Menachos 37

Today's is and we will begin seven lines from the bottom of moving along dealing with fillin and the first is a classic a person is obligated to constantly touch his fillin to make sure that he's aware of his filling. that has only one mention of the shame hashem the shame hashem was mentioned and the says we learn from this that was wearing the tits could not be from the that has so many how many mentions are there of the hashem that many mitzvah boys have begun their with myself included and that is that a person is not allowed to be while he's wearing this and just like the wasn't how do we know that because the says so the fillain too the a person would not be able to be and not just that the Gmorra says it's because that only has one you can't be certainly it's interesting that there actually many that I learned out from this brings it in the first part in the we spoke out not so long ago said that Even according to the that the weren't just allowed to put on the big day kahuna frivolously for no reason. And it had to be for some but says was different cuz the says so it doesn't matter if he was doing it doesn't matter if he wasn't doing it doesn't matter if he was in the mik or if he was quote unquote the was always allowed to wear the tits this is another that's learned out from what does it have to do with us even though it's a we're actually in the midst of our digression from the it's more related which has certainly there's a lot of rate to speak out in this and we'll get to this at the end of the so the says four times in the four par of depending on what the order is but either way says the you're supposed to put it on your Which hand is it referring to? It's the left. How do you know it's the left hand? Maybe you're supposed to put it on your right hand. The says, "So the over here refers to the min is obviously the right hand." The yad then by definition is the other hand, the proverbial left hand. So you see that where it says in the what it means is the left hand. Remember another P it says again the P mentions the mentions obviously the is not the must be it's the finally a third it says again the same idea it says it says obviously therefore is small so when it says in theory again and again and again that the film shall be it's referring to the left arm markets he says you mention I'll find you a it's a not in but it's a in in the you find that the word yad could mean the right hand so you see clearly that can mean the right hand too so maybe when it says that the term it means the right hand says it's true in that you find but I just found says the is the other hand not the right hand in other words it's the left hand says you don't have to come on to this meaning the first that brought how you know that is supposed to be on your left hand is because it says in always means the left hand says you don't have to come on to that because the says just like has to be with the right hand so too when you tie the fillin on your hand you tie it with your right hand. So the Gar does the back of the envelope arithmetic. If you're going to be wrapping, you're going to be tying the on your hand with your right hand. Then which hand are you going to be tying it onto? Obviously must be you're putting it on your left hand says the who didn't hold of the first that the gar brought he held that in your right hand too. How does he know? So the says either either he holds the secondar brought two took umbrage with the first. Okay. So like the second says is actually a third it says one of the three times the mentions the second mention in par. So the over there spells the word not within but rather and we from there everyone knows this. supposed to put fill in on your weaker hand for the typical person that's a righty his weaker hand is his left hand thus you have a thirdar how you know that supposed left hand and this could be the says after said this told him maybe the way you're supposed to read the maybe that h is supposed to be based on the idea that we find sometimes that hes andes can swap so maybe the way is supposed to read is not your weaker hand but is stronger told him I mean if it would say I agree and even though sometimes and switches but that's only if you can't learn the shot if there's no way to understand a with the hey okay so you have a backup option you can always flip the hey to a and figure out a with but if I can dish in this with the hey and I can dish in this with this but right so it would make sense Therefore to dash in a better with the and say rather than dash and say it's really this idea this is supposed to put the one in your left hand is because it says is really this is a raashi was an one of the later raashi was the of the so obviously came after all the so but this already goes back to the times of the is an old so meaning the same way but not to teach me that you're supposed to put someone on your left hand but to teach me that someone that has a weakness in his hand he's a he's a an ampute still he has an obligation to put on someone that doesn't have an arm is just the opposite and either way we have three in the how you know that is supposed to be on your left hand. The first is it says in the based on respectfully means your left hand because you find often the puzzle will refer to the right hand and the obviously the is the left hand. The second is it says and just like the has to be with the right hand. So to you tie the T with your right hand. If you're tying the T with your right hand obviously you're tying the on your left hand. And then finally one time the Torah mentions that teach me your left hand. What about a lefty? He puts filling on his right hand. Who's my because for him it's his left hand. And really it makes a lot of sense according to the third. What's his yad? His right hand is his. So if he's a left he puts it on his right hand. But we learned that he's supposed to put it in his left hand. And the reason is that that Bryce is talking about not a lefty but someone that he's a switch hitter. He can use his right and he can use his left hand. So then you go to the default option, the default setting, which is the typical person's weak hand is his left hand. So he should put filling on his left hand. But someone that's a real lefty, his stronger hand is his left hand. That's his and his right hand. He's supposed to put fillin on his right hand. He's not supposed to fill it on his left hand. So before we go, just to pause for a moment. So the gumar mentioned so who was a lot of is mentioned in who was says the top rashi on the that there was something irregular about his nose. It was sunken in the bone between his two eyes were sunken in a little bit. Regardless, there was something a little irregular about the nose of it was for that reason he got the nickname and she says it's actually mentioned in a when the talks about different and it says over there what's says I know there's a word it's actually a it's the context I even know what the is. So obviously was called because he had this sunken in those. If you take a look at the top says the t says one word it's a they gave a nickname because there was something funny about his nose says it can't be. The reason he was called is because he came from a place called thus he was called. But it can't be because of something unusual and irregular this form about him cuz there's no way in the world that would have been this in his says something that we can never say but it's we'll repeat it and that is says I think is as follows and he begins really with the if the reason was called based on this because then his name should have been why was it called it's not it's the wrong word it's the same but it's the wrong word he should have been called why is it called says I think is based on famously says the great used to sit in front of the mikvah when women would go to the mikvah they would see why did he do that he said he wanted that when the emerge from the mikvah and they're on their way home they should first look at him if they see will be somewhat etched in their mind will be etched in their mind and like this they'll be to have sons that will be like when you learn the gumar You think talking about based on many places in already says it that was a very handsome person. So that women that should have handsome children if they would see when they emerged for the mikvah was a school to have good-looking kids. But says of course there's no way in the world that that could be the says the it's that what the means is a physically but also spiritually he was the great he was the god and a school for a woman to have a child that's going to be a god is to have the surah of a god in her mind and somehow that's a school he says that's the says What does that mean? Says it's men were literally going over to their wives and they were warning them don't be together with that's what they were doing. They were that's what the says how's it possible? How did men come to be their wives? The terret is because they were keeping this school were the women and as a result they were having children that looked like and because they were having children that looked like they started being suspicious and that was says it's this idea says I think was the god of and because he was the god of he was that the garra says about and the garra says with regards to he was the godle that women would be and as a result they would have sons that had this same the same but being that and it's for that reason says means he caused others to bear how did he cause others to be through this the point is he's not called this he's called this because to the contrary it brings out exactly who this was again we can never say something like this regardless of it says you're supposed to put the what part of your hand you're supposed to put it on your bicep muscle not literally between your two eyes but it's supposed to be on your forehead where exactly where's the face it's the part of the skull where the is very very soft that's where you're supposed to put asked the following question If somebody has two heads, so let's say somebody has two heads and he's mitzvah and now he needs to put on fillain. So which one of his heads should he put fill on either go into or I'm going to have to put you into and the rest of the story incidentally is the Garra says if someone's if someone's in fact the rabbi because it's very much related to the cover that a person has to have for and I guess rebi felt that pmo was disrespecting him by asking him such a ridiculous question. I mean how do you have a a bar mitzvah boy that has two heads? It don't make any sense. And as a result, Rebi told him, I'm going to have to put you into if you want, you can go into g and that will be aap in lie of the that I have to put you says. As Rebi and Ple are having this exchange literally as they're talking, a person walked into Bish and he's looking for he's looking for the place of and he said this Yaluka, I'm coming from the hospital now. My wife just gave birth to a child the Isl that has two heads and it's my first child. It's a boy. I have to make a how many am I supposed to give the do I give five or do I give 10 says the who came and he knew the answer to this question the garra says seems like every time the gumar has such an exchange it's also always there was an older person that came and entered the conversation either way so the garra says he told him you have to give 10 you really have to give And the fact that the Torah says that you have to do after 30 days, it would seem that even if the child dies during the first 30 days of its life, as long as it didn't die because it wasn't able to live 30 days, but it died maybe for something a little unnatural, someone something killed it, you would think that maybe is but there's a there's a that what happens if a baby dies within 30 days if it dies from natural causes it was a then of course there's no that's why you wait 30 days to make sure the baby's not a but what if the baby was so it's but the point is is that if the baby was there would have been that maybe even though the baby didn't live 30 days maybe there should still be we learn from the word teaches me It's a to say that no that if the baby doesn't live 30 days there is no so is that this baby was never going to live 30 days and if the baby wasn't going to live 30 days then what's that should be at all there's no baby wasn't going to live 30 days that being that there's a a reo in the that seems to suggest that you're supposed to give based on the amount of heads that the baby has obviously ly it's coming to be a situation where you have one baby but more than one head must be talking about this case so that even though tells me that a baby that can't that won't live 30 days there's no but the of the is obviously being as it relates to this specific case so ordinarily if a baby dies within 30 days if it was deemed to have been killed maybe would be but the point is there wouldn't be but over here where there's a little guidance So even though the baby in fact wasn't going to live the 30 days, the bottom line is still there would have been regardless. So an interesting exchange the exchange began with asking and Rebi realized that it was a silly question cuz it's not possible. It's not possible for there to be a person that has two heads and he was ple he told him I'm going to have to put you in and the Gmorra says that almost coincidentally I mean obviously this was a a person walks in at that very moment and says that he just gave birth to a baby that had two heads. Now, it didn't justify PM's question because you see the Gmorra assumed that this baby wouldn't be able to live 30 days for there to even be let alone to get to the point where there's going to be a but again not sure what the punchline of the Gumra is. But theor says, interestingly enough, as Rebi are having this exchange, this person walked in regardless at first glance when you talk about a baby that has Russian that has two heads. So I think what it's referring to is Siamese twins, right? There is a concept of of Siamese twins and Mkhur seems to be discussing Siamese twins. It's interesting that it's yodua. Everybody knows the Ramosa Feinstein wrote a a famous chuva about Siamese twins. I'll just tell you the background. The background is that um these Siamese twins, they were girls. They were born to a from family in Lakewood. It was in September 1977 and the baby was taken to CHOP. The chief of surgery at CHOP was a fellow who later would become a celebrity surgeon. His name was C. Everett Coupe. He was the surgeon general of the United States of America. He had a he was a very staunch conservative. He lived till he was 97 years old. He was born in 1916. He died in 2013. He was the surgeon that oversaw this surgery. But he was a deeply religious person. So when he viewed this surgery and exactly had to deal with it, they were going to have to figure out what to do here. He wasn't just looking it from a pure medical clinical perspective. He was a deeply religious person and the ethical ramifications of how they were going to go about it were very very important to him. He assembled a team of celebrity high-profile doctors, a team of about 20 people. They themselves weren't really sure how to handle the ethical component and they decided I've seen fascinating quotes. I I couldn't bring it with me this morning. I wanted to bring it that we're basically the chief surgeon this Dr. Coupe said that he's going to rely on Rosha Feinstein. He said, "There's a rabbi on the lower east side who's been putting a lot of time into this and whatever he says, that's what we're going to follow." And he knows that he's following the will of God because whatever Rabbi Feinstein tells him to do, that's what he's going to You can research this. It's fascinating. But either way, the first question really that was discussed was was the Siamese twins. Are are they one person or are they two people? Because what was going to happen is that they were able to they were able to save this person's life. They but they were going to have to kill one of the one of the babies and they were going to have they knew which baby they were going to have to kill. The question was are you allowed to kill baby A for example to kill baby B. Is that okay? And the question was what are you supposed to do? Now it's interesting that when you talk about Siamese twins not all Siamese twins were created equally pun intended. I mean it depends whether there's one heart or two hearts. A lot of different factors but you know the doctor felt for sure that these Siamese twins were two babies, two brains, two central nervous systems. But again we care about what thinks. So really one of the first exhibits that you have to go to when you discuss the shar we just learned because in this gamarra which seems to be discussing and describing Siamese twins the garra held that as it relates to pion you would give 10 slav not five slo if you look at the baby as one child then you should get five but the gumar said you go based on the gas and being that there are two heads it's 10 slim 10 means it's two children. Oh, if it's two children, you can't just kill one child. I mean, if we would look at the side of these twins as one child, you're not killing anybody. Then it's fine. You can kill baby A, save baby B. You're not really killing baby A because it's one person and that person is still going to live. But being that you see in this Gamarra amongst others that the children were viewed as two 10, not five. that would seem to be a glo of how kazal understood the concept of regard there's a lot of anecdotes related to and the seriousness with which took it regardless it's certainly not the topic of the day but just uh something interesting we said that what is mean where you supposed to be at so we know you put on your left hand on your biceps how do you know that it says fill is supposed to be on your which part of your hand the bicep. Maybe it means in your palm. Maybe you put your filling in literally in your hand. Says no. It says in the supposed and you're supposed to put on we know you're supposed to put on the top of your head. So too should be on the top part of your hand. And we learn from there the is supposed to be for you. It's not supposed to be an for anybody else. If the TW is going to be in your hand, everyone's going to see it. If it's on your bicep, then you're going to cover with your shirt. Not everybody's going to see it. So, you're supposed to put the ink in a way where not everybody is going to see it either way. That's how he third. And then it says we learn from the that where should the be it should be. So we put the fill on the way we put it that the fillin is corresponding to your leg. Either way we have three mirus. How you know that the is supposed to be on the kirus on the bicep muscle either from the just like so or because it says it's supposed to be in a place where not everyone's going to see the or because it's supposed to be that way and then afterwards They used to put that in a way that it should correspond to that was once sitting in front of he was sitting in front of him and was able to see do you not hold that only you're supposed to see the ice nobody else is supposed to see the ice he said of course I hold of the That's that doesn't mean that no one's allowed to see your what it means is that should be in a place where people usually won't see it. But what would be if your shirt gets and and somebody could see it and nothing happened. That of is not a to be taken in the literal sense that you have to put fill in in a place where nobody could see. There's no such. What means is is that you're supposed to put the in a place where typically people won't see it but as long as you have it in the right place even if right now it just so happens somebody sees it there's nothing wrong with that. So is supposed to be on the says maybe when it says means literally between the eyes says there's another place in the where the says the word and that's with regards to the idea of that was pagan custom where people lost relatives they would start like mutilating themselves and one of the things they would do is they would make bald spots they would rip out here ba now what does it mean over there it doesn't mean the here between the eyes because people don't really have here between the eyes rather what it means is it means the here that's on the forehead that corresponds you know says a place where you can make a real so here it says that It means the same place says and it says again we're and just like the is in a place where there's only one type of nega that could be the area where you put the this is an interesting type of hish So too has to go in a place that can become but only one type of in contrast this excludes the area between the eyes of the area between the eyes has areas where there's there's areas where there's skin and there's different types of that could affect s that can affect can there's two different types of that can technically be matama that area the only has one type of nega that can be mat of the area we need the two places to be consistent just like in the previous they both have to be so they have to be consistent in terms of what type of nega could be mama the place where you put your you can't have it that there's one type of nega that can be mama the and two types of that can be the thus there's no choice by process of elimination we know that the fill in must be kite. Why can't it be? Because there's two types of that can be the area of there's only one type of that can be the area of kite. That's how we know it's and not the area of exel. So before we end just a little bit of rain. So we began this morning with person is obligated to constantly be a mash And we learn which only has one ascar of this is the third of brings a says that a person is allowed asleep. sleep in his fing. The reason not let us sleep is because there's a concern and we know that a person has to have a goofy while he's filling and it's impossible for a person to be careful to make sure he has a while he's sleeping a but it's it is possible during the and as a result of says that it's okay for a person to sleep. How is it okay? We just learn the says why you're wearing it can't be while you're wearing how could you sleep when you're sleeping. Isn't that by definition says the used to say which at first glance you would think is the Rama but we're going to see soon it couldn't be the and that is when said that a person is not let me when he's wearing his phone you know what he means it means he's not let it doesn't mean that you have to think about your tone the whole time. You don't have to think about your tone the whole time. What it means is you can't be but if a person is not going to be no worries. There's no problem of when a person sleeps it's true he's not thinking about his but he's also not and is and as a result it's not going to be a problem said I'll prove it to you because once upon a time back in the day people used to wear fillin all day is it possible for a person to be wearing fillain the entire day and the entire day be thinking about the fillin it's not even something that's physically possible said it must be because when a person works he would take his work very seriously and there was no and as long as there's no that's enough for that not to be an issue. The same is true with there is no when a person sleeps and this is the says that he has a from the ra in his and the raan in his that they both argued. The context that the Ram and the Raan are discussing is an ovel and an ovel it's questionable what he puts on fillin doesn't put on fillin says the ra and the rabban that an o does not put on fillin and the reason is because an when somebody wears fillin he has to be learned from the fillain requires a person that's he's the can't be to the it's inevitable that he's going to be and as a He's not allowed to put on filling says that means what's the problem with an is not to the contrary novel is he's you see the raan fundamentally disagreed with they obviously held that the is a realist so you have to you always have to be thinking about your and if you're going to not think about your it doesn't matter matter what the reason is that in and of itself is going to be us. In other words, we have a between on the one side and the Rambam and Raman on the other side. What the definition was of the means. So as long as a person does not rich while he's wearing his filling, he has nothing to worry about the know that a person has to constantly be cognizant of his filling. And if he's from his even if he doesn't get to the point of so it's going to be a problem for that reason the and both said that the reason is not a fill is because of the fact that he's inevitably is and but one of the kashes that he asks is the very obvious question everybody has to be thinking and that is it's very nice said that the would fill in but at the end of the day what did Gomorrah say a person has to always be the mean you always have to be thinking about your why do you always have to be thinking about your it's enough that there's no learn he doesn't understand doesn't the says you have to say that really that's learned out from that at first glance is although I but that is but being that didn't want a person to come they went ahead and they enforced it and now they enforced it with an is whose entire essence is they said you need to constantly be mashfill you know why because if you're not going to be mashfill then you're not going think about if you're not going to think about someone's going to come over who's going to say something funny. You're going to laugh. It's going to be and before then you're going to be over. So that's so because the were worried that you shouldn't call me as a so to speak the said but is not but to enforce to make sure that you're never going to come went ahead and said Either way, it's a beautiful there's a lot that we're not getting to, but that's really where quotes this brought down in the rush in the third parag that they argue from the fact that they said can't put on film because of the fact that he's gonna be there's held that any already falls into this doesn't say and that that's only it's but the real is but there's one question theari doesn't ask that begs itself and that is is how is the and going to answer how answer the rush's his position from it's a theor says that it's okay to sleep in your not allowed to be in the literal sense. Even an is not let put on filling because he's going to be so why is the any different than a person that's sleeping? There's no but what happened to this? What happened to the is so blazk also known as meatburg. It's interesting. Usually when you're talking about and this time of year you mean and you but this is in and regardless. So uh the brings uh it's in to answer this and I'll just tell you one terret he says based on is a classic but it's but he's from that that's the only time there's an is while you're being in the midst of so if I'm wearing fillin And I have an obligation right now to be in the mitzvah of it's precisely at that time that I have an but let's say you're wearing but you're not being the mitzvah of at that point there's not going to be an says if that's the case it's why you're allowed to sleep in isn't there says because if a person sleeps in this which is okay you're allowed to sleep in at that moment that you're sleeping are you M the mitzvah filling it's pos the mitzvah filling he says why he says why according to the man that holds mitzvah treats so at that point what kind of kavana could you have but I feel the mama that holds mitzvah ain't treat but we know a massic is even worse than someone that didn't have kavana what does massic mean you're doing something but you're not even aware of what you're doing when you're sleeping you're wearing fillin so in theory you're being the mitzvah of fillain but you're not aware cuz you're sleeping so being that you're sleeping you're a massic is always potter. So when this person is sleeping he's not being says that the only time you can't be is if you be mean it would have been to think that if you're wearing fillin you have the on you that in of itself is that you're not let that the is when you're being the I mean that when you're sleeping you're not being the mitzvah because number one and if you want to be make like But you're there's worse than is always consider so it's posit if you're not being the mitzvah there's going to be no isser to go ahead and to sleep but at a time where I'm from being that I'm from being the mitzvah it's for that reason it's not going to be issue what came to mind was It's you do they say over that in Brisk there was once an issue where people wanted to sleep in a sen the s wasn't big enough and they didn't know they didn't want to do so they went to and they asked what should you do said he has a let guys go to sleep and when they're sleeping carry them out of bas and let the next group of people go sleep in the he says why because once they're sleeping they're not the mitzvah anyways the mitzvah to sleep in a suka is not to sleep in the suka the mitzvah is to go to sleep in the suka because when you're sleeping you're mass when you're sleeping anyways when you're sleeping anyways going to be part from from because or if not you're so the point is you can't be in the when you're sleeping anyways regardless this is what he said I'll just tell you something interesting I saw in the safer it's if you want to look it up it's on the you have to buy the first either way it's one paragraph he says like this I found aesh in So the I can't pronounce the author's name but it was one of the so this one he says quote he said he heard from he used to put on his fill again this is the season so he used to put on his fill in he would tighten the kesher very very very tight and the reason was his arm physically hurt and that caused him not to be able to be so he has a beautiful. This is the whole piece. He has a he says take a look at the safe regarding the mitzvah of big that over there says that the used to wear in the mto and this was like a real was 32 long have to go again you know you already hold by the time you finishing the g you know around you was a long it was a long gle so why did he do it the gives a reason he says because we wanted cuz if you tighten yourself like that you're going to feel it and we wanted the kind to be uncomfortable cuz he's going to be uncomfortable. He's going to be thinking about the G the whole time. He's going to be thinking of this big day and he's going to be thinking about the so he said this is a to this interesting mig that one of the brings but it's the who is the that says that with regards to the what's the definition of it's this I don't think I had a micro but either way I don't remember but the first part was this I don't remember but either way the fact that But the same at the end of the day says it's not enough that you don't just joke around. No, you have to be cognizant of not just himself. The same had this meaning that he would put his filling on in a way where he should never forget about it. I thought that if you think about you won't come thinking about your fillin is not in and it of itself the issue either way there's more to talk about and we'll speak out a little bit more raid Tomorrow.