Mi SheTarach B'Erev Shabbat (Pt II) | Rabbi Jeremy Perlow | February 4th 2026

I want to thank the sponsor for today's shear. This is she is being sponsored. They're fuat Gabriel Greenberg, Ben Rifka. We wish that each have a please God, a quick and speedy recovery. I want to premise today's cheer by saying the following. Yesterday, Rabbi Yasi Golden, who usually speaks on our Tuesday morning program, wasn't feeling well. So, unfortunately, uh he wasn't able to come and give the shar yesterday. So, what ended up happening was I jumped in, I gave my shear. What was the intention was that this should be a two-part shear. One was going to be given today, part one, and part two is going to be given next week. What ended up happening is I gave part one yesterday, and we're going to do part two today. If you're nervous, don't be. I'll fill you in. You'll be just fine. Uh you don't need part one to understand part two. They're separate. But I think it's important that everyone should know why it is that you have an eight-page packet. And we're not going to go through all eight pages, so you shouldn't be confused. Okay. Uh we're going to start the learning today. We're on the bottom of page four where part two begins. Okay. The bottom of page four. >> Okay. But while we're just to give a quick recap, I think it's important so everyone understands a little bit of context. We're going to be talking today about the man. The man as we know was a very important mitzah we had in this past week's para para bashak. Very often we don't get to focus on the man. We're very focused on the splitting of the sea, this major event, and the man sort of takes a back seat. So, I think it's important though that we delve into this mitzvah, you'll see there's many, many connections to what we do throughout the week, especially on shabas in connection with the man. And it's important that we have this important takeaway that we can walk away and we can understand practical ramifications for our own lives. We learn from the man. So, quick recap. Yesterday we mentioned that many postkim hold that there is a mitzvah a biblical mitzvah to prepare on Friday for shabas which is very interesting in light of the fact that we know there's four mitzvah we have every single shabas we have zah the mitzvah to remember shabas which we do by marking the book ends of shabas we do kdish the beginning and we dodawa at the end we have sham which means we're not supposed to do right those the two in the Torah everyone knows those hopefully Right? You're not supposed to do and then we also have the two rabbitic mitzvah tells us the first story beginning of Shabas writes we have what's >> okay very good to honor Shabbat to respect Shabbat. We do that by preparing for Shabbat before Shabbat. And then we have the last one is onig. On means to delight in Shabbat. Enjoy Shabas. Shabas should be enjoyable. Should enjoy yummy foods. If you enjoy taking a nap, you should take a nap. You enjoy talking with your family, you should talk with your family. That's on Shabbat. So those are the rabbitic mitzvah and so it's interesting that the mitzvah of on is only mitzvah enjoy shabas. And yet we pointed out it's very odd that the mitzvah that we have to to prepare for shabas would actually be it's interesting dichotomy but nonetheless the many post hold this way and we pointed out that we asked the question yesterday can you have a late shin is that appropriate is that inappropriate you want to have a Friday morning if people often want to catch up on sleep so is that appropriate or not so he pointed out it's very interesting that that it's really not recommended it's not the appropriate practice we're supposed to prepare Early in the morning, Friday morning, we're supposed to actually get up earlier, but I think people want to do the inverse, right? We're supposed to get up early to prepare for shabas. So, we go right after a ding. And we mentioned that unless a person has a kava seder or a person's learning regularly. Really, what you're supposed to do is you should something on the phone here. >> If I could just ask everyone to silence their phones, that'd be helpful. Thank you. Okay. So, um, so we're supposed to start our shabas preparations right before shabas. Uh, I'm sorry, right before right after. And unless the person has a kabu seder, if they're usually learning at that time, then we said that's an exception. They can learn first and they can go and be engaged in their shabas preparations a little bit later. And finally, we mentioned something very interesting, which is that even if let's say a person, right, you know, you're going to go to the store when you go to the store later and they're going to run out of whatever it is that you need for Shabas, right? Nonetheless, you're allowed to go early in the morning, even before Davening if you need to to go and purchase whatever you need from the store. Even though in the we know that we're forbidden to do our own personal needs before ding, this is not considered a personal need. To shop and prepare for Shabas is considered That's what Hashem wants us to be doing. And therefore, you're allowed to even do something like that. Even if it takes an hour or two hours, you're allowed to do even that before with understanding that of course you'll make sure to say the in the right time and you most miss. Okay. So that was from yesterday. Let's zoom over to today. Okay. Again, we're on the bottom of page four. Okay. We have here two interesting questions. And the truth is these questions I put on the source sheets even before yesterday. at the end of yesterday's cheer. I can't tell you how many people raised their hand or came up to me afterwards and they asked these exact questions. So, I said you have to come for today. So, thank you to those who came. Okay, question number two. Rabbi, Fridays are pretty crazy for us and we've been thinking about doing some of our preparations earlier in the week. A friend of ours told us we're not supposed to prepare before Friday. Is he correct? >> Not correct. Everyone else say not correct. Forget him. Maybe that friend came to yesterday. She just got confused. Okay. >> Question number three. One more. One more question. The grocery stores around here are packed on Thursday nights. >> Bottom of page four. Yeah. The grocery stores around here are packed on Thursday nights and Fridays with some pretty religious looking people. Aside from procrastination, is there anything special about shopping for Shabas on air of Shabas? So a similar question. Is there something unique to shopping specifically on Friday? And are we allowed or perhaps even recommended, perhaps forbidden? We have to discuss to do our preparations early in the week. I'll tell you for myself, as much as I try to do my preparations early in the week, I'm not so great. Uh it's hard to do it earlier in the week. Friday is our day off. Friday is a little easier. But for a lot of people, a lot of people who want to be prepared on Friday is it is a benefit to be prepared earlier in the week. I had someone come over to me yesterday and they said Friday when they made a here they said it was so important to them they have a Sunday and we don't have a Sunday in Israel. What's our Sunday? Our Sunday is Friday. So they said what they started to do in their house is they do all their preparations before before Friday. So this way they can have a Sunday. So is that appropriate or we want to do that? So we'll see what I'm getting a lot of nuts. Okay. Of course it's good. It's good. We should do it. Yeah. So, we'll see as we go. We'll see what we have to what the the post say about this. I think it's an important question. And I think it's also important to think about on a practical level. You can talk about till today until tomorrow. But practically when it comes down to it, what's going to be the situation in my house if I'm preparing on Friday? These are things we have to think about. What is my house going to look like? What's going to happen to my shi? I'll tell you that people very often on Fridays are extremely stressed. Yeah. Okay. So whatever we can do before if the permits us to do it before I think we should try and understand maybe it's appropriate and now add we know the end of the we say many of us Ashkanazi Jews we know Friday night what we do we say we're sitting in right but before after we start some they do it after okay so different practices some don't but if you read the last mission on the second perk in it says that that there are three things a person needs to say in their home right right in their home right before Shabbat and it tells us what they are right did you take off master right did you set up an air roof and then once you made sure about those two things you the last one is a command go ahead light the candles so once you made sure that you took off master so you can eat the food on chabas which is important not being able to eat the food on chabas would be Um, it's also important because we're not allowed to have even during the week, right? We can't eat untithed produce even during the week. But certainly on Shabbat, we're not even allowed to eat. All of the eating that we do on Shabbat is considered like it's considered considered set. It's considered something that is like a set meal. Even if you're just having a snack on Shabbat because Shabbat is more mafub. We sit down. We're like kings, like princes, queens, princesses. Okay? And so what we do the eating we do on Shabas even though a small snack you have to take off master from we don't have the right so one of the questions you have to ask is you take off master did you set up an right we have two types of right so you have to make sure are you going to be allowed to carry can you carry from the houses to the right you have to set up a system they'll be allowed to carry on Shabbat very important for yourself as an individual and also as a community that we have such a institution as an au and then finally once you did that you have to make sure go ahead light the canvas then you can go ahead and light. So there's one thing that no one points pays any attention to though the first words that we started with. Where do you have to say these? Where do you have to ask these questions and say these words? What does it say? There are three things a person needs to say inside his home. So many of them scratching their heads. Why do we have to say these words in my house? What? I'm going to go on the street and say them. I'm going to go uh on the uh I live in hard in hard they have like a uh like an o overhead uh uh whatever you call it uh they make announcements of this like overhead uh system and then there's shamas music that plays where you have to ask the questions no of course not you ask the questions in your home why does the mission have to emphasize to us you have to ask these questions and say these statements in your home so one of the classic answers one of my favorite answers is that because what happens on air of shabas the sultan is working extra to ruin our sha bite. He's bending over backwards. He wants us to not have sha bite and therefore he does everything within within his power to cause us to yell and to scream to the extent that even the neighbors are hear us. So that's how the mission tells us no say it gently. Ask nicely do we take off masu yet? The neighbors don't need to hear that in your own home. Keep it in your home. Keep the sham. Speak quietly. Speak softly. Sometimes we're in a rush. So in some people's homes, sometimes it happens. We're in a rush right before shabas. So we start shouting. Did anyone right? That's not how we talk. We talk. We're Jews. We go over to say something to someone. Go over talk quietly. Keep the sh keep the peace. It's very important. And I think that's what the mission is teaching us. Yeah. >> I think there's an four shots even on Friday. And that's why of you're doing last minute things and there's this and there's yelling and the house is a mess. Quick, quick, what do you A, what are you teaching your children? B, where is the air of Kadusha that should transcend your home already on Friday? >> Correct. >> And three, what's the for your children when this is what they experience on Friday? >> Correct. I agree 100%. I would just add, you know, we try so much. We're trying to create an atmosphere in Avira for our homes. So it's important not only on a pragmatic level that we want our children to model what we do and to experience what it means to have a sh but also for ourselves. How do we feel when we enter Shabas? We don't always ask that question but it's a very important question. How do I feel when I start my shabas? >> Exhausted. >> So okay I'm happy you said that and come back who said that raise your hand. >> Exhausted. >> Perfect. Okay. So we're going to come back to that. I think we all feel exhausted. We're going to see at the end of today's class how we can perhaps uh alleviate that concern. Okay. So, let's start. We're on the top of page five. I have one quick story here before we start the sources. We have here a young newly married man complained to Rabesco Levvenstein that as much as he reminded his wife, she was never ready on time to light the Shabas candles. He asked for advice on how to remedy the problem. And Reikesk responded, "You pick up a broom." So very often the answer is to take action. We can't sit back. We can't just relax. We have to all be involved. It has to be personal involved involvement when it comes to Shabas preparations. We saw yesterday it's he goes through many of the were personally involved in all the nitty-gritty preparations for Shabas. Even things that you might have thought are below them, they're never below us. And we saw the Ramas did an unbelievable comment that the way we receive our honor, we shouldn't say it's below me. It's below my dignity. It's below my honor. The way our honor is dependent on what we put in for our preparations for Shabas that's right what we put in even it's a lowly task you're sweeping the floor you're doing the laundry whatever it is something very lowly no that's my covenant that's my cover I my co is directly dependent on what I put in for shabas so that being said let's go back to our question let's dive into the sources source number 14 page five Okay, this is a believe it or not, we're starting from which is very interesting. It's not the first place I would have looked for the answer, but it tells us about the interconnectedness of the Torah. It's unbelievable. When you want to study a certain section of everything is connected. People think you could just learn to get away and know all the laws of Shabas. It's not true. The Torah is interconnected. So we start here with the Mishna we have in tells us we're not allowed to declare a public fast but on a Thursday. So why not? What's the problem? Make a public fast day. When do we normally have public fast? What day is on the calendar? >> So good. So normally it's Monday, Thursday, Monday. Anyone here has heard of the fast of Bahab? Fast of Bahab. Okay. Fast of Bahab is Monday, Thursday, Monday. Right. bet is Monday and then another bet. So whenever they would used to be there wasn't rain or there's a public tragedy they would declare a public fast day. It wasn't just the six fast days we already have set on the calendar yipur etc. It was they would declare an additional fast day in order to get rain or whatever the community needed if there was a tragedy. There's a common occurrence unfortunately. So uh today we don't do it so much. I think we're already very weak from fasting the post right many of us are already very weak. So we try not to declare extra fast days. We bend over backwards to try not to do it. But if you do have to declare fast day, the first time you're supposed to do it is on a Monday, not on a Thursday. So you might say, what's the difference? Th Monday, Monday and Thursday are marketplace days, the days of judgment, which is why we go ahead and declare specifically those days. But what does it matter whether it's Monday, Thursday, Monday, or if it's Thursday, Monday, Thursday? To me, they sound the same. So the Misha says, "No, you're not supposed to declare a fast day on the first time, for the first time on a Thursday." Why not? Shalom. Because we do not want that the gates, what gates are we talking about? >> Very good. Should be right should be uh should be uh affected by the declaration of the public fasted. rather you have to keep the normal system Monday, Thursday, Monday and then you have we know we have multiple sets of fast days. So again so then the next time it comes around then you can already it's already considered on the heels of the first day and that's a little different but again for the first time you declare fast day it cannot be on a Thursday. So look at Rashi. Why not? What's the big deal? Why? What's the problem? Rashi in the next source explains as he often does in the why why that why would that affect the market price? Because when the store owners see everyone's going out to buy Thursday is coming to an end and now everyone's going out to the store and what are they going to buy? Not one, but so they're buying two giant meals. One for Thursday night when they break their fast and one for Shabas. And now they think, why is everyone, the store owners are thinking to themselves, why is everyone coming in, they're buying so much food? All of a sudden, these giant meals, why is everyone buying so much? It must be >> there's a famine coming. And now they're going to raise the prices. They're going to make it very difficult for people because they think the pros they have must be very valuable, must be very important. And they're going to raise the prices affect the whole market. But if they start fasting already on Monday, then they know, oh, it just be that we have fast days going on this week is nothing unique to what's going on now. >> I imagine this non-Jewish storekeepers. So because I would imagine storekeepers know then about but it would make sense that the that the storeh so I want to I want to be clear so we know uh I said bahav as an example at the beginning but the truth is here we're not talking about the fastings of Baha we're talking here about the fast days for rain or a current tragedy going on so the Jewish store owners might not know so that's why it's important is set on the calendar you're correct is set we know about Bahab we know about it months and years in advance right we know after uh after uh we have pesk just to give a quick explanation for those who are not familiar after so we have a lot of mitzvah to be joyous right we're supposed to be happy so what often happens when we're so happy we're such a c celebratory mood we go ahead and sometimes we get a little bit too far maybe we're drinking a little bit too much maybe we're doing things we shouldn't be doing again it's understandable because we're supposed to be in a state of but sometimes we go a little bit too far so enacted that after the on the Monday Thursday Thursday the next Monday Thursday Monday this discussion about exactly when but then we have a fast day to so to speak get a kapara there's a source of atonement after these so that's the the concept in a nutshell but that's unique to the but the concept of but the Monday Thursday Monday fast in general is not unique to the it's something they would do in other times as well like the mission here is discussing when there is no rain >> right it doesn't mean it's a not bahav anything else cuz that I what I'm saying is that Jewish storeke keepers probably would have known they were part of of the community so they wouldn't think famine's coming they know exactly what's happening >> so I'll tell you could be it could be right I'll also just throw out there that when very often today where else we live in a world where we don't you appreciate this we have immediate connection to everything right you could be here in Israel and you could be seeing what's going on in China you could be seeing what's going on in America we have immediate connection right here so for us it's very simple we're interconnected but for them right Just think about ro kesh for instance. How long did it take to get the message out about ro kodesh? A very long time to the extent that they would take the mishna says they would go by horse stack to try and relate the message. It would take two weeks to get the far-flung communities. So not necessarily did everyone know. So I think it could be even in the Jewish community. That's why I mentioned that if it's not something set on the calendar in advance it could be even the Jewish community would be unaware. Okay. So what do we see from here? Why why are we bringing this up? Why are we talking fast days? What do we see? That there was a precedent that Jews would go shopping for Shabas when >> ah on Thursday. H sounds good, right? I love this. This rabbi is amazing. He gives me all the hatarium. I can do whatever I want. I can start shopping early. Good. Or we'll have to see. Maybe it's a little more complicated. Maybe it's more. Maybe we're jumping to to conclusions. It's a little too quickly. Okay. Okay. So, if you look though in source 16, it sounds actually very much uh uh in accordance with what we just saw because the in 16 rules again you're not supposed to make the first fast on a Thursday again. And he says even if you're in a place where you think ah come on today we're so interconnected today we know no one's going to raise the prices. you get a right you get the message out it's not a big deal he says even if the concern doesn't apply we have a low plug we don't differentiate we go ahead and we never declare the first fast on a Thursday so again but what do you see from here the is passing he's concerned for this issue that people he's assuming that people will be buying food for shabas on Thursday so we have a preced from the to buy food earlier so to say that it's forbidden I think that we could much we can rule out right we have a precedent that this was done at the very least we see at the time of fast it was done and uh to say it's forbidden I think is very hard but we also have to discuss is there a mitzvah of the shop specifically on Shabbat that we have to discuss okay so if you look at source number 17 we have the garra says there are 10 practices that Ezra we know Ezra so instituted 10 things he instituted Now we have to remember Ezra was coming back to Israel. He brought the Jews back, right? They were going to rebuild the Beni to rebuild the second temple and as you can imagine this was the time of major uh flux in Jewish history and a lot of things were changing a lot of things were moving and shifting. So he said we have to establish set rules that will help us create a opportunity for people to observe mitzvah properly. And this is what he did. He said and as we're reading through them, I want you to think about which of these apply and are relevant for Shabas. Okay, so let's go through number one, right? The practice of reading Shabbat afternoon from the Torah. Okay, so that's obviously very well for Shabbat, right? Reading the Torah in Shabbat in the afternoon. So it used to be they didn't have Torah reading on Shabbat afternoon. Used to be they only had reading Torah reading when >> Shabbat morning. That was it. So he said no we have to do also shabas afternoonish we have to also read on Monday and Thursday. So that's not really relevant for Shabbat per se but it's interesting Monday and Thursday again this was these were marketplace dates as we mentioned there's something special about Mondays and Thursdays. So he said everyone's around we have to read from the Torah. Also another reason why did we read the Torah specifically on Monday Thursday. An additional reason the Gar actually says a more profound reason. >> Very good. We're not supposed to go three days without Torah. Just as we wouldn't go three days without water. A person can't live three days without water. The Torah is their spiritual source of nourishment. So we can't go three days without it. Yeah. What's the lyrics though when was only read every once in a year once a year? >> Ah so right. So that's a discussion. So today we actually complete the Torah every single year. There communities though where the Torah again it's about completion. There communities however where the Torah is actually read uh where the Torah was completed at one point they were on a trianual cycle. They would read every three years uh in certain communities. Again it wasn't so standardized like like it is today earlier in history. Today it's very sad. We have the Torah reading. Everything's divided not only into parote but into every has almost the exact same break up of it's very very standardized today. It wasn't always like that. So again Ezra we already see the beginnings of the set Torah reading that we have was here when Ezra entered Israel. Okay. And as we mentioned number three they would have judgments right days of judgment. So if you had a court case you would wait until his marketplace day and then you would go in front of the court. Number four, they would do laundry on Thursday. Oo, okay. Laundry on Thursday. Let's hold on to that. So, first of all, I think that definitely Does that relate to Shabas? Probably. Why are we doing laundry on Thursdays? >> How much can you do on Friday? >> Ah, it's a great question. >> Why don't you do it on Tuesday? >> Why not do it on Tuesday? >> Okay. Very good. Very good. So you hear he tells us explicitly we're supposed to do laundry on Thursday not on Friday. He instituted a practice to do it on Thursdays and on a simple level. Why is that? It's very simple because >> drying if you did it on Friday but then drying into Shabas into problems. >> Very good. So one reason is laundry takes a very long time. And if you're going to do your laundry on Friday, even if you do it in the morning, right? If you're actually going down to the river with your basket, right? If you can imagine, right? We're spoiled rotten, right? You're going down to the river with your basket. You're wingering all the clothing one by one, putting in the river, and then >> you have to separate the clothing and you have to dry the clothing and it's a whole long. So, by the time it comes for Shabas, your clothing's not ready. Or it's your wedding, you go into Shabas wearing white clothing. Not so pleasant. Not recommended. And worst of all, right, you won't have time to do your Shabas preparations. So, as I said, we're not doing this. We're not doing this. You do your laundry the day before. You come to Shabas. Shabas is for Shabas. Arab of Shabas is for Ara of Shabas. Thursday can be for laundry. Number five, but we have to think about, by the way, as we're reading this, why then, if that's the case, why? What's unique about laundry? Aren't all my preparations the same? Why shouldn't I do everything on Thursday then? Why just my laundry on Thursday? Right. So that's also something we have to think about. Hold on to that >> stuff is left for Friday. >> Ah, okay. Very good. So what is considered the fun stuff? Right. The fun stuff is left for Friday. What's considered the fun stuff? What are the things we associate with Shabas? We don't want to be associated with Shabas. I think this is on the simple, right? Laundry shouldn't be what we associate with Shabas. Buying nice foods for Shabbat, doing fun cooking with your family, getting delicious things, that's shabas. That's what we associate with shabas. So it could be this is the reason. It could be again because laundry takes longer and we don't want to have want your clothes to be dry and ready. It could be. So different reasons given but again it's something to think about. >> Also also ironing in other words was part part of that is also dehoods and and once again if the laundry is done on Friday people might do dehoods too late in the day. >> Correct. Right. So it's a long long process and something we have to to be mindful of. You know, think about today. Maybe our lunch doesn't take quite as long today, but think about what processes today take us a long time to do. Think about it. What takes me a long time that maybe I can actually do on Thursday? I think that's really the the thing we have to be thinking about. It's not just about laundry. What things can I perhaps do that take me a very long time that aren't necessarily associated with Shabas, don't give me that nice feeling that maybe I could do on Thursday? I think that's perhaps the intention of Ezra here. Okay. So we have the first four. Now we get it gets a little interesting. Number five. They had a practice to eat garlic on Shabas. Okay. For those who know why, wonderful. Okay. If you don't know, you can ask me after the class. >> Why do you need that? >> I said if you don't know, you can ask me after the class. >> Okay. Number six. What is what's the significance of showing? >> I'll have to tell you after. I'll have to tell you after. It's a very good question. It's very interesting. >> Okay. Number six. A woman should wake up early, right, to start baking. Huh? So notice I bolded this one for you. What do you think? Does this one relevant for Shabus? What do you think >> is waking up early to bake for sha to bake? It just says waking up early to bake. Is that connected to shabas? >> Ah, so most of us I think naturally assume that what are you waking up early to do? To bake your you have for shabas. I think that's a simple understanding. Rashi actually on the spot takes a very different approach. Rashi says you know why you have to wake up early? He says it's not so you'll have food for shabas. He says no. He says it doesn't say the word Shabbat here even. It just says that a woman should wake up early to bake. So Rashi thinks this is a rule every day of the week. >> Now yeah. So most of us are saying seriously really giving me headaches here. But Rashi assumes Rashi assumes correct that it's so you should have food prepared in case someone is hungry. Maybe someone will come knocking your door. Maybe there's someone who is poor. Maybe you'll see someone who needs a little extra bite to eat. So he assumes >> okay. So again Sashi assumes that something we should always have. If you want to be a house of you want to be a house you can always forgive people. You can feed on who come to your door you have what to offer them. You should already prepare every morning. He assumes every morning a fresh we assume this is something we associate with the bakery. He says no your own personal house. You should have food. It's good. Number seven. Okay. Number eight, okay? Different other practices. I want to focus so much on this things relevant to we go when you go to the mikvah. There's a concept of doing right but we do a mikvah preparations. Women who do this know there's a whole process that we go through before they do the go ahead and do on their goof. They have to make sure they have noas no interruptions between them their body their skin and the water itself. A very important practice. Not just they should jump in the mikvah. They should be prepared. They should do preparations and number nine. Okay. And number 10 and he also instituted the concept if someone has a seinal mission that they'd have to go to the mikvah afterwards before they can go ahead and say words of Torah or so those were the practices that Ezra involved. So by show of hands how many let's just count to ourselves how many of these have to do with shabas. So we have let's kind of go through reading the Torah right on Shabas afternoon number one we have doing laundry on Thursday we said almost for certainly has to do with Shabas eating garlic on air of Shabbat and perhaps baking so four out of the 10 have to do with Shabas it's very interesting four at least three but perhaps four out of the 10 have to do with Shabas it's very interesting and uh again Shabas is a huge part of who we are as Jews right as you understood Shabas is part of who we are. It's part of a fundamental essence of our being. And he made almost half of the practices here on this list really are connected to Shabas. I think it should really highlight for ourselves what it is. How the important place in the important role that Chabas plays both are affected by modern technology. >> Ah that's a great question. >> Okay. The question is >> watching drawing takes an arrow. Correct. >> No. What does that have to women? >> Yeah. >> So, it's a great question. The question is we have modern day technology today. So, today we can do a lot of things much quicker and we have machines do it for us. So, something like laundry for instance, maybe we could do it earlier. That's the question. And I think I'll just tell you off hand, we're going to see a little bit later in some of the sources, but I'll just tell you the quick answer writes that you're correct when it comes to laundry. He thinks they really could do it on Friday and he thinks today because we have modern technology like laundry machines and we have dryers hold not everyone agrees but the shabas was a very reliable safer thinks that yes you could do laundry no problem on Friday. So again times have changed a little bit and we have to be able to think about what that means for us in our own lives but I think the concept that things that are not directly relevant to shabas we should try and do earlier I think is very important. I think that's very important. >> Okay. I didn't want to go into all the details. Don't overwhelm people. But >> just the translation. >> Yeah. So just the translation. So like is the pedler. So the pedaller should go ahead and they should go out throughout the cities and share share their wares. Uh right. That was part of the institution. He wanted them to go around. So that's the number nine. Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. Something that they would wear. They have like a certain type of belt. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So I'm not so familiar with the reason behind I have to look in the gar there. I don't remember off hand. >> Well, you actually break the branch. He says when we show >> very good. So he says right. So we know it's for some concept of that they have to dress a certain way. They want to be extra careful about when they're again. So it's interesting actually. So one of the 10 is about so you think about what in terms of the percentages how we we evaluate all the different things. So again is a very important Jewish value. They felt so important to make a takana for this reason. Let's go ahead the next paragraph we have here again why do we have to do laundry on Thursdays he says explicitly here the gumar this is the gumar still it's not rashi it's the garra the gumar says I I what I did is I gave you the brighta at the top and then I fast forwarded for you that's the ellipses there the three dots right fast forwarding I saved you a lot of reading in the garra okay quick synopsis we should do laundry on Thursday out of honoring Shabbat so again laundry is very much connected shabas Why? Not just you shouldn't be busy and bogged down with your laundry, but they should have clean clothes for Shabas. Sometimes you see people, they have Shabas clothes and they have weekday clothes, but they say, "Ah, my Shabas clothes, they're not that dirty." I compare them to my weekly clothes, my weekday clothes, the ones that are really dirty. They don't the clothes for Shabas. But actually, the most important clothes to even if they're like only a little bit dirty, the most important clothes to laundry are your Shabas clothes. as difficult as that might be for people wear suit jackets or long dresses. They take up a lot of space in the washing machine or the dryer. You can't even sometimes have to bring the laundromat. So, it can be a little more of a headache, but that's actually the most important thing to again the whole point is that we should have nice clothes for Shabbat. >> Excuse me. If you um have to put your clothes in the dryer, you can set it before. >> Okay, great question. This is relevant in many many Jewish homes, right? Very important question. Can you go ahead? It's not directly relevant, but it's important topic. So, I'll just say, okay, can you go ahead and press the start button on your dryer 2 minutes before Shabas, and it'll be going off on Shabas, but okay, you you finished your laundry. You're not doing anything. The machine's working on its own. Are you allowed to do that? So, the is so So, okay. So, a good question. So, there's there's there's a few issues involved. So, number one, uh, if you're going to be taking the clothes out on Shabbat, right? And certainly if your dryer has a light on it, that's for sure not allowed. Okay, that I think people know. But in addition, there are uh one very important issue we have to think about that's very relevant. The most relevant one I think is the there's one issue. Okay, so there's the Mara sign we have to discuss. So, I have to save that for the end. Okay. But in terms of the um the raes that you're not supposed to have noisy appliances going off in your home, noisy machinery going off in your home on Shabbat. Why not? So it's connected to this idea of marine because what happens if I have a loud noisy thing going on? He talks about an example. He talks about having a grinder, a big grinder going on. So if people can hear the sound of the next room over, people think, "What's this guy doing? He's operating his grinder on Chabas." So for this reason if it's if the noise is so loud that can be heard from the next room over for Ashkanazim not for Ashkenazi okay I'm Ashkenazi okay so for Ashkenazi Jews you would not be allowed to operate that on Shabbat because again it's connected to so similar question um this this again this touches on a lot of areas of people ask about alarm clocks can you have an alarm clock go off on Shabbat so that's also an interesting question that's a little bit more complicated a little more nuanced but Again, you have to think about loud appliances. So, what are loud appliances do I have on my home? Similar question also my in-laws has something like this a little different but they had people often have want to know can I have my dishwasher be running on shelves right so if it's a quiet dishwasher the answer is yes you actually can but if it's loud or if it makes beeping noises let's say when it finishes the cycle or something like that then it might be more of an issue again for ashkanaz uh so you have to these are things to start thinking about in terms of the appliances that we have and how we have to be concerned the apostic says people think oh what's martin come on marin No one's listening. No one's hearing it. What's the big deal? The says is a concern. Even the most private of places where no one else is around. So the gives us rules and we have to follow the rules for the it's actually based on a concept of right. We have to be clean in the eyes of Hashem and the eyes of other people around us. So this is very important. We have to take it seriously. We can't just say roll our eyes. Oh, come on. No one's around. It's not a big deal. I think it's something we do have to think about. And uh in terms of the practical ramifications sometimes a little harder but again if you do your laundry on Thursday it never comes off. Yeah. Last question then we're going >> what about a soldier and he comes home right before Shabbat and he's going back right after. >> Yeah. So it's a good question. So again if he's so in terms of running the washer on Shabbat right so I haven't really spoke of the washer. The dryer I think is more relevant. So the dryer again the dryer is this issue of so it's rabbitically forbidden because of here. So again we're not allowed to evaluate abundance though. So the soldier either has to figure out something if he's farty he has no problem right he can just press the power button he's good if he's Ashkanazi he has to figure something out he has to figure something out. Uh you have to think about another plan that you can do to make it a little bit more easy. And uh sometimes you have to you have to be a little bit uh you have to be a little bit innovative sometimes when it comes to these things. I understand >> you mentioned twice if you're spotted how do they think differently from >> so the doesn't hold from this stringency of the about the grinder that I mentioned that's why >> how does that affect the washing machine >> because any allowed appliance the reason is any loud appliance according to is is um not an issue on Shabbat assuming you start it before Shabbat he's not concerned about in this case the Rama however is concerned and he makes a blanket rule that for allowed appliances in our househ we're not allowed to have them running if they can be heard from the next room over >> except when the robot lit what appliances are you talking >> the grinder he was talking about a grinder I said the word appliances I'm talking to the minor >> if they have an order >> ah no so they would have there's a system they had like this big uh it wasn't like a hand grinder >> like a mill >> like a mill correct correct he's talking more like a mill correct correct okay so let's let's uh wrap up this this section here so again in source number 17 so we saw So far again some of the reasons we have the reason for laundry he tells us here the reason for the garlic okay skipping ahead and he mentions here at the end that there are five things right five things right second paragraph thirdan actually we'll skip this line I'm sorry okay the last one just to go to the bold that a woman should go ahead and wake up early to bake Why? So we saw again there should be bread available to the poor. So we mentioned again, we mentioned this already. So we have to be thinking about what we're going to do to prepare for shabas. Let's move ahead now to source number 18. How does the pass? So we in the garra, we a little bit of the the we talked about the rashi. What do we have here in the how do we rule about this? So says the even for a person who needs other people to help him prepare for Shabas. If a person can go ahead and and not rely if a person has a little bit for himself, he should go ahead and focus on what he has with what he has. He has to work extra hard to be able to be uh with with the materials in front of him with a basic a person's poor he's talking about here if a person is poor he doesn't have assets he doesn't have what to what to uh you know provide himself for with for shabas so yes he rely on other people but as much as possible he should do within his ability to prepare properly for shabas and there's aar he quotes here the gar says you should make your shabas like a weak day and do not become dependent on others, right? Better not to go and ask for better to make your shabas more like a weekday than being reliant on. But that only applies to someone who is right who is in a very dire strait. He says therefore don't go all out on the rest of the week. He says you have to be very very meager during the rest of the week in order you have enough for shabas. better natural people, better to have a more meager lifestyle. This you won't be dependent on others. So this we can have forward to have food for Shabas. Hopefully for no in the room it's relevant. It's not hopefully for no one in this room this is relevant. But I think it's something we have to think about again how much we putting in for Shabas. Imagine going the whole week and you're eating like scraps of bread and a little bit of milk and a little bit of water and it's hard but the says that's what we have to be willing to do to be able to honor Shabas properly. It's amazing and he says here he concludes As we saw in the there's a practice that we have to do laundry on Thursday says the we have a practice to go ahead and knead dough. How much dough should we need? So you'll have the opportunity to do the shear of so people were wondering why do we have to repair the bread? Why is it the Gar said one of the tent of Ezra was you have to have bread >> you have to bake wake up early to bake bread why says the I'll tell you why it's for what everyone else here in the room said not what we saw later it's not because just there'll be food for the poor come to your home no it's something unique to Shabbat says the there's something special about making on there's some special component to this particular minhag the particular your made to have made in your home on air of Shabbat. So what is that? So the Rama writes that in order you'll have a a according to what's the reason you have the opportunity to do. So which means it's very interesting according to what's better if a person has the opportunity according to what is better if a person has the opportunity to make say once a month right once a month and you'll have a huge batch of that this way you can do the mitzvah of a freshawa or to do it once once a week but then you'll never get to do a so it seems from here I'll off the scene in a second but it seems from this that the whole reason to do it is you can do the mitzvah of a fresh it's very telling Right? It also seems from here that if you have the choice of going to the bakery, right, buying baked or doing yourself, what's the mitzvah according to do it yourself? So you can have the mitzvah again of a fresh. But we'll have to see in a second though regarding what is the exact nature of the mitzvah because it's not so clear. This is the opinion of the Roma as we mentioned. We'll see as we go several other explanations perhaps to why there's a min to bake on Arab shabas. But I don't understand. I need better to not make but to do it shabas or to do the big batch. I mean what's >> Yeah. So I'm right now I'm making it more black and white. It's not as much gray. Right now you're focusing on the gray I think. Right. The question is what about without the braha? If you do a without the braha, we know that there's a certain amount of uh of flour that you have to use in order to do a fresh with a bra and a little bit less if you're doing a without a bra. So again, I think I'm being more black and white. I'm not so much going into the gray area. Without a braha might be a mitz. So that's why I didn't discuss that. That's not what the is addressing. But uh I think again there's there's at least a sad to say there's at least a good reason to assume if you do a without a braha, there's at least a chance you're performing the mitzvah assuming you have at least the minimum she. Yes. So um that's a more nuanced question. I don't know the answer to that. Do you have a chance to do it with a braha once a month or without a bra every week? That's a good question. I'm not sure. Okay. And he concludes here. Why should he do this? So you have you can go ahead and make over. Now if you look at the brewer there on the spot, I didn't put on the source sheet because I didn't want to overwhelm everyone with too many sources. But the Mishna brewer writes that one of the goals, one of the goals of making the he says obviously so we have he says two reasons. Obviously we have food for shabas and obviously as the mentioned also we can go ahead and perform the mitzvah for and he says but why specifically do we want you to do a mitzvah of on Friday what's the connection between a fresh on Friday and and uh the mitzvah of and Friday and it's very interesting because he quotes here he uh he says this follows he says He says what happened on Friday? There's another thing that happened that Friday which is we the very first sin right the very first ever performed in mankind right when went ahead and she ate from the now what in the world does that have anything to do with shabas so he says that the of the world was destroyed what's the of the world who's that a reference to Adam the first man was destroyed a little bit on that Friday because as soon as ate from that now the concept of death was introduced into the world. So who was responsible for that? The first person to sin really was in this instance was and therefore that's why the the was that in isha a woman should go ahead and be that she introduced the concept of death into the world by eating from the adats and convincing Adam to join her and therefore she should be the one who is this by taking now it's amazing right you be by taking the you're doing the you're taking away the of the world which is right is he called a by the way what calling a personal That sounds like it's not nice. Why why is called here? So, right is primarily composed, right? You have the dough and you have the W, right? So, too's composition was made in the same way. You have the earth and you have the water. And what happens in what happens? What's what is Adam? Adam is the portion which is taken. He is the we call the whole thing, right? Colloally, that's what we call the term. But is actually the portion given to the kohan. That's the that's where we're supposed to do the we don't do that. There we take up off a portion and we burn it. But really it's supposed to go to the kohanim the we call the term we call the whole you know how that came about. You know the history behind this the reason we call it the whole is because it used to be people would say this piece of dough had kawa taken from it and eventually that became shortened to this isa. So very quickly it evolves this confusing language, but actually the is what you're not eating. You're eating the portion that's not and taken from it. So is the most it's the most choicest of the the the piece of dough you have in front of you. That's what is the portion you're taking off that it's supposed to be given to the Quran. So So who is he? He was the of the world. He was taking this choicest portion of an entire ad means from the word, right? He was made from the ground. It's a combination of soul and body, right? That's who we are. That's what Adam is. He was made from the ground and he had a godwing sha inside of him. So they took that. They took the choices portion from the where was the choice force of where was created from? Where did the hashem take that earth from? >> Very good. The dust of the holy of holies that spot where the koshim lies was the spot that he took that dirt to use to create. So the choices portion is what we gives. So he was destroyed a little bit with as the concept of death was introduced into the world. So we were talking that with the taking of that we do on Shabas where we do our own we fix the problem. Okay let's turn over. Okay. We're going to go to page six now. Okay. So we have here a very interesting practice and this is again the Rama writing he I don't think anyone does I've never seen this but he says there's some those who write that in some places there are some places they have the practice that they eat this thing called what in the world is it sounds good >> sounds good. Ah, so people say go. So he says he a little bit of a hint here. We don't know. He says because it's a hint for the mana it was covered on top and on bottom. But I don't see people doing this. I don't people see anyone who's careful about this. I don't see anyone who does this. But he says I heard about in some places they eat this pasta on Friday nights. So first of all one in the world is the connection between the pasta and the man. So the so the man we have to remember the man was covered the the Torah itself tells us it was covered on top and on bottom with do towel. It's almost like amazing right? You go to the you you you go to the store, right? You have the littleman. What do they do if they want to they really want to package them properly? They wrap them in saran wrap, right? So, here's the the first saran wrap ever, right? The little packaging of do you had amazing. He's wrapping the the He's wrapping our we got every single morning. And correspondingly, we eat this pasta. Pasta. What's the pasta? It was almost like a meat or cheese pie. That's what pasta is. What's a pie? A pie have you have a filling and you have a top layer and a bottom. So corresponding to the man. So we don't do this today. We don't do this today. But what do we do as we're trying to remember the man? What do we do? >> We cover two. >> We have two kawas to remember the man. That's for sure. Right. That's what what else >> table at the bottom and >> very good. We cover the kawas on top the cover and also on bottom the table cover or plates whatever is on bottom. Okay. We cover the to remember the month. I once I'll tell you I I once once uh years ago when I was 18 years old I was in yeshiva shave and I went to one of my house for shamus and I saw that not only did he cover his kawas but he actually as he made hami he continued to keep the kawas covered >> and and and I learned now later that many people do this it's actually much more common than I thought and there's a is a strong strong record for this uh many people have this practice they keep the kawas covered even when they make kamoti and I can't tell you I I used to not do this I didn't grow doing this. But then I I actually decided for myself I would do it. Why did I decide to do it? Because I remember it very distinctly. I asked him I asked my Rebi at that time why are you doing it? And he explained to me it's to remember the man. Now the truth is we always cover the to remember the but because he he when even when he had them covered it made more of a impact on me and I started to ask why are you doing that? So my shabas table now I started since I started doing this I can't tell you how many people ask me why are you doing that and just gets this great conversation going and it's very important I think to have that awareness of what we do what are we doing yeah >> very good so if you look at source number 19 so I think this one should be obvious hope but the mag tells us for the laundry he says What's the It's not just you should have nice clothes for Shabas. He says an additional reason we need to be available on Fridays. We cannot be bogged down with laundry. Do that in advance. We need to be available. So I think it should be obvious but again uh according to so according to Abraham we have to understand is Thursday the only duty could do laundry. So he says no he says according to Min Abraham it's not just Thursday right some of the frontier said why not do it on Wednesday why not do it on a Tuesday so according to Min Abraham yeah that's 100% correct the reason is you should be available so if you can do your want early in the week perfect it's not unique to Thursday the main thing is not to be doing on Friday that's what he assumed okay if you look a little bit later this is uh sim has another comment where he talks about the mitzvah of he says why is this that We go ahead and we wake up early in the morning to do our Shabbat preparations. He says, "So we would have thought, most of us would think, so when is the ideal time to go shopping?" Right? So this is the again, this is what we started with. I think this is the most important question of the day. When is the ideal time to go shopping for Shabas? I don't know about you, but I we we do a big like Osher ad run. We go to the store and we fill up the whole car and you're just finding parking there. So it's a whole mess. So when you're trying to go to the store and shab it's not easy. So it does take some several hours sometimes. So when do you do that big shopping? That's the big question of the day. >> So it's tells us he says nope. He says he believes the best time. Believe it or not >> why why does he say to do it on Friday? Why not do it on Thursday? I would do it earlier. Well, shouldn't we just said we just finished saying the m Arab taught us that you should be doing your laundry on Thursday. You have to be available. And now the M Ara is in the same breth, the same person. The same exact guy is telling me you have to be available on Fridays. And here he's telling me that I have to do my shopping on Friday. So he says, and when you do this, you should say this is verbalize it. I'm buying this the chabas. And he says, "And you should know that even though as we saw earlier, he quotes here." Okay, he says the it sounds like from the he could do it on Thursday. As we saw by the fast days, he quotes this by the fast days that they would they would buy food on Thursday. He says and he concludes he says even though even though you woke up early Friday morning and you did some preparations you should continue to prepare throughout Friday preparing a little bit more on Friday afternoon. Why? What's the illusion to this? They prepare both in the evening and in the morning and also close to Shabas. There's an illusion to this because we got a double portion of man and therefore we do double preparations. Again viewers those who were there last yesterday know there's a connection between the man that we got and the preparations we do before Shabas and he says just as we got a double portion on Shabbat we also have to do double preparations. So you prepare in the morning you prepare closer to Shabas. Okay now is that the only opinion? Come on. >> Excuse me. Can you wait till please never finish? >> Okay. So we'll wrap up and we'll we'll see the questions then. We're almost we're almost done with this piece. Okay. He quotes you from the or the Mosha quotes. I think this this resonates more with us, right? Shami what what would Shamai do? He says so okay he doesn't quote here so I'll just tell you Shami was known for shopping every day for Shabas. So no one said that answer right people say go on Thursday go on Monday. He would shop every day for shabas. What in the world is going on with Shamine? The answer is Shami, his mind was always in shabas. And he each day he go to the store, he'd go to the store on Sunday, he'd say, "Wow, this is amazing. I want to buy this." He buy this for Shabas. He walks in the store on Monday, say, "Wow, this is even better. This one will be for Shabas." And then he would go ahead and eat the one from Sunday on Monday. And then he go to the store on Tuesday, find even a better one. And then he'd eat a nice food from Monday on Tuesday. And he saved the nice one for the best one from Tuesday for Shabas, etc. So sha shama ate well the whole week right but more importantly what you see from that is the what how much he honored shabas how much he cared about shabas how much was such an important value of his and I think that's really the goal here so he says he quotes here that the or says we should do like sham and he says even though hilo usually follow it's true usually follow so the gar there tells us that hill had tremendous ine believed in hashem He'll trust in Hashem and he would just wait until Friday to do his shopping. That's what he would do. He said, "There'll be good things in the store on Friday. I'm not worried." He would trust in Hashem that he would find something good for Shabas. He says, "So maybe you say we should do like says or no." He says, "Why?" He says, "Uh, right. Even though everything he did was for the sake of heaven, he had this particular character trait that even behs that even Hill agrees that for most people who are not on that level, most people who don't have such bete, they're not such a strong faith that they're going find the perfect thing in the store on Friday at the last minute right before Shabas. He says he says for even beh would agree that bama is the best practice. And therefore he concludes here the Abraham writes that according to the best thing is to always be thinking about Shabbat whenever you have an opportunity. And he concludes here that even though the in the bold section even though the says that does not follow and he says nonetheless as we saw who says you could do your shopping on Thursday sounds like the order and therefore he says despite what said he thinks that there's a great mitzvah to go ahead and do our shopping earlier or anytime we have the opportunity and to always be thinking about Shabbat And he concludes he says with a bach who backs this up and he quotes from Rashi on the word of zakur. What does Rashi say on the word of zakur? Rashi says we have to remember Shabas saying what does Rashi say on the word of zakur? Most people skip over these rashies because it's a grammar rashi. >> Oh just this one I'm sorry. >> Very good. So this is what we're doing today. Right. Rashi says Shabas means constantly every single day. Every single day. Shabas is not something we do once a week. Shabas is a daily activity. Daily activity. Does that mean we observe Shabas every day? No. But it means we have to be thinking about Shabas. What am I doing today to prepare for Shabas? And in fact the Ramban the Ramban actually writes similar similarly right. The Ramban who said we don't pass like B. But even the Ramban held we do a mitzvah dita when we mention shabas every day. When do we do that in the ding by the way >> at the end of ding? We say the shel right we make mention you're doing people come here in the rebel's class know about the the uh right but uh but right the truth is it's something we do every single day. It's something we do every single day and and the agrees to this and initi of course we're thinking about shabas all the time. we're always shas is always on our minds and uh so let's let's conclude here because I know we're about we have about 3 minutes left let's wrap up so the final few sources we have here the Torah okay the Torah tells us that so he says that he's on this He says exactly what we just mentioned. He says that come on. You really think that Ezra here is talking just about Friday? You think he's talking about just about making on Friday? He says no. He says it applies every day of the week. And certainly according to Rashi, they should have bread ready at all times for the poor walk into your home. So again, we have rashi, we have the Rambam, we have the Torah, all assuming that there's a mitzvah to make which is not unique to Shabbat. But again, we saw earlier that according to the Mishna, there is a unique mitzvah to make and Shabbat. Why? again. So we have the mitzvah of fresh that we want to connect the shabas and also have breads unique for so again we have two opinions about when there's a mitzvah to make we have many most many of the saying there's a mitzvah to do it all week long but again the mishaba and rama saying there's a unique mitzvah on Friday of shabas and so let's conclude with the mishnaba he says in source for 22 why do we have this special mitzvah who he says why should you go ahead do your purchase He's talking about purchasing food. Why should you go ahead and do your purchases on on uh Friday rather than Thursday? He says not just so uh so because you want to associate with Shabas. He says because it'll be me karot will be recognizable to others. People see why are you shopping today? Everyone knows I'm shopping for shabas. It's Friday. My very action itself demonstrates what I'm trying to accomplish. If you shop on Friday, yes, there's hard work. Yes, there's more going on. But there's also an added benefit. The added benefit is my action itself is demonstrating to me what my goal is here. What am I trying to accomplish? And uh let's jump ahead. He says he quotes what we mentioned before that we should do like B shami. He says most people don't have such great faith. He says we should do like B shami. And uh and let's go to the last source here. the last section the he says the has to be this he says the primary preparations that we do have to be on Friday and he quotes the we just saw it's based on the primary preparations have to be on Friday the Jewish people went out on Friday to get the double portion of man and he says for this reason and he concludes by saying I think a very practical reason that what ends up happening is we're very tired. He says, "Come on. If you're going to wait until it's Friday to do absolutely everything, you have to be practical also. If you know you're going to be tired, he concludes it's better to do it on Thursday." Okay? So, I think that's relevant for most of us. And if we should be successful in all of our Shabas preparations and Hashem should give us braha, we should have sh