An Introduction to Maseches Bechoros

The topic of msky is not surprisingly is the idea of the now from a perspective the laws of can really be divided into three groups. The Tory says that in the event that somebody has a kosher animal that gives birth to a firstborn zakar male, that animal has to be given as a gift to a cyen then has to take it and bring it to as a carbon. The only time that is true is in the event that the animal is kosher. The Tyra says and a it's regarding those three minim of that this is going to apply. There's another idea of that involves a non-cooser animal, one specific non-coosher animal, and that is in the event that a donkey gives birth to a firstborn zakar there to the laws of are going to apply. Now, the way they apply is different. The reason it's different is because it's obvious that this can't be given to a ken and ultimately be put on the misbeh what then do you do? So the Tyra says there are two options. One option is you could be poet you could redeem the with a take the and give it to the co. It's interesting that in the event that you choose that option when the coin receives the se that is going to be it's not going to be but there's an option called where you take theamar you transfer the kadusha of the kamar onto a the now goes to the ken your is regular you can do whatever you want to do with that thera says that in the event that you don't want to do that for whatever reason. Then there's a mitzvah that's known as which in English means we behead the and there's a whole andis and that talk about what the status of that is going to be postifa. [snorts] But the point is that as it relates to a firstborn there are two ways that you can go. You can go the pigion route you can go the route. In fact, kazal compare the mitzvah of as it relates to the concept of it's actually aishna also is an idea very different but there's two possibilities in the event etc. one is the other is so when it comes to the of there's two options one is the other one is going to be and then finally the third category within the world of is the one that we're most familiar with that's one that's very much and that is the of in the event that somebody has a firstborn there's a mitzvah to be that by giving five slum to a as it relates to It's going to discuss all of the affforementioned. It's going to discuss the of that gives born to a firstborn where the Tyra says go give it to the and then the Cen has a whole obligation. He has a responsibility to bring it as a carbon. We're going to discuss in of a firstborn where the terrorist has these two mitzvah that are one the other one and then finally is also the that talks about all the different of it's interesting the starts which with which one of these three starts with the most obscure of the three and that is the firstborn where there's an option of pidion an option Rashi says it's the first Rashi is that the reason we start with the mitzvah of the as opposed to you would think if anything if you want to go the behem route you would start with the or the or the is simply being that the is related to the much smaller than the related to the kosher animal all the are going to come on the side so Let's just address what is shorter and then afterwards we'll spend the majority of the maka dealing with the of as it relate to the culture animal additionally to the laws of of but this is not the introduction to the maka this is just setting up exactly what is going to look like if you think about the concept of the bkar it's very interesting it's interesting because it's actually one of the first mitzvah that kai Israel got as the nation. We received the mitzvah of Bkar before we stood at hari. In fact, the first time the yidden were told about the concept of kadushasar and mitzvah that result from kadushkar was when the yidden was still in par. This is if you fast forward 13, this is of parishes, it is going to be going to take you into the land of like he swore to you enter your zas and you're going to conquer the land. You should take every and you should give it to that's a fancy way of saying and really the we just read encapsulates the entire setup tokades and And is clearly saying that has to be given to in other words it's brought as a carbon that's what you do with the first category that we talked about you have the proverbial that's what you do with the second category that we mentioned the and then finally That's the term mentions that as well. Now the P continues and the P says if your child is going to ask you what's this all about you should tell him did not want to send the Jews out. So what did was he killed all the for that reason after you want to know what this is all about? It's because when you left killed all the and it's for that reason all the now are going to have kadusha. And then finally the last you should take this and you should literally put it as an ice. You should bind it to your hand. You should put it in between your eyes. So the of the story of the traces itself all the way back to and the gives us a very clear defined reason as to why it is that we have this mitzvah. It's related to another very interesting thing about the mitzvah of Bkar which brings out how unique it is is that the parish of Bkar is in our fillin. The tomb's made up of four paras of and is the we just read these are literally the mitzvah of it's actually ironic that the parish of kadeshi called bkar which sounds like is the parish of the Bakar is not the parish of the Bakares talks all about it starts off mentioning the Bakar you have to wait several until you get to that is really the parish that talks about all the of the but the bottom line is that the mitzvah of Bkar is featured very very prominently in the fillain now what's fillain fillin on the simplest level is there are certain ideas that are so critical. There's certain ideas that we have to be so mindful of that we literally have to have them on us at all times. So therefore we take these ideas and we put them in our arm and then we put them between our eyes and our right all these different that this talk about as it relates to the film. So there's certain ideas now that's in volume that's mitzvah but included in the things that are in the in fact it's a par the fourth par of the par is all about the is so prominent that it literally made it into I'll just share with you one beautiful that theel speaks out and with that we'll start the maka the barbell says that If you you break down all the mitzvah that were given to us in that relate to you're going to see there's three groupings I'm picking up here mid paragraph that are going to remember there's going to be three that they're going to have to have in mind right the which means you can't eat it all the is that come from the heading of mat and the reason we have these mitzvah is for the first like the Torah talks about the second that we have is and that's a way to remember it's also all the things that happened on the night it's a and and the third that we have is it's the fact that and this group is doing what he does best in the world of but he says if you do a and you break down all the different that we have in parishes by all the mitzvah there's going to be three groupings there's the matzah related mitzvah a lot of them and that's all related to the and then there's the carbon right that whole of [snorts] the pes and that's a way to remember the fact that the all the events that took that night and then there's a specific sh there's a specific mention within all those different took place. [snorts] We have to highlight the and how does get highlighted in the it's the idea the concept of now the truth is when we learned the not so long ago and then so we spoke out from the London from and from that you find that is not just another mak gets disproportionately highlighted and emphasized in the world The says this is that when a person's every day he has to be to the point that if a person would not be he wouldn't be and really you see it throughout but you see it in think of that we So I mean you would think that covers everything that encapsulates whatever you need to encapsulate but you get a special sh and it's based on that they have to be masquerate we say it in the hus in the how We go through all the different things. Why do you have to give a shout out to you don't mention you don't remember you don't mention the rest of the but as relates to that already we do and the lum already talk about different reasons but the bottom line is this brings it out so strongly there's three that we make in the world of there's the matzah related there's the carbon pesak related and then there's makus begget its own category of zak and that's manifest in an entire in the is which again we set up is made up really of three different is a concept of is that when left the 10th maka the climax of the makus was this was something that was so significant that said I want you to remember it not just remember it I want it to literally be bound to your so this is something that you're always going to remember you're always going to remember the fact that I took you out of and specifically obviously it still requires a little bit of why is it so important it's [snorts] not enough to say I and something that we're going to get back to but for now we have to learn we have to get into the we mentioned already that Rashi says that from the three categories of the one that the starts with is a firstborn which is unique in that not giving it to the and not taking it then and putting it on the and bringing it as a a carbon but rather you have a mitzvah to either be ped and give the in which he will treat us or to do the the very obscure unique mitzvah of and on that note we begin with a Mishna a Mishna which interestingly is going to give us examples of when the laws of right that's a synonym for the laws of do not apply which by the way we've mentioned this over the years several times that it's interesting that you have makis and certainly many many many many procas that begin discussing an idea and instead of doing it in what you would think would be a very systematic way let me tell you what this is and then at some point we'll get to the exclusions we start with the loopholes we start with the exclusions and then we work our way backwards [laughter] to actually figure out what exactly this is all about one of the great examples which is is where are the laws of Dalum discuss that's the third per of how does the peric startle start with azle the cabal already addressed this issue but the bottom line is this is something that you very very often find this is something that was done when the shas and the shish mishna was set up this Mishna is a perfect example so instead of starting off learning about the laws of pigar or thea of the and what type of is and what the definition of al is etc etc. We're going to start with uh as if we know enough about it that we could start hearing a little bit the exceptions to the rule. And on that note, Dr. They will give me