How Did Avshalom Get His Hair Tangled In a Tree If He Shaved His Head Weakly?

Okay, topic number two. Let's talk about Avshalom. This question of nothing whether asked me of of Aussie's father asked me on Shabbos. We're talking about Avshalom is another oilam and we want to know how often he took a haircut according to Rebbe, he took it once a year. According to Rav Nachman Aryeh, he took it every 30 days. According to Rav Yosi, he took it every Friday. The Meiri, let's see if we can get it up on the screen. The holy Meiri Let's make it bigger. Deals with the following question. Uh Rav Yosi omer May erev Shabbos erev Shabbos she came Matisyahu with name of him. She may go may erev Shabbos erev Shabbos. What to learn giluwach tsats. Erev Shabbos erev Shabbos means partial shaving. She off Avshalom kwar beyanu she giluwach tsats oilam. We already explained that Avshalom only cut his hair a little bit. Alma kol ben name mishmayel mishmayel oilam. Eko koved. Says the Meiri if I need tama the mashe pirshu gedolei hamachaberim bepirush hamishna al giluwach zeh she avara tar haya. I am bothered on the gedolei mefarshim who explain on this shaving that it's using the razor Mekol Vekol Mishmaina Leshmaina. According to the opinions, what the Meiri means is, as we're about to see, there's a Machlokes Rishonim. When we say that a Nazir Olam could be Mekal Betar, does it mean he completely shaves his head, or does it mean he only cuts the edges? So, the Meiri says, according to the opinions, that it means he completely cuts his head. I don't understand that. Why? Um Heich Avshalom Legamei Chomo Mishonoso, Veheich Choyei Sa'arei Shoykel Kolkach? How could Avshalom's hair have been so heavy? What does the Meiri mean? That if you look in the Pesukim that describe the hair of Avshalom, the Pasuk says, "Vayishkol es Sa'ar Roisho Masayim Shkalim." His hair weighed 200 coins. That means his hair was very heavy. That's the Pasuk Meiri's referring to. So, how could the Pasuk say that Avshalom's hair weighed 200 coins if he was taking a haircut every Friday? Whereas Rav Nosson asked, we know that he got his hair tangled on the tree. How did he get his hair tangled on his tree if he was shaving his head every Friday? So, the Meiri uses this to prove that it doesn't mean he shaved his head every Friday. It means he only cut the edges of his hair. You know, he took his hair remained long, he just cut the edges. As we're about to see, there's a major Machlokes what it means Hechbid Sa'arei Mekal Betar. If you look in Tosfos on Daf Dalet Amud Alef, Tosfos gives a Machlokes nazir. Let's see if we can find it. Nazir [snorts] oilam mekel v'lo megale'ach l'gamrei. K'avshalom sh'lo gilach l'gamrei sh'hari nitlash b'sarai. Tosefos asks that question. We also learned that Tosefos. Yeah? Tosefos, you have to know where to put the comma on Tosefos. The way you put the comma is Nazir oilam mekel v'lo megale'ach l'gamrei. You don't shave completely. Comma. K'avshalom sh'lo gilach l'gamrei sh'hari nitlash b'sarai. Tosefos asks the question differently than the Meiri. Meiri asks us here weighed 200 coins. Tosefos asks he got hung by his hair. However, many Rishonim disagree with this. Um by the way, the Rash also agrees with Tosefos that you can only cut the hair. Masha ein kein, the Rambam holds the nazir completely shaves himself. The nazir oilam completely shaves his head. Take a look in Chidushei HaGriz. Chidushei HaGriz is courtesy of Reb Zion Donn Shread. I called him emergency phone call to to make photocopies immediately of the Brisker Rav. And uh he was able to send it right away. Here, take a look. The Chidushei HaGriz Chidushei HaMeiri kasav I don't know why it's not oitzer chachma. The Chidushei HaMeiri kasav didn't ilach the nazir oilam the chifus ara mekalel d'fe p'shutai ha noshin megale'ach k'tzas v'einam megale'ach l'gamrei. The Rambam >> [snorts] >> By the way, I looked in the today in the Yad Hachazaka. He sounded like Tosafos to me that you toss. I was looking in the long in the wrong Rambam because in the notes that they give me over here, they say the Rambam holds you have to shave completely, but the Rambam doesn't say that. It's in the Perisha Mishnayos. By the way, you know the Perisha Mishnayos was originally written in Arabic. It's translated. Our Perisha Mishnayos Rambam was translated from Arabic. So, but anyway, the Rambam in the Perisha Mishnayos seems to say the boy with the tire gummy. So, the question is How did his hair weigh so much if he was shaving his head completely every Friday? That's the kasha. Comes the Brisker Rav, and the Brisker Rav answers the question. He says the din that a Nazir shaves his head is not that he's obligated to shave his head, it's that he's allowed to shave his head. But, he doesn't have to. He's allowed to. That's how his hair was so heavy. You know why? Cuz he didn't do it. Absalom didn't do it. He didn't take a haircut. Says the Brisker Rav, he doesn't know what the question is. Who says he did it? The din make of a sorry doesn't mean you have to do it, it means you're allowed to do it. I it says by Absalom in the midst of the day. I Absalom said I'm going to pay back my nether. So, why is he he's not required to pay back a nether? That is if he shaves and he brings his carbon, he's makaiyim the nether of nazirus. So by since by doing so he's makaiyim the nether, that's what it means v'ashalem es nedarai. Now it happens to be that it's not unanimously held that mekal basarai is discretionary. Some say it's mandatory. Take a look in the footnotes in the Chidushei HaGriz. He says if you look in the the Rosh on daf ches the din of nazir oilam mekal batar einoy begeder chiyuv. V'im einoy roitza rishus p'iyada. If you want to that's mashma in Tosafos dalet amud bet, the nazir oilam. Let's see if we can find that. Tosafos says that kol amar she mutar l'hachel. It's mutar to take a haircut. He's not obligated to. He's not obligated to. And the Minchas Chinuch agrees. The Keranos on the other hand holds you have to. And the Chazon Ish has makes this machlokes talui on a different machlokes. Okay. So the bottom line is regarding Avshalom who's a nazir a nazir oilam. How did he have such heavy hair? How did he get hung by his hair? I would say by the way stam, I don't know why nobody points this out, Tosafos says l'shitasai. Tosafos who says nazir oilam mekal Actually, two things. Tosafos Tosafos learns you don't take a haircut completely. You don't take a haircut completely. Actually, there So, there two answers in Tosafot. Tosafot says love of Hashem to say. In other words, Tosafot himself says that a Nazir Olam does not take a complete haircut. So, that's how Absalom could have gotten hanged by his hair. Furthermore, he's not obligated to cut his hair even a little bit. It's optional. It's discretionary. That's how the Brisker Rav defends the Rambam who in the Parsha Mishpatim says he takes a full haircut. However, you're not obligated to. You can if you want to. Okay? So, that's topic number two. Topic number two is if Absalom is a Nazir Olam and he's shaving, well, how did he have such heavy hair? One of two possibilities. Either like Shitas Tosafot and the Rash that anyway you don't shave, you only trim the edges, or it's only discretionary, it's not mandatory. Okay? Now, something really amazing. >> Recording stopped.