The Living Torah Museum Presentation

[Music] eight five one eight six five one email ist yeshivanet.com as you may have seen in the posters ignorance util will be holding its annual dinner on august 18th the young issue of avenue k through the space limitations then the cement only we'll be publishing a journal on the occasion it's the perfect opportunity to um honor whichever abundant whose germ we've enjoyed and about this tire of throughout the year by putting an ad in the journal you can call seven one eight eight five one eight six five one or email ist yeshivanet.com right we have the covet to have with us once again our social media from the living torah museum which is famous for bringing torah and gemara and yiddish god alive for tens of thousands of eden museum is located in borough park and 16th avenue 41st street is it reopened already after branch and there'll be uh the new safer from deutsche on the living terror on the pasha series from uh bamidbar will be available as well as the one of bracius which covers the calym from the that will be covering tonight's russians my cover to corner my deutsch for tonight's when we think of music we think about celebration but in fact music wasn't always about celebration and as we will discuss tonight there was times that music was used as a way of crying in funerals there was music that was used as celebration there was musical sounds that was used as a means of communication so we have a pastic in the beginning of boracious with shame akhiv yuval who avi he is the father of koltovis kinner and uggov the yuval was the founder of musical instruments maisha abbaynu has a special command by the rabbinish make from you you should make two trumpets and these trumpets should be made of silver and we will discuss in a few minutes that you see from josephus in the end of bay hisham he describes the khatsacharis of maisha abano and why maisha abano had to make these trumpets from his own money and he had a commandment before he dies that he must bury these trumpets why couldn't maestra bainu keep these trumpets for future generations and it wasn't only the at this point in time that mushroom made things maisha bainu made other musical instruments maisha bennu the gemara says made symbols famous story in the gemara that the symbols of maishrabenu had cracked and they went to alexandria egypt to get the best experts from alexandria egypt to help fix these symbols but the sound was no longer good and they took off all the corrections that were made and left maisha symbol as is so why is it that symbols were allowed to be made by maisha and maisha abedu did not have to bury them but when it came to the khasichus he did musical instruments are certain places had certain instruments that had specific names and for many many years people were not sure what these instruments were and recently in the last two decades with the help of rabiestralbelski i was able to solve what these instruments were so let's go all the way back let's start with uvo uvo is the avi called toifus kinar the ugaf he is the father of musical instruments so what is akinar what is this thing that we call kinar is it a harp is it a liar what did it look like in my book on boracious i show you the oldest quinoa in the world it was stolen from the iraqi national museum this is the oldest kenar in the world during the invasion of iraq it went missing until then it was on display in the baghdad museum i'm going to show you a picture of david melech that yidden drew much later and you will see that david's kinar as the yiddin imagined it 2000 years ago was not that different a mosaic floor was found in the synagogue in gaza in 1965. this is the first picture with the sand still covering part of the mosaic before the arabs decided to destroy part of the mosaic davida as we find many times in divre yom that david is spelled dalid you dalit and there's a depiction of davana milah what happened the arabs decided to rub out those mosaic tiles with dovid's face so then the next step was they had this mosaic of david melech without his face but based on the actual picture that was once existent that i just showed you with the sand still on it they redid the mosaic and this is today in the israel museum so we know basically that david played a quinar simon barcaka minted coins during his revolt against the romans 60 years after the corbin of the base amigdas and he made coins with a picture of the kinar the navel and the steikha zeitzers and i have some of the coins here so we have a general idea of what the quinoa looked like as it was made by or as it was even made by eden in the palace of sankhara of melaka was a room that sanchez depicted his capture of the city of lakhish and in it he has ancient jews holding keeners on their hands and playing it as they are being marched into gullus so we have an idea from multiple sources of what the quinoa would have looked like now the kinah had many different amounts of strings it says there's going to be a quinar of shmain and emin of eight strings till then it was seven strings there's a kind of keynote that could have had ten strings we're not going to get into that as well right now so we have an idea what the quinoa and navel would tells us the following it's one of the most fascinating things in the entire year's season this says relating to the kinar of maisha abenu each of the trumpets were a little less than one ammo long anoma is 22 inches it's 19. it was a little less than an hour long a little thicker than an ordinary flute with a bell-like tip it was like open bell this is the coin of barkhoffa showing the bell-like tip of the kinar that was made by marsha what's that i said there was a keener and there were hot citrus and the hot saucers in the basamesh was used not only for the levine to play but there was another use as well an arab shabbos like you have a shabbos alarm they had a part of the roof of the hechal which was called the bay satkiya and they would blow three sets of blowing this is a diagram made by mahan amigdas of bay satkiya and the koine standing on top of bay satya and blowing the khazaturis they actually found a stone that says on it le base hat kia this is a part of the basa amigdas an actual part of bay satya now where was bay satkiya located as you could see in this illustration here there was an indentation so the coyote wouldn't fall over and on the inside it would have said the base kia right there and that's where the cayenne would stand my shira bainu had to communicate with claudius if they blew one kia with two khatsu teres it meant that the claudius should all come to the mishkan if they blew one kia with one trumpet it meant that the naseem should come to the mishkan when they had to travel they had a whole system of blowing the khatsutras pack up get ready to leave first group start marching this was a means of communication today lifeguards have a whistle you ask any kid who goes to camp what is a quick blow from the whistle means he tells your buddy up a long whistle out of the pool you have communication today with whistles whistles were used as well in tanakh when david melech brought the r to your shall i it says they played a musical instrument called the mashru kisa what's a mashru kisa so the shulti hagibarim safer shall take away not on the rift i'm talking about the safe for the full savior she'll take it that was written by rabbi from puerto leon he writes that lee shrug means to whistle and master kisses were whistles so they had whistles as a means of a musical instrument you could play happy birthday honor with a whistle you could play songs with the whistle or you could make sounds with a whistle and this is what it's referring to on chartitus in rome there is a picture of the minority being carried and as i explained last time the menorah on chartitus is not the minority of the base hamikdash and we have many proofs to that number one the minority on chartitus has dragons on the base the military basically you shouldn't have any animals on it now one referrer says that these three levels is what the minority of the base and make this look like now one mafurish they all knew about charities they used to torture jews you had to go see chaditos but now one mephiar says that that was the minority so we believe that the millennium charities was a decoy not only do i believe it but there's a very funny and famous story when the state of israel was established in 1948 ben gurion took the minority of chartitus as a symbol of israel raph schleim agoran wrote a letter to ben-gurion and which he says why did you take the minority of chartitus as the symbol of israel it's a trey phenomenal it's not a real minority the tug morgan journal had an article about this rabiasal ashkenazi who was the satmir rabbis gabba in the end of his life he was in a shell of ram in williamsburg and i used to spend a lot of time with him talking about history so he told me that the morning that the talk margaret janelle published this article about the letter from rabbi mcgorran to ben gurion he cut out the article of the newspaper and when the satmar abraham who used to take off his film he used to slide down sometimes an interesting article in the newspaper he said the satmarabha read the article and he said nu atreifena medina so this is not my kiddish that the minority of charity this is not the real menorah people knew about it years ago the yidden knew that the real kalin were going to be put away so wherever they could they made something that anyone in the future generations is going to see is going to know it's not the real thing i'll give you an example from the quran i don't know if any of you have read the quran i did i read the quran there's an amazing thing written in the quran muhammad was illiterate he had a yiddish to write for him it says in the quran that received from paradise such and such every adult hears it those it's but it's a favorite show writing in the quran the sometimes eden did things that they couldn't show in the future that we know this is not the real thing we see it in another example as well i'm diverting from musical instruments but i'll get back to it in a second there's a question in the gemara if the sits was written was that sits written on one line or on two lines um i was in rome vera ecs had seats i saw that sit and it's my sheeta where did rubble has a seat it sits in rome there was a museum it was a public place it was called the temple of peace not a temple for prayer they called it the temple peace it would be like the metropolitan museum of art big museum every time rome conquered a province a country they would take treasures from that country and put it on public display there so if eliza went to rome and he saw that sits and it was like yoshita and we don't pass it like revelator we have a clown in chas ain't a dominion if one person says i heard about it one person says i saw it who do we believe the person who saw it so why don't we possibly like herbalizer oh goofy that whatever the romans took were not necessarily the right thing i have a good friend professor stephen fine and he actually did an amazing thing he went to chatitus and he studied under special microscopes he studied the pigments that once were on chartitas the pigments of the colors that were on chartitas and he made this rendering it's in my new book of what chartitus used to look like when it was colored a lot of detail can now be seen one of them is this shulhan with two khatzoitzers sticking out if you look at the khatsutras here it seems to be accurate because the khashoggi seemed to be an arm along a bell shaped at the center that is larger than the standard trumpet so i could say look correct but the minority doesn't look correct how did moshe make the khatsu miksha tasa i say rashi says he took this tool this is called a cornus shell zahavim this was a goldsmith's hammer he would have heated up the silver when until it got very hot and then once he heated the silver he bangs out the piece of silver if you take pliers or in the ancient world you take a savas tweezers you can bend the silver and by using the silver and bending it you could make it bell shaped and therefore between using a corner shells of having a goldsmith's hammer and between using tweezers you could bend the silver into shape and moisturize made it from one single piece of silver why did moisture beno have to bury the kazotos because the khashoggis became a personal item for myself make it for you you as the leader needs to communicate with claudius you as the leader have to do it so my should have to do it from his own why couldn't he use public funds what happens if maestro bainu is once gonna call claudius roll and he shouldn't have caught clown israel and he used the trumpets he's the moral bahadish so moshe bainu needed to make it ase he had to make it for him any other thing masharabhainu made he made it for the mishkan he made it for claudius make it for you so why does he have to bury it because we have a locker rashi says had a din of a king what do you do with all of the artifacts that belongs to a king when the king dies everything gets destroyed or buried nobody in the future should say i have a cape it's from a king since my surabay new hadith the day before he's going to pass away to bury his hassaitras every day in davening you say hallelujah foreign dive in their whole lives have no idea what's in shama is and what's this rule so let me show you this says just two kinds of symbols that you need to see these were found in a shipwreck in the mediterranean sea the coral is still on it one side had a hole one side has an extra piece two thousand years ago these two symbols were attached together on one side and how did they play it this was a beat symbol what is the sound of a trua this was your beat symbol this was since later happy birthday to you happy birthday to you is it your birthday no okay this is the mils of the beducha so you have to be right sir so this is tilt slate true this was your beat symbol still oh it's your birthday crashing symbol shama because you hear it loud should they give him says that's still sleeshama these here were made to crash the coral's still on them i don't want to crash them too hard here you could see how symbols can crack they break so when you learn about the symbols of moshe abbaynu that what needed to be repaired this is a very interesting from the time of moisture until the to the second base hamikdash was a masjid's man that it needed repair there's a third kind of symbol called mitzal time right here you can see the holes there used to be a stick the israel museum has one with the stick still attached those stakes went between your fingers and when you play them [Music] you can make a hard sound like this you can make a sweet sound it's more high pitched sound so the way you hit it make different coilers different sounds so you have still solay shama still slays rua and mitsal time one of the greatest mistakes that malam they make when they teach hamish two years ago when i spoke here i brought along an egyptian hieroglyphics dictionary and showed you that the word type means something beaten like a drum sim tambourine drum something beaten is a type in hieroglyphics what does the word macho mean so everyone tai chi's maha means dancing there's only one little problem i was nine years old and i was a kid who asked a lot of questions in class so one hand my rabbit tells me that rasa made servants did not see in later generations and on the other hand my rebbe told me that the women were dancing so i called my robby a liar she's a liar you're telling me this navoor that's such a thing i told you you're lying to me because i got kicked out of class the menial wanted to know i was out of class i told them maybe you could explain it to me so he told me yet has been the vesvatin alta vista writes that he went to egypt and he found there's a musical instrument called in greek the name of this musical [Music] instrument [Music] is called the sistron in egyptian hieroglyphics it's called the macho what happened words have a way of changing so if i call up my good friend rabbi alt and say rabbi alt i'm sending you something tomorrow fedex and he's going to say great but what i said didn't make any sense i should have said i'm going to send it overnight but fedex is so well known to send overnight packages we interchange the word fedex for overnight i'll xerox it instead of copy it i'll google it instead of search it so the action becomes the name so he says and with this musical instrument they started dancing so after a while they started calling mako to be dancing but when you dive in and you say hallelujah for let's talk about this musical instrument so this is an egyptian mahal and right before corona i got another one a greek major [Music] again so this answers the question the women never danced they played the musical instrument says that's the secondary use of the word now i want to talk to you about another very very complicated musical instrument i'm going to show you a picture of it it's called the double flute this is a painted fresca that has survived two thousand years and what we believe that this musical instrument is called nichilos when you say internach it's a double flute and this is the flute that we are referring to what did avraham avinu do avramovina took every part of the isle and he conserved it from the horns he made joyfuls the left tropher of the isle of ramavinu they bloom by mountain tire the right choifer is going to be blown when mashiach will come a ram's big horn a lot of people mistakenly make pictures taka because the jews of yemen only use the kudus because rams were not available in yemen when they came here to strong they came to america they started changing on rosh hashanah they use the shoifer shall isle bar mitzvahs aloe they use the long shrivers not to be mud silas on the mini cut monument but the madras says that the shofa shall mashiach is going to be the right sheifer of the arcada what did avraham avinu do with the bones of the legs of the isle of the rams he made khalil he made flutes this is a my museum it's not from avraham avinu but it's a 3 000 year old flute made from the bone of a cow this is one in the israel museum a flute made from the bone of iran not from abram but it's an ancient musical instrument i had a professor at the oriental institute in chicago who once came to my museum and played for us a bone flute what did abramovino do with the skin of the aisle he made drums before corona i visited an indian tribe called the cherokee indians and they told me that they still to today make drums using the skin of a ram 100 year old drum used by the american indians from the skin of a ram this one they shaved off all of the hair and smoothed it out the second drum still has the hair of the animal on it and for those of you who learned daffy me i'm now going to demonstrate something that the gemara says you still can see the holes where the hair used to be and it was not smoothed out so when we learned shabbos and daffy me between whether or not the skin has been smoothed or it still has the original holes from where it was kids like playing these drums it's an amazing thing makes different vibrations different sounds but it's something that you can clearly see how people even a hundred years ago were doing things similar to what they were doing in the ancient world there's only one picture of the second base amigdas that we know is accurate it was made by shimon barkhacho this coin shows a picture of the hey hell of the base amigas the orange and the kruvim in the middle the bad de arum at the center why did bakfa make these coins with the kinard the navel the chatsuites the hecal he was trying to get people inspired to revolt against the romans rabbi akiva thought that barakah would be meshiach at the beginning of the revolt on here it says shimoine nasi israel in xavier and those of you who don't know what saviori means in my book on voracious i teach you how to read savory olive based gimmel dalit hey i am paige this is not chinese this was script olive bays that the eden were using if you open and see a box of jewish ancient coins they're all going to be in savior now there is a shiloh when moshe abandoned brought down the luchas were the lucas written in ivory or ashuras block letters of script the babli says the samah and the member and that's how you armed him if i were to carve the letter sam on stone there'd be a ball in the middle that ball hung with an s on that the mem to be a square that square hung with an s look at a samakhin ivory no middle of the letter mem looks like a w and a y combination so dibavi says this is the raya that the lucas were written in our olives not savviri your xiaomi argues with the bible it says the iron of the look is hung so it's like the letters on barcodes coin are inks of every shin is the w mem is that funny looking w and y combination shim oi nasi israel with a picture of the hecal the orange and the bottom but you know why i love this coin for what's on the back there's a macholicus and every boy who learns sukkah and those are learning now daffy me know that this mahalik is how many hadassim and how many are others do you have an elulath rabbi akiva says one hadas and one are ever i brought you here this coin tonight for those who learn taffy me because on the back of the coin bar kok for made rabbi akiva's opinion of a lula with one hadas and one her back for like rabbit because forever supported his revolt by the way the asterisk has a garthel shastrik you see an ancient see the asterisk right here so if somebody comes over to you and says you have a gaster with a garter he says tested it's not a new thing shimon bar coin the astragata gartle two thousand year old coin from bark so even though this is not musical instruments and we're holding now in daffy me in sukkah i figured it was more than appropriate to do that i'm going to take a couple of questions now if anyone has any questions now is the time you could ask any questions about what we spoke about any questions that's the allowed symbol sound seriously true was a beat symbol drummer has it today he has a beat symbol and he has the loud crashing symbol these are a little hard to see because they're you know this quarrel on them there they were found in the sea in yamati on the mediterranean sea so that's why a little hard to see yes you're asking a very good question there is ancient mesopotamia mesopotamian musical notations but the problem is we're not sure exactly how to play them there are some people who study major musical sounds and they're trying to come up with the solution of what what these mean but it's not like hieroglyphics that we found in inscription that had the same thing in three languages and we were able to figure out the abc when musical instruments is a little different because we don't know if what you consider a beat was something that they considered important so there is a lot of questions relating to the music what we do know is that kia shivarim true and kia we know that from the gemara one was a long sound and you know and darren price can already deal with the khashoggis and deal with schaefer on what's considered what's considered shivari metrua but that's already more in line with something that's been passed down to us how can i comment about the shampoo i mean who am i to comment about the bar i can't comment about these things there there are people who say that the negan of duchening is coming from the base amigdas there are things that are written in many different sources that certain songs originated from the base but there's no uh something that i can tell you that i've seen or i've heard that i can definitively tell you anything or comment about it i only comment on things i know about martial any other animal i just don't know yes because this pigmentation that still has survived how do we know that it was once colored under very very high infrared light you can see the pigmentation that's still there and that's what dr stephen fein did it's a tremendous thing to show us exactly what it once looked like based on the pigmentations it says this is in my new book on bamidbar which was just published a few weeks ago if you want to buy the book at the end it's 35 yes any other questions yes um the the term para stop his question was in defense of muhammad and the quran were in all the kings of egypt called power answer is no pari was only called to a certain time the time when they ruled either what was called the old line pharaohs the hixos pharaohs or the ones who ruled most of egypt there was a period of time that they were no longer ruling an entire country they became like a local pashas they became local leaders they were no longer called paris in the time of achashverse there was no para anymore so there's no defense for muhammad or for the quran yes are there any letters in some no mats banach the whole thing you can read about all of my book i talk about the history of something yes so again we don't pass them like you shall me we're passing like the beverly but mitzad limwood it's important to know there's a fascinating thing in the dead sea scrolls which most people don't even realize there is a dead sea scroll that every time it says hashem's name it says i was asked by a very big professor in israel why do i think that is and i told him it's a gemara because based on the gemara savior was used with so let's say you're a mulamite and you want to write down sukim and you don't want that should have a din of a kedusha of sifri kurdish you write the name of hashem xavier it doesn't have the same conducion because then it became advantageous says in sanhedrin that that they started using it the custom were using it so they started using that's why it's on coins whereas if they were writing something to kedusha they were writing salvations it's not so simple yeah but but that's already a whole other discussion which we can't have tonight but i would glad to talk about that at a different occasion yes yeah they probably took it again the idea were surrounded so they knew that the real caleb are going to be taken so they put we believe they put decoys so therefore whatever they put at the end is navdavka raya that that's what it was and that's why we don't passing like our blaser okay so a lot of people walk around with this misconception that all the caleb of the basement are in the basement of the vatican that would be like saying the basement of miami beach there are no basements in miami beach the vatican's level of water they cannot make any basements there's no catacombs there's no things the vatican didn't come to power for hundreds of years after rome fell so that that the place that the caleb with the resolution is not in rome or in the vatican where the kalimar is in turkey we know where they are some of them rev liaschev told me it's better to be in the hands of a guy than a yid because it's asabano that maybe there's a real artifact there maybe one of the things is real it's the best it's designed in the hand from guayamuzan that goes against emotion emotion you want to have everything right but this halachus akely the bismuth the only caleb the only things that now is something that the destroyed the castle was never destroyed that's as a dinkaducha that's a whole other thing but but but a broken piece of stone from the base amigos that was found zak di gemara in the dharam bow preach in bachalalua has no din kadusha but if something is intact it's a problem that's where the issue becomes so that there's a whole issue about looking what hana means i had once we're up doubling on a whole interesting discussion about how no um but but that we need a different knight and a different shear to to talk about what constitutes is relating to these type of irons rabbi yes uh whether i should help raise funding for the important copper map center to find the cable his answer was exactly sort of what you said he said undoubtedly we can find him but undoubtedly we have no idea who would be a proper caretaker caretaker that's right if i do share it we have no idea better than that when rebel yashif told it to me i was shocked by what he was saying he says he has to pass he doesn't go by emotion right you know most people don't know this but i'm very happy we have a royce besdon sitting right here so he'll vouch for what i'm going to say most people go to a dintara 95 percent of what you say by dintura has absolutely no relevance in halakhah they walk in they come they scream everything else rabbi although am i saying correct exactly five percent of a din torah has to do with judging the aspect but everybody's got to get everything off their chest you understand so there's a lot of emotion that's built up it has nothing to do with emotion how locker has to do with al-allah if the favor of one person the the dying is going to say that's the that's the sock but people get caught up in the emotional aspect and rabbly asha was the same way he said what allah is oh you don't like the halakhah but also have tightness to do a banjo i'm going to tell you what is this is the problem today because people are caught in the motion so if the sakdin doesn't go your way there's a beautiful vart that was just as yard sight huff of was the yard sight of the bhava charab his father ablaevik he was robin yachtiness love he had a very famous saying he had a lot of dentures in his town and people didn't like him too much because guess what they not always ruled his way sarah blavik used to say a person loses he's not screaming why he lost favors why did the other guy win the entire so again people get wrapped up with emotional feeling that has absolutely nothing to do with that and he's going to tell you what is i'm going to end my shear with a beautiful story that happened with rabbly yashev and shimon paris shim in paris one time came to rabbly ash of sukkah and he said trouble yashif tell me what i could do for you what could the country do for you you know rabiashi could have said i want to i want a pension for a million dollars you didn't say that europe joshua said an heir of pesach there are people who are going to try to go up on harabai's and to be macro carbon pesa please use the police to stop the kill hashem so paris asked him so what's the problem so he said to have lyashov said a person who goes and angers the arabs and harabayas is a retail because if he's going to turn around and go kill a yid it's not anymore shailah are you allowed to be macro carbon pesos so when a person is a person of halal he's not thinking about the emotional aspect he's thinking about the practicality of the he's thinking about the practicality of the situation and if you know that you're going to do something that's going to anger the guardian to the point that they're going to go and kill ajit you are already i hope that this year has opened your eyes a little bit and looking at the world maybe a little bit of different and seeing what the musical instruments look like and we should preside to see the real musical instruments with bias girls through our annual dinner upcoming on august 18th by putting ad in the journal igen to retire as i bought this title throughout the world throughout the year call 718-851-8651 or email ist to shivernet.com rabbi deutsche's new safer on parsha series on save above midbar it's available for sale as well as will say for braces which covers a lot of the topics discussed tonight [Music] oh