Oorah's Torah Spot Live 6/19/12: "Shabbos"-part 4- Kugel, Cholent, Gefilte-Fish, ...and More.

okay so we have been discussing for the last three weeks about the fourth of the ten commandments which is the keeping of shabbos tonight i want to further that discussion and explain like the title we have tonight they have many details listen and be inspired by each one so i'd like to make a rundown of the different types of actions and things that we do on shabbos to explain the purpose and the reason a lot of people do things according to tradition which is naturally very important tradition of judaism plays a very big role tradition but they don't realize the reason for it and knowing the reason gives it much more of a life it's what we're doing it's not just a action of uh wrote that we happen to do every week but if we know why we're doing it it takes on a different kind of feeling so i want to go through the different times of shabbos starting from arab shabbos and see how far we can get and of course if you have any questions about what i'm saying feel free to ask and we'll see uh how many things we could cover tonight after katzeis it's called our we already start minimizing and start getting ready for shabbos by refraining from some mundane activities shabbos we have to go away from all thirty-nine but remember we had all 39 we went through arab shabbos we don't do all 39 naturally but we start little by little getting into shabbos the reason being shabbos like was talking about the last few weeks is a tremendous connection and closeness that god has with the jewish people and being close to hashem close to god is like being close to a great light shining upon us just like when the sun comes up in the morning called hinaysakamo sunrise before the sun actually rises over the horizon we already are enjoying the light that comes before the sun itself comes up a great light before it appears in front of our eyes already is giving off light in advance of the main body of light that's about to appear in front of us called the alloys is well over an hour before sunrise because as the sun comes closer and closer to being exposed to us the light gets stronger and stronger the same way it comes to shabbos shabbos which starts by sundown when the full extent and the full radiance and warmth of shabbos comes upon us even before that happens the light starts shining from before the kedusha the holiness the purity the closest hashem to god is already taking place from khat says from the middle of the day from of course now the saving time is about 41 o'clock because it's an hour later so this kedusha of shabbos is already coming upon us just like the sun before it actually appears the rays of the sun are visible to our eyes the same way the kedusha and the holiness of shabbos is visible to ayahuas to our soul as shabbos is approaching and therefore after chat after midday there are certain laws that we are supposed to perform one of them we start minimizing in our activities on mundane like activities we try to stick to things that we need for shabbos for cooking or things for shabbos whatever is necessary for shabbos and we can't do on shabbos but because we four shabbos for the purpose of shops covered shops under shoppers the same thing applies to massage habits just like when the sun goes down shekia the sun goes down and the sun is not in front of our eyes we can't see the actual body of the sun still it's not dark yet the rays of the sun are still shining back and little by little it gets dark but the light that was upon us with his full glory is not any longer but it has a residue and it leaves in its path that it went the light of the sun that was there from before and it's little by little it it gets dark the same way it comes to shabbos to kedusha the holiness of shabbos even though when shabbos is over we make abdullah after shabbos still until khatsa salilah until midnight there are laws of shabbos that are still upon us we cannot god forbid make a funeral we can make a eulogies after shabbos until midnight just like before midday before shabbos you can't make the old jesus certain laws apply because the happiness and the grand feeling and this closest hashem to god is still upon us it comes gradually until it appears into its full glory and it leaves us little by little but not all of a sudden taken away from us it's much easier to digest to be able to to live through something that's gradual not something all of a sudden that happens it'll be very difficult to some all of a sudden bang it would be totally dark all of a sudden totally light the night totally light all of a sudden totally dark for a person with the physical feelings and emotions that's not a very easy thing to come by the same thing spiritually we have to get conditioned into spirituality little by little before we come to the full extent and then not to be missing it all of a sudden in totality so therefore once it comes after 12 o'clock on friday people who are keeping shabbos already start getting excited and of course i started getting a little nervous too because a lot of things to do i'm reminding myself we once had some uh guests coming for shabbos who were not too religious they weren't at that time keepers of shabbos and right before it was a short day in the winter and those people who know chadvices if you keep it to its full extent everything has to be ready before the kids won't do anything afterwards that's not for shabbos and it gets a little tumultic and people are running back and forth and taking care of this and taking care of that and the bus gets a little nervous and the kids are getting excited so these people were standing watching and they were laughing so he said why are you laughing do you have anybody they said just like fiddler on the roof that's what they saw in there so we saw in real life acting out putting on the roof right right before shabbos what happens in the jewish home before the shops everything has to be put away and everything is put on the stove and the food has to be ready and so on and so forth so we uh put a nice show for them should have charged them a lot of money for that but we didn't charge you anything in our number two mestapri tsim the legion big de shabbos a person who needs has to get a haircut bathing oneself and putting on special shabbos clothing this is something which is very important for shabbos as a preparation the root for this preparation of cleaning oneself and putting a special clothing is written in the torah by the words of mikra kurdish so what does that mean calling of kedusha that means our rabbis tell us that there has to be a an exposure from us as each individual to make shabbos very alive to feel it if everybody will wear the same clothing they wear the whole week so it's not calling out choppers it's not calling anything it doesn't have businesses as usual a person doesn't have their their body clean and their hair combed and their and their well-groomed and shabbos clothing if everybody will be the same as they were the whole week it wouldn't be recognizable there's something special about this date mik remix has to call out a calling of shabbos i see the other person he's different he has his best clothing on looks real ruined well groomed the men the women i feel myself different i have different kind of my shabbos clothing on the nicest ones the newest ones from head to toe the first yarmulke two shoes submissive to everything a person wears should be different than shabbos covered shops out the person's clothing hands and toes should be especially set aside for shabbos the covered shabbos that's mixed with kurdish that's calling out screaming look shabbos everybody around us they look different it gets us into the mood gets into the spirit of shabbos we feel different and we see our families and our friends are different it gives a different feeling of of uh of of of happiness like birds go to a cassandra you go to a wedding everybody put some of the nicest clothing because you want a time of similar time to happiness you want to look your best to feel the best to make it simple like a simple shop is a big sim card but there's another very deep idea involved over here that in itself is naturally a very important idea about chabas mikwa kaidish to prepare ourselves her body's clothing should be in the right state of being for this holy day but there's another important idea that we're supposed to think about on chapters when it comes to clothing and washing as i mentioned before shabbos is the holiest day of the year contrary to people's popular belief shabbos is more holy than any other holidays on the jewish calendar what does that mean it's the most holy day the day that god comes close to the jewish people more than any other day of the year that means it's holy holy means the mundane ideas and actions are put aside and we are closer to hashem close to god close to our families together close to god wonderful feeling happy feeling but that doesn't come with nothing like every important happening in our life there has to be some kind of preparation you can't go into something which is very uh outstanding very special without being prepared for it if we want to have such a holy day we want to be prepared if we want god to come close to us we have to be prepared by washing our bodies from any offensive type of things that might be on our bodies we want to make ourselves clean this is a remiss an idea that was supposed to think about our soul how pure our soul is is our soul clean as our actions clean are we acting the way we should if we want hashem to come close to us we want to have a wonderful happy shabbos with god together we want to feel and be ready for it god is holy if we want he should come close to us we have to be holy unlike things clash with each other holiness comes together with holiness we have to prepare ourselves we are told that there are four times in our life that we're supposed to do chufa that was supposed to look into our actions and think about them analyze them are we acting like we should between man and god between man and man are we acting are we living up to god's standards there's four times in a year the person's supposed to think about his actions one time before we go to sleep at night a person should think to himself try to scan the day that he lived the time he got up in the morning to get up grouchy to make a not nice remark to his wife or to her husband because he was grouchy in the morning he didn't feel like getting up or whatever people tend to be a little grouchy in the morning and the rest of the day from then on to think that we act nicely to people will be decent to them that we get charity somebody has to give charity did we pray during the day to hashem all the different things that we make a blessing on the food that we ate that we make sure to keep kosher food whatever persons go back and give a scandal of their life that day to think about how was i today and then to think to himself and tomorrow it's a new day wake up tomorrow morning the cell will be up again or maybe it won't be a maybe a very dreary day i want to be grouchy again but this time i'm going to smile even if i don't feel like it no it's to take upon myself tomorrow i want to be better than today try to fix up those things that were lacking the day before that's one time we're supposed to think about actions of the chuva another times the end of the week that we're talking before shabbos on friday we're told that we should think back about the week that just passed us how was i on sunday how was it on monday how about tuesday each day sunday i head off from work and did i use my time wisely did i treat my family nicely and so on and one day every day has its own flavor its own obligations to go back righteous people go back and think to themselves how is my weak it's coming shabbos now god's coming close to us i want to be in the and prepared to be able to can't make contact with him if i did anything wrong i think to myself next week next sunday next monday i'll try to be better than i was this week and if i did something wrong i'll make myself better that's the second time we're supposed to think about our actions third time's like today arabic the day before the new month tonight we're in the tambuz we're going out of the month of seven the wonderful month of seven with god gave the torah the month of seven shabu says the seven now going to the month of tamus which is not considered a very happy month the next few months are not considered happy months the times that the first of the holy temples the beginning of destruction when the two haters broke into broke down the wall of jerusalem which led to the burning of the holy basic and month of of this template of tamils because we have to try we have to make it happy but they in themselves are months of not too much happiness for the jewish people but anyway today was the day before tonight which the new moon starts a new month starts tonight the end of last day of the last month tomorrow night the first new month and we're told that the day before the day before the new month starts we're supposed to go back and think how was i i was like this this month go back over the whole month each time over one day is not so hard relatively speaking a whole week a whole month we'll have to think back a whole month think about how was like the first day of sleep on the second day of seven and so on and think to ourselves what can i do this coming month there's something more successful in my service hashem maybe something can do more advanced fourth time naturally is the time of yom kippur once a year when a person has to go and contemplate and think it was a whole year to go back and try to recreate his life that he's had the whole year since lassium kipp and this young kipper and to try to think about setting up his life in a way that's favorable to hashem to god so these are four times in the end of a jewish calendar that jesus is supposed to think about their actions and to children try to make those themselves better every night every end of the week at the end of the month and every end of the year so as we're saying therefore as the holy shabbos is coming we want shabbos to be what it's supposed to be a joy of being close to hashem close to god a spiritual closeness enjoyable occasion shabbos good food good people family all around a day of joy of of of pleasure a person has to check themselves is god going to like me or not just like i just took the soap and water washed off all those unwanted things on my body it's supposed to make us think so we should take the soap and water and wash off her in the summer wash off anything that we did that was not what should have been done in god's eyes whether between man and man between man and god before shabbos comes to wash them off to get rid of them to think to myself i don't want to do that anymore it was not right it wasn't this week certain things maybe and it'd make it a little better maybe they were right but i could even i but i could expound on it i couldn't even do better than i did before and then put on the nice clothing shabbos clothing you wouldn't want to put a chapstick before taking good or washing oneself after i shower tend to put a put on a nice fresh clothing and the dirty body is not very pleasant pleasurable we have to get rid of the surma the things that are objectionable and then put on the nice clothing of shabbos that means we're supposed to take upon themselves to be better people to act nicer just like the thing of the person makes a person feel better you put new clothing fresh clothing that's how we should try to dress up on the shama take us through a while to bed and think about ourselves the good to act decently correctly like a jewish person should ask between man and man and man to god so this is a deeper idea of kindness we're talking about of a calling of kedusha that was supposed to take the gosh means the mundane actions that we do with bodies and put in a higher level with our souls to clean the soul and put on nice fresh actions something that now god's coming close to us god comes ah jewish people look at yonko look at rachel they thought about themselves they want to perfect themselves those are the people god wants to make contact with so every person according to the level of their piety of how much they want to do more for themselves in their spiritual life that's where god would be closer to that shabbos will be even stronger by then so this is number two that we're talking about by preparing our bodies and the clothing in a way that in itself is important to show this a special day but also to take that in a higher level to try to make ourselves even closer to hashem by preparing ourselves in the spiritual way now we have number three we're still hoping by arab shabbos getting ready for shabbos preparing the food for shabbos we spoke about last week quite lengthy about shabbos is a miniature of the world to come the pleasure of shabbos keeps us focused a whole week he who got ready before shabbos will be able to eat on shabbos so you spoke about so much last week god wants us to focus on shabbos in this world to keep us focused on shabbos in the next world that we have to work on our actions just like if you want good food and shabbos we have to get it ready which happens we have to work on it before chapters the same way we want to come to the world to come we have to work for it and make ourselves ready for it we're told in the gemara the number four those are aromatic words by the way in case you didn't notice them because the talmud was written in half aramaic hebrew sapphira the great rabbi called raph safra those people who started the talmud and over of saffron as mentioned many times an outstanding rabbi mentioned in the gomorrah he used to prepare the meat for shabbos literally speaking means he used to sink the hair off the meat of the city creation the animal but he used to prepare the meat even though he had people to do his wife could have done she was a very good cook obviously hoping she took care of the food but even though it was not considered he was such a great rabbi he wasn't exactly according to his honor to get involved in taking the meat before it's cooked and it's still blood on it whatever it is and preparing it but he made sure that he did something for the honor of shabbos even though it wasn't according to his uh honor that was that should be spoke bestowed on the great person like himself but he didn't care about honor of himself the honor of shabbos that's where he wanted brother the great brother the people who knows who started the talmud was the most outstanding rabbis in the town but moloch he salt the fish getting ready for shabbos they wanted to be involved with shabbos not just when shabbos comes to sit down and eat but they wanted to do something to show the anticipation and the great joy they want to be involved with when shabbos comes they want to be part of it not just their wife took care of it or maybe that servant took care of it they want to be personally involved in in the in the honor of shabbos because they realize what a great honor shabbos is for the jewish people so just do what they have to do and let it come by itself was not befitting them they wanted to do something every week not only one time and from this we have those people who keep shabbos they make sure to do something to cover shabbos or make something to cover shabbos if they know how to take care of making the to make the fish they'll make the coogal or make them make the crane or whatever they might do in coverage habits clean up the house but even though it's not really their job they don't do it a whole week but they'll make sure to do something the coverage habits based on this gemara that these great rabbis themselves got involved to do these things and this is all because of we're talking about we want to to get that feeling that shabbos is so special just like a great king is coming to our house like you mentioned once and again so you don't want just everybody to do they should they should take care you know tell the king i coming to the house for somebody very special coming to your house everybody wants to get involved they feel good i should be have the great honor to be able to prepare for a great person coming to my house i want to be involved with them myself i don't live with other people i want to have have the honor and the great source that i should myself be involved then we have that is a phrase that we say in our prayers in the music prayer usually during the week we have three prayers we say myra arvid we say at night time chakrit we say in the morning prayer and min the afternoon prayer on shabbos and yamcha we add another prayer called musa the word muslim means adding because since the special sacrifices were brought in shabbos so to acknowledge and remember that special sacrifice and shabbos that was brought in the holy temple we add another finger today we don't have the holy temple but we add it in our prayers and another fourth trilla that only shabbas yamtha that we say and that really does there's more holiness on shabbos therefore we want to be able to attach ourselves to the holiness to glean from that holiness we add another prayer which is close to hashem it's a it's a holy occasion for a person to pray to hashem so since the day of holiness when we try and get as much as we can so our rabbi said a great favor for us by adding a special another musa the the fourth prayer of course we have a fifth from the ilo that's the fifth one once a year we have five times in the ila on yom kippur but during the year we have during the week three and shabbos and yamcha in the holidays we have four in that prayers mentioned the ones those who taste shabbos they will merit life now the question is what does it mean to test to taste shabbos the simple idea in that prayer is those who keep the laws of shabbos they're tasting it by fulfilling what they're supposed to be doing king david says in tehillim hashem taste and see hashem is good a person says i don't like chocolate cake says how do you know they don't like chocolate i don't like it taste it i like but i love don't like the way it looks i don't know what i like that brown stuff it gets me scared i don't like trouble again taste it take a taste it's like oh tasted hey hey and that's that's good you have to taste something to to pass judgment on something don't just push it away and say it's no good ta'amu or king david says until then in psalms time will taste and you'll see can you tell me about hashem that god is good a lot of people are afraid to taste different parts of judaism because they have the ideas about it that they're it's not good it's going to be boring to be difficult different ideas that they grew up with about service of hashem the laws of the torah you tell them taste it taste it some oh it says something study torah people afraid to study together i don't know anybody about torah taste it and see turbo some people afraid about shabbos it's a hard thing to keep 39 laws 39 things to keep away from plus this plus that ta'amu the ones who taste the shabbos they will be merit to life life in this world life in the coming world a person cannot really appreciate shabbos until one keep shabbos someone who lives a shabbos like we're talking about the last few weeks if a person doesn't really live shabbos and really taste it then it's you can't know what it is without tasting it you don't know what the chocolate cake tastes like let's give it a taste will merit life or merit happiness and joy because they'll realize by living through it and experiencing it and going so close to hashem it's life it's wonderful it's it's enjoyable but there's another thought about over here it's a hint to another thought even though the plain simple meaning is what i just said now but there is a mitzvah for a person to taste the food of shabbos before shabbos simple reason is because plain and simple because you want to make sure that it has enough salt has enough pepper too much maybe has to have enough water in it it's tasty enough whatever the food might be it's a mitzvah to taste the food of course that mainly by the bus who knows how to cook sometimes knows how to cook so they should taste it and make sure that it's what you want it to be it shouldn't come to the table and serve it and people oh they're just trying to keep the smile on their face but they really they'll like the food and the family with the guests don't like it that's no good shabbos is a time of pleasure tomorrow the person tastes the food the shabbos that means to taste it they are merit life because they are trying to make sure the covered shabbos and the shabbos that it tastes good it's perfect it's best about busting to make it therefore they merit life because they're honoring shabbos they want to be the best possible and that is hinting to us when it comes to the world to come we don't want to be second rate so the person will say well what's the difference i do the mitzv this way do the mitzvah that way i give money to a poor person do i smile at him or do i frown at him i gave him the money what's the difference did i make him feel so good i didn't feel like giving to him anyway the money so he should be happy i gave it to him but the person did not do the mitzvah to the fullest extent like you should do it like the rabbis tell us it's not enough to give a poor person money for it's a document charity but you have to give it with a smile give him good words of of of of of giving feel good about himself to give him some some strength should feel good about not to be ashamed to take the money when we do a mitzvah it has to be to the fullest extent not just the bare minimum it's just like a person comes to food you like the food good food the wife sends the food to the husband and it's too salty right it makes a face right away well kind of salty not enough salt too much salt well what's the difference see soup so eat it finished oh it comes to food people are very particular they wanted to taste the best not too much sugar not enough sugar it's rare meat well done meat everybody wants it they really want it that's not the way they want it and they're happy about it and it makes most of the time they make to make they make it known one way or another to the person who's in charge of the food oh you're so about food about that how about particular about the way you serve our shin the way you do a mitzvah that for sure you should be particular to do it the right way not too much salt and not too much sugar and not too much there's not too much that with a smile with a with good feeling get up in the morning to go to schulte avenue with the happiness not with the frown and that would do a bit should be done in mitzvah like like it should be done like with right flavor with right feeling this is what i think about in shabbos we take the the kashmir is the food that we eat the mundane actual physical actions that we do and we transfer it into rookness into into a higher level the clothing we wear the washing of a person watching the body the clothing we put on that has meaning in itself but we take it to a higher level like we said before make it into a have level of of a roughness of spirituality the same way the food that we taste in shoppers we want the taste of the covered chapters to taste good naturally because the mitzvah i think shabbos but then we might take it to the next level if we're so particular about food we should use a particular mitzvah that we do also the commandments of hashem so we're still the arab shabbos getting ready for shabbos preparing the food and number six we filter fish that's ashkenazi kind of food that is very cherished by the ashkenaz community some inspired them it's a little funny but uh some spider will not eat the filter fish because i feel that's a beginner to sparden i once was inspired and i said uh he said my father well they're in the house with the fishermen i said would you eat this fighting food they said to me i said it tastes good i'll do anything i don't care what was fire to get nasty as long as it tastes good i don't care who what it is but i didn't get filled where does that come from get filtered fish why is that why do we eat them on shabbos why is that a jewish ashkenazic accustomed to you can filter fish all kinds of fish during the week unless it's left over it's very interesting you know why everything we eat the jewish people eat there's a reason for it if you remember we studied the 39 forbidden actions on shabbos two weeks ago we went through them planting and threshing and plowing and 39 one of them was boy rare boy rare remember with choosing the bad from the good that was during the process of making the bread remember there was 11 steps to making bread starting from the ploughing of the ground ending with the baking of the bread the 11 processes that are necessary to come to a glove for bread one of them is that after you turkey one of them was once you grind those kernels the hard kernels that are in the sheets of the of the of the grain take out those kernels like you said like popcorn before it's popped those are like the kernels inside those kernels as a white flower so you have to grind the kernels and then the flour and the and the peelings and the shells are all mixed together so now you have to sift out the fine flour from the kernels that were covering the fine flour so is one of the processes choosing taking away the colonel's the chapter not the chef is the the appeal of the the the the kernels themselves the the shell of the kernel from the flower that's called boire and boire tells us that the father you're not allowed in the shabbos to take choose the bad from the good you can't take out something bad from good so that means when you're eating fish and you have a bone in the fish you're not supposed to take the bone from the fish you're supposed to take fish from the bone that one for the fish so that's a hard thing to think to to to be careful with boiling choosing one of the hardest molokas and shabbos to keep to keep not not to stumble in it so the best way for that is to grind it up there's no bones you ground them to fish everything's ground up together there's no bones in the filter fish now therefore there's no problem of choosing bad from the good and that my friends is the reason why ashkenazim can filter fish on shabbos not you have to eat it it's not not a it's a mystery fishing can anyhow they gotta get fish but that's why many people choose to filter fish because it's free of the malacca of bayern i'm taking the bad from the good like i've said befly flies into your soda and that's what take the fly out of the soda you have to pour off the soda from the fly or you take some soda with the fly i can't go to all the laws right now but pirate choosing the bat from the good so that is you sell kadaishime jewish people are very holy people even the food that they eat is a reason for what they eat you think that's the only thing how about google we have actually nasty tonight you think it's cool cause it tastes good so why not i eat cocoa cocoa is a very holy kind of food you know why because kugel is made especially yeah my gosh i don't get cool during the week you know unless it's left over choose my cook on shabbos why because kugel has a crust on the top and the crust on the bottom and it's soft in the middle that is a remembrance of the man the jews in the 40 years that were there in the desert they ate mon what did they live with they had water from the stone in the susa miriam and they had one came to this day a new layer of this man godly bread that came down with the shamayim and it was kept fresh by a layer of dew on the bottom then the month came on top of the dew a layer of dew on top and that's how it was kept fresh till the jewish people came and collected it for their families so that is what google reminds us of a layer on top a layer on the bottom and the good stuff in the middle because some people like to lay better than some in the middle but that's besides the point but the main thing of the kugel is supposed to remind us of this great miracle that the jewish people had in the desert for 40 years when they went out of egypt till they got the land of israel they had to have food for the millions of people and god gave them this month the last of report every morning except one day of the week didn't come down it wasn't shabbos so when we eat coconut choppers we're supposed to think about not only how good it tastes it's also important we want it shops have to enjoy the food enjoyable food what you want to eat but we're supposed to think also take it to a higher level let's not just eat because it tastes good we're human beings we're not animals take it to a higher level it's kugel come on what did the man mean to the jewish people one met god takes care of them he took him into a midbourne desert with no food but he made sure that everybody's taken care of and that we think to ourselves and he takes care of us now also not only then everybody has to what to eat nobody's starving everybody has where to sleep where to live we're supposed to take it to higher level to think just like god took care of the jewish people in the in the in the midburg in the desert and gave the millions of people water to drink and food to eat that's he takes care of the whole world everybody gets food god takes care of everybody he gives them the food they're supposed to think about that shabbos shabbos is a time of contemplation of thinking our connection to god god's connection to us this is kugel zaikaluman number nine google's remnants of the month the jewish people had in the midpoint for all those for all those years and chant so i'm called khamen right common shelters that is international everybody eats children one way or another it's made with rice without the rice the beans with the potatoes you have yes father conchone and ashkenaz and lit fish and children see this everybody's but it's all the same now what is the purpose of each other this is international sometimes something special about children what is it what is why did you choose java's does it what because it tastes good that's one reason well somebody told me from these father countries that they uh it's a special that put grasshoppers into the jolt that's kosher grasshoppers that's it that uh you know such a grocery grasshopper is supposed to taste pretty good i don't know so they uh in those countries where they have the kabbalah with the grasshoppers but whatever it is it's made to enjoy but where does it come from what is chunked food that was cooked before shabbos and left on the fire a whole night and eaten the next day okay that's that's the challenge really is whether you put this in would you put that in but that's really what it is chant really means probably shalom it comes from shalom it stayed overnight it was started from the day before and it's cooking a whole night till the next day now what's the reason for that the reason is because it says in the torah lost you should not make a fire in all of your dwelling places in the day of shabbos now we know they had the rabbis who had the tradition the kabbalah from all the generations from moshe rabbenu tauruship alpe the terror that belpe explains the terroristic type if you don't have terms about you know what explanation of the torsion picks up you don't know what's going on you have to have to shuffle up there was those people very evil people who did not believe in the thirst about that they just said what's written down that's written down and now to be don't explanations for it that's that's it so they said well what's what what are the words say lo savarro h you should not have a fire in your possession your house probably says you can't have a fire there's four shops have to put on all the fires you have to live in the cold because of any fire burning and that's it and that's not the transportation of survivor ace corporation that means we should not create a fire if you have a fire burning from before there's nothing wrong with that you can have fire burning before you could warm yourself up with it you keep things on the fire you want to keep it warm for cooking you can't create a fire in choppers but if you make the fire from before you put this on the under the gas we fire or the electric fire whatever it is as burning on jabba's that's okay it can't create a fire travis so this was a fight that these wicked people try to give over this idea this false idea that you're not allowed to have a fire in your house at all so therefore in order for everybody to know the truth and not to ever have such a idea an idea that that's what it means so they started making sure that the hedgehog he put the food on the fire the night before it cooks the whole night overnight the fire in the house and he the next thing when it's still hot to show that we don't believe in what they're saying they're saying the wrong interpretation of what the terror is telling us they're saying don't keep a fire in your house no you could keep a fire and you could keep your food on the fire and we go ahead and just to show and prove it that we eat nice hot chocolate the next day to show the whole night that was under fire that's okay terry saying don't create a fire but not to allow to have a fire in the house so that's the reason why we've told so when you sit down to eat a festive sudan shabbos or the holidays there's always something behind it something jewish people even the food that we eat has a holiness to it there's a thought behind it something substantial behind it that that was supposed to think about well now it's already pretty late already we didn't get too far well i got about half through help next week it's a very interesting exciting ideas about shabbos so maybe i'll turn over to everybody you know if you want to ask something or comment on something thank you thank you thank you robert mintz what insights on shabbos we take it for granted the holy shabbos unbelievable everything the food everything we do every part of it that's why listen to be inspired by each one of the details i think it's very inspiring all the details and sharpness thank you so much questions on shabbos or any subject that you can dream of mazal please i just want to say about something about the children i came from morocco and in morocco they used to make outside of the house like oven from bricks and everybody used to take the children there and in shabbat everybody used to take his and to god has come to do the same thing the other people used to say oh my gosh look at the jewish people even food they make it so special and they go for shabbat now i have a question uh in shabbat we have sundar reviews accompanying the shabbos as it's going away so as close to shabbos as possible you're supposed to have amalgam before midnight until midnight which today is one o'clock in the morning about one o'clock since daylight saving time but in case you did not do it till then you could do it till the morning thank you um i think some people didn't catch that that there is a fourth it's almost considered part of shabbat the fourth mill the malevolent market king david's maybe you want to make a point of that to the yeah well i didn't really get to that i mean i didn't talk about the three diseases we're talking about yet but there's three there are three uh uh obligations eating shabbos three meals one is friday night one shot this morning and one before shabbos is over but then there's another dollar to the fourth sudah that is considered like we are sort of making a special taste from the sholum accompanying and saying goodbye to shabbos you make people when they're leaving you somebody that you like very much we make a party for them to show them that we like them very much and hate to see them go so we make a party to show our recognition our and our uh feeling for that person so shabbos that's leaving us well so that we feel bad make a special party if shabbat says he's leaving to show that we uh are very uh inspired by shabbos we hate to see these happens go but we liked it so much we went and showed our love for shabbos so we make a special party for shabbos it's called king david's uh yeah king david had a special love for that well first friday night is connected yeah and the morning is the third yacht and the fourth is that king david uh his sooner after shopping maybe next week by the way you mentioned mazal the moroccan minhag i think remembrance this far the time on him the yemenites have the messora of the kosher grasshoppers i think the yemenites the yemenites have tamanim have yet they still have that tradition which are kosher grasshoppers okay i'll tell you something about that i spoke to a very uh outstanding rabbi oliver a father rabbi and he said that his country remembers a little boy they were invaded by grasshoppers all the uh all their all the grain they know what to eat so they ate peppers so you said it tastes like the yolk of an egg it tastes like because remember to taste like the oak of an egg grasshopper so it's not so bad since you were talking about food i don't know if you plan on going in i've always heard that you're supposed to have buser and yayan and i guess also dug him fish meat wine and fish and i i i was i was learning the laws of of of some laws of shabbos and was talking a lot about fish i don't know if i got to the part with the meat but is fish um just as important as meat and wine or no no meat is a food that we should obligated to eat on shabbos and yamcha fish is only on shabbos and minerg mitzvah to eat fish but it's not a obligation fish has not the same importance as meat in the jewish menu meat is considered the expensive outstanding type of food that um that's that we have to have because corban is the sacrifice that we brought from meat and we can't bring it from fish so fish is a different thing people like it like any other thing you like on the shabbos anything they they enjoy you're supposed to eat whether you like dried fruit or nuts whatever you're supposed to have on the shabbos pleasure in shabbos but obligation to eat on shabbos is the meat fish is only a mitsubishi obligation but but fish is not on the same level is on the same level as nuts it's just something that's popular people like to eat more than that it has a certain significance to it fish that it's considered a uh during the flood the fish were not killed during the flood the fish had a special day they kept their mean they didn't integrate with the different types the animals integrated with each other and they intermingled each other like the people did the animals did the fish didn't the fish have a special uh we should say kadusha certain certain importance that fish never intermingled within with the non uh species therefore they were not destroyed during the big flood which all other species would destroy they have a special importance because of that so therefore they have this this special mitzvah mushroom please when you cook tuned for shabbos yes now you're not allowed to cook in shabbos right so what type of spoon the child or any food that's made before shabbos should be cooked at least half of the amount has to be cooked you mean you don't put on the on the fire right before shabbos it should be cooked at least half way they could eat it ali they attract if you really have to eat it you can eat it the way it is but you shouldn't put a single raw thing on the fire right before choppers it should be at least halfway cooked before um isaac a future leading rabbi isaac is it true is it true that you can't brush your teeth on shabbos uh no but it depends how you brush your teeth and i'll tell you how you're allowed to brush your teeth in shabbos the latter brushes if three things are kept number one that you don't make your teeth bleed gums if they have very sensitive gums and they bleed then you can't do it in chapters well they do it very softly but they shouldn't be done the weather because you're not allowed to make blood come out from yourself that's one of the malacca when malachi said in chapter 39 you can't make blood come out number two you cannot use toothpaste because toothpaste is mamakik we said by the skins that you take the flesh and you smooth it out the marker since it's a paste you know another flattened out of paste in shabbos and number three when you finish brushing your teeth you cannot wash the toothbrush you have to wait till after shabbos because you're not allowed to prepare on shabbos for after shabbos so you're watching it now for tomorrow that you can't do you have to leave it until aftershocks those three things that we have then you can wash your teeth wait safe tooth falls out or something you get money for it not a champion but it's gonna bleed in during shabbos it falls out it falls out you can't stop it falling out you didn't knock it out did you came up by itself so it bleeds by itself you can't do anything about it thank you isaac very good question you need we need good breath on shabbos code this we need our breath should be good there's a way to brush your teeth the right way on shabbos and mouthwash of course is permissible on shabbos listerine i mean mouthwash have good breath yeah beatrice you were discussing about the fish before and i was just wondering i know sephardic people that i know have a lot of um amulets or different things they put on the wall with fish in a certain position i was just wondering about that what significance it has the significance is that fish are creations that i in horror cannot affect them evil eye and fish are kind of considered different places in the torah since they're in the water you can't see them very much there are those are breezes in the world that einhorn cannot affect them so some people uh uh like to put pictures of fish around the sort of they feel it's help saving them from evil eye and so on like that so that's the type that's that's what's behind it and the other question i have is is just are you going to cover these other things next week i hope so no because otherwise i was going to ask you questions about them now because a lot of them i really want to know the answers yes hashem god gives a health and life i hope to finish it off next week and maybe add some things also we have devoted students here rabbi mentioned i can't wait till the next class you know in suspect tomorrow night after he had a class after the other class maybe up up ahead how's yes the question is uh this individual allows to open plastic in or like you said mouthwash bottle to break unscrew to unscrew the plastic bottle well to screw this way you can do it but if you're breaking the uh the uh what it called the seal that's a problem and that's a very big controversy among the rabbis today if you to open up different uh bottles and things like that by breaking the seal so uh it's better not to but it have to be very important then you could be able to do it with javascript i'm thinking a very simple way but it's very complicated but but it's um but we can it's very necessary a child needs some milk for a job or something like that you have to open up the container or something very important then it's you can rely on those opinions that it's permitted for best to if they if you can see you'll have a need for it on shop it's best to open it before shoppers open these things before shopping if you think you're going to need it yes thank you anatoly miriam please um it's in regards to the fish am i correct the fish got double blessing um as far as god bless the fish twice has a special blessing so maybe that's the strength of the fish the symbolize of the fish of such a thing oh okay that's what i was told that you heard yes that's what i was told that the fish got double was the animal that got double blessing by god i don't know does anybody hurt did anybody hear about that no i'll look into it and look into it but i'm not aware of it okay maybe maybe she's having to tell them ode on top of my own maybe it was on there all right miriam you have to do some homework there we want to know linda when you make kirishan shabbos is it preferable to use sweet wine or can you use any wine and can you use is grape juice okay same as a wine well number one it's a mitzvah to make unwind if you're able to not grape juice some people suffer afterwards from dizziness they don't feel good so for sure you shouldn't drink wine it doesn't mean you want to feel good in chapters so that's worthwhile to make on grape juice and unwind because i'm making that feel well but if a person is uh cursing me or more of a lighter wine and easier not so strong also it's meant to have red wine even though it could be made in any color but it's mixed like a red wine and of course the other thing you asked grape juice to wine and to sweet whatever you like better whatever wine that you would enjoy that's what you make and when you make kitties you have to take the wine from the you made keisha and share that with everybody at the table but you can add wine too right right now for everybody who here is kiddish to taste the wine but if you don't you also fulfilled your obligation if you don't taste it it's a misfit to taste it he thinks we have a lot of people there there's not enough wine in one cup right so we do is he pour wine into some of the kawaii so therefore there's always some of the wine for the original mixed in and therefore pass around to everybody thank you i mean it's good to test the food before shabbat yes for who for the mother that cooked or anyone well my son comes he comes i have to taste the food he said i gave it better be the one who cooked it because if everybody in the family's going to start more salt the less salt and pepper on this side you're going to end up but it's a mitzvah besides that to taste it for everybody to taste it some people get carried away it's called tasting it it takes some more it takes some more it takes you want enough food for shabbat some people taste it so much that uh so it's a taste that that's all but not to eat who knows what so but it's a myth to taste it two different reasons the reason the taste would make it better that the malabasa should taste it she's the one who makes the food another another thing i said the person should taste it in order to fill the melon thank you thank you thank you avi and who else that there's a concept that you shouldn't eat too close to uh shabbos so that you're hungry and you could appreciate the meal what time would that start would that be or is that a concept yes no no it's the time of course it's two things involved number one the person who knows that by eating before will kill his appetite so then if you stop eating whenever you will it's going to cause a lack of appetite it could be hazardous would be for god's sakes it's called the time of shabbos in order to be able to enjoy the food but we don't uh uh consider that the right thing to do because if you're fast and you come to shabbat you don't feel good you come to shaman supposed to feel good so therefore you don't fast they have shots but if a person knows that by what he's going to eat he's going to kill his appetite but the law prevents us from eating from katana means in the day if he had started six o'clock to six o'clock it would be 3 30 if the sun down would be six at six o'clock so from 3 30 on you shouldn't be eating a lot to eat a snack but not to eat a lot at that time so you could taste the food then oh yeah yeah we have young children and we typically eat dinner around six o'clock i was wondering if you're allowed to make hiduche and bring in shabbat early and if so how early well yes a lot of people bring in shabbos early but it should not be before plaga when i said before 3 30 to 6 o'clock when the shia is half of that time which will come out to be quarter to five you should not make kills before then plug in after that you can make kilos and bring shabbos in because it depends on how big the longer the day is i'm telling the day six till six the day starts at six and ends at six they have exactly 12 hours so then quarter to five but almost impossible they keep fluctuating the whole time so they have to make a difference that's going every week to see exactly when how to do that it's a very complicated thing when the day starts it starts with the sunrises i'm just giving an idea of of more or less what the time is but certainly allowed to make shabbos early yes episode and the calendars do tell us the certain accounts of the schools mostly have these calendars tell us when you're the earliest you can make the early shabbos if you check to shoot you know different schools have it they make that calculation and you're quite linda yes you're explaining why we do things i mean i know i do it i want to know why i do it why do i serve the fish to the filter fish and before i bring the meat to the table the fish has to go off the table with all those dishes and all the silverware well that's sort of stretching it but it comes from the fact that the gemara tells us it's not healthy to eat meat and fish together it's not healthy so therefore we don't fish together in that vein before we serve the next course which is a meat course usually either chicken soup or whatever it is you're supposed to eat a piece of color and drink something between in order to wash out your mouth from the fish so you don't want the fish meat to come together so you're saying make sure to take the fish off the table and and all the dishes and that's a little bit a little bit stretching it but that's that's the reason behind it people shouldn't come and also they see a piece of fish in the middle of the soup and they'll take the fish because we consider it not healthy to fish together it's a big problem sometimes that we have sometimes on some of the products that we buy that there's fish mixed into it anchovies they're having a big problem with some of the foods they put anchovy fish well linda did you say all the silverware goes off just what you ate to fish with the fork yeah right that's right that's right whatever touch the fish whatever sasha we use it different for the meat when the meat comes next that's where it comes from to be careful not to eat the fish together this is considered not healthy so since it's not healthy therefore you have to keep it it's not just a custom but the word says it's not healthy we have to abide by it what well if it depends if you eat with a fork and sometimes you might tell you what's your hand so then you have to wash your hands what what it's it's not because it's not healthy so therefore yes um about the fish we're supposed to eat we're not supposed to separate fish from the bones what about the meat let's say if the bones from the fish fish bones from the yeah what about the meat should we bring meat boneless meat let's say if it's a steak should we bring to the table and cook meat without bones or uh you have to be careful not to make boiler you want to eat it but you have to uh by me it's one more question my daughter she always asked for shabbat she want me to braid her hair for uh for the show do am i allowed to make braids let's say her her hair i promise i'm gonna ask that question no you need to make every shabbat will have argument for that if you make writing here the girls have long hair they want to braid it on shabbos on shop on shabbos when she goes to show if it's done in a sloppy way you can do it if you do a good job you can't do it so sloppy braid is okay too professional not okay that's tell your daughter this coming showers i remember someone said to me that you can't open a bottle on shabbos because it may become a vessel that you pour into something like that that you're creating a yeah since it's a seal on it and it can't be used by breaking the seal you'll be able to use that and make it to a vessel that's the reason for it so since now you're able to use it you couldn't use it till now because it was sealed so now by breaking the seal you are causing it to be able to be used as a vessel to pour in and out from it all right maybe i'm therefore for instance if you have something that you're not going to use afterwards if you're the type of let's say you have a small bag of potato chips in your great and you and you tear it open you're not going to use that anymore you just finish it to throw into the garbage it's a big bag like that tear it open that's a problem because you're going to keep the potential being stored there afterwards but something or a uh a bottle a carton bottle that if you destroy it you cut down the slash it down and open it that way you can't use it anymore it's not making a vessel but if you open it from the top and do it such a way that it's a problem bring it to a vessel okay i i don't want to carry this too far but the idea of making it a vessel it's a vessel to begin with and that's why the water can't use it it's not a vessel you can't use it it's sealed oh it's nothing it's not usable you're making a use of it you can't pour it in and out because it's sealed yes but these are the the challenges of sharpies when it takes a little slight to use you a little to make it exciting things about shopping exciting shabbos is exciting helen right helen marion marion i understand that if you have a birthday cake you have to cut around the letter why is that not allowed to cut a letter am i right well one of the 39 forbidden activities is mike is erasing letters writing is unforbidden uh erasing is forbidden so if you're cutting the letters so you're raising those you can't use like you're destroying the letters that we've written but it's not such a simple thing if the letters are edible like it's made out of sugar or whatever it might mean different things that you and they said you're allowed to cut those type of lettuce that you get that are edible because it's only made to to cut to destroy yourself if you have letters that were made to to stay you can't destroy them but the letters that were made in such a way that they're edible you just heat them up it's not considered considered storing letters thank you mary thank you any other questions endorphy i feel bad but i want to ask again don't feel bad feel good i don't know how to do it or what to do but i heard that there is something that you can kosher the wine wine that you make a baja on it and you didn't drink it and you want to use it again on the wine he didn't drink it so what's the problem why can't you drink a little bit and you have left over a lot of wine okay yeah what you're talking about is the following that if you drink from a coast of wine you cannot make kiddush on that afterwards you can send something to rank from it so therefore it calls pogo because people drink it from it it makes it sort of not so geshmaq anymore people drinking from it but if you take wine that was not drunk from and pour it into it so that's maksha the wine that's in the coast and therefore you can make kinder sharma yeah then you can make kinder shot of course you have to coast has to be uh washed out you can't visit drink from the coat the wine line a drink from but the coats have to be washed out since i've drank from the coast before my kids you have to wash out the coast but the wine becomes kosher by pouring in from the wine that was not touching the bottle into that into that wine we're talking kosher for kids dewine always is kosher because very well rabbi match we have do we have the best audience with the best questions in the entire tri-state area forget staten island we knock them all the best we have the best oh fantastic everyone thank you so much for coming see you next tuesday night of a mince's final clears for the season