Erev Shabbos Chukas - Then and Now Shiur by Rabbi Nachum Scheiner at Beis Medrash Ohr Chaim

it may not be so well known this air of shabas is unique brought down under the it's uniqueness is that the Moa as we'll soon see is focused to the day in the week as opposed to usually any yness or anything that has to do a is always the day in the month from brings the end of quot the that today shabas is a time for it's aus why what happened on vukas at the Times the time of the earlier famous Yeshiva in Paris he had many talberg was one of his T he had a tal that converted to Christianity and U obviously made sorus and one of the things he thought that if he'll be able to remove the gor from clus the he be able to accomplish that CL should also convert just like he did so he went to the king and he made up a story and he said that the sarm are against you against Christianity and they made a to burn the and in the year 5,4 1244 close to 800 years ago Friday AR shabas Paras they burnt 20 wagons of the brings it he says 20 if you look in the in the sh he says 24 wagons even one safer but we have to understand that in those days it wasn't like what we have today so many every person has a other those days it was before the printing press and anyone that had a saf cuz was handwritten so just imagine having a sh the whole Shas was handwritten and the g it was a g that happened to burn the the SW got burned then it's not a Tinus but fast one of the was that writes that it's a ESS that's Tak where it happen in France in Paris and France that's where the esses to add some background to why this happened the S of the burning of 24 wagons of it's important to mention the story that's brought by a and he writes the following he says that there there were many that were there were those that were on the r two of the r wrote and the saer and they held that how the ramam goes through very clearly to understand that is not the right approach people are going to learn it and not are going to understand they're only going to have the questions they're not going to understand the answers a person is supposed to go with a not like how the rambam explains you have to understand it's not easy safer to learn and it shouldn't have been written there's a big big his re together with amongst others from the were those that argued on the r we don't understand but they burnt the of the ram the they burnt it and as it's brought it was in the same square in Paris over there in France the same place as later on came this the one place says that it happened nine or 10 years later and another place the way they bring it is that was 40 days later and offerer the ashes of the ram was mixed with the ashes of the of the tal and the of the 24 wagons and as continues on the and he says that saw from this that he made a mistake and Raba announced publicly that he made a mistake he made a mistake by this that he was arguing on the rambam for writing this and on top of that R decided that the right thing to do is to take a trip from Europe to Isel not like today you just hop onto a plane to take that trip which is months if not even longer to go to to the Cav of the ram in bring a minion to the Cav and ask M and that's Tako what he did he sat set out on a trip to head wherever he stopped in whatever town and he used to give dasas he spoke about gave to teach the town hus he mentioned he quoted the rambam's he always was quoting the rambam it's brought that he got stuck in Barcelona and Spain for three years they detained him over there and then he continued on and then he when he got to Toledo also in Spain so over there they asked him to stay a little but he was n over there and didn't make it but that's the what happened prior to the took it that this is aim on the E of the r of the back to the story of vukas today vukas what happened Theus of the Swarm 24 wagons K on Tish written by the marami Rutenberg it's brought that the we mentioned before was AAL of at the time of that the was actually present and the wrote this which is referring to the 24 wagons of that was burnt vas a little more in that Kina in other words the K says we got the to was so the says did you give the to take it away just on the note of this K we should be that we don't have to say it should be should be but just on the note of this that's brought at the wrote it referring to what happened vas today 780 years ago there are those that actually and say that the didn't write it and it's not referring to the many questions we're not going to go in right now just because it's not uh we're not elaborating on the on the Kino but if you take a look it speaks about so one of the shist asked what are we talking about was a happy month the month that we got to Tyra however however for that they're that it's saying that we got this now we're in tamas is when the T was taken awaya there are those and we'll see that the yit refers to that there are those that say that it's not referring to the m of today ofas but actually the story that happen happened 200 years prior in the times of Rashi the times of the Crusaders that they also burnt shoes and and that's what it's referring to and that story actually happened on as quoted as and was the shes and were burnt what's can't be talking about that was actually 200 years later afterwards that's referring to the I'll call upon him as the yit in his Sid in the back he wrote on his Sid and the Y says the following talking about it's WR he's his is going on which page is that's going on clone that's in France all the so as he says maybe it said so they thought it's but he says it's really which we know is that wrote thatas back to the opening that we spoke about today is Aus Aus the question is twofold the question question is why is it plugged into should be the day of the month whatever day of the month that happened anything AIS is what happened AIS it doesn't make a difference what day at a month what day at a week I'm sorry so why over here do we go with the day of the week and on top of that we do not fast on a Friday we spoke about this already a few times that if there's a Tinus that's n or now we moved Tinus esta that was shabas once we move it we didn't move it to Friday we moved it to Thursday and if a Tinus falls out we don't move a Tinus to a Friday if it falls out AIS falls out on a Friday it fell out last year we should be it shouldn't but in the calendar it falls out this coming year again Friday you fast we don't fast Friday so first of all why did they were they on not the day of the month it's actually a Friday so for this brings it they made a sh to ask everything that happens is but they wanted to know if this is something that it's a meaning to say is is it something that the go did or this is something a particular and the Chua was this week's para and exactly this that it's a that the 24 wagon should get burned dog it's not fully answered why D they put it on Friday and why did they put it on the day of the week it's interesting if you take a look in the shab the sh it's interesting it says in the par of ofas he says look in the it says and then he says and then in the [Applause] T if you look in the tum it doesn't say it says so this is already a little closer it still doesn't say so much why that they would on Friday and connected to the day but Al because really it could be it's just an answer that what happened that Isa in the title of the sheer it said vas then and now so that was then vukas 780 years ago the wagons of were burnt de says that this day continue to be a day of tarus as in the years in the of the times of the T and the sh and others was a day that two two big were destroyed in this dayas and as the says if you take a look in the of the he mentions in the about these two cities that were destroyed onas we spoke about it over here in the k a sheer for itself the history of it and these are those in CLA that say if you take a look in the S the S does not bring in the of does not bring the of the I found that I have it over here printed these a few I wasn't able to find inside where he speaks about it but says when the wrote the of he mentions the two that were destroyed to came out with a letter to be today due to Theus also the the the B have to go leave yes and even in as well also it's not simple in the system they came out with a letter to be besides it being a Tinus it's brought kfki said that his father the styler as well as his uncle the Kish even though they didn't fast but they were careful not to do anything today it's not but just to understand the day is a day earlier pagi brings and and he tells us what happened in his days in isir that's where he was a city in Turkey he says that there were many people that used to be people that sold in the market or did business in the market or went shopping in the market they refrained from going to the market seemingly I think the way we'll see in the second how he ends off because of to him over there says they used to whatever they had to take care of they took care of Thursday so whatever they need to prepare for shabas they took care of they earlier and as he ends off he says it shouldn't be shouldn't come this the the story that happened that the wagons were of were burned so the explains a li a takeaway meaning to say is every ESS is not just your fast because it's a sad day it's a say so the explains and he says he goes on this Mya I took out the parts that that I could understand part of is cabala but the the part ofat he says that just like in this week's par the as he refers to that it's referring to the is a and when one paruma was done means it was time for another kapara and they needed to bring another for sapara what does it mean a to what it's brought bring in that and the same is with the and therefore he explains that it's a it's always coming for a kapara that CL Isel needs and therefore how does that comment the biggest is and says after theas that we don't have anymore the to be kapar the to itself has to be the kar and therefore says the different times when these K and cl the itself has to get burnt the times of Rashi and later in the times 200 years later in the times of rutenber and therefore he says it's always a time to beic and he writes there that for him the PO he created a CO of people constantly learning this should always be for like so even if we're not fasting it's a tin but at least to understand what happened and what the takeaway is a takeaway for a person to be just to conclude besides as we said the the biggest takeway is to but also to understand that a person has to be careful when we learn over here in theer we learned together I gave a sheer a whole sheer refer back brings a lot of from can refer back over there but these a lot of different is not is not supposed to put a different saer on top of a many different person should try to see to be but on top of that also to to a person should understand and appreciate the that gave us that we have so many today let alone that every house has the sh I don't know if everybody MIT have a and a person has and and other a person goes to these many sets of understand appreciate and Tak utilize the opportunity that we have so many and and learning we should all have a wonderful shabas