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Lecha Dodi | Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler
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usual theum are in memory
of and today we're going to do one of
the most probably most
popular Jewish poems in the Sid and
that's of
course let's say a word
about Shabbat the Shabbat is really it's
like any other my except that there's a
change in the ending of B hasu and the
of the daving of the you know is very
different on Friday night and Shabbat
morning and chabat and that's a story in
itself the um the idea of Kabal shabat
that before you we should receive accept
upon ourselves Shabbat is something that
goes back to the days of thear if you
just take a look at the second page we
have two pages here one is the source
which is just the poem The and the other
is the source Pages you look at the
second page the last source which is
from thear Source number 27 um
it's gives a story of two of
the the word he would drape himself it
means with a Talus we put a Talus on and
when would he do this on late of a of
shabas which means he accepted Shabbat
Friday late afternoon draped in the
Talis the rambam actually says to do
this and the only community that
actually does it are the ammonites you
can still see it today going to SCH
Friday night with the Talis on there you
go see I didn't make this one up this is
real this um and they and the robans
explained that draping with a Talis is
always done when there's a sensation of
standing before the before says that's
the reason that we drape ourselves with
a Talus and chakas in the morning and
that's the reason that a Talus is put on
by a Brit you know you notice the mo
Talus and the Shand Talus tal they doing
the Brit at two in the afternoon so some
people think because they used to do the
Brit right after ding before
Al so people still had their Talis
filling on and they did the Brit and
they said alenu but we say alenu after
two in the afternoon so the said thatu
is actually the exit strategy how to
leave the presence of the so every time
there is a moment of standing before the
so we end with as we do for it also the
those just recently about and it says
it's as
if and that's but and of course there's
no Talis at night because night time is
not the time ofz but there's a
culminating the k for that very very
reason and that's why when the the Frank
for Jewish Community Min
of together in the week nights they
never said Al after because they're
moving into immediately just as we don't
say Al
after because we're moving after into so
you're not leaving the presence of the
there's no need for the the
authorization if you may to leave the
presence of the so here the G saying
that they wore he wore a talit draped in
a talit because he's going to accept the
and when does he do
this just before as a shabat the late
afternoon of a chabas Amar he
said let's go out out to the field and
bring the Shabbat in this mentioned in
the becomes the custom of the made spat
the Calis ofat of the 16th century where
they would leave the Sho and walk out
walk out and in the direction of the
West I point out because the sun sets in
the west and therefore the idea was to
um if the sun sets in the west when is
the first moment of Shabbat at the
moment of Sundown and therefore to look
at the Sundown and gaze upon on the
onset of the sanct of Shabbat as it's
going to roll over Isel as the Sun keeps
setting and so this was the idea
mentioned already
in they actually left the you know took
steps out what we do as a Remnant to
this is turn around when we say shalom
and here comes
the where do you you just turn around or
they turn towards West now in Europe
when the besset were Facing East because
that was the direction of er Isel so
turning to the your back to the or
kodesh meant turning to the West it me
sense because the where was the door of
the sh was at the opposite opposite the
uresh was at the end so it meant really
going to the door and some shoes would
even open up the doors and some people
would even take a step outside the sh
and and and and welcome in the Shabbat
but here in Isel the directions are
somewhat different because we Face y so
if you're in t aiv your Sho should be
Facing East and only if you're in malim
should your sh face West but if you're
in G your sh should face North and if
you're in betel your Sho should face
South so the question is where do you
turn around for Bo shalom what's
happened in most shs is they simply
carried in their baggage whenever their
they or their parents or grandparents or
great-grandparents came from Europe and
um they turn around to the back of the
Shool and sometimes to the back of the
Sho is actually East like if you turn
around to the back of the Shool in in um
in in in Mal you're turning East you're
not facing the West so some say you turn
around to the door whatever the
direction of the door is and some say
you turn around to West so the West
might be a a wind Windows might be
windows on the side of the sh either
this the right or left but it's towards
the West what I don't like is when
everybody in SCH does one thing and one
person demonstratively does something
else to show that he knows better I I I
don't like that I don't like that I can
tell you that in the um in the Sho that
I dive in in Friday night which is a lot
of graduates of
Y everybody just turns around like every
other Sho whatever but and I too because
I don't want to look like a stick in the
mud you know like doing something
different but after everybody does bo bo
so you're turning around and you can see
the door usually the door is a little
open so also by the door you get that
part in that you really really welcoming
in
Shabbat
so right so the West the West Was the
side of Kes kashim
which was the opposite of all the other
religions all the other religions they
were looking at Sunrise because they
were worshiping the Sun so therefore the
East became the very very important
Direction so bet mikash was was the
opposite so that's why the that's why
theel is KES because it's this the
direction that would face The KES Kim
I'm sure you're well aware the cotel is
not a wall of the B mikdash contrary to
way we heard in first grade and second
grade and third grade but you have to
grow up and realize that it's a wall of
the of the AAR of harab it's an outer
it's a wall of one of the walls of harab
and so on it's not a wall of but it is
the the west and there's a med that
says never left there and that's what
gained you know the credit to the cotel
why it's like the closest you can get to
bet mikdash the the the the most
opportune place to to DAV fine so so the
idea of the West being the side of kadus
has a lot to do with the fact that Kad y
always
is Right any whether it's
shabbes the time Factor always begins in
the evening and the and and it's
actually going to begin with sundown
sundown and Sundown is under the the
West so there's this idea of intensity
of kadha developing from the west and
that's also why bet mikdash has it as
The KES Kim is the West so here you have
in spat the theat going out to the
fields and welcoming in the Shabbat and
you have
rabo Al one of the I mean some of the
names are very famous RAB ysf Caro most
probably the most famous rakov bav
sometimes known as re
there and the these were the
Great of the 16th century and you have
here you
have so first of all just from the point
of view of this style you have his name
in the acrostic from shamor shinid
mikdash is the me hitari is the he that
schlomo and then it continues with h
[Applause]
Soom built into the poem he's signing
his name book I mean la like artists
will sign their name at the bottom of
painting as we've seen already in
previous poems the art the the the
authors The Poets would sign their names
through the acostic sometimes in
interesting ways and that's what you
have here that becomes important because
in the first line sham we already have
to explain why it's sham and not Z
but he needs the shin he needs the shin
for his name we'll see in a moment that
it goes way beyond
that who is the
do do means the Beloved where do you
have in tanak the
do the the do is so there in
shirima said that all of the books are
Kesh in tanim is Kesh kesim so what did
he mean by that how can you have
something in holier than other books can
you have something holier
than I mean my gosh the is in the it's
not even in theim and there are three
different gradations of Kad ofes so if a
person erases God's name in any of the
books of tanak t
it's the same if you eras A's name in in
or in it's the
same you're not all to do that that's
for sure nevertheless the levels of
sanctity
of are different and the proof is the
mishna in the second chapter of M M it
says that if you sell aish with the
money you can only buy a SA you can only
upgrade if you sell a a book of tum
that's let's say on a cloth on a mount
parchment you sell it you have money you
can't go to the grocery store you can
only buy something that's a higher kadha
you can buy n a book of yes or if you
sell a book of your you can only buy
a so you always have to upgrade and
there the question is where does betet
come in Where do B midash come in so
there there's all different gradations
of kadha but you see from there that are
three different levels of sanctity
ofes and so do is so why why is telling
me that ises so what does that mean it
can't Bean more holy than yes it's not
more holy less it's less holy than yes
so the r explained once that and this
was in his great speech called that was
a speech in y 1956 at yhim universities
y program so the gave it Russia on Y and
um and and there he puts down his his
his Manifesto on religious Zionism and
he talks about suffering he talks about
the book of EO and he talks about the
Shah and he talks about how Amel is
trained to exit parot you
know episodes ofar and how he
understands the emergence of Med is so
there he's got a whole footnote
explaining the concept of R AA of Kes
kesim where he says KES means that you
can explain every PUK on the basis of
its basic simple understanding that's
called now of course you can no deeper
than that you can have D you can have
htics FAA whether it's htics a htics but
you can have drush but the shot is
sustainable not only sustainable but any
you're supposed to understand the before
you go deeper but RAB AKA said there is
noot of shiram if somebody reads shiram
and says oh this is a beautiful love
story oh yeah there's a nice medish that
goes along with it no no no no no no the
medish isn't something that goes along
with it the medish is theat which means
if you don't understand that the whole
point of shirim is a masal it's an
analogy you the r said you shouldn't
even say on it it's not part of Tor he
used the phrase It's not a t it's not an
integral part of Tor to study sh as a
love song Not a Love Song of course
schom is using imagery of the of the
running after the do and the r as a as a
masal as an image of it's either the Jew
as an individual VIs
or it's CL as the collective
Vis both are correct both are correct
I'm not gonna say it's a between the and
the ram but um the the the um the rambam
talks about the individual and the r saw
it in a more Collective way but that's
okay the the idea that it's a masal it's
an analogy of the love between and here
the author Al is taking the do and who
does he mean by the
so it either
means and the is that's one read of
the or the
do is
is and the
is so there are two different ways of
seeing this is
it going out to bring in the Shabbat or
is it am Israel going out to bring in
the presence of and that's what the
means the word means resting and the is
the phrase pops up immediately with
regard to building
aash you should make for you me a
sanctuary and I will rest in it what's
problematic about that is that was all
over the place in kindergarten they used
to teach this in the in in kindergarten
school in the right Hashem is here
Hashem is there Hashem is everywhere up
down and so on
so that's
that's what does it mean that is
residing residing means he's here but
not there that's what residence means
you're in a you're locked into a certain
location so can be locked into a
location this is the whole question of
what does actually mean so it's a simp
it's an illusion that wanted that we
should sense his presence more here than
there why because we need it we need it
we need a place where you can connect a
little bit better to a so actually
didn't want it if you remember
theote onsh the K that that begins with
the
words my tent my
tent the very first one
is and I remember the explaining it once
in Tish in in his Bost Marathon Kish
here he said what really wanted was that
the created world would be the bet
mikdash but it didn't work it didn't
work kadh saw quickly enough that man
needed an address and there and that's
why the the BET mikdash idea
surfaces so we have a sensation
of's presence and therefore can be not
perceived during the weekday but on
Shabbat he will be perceived and he's
coming in and he's coming in from the
West as the sun sets and therefore we
can go out and receive him this is the
cabalistic take on
the
it's going out to receive
the as we're going to receive the
Shabbat now Kabal Shabbat origin Al
before the 16th century was simply a
type of su zra like we have in the
morning we have tillim and the tells us
before you go to you should always say
some words of
Praise first you should have words of
praise to that's why the first
three are
are that's why we have in the morning
the is short is just ash it's you know
it's just and for because might only be
optional the whole
is if
you you get a to go along for the ride
but it's very abbreviated so what do you
have Friday night so Friday night was
one peric
until and so on that was
original and of of of Friday night and
by saying M you've accepted the Shabbat
the idea was that you should bring in
Shabbat a few moments before what's
called to shabbat and that's why this
was always said at least they try to say
it before sum down if possible it
doesn't always work out like that and so
on later on the days of the Aral he
wanted there should be seven chapters of
tum I mean you get it seven why so
there're actually seven chapters of if
you start from you start counting each
per including M if I'm not mistaken they
added the peric before M which is the
Friday which ends
with so you get your seven chapters
right
this is
where stuck in his his poem his poem in
other words you already have a type of
ofra for for Shabbat which expands from
one chapter to seven chapters of tum and
there was even a secondary Min and that
was you don't have just one chapter
before M would be sufficient and it was
peret was
it's all the
18 that you have there so that was there
as well and I'll just say in the the
spirit of Professor Daniel sha in his
great book Monumental work on M Israel
where he said sometimes minhag develop
because of compromise so the compromise
of the expanded Kabal chabat that we all
have Friday night from
the and the
uh the the more miniature according to
the way the the ARA wanted that it
actually started
with is that every shabas we do the long
version and if it's
Shabbat we do the short version so
what's the short version just
Mis
that's
but if it's Friday
there is
noat except for M they just thought M
and that's very very abbreviated but
what the and maist do with Friday night
yam is not only just
include but actually
abbreviate they say and sing the first
two stanzas and the last two stanzas
which in Yiddish we say
say we don't understand what they're
doing if there's an entire message of
the so towards the end of today's share
or perhaps next week's share we're gonna
answer that question what is so
significant about the first two and the
last two that are are become the
abbreviated when Shabbat comes out with
yam according to andas but those who
ashas rather would be able to just turn
off because you don't say it at all you
just say
m okay so let's see what what's going on
here read the next stanza
too these two stanzas are talking about
Shabbat the next Stan mikdash is talking
about mdash
andash standing up once again referring
to bet mikdash destroyed H wake up wake
up mdash destroyed let's awaken
awaken also these are Messianic
themes is gonna give it to the to the
enemy all of these have to do with being
in the galut let's remember RAB ysf Caro
was born in
1489 what's so special about
1489 he's going to be three years old at
the time of the expulsion from Spain and
he leaves with his family in rout to
Israel and he's one of the few who
actually make it to Israel and the
reason is because El wasn't flying the
bar Ona Tel Aviv route that day they was
probably on strike and um you couldn't
take the non-stop you had to get on a
boat in
Barcelona and in all likelihood it
stopped in Italy and all likelihood
everybody got off and it wasn't an hour
and a half you know fuel stop it was a
year or two or three or just never get
back on the boat again and then they
continued some who continued the meager
few continued ended up in Greece and
then most of them got got off and they
stayed there and then some got back on
very few they end up in the saloniki
islands and most stayed there and some
will got back ended up in one port of
turkey and some got back on but most
didn't and then inste another port in
turkey ismir and they got off R Josef
Caro's family got off there till they
got back on the boat till they made it
there Israel in AKO a meager few I'm not
even sure it's 1% of those who left
Spain
and when we talk about the
from 60% never left why didn't they
leave because they converted to
Catholicism so they never have left and
the 40% that didn't convert to
Catholicism so a meager few were burnt
were exe were were executed a Meer few
because some went underground and became
oranos which means that two generations
later they were Al the Catholic handful
survived to this very day with some
tradition of being Morano but those who
went underground it lasted two about two
generations and some went to Morocco
some went to Morocco not there is RO and
that was a disaster because they were
Spaniards and they were scientists and
so on and philosophers and they came to
the mor you know I'm I'm just saying
this as a historical comment not khala
to cast aspersion on anybody but they
saw the Moroccan Jews as low lives
social intellectual low lives and
therefore they didn't merge at all with
them no integration whatsoever it was a
terrible terrible integration and others
went to Holland because in Amsterdam
there was freedom of religion and from
the Jewish community of Amsterdam some
of them boarded the boats of the U West
Indies uh uh company and they came to
the new world which was called later
America and the first Jews to hit the
American soil before they establish in
the United States of America with
Spanish Jews and there are some names
who we are familiar with George
Washington's finance minister right Kim
Salomon who in his honor there is a mug
and do it on the dollar bill if you
don't know where it is I'll show you
where it is it's in the back it's in
dots you have to see it you have to
squint but it's there in his honor um
and then you have of course turo the the
turo synagogue in Rhode Island and then
you have the Spanish Portuguese
synagogue in New York City all this
predates the United States of America
and the first Jews were were were spim
and so on so that's a little bit the
history of of where the direction and
you also have Jewish communities of
sarim developing in Amsterdam but they
didn't have their own ronm yet because
it takes time for migrants to develop
theot and talas and so on so you have to
import so they took from Germany the
father of raken who was known as theam
and he has the name because that's the
title given to the rabbis of and he was
called asazi because he was
the was the exception he was the so he
was the asazi he was his name was never
asazi they called
Himi his son was the yit ROV Ben the son
of the whose family name then evolves to
javitz yavitz javitz and you have the
Javit Center in New York City if Jake
javitz the great Senator would know that
his Ela he knew that his Ela was the
iitz but if the yitz would have known
that his great great great great
grandson was be Jake javitz you know who
married Marilyn and not a Jew to say
that I don't think he would be too happy
but the Jake Javis was a friend of
Israel in the United States Senate and
we have to have to say a good word about
him but uh so you have the history of
the expulsion so those who exp very few
made a terror Israel very very very few
and it's 16th century where Italian and
Greek Jews become the communities become
sped before that it's it's pure
rashin we talk about Italian Jews today
you're thinking Spar and it's all post
the the the exposion so you have um
Roso and
R Alat and and and and they're there in
Spain now um in inat rather writing
about Shabbat
with the full knowledge that is was in
deep trouble that the galut is very very
deep painful and so on but recognizing
as we've seen in previous zirot that on
the day of Shabbat you can somehow
overcome that in your mind and live the
spirit of redemption of g once a week
that the spirit of Y mashia somehow can
kick in every single week and and this
is what he's going to do here as well so
he first gives a little bit of an
understanding of Shabbat so we know that
the speaks of Shabbat twice once in
shb in we're gonna read it next Shabbat
not this Shabbat the weekend of Shabbat
and then in the
sum that's why I remember was a kid
growing up they used to say what's the
connection between television and Torah
they said they both show reruns in the
summer is a rerun basically you have
so you
have with differences between the first
set of De and the second set of De and
the med
says look at source Number One Source
number one actually is the mid that
we've seen in a different context
already the medish Raba in
parat in Raba in parat it says
everybody has a companion a
partner because Sunday has Monday and
Tuesday has Wednesday and Thursday has
Friday the I don't have any
Ben is going to be
your doing here and that's why
it's that the Shabbat is going to be the
of of is going to be the
of and then Source number two you have
the famous Med that's found in found
other places
too gave the first set of the Asser and
the second set of the Asser with regard
to shabbat together means M doesn't wait
40 years to hear
that aside from Z or you also have sham
means two different things Z is the ofes
Friday night it's not just to remember
mentally to remember but to articulate
with words the story of Shabbat so it's
explained in the T the oral law KES
Friday night so Kish Friday night is the
direct fulfillment
of R expands this and says it's
also that's a dispute that's a most
think
that is a is a add-on to say some nice
things about Shabbat as you separate
yourself from Shabbat to the weekday but
the rahan believes it's part two of the
MIT KES Friday night so Z Shabbat is
fulfilled twice on Shabbat at the
beginning and at the end and there's a
tremendous um
ramification ramification that is the
obligation of women
forab because KES Friday night because
tells
in one saying in one
utterance as
say human being cannot do
that and the ear cannot absorb two words
simultaneously it's gonna be a mish but
this how gives it over to so question is
why does he do that is as if to say
flexing his muscles and he can do it and
human beings can't do it no it comes
teach us that whoever is involved inir
is also involved inat so who's involved
inat means guarding yourself from not
doing the prohibited activities the so
clearly women are part of sh Shabbat
there's no question about that there's
no leniencies with regard to women in
terms of whatever is forbidden for men
are forbidden for women so
that's so the teach us that
said to teach us that whoever is
involved in sh Shabbat is involved in Z
Shabbat also has to articulate the words
of Shabbat as Shabbat enters which means
women have an equal equal obligation for
kides Friday night as men we might think
otherwise because it's a Time bound
Mitzvah it's a
Mitzvah which perhaps would excuse women
so here we have a an understanding that
women are obligated Kish Friday night
which means that a woman can say KES to
be Mighty to allow others to fulfill
their obligation so the r was of the
opinion I know this happens a lot of
times when you get invited out his guest
one one second please one second the
says that when you go out the invited
guest the balab should make KES that's
it you know a lot of people B is a
gracious person would you like Kish
would you like Kish you know he gives
cups of wine he's not cheap he's got
wine for everybody it's not an issue the
question is should everybody Mak Kish
and said no the balab should make Kish
and so too in the context of the family
the only exclusion is if if you have
children and you want them to get used
to saying kidish Friday night so you
certainly can have your children make
Kish at the table Friday night
yeah I'm gonna get to that point right
now so kidish is is obligatory on the
biblical level and I've have already
heard
that sometimes we try to give a bat
mitzvah something very concrete to do to
show the she's a Mitzvah so they'll ask
C to make the kides for a family Friday
night of har Mitzvah or to make the MIT
right make the MIT there are some
families by the way today where the
husband makes the Kish and the wife does
the MIT it's as simple as that that's
now becoming more in more common in
different families yeah
is
also right so the KES in the morning is
only for anyone but it's it's also for
men and
women the woman could make it for the
man the woman could make it for the man
because they both have equal rabic
obligations so it's equal it's equal so
that so that that's for sure the problem
with AB I'm saying a problem the problem
is the issue is that it's a r says it's
biblical it's the if it's the say it's
across the boards for men and women too
so not only is woman obligated in AB
doll she would be able to say AB dollar
for herself and she'd be able to say AB
dollar to to re resolve to be M to have
men fulfill their obligation but the
catch is that it's a Rabin according to
many many opinions it's a rabic Mitzvah
and it's a Rabin Mitzvah that comes out
once a week on M shabat and and perhaps
women are exempt from this particular
Rabin
addition and therefore if women are
exempt well maybe they're not exempt
maybe maybe going to the R so women are
careful that they hear abdah on the
other hand if a woman is alone for sure
she can make abdah that's not even a
problem but many women have accustomed
themselves to listen to havdalah from
others to the extent that sometimes
there's an aging mother Aunt somewhere
so somebody picks up the phone and says
I've do through the phone and that's
another issue whether hearing through
the telephone is calling called hearing
so I would go so far to say whereas most
pokim say yes hearing through an
electronic device is called Bonafide
hearing and if somebody is scoped up in
the house and can't go out that there's
no man- making abala so it's okay
there's no no nobody's saying AB Dolla
extra anyway you know nobody's nobody's
getting hurt by that as we say and
you're making AB for your family at home
so it's obviously the best thing to do
but if a woman is at home and is capable
of making her own Hava it's was probably
a better option to do that than
listening to it over the phone but it
doesn't always work because not every
woman knows how to make ABD is
comfortable making ABD and so on so
that's where it comes in that women got
used to not making ABD because of is
it yeah
okay so that's a Shear in itself it's a
Shear on a sh it's a sh on a Shear right
because theer you have to hear the
sounds the m is not the blow it's to
hear the sounds and that's the big issue
of electronic amplification if it's
considered hearing yes or
no you have one hearing gate or if you
sit up close and you hear hearing it
from your ears anyway okay so that the
pokim dealt with there are shoes that
will not have somebody with hearing aids
do the be the B because the person who
blows has to be fully fully um obligated
in the Mitzvah because one new exception
to this is going to be my wife sitting
here she's a pretty big expert on this
cocar implants and rosha tendler told me
that cular implants means that you're
hearing and he would have a person with
cular impants PL blower in and without
any problems so it's not only is he
somebody who understands would make him
obligated in all other mitv but he also
hears and uh it's just a different mode
of how his brain is getting this
sensation of hearing and he would be
obligated and he would be able to blow
the schifer for others that was so that
was a novel there are some other Pim who
said the same
like and so on and those understand what
a CO implant is that's all it's as
simple as that as simple as that okay so
let's say
about said these in one
utterance made it known the one God made
it known when did he make it
known made it known at harini correct
when is the first time Amel hears about
Shabbat by
this week's para right so this week's
para all they hear about is that six
days a week you scoop up man and the
seventh day don't bother going outside
with your shovel because no m is
falling there's a big dispute in the
mishna and the and the between ra
is just part of the narrative and has
nothing to do with the laws of Shabbat
today that's ramban's opinion or the
rambam who says it's what
Shabbat you're now allow to walk out of
the city limits a certain measure well
let's not get into the the exact
measurements right now but the ra
includes it as part of the but not part
of
the is not part of if somebody violates
Shabbat he he he didn't violate one of
the 39 he's technically not a shabat he
didn't violate the sh Shabbat but Z SH
waits till until theer de is are given
fine so who gave them which de brro did
am Isel here did everybody
hear so those who had cular implants
yeah
Fair
no so those are no the the point was
those who have cular implants they must
probably heard of kadh because it went
directly into the system right
so the answer
is there are
some who say it's the they heard it all
but there's
a the very
end that
says we were commanded of the Torah
through Moshe of
Tor do the math T is 400 V is six ra is
200 and he is five
61 61 mitv we heard from M two of them
we heard from directly as it
says which is the flip side
of you you acknowledge the existence of
and you deny that any other deity is a
deity it's the same it go it's it's hand
in hand the raham says that by the way
it's say
ra it
says is
denying and those who
accept fully so negate
AAR which means that Judaism does not
tolerate
atheism what's atheism I don't believe
in any God denial of any God atheism
means denial of any deity Judaism does
what do you mean there are people out
there say I'm an atheist so to have
explained every human being something
must be the most important thing in his
life for the reason that he wakes up
right um it it it could be a movie star
it could be an ideology communism
socialism the r even said Zionism if
this is the reason that you woke up the
most important thing in your life
democracy
most important thing in life could be an
ideology it could be a human being it
could be money so who said that that was
the Take the Money and Run of what's his
name W Woody Allen Woody Allen said it
very nicely and Take the Money and Run
he had that great scene of a of a
conference meeting of a corporation and
the the chairman is sitting at the front
and they all stand up and there's a
curtain behind them this is this is
Woody Allan is best taking a pot shot at
Judaism and you pull the curtain you
think you're ready to say V saw our own
and opens up a banner of a dollar bill
and they all stand up and they put hold
their hands together in a in a Praying
gesture and they're mumbling and then
they all sit down they close the curtain
and he goes on with his business and
what what Allen was saying was that the
dollar bill became in aara became in an
idol idolatrous worship 100% because if
this is the reason that you wake up and
by the way some people violate that even
some people who put on with
ra because the reason reason they're
waking up is to make more money that's
the reason they're waking up if you
don't see everything as a means to get
closer to it's so the said even if you
don't believe in a formal religion a
formal idolatrous movement you're still
in of whatever might be the most
important thing in your life the reason
that you wake up in the morning and
that's why Judaism does not tolerate uh
atheism we had an acquaintance in uh in
Beva and his name was Professor Jerry
blitstein or in Hebrew he was known as
yob
blit tremendous tremendous schola and he
gave a lecture once at barand that I
heard him and on on this rambam that I
just mentioned and um and it was in
context of acknowledging the validity of
Christianity by one of the great Rim the
the some someity to to to what's going
on there in Christian I'm not going to
give speech and I and I told the ver L I
said you know the ramom that you quoted
denies atheism and he thought for a
second and he says I never understood it
like that but I think you're right so he
goes home and he writes up the whole
lecture he publishes in a paper and he
says thank you Aron ad this you know
because it was a very important it is an
important point it's a very very
important point that y does not tolerate
atheism it doesn't exist so that's why K
say if you take
you automatically goes together
with and I'll even show you a proof to
this you know in
the we're for sure gonna need these
Pages next week by the way maybe even in
two we no next week so everybody's gonna
hand back their papers to me okay I know
if you take it home you're not going to
bring it so you'll hand back the papers
after this year okay and I'll bring them
next week the U the theer de carries
with it two sets of of we call in yish
TR the canellation the music of which
you teach
every so has two types of trop one is
called the tamon and one is called The
Tam ton the reason it's the upper and
the lower so a lot of people don't
realize why because some of the music
notes as printed in a ton or even in
every some have lowercase notes like
and some have uppercase
like in the in
the in
Theon there's a heavy usage of the
lowercase and at the tamon there's a
heavy use of the uppercase that's why
they called but what is the difference
between the spread of theim in
the theim are broken up Asim with Nim in
the they broken up as as a so if you
take Shabbat Shabbat is one bear so in
the it's a it's a long long
sentence it's all one long yet in theim
Breakdown it's
for so so you you have a a different way
of looking
at for
example it's one it's
one in the in the in the in the but if
you hear the way the reads
[Music]
it there's no such thing as a
TW the minimum is three and there are
several examples of it
there's several examples of three word
but there no is a two word you have it's
not a it's reading the separately the
sixth the seventh the eth the ninth as
we
say that's the where you reading it as
independent Deo but when you read it as
the as a it's a runon
it's all one
long what does it mean so so you can
expl you have to explain I give a sh on
this words you can explain the Deo in
two ways the r used to see this like
cretive where it's a split screen
they're both correct so Lo just for
example means you're not allowed to kill
low
comma there are scenarios were you
allowed to take the blood of another it
could be in the context of execution by
baon it could be in the context of
mitvah War so there so it's
not never there's no such thing as never
but there are scenarios where there's an
allowance that's just one of the
understandings and and so too with
regard to all of the others the V said
every time you read the Torah that's
three times a year of
right in the morning you have to read it
because it's reading of and the reading
of has to be divided by
right didn't put the end the period at
the end of the we don't do it in a
different place
but is to read it in at least
on and some shs
all three times and the explained wanted
to justify this Min which is a very
prevalent Min to read
it because what we're doing is we
identifying with the moment of we want
to hear it the way am heard it at har
and at SI it was de it wasn't it was de
that's why some schs will only do it for
to read the but if
it's so again here's something that you
can have a fight and Sho you know
because if you don't have a fight and
Shool over it you know it's not called a
Sho you have to have something you have
to have them you know material so get
ready next week you know with your rocks
and eggs and tomatoes to throw then
listen carefully as the balore is going
to read that that they br and no matter
how he's goingon to read it you can yell
out he did it wrong
right it's like the what I call the
syndrome A syndrome whether we say ra or
not you know I had a guy in raote this
this Talis bag had both L you know
particular shabas you do say you don't
say no matter what they did you're
always wrong you're always wrong have a
sickness you know same thing
with so so what does it mean that that
said all the that's the that's the but
came along and said no only heard the
first two di only heard two from
mosu had to give over the other eight
because as it says after their
started talking and jump back you know
20 miles that they just couldn't handle
it 12 12 M it say they couldn't handle
it and and and MH Rao had to be the
intermediary even for the remaining de
brro of their serro so according
to we all heard it we all heard the
fourth
shabb is the fourth it's not the first
two
let us hear it it's in of course he so
the question is did he was he M did he
give it over to or did he
give the implication is that we all
heard it from and that's okay because
that's theot that's theot of the of the
of the we heard all all of them and so
on and and not just the first two but I
wanted to say a point about the
Tam so even though
is the first debear so what are you
supposed to do it's a Mitzvah raah
counts it as one of
theah says it's an intellectual Mitzvah
it's not a Mitzvah of belief it's a
Mitzvah that you're supposed to Rack
your brains day in and day out and try
to discover so that's a speech in itself
how do you fulfill that
Mitzvah is the flip side on the negative
Mitzvah as the explained the the de
details of come
later don't have a statue don't have a
picture don't have the celestial bodies
but the core root
of is making something else elim
whatever it
is that's the root
of in
the there's no s after the first
de if you read it
[Music]
it's a runon with the second because the
first and the second go together they
was said by you can't stop there's no
there's no stop sign there's no s after
the first de in
the because even it breaks up by De so
it should be a
after but there is it's like an it just
moves
goes right into the next one and that's
to show that the first two we heard from
and it's not it's not possible that
there could be a stop sign it doesn't so
it just runs in one to the other and
then it says where does that person come
from don't tell me from
Al right so I have it on the on the on
the source page right is
a source number four right having the
source
page you remember it from the from the
first day ofus right from the first day
of which is ready he's looking forward
to what is he saying he's saying every
Shabbat
is he's already bringing us to the the
environment of mashia by saying this the
shame
that's borrowed if you look at source
number five it's borrowed out of a
from he takes a phrase about just
effervescence effervescent type of
Praise toh from
this and he attaches and he says when
we will be obliged to just be eff
effervescent about our praise to the
name
of but he's saying we don't have to wait
to we do it every Friday night every
Friday night here we are we are at the
at the footsteps of mashia okay next
week we're going to explain the
Sham as opposed to the Z and then M we
will be able to
complete the the poem as we go so please
hand back I'm advising if you want to
take it take it but please bring it next
week