touched the dead person. Let's say became to me and he wants to bring a carbon bas so what's the process you have to get sprinkled by the paradum water on the third day seven sprinkles and on the seventh day but the problem is the seventh day it falls out on chabas and is on shabas now what if he doesn't get sprinkled he's not going to be able to bring a car but to sprinkle somebody on shabas is why because you're fixing him before he's now he's not fix So says let's be interesting let's do let's say you must bring a carbon that's so you should do says no let's not say he doesn't have to bring a carbon so therefore do not do you see uses in in the fashion, not in. So you see that if you have two ways to do it, you do a let's do the opposite to sprinkle somebody doesn't push. So she an animal on Shabas which is is of lion I forgot the lion hopefully it'll come to me uh what you know what I'm talking about so certainly you shouldn't be able to do on chabas which is [Music] Okay. No, you don't understand what happened. You're right. Said the instead of the but what happened was is the one that taught him this and forgot and came to remind him. Now knew very well that on Shabas you do. Why? Because it says sorry. Yeah. that on Chabas you should do that you shouldn't allow the guy to bring a carbon even on Chab even it has to do with just wanted to remind in a gentle way and he said so Rashi says there terrible thing happened there terrible but a kiss from Hashem so it says Rash follows So told him this got mad at him. Since you bring me a listen to this incredible he cursed him, you shall die by the knife. That's that in fact died like that even though he he ded that he should die but his rebi gave him such a curse. In other words, think about what happened there. He was trying to be adidal. He was trying to be gentle and not to tell his rebi hey you told us in she like this and like that. He said was going to you know j jog his memory a little bit. He got punished for that. So, don't don't whatever the remember he tells. This is what you taught me. That is you taught this to me. Have a wonderful day. I hope you had a meaningful and I hope we have a meaningful for all the 30 that are now on YouTube for the you have a meaningful tish and we shouldn't have another one. This should be the last last one. Uh just as a side note, last year uh I had medical issues because of the force I guess. I don't know. I was under a lot of stress in the rest and I have to say that this year it's a lot calmer, a lot better. You should see Msiah. Thank you. Merit the of spreading Torah throughout the world. Sponsor Ashir today. mdysponsor.com or sponsor at mdy.com.