Hallel on Rosh Chodesh by Rabbi Dr. Ahron Adler

okay as usual our shum this year are dedicated in the memory of alisheva Sima bman this is going to be the swansong shear for this uh season uh the office tells me that next Monday there wouldn't have been a Shear anyway because the office wouldn't have been the place wouldn't be open on ER Tish but um as it was I alerted the office that next Monday I'm out of Yim anyway so we will not commence shim until September and it's not sure yet if is the first SE week or second week it in all likelihood it's going to be Wednesday and I don't even have the exact time yet there's a meeting of the staff this afternoon so I'm sure this will be well publicized into tet tidbits in the coming weeks um we're talking about uh having the sh at least my shum in the rabbi wine sh the bit Kess on rovin close to the corner of Ken kayet in ravia and there will be Regional shim in Baka in the rabbi finlin Nim sh and the sh of shagon in shagon sh of Arona there'll be a Shear in rote and the headquarters of the administration will be in harim I don't know if they're going to be shim there but I know that's going to be the headquarters of the administrative side of the OU this move is taking place within the month um and therefore this Center is going to be officially closed already for activities starting next week um I have um very good memories here in in this building although this was not my first station of the OU shim the OU used to be in ROV Strauss number 20 yeah upstairs from where the cipher Hofer was they moved across the Street um in later years but um that's where the um the initial uh Center took place our good friend Phil trnovski ran the programming and he did it and he was the one who initiated the Torah tidbits which came out as a page a parish a page and now it became a full-blown booklet and you can't make shabas without the Torah tidbits and the you know you look all over high and low and it's there it's online for those who can't get it uh you know was a the hard copy what they call the printed the printed copy um the um there was an interim where RAB gold Z and just a week and a half ago we had the ascara right here RAB gold started a um funded Yeshiva or program for adult education in memory of Abraham silver from Toronto an acquaintance of his from Toronto and that took place just a block and a half away at the um wo Center but then in a short time afterwards that program merged with the OU started in it even started in HOV good thank you for correcting me and uh it came to the center of town and then moved right two blocks away to the center and um and I and I was part of the package and uh but the truth is this is probably the longest running thing that I'm doing in Israel since our alah 45 years ago and it's almost 40 years that I'm teaching at the Israel Center in three different locations now um and now coming the the new one will be the fourth um it's U I'm very happy to do this I can even tell you the years that we lived in Beva so those were the years that I was at ban doing my doctorate and I made a triangular trip I had to go to Ramadan once a week and I was teaching in the isiv and Bersa I took the bus after my teaching at 1:00 to Beva to give a class at 3:00 and and and then I took a bus toim and I gave the shear onov Strauss and then I took the late bus back to Bev it was a triangular trip and I kept it up and I was very very happy to have that opportunity to continue the shum here at the U Center um yeah do you know speak I'm not sure yet I know until theim I'll do the ma of R but that I do every year and and we never finished the moer so don't worry so even if you here 20 years ago I promise you in there'll be something new okay we'll find something new in the back of the book the um the the um I'm just reminded by what rabud Lei wrote and we're going to read it in a week and a half's Time unless has plans for us that the is going to become a yum and Hali and it can happen but in the unforeseen possibility that it's going to be Tish of and it's going to be a fast day and we will say the kote so one of the most moving of theot is they've made a song out of it people know that song um and here you see rabi somewhat of a of of a science fiction novelist because not not no less than HG Wells or Jules Vern where he talks about if somebody would just give me wings and you can see people on understand why this line was very close to my heart somebody if they would give me wings uh he would be able to fly from spot to spot in ER Israel and what rabud Lei was doing was uh plotting out a tourist map of er Israel so if you have a tourist map of er Israel depends what organization gave you the map and you'll see what's being highlighted so if it's a general tourist map they're going to highlight hotels and beaches and stuff like places of entertainment but and Recreation but if it's a map that's given out bya women you're going to have highlighted all the projects of AA if it's going to be sh have if it's going to be some B par it's gonna have kikim all over the all over the place my father-in-law he plotted out a map here inim of all the public bathrooms and uh and and raided them and I gave it a name to that map was called holy John and the so everybody with their Maps everybody their Maps so what kind of a map did R rabi have in store for visiting ER Israel he believed that every time a navi a prophet received any type of divine transmission it left an Afterglow a spiritual Halo at that place and if you had antennas finally tuned you can pick up a signal or two from that from that uh place and therefore this is where he wanted to go y heard something here I want to be here y heard something here I want to be here that's what he wanted to do and therefore he says first he says who somebody should allow me to float sh is like a ship I'd be able to navigate H to go to those places that Kosh revealed himself to his Nim To His prophets he's sitting in Spain and he knows he's far away and the boat might not be good enough Give Me Wings that I can go far distance I'd love love to come to to those um who who who basically would a chosen ones uh for for for for hearing the words of a and these lines in in in the ri actually suggested to me two ideas one was an explanation of and that was and some of you may have heard this uh idea from me the the Mish says the says that if if somebody had a miracle done to him on a private level you feel that bailed you out and intervened to get you out of a serious complicated uh life-threatening situation you go back to that place you have to make a braa God made perform the miracle for me and the says you can say it for your forefathers also if it was done for your father or grandfather and there are people just on my last trip to Poland somebody made that in the name of a grandparent that who a parent or grandparent who survived and believed that was was holding the person's hand and felt that that's how he or she survived and um there was a room for the for the and the question that I raised was all of the that we say for is has to do with time not with place so why don't we take the target date the person felt that ones a a nest was done for him so say the annually on that would be a little bit more appropriate why I believe the answer stems from what R just wrote here that if indeed's presence touches down momentarily on this world to assist you then something at that place will ultimately remain forever as the Raam understood the Kad against the Kad is that could be abolished the kadim could never be abolished because it was a result of the presence of God and the presence of God is not going to be eliminated neither the Babylonians nor the Romans or anybody else any other the Conqueror of that's a quote from the r this sanctity is never can never be repealed and and therefore the this presence of a in a place where he intervened for a human being that will remain forever and therefore the is in this place yeah so is a nickname of that is distant that relates to saw his in really technically but on the border of you're not going to get at all but he got a weak signal on the border harar it says but um so that's what the mom really means other explanations to the mum there but it's good try but so so I having said all this I believe and this is something very very personal um thean the student the prime student of the V so he writes the book NE and one of his thesis in the is that after the period of Prophecy what remains basically is total commitment to Torah total commitment so there's commitment to Torah and this total commitment to Tor there's very very big difference um a person who to Tora is his profession now that's that has been totally eroded in our situation now where anybody doesn't go to the Yi is called Tor that's not what kazal meant when they said it and the proof is it was said only about three of the of the of the the and there were prly others who were as they weren't called because they worked most of the had work had professions imagine rashash who was also a shoe maker do you ever see that anywhere you know they they they they work they actually so but there were three one was it says because of that he never married because of that he never married he was married to Torah he just couldn't leave Torah it's tragic I must say this is you know sometimes it was a real problem but it was said about ra it was said just about I think it was three that's it no more than that and what does that mean so the said in the H for his uncle who was known as who died here in in 1959 there was AR he said there two types of commitments to Tor one is to be married to Tor to Tor and one is to be engaged to Tor Ausin says most of us that is 99.999% it's aisin what Arison what's engagement engagement fine you found the the girl the girl found the guy they're not living together they you know they go home they meet they come together little shabas meals This and That B said until the wedding it's engagement time and that's it so we're engaged with Torah and that is you have a Shear you know you come at 9:15 you learn for an hour you stay for a second Shear fine but then you go out you do your business you eat lunch and and there other things to do in life which are legitimate they're not a virys they're not sins they're not transgressions in any way or manner but that's who we are and that's why asked everybody after 120 years did you have a Torah schedule is not going to ask you how many pages of gamar you finished that's not relevant the question is did you have a schedule did you have a schedule in your life that was locked if you say once a week I heard okay at least it's that you have to say something you know once a year I went to I heard you have to have an answer pre prepared for that question what was my torah's schedule they so so that means that people are engaged with t and have a beautiful beautiful understanding of the don't read it buta means engaged so most people are are connected to Tor on that level of being engaged to Tor but there are very very few very few who the it's upgraded toim where where they they they know nothing else but of course that's how he the eulogized his uncle in terms of you know being in that category where he paraphrased M what it says about mhu he said that he he put him in a different category that's the way the understood his uncle which was fair game for somebody who was a nephew yeah does that go for women also for sure for sure so the R's big big um contribution to the understanding of why women should study Torah is that while in the context of the Mitzvah of T there are not I wouldn't call it an exemption but limitation with regard to the obligation of women to study Tor but in the framework ofm love of God the rambam was not a romanticist he didn't believe he supposed to start throwing kisses to God or kiss the muza or kiss the Tyra or kiss the kotel he wasn't into that at all he believed that is intellectual those are words of R the end of the love of God is directly proportional to your understanding of God and that is accomplished by Torah study and then he goes on to spell it out men women and children every body everybody there's nobody exempt from the Mitzvah of and therefore in the framework of the Mitzvah of women are involved in t do we have examples in where you're you're obligated on multiple levels the answer is yes it's all sheer I give all she on on topics where um when you say in the morning and daving so there's a fulfillment of the MIT ofma there's also fulfillment of Torah study by reading theim ofma see get two for the price of one so much so that if you forgot to say or didn't have time to say the in the morning and the of there's a fallback there's a bet a second chance second opportunity to get that and so on it's there so you can use the as a as a and immediately afterwards you're saying so you do have examples where sometimes you're obligated on different levels and and uh and thear says that you should not enter into the the the Hall of prayer but through the words of Tor and we fulfill this by using the Mitzvah so we piggybacking on a Mitzvah that's totally independent from daving by part of why is it part of the it's part of because we have to enter into from Tora so why not use it already so we're using a Mitzvah that that has nothing to do with by the way but we're using it in the context of the Sid for another purpose so we have this sometimes so here the r believed that every time a person studies Tor there's a double fulfillment one is and one is with regard to women so I've said here more often than not 90% of the mitv of the T are obligatory to women 90% and everybody agrees that in order to perform a Mitzvah you have to study about the Mitzvah and therefore there's enough Torah to go around for all the women to study about 90% of the mitzvot that they wouldn't be bored and say I ran out of material nobody's going to run out of material because uh there's nothing but even if you figure you going to do something now and study a piece of T that's not relevant for anybody leprosy neat so whether it's men or women it's in the context of because you every sing mitvah there's something that connects you with comes Froman the prime student of the V and he says those who are on that highest level what the r defined as married to Tor not just engaged to Tor T they are the highest level the highest pedestal of connectivity toh possible today in in in light of the fact we don't have prophecy so we don't have prophecy and the truth is the one who beat him to the punch was Mali the who we read his on right before p and it says remember and then it says is going to come before this led to the whole understanding that Ali is going to appearo prior to the coming M so the ramam tells us in the very end of his book m he says there are some who believe that prior to the coming of Mia will be you know what it means that means there are some that don't think that then he says nobody knows what's going to happen till it happens so basically be patient sit back and relax be patient we'll see what happens so how does the ra understand the it's almost it almost sounds like the raham is part of those who didn't believe that it it's necessarily has to happen how do you understand the it means the restoration of Prophecy where there was a name dropping just like in is it g to be D it's G to be somebody from the descendants of D referring to Mia so it's not D the person fine so so there's name dropping sometimes to illustrate so is name dropping there'll be restoration of Prophecy but until the day of restoration of Prophecy what's left that's what the Mal says and said that this is really the U the the the the the important connection to it's full-time uh Tor now I'm the last in the world to even suggest that I'm up there with very far very very let the record stand very very very far away but gave me a he gave me a very very very very bigot not only to be married to my wife that's big big big big but um second big bigest is to be able to spread Tor in different locations throughout the world that's big but what comes along with the ride is I have a sensation of something that's there when I pass a building that I gave a share there once I sense it and this is what R is saying there's something that remains we're driving and and then passing somewhere and I said see that army base there I gave a share there once and and and and I feel it and I feel it it's something that uh that I'm very connected to and if it's a place that I had a of being a Rob for 20 years or 14 years whatever it may be so obviously it's very pronounced for me if a place like the Israel center it's very very pronounced for me and uh and therefore this is not a simple matter just to part and say zun be well you know it's um you know I'm not Mr emotion but nevertheless uh there's um there there is it's there's there's a certain no the second home is the airport let's let's byi all right right okay now today's rodes that was the intro okay today is rodes and um on the first side of the page of andal so just to review in literally in a micro second of what we did three four weeks ago when we used this page are sentences sentences were not do not have to be said with a minion at all sentences are the minimum fulfillment of the Mitzvah of T if you say a half you're not in fulfillment of the Mitzvah you have to say at least a full in the world of the written law that is it's part of you want to say tillum finish the pasuk don't stop in the middle of a pasuk fine so the uh so you have C Pas didn't give us the period at the end we don't stop at that point that's what led the VIN to object to the general custom of reading the where we do it three times a year to read it according to the lowercase tamim TR because it breaks theer de BR into suim I think 13 if not mistaken as opposed to the Tom Elon the uppercase trop that breaks theer into Ten Commandments which is very different the breakdown is different so while you understand that there are thing called Ten Commandments but theim breakdown is different and if it's cre T it should be done in accordance with Tor mosts don't do that the didn't make it all over the world in it had a higher chance because of the students of the V who came 250 years ago and some have a compromise and that is on sh to read it like ten commandments and on the to read it in the lower case as if it was just regular Pim and you have more than 10im in that kind of reading so you have this is not something you need a minion and that's why by the North African communities and so on there's no forra there's a gentleman who sits on the side he just reads it out loud he's what I call a pay Setter just everybody should be at the at Bor at the same time that's all and that's why even in ashkanazi settings you can have under B Mitzvah boy be quote unquote the for for forra and I'll stick my neck out and some hyper liberal minum here inim that may have a Lady lead the don't ask me if it's the right thing to do or wrong thing I just said that as a stark fact but I'm saying it because there's no minion concept of ofra as opposed to Hal because starts with the Kadesh before bar that's what that's where you need a Minion for the kades before bar in the morning that's when starts and is the saying of together with a minion so that's why you have to make sure you start with everybody that's what is supposed to bring everybody together to to St mon together Hal is connected to how do I know Hal is connected to because there's no Kadesh between the end of the the end of and the saying of kades if Hal would be separated we would have said a Kadesh who would have said a Kadesh how do we know that that we say during the year except for those days that we don't say and if you're half the year you don't say it because there must be some rebes y side of something the um because there's no Kadesh between and and where is the Kadesh after d so that's an indicator if something goes together or does not go together I mean so much so when our re ofic was struggling literally struggling with the issue of and the struggle wasn't his understanding his deep understanding of's ways in creating the state of Israel he he articulated it often enough he was a halis that had problems with in introducing new things into the Sid so that was the issue spoke about this in length about the R's opinion and that's why he would suggest that and then get the in afterwards and then it becomes like reading tillum basically not so much saying Hala he was more comfortable with that kind but that's what he said once and then another time he said something else and as I told people the r said a thousand things about yut and and they're all true because everybody who heard something from the r I'm not doubting one bit they heard it but what I printed in my book on the conversation of the RV was uh something that the RV actually wrote to in to a letter as a chuva as a responsum very very rare responsum to the Commission of the RCA 1950 how should the Rabin in America deal with Y and the answer was they said and they said now that phrase is used in the gamar when sometimes the made a restriction so they can also back off on the Restriction under certain circumstances because they made the Restriction so they can say that it's now permissible here and there that's how it's used now I didn't understand what this was written to in a it was preserved in a letter in the appendix of the doal dissertation of by Louis Bernstein from who was Rabbi in wiip park um in Queens and and a prophet he taught Jewish history at the Yu and I heard I had him also as a teacher for something and for Hebrew Hebrew language so um so he so I asked the what do he meant by heu and he said very simply he says heyu did I make up y they did they did it was the r and therefore heu they'll say what to do and the answer to the raban to the RCA the rabinal Council of America was do what the Chief rabut says to do that's all that was became the official position of the r and the RCA for Y which was by the way on y to say Hal after after before kades before Kadesh but without a and after after the sixth day war to say Hal with and that's what they did in the M School uh for years until they forgot the the r passed away and people started forgetting what the r said and U okay that's a different par but um let's take a look at the what happens with rodes on the first start of the page but towards the bottom the r believe that Hal is always called P chapters and the reason is it has nothing to do with Pim it has to do with a type of and choir but the choir the chorus is everybody where people didn't say the whole Hal the kazin said PUK by PUK and the people responded and the only question is what was the response according to one the response was Hallelujah and I mentioned this just a few weeks ago when we started this page how many times would there be huah if this Min would still be in for force today would be a nice round number 123 so what's 123 today's R it's the yard site of Arona Kain who lived till 123 so what and the r explained because the mishna says in that the reading of Hal was the way they read it in at the yamu so how was it done at the yamu read the not everybody what do you think he handed out handouts how in the world do the people know what to say and then continues and then everybody strikes up continues the next and everybody pipes up and that's what happens by the lady Side by Miriam where she's mentioned as and and it says and they also they had all kinds of tambourines and some say to drown out the Kisha because they s of that some say that it was done to drown out the Kisha some say it was done to keep the beat or whatever and people have asked why does it say and not and some have actually suggested they didn't hear from the other side they didn't catch it they thought they heard the word shiru they heard a Shir and you know shiru that's what they said okay Bes it could be it could be I'm not ruling that out some have given explanations to what the difference between said and but how did Amel know that they're supposed to respond so the second in command who is he wasn't yet at the time he told people all right let's go so he was the one who led the response to the so the Mish says was like the read is like they read so in honor of Aon who led the response to the to the sounding off of mhu we would respond 123 times corresponding to the years of in the so that's not our today so then there's another and that the says every line of each chapter so you have chapters so um lanu is not a new chapter it that I'm sorry lanu is a new chapter but umu is not a new chapter when we say Hal somewhat truncated it we chop a paric in half we to chop two chapters in half and read the second half of that peric so that's a chapter in itself that's so thein said the next sign line also and everybody piped up they said the first line after the said each line the people read the first line of that chapter now we have a remnant of that Min by it's exactly what we do the says each line now of course you may hear people Mumble under their breath you know right they get the next line in because they think they get more brownie points you know if they said more but that's not the Min the Min is just to respond which is a vestigial organ it's a remnant of the minhag of what the ram the ramam then goes on to say and there are various men argum and saying Hal and you know I think this is the way it should be done he gives his preferred option and it's one great example with the ram in the Mish and I have a chapter about this in my book on the rambam that the ram tried to close the door on every single and not make you not have you think about other possibilities but when it came to minhag he was hyper sensitive to the fact that Minag even though it's a lower order of T than pure nevertheless psychologically people are locked into Min because minhag is ego Minag is family Minag is my location so don't mess with my minhag and the Raam knew that and therefore he many times allowed flexibility in Minag and he said I okay I mean just yesterday we heard a share from at the they talked about and the ra said says that uh that there was a minut to say every day interestingly after we say it before just in the same place where we add for the 10 days from so there's like a pause in the action there after we throw in the ra said they threw in at that point and then he says and others threw inuu and others had both and his bottom line is no he doesn't even take sides on that you know don't whatever they do is all you knowre you're also right you know said that you're right you're right you're right okay so so the raham says this with regard to Hal they're all right and many men hug him with regard to Hal but let's take a look at the last lines of the first page where it's Source number eight but it's the last paragraph where it says and here the ram says the places that do two days y the places that do two days y you didn't get a page there should be there's there's little Pages there get get a page get a page yeah yeah the bottom of the first side the places we give two days so you finish you complete the Hal it's complete Hal and and those are eight days of of sukka eight days of Kaneka the first day of PES and one day of shab that we have um so there's your 21 days I'm sorry no no no that's 18 days 18 days but if there sh add three add three days so then you're going to have 21 days fine and and he he spells it out just in case you can't make the calculation yourself nine days of that is the second day of which we call two days of the first day of P two days of fine those are the days we complete the and parenthetically according to the r the that's his now say and there are some that have a compromise when you have the 18 days of completing or 21 days in you say but when we say Hal fragmented likees and the remaining days of P you say because you're not being by the way this created an idiomatic expression in modern day Hebrew means you shower him with praise you you just can't stop you're effervescent about praising a person it's like finishing that means that means it just you know it's just just can't get it all can't get it out so much it's a beautiful phrase it comes from the of this that don't say never say it never say it say both when we complete the as well as when we say Hal fragmented the r says there's only one why because when it's fragmented there's no bra and that's what he's going to say now he says he says I'm sorry like today it's a custom it's not a this is only in public company only in a minion therefore we read it segmented we'll see what the sources where this comes from we don't make a says the why we don't make a on a custom and if you're home on couldn't make it don't quote me wrong on this one now the ram says you don't say Hal at all it's only a custom and then he says if you began saying at home so started already so go right ahead it's t so what's the difference but don't make a so to the other days of aside from the first day you read it segmented just like the others with AB this is the Ram's opinion ashim argue on this vehemently so what's not on your page you can turn the page over and and then pay attention to what I'm going to read by heart we'll get back to the page in the end of says the following RAV RAV is the am the beginning of the Babylonian amim he is from ER Isel it's not on the page he is from ER Israel he's a student of from and then leaves for B and he becomes the great great personality who's the kickoff of the talmud he gets to b r r arrives in B comes to sh ones and he almost gets a heart attack says he sees that they're reading Hal ones nobody reades in is he thought got to stop him mistake mistake mistake he thought I got to stop this when he saw they were skipping Amari said to himself apparently must be their the Babylonian custom all right let it go let it go have a custom it's a bubble it's a g Min you know we never heard of this in Earth Israel now just when do we start skipping we start skipping in the third chapter of Hal right the first chapter is the man is palpating and he's sitting I gotta stop this before it's getting too far this getting out of hand and all of a sudden they don't sayu it jumps to wow okay so it's a custom and then they see the chapter afterwards they also they they skip that part of that chapter and just continue that's what you must be from the Raben people probably right you must be a Raben time person right so you may have learned the tosot in um in Aran you may have learned that right the Malik taught it to you he taught the ladies too that told me that Malik taught the women call okay so the the forgetting of Tor was equality everybody forgot the same way asked the same question he says one second why didn't he pipe up when they said the Braha so obviously they didn't say the BR they didn't say the braa That's What suggests that apparently they didn't say the Braha and Rashi was of the opinion that there's no bra ones because that's how he understood the G because if there would have been a br he wouldn't have piped up it wouldn't have calmed down when they skipped because that's already you know if this sanges which an hour the guy would have gotten shot you know ones to sing but the the the uh now what about the BR so it seems that there was no BR but then ra says no no no no no no it could be he didn't hear the braa could be he didn't hear it I don't know whatever came in late could be came late that's you said came late Mr BR he says what are they doing here because he came for the second minion so he came to put on and start for the first minion early he was early for the first minion right good good good good good so so there RAB actually says that we do say Aba I'm going to read it from where says the authors of the to this ra and his colleagues afterwards they say that we do say on certain minim and um it goes on to explain that you can say AA on reading of even if it's not in the context of something that's obligatory and the proof is many of us here in shim will have on P the reading of root and KET respectively from a from a Milla and the is going to say the same we make by now that's a Mitzvah the others that's a it's nobody said it's not mentioned in the mishna of the gar at all there's a addendum to the it's called and it's part of the early and they suggested this of the read of the Millis and there's a and the is going to sayu it's going to and the vill going said that's the way to go and that's why here in we read it with a with a with a Milla and we make the so if you can make a on that kind of a why can't you make a on Hal it's just but you're saying it as an upgrade you're not saying it as tillum you've upgraded it to a Hal you're calling it Hal so it can be with AA as well the rid RAB Abraham B David he um he didn't like this the ramb I'm going to read the rambam that I don't have that I do have a page yeah I do have a page on the second side where it's Source number 10 no not on this page the ra actually said no it's not on the page anything that's of a custom even if the prophet instituted it like taking so we take an nobody Mak a on that That's a classic Min and so on so he says certainly A Min of that the instituted not the prophets like the reading of and then from South France the r who argues on the rambam often enough he says he tries to explain why we do say ones why we do say it it's interesting that he thought that maybe for the remaining days of PES you shouldn't say a that becomes a whole sheer in itself that the the complicated the difference between why we say half Hal on the PES the rest of the days and why in rodes but rodes is categorically a and there's a big big here in the so everybody will do like they do the will say a and and the won't say and just in case you were worried that Ram tells us and he warns us carefully in the laws of to be careful about not saying a the tells us it's a Biblical violation one of their Ten Commandments not to say God's name in vain and therefore if you're not sure if you should say AA or not don't say it do the Mitzvah without the BR that's you're not sure you can always do the Mitzvah nobody's going to get punished for doing the Mitzvah even if he or she wasn't obligated but the if you're not sure 100% don't say the so R was worried about all the ashm that after 120 years the is going to come to and is going to whip out how many times you saides that you know I have the r sitting right here in geden and he's telling me no BR so um what you going do R calmed the all down he said there's a principle in wherever there's a Min if they accustomed to say a nobody is going to be held accountable for a in vain now I can sleep comfortably and um and and and it's an important principle by the way very important principle and where is it derived from the Y Shen y Shen y Shen is no longer a doubt everybody knows that today is rodes absolutely if you listen carefully to the m right there'll be a new moon right the m v remember the song yeah there was a nice song about the M simor ROV I just recently looked it up the um the mid was at 1 in the morning last night were you up for it no the Yankees won already so there was no need to right the the the uh was 1 in the morning and a few a few minutes afterwards and a few afterwards and so on which means now it'ses last night wasn't roses yet yet the gab said that's a sheer in itself the r gave a unbelievable share to explain what the night of rashes is all about why we say but rashes technically would have started at 1 in the morning with the sight visual sighting of the moon but doesn't work like that today today it's a calendar thing it's a calendar thing and today ises so today who needs the second day of yam so we see it as a punishment for those who haven't come in alah they get the second day yam and that's it this year rash we're going to get the three days Thursday Friday chabas but they're going to get it three times for sukus and for which means they'll have to do three times on Wednesday you know because of it's It's a complicated life in and especially if it's on a weekday and then you have to take it off for vacation day NE see here in Israel nobody works anyway any the whole year so it's not an issue not an issue you know but um nobody works that's for sure not so [Music] yeah at the S everybody says Hal s the question is whether it say Hal during my on the night of PES but everybody has Hal and the S that's a special of Hal and SED night that we'll do before you don't nobody says a br in the middle of the Seder nobody says a in the middle of seder there's a at the end of Hal that we say concluding the Seder with Hal right but that's a different Hal it's the same text but it's a different Hal fine the um er I say where was I Rifka is not here right so I said that we we are in we we now are on 100% but y Shi there'd be no need to have y at all in because we know exactly when rashes is We Know It This was instituted when they didn't know in B when they made rodes in because CNN wasn't working that day so it didn't have communication but now we do have communic now we have calendars it all works with the calendar so so why says this this is our custom so it became a different category of why we keep on the sheni and then came all kinds of interesting interesting philosophical reasons like the author of The Tanya from leadi found of kabad he said that erel is a sponge that's saturated with kadha and it can only handle 24 hours of yam but is that dried out sponge and you know a dried out sponge can saturate more it can take 48 Hours of kadha so he didn't say it of it's that it takes 48 Hours of kadha he said itai as a that it's a that it's it's missing missing a lot that's absent of delinquent of kadha and so and so on so so you see that we do make on so thear says but there look at all these but because of said we should say the says something interesting that if they would have instituted Y sheni without the requisite like on SED night you know how many BR you have on SED night so many multiple on S night and on the second night of P you make all those BR out you say all those BR out so we know that it's not y we know it's the 16th and not the 15th of Nissan so [Music] says if we would have instituted it without people would not have taken it seriously it would have been with with time it would have been dropped they would have said not it's not serious we in Hebrew we say it's not serious not serious and then in order to maintain it said you know what let's keep it with the when you keep with the and by the way there were people who used that 1948 with regard to the question of yes not those who argued that we should have a said that if we do it without a less people are going to keep take it seriously that if we do it with a DA people are going to make it more serious and the other side said who are we to make new institutions and therefore you know to say tillum anybody can say tillum but to do it with a that's problematic but somehow after The Six Day War people the ranim of the r came around ra Goran had an opinion on this as well so um it became a different story but this was all an outgrowth of of of the question of yam sheni and and so on I'll just tell you that last Friday was the 14th yard site of our great rashal of of and um when we were back 52 years ago can't believe it that's when I came to Israel to study in the Yeshiva so in those days nobody went back to for PES it just was unheard of now not everybody had family to go to yet in 1973 so the rash both invited we were s called 19 guys at the time so they invited everybody to come to their s you split up whatever so some of the guys Ina naturally gravitated to some naturally gravitated and I was caught in the web because I could have gone to either one I just felt I could have gone to either one but raal tapped me on the shoulder a few days before PES and he says he says you're coming to me says why because by Rin they're gon to talk Tyra and talk Tyra and talk Tyra and talk Tyra he's gonna look at his watch going to see it's 15 minutes before and they didn't eat yet and he's going to gobble up the mat and the morrow and the and the a meal you're not getting there you come to my house at 10:30 we stop talking and we start eating and then anybody wants to talk we'll say what they want you know you think this is just ra mayin rarin son I heard him in Matan a few years ago and he said publicly before I got after I got married I discovered that seder Knight came with a meal he said it publicly and I went over and him I gave a big cuz I thought raal was just you know driving me but it wasn't it was it was real it was real so rabal okay so two of the guys two of the guys who were by raal raal say there were 50 people around the table he had a lot of people in the neighborhood who didn't have starim and um all kinds of loose Nish shote he brought into the S there and he was really good he he had a five ring circus day talking to everybody he was very talented way he ran the Seder so two of the guys were we were all from but we had the that were keeping either one day or what they call one and a half not to on the second day but certainly not to have a second s but two of the guys came equipped with aack from their rabbis in America that they have to keep two days yam full with a seconder the they asked the Revit if she can make a second Sader for them I mean that's called soal was such sikim they said they'll do it but raal asked me to come with my guitar why cuz he said that RAF cuk was asked by the hotels in yam if they can have a second s of a tourists and he said rauk was of the opinion that you're not allowed to have any public display of Y of sheni you're not allow to have a y sh minion because that's by definition public if it's a minion certainly not a Seder in a hotel and the only way you could that hotel said they have to do it business you have to do it so he said the only way you can do it is you have a live orchestra playing music to show that it's just a model Sader that's it Ral said you come with your guitar you're going to play music the whole time so they'll all understand that this is a model Sader okay and I did it but the big was the guys were making the bra so makes a where he thinks he should be making a you think you should answer bra's response was another BR in vain another br in vain that's like taking the knife and wow digging it in wow that was that was really really something time why they do so they do it because we don't have the halakic apparatus to change it I I have a list already of things that I'm going to recommend to the reconstituted Sanhedrin what they should be doing the first is dump yum of sheni it's one of the things that they have to do second thing is dump the restriction on medication on Shabbat the restriction on medication Shabbat had to do with grinding herbs which nobody's grinding herbs everybody knows that we have no possibility of changing it so what do you do when a person's what does a r do he says it's ass but for you it's mut for you it's mut for you it's mutar why is it you because the doctor said you have to take it so that's an override of rabbinic restriction so I pop pills on chabbat also cuz I have to CU the doctor said have take this one every single day every single day every single day every single day and include Shabbat person has to take antibiotics for 10 days as far as I know you're can have at least one Shabbat there don't not take the antibiotics and and the reason is because once a doctor says you have to take it so it overrides the is but I don't want to have an override every Shabbat tell me that it's okay I'm not grinding herbs I'm going to the pharmacy and Mak having the pharmacy make a good living on the pills so so so so so that's something they're going to have to change they going to have to change a lot of things and one of the things is we don't have the the the the the authority to make that change that's the problem that's the core issue and we just get around in a Jewish head you know we get around we get around a head to here and a head to there and and and so on but uh yam sheni is one of those as well so we're just going to sign off by saying that Hal is two things it's Hal it's also petition we're asking we ask we say it begins with we're in trouble sometimes that's not something we're singing and and jumping for joy from the word we're in a bind and we ask Kosh to help us get out of the bind every Hal takes into consideration that we're not out of the woods yet there's still things that we need aosh desperately as we do today on SED night we end with Hallelujah the said that's not a new kalak it's not a new lyrics it's going to be a different style of Hal it's going to be Hal without petition without we won't have to beg any longer because it's going to be thank you for coming to all the sessions that's all