Daf Yomi Makkos Daf 10 by R’ Eli Stefansky

[Music] Good morning live from a hotel in Chicago today. Uh it's four days in the by the time you see this it might be a different day. We'll put it up real quickly right over here. Um the plan is for me to give four shir today. Two and two, one in English, one in Hebrew. This right now is the second sheer of the day. With me in the room, I can't say their names. I could say Rabbi Gluck and I can say my good friend Barry. This is Barry's first time doing a daff. I'm not gonna say his last name. Those who know know. Those who don't know don't know. So we have a phenomenal daf today. It's a daft of a just stories and muser and it's not your typical daff. It's a good one to start out with. Um I just want to show you let's see what we got over here. So yesterday I showed this picture of a guy doing the daff with us on a boat. Now, we didn't realize it's one of our own from the V. His name is Kapak and he won this uh this cruise on a small yacht in Israel cuz he did a sem on one of the pro with us. He won it in in the raffle. So, that's why they were showing me this picture. Um we have a beautiful sunrise over here. Irish Simon also big part of the year. Here it is. Volume margin. as the sun comes up over the Black Sea. Best time to be doing the DAFF. Good morning, Rabo Sai. Ah, so I'm just going to read this over here because it's easier. I'll turn this around. Dear Rabbi, Dr. Ellie Stansky, thanks a ton for treating people suffering from Gimmora trauma. I myself had severe gimmar trauma and your sheer mameish gave me a new look at learning. I was wondering if perhaps Indie Y can do something for diving trauma. It would help thousands of people. It would help us win against the ishal who pray five times a day beh from Tom's River, New Jersey. So yeah, I we learned Tyra and through Tyra you see everything about Fela. We talk a lot about Fela. Very interesting letter. This is a followup to a different letter that I received from Ephraim. I think his name is Ree. He's a rabbi in a conservative schol and he does the da and he gave us he gives us an update here on his life and uh those boys that he got to do the daff for mak. So 10 boys, he says in this letter, 10 boys from the conservative schul are learning with us. It's amazing. Dearansky, thank you for your tireless hard work. I realize how much has changed me through a difficult few weeks. The week before pes my brother passed away after a difficult battle with brain cancer. Throughout Chiva, I felt an additional loss while not being able to open my gummor and learn. I get strength knowing that the 10 boys I I with Fishial's tremendous support convinced to join the join for Makis were beginning to learn while I couldn't. So Fishial as a lot of you know official gave $250 per person whoever does Mak with NDI up to 500 people I think it was. So they joined and they're doing it even though he was supposed to be there in the beginning to help him out. He wasn't able to be there and they started it on Shabbat afternoon after I got up from Shiv. I jumped back into the dot to catch up on the pages and makot I had missed bar learn what I missed from the end of San Adan at the end of my brother to have a sem in his memory during shin after yantiff. Several people have reached out to me from the mdy kahila to comfort me or check in on me. I gain more than Torah learning which would be enough from being a part of this community and for that I have tremendous being able to learn the da over shiva gave me an appreciation for the blessing I receive every day by learning thank you for all your hard work PS additionally I'm proud to share that the students from the conservative schul I wrote to you about last time have been learning makot every day and are well on their way to completing their first summar which is amazing that's why I like reading uh this uh conservative rabbis emails because it gives me a lot of that there are conservative kids out there that are learning Gamarra and are making a change in their lives by learning Gimarra and uh I'm very proud that they are part of the shir what else do we have here or we don't oh did I remind Dyl serious I guess now I do have to do the sponsors your local sponsors and now we'll take a break for local sponsors the sponsor by churns in honor of my family in memory of their uncle share may our learning bring us closer to one another and to Hashem monthly sponsors month. 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Ariel Liba and Shim Lewitz are our two English editors. Marshinazi just plain old Marshinazi that's behind the scene right now making sure that this year is online. Happy birthday to our dear Sadic Rebel. Thanks for all that you do for this should bring you much. I owe Reb Ezra tremendous for a lot that he does for MDY and the organization. I don't know if I I know I met him, I think, but I don't know what he looks like. I mean, if I met him in the street, I probably wouldn't realize he's the guy that I owe so much to. So, happy birthday to you. What's going on? And I hope nobody else cops. Weekly sponsor anonymous in honor of my first completk art of the month. We're almost done in honor of Klein and Markazi for all the work to do. Mark, you're mentioned like more times than me. I'm getting a little jealous over here. Here we are. We're going to do uh we're talking about we are on dessay three lines from the bottom. We're talking about gulos. Gulos is when somebody kills somebody inadvertently by mistake. Reminds me of a story that uh a lot of us New Yorkers and you Barry would probably remember this. Remember John Gotti? And uh John Gotti, the story goes that his next door neighbor ran over John Gotti's son by mistake. I just read up on it today because I remember the story. I wanted to see if it's a real story because I remember it when I was like, you know, I was maybe 15 years old. It was in the 80s sometime. And maybe I only heard about it when I was 15. Maybe it happened before. But the the the story goes that this neighbor ran over John Gotti's kid and killed him. And Jangatti took his family to Florida to, you know, to do Shiva over there, the the mafia Shiva. And this guy somehow disappeared and was never found, never nothing. They say they chopped him up with a chainsaw and then they dissolved his body in some acid. Whatever they did, they did it mafia style. And I remember thinking, "Wow, this Jangi is a his mom is a terrible person." But the garra here says that when somebody kills somebody bash inadvertently that the family members have the right to go ahead and avenge his death. They kill him. This isn't the Tyra unless he runs away to a thing called Miklat. He runs away to the special city that protects him especially a non-Jew is even bash so maybe wasn't so off so says oft this is what we had yesterday let me just show you this is the picture of yesterday the Torah says that there's six cities in fact the Torah says in the same pos there's 42 other ones is going to make a distinction but these are six main. You can see the river running right through. One side is the side closer to the ocean is the other side is it's the uh the side. So when the says it says you should make thirds, they should be a third. What does that mean? So, let me grab a laser over here for a second. Here's the laser. Okay. This right over here, this right over here is the border of So from this point until you have doesn't count is the same distance as from then doesn't count. Then from toesh is the same distance as the two the other ones. and from Kadesh to the border of Israel or is so what do we have? We have four empty spaces that don't have they should all be equal distance from that we just said from this point to the to the northern point is the same distance as the bomb question. How why is it that in look there's three in why there's only two and a half in this side on this side of the Jordan most of Israel nine and a half live on this side. So how does it make sense that they have equal amount of miklots refuge cities to save people? I'll tell you why writes him. There's many murderers in Gilad on the other side of the yard. First words Gil is partly of by the way. I'm going to have to pick up speed here a little bit faster than usual because of the great amount of words that we have in our daf over here just to say it. And even in Hebrew, I went over by like four minutes or so. Hopefully I don't do too much worse than that, you know, because Hebrew doesn't have all the sponsors that we have in English. says the word a lot of blood they'll sit there and conspire to kill people says check this out okay now this happens fast if let's say you're on the bottom of the screen. Look what happens. We'll take you. You see those four squares? You see the guy running one more time? I like this, but it happens too fast. Here he goes. He starts running. Let's say he had to go 100 miles from the border of until he got to. But if he went if he was anywhere else in he'd only have to go let's say half the distance at most half that distance. Anybody that's on the border is going to have to go 100 miles. Anybody that's in the middle of the maximum he'll have to go is 50 miles because there's a place above him and a place below him. And he could go here. We just continue. No, I don't know. It didn't. If you look closely, you could see it happening. You see those guys? They run. They only have to go 50 miles. Uh, did I say that? Yeah. The middle one is closer because a lot of murders. So now the just goes on if you don't get one thing that's the beauty of there's a new every two minutes or less. Why does the say that these are like killers killers? We have a nice picture. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. What? What just happened? Somebody's on my computer. Hold on. Let me let me get it. What's going on? You do it. Thank you. Basic is where the kahadam go to get their their food from the people that separate the truma. So, if you're Israel, you have 100 fruit. You're going to give 2% to the k. usually 2%. Some people give 1%, some give 4%, but about 2%. You have to go to the to the threshing floors to where everybody gathers and they do their their their grinding and everything. So, you go there. It's like literally like uh in the pizza shop in New York on on m Pes, everybody's running trying to grab a slice of pizza. There's a lot of pushing and I want you give me, you gave me last time, you owe me the whole thing. So, that's why the Torah says my means like at the threshing floor where they go crazy over the food. So to these people are so into killing. They're like the mafia in New York. They're constantly conniving ways of how to how to kill another guy. Basically ask why are you telling me the six cities in our chart over only have six. It says in the 42 more. There's a few differences. The Gmorra brings one difference over here that the six main ones if the guy the murderer, let's say guy was in a car accident. He killed somebody by mistake and it's it's not a bad mistake. He wasn't texting while he was driving. It was a pretty decent mistake. It was inadvertent. So he has to go to Mikl. Let's say he doesn't know he's in Mikl. And the the father of the the guy that got killed finds him there. He says, "What are you doing here?" And he he realizes he doesn't know what that it's mikl. he's allowed to kill him. But if it's in the six main cities, he won't be allowed to kill him. This is also different. The Gumar is going to talk about that you you have to pay rent in the other 42 cities. In these six cities, you don't have to pay rent. Okay? Different different there's differences. Whether you're aware of it or not aware of it, you have to be aware. If we go back to our chart, right? One of the cities is the bottom left. The one in the bottom is says is to Yeshua gave one of the good one. He gave him said he should get what got was the outskirts of he didn't get the inside. Okay. The outskirts going back to Kadesh. Where's Kesh? All the way at the top of Is that these town of Kesh is a very large city. It has a wall around it. It says that should be it shouldn't be a large city should be a medium city shouldn't be a small village not a giant city is something in between why we're going to see in a second. Yeah, you're right. The you're familiar with the wall that's not we're talking about another one. There's a smaller one. I'll bring you another another example is a very large city with a wall. Some people say it's even and then there's a smaller on the side. It's called the one you know right next to. So let's understand what we just read. These cities should not be a giant city. Shouldn't be a small city. Why? Because we don't want a lot of people there. There's a lot of people then there'll be more of a chance of the the relatives killing the the murderer and we don't want it to be too small. We need the guy to be able to live. We need a water source. If there's no water source, you should bring them water. Once you go into the you cannot leave. It's awesome for you to leave. You have to stay there all the way till the dies. As we're going to see, if the does die, the person could spend the rest of his life in that place. So, make sure he has water. You need marketplaces. You need a lot of people there. Why? Says something very interesting because you don't want the family of the murder of the victim to come and kill the make it like a little war. You need people to protect if if the people are few less over there people inside outside. But the bottom line is you have to add people. You give them not just people, you know, you have all the good, you have people, it's all good. You can't sell, you can't have a Walmart selling hunting gear and guns like they have, you know, in Chicago and a lot of places in America, you just walk into the store and buy a gun. Why? Because then the relative when you come into the city, there's a gate and they're going to make you go through that u metal detector and they're going to find that you have a gun on you. You have, you know, they they pat you down in those days. They don't want people coming in with with swords and stuff. But if you could purchase a sword in the city, then then you didn't gain anything. You'll go into the store, buy a sword, and then kill the victim, kill the murderer. So, we don't want that to happen either. And also, hunting gear is very dangerous. You could kill if you could kill elephant, you could kill a human being with it. Also say you could sell this stuff in the cities. Do not make it hunting grounds where you could just put nets out. Oh, I have a video. I should have showed it. You know what? Maybe Mark or somebody Dave, I don't know if he's listening, could tell the Israeli um the editors to add this. Kobe should add this over here at minute 22, right? When it says talks about like five lines from where becomes very wide. Check this out. Just this cool video of ropes. Why not? This is how you make a rope. very big rope. Do you ever know how to make a rope? Here it is. It's very bishm. You learn a lot of stuff in the shear. They have a very long building. That's how long the rope could be. So once you make that rope, now you take those three ropes and you make it one. Look at this. I wonder if they have a better way of doing it today. Anyway, that's how you make a rope. Fine. You don't want a lot of uh a lot of ropes, a lot of a lot of uh nets because you don't want the relatives of the of the one that died to come and kill him in the mikl. Obviously if they if he they get if he gets killed I see that you're listening he's just throwing this video on chart 23 you don't want the who kills the murderer in the mikl is going against he's wrong they'll kill him for doing that where do you see this in the he shall go to one of these cities and live. You should do something that will cause him to live. Make sure that he's able to live over there. Nobody will kill. And that throws us into a beautiful audi must go to that city with him. Why? You must live. did he give something to the student that will give him life. Oh, I just remembered his name says the famous saying he says for a Jew is not oh it's a he has a life a beautiful life and we're going to add a beautiful thing to it called Tyra like we're going to add Pesak to his beautiful life. No, Tyra is life. It's like saying, "Oh, uh, you know, breathing air is is a very special thing. It means a lot to me." No, without air, you die within 25 seconds. Without Tyra, you have no life. So, here's a Ram. I just want to show you this amazing Ram. The Ram actually talks about this and he says, this is exactly what we're learning right now. aid who has to go into the he should go with his rabbi. Why? You should live. So in highlighted in red you should give him life and a life of somebody that that's that's a smart person a person who's learned and somebody's yearning to learn without learning. The Rambam says that a person that who doesn't learn Tyra is considered like a dead man. You have to give him life. It's not just sustenance. Water. Here you gave him water. Like we said before, make sure there's a water source. That's one way of living. But you have to give him a rebi to learn to otherwise he's not alive, says the rabb. So he says be very careful. Don't teach inappropriate students because they are gonna end up killing somebody by mistake and we're gonna see the how that happens and why that happens and then you're going to they're going to force you to go into gull with them. You're going to have to uproot your whole family. You're a rebi you might have to move to another city. You live in Bavish. They said no you got to go to now for 45 years because you have a student there. So be careful who you teach. You want to make sure that you're teaching people are not killing people by mistake. And has to do because usually Hashem makes the person that kills by mistake is the person that deserves to go to G. What if a rebi has to go to go? He killed somebody mistake. You take the uproot the holy yes bring the holy yeshiva with him as how could a rebi have such a [Music] thing saves a person from bad stuff first it says you should go to then say soyra saves you from the bad stuff how did a rebi teaching students ever come to a position where he's in a bad situation, the would save him. I'll give you a mush. Let's say there's a Rebi who learns on a on a typical day learns 12 hours, some days 14 hours a day. One day he decides, oh, he has to do a mitzvah. He has to take his kids to a bull's game. Let's say let's say I'm just throwing out an example. Let's take his kids to to to a basketball game. So while he's in the basketball, he's not Isaac and Tyra. At that moment that he's in the basketball game, a bad thing could happen to him. Yeah. He says, "Oh, but I was in a basketball game of uh learning in between by by timeouts." No, no, no. But during the basketball game, oh, that's when they could get you. when you're learning you can't get you can't get you but at a moment that you're you go on your phone and you look at the news whatever it is poof that's the time so for that the rebi should go to gulos be careful or that's why it happened to begin with what does the do it make sure that what does do protects you from the malamus when a person learns tyra can't kill him you you need me to hold your baby now I'm a professional with her guy has twins and I see him trying to davay I'm not going to say his whole name but Jake Jake has twin girls and I saw yesterday he was in dav he's like holding this you know he's a big he's a good diver he's a really good diver but he just can't d with a baby on so I asked him while he's ding says you want me to take I took her for 5 minutes and she's a great baby. She didn't she didn't cry, nothing. She was happy. She actually smiled. But the poor guy, he's probably since these babies were born, right? Probably holding the babies non-stop. They're twins. He can't get away. When one's up, the other one's sleeping. I don't know. He has a good babysitter. He told me that she's there all day. So, we'll see. I have no problem. We can make it a mat. I'll hold the baby during this year. I have no problem. Says, listen to this. No, we said this already. So saves you from the malas, but maybe from this relative or whatever it is, he could kill you. Says the story of this is Barry. Don't think that all of is like this. This a lot of stories. Sometimes it gets a little tougher. Sometimes some people don't even like this. It's too much stories. They like the the good stuff, the was learning in the yeshiva and the came to kill him. He couldn't come close. You know who else they say the story about? Who does he say the story about? Word for word couldn't kill. This story is about why couldn't they kill him? He wouldn't stop talking in Tyra. when you talk in terra can't get in and kill. So what do you do? We came up with a great trick. He sat on a tree over there on a cedar tree. So it made a like imagine lightning strikes a cedar tree. The sound is is insane. Boom. I heard a guy say yesterday he was in near O and he heard a tremendous bomb. He says, "But I'm used to it. There's bombs every day in Gaza. just a few feet away. Her bomb. Turns out that a Israeli plane was flying above and a missile fell off the plane by mistake and hit this Israeli Yishu right on the border of Gaza and it explo. So you're talking about a 650 pound bomb or something. It made a if there was a house there, it would have been uh completely de well demolished is not the word. There was a hole in the ground. I don't know 50 ft long or something like something 30t. I don't know what it was. I mean the picture looked crazy. The the amount of and nobody was there but nobody was harmed. So anyway, I have no idea what this had to do with the suga. So says oh he made a big noise. That's what I noise. So made a big noise. Oh, made a big noise. He was like, "What? What just happened?" Oh, what just happened? He stopped learning. Poof, he died. I had a little bit of an argument with my today. I told my kabuza that I believe that could have could have controlled himself not to look because if the did something that was impossible to to continue learning that's not fair you can't kill you can't smack a person or close his mouth oh you're not learning now can't hit you in the head and say oh you didn't learn for one second so I could kill you so he did something that was so loud that a regular person turns around to look but if he wanted to he could controlled himself in that look and continued learning then he wouldn't have killed him. I think he says no. He doesn't agree with me. I said the same thing about I said them probably also. So we go back to this picture. Yeah. Going back to this picture. Why is it that look at Betser? It's all the way in the bottom right. Why is it mentioned first in the Tory? We see it throughout the entire over and over and over and over. Everything's connected. You act a certain way. Hashem acts back in the same exact way that you actu. He threw Ysef into a pit cuz he didn't want to kill him. He wanted to save him from the brothers. Oh, you were the first to save. I'm putting you first in the to save people that need to run away from their family members. You're the first I want you to make sunlight. I want you to make beautiful something nice for the murderers. We're talking about inadvert [Music] murderers. You already did so. You already built these beautiful cities for them. A person who loves money will never be satiated with money. Give a guy a multi-millionaire guy just made $100 million in a deal. He wants $200 million deal. And whoever loves a lot, he will not have wheat. If you want a lot, you won't have wheat. So are completely different is referring to referring to he knows like we said in the Mishna in order for these six cities in order for these cities to go into effect and to work you need all six three alone is not enough. So what mushroom did before went was nothing. The three that he made were just preparation because they wouldn't work until he made three in wasn't in Israel yet we got but he said I have a mitzvah let me do it. The famous says in this not that he is famous but this line of his is very famous. We say in a We run, they run. We run and we get paid. We have 69 people on Zoom live. So to all the people that are live on Zoom to you. Thank you for being here. It's a big because I know that I'm not just talking to two people. I've talked to at least 70 here. 70 people now and more. Okay. So we say that they those who don't learn they run and run and run and they don't make money and we run and run and run and we do make money we not money we get awarded ask what do you mean everybody who goes to work and runs and works they everybody makes money and you you get okay why are you different says the famous this is a famous line that he says he says if you're a lawyer and you work and work and work and work but you don't bring a case you You don't finish what you did. You worked for three months, but you didn't bring a product. You can't go to court with whatever whatever you did. You didn't finish. If you're He talks about a a a guy that makes a shoemaker or a carpenter. A carpenter. He worked really really hard on a project and it busted. It fell apart on the last day. It fell off the table and smashed on the floor. He can't go to the customer and say, "Listen, I worked really hard. I want you to pay me. I deserve something." He'll get zero. When a person learns Tyra and he doesn't have anything, he learns a daf and a lot of people say, "I learned the whole daff. I don't understand half of it. It went in one year, went in the other, it was so fast, blah blah blah blah blah." But you coming and showing up, you get rewarded. That's that's what the Tyra says here. That's what we say at we work hard. We get for not even having anything to show for it, for nothing. says on this didn't didn't accomplish anything. He built three cities that are there to to how do they say to when you do a when you make they okay they're there to absorb absorb the murderers but you can't absorb today it's going to happen after he dies doesn't matter you get for doing what the said he said make the three cities even though it doesn't work it doesn't work you get Let's learn. Let's understand the next part of the in a Russia type of way. The simple is if you like a lot, you don't get anything. But the Gar learns it differently. Not with alf but with to you is the wheat that what who's who could teach the the masses the person who knows who's the one that's going to utter the the greatness of hem the strength of hem let everybody hear all the praises is the person who could who is able and knows all of a lot of the told he's not he's not saying anymore because he heard from that you have to know all of you have to be holding in a very high level of muser in order to give somebody muser so not true if the people want to hear it then you're allowed to say it. And that's my head even though I'm not holding but I heard that people want to hear it so I say it who the person who loves even though he himself is not at the end of the day he'll have to have sons and son-in-laws that are so And said, "Oh, that's exactly who love." So he had sons that are we have the two people that wrote the garash and raven once said it's referring to learning and one is to teach. He teaches teaches with other people. Learns with other people. person who loves to to learn. He'll have the the he'll have success with his with his children with a person who learns by himself is a sword to the person who's by himself become foolish. This is a sword on the necks of those who hate. It's a nice way of saying who learns by himself, he is deserving of a sword. You shouldn't be learning by yourself. Why? Because when you learn by yourself, you can make a lot of mistakes. And you need a to help you out and to to correct you when you make a mistake. If you don't have you can make mistakes. I uh was learning this with so like I said like okay um a lot of people ask me what my daily schedule is. So I learn a lot by myself. Most of the day I learn by myself. The question is how do you learn by yourself? You know you're not to learn by yourself. So I have a here today because I'm saying form. So I got up a little earlier than usual and I learned with my here. You can see the shakas. I don't know why it shows it like this. Let me see if I could get it better. No, it's elongated for some reason. But it says here hour and 40 minutes before shakras by 8:00 I already got in my hour and 40 minutes with him for two and so I have usually what I do is I learn by myself. those who need the know I learn by myself and when I know it well then I learn with him and he kind of undoes you know any mistake I have or with that I still have plenty of mistakes but at least less rabbenis as known he was the galador he's known to always learn by himself he never kuses nothing so how how do you do with the gumar over here rabbangus was the galador whenash was younger he's big he asked him why you learn by yourself like he met him he didn't know who he was so he said me and he and okay fine you're somebody like you you can continue but they also say today we have sparum so the sparum help you out especially if you have art scroll and I don't know what means to become silly stupid that you become foolish Not only learns by himself you start sinning that the foolishness brings you to sin. It says sorry over there is talking about also sinning. So you see the foolishness brings to sinning person who loves raven is talking about not learning but teaching. If you love teaching, you will be successful with you. You'll have a lot of I learned a lot of from my from my friends. I learned more from my friends than from my and the famous I learned from my more than anybody. My kept me straight. They asked good questions. They make me prepare etc etc. Revi once said, true story. He said that when a a kid in his class asks him a good question and he doesn't know the answer. So he starts right away. He doesn't know what to do. So he says, "Oh, so Ruv just asked me a great question." He repeats the question. He hopes that he's going to find an answer. I don't like this because this Rebi doesn't want to admit that he doesn't know the answer. Then when he doesn't know the answer, then he says, "No, you hear the question. Does anybody have an answer here?" He's hoping someone in the class will help him out. Then when that doesn't work, he says, "Listen, whoever comes with a good answer tomorrow, I'm gonna give them a can of soda." Meanwhile, he runs home and he looks it up. Just say, it was a great question. I don't know the answer. No. Okay, fine. This famous our feet were standing at the gateways. who helped our feet to be successful in war in war. The gates of that, in other words, the people that were learning, they're the ones that helped the war. I loved says, I was happy when they said, let's go to the mdash. What does that mean? It's sad. I heard people say, "I can't wait until this old man." I can't imagine it if I was in the time of I I'm thinking to myself, everybody's thinking to themselves, I'll pay a million dollars to see David to sit with him for two minutes. But even in the generation, people say, "Hey, that old man, that old fool, when is he going to die already? I can't wait until I can go to the B mdash. I want to be in the B mdash. Everybody knew that can't be the mdash. It's a son is going to build and I was still happy when people said that. So I was once I'm going to tell you I was once in a basketball game. It happened to be a Bulls game and I looked at my sons and I said let's learn some in the middle of the game. And I pulled out this Gar right here. Told him this gar I think it's a beautiful garb. What does that mean? One day of learning is more valuable to me from a thousand. You hear what's going on here? One day of Tyra, one of Gamra is more valuable to me than a thousand on the Bikd. Don't worry about those people that say, "Oh, I can't wait for the BDS." You learning is more important to me than anything else. The Mishna says that there's special roadways to get we're holding on the bottom. Last few words on if you don't know. Special ways to get to the special roads were built. Check this out. We have a bit of a chart here. There were signs that said on the way here here's to B here's to the so that the murderer will stay there and he'll know how to get there. So the question is anybody ever noticed that there's no signage that says in this is the way to the mdash. It only says there's the way to the mikl. The panov went to the and he cried to Khan. He says, "I don't understand why I have such a hard time building panovicha. I have to go to America dozens of times and uh when they opened up barlanding university in two minutes they were able to raise millions of dollars all these donors from around the world university in Israel of course blah blah blah." So Kaz told him it's a special thing that you have to go to to America and raise money. People need to talk about your yeshiva. People need to hear about it. I said a few stories about uh communities. We had a story of a person that was not religious at all but he gave money to the rabbi used to come and ask for money for yeshiva and he gave money to yeshiva. It it brought awareness in America and around the world about the idea of yeshiva. Certain things you need to talk about certain things you don't talk about miklot mikl about a guy. You don't want any kid asking why do you ask directions to oh he murdered somebody. You don't want to talk to your kids about that. we want to talk to your children about is what did he ask for directions to where to the mdash ohd why is he going to migdash because it's pes and pes you have to go to vdash you have to do oh daddy when are we going to mdash we got to go to you want people to talk about the mikdash so that's why there's no signs for mikdash but there's signs for the mikl you where do you see in the he should prepare the way I got to say the sponsors form bay very short don't worry not like turning of the for global one-stop shop for all your financial needs conventions LLC in honor of our sons 12 for learning makis with rebell In honor of our global innovations, true role models of how to support the DA and learning says Gamar like this. How much? Oh, we have 11 minutes. We're running out of time for such a large. Just be careful with your elbows on the table because it shakes the camera. When he started talking about this of a person who kills inadvertently and he has to go to the he would start off with this Hashem is good and straight. That's why he guides the sinners on their way. He puts up signage and everything and says cares so much about people that sinned certainly for people that don't sin. He used to say on the same of Oh, so this is the famous Gmorra. There's a from the from a Russia comes out bad. Two people killed. One did it inadvertently and one did it deliberately. Both don't have. So what do they do? They don't do nothing. Nobody knows. I got away with murder. A guy's in a car accident. He kills somebody. He he he he wasn't he's spacing out a little bit. Push the guy off a cliff. Nobody will know about it. He goes back home, goes to sleep, eats ch the next day. Everything's great. So what happens? You think he got away with it. brings both of these people to the same hotel. There's a lot of superstitions by the by the non-Jews like, oh, you can't walk underneath a ladder or a black cat. A lot of them have to do they were brought they're in in Tyra in Gibbara 77 people on Zoom. So I want to say again 78 people on Zoom to all the people on Zoom. A lot of people in the middle of I know a lot of people on trips and this with the family. You're making time in the middle of the day to learn. So one killed on purpose, one killed by mistake. Brings them both to a hotel. I'm not going to say any malam. This guy is under ladder hanging out. He gets killed like kind of he A 400 pounder drops off the ladder, smashes him, kills him. The one that killed deliberately, he ends up dying sort of. And the one that killed inadvertently, everybody knows about it now. So now he has to run away to the I didn't see this anywhere. I just want to say my own little chat here for 10 seconds if possible that there's 38 people on Zoom and 70 people on YouTube that makes it 108 people on a live feed. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. So perhaps if you think about it, the guy who killed inadvertently and and and deliberately, they should have done something about it. The guy who killed by mistake, he has to do chuva killed somebody. Yeah, I understand it's a mistake. Mistakes, they're avoidable and you have to you have to you have to do ch but he didn't do anything about it. He thought he got away with it comes and punishes him and says, "Okay, how do you kill somebody from a ladder?" I'm just throwing this out. I'm assuming he didn't fall three feet. You don't die from a three-foot fall. So, let's say he fell 10 feet, 15 feet. Fell is when he when he fell on the guy, what happened? and he broke his arm. It hurts. It's not It's not h killed him and he walked away. He broke his arm, his leg. I know a few people that fell off ladders. I know people that died falling off ladders, you know. So, we had a few stories and sukus. People fell and died. It hurts. The point is that Hashem says, "Oh, you think you're going to get away with it? I'll show you." Not only did you not get away with it, but now it's going to hurt you emotionally and physically. It's not it's not something you just walk away with crushing a guy to death. Yesterday he had a car accident action, killed somebody and two weeks later he killed somebody on a on a his life is a mess. So now he has an emotional stress and a physical I'm thinking it mish. The better way out of it was to do chuva go to mik right away whatever you have to do but take care of it because if you don't nothing in this world goes unnoticed. So if a person does a good deed he's going to get awarded in this world. If it was a bad deed, he'd get punished in this world. This is also phenomenal idea and concept. Barry, I'm telling you, it came on an unbelievable day. You see this time after time and this is for the good and for the bad. There are people who do really nasty things and they say to themselves, "Ah, Hashem is very happy with this." I thought for a second I might be doing the wrong thing, but Hashem is happy. Look, I'll prove it to you because look, it's so successful and I and it fell into place and it's this terrible thing that I'm doing a kiss from Hashem, he says about a bad thing. No, no, no, no, no. When you want to do bad, Hashem will help you out. Like that story with the ganov he he's a big he comes to the reb he says reb give me a bra. So the rebba said give me that any person that needs to be robbed you should be the one to be to rob him if you want to be a robber will make it easy for you. Yeah, go ahead. You want me to be a millionaire, but you really wanted want it, Hashem will help you out in that. You want to be whatever you in the way that you want to go, Hashem will help you out. But even for the bad, certainly for the good. How do we see this? We see it in in the first of all, Hashem tells Bum, don't go, don't go with the to curse the Jews. Right afterwards, it says go with them. What happened? Hashem had a change of heart. No. When Hashem saw how much Bill wanted to go, I don't want you to go. I'm telling you not to go. Oh, you want to go? Okay, go. Go. What you want to do, you do? You have the I'm your God. I'll teach you how to go. Oh, and then the P says, but you decide to go a different way. I can't help you out. I I'm trying to show you. I'm trying to push you in the right direction. You want to take advice from other people and do the other thing. That's your problem. What do you see in the in the You want to be a late. You want to be a person. What's a l we said l is not a clown. L is somebody who puts down important things. Makes fun of the rabbi. He puts down uh an important thing. Oh, this guy with this. That's also end up being a l you want to be a humble person. You're trying really hard. You said to yourself, I'm going to be a humble person will give you that you'll be a [Music] nonov. If a person is on his way, you have to insert. If you have a pencil, you should write down. It doesn't mean he already went to golas. It means he's on the way to go to golas. So this is the story that we're talking about. The guy found him and killed [Music] him. We must see the over here. This is important to understand what's going on here. The beginning of the Pik says is the relative chase the murder. this person doesn't have the death penalty. Who are we referring to? We're referring to the murderer or to the relative of the one that was murdered. Cuz the beginning of the P is talking about the top. Look at the top words. I should really should put it. I don't know if Dave Dave is watching. Maybe Kobe's watching. You could change the words. Make them red. It's important because the four the third and fourth word in the P is talking about the relative. Then all the way on the bottom the end of the he never hated him. He killed him because he didn't hate him when he killed him. In other words, the guy fell off a ladder. He didn't know the guy's below him. He didn't hate him when he killed him. So now we're talking about the murderer. So which one are we talking about? The relative of the murder. The is smack him. Go. We have a is what it's talking about the end of the we're talking about the killer. So you see that you're not allowed to kill on the way to the no he says he like that he's allowed to kill the says you're allowed to kill on the way. So we have a shil. So if you're not allowed to kill on the way to the So when why do you go to the Oh, because once you go to the Now you're not allowed to come out of the in the you're not allowed to kill. So when are you allowed to kill? When the guy comes out of the club, maybe he's talking about the killer the beginning of the Oh, is talking about the relative here. Remember this picture from yesterday? I'll show it to you. You guys are going to love it. your stuff. The guy the relatives chasing with the sword, the guy with the yellow hat is the one that killed by mistake. He fell off a ladder. So he sent two rabbis with him. Why do you send two rabbis with him? Oh so they could talk sense into the relative. Aren't they warning him? Don't kill him because if you kill him you'll die. So you see now to kill a guy on the way to their like it says no they talked to his heart they try to knock some sense in him don't be a murderer he did it by mistake he wasn't he didn't he wasn't reckless when he drove into the guy he was a mistake leave him alone let the murderer talk for himself the killer talks for himself. So they said, "No, no, no. When somebody else talks in your behalf, a lawyer talks for you, it's much better. Don't let the the guy stand up in front of the court and talk. Don't let the guy stand up to the relatives and try to explain himself. Let somebody else do the like to say over here says that you say to a guy, let's say the family is very upset. Why did you kill my son? You ran him over. How could you do it? it. I want to kill you." So we tell him, "No, no, no. Hashem has a lot of messengers. Hashem wanted this kid dead." So he had Ruain drive him over. It could have been. It could have been anybody. This was what needs to be done in this world. This is what how life goes. This individual for what we don't understand. We'll never understand. One day maybe we'll understand. This individual had to die. What are you upset at this guy that killed him? He's just like a stick that killed a dog that killed somebody. You're going to be upset at the dog. He's just a he's a a messenger from Hashem. Can't be upset. Oh, only somebody that inadvertently killed. He goes to the not somebody that did it deliberately. What's amazed about if he's amazed in it is in the beginning everybody would go to even somebody that killed deliberately would call out for him and somebody that deserves to die they would kill him but somebody that doesn't deserve to die they let him off, they save him. And anybody that has to go into send him right back to Okay. So for this the guy that killed deliberately, he was going to go on his own. Why? Because they thought that it doesn't matter regardless if you're deliberate or on purpose or by accident you go to called they didn't know that that's not the rule. We got to go a little bit more even though it's more than an hour a city that's mostly murderers. Here we got a little picture of the mafio mafioso. Once you re reach a certain threshold, you go over 51% killers because we're going and going. Every year there's more killers that come in there on because they're waiting for the co. All of a sudden you have a situation where a city is 51%. You have to put a sign no more no more vacancy. We're done. We're done absorbing killers. Okay. It's hard to understand [Music] exactly if you don't have then it doesn't absorb you need says you should go to the to the elders of the city. In other words, if you don't have it can't be a city that doesn't have. So now very simple I'm just going to say it real quick. The Torah says that there's elders in three things in does the is the Torah serious about this? Do you really have to have there or not? So we're going to go through all three of them. We have in all of them. One says the city could absorb the murderers even though there's no it doesn't. It says in the no is just giving you a good advice. It's good if it's better if this but it's not it's not how do you see in English it's not it's not literal. Okay. Okay, it's not if if you don't have it, it's not the end of the world. Another one is a kid that's on the wrong path. He's going to end up killing somebody because he's already stealing and buying meat and wine and everything. So, we kill him now before it's too late. So, do you need elders there? You don't. Someone says you don't you don't be thear says it never happened. Okay. says, "I saw that it did happen." The bottom line is whether you need the elders over there or not. You need the word says you could make him. We're going to repeat the same thing. It's just better to have. If not, you go to another city. Remember, oh, this is a little gory is if you find a dead body between two cities. So, you measure which city is closer and you bring this calf and look what you do to it. It's terrible. No, you chop its head off is chopped off over there and you say a whole thing. There's a whole Okay, but the Torah says there's elders over there. Do is it necessary or it's just a good thing to have? You do. You don't. It's only better to have. Have a wonderful day. Have a good for coming. [Music]