Our Holy Symbols

The addition of Sefer HaTishbi that I have has a pirush on the side of it that's called Raglayim d'Vasa. This pirush Raglayim d'Vasa was written by a 19th century goyen. His name was Rebbe Yehudah Must have been a Chassidish cuz I see he had a haskama from the Chasam Sofer d'var Yitzchak Sefer d'Avodah. And he had a haskama from different Chassidish Rebbes. But Al HaPanim, he wrote a pirush on the Sefer HaTishbi. And on veshet he says as follows, "HaVeshet nikra b'lashon Ashkenaz shpeiz rer." V'ha koner and the koner is called luft rer. Right? Esophagus is the shpeiz, that's where the food goes. And the koner is attached to the lungs, that's the luft, that's where you breathe. And [snorts] then he says as follows. He says that, you know, I was asked the shaila by a Yid whose name was Rebbe Binyamin Ullman. Now this Rebbe Binyamin Ullman was the son of the Baal Yoreh Shloimah who was a very famous goyen in the mid-19th century. He was the rov of Makava. This tshuvas between him and the Chasam Sofer >> No. >> specifically on the topic of Rebbe Bal Nes is a famous tshuvas Chasam Sofer. The person he's talking to, Kupas Rebbe Bal Nes, is the Baal Yoreh Shloimah. It's the Av Beis Din of Makava. But either way, so this Yid d'Raglayim d'Vasa said that I was asked a question from Rebbe Binyamin Ullman. He said that when he was younger he was learning in Pressburg. And he said he had a rebbe, his name was Rebbe Nachum Wolf. The godol m'Rebbe Shmuel says you have no idea how big my rebbe was. The Shas u'Poskim. He was a baki b'Shas u'Poskim. And he says one time he came over to me and he said he came over to me and he asked me mipnei mah nikra haveshet v'ha koner b'shem simanim b'Talmud u'Poskim. He said, "Why is it that we refer to the koner and the veshet as simanim?" So it's a siman. What's a siman have to do with anything? >> I tried so hard to find the reason Why is it with semen? Was it with semen? I couldn't come up with any reason. So he said that he reached out to me. So Reb Yonah Ullman sends me a letter and he tells me, you know, He asked me about the reason why the kind Maybe you can help me. I'd love to go back to my Reb and tell him. He says, do you have episode shot? This is Reb Eliezer He tells me what I told him back. You find that the Indian of Shrek There's a reason the reason we do Shrek by the kind and the is because that's where the neffish is. And you want the neffish to come out. In fact, a person or an animal is not considered dead until the neffish comes out. So he says it comes out that if you see a corpse and you want to know if it's alive or dead if you see that the kind and the are severed that means that the neffish left the body. It's a sign that he's dead. And if not it's a sign that he's alive. So it serves as a sign on the of the person whether or not the person is alive or whether or not he's not alive. Then he writes who is I don't know who he's referring to. But the Reb says he asked his Reb and his Reb told him a different shot. He told him because the is that if you the even if the animal is still alive right at that point the is going to be considered a shot. So the severing of the kind and the is and that it's kosher. And if it's that's why it's called a siman. Reb Binyamin Reb Binyamin Eliezer Hershtig, his rebbe, nobody could figure out why is IT CALLED SIMAN. SAID EVEN THIS Reb Nachum Volf who seems like he was a bakiy bakochim that he cannot figure out what is the siman. What's the siman? What's the siman after doing anything? You have to It's two right? That's what it is. It's not siman and what's poshut pshat? So I don't know, but it seems like everyone's trying to say episode of vort, episode of hergesh. So maybe maybe the Mishna Berurah we can say we mentioned on daf bet. We spoke a little bit about the machlokes Rishonim. We actually mentioned this yesterday again. And that is whether or not shchitas chulin is a mitzvah, shchitas chulin is not a mitzvah. There are some Rishonim Uber Rishonim, the Rambam and the Chinuch who hold that shchitas chulin is a mitzvah. There are other Rishonim Uber Rishonim, the Rivan and the Ramban that hold that shchitas chulin is not a mitzvah. And the kasha is if you hold that shchitas chulin is not a mitzvah, so then what's poshut pshat? Why is it then that you make a bracha If it's a mitzvah, it's a bracha on mitzvos. But if it's not a mitzvah, then why are you going ahead and you're making a bracha? And we said that the Ramban is pshat we spoke so much about this yesterday. Where he said it's But we said and then we said the that we said is really Taz in Siman Alef Alef Daled. But we said based on the Rash who says in the sugiyah of Birchas Eirusin Birchas Chasanim in the first perek of Maseches Kesubos that with regards to the bracha that's made under the chuppah asher kiddishanu bemitzvosav vetzivanu And what's the brocha that we make? But as relates to that brocha said the Rosh, even though you ask the man on the street they'll probably tell you it's a brocha on mitzvos, but the brocha the Rosh asks all these famous kashas. And the Rosh says you want to know what the brocha is? That if a person goes ahead and a person is mekadesh he's showing the kedusha of Klal Yisrael. But at the same time it's being done with an incredible sneius. And that shows between Klal Yisrael and between the amam. And that's why we MAKE A BROCHA. BUT IT'S A BROCHA SHE KEDISHANU bemitsvoisav vehivdilanu min ha'am That's what the brocha is. So we shtel to and again emes it's really a tas, but this is the beer in the tas. And that is that the pasuk says in the parshas Kedoshim The pasuk says you have to be mavdil between the beheima tehora and the beheima temeia. Rashi says, what does it mean be mavdil between the beheima tehora and the beheima temeia? And the Torah says you have a chiyuv [clears throat] to be mavdil and a beheima temeia. What does that mean so the Hilchos Niddah Rashi? It means you have to do shechita. You have to learn chulin. The next pasuk, if you're going to do that. The sum of the condition key code of Shani Hashem of the escrow if you're going to be mad with the between the behima at mayor and the Torah and the time of the Torah but I've done everything and so classy in autumn of the ham how they ACTUALLY THE IN LOVE AND ACTUALLY says something very mysterious at the show and that's what that means but we don't have anything to do with that. So the bottom line is so they really actually you know what the possuk is saying that if you're mad with the behima to the mayor and the flood Tommy the tar then I've done everything the sum of the condition key code of Shani the rush was THAT YOU MAKE A HASH WHEN YOU SEE THAT I HAVE DONE IN ISRAEL YOU SEE IT UNDER THE HAMMER AND THE CONDITION YOU KNOW WHERE ELSE YOU SEE IT YOU SEE IT BY THE SEWERS WHEN YOU GET GOES AND HE AND HE KNOWS TO BE MAD WITH THE RUBLE OF THE CONDITION of the soil the camera been ruble OF THE CONDITION WHEN HE GOES THROUGH THE SEWERS that we're learning he doesn't again it's screaming but I've done everything and I've done everything this is the dollar been Israel and I've done everything that I've done in Israel and I've done everything that I've done in Israel and I've done everything I've done in Israel and I've done everything with us I arrived at it's a hash it's the hash of the rush it's the hash of the ruble of the condition of the law of the ham we said some say that it's the law of the hash of the ruble of the law of the ham of the law of the the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law of the ham of the law the law of the ham of the law not all of this were created equally different mitzvahs have a different person of different purpose. Some mitzvahs are we're just showing we're doing the ratzon Hashem. Take a mitzvah like milah. Milah is an os bris kodesh. It's an os. It's a siman. It's a sign that we're Jews. It's a siman that we're different. The inyan of milah is to have an insignia in the guf of the person as ich bin an andere mensch. The parsha of machalos assuros is not just a parsha in the Torah. Like, you know, people very often will ask, you know, I know I've been asked many times in a secular setting, "Explain to me kosher and non-kosher. I just don't understand. It doesn't make any sense." Right? What's this all about? But avodah leshem shamayim l'asli. That's the real answer. know if you want to say that, but that's the real answer. It's avodah leshem shamayim l'asli. Because when a Yid keeps kosher, that's a siman that he's a Yid. That raises it's an os bris kodesh. And the emes is you find that when it comes to machalos assuros, chazal say it is a timtum halev. Then it meisam article and it meisam aleveni tamtam. And like we spoke about in the Mishna in the second perek alef, and that's the beer and shitas Rabbeinu Tam that has to be emes tzaddikim and Hakadosh Baruch Hu makes the whole inyan like kosher. It's dafka by machalos assuros. And like the Sifrei Machalos Assuros it's because when a person eats something he's not supposed to eat, it makes A SHINUI IN THE GUF. IT'S METAMTAM THE LEV. RIGHT? THINK ABOUT THIS. BRIS milah is milah d'Yakov which is supposed to circumcise really the heart of the person. Right? It's supposed to That's what happens when you do bris milah. There was a fry in the If a person doesn't do bris milah, he can't properly understand Torah. Right? That's what the Kever Avos is famous for. Who says that if you don't have a father to do the bris milah, the zeida has to. He says, "Why?" Because the zeida has a chiyuv to teach his grandson Torah. AND ON BRIS MILAH YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND TORAH. BECAUSE ON BRIS MILAH BISTU FARSTOP. AND THE OS BRIS KODESH ON THE GUF IS A SYMBOL OF AN OS BRIS KODESH IN THE HEART from the Yid. And when a person goes and a person is a moral, so now he has a lev pisaich. He's able to understand Torah. The parsha of machalos assuros is mamash operating in that world. That's where it's operating. It's Indian of leshem IT'S AN YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU VIOLATE THAT YOU END UP WITH YOU END UP NOT BEING able to understand like says that comes from the all of a sudden those the static and all of a sudden you know the base and all of a sudden it's not able to penetrate your heart. You're not able to understand that's why they get from this Indian because he's not an available this is something that's under mining the whole of Israel the whole of the ability to be able to complement tell you but the bottom line is maybe maybe again this is just the in the world and in the realm of if the Indian of that means that really at the end of the day the parish of the difference between plus or and a person of a is going to make the difference on whether or not you see a or whether you see someone that is not able to be massive what a is supposed to be able to be massive the because through the is the as this is a who's able to be massive the of is the hence the are signs that of the differentiation and that between and if that's the case then not just two these are two where the of the versus is totally these are and maybe maybe it's for that reason in the world of we refer to the and the we refer to the as a man.