Isru Chag: The Kedushas Levi and Chasam Sofer Reveal the Unique Status of the Day

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay welcome back everyone so I want to discuss today what exactly is the concept of is who decided there's anything special about it the does mention that there's aah to on but what is the concept is over you know there's no let's say when chabas is over chabas is over there's something called Sunday Sunday is a nice day but has nothing to do with shabas so why the day after yam does it have any connection whatsoever to yam itself so I want to start by sharing with you the question of wants to know do you smell no you do not smell B you do not smell B you should not smell B it's not part of the ritual we do not smell that would seem to indicate says does have no the whole reason we smell is because we feel bad that we're losing the well if we don't SM that means does not have and yet says how could it be that y does not have we're all familiar that when shab goes into yam what do we do during Kos do we make a do we make no why don't we make a oh because it's presumably has we don't have to smell has like a choke hold over here does or does not have if has you should if y does not have then you need to going into that's the gives the following answer yam does not have if yam doesn't have why do we not smell going into y well says in of we have y good food so we don't instead of smelling the B we have another thing to keep our spirits up the good food of yam that's the answer of tus but tus seems to say that yam does not have we're going to explore a new answer today let's try to explain what is the concept of and maybe a little bit the concept of anyone who makes an iser that doesn't mean a Prohibition it means a binding to the with eating and drinking it's considered as if you built an alar to the with chains what is this talking about says Rashi tie yourself to the holiday eating and drinking that you call according to the first P Rashi this has absolutely nothing to do with the day after y it's talking about eating and drinking extra if you connect yourself to the with extra eating and extra drinking it's like you built a and you're Mal Carbon on it so according to the first there's no whatsoever that the day after Y is anything at all means tie yourself to Y now Rashi says that you call Y the truth is there's no Mitzvah there's no such thing there's there's and and there's a very big is not a physical sensation is therefore we say but I don't like to eat I'm in a bad mood I would prefer not to eat I would make me happy or not to eat no there's no such thing onab there's no there's therefore if someone has a bad dream on chabas and it gives them greater pleasure to fast to abolish the bad dream you're allow to fast on chabas but if someone has a bad dream on Y and he would prefer to fast he's not to fast on y CU on the is eat is Delight so for me that's more subjective okay be as it may but if somebody goes out of their way to Delight in y then it's considered as if they built a and they were ma a carbon says another it's referring to the day after if you eat a fat meal the day after suus the day after P it's considered like you built a and you were a carbon so comes out according to the second of of Rashi there is a concept of extending the yam not only to enjoy yam itself but to make a suda the day after y likewise and in fact if you look in the what is this concept of rejoicing the day after y why should you rejoice the day after y it's not y anymore yam is over why should I Rejoice the day after yam the answer is that says part of the when you're is in of sh with the of connecting to now a carbon schl does anybody know how long do you have to mro of a carbon to eat a carbon schl two days and a night so then it comes out if you m on the last day of you could still eat it the day after yum therefore we extend the yam because the carbon I was mock with yesterday I could still eat it on the following day this is a very and the truth is also mentions that since and probably people were every day so therefore you still have Bas therefore one is now a fast and it comes out then there would be no difference between every day of so according to the the concept of is it's in the extra day of for the carb okay in the in of chabas he explains the following reason uh to Rejoice the day after yam says like this for many people for most people yam is very expensive it's an expense weak days are cheaper than yam especially with price is nowadays A Y week is going to cost you like three or four times uh an average rate it's very expensive even not P even suus you know just look at the bills and often yum is over and people say okay now is the time now I could stabilize my finances I could get my life in order things are cheaper now even you know mat is expensive doll meum is expensive everything costs everything costs and you know a person might sense a feeling of relief when Y and even if not a financial relief many people they they feel that yam is very taxing preparing for the yam serving cooking daving as longer and a person may mistakenly have a feeling of relief oh y is over and it's sort of like casting away the whole the whole enjoyment of yam as if it was a burden so if a person is when Y is over over that shows he's really attached to it that shows he doesn't want to send it away and therefore if somebody celebrates even when yam is over it's a way of demonstrating that he's sorry to see it go he's not throwing it away like sometimes you know when when the bell rings in Yeshiva all of a sudden three two one you know you know that so this is a way of showing that a person enjoy the Y okay there is an absolutely incredible he sayses an idea that the sim a person has when he does a Mitzvah is even more valuable than the Mitzvah itself more valuable than shaking your is the that a person feels that heah theim that a person experiences when he does a Mitzvah is even more valuable than the mitvah itself not only that the reward in sh for the for Mitzvah is more reward than for the Mitzvah itself amazing the reward hasem will give a person for the SIM for doing a mitah is greater than the Mitzvah itself therefore if a person does any Mitzvah the the most basic feeling that they should have is I'm so happy that I could do the Mitzvah even more valuable than learning in the she is being happy that I have the to learn in the sh so therefore whenever we do a Mitzvah we should Rejoice really whenever we do a Mitzvah we should make a suda so he says an incredible thing do you know why in because in is so you kept big deal you kept it's the holy land it's our territory it's our property we're not threatened we're not in danger God gave us atiff this is our property this is our territory of course we're going to keep so we'll be happy about it who cares it's not a big deal not who cares but it's really not a big deal but if you live in America or you live in Europe you live in where you're surrounded by where it's difficult to keep a and who says you'll be able to keep the Y there's persecution there's there's uh there's defamation people look down and people despise it and yet you fight the tide and your keep you know what kind of it is to keep a it requires so much we should probably make a that to keep and that's what we do that's what we do the concept of is that if you're keep you require to make a that that's how happy we are about it it's such a to keep you should probably make a y in it's not such a big deal so you know what they do they just have an okay so they have a little they'll have a little bit of a better lunch the next day it doesn't require but we have to make and then after that we make a little we're able to keep the previous day don't push it right so so that's the concept of that in so it comes out Y is bigger it is in according to in other words if you're it's actually a bigger to keep that's the words of there's a [Laughter] if it would arouse and awaken the love until you desire but the ran in the says a very important in this that often in life we're inspired we have inspiration where we feel elevated but inspiration is fleeting and it dissipates and if you don't Channel your inspiration to something CH uh tangible it will disappear if your inspiration has been aroused it needs to be placed into a tangible thing it needs to be concretized therefore we experience a yam and we had a lot of inspiration on the we felt elevated we felt inspired we had thoughts of trying to come closer at KES in order that it doesn't dissipate so they were tie yourself to the the day after make sure you sort of review all the thoughts you had all the all the mados that you've aspired to and perhaps have come into contact with to try to tie yourself to that and put into something tangible similarly writes that on the are elevated with great kadus and they have holy thoughts and you might think that uh the weak day will come and everything will be forgotten so therefore commands us tie yourself to the even during the week that the days of the week should always be connected and attached to the yam similarly brought the he says like this any tailor here any Weavers every any Jewelers Henry right a good Jeweler knows that you could have a very expensive uh pearl necklace or you can have a very expensive uh garment but everything depends on that that knot at the end that you make that holds everything in place cuz without that knot all the plurals will fall off the whole garment will unravel so the concept in is it's like a knot it's a it's a that all the K of the does not unravel and explain the concept of says that one who prays needs to wait an hour after his so to speak to come down to earth to be able to hold on to the MOs that that a person felt during the so to on it's like it's similar to the concept of before you end the the you should wait an hour so before you leave a yum you should also also have a day of intermediary day so on that note the sh writes a very beautiful thought that the concept of Y and the concept of he says as follows that Y is a very high day a very lofty day a very day it's from the light of the of the that's why it's called y it's from Theos and therefore you can't just go into a yam you need like um right the same way you can't just go to outer space you have to prepare your body to become um accustomed to the conditions in outer space you got to go through a preparatory stage so too you can't just go into a y the way we prepare for a y is the Kad like the intermediary kadha that we don't just go from weekday straight up to This brilliant light we initiate oursel into it through the preparations of yam likewise you can't just leave yam and go into the week you need so what's the is the in you see in where everything is Sanctified we're able to go from yam because even the weak days are also have some kadus and is itself will allow will serve as an intermediary but in where the week day is much more profane therefore it's necessary to have a slower incubation period slower initiation so we go from y to to the days of the week so let's conclude with the following and um this is the idea of who um says that based on this idea we could uh say differently than t t wanted to say really does not have and so why don't we smell shabas going into because we have the no says really has K so why don't we smell so he says a very interesting thing we know there's a concept of why is there and notab why do we have a day after yam and not a day after chabas the answer is in the secret of the conclusion of the that we say on shab we say blessed are you God who Sanctified the shabas who sanctifies the shabas hasem sanctifies the chabas therefore shabas is what is called it's established shabus comes it comes there's nothing we could do to bring it sooner we could be on the shabas but that's not a real shabas you not somebody violates the shabas when chabas comes it comes and when it leaves it leaves there's no isabis we didn't make it and we can't hang on to it but when God Sanctified us and we sanctify the yam through the power of sanctifying the new moon we're the ones to sanctify the yam if you make the yam you can hang on to the yam that's why when yam is over there's a concept of because since we made the kadus we can hang on to the kadus therefore says really so why don't we y CU we could still hang on to the yam a little bit when shabas is over it's gone when yam is over we don't need to because we could still hang on to the so we should to hold on to the we should always have you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com