Mi SheTarach B'Erev Shabbat | Rabbi Jeremy Perlow | February 3rd 2026

Golden I know he was on the schedule to speak. Unfortunately, this morning he woke up and he wasn't feeling well. So about 8:45 this morning, I decided I would give my h I'll tell you growing up when I was in yeshiva. So one of the uh the rabbits of the yeshiva okay before my time uh she used to always stop bahim on the street and every single time no matter what where you're going no matter what you're doing she would stop you on the street and she was known for asking you to be ready so from those moments you were early on you always have to have a dvar in your pocket and I think the truth is is good not good advice not just for aim it's good advice for everyone everyone to always be prepared to share a little word of Torah. You know, the Torah says we're supposed to share Torah even when we're walking, wherever we go, supposed to be part of who we are, everything we do. And uh it's something I learned early on and hopefully I think today it's going to be helpful. Today I want to talk about the topic of the man. Uh the title of today's shabas he who works to prepare for shabas an air of shabas on Friday he's going to have food for shabas he'll be able to eat on shabas it's a famous quote from the we know the idea being that we have to prepare a lot of people they walk into shabas and they walked into shabas and they say oh yeah oh yeah uh candle lightings in 10 minutes right right and all of a sudden they they start moving a little bit but really the goal is we have to prepare we have to constantly be preparing for shabas uh we'll see to what extent we have to prepare for shabas, what our shabas preparations are supposed to look like, what our home is supposed to look like, what we're supposed to be thinking about. These are some of the topics I want to talk about today. So this past week, why are we talking about this now? So you might be familiar with this past week's para. In this past week's para, I think unfortunately lean sort of takes a back seat, right? Pash, if you ask someone, what happens in para, what's the first thing everyone says? Yamsu, right? The splitting of the sea. So, we have the splitting of the sea is this big major event. We're so excited. It's amazing. It's incredible. But then you have other things that happen later in the para and they don't they're not so much talked about. They're a little bit overlooked. So, in order to to give a little bit of cav a little bit of honor to the the the mitzvah of the man, I thought it'd be appropriate to talk about today. Now, the truth is it was very difficult for me to prepare this year. I'll tell you why. When I first started preparing this year, I had a very very long score sheet. You might think this is long. it was even longer and I think part of the reason why is because the man there's so much to talk about it's so beautiful and there's so many different components there's so many different aspects there's so many different areas to focus on uh just to give a few examples what do we what do we learn about shabas from the man who can tell me what do we learn about shabas from the man >> portions >> okay very good so everyone knows right we got a double portion of man on Friday and we had one portion be saved for shabas that's true but we learned from this also a lot of people don't Okay, we don't work on shabas. We're not supposed to go collecting the man. Good. Right. That's in the itselfishna. Right. The fact we have two loaves. And what do we do with the loaves when we're holding them? We keep them >> covered. Why do we cover them? Again, a remembrance for the covered on top and on bottom. And in addition, how many meals do we have on Shabas? >> Three. How does where's where do we learn that up from? portions of >> two portions of >> ah very good the Torah says three times corresponding to the three meals we're expected to have on Shabas so again another reference to the idea another thing we learn from the man so we learn a lot of very important lessons from the man which are relevant for shabas a lot of what we do the structure of our shabas is really built around the man because this is very important none of that however is what I'm going to talk about today okay those are all also very interesting topics. We'll have to save for another year. But for today, I want to focus in on error of Shabas. What do we learn about of Shabas from the how are we as Jews meant to properly prepare for Shabas? What are we supposed to be doing? What is our what are our houses meant to look like? That's what I want to focus on today. So, if you look at the first source on the the source sheet, right, we have one question before that. We'll do question number one at the top right before the first source. Rabbi, now that I made aliyah, I think things are relevant for a lot of people in the room. Friday is considered part of the weekend. It's amazing. After a long week of work, I can finally catch up on some much needed sleep. We're thinking about starting a late. What are your thoughts? Don't worry, we'll still finish before. That sounds like a nice idea. Beautiful thing, right? You have a late on Friday. After all, people are off. It's a very easy thing to do. Uh, is there any issue with this? Is there any problem with this? If you were the rabbi of this and someone came to you and they approached you and they asked you, "What do you think about starting a week on Friday?" I think most of us would probably say, "Wow, that's a beautiful idea. That's so nice. It's good. Let people rest a little bit before Shabas." >> The men women. >> Ah, okay. The women are hard at work already in the morning. Beautiful. Okay. Okay. Great. So, we're going to see there might be a mort for some of these ideas we're talking about now. Okay, we'll see you soon. Maybe it's appropriate. Maybe we're allowed to have on a Friday morning or maybe we're doing something uh egregious. Maybe we're doing something terribly wrong. We'll have to see. We'll have to discuss whether it's appropriate to have on a Friday. Now, if you look at the here, source number one, says to Moshe, I'm going to give you bread from the heavens. By the way, parenthetical points. What prophet did you make on the month? Ah, >> okay. So, right here, and the nation went out and they took each each person from the nation, they took their portion on its appropriate day. Why? Hashem was coming to test us. Hashem says, "I'm coming to test you. Are you going to follow my Torah or not?" This is your test. This is a very amazing test. What's the test? Read the next. It was on the sixth day, meaning Friday. Now, this is a very interesting phrase. We're going have to talk about length what this means. literally means they prepared that which they brought. A very difficult phrase. It was a double portion. That which they took day after day. So if you just pause right here, we see already we're having an illusion to what the test was. What was the test of the man to see whether they're going to follow the Torah? The test was they had a double portion and they had to figure out they had to figure out they had to determine what are they going to do. Are they going to go outside on Shabas and start looking for the man? Are they going to are they going to trust in Hashem? Are they going to save over some of the man from Friday for Shabas or are they going to trust Hashem? Right. The man was a major test for Kawra. So as much as that we're when we go ahead and we remember the man on Shabas, we're remembering we're remembering the special miracle Hashem did for us, we're also acknowledging the fact that we passed the test. Most of us, right? We passed the test and we listen to Hashem. And I think what we're going to see today is part of our struggle as an as an part of our responsibility as a nation, as clawist, is we have to continue to hold to the Torah. We have to continue to have faith in Hashem to work extra hard during the week so we don't have to look on Shabas. We don't have to be looking around. We don't have to be searching for other opportunities, for other work, for trying to finish the last little piece of work that we didn't get have time for during the week. We don't have to do that. Shabas, we can go ahead and we rest. We turn off our phones. We turn off our computers. We're focused 100% on what's in front of us. So now you'll notice what I did on the source sheet here. I skipped ahead of team for you. We're going to go to they took them on every single morning. Each person according to what he ate and whatever was not taken was heated by the sun and it melted. Right? Imagine you see some you see for those of us live in flute arts before you might be familiar. I grew up in Chicago, right? You see the big mound of snow, right? One day it's like this and the next morning totally melted, right? So imagine a pile of man, right? Instead of snow, imagine a pile of man the next morning, right? That the sun came out and it melts. Then melts on the sixth day on Friday, each person took a double portion, right? two for one individual and all the officers of the nation came and they told Moshe what happened what you just saw that's exactly what Hashem spoke about that's exactly what Hashem said would happen it's a shabas today's shabas I'm sorry tomorrow is Friday still Whatever you want to bake today, bake today. Whatever you want to cook today, go ahead and cook. And all the leftovers you'll save. You'll save for the for tomorrow. You'll save it for tomorrow. You'll prepare it now. And you'll have it ready for Shabas. So again, we have two questions we're going to have to think about as we're going through this. One, we already addressed. What is the test to determine whether we were following Hashem's Torah? In question two, what does it mean that they prepared that which they brought? >> That which they would bring. >> That which they would bring. If you look at source two, we have the answer, right? The Garabas may figure out why this is an answer. But the Garan Shabas in source two tells us what do those words mean. A person should always make sure to wake up early. Wake up early to prepare for Shabas and he cites our so the question we're left wondering is how in the world is that a proof? How does that tell us that we have to go ahead and we have to wake up early on Friday? I don't know about you, when it comes time for Friday, I'm very tired. I just had a very long week. You want to stay in bed a few extra minutes. So, if anyone like here is going to come along and tell me I have to wake up early, I want to better make sure I understand where he's coming from. It's not so simple that I'm going to give into this this uh this request. So, what I want to do now is I want to understand two sources, two sources, two ways to understand. Where is he coming from? How do we see in this verse that we just read this idea that I have to wake up early on Friday to prepare for shabas? So let's look ahead. Source number three, we have here Rashi. Rashi is amazing. Rashi is known every time you don't know what it means. Go to Rashi. Rashi is incredible. So Rashi here on the spot says you should wake up on Friday. Prepare for Shabbat. And then he explains you have to go. This pu tells us you have to do it right away. When is that? And begins to tell us here at the time that you brought you prepare. What is when is that? The word always implies in the morning. How do we know? took that they went ahead and they gathered it each and every morning. But if that's how I translated the first time but now Rashi is adding a new level of explanation means early early in the morning. It's emphasizing we have to do this early in the morning first thing. Now if you look is he's actually using context clues to help us understand what our original puk means. When do you do this? You have to use the context. They did it in the morning. So Rashi again what he's doing is he's sort of playing a toast role here. He's putting on his toast hat. In general, when you read Rashi, so sometimes we we focus in on the words in front of us. Toast was more like the the city planner, right? You look at the whole city. You have to look at the whole picture and you have to start to piece together the different pieces. You have to see how everything's going to fit together. So here Rashi is putting on his tooth hat, right? He's saying, "Use context. Use context to help you figure out what this means." That here when the Torah says, it must mean early in the morning. Now, it's interesting if you look ahead. Okay, we'll go for a second. We'll go in order first. We'll come back to that actually. Go go go go go to source uh number four on the top of page two. So this is a comment from the read before shore. Another one of the one of the commentators on the Torah. So he says he says why do they have to wake up so early in the morning he says very simple it's for a very practical reason he says because otherwise what would happen the man would melt so they had to take action early in the day if they waited until the man melted they wouldn't be able to take the man on so what does that mean for us today so can you wait a little bit to do your shabas preparations well usually Right? Sometimes not because sometimes you know the store might run out, the store might be closing etc. But for the most part it's really you could wait. It doesn't have to be done first thing in the morning. So that's the reason that is just a practical reason then we could wait really. However, Rashi didn't subscribe to that right just said you have to do it early in the morning. He didn't start to give reasons. So the refor is trying to give us a little bit of a reason. He's trying to throw in a little bit of a explanation behind the puk. So according to the rebar he says maybe wouldn't apply today but according to Rashi seemingly according to Rashi a person would have to wake up very very early in the morning. So go ahead go to source five. Now we're going to see another explanation of the de of how do we know again how do we know they have to wake up early in the morning says the source number five how do we know and he says the word in the has to always mean the word always means right away immediately as we know that the pushi who are we referring to here? Does anyone know? You have to have to know very well in order to pull this off. >> Very good. Okay. Right. The famous battle of David and Goyat. Right. The Goyat used to wake up every single morning. The Gumar explains and Rashi quotes it on the spot in the puk. It used to be that the goat would wake up early every single morning and try and stop the Jews from saying kachma. He knew there's a special power of our he would wake up early every single morning and also in the evening he would go ahead and he would try and stop us from saying the so go around and he make lots of noise and try and distract us because he knew there's a certain power of our so from this puk that the taz is quoting we learn the word always implies immediately. So instead of so what the taz is doing is instead of using context clues to tell us what a particular word means he's actually using the words of the puk itself the word va implies immediiacy implies doing something right away so according to the t at what point in one's morning should one begin shabas preparations what do you say >> right away I want to be more specific though I'm going to ask you further what does it mean right Right. >> Straight after >> straight. >> Ah, so I think I would I would have naturally said straight >> after we think. Right. But if you think about what does it really mean? Miad means right away. Perhaps we should even do it >> before. Okay. So we're seeing now an important distinction between the two approaches. Whereas rashi rash presented to us he says you should do it you should do it in the morning does have to be first thing in the morning I don't know if it has to be first thing but it has to be in the morning whereas now we're seeing according to the taz our second explanation it would have to be done first thing even before shak according to t now show of hands who here begins their shabas preparations first thing when they wake up from the morning >> sometimes >> ah okay very Sometimes, sometimes people do the woman. Okay. Sometimes men even. >> Okay. Very good. >> Shopping Wednesday. >> Huh? >> We go shopping Wednesday. >> Ah, okay. That'll be part two. We'll talk about Okay. Can you go shopping on Wednesday? We'll talk about it even earlier. Yeah. Quick question. >> Which is look at why they chose this word. Why do they choose it? But what? >> Oh. did it to be do something negative. So why would you choose a warrior that was chosen do something negative shadows? Huh? So the question is why is it that golyat we know golat was trying to stop us from saying schma? He was trying to harm us spiritually and yet from here we're learning the source that we have to go ahead and do a mitzvah. That was the question if I understood correctly. And I think on a simple level we're not really we're not using we're not using the uh goly is our source that we have to do the mitzvah. We're just using the example of golyat to learn what the word means. The va means my. So once we know what the word means, then we can apply it to our context to figure out what our puk means. You know, that's the beauty of Torah. It's amazing. Sometimes you go to the most extreme and crazy places to find out what a word means. Just don't understand the basic context. I'll give you one more example of a similar idea. Does anyone here know what's the source that we have to dive in with a minion? >> Where do we learn from? Does anyone know? >> Very good. We learn from the Moragui, the spies. Because the spies, as negative as they were, as terrible as they were, they were called. And the word is what we need. The puk says, right? I'll be sanctified amongst the of. So what's an mean? We learn from the spouse. So it just goes to show the Torah, it's amazing. It's interconnected. Everything's interconnected. You can learn from the worst of the worst. The pure says, Who is someone who is wise? Someone who can learn from everyone. And we do the same when we study the Torah. Even from the worst of the worst. We can learn from uh we can learn from the spies, the Moraguim. We can learn from Golyat. It doesn't matter who it is. We can learn from everyone. Okay. We have here in source number six, the C3 gives us one more interesting example of the word mad. If you didn't like that one cuz maybe you thought G was too was too negative of a character. We actually have another source that the word means. In source number six will be when you enter the land. Here we have entering right away. You should perform the mitzvah which is mentioned in that context through the through the reward through the merit of this mitzvah. You will enter the land. You want to know how you're going to get into? You got to perform the mitzvah. You got to do the land mitzvah. You have to take care of this. The land which Hashem, your God is giving you as you will inherit it and you will dwell in it. That which you inherit, you should conquer. And once you go ahead and you inherit it, you have the opportunity to dwell in it. So as difficult as it was when you came into the land and most of us when you come in, you've been traveling, you've been trying to imagine moving, right? I think most of us in the room here, we moved, right? If you come to right, imagine you get off the plane and you finally get to your new home where you're going to be staying and all of a sudden there's a million things to do. It's very difficult. I think all of us did that, right? We all went through that. But it's a million things to do. And now you want to rest. You want to take it easy. But Hashem says no. You want to have this. You want to have the merit of entering the land. You have to go ahead right away. Don't stop. Perform those mitzvot which will enable you to be able to stay. So when we came to Israel, the Jewish people after 40 years in the desert, that's exactly what happened. We had a very difficult challenge when we first arrived. We're surrounded by our enemies. 31 kings, seven nations. Right? They're all here. And we had a big mitzvah to do. We had to do kibush. We had to conquer the land. It wasn't easy. But it's through that mitzvah that we did right away that we merited to enter the land and to stay here. So, so far we have seen we have two different explanations for how we have understood. Do we learn from the context clues as Rashi did or do we use the puk itself the word as the taz did in source number five to learn that we have to do it right away. If you look in the let's see how he rules he says as follows in source number seven you should wake up early on Friday. So he passins like he says we do need to wake up early on Friday in order to prepare for shab and but he doesn't exactly tell us whether we pass like the taz or we pascin like rashi he doesn't exactly tell us how early in the morning now if you look at the heck look at the continuation of source number seven he gives a few examples though he says even if you have many servants who can help you can serve you should go ahead and prepare a little bit yourself. Do something yourself in order to honor Shabas. How do how do we know this? Look at what did he would cut the veget cut the vegetables very very fine. They would cut the wood, right? He would light the fire. They'd have fire. They'd have warmth on Shabas. Today would be a good day for a fire, right? It's cold outside. I do this one a lot in my house. We have little kids, right? Putting away all the toys, cleaning up, making sure that everything is clear, right? So, if you little kids, this is what you do almost all day. They're always taking things out. And from them, every person should learn what we need to do in our own homes. Don't say, "This is beneath me. I don't want to I don't want to disparrage myself. I don't want to subtract from my honor that's due to me." No, we should be involved even the most mundane activities that's part of Shabas. My honor is how I honor Shabas. Most beautiful one. My honor is how I honor Shabas. Sometimes people think, oh well, I have to do all the work myself or prepare for Shabas. My family's not helping me. And we get very we feel very down about it. Actually, the exact opposite is the truth. The person who's involved in Shabas preparations has the greatest kavot. That's how we achieve our kavot. It's amazing beautiful and so going to source number eight, we have to figure out though still how do we pass him? Do we follow rash's approach right or do we follow the how do we follow? If you look at the on the spot here, he's commenting on the he explains. He says, "How do we know a person has to wake up early?" So look what he does here. He quotes Rashi, but now he explains Rashi. It's a beautiful thing. When we read Rashi first, we're sort of scratching our heads. How do you see from the words of the past what Rashi said? said it means from from the context he said you can go ahead and figure out what these words mean but how do you see it in the words themselves says the I'll tell you how he says the preparation for shabas has to be similar to when they brought it in when they brought in the man it was done in the morning therefore the preparations need to be similar and they also need to be done in the That's how we're supposed to understand the preparation is similar to the bringing in. And then he goes on to explain as Rashi said using he says so too the preparations for Shabas need to be done right away in the morning. But now look what he does. This is incredible. He takes the approach of the Taz and he tries to combine it together with rash. Up until now, we've seen two separate approaches. We saw rashi and we saw the tas says the mishabua in classic Mishna style. I'm going to take all the different approaches and try and combine them into one. You know, it wasn't until very recently that the bru became like the post for Ashkanazi jewelry. It used to be people passing based on the oran and in more recent history the has taken on and it's really picked up in people are acting like the mishna and one of the reasons why I think is the mishnab he's a big sadic because he took all the different approaches and he tried to combine them and to make them one clear picture of what we are supposed to do and he tries to take all the different approaches and try and make them into on. Now what that means on a practical level is it's very difficult because what ends up happening is you take all the different approaches that means you're going to have all the stringencies you have to be stringent for all the different opinions. So the mission of sometimes it's a little harder to follow but what he's doing is he's trying to unite is and to make sure performing we do everything properly. So if you follow all the approaches certainly you're doing everything properly. So he tries as much as he can to do that. That's that's the Mishnab style in so same thing here. Look what he does. He tries to take rashi and the taz and put them together. What does he do? He says means when is that? Right away. When right away. So I asked you this question at the beginning. We had different answers. So so the first answer that we got though was it means right away after. And that's what the mishu says. So he's not exactly taking the word mad literally because literally we take the word right away which should mean first thing in the morning. But what he's trying to do he's trying to adjust it so it fits with the framework the rashi provided. It doesn't have to be first thing first thing. So it's first thing after and after. So when we finishing then we go ahead and then we should go run to the store. We should go do all our shabas preparations. He makes an exception though which is an important exception which I think highlights uh something very important that we do here. However, if a person is accustomed to learning right after for a set amount of time or he's learning is a he's he's going ahead learning as a public group you're joining a public like we are right now. Do not stop what you're doing. Do not cancel your regular learning. So if every single morning you have a sichir every single week you come to Rabbi Brightawitz you come to Rabbi Golden Rabi Golden Raben you come for Rabbi Finkelstein whatever you do the regular wedding don't cancel it even though there's such a great mitzvah right even though you have to prepare for shabas you'll go a little bit later it's okay you go a little bit later keep the regular sh keep your regular schedule so you see there's something very important about the regular daily learning that we do the as much as it's a mitzvah as much as told us based on the itself there's a mitzvah to prepare for shabas early in the morning he says don't cancel your regular learning to go ahead and do that mitzvah you can do both you go a little bit later and you can still do it in the morning that's the approach of the mishnabu there's one other asterisk if you look at the second paragraph that the bua tells us one other important point we have to be thinking about as we time our shabas preparations he says If it's the place of if it's the min of that place, if it's the normal manner in that location where you where you live to sell in the morning, you will not have the opportunity to purchase food for Shabas after you finish learning. Then in that case, you should make sure to learn only after you went to bought food for Shabas. Meaning, let's say you go to the marketplace and they sell fish and they have a certain amount of fish and they're going to run out by the time you get to the store. If you do your learning first, go to the store first. Make sure you get in what you need and then afterwards you'll go ahead and you'll do your regular and then he says something incredible and that's why I b it here for you. He says if however they only go ahead and they only sell things even before shakar then you should go even before shak. So what does he do again? He's taking both approaches a little bit of rashi and a little bit of the a little bit of a compromise in each direction. You should buy it. And afterwards, you have to be careful when you do this. That if you're going to miss the time for, you have to make sure to say before because the time for already came. Should make sure to read before you go. Okay, raise your hand if you've ever heard of this concept before. A very important concept. We were not meant to take care of our own personal business before we dab him. We've heard this concept. Huh? Okay. Okay. So, it's good. That's why we come to the sh to learn. Good. We're learning, right? It's important. We're not supposed to take care of our own personal mundane matters before we go ahead and we d So, you might say, "Oh, so how can I go to the store? How can I shop for shampus? How can I take care of my own personal needs? I'm going to go buy food for myself. I'm going grocery shopping before I dive in. He says, "No, don't worry about it." Why? This is not your own personal needs. This is the this is the desire of heaven. This is what wants us to be doing. So, this is not a personal need. You're allowed to shop before you din. If there's no food in the store, you're not sure there's going to be enough food. The Mishnab advises going first thing even before Davening again in accordance with what we saw from the Taz. And it could be again it could be that here that even Rashi would agree with this. Rashi just says you should go in the morning. It doesn't mean you that you can't go first thing right even according to Rashi you could go first thing. So if you're not going to have food in the store I think even Rashi would agree you should go before Davening and that is the conclusion of the Mishna Buru. >> I think we remember that that was a time when there were no refrigeration and people had to buy a live chicken. So I have to buy early in the morning because you chef it and salt it and whatever shabas. >> Ah, okay. Good. So the comment that we just had here in the front is that we know on uh it used to be that people didn't have such great refrigeration. So perhaps that was the reason why they're buying food in advance of Shabas. So we'll see if you come to part two of this year. Okay, you have to come back tomorrow for that. If you come to part two of this year, you'll see why it is that perhaps this does apply today. And we'll see what is regarding that issue uh in part two. Okay, I want to conclude here on page three, we have as we began to discuss an important between these two sources. What's ankamina? A nafamina means you have different reasons behind the mitzvah and depending on which reason that you follow will determine the so we began to discuss this already. We have here the comment from the primadim in source number nine. So he quotes the two approaches that we had and he asks after quoting the taz he says inaz look at the taz who was quoting the y was quot and he says I don't know why he left out that which the wrote he says I don't understand why the is not accepting the approach of rashi That's much simpler. Just use the context clues. Why are you going to to try and understand what the word means? Use the context. We have why are we jumping to and he says, okay, we put in the footnote here. It really should be. Okay. Which is so he thinks that it could be that according to the taz that this is not something you could do later. He's taking a very hard approach in the ts not like we saw in the mishnab he's taking a very hard and fast approach miad means miad. So why is it that Taz chose specifically not to cite Rashi as an explanation of because Rashi's wrong and the Taz holds firmly that you have to do it first thing in the morning even before you dab. So the primadim again he takes the two approaches he says nope we're not combining them separate taz here rashi there and the taz says first thing in the morning we have to follow the taz we have to do first thing in the morning comes the okay the does anyone who wrote the ba the is written by the same person as the okay what's amazing is you look on the page of the you have both actually you have the you have the bah and the next column over you have the bas The b will often explain the reasoning behind the why he chose to write it. This is the he explains very often in the so if you look in the in verse 10 he quotes on this he quotes this idea he says he says the way I wrote it the reason we wrote it this way in the reason we wrote it this way that it's specifically after you should go because we do not follow this primag this is wrong he says the status quo is you're supposed to go after first. Now he says here in brackets he's intellectually honest. He says it could be he says number one he says what could what do people do? I ask people at the beginning of the year who prepares first thing in the morning for shabas. So some people say prepare first thing in the shabas some people said the woman prepare first thing in the shabas but most people right at least the men most of them go after shak to begin the shabas preparations and he says that's exactly right he says it could be it's not because we don't hold like the ts the minag is not a proof that we don't hold like the ts because that the men are going to it's possible that the men are relying on someone else in their home usually the wives their wives to go ahead and begin preparing right away. The the husbands are relying on their wives to prepare. But if you have no one to prepare for you, if you have no one to prepare for you, it's possible that even the man would have to follow the and perhaps he he's intellectually honest. Perhaps that would mean that they would have to wake up before shak and prepare before shak. So he says the min is not an ironclad proof but again come on the mishnu he makes a clear point most of us prepare after shak even single men most men are preparing after so probably the is a good it's a good proof that this is how we rule and he concludes here in the last paragraph he says he quotes from the it's that it's specifically after that you should go ahead and do your shabas shopping he says the only exception would be if you're not going to find food in the store after. So again this is the mission of it's the of the safer that you should go after ding and he concludes here he says that it could be that even according to this opinion this even if you hold it's very logical to hold this even if you hold the mitzvah to prepare for shabas is a biblical mitzvah it's a mitzvah tora he says nonetheless he says we have two mitzvah from the Torah you have schma Huh? And you have preparing for Shabas, what should come first? So in general, when you have two in front of you, we have a rule. You have something that's common, something that's not so common, we do the common thing first. We do twice a day, every day, morning and evening. Biblical mitzvah. Preparing for Shabas, we do once a week. So therefore, he concludes that even if it's biblical, we should go ahead. The status quo is what the Mishnab says. He concludes that's the correct thing to do and he writes that that's the we should do a shabas preparations always after ding unless of course there's not going to be food in the store. What's interesting now as you'll notice I what I did here is I broke up the bureau for you into three parts. That was the conclusion of the first part. It's a very long we'll see we have just a couple minutes left I think we'll try and wrap up. We'll see if we can get through. I'll try and summarize for you in source number 11 at the bottom of page three. So he says he says perhaps though this whole discussion is not relevant today. Why? Because today right the bold section is not proof for today. They got shabas already at Mara Mara right was this location that we stopped before which means which means they got the mitzvah of shabas before the mitzvah of so the fact that the Jewish people in the meatbar went ahead and they were preparing for shabas first thing in the morning has no ramifications for me because they didn't have the mitzvah of they didn't have the mitzvah to d we do so for us today perhaps again you could argue another reason why we should go ahead and dab in first. >> Okay, let's go ahead to the last page here. I want to just wrap up. Okay, in source number 12, we have here the he explains that the it could be he's very intellectually honest again and he says it could be that this we had is an of it could be it's not a biblical mitzvah. It's possible it's not a biblical mitzvah but it's a at the very least it's an which means it's an illusion to the idea that we have to prepare for shabas. It could be again this is not a biblical mitzvah. It doesn't say in the Torah explicitly you have to prepare for shabas early in the morning. It could be it's just an illusion to the idea. It could be it's not right. And he goes ahead and quotes the primadium and others who went ahead and proposed this and he says after all we know enjoying Shabas itself is only right the mitzvah of four on Shabas right remembering Shabas which we do with we mark the book ends of Shabas the beginning and end. We have shamur which means we have to abstain from right those the two in the Torah and we have two rabbitic mitzvot right we have honoring shabas what we do before shabas to prepare for shabas and onene what we do on shabas to enjoy shabas so if on itself enjoying shabas is only rabbitic how can you tell me that the preparations for shabas are biblical and he says he goes on to explain that yes it is possible that despite the fact that is only rabbitic It could be that our shabas preparations are even more important that those might be right. That's what he says in the last paragraph here. The preparations we do for the meals of Shabask many hold that that might still be biblical. Wow. So is really as important as we making it out to be. Yeah. could be it's biblical and even if it's not again we see that the is you should do it after and not withstanding what is written is a person allowed to miss few of it to prepare for shabas so I wrote in the last paragraph I'll summarize for you here so is if a person has an option of ding with a minion or going to the store and if you go to the store later you're going to miss your chance with a minion what should he do says the what do you think very good you go to the store he says is as important as minion is, he says it could be there's a mitzvah. So he concludes here that you should if you if you again if you have the option of doing both, you should do both, of course. But if you only have one minion in town and you know that by the time you go to the minion, you're going to miss out on the opportunity to uh to go to the store, then he concludes you're allowed to miss minion in order to be able to go to the store to make sure you have food for Shabas. Okay, let's wrap up. The last source here on the page we quote from the Rambam. Now the Rambam interestingly he does not quote the dean of the he does not quote dean that you have to wake up early in the morning for shabitets. So many people they read the Rambam they say oh maybe it's not a mitzvah at all maybe the whole we've been giving it was a waste maybe it's wrong maybe it's incorrect. So is that really what the Rambam means? So if you look carefully at the Rambam the bureau explains he quotes here what the Rambam does pin if you look in the bakama which is recorded in the Rambam he says follows now what does say he's talking about a case who someone who's running right before Shabas he's running running running he's trying to finish all of his preparations before Shabas and he runs into someone and he breaks something. What's the in such a case? The gar tells us tells us that person who broke something while running, he's exempt. He's put to he doesn't have to pay. That's quoting the Ramba. So we see from this that the Rambam says that there is a mitzvah to prepare for Shabas. And we see from here that at least in right before Shabas there's a mitzvah even to run to go ahead and do Shabas preparations. So much to the extent that it's a mitzvah that even if you're running and you bump into something, you break something, you're held you're held exempt. you're not held accountable for that action. So someone want to say well why didn't he quote though maybe it's because he doesn't hold a raista the answer is this raam is located explains this raam is located it's the laws of damages in the walls of damages he's not talking about the mitzvah prepared for shabas in the walls of damages if you run in the morning to the storm and you bump into someone and you break something are you held accountable the answer is yes it's only right before shabas do we have a special exemption we have a special leniency right before shabas you're running to do a mitzvah that you get your get out of jail free card only then only right before shabas but in the morning you get you're held accountable so that's why the rab doesn't quote it it's not because he doesn't hold it's a mitzvah it's only a mitzvah to the and the believes that even the ra holds of this so I want to conclude by just giving everyone a bra that please god all our shabas preparations should go smoothly there should be shalom when and we should have sh when we do it and we should run to do it. The unit's not first thing in the morning or after ding. We should run to do it early in the morning form should give us in all of our preparations.