Parshas Beshalach: Did We Wear Tefillin in the Yam Suf? – The Tefillin of Rabbeinu Tam Part 2

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay we're discussing um and we continue on in our series about the T of last week we learned that the famous between rash and about how to arrange the par the opinion of Rashi was first para is kades like we had on the second sheet and the second Para is which all come from and according to Rashi the next para is is and the next para is so in terms of the wearer the wearer puts has it in uh backward in other words if you were looking at the we the wearer from the wearer's point of view it would be on his left side would be kades and then the next over and the next over and the next but from the view of the onlooker you'd be able to read it straight that was the opinion of Rashi and the opinion of RAB is going from uh also you start from the from the vantage point of the onlooker is is excuse Meades and Sh and the way to remember the opinion of RA is what in the middle okay how did this ar oh how Theus arise there's never any about this maybe we'll that's what we'll discuss uh next week um very unlikely we'll do it this week um but that's a the rash and and we mentioned last week who holds like rashi rashi has support from the M the ram holds like Rashi and in the they found Rashi r on the other hand ra claims that ra supports him while the r says no ra change his mind and is supported by is supported by the as well as the Z and we pointed out last week fromer that actually there are two both opinions are mentioned in the Z okay but we want to talk about this week and it will touch on is when did CLA start wearing thin when did they begin when did the Jewish people start wearing thin so one thing we know did they we fill in before they came into is so let take a look for a moment at number 35 the says that um in reference to it says that somehow is connected to so you might think that you need to come into to start wearing so the med says no look at number five 35 why does the Torah mention coming into the land regarding do theah in order to enter another words it's a prerequisite of entering in order to be go you have to put on okay so one thing we know is that they started putting on Fillin before they got into when exactly when exactly well we have an amazing of ruin ruin says in his commentary on theas okay in his comment on the now the winter who's thinking about suus you can't forget about suus in theas we we say like this when you saved those who are sinking in the sea of reeds their honor they brought with them what does it mean the Jewish people brought their honor with them says and this is quoted in the on page 12 take a look it's about on the seventh line when the begin as soon as finished eating their carbon what they they going to do the whole night they ate the they're full is given a command so they're stuck at home it's like they're stuck in a snowstorm what are you going to do you're going to twiddle your thumbs all day so says you know what they did at the end of last week's para and he told them call right that his hero and in he told and they made them they made from what what they make out of the hides of the carbon p and from the G in other words where did they get the leather from carbon P what are they going to do throw the leather in the garbage they're going to make wallets right what they what are they going to make of the leather shoes they going to walk out in style they made they made Ain where they get the sen from from the and from then and on they went crowned in their as long as they were commanded ACC this is the meaning of the they brought their preciousness with them what like say the's okay so says when did first wear F when they crossed the yam but wait a second what did it say in those Tain how many paros were that so you want to say they put in kades that they just heard a few hours before fine you want to say they put in fine but they never they didn't hear that yet M was in the 40th year of the midmar so so what they had fill in and two of them were empty and two of them were full yes says look in 39 what how did they make two of them the bottom overnight oh how did they make it overnight they worked very hard they were good workers and they dry it and they made the B team and they wrote it if if the mats only took 18 minutes so this took you know yeah so that's that before the sacrifice or so no after the sacrifice what they can do with the hides what they going do so that's start to make sacrifices what when do they start to make sacrifices as soon as they left Egypt they start to make they made the was the night of in fact if you look in the says the they were in the that night so listen to what happened told them bring the the carried them to theik they brought they brought in fact you could say you know there there's a big Kasha where hasem tells them and then he says he never brought those people to is he only brought their descendants they all died in the midv so I heard you could answer according to he did bring them to that night he brought them to to okay write that one but they didn't leave over anything that's what we're saying my M didn't even leave over any parts they used everything uh my grandmother would have been very very proud we didn't throw out any any of the what yeah what you left over the hide no they didn't leave it over it was made into a f yeah it was made but but it exists no that's is the is the the B okay so look at number 39 he says like this on the um on the fourth line of a med there many indications they were it is clear says that as long as not tell them only had two however not so fast it's not so simple just to say they only had two par in the first of all the say let's say you put three par in the do you get a 75 on your mark you know when you go to and you get the mark you get a 75 if you got three parishes no you get a zero you get a zero actually you get negative because so what do they only put in so you say well you only have to put in all four if you have all four if you only have two then that that's all you could put in there a very interesting Raja the Raja number 41 is commenting on the said something to the effect that I would learn out from the what mean in so the Raj asks how in the world could you learn out or would you learn out from theim in what the mean in but say wasn't given yet when they were in the says and had it not been for certain Li they would have learned out the meaning from wasn't given yet so look at the r the Raj says there's no order in the even though it wasn't said yet until theim but you could still Daren it in other words yeah they weren't given it yet but after it's given you could go back and learn from to sh but then says araj a very interesting thing it's not true you have to say that in they already knew the par of sh and what do you mean that wasn't given till the 40th year in the midbar so listen to what he says you have to say on the 15th day of not only did they know not only did they know they even though it's written in and what doeses it say it says in in to where it's villain that means ifem is telling them the night of to wear they had to have all four it doesn't say par three or four until it doesn't say it yet but they were definitely told about it that night so he says that meansem warned them about now he doesn't go so far as to say they werein but he does go so far as to say that they were commanded about Fillin and says the Raj there's no such thing as Fillin with two par consists of therefore you have to say that these par were already said in other words they were not maybe M did not teach them officially until Mish and they were not written until Mish but the je people were certainly aware of them the night of so we have the rash that says the Jewish people were aware of of sh in and we have Rish who says they actually wor in and what did those consist of says two Paras and according to the RAS you could say it consisted of all four Paras this clearly disagrees with the of you turn back we're going backwards number 34 and the water served as a wall and T points out or the word spelled with at first the sea was filled with anger on them until Gabriel came and he made it like a wall says to the water on their right he watch out for the Jews watch out for these Jews these Jews are going to receive the Torah the Torah was given with what the right hand of God he then went and he told the water on the left side fill in B smile watch out for these Jews they're destined to we it's fill in on the left side what do you mean destined says they Wen fill as they left so apparently TUS disag ages with that contention and tus feels there's there's no way they were wearing walking there's no way in one night they havein with all four par and it's already dried and ready to go but maybe you could say doesn't mean they didn't wear itain maybe they worin but maybe since it only had two par they weren't really M the Mitzvah and that's why the argument is watch out for the Jewish people they're destined to Weir fing that they could be m theah okay but any event we have this between who maintains that the Jewish people wor wor coming out of and this comment of that they were rescued in the of their future wearing of but rabai everybody agrees that when they got to the midbar and the Torah was given they immediately began wearing t as we saw in the Y that the MIT was a prerequisite for going into and in fact if you look at number 36 if remember what para is the is when in the end of and the comes immediately after the episode of the the Moses right so what's the connection between the mes and the MIT of so tus brings down look at number what's the connection between when desecrated so says it says in the that the brings to fear of God but you told them not to wear it on shabas but if this guy would would have worn on chabas he wouldn't have been shabas you left us vulnerable on chabas because our spiritual protection isin and we can't wearin on chabas that's why the M sinned so Hashem said you know what I'll give them a Mitzvah that could remind them to do Mitzvah even on chabas and what Mitzvah is that so you see clearly from here that in the midbar the Jews were wearing Fillin cuz mha says you're leaving us unprotected on chabas on chabas we can't wear it fill in so you see very clearly they did wear it fill in in the midbar so even if you don't say like that they wereing wearing thin coming out of the coming out of the yamu they certainly were wearing in the midbar okay so bear this in mind when we discuss how the developed because as we're going to see the wearing of dates back all the way into the even perhaps the night of and certainly from the times of the midv okay now I want to go on to another element of Rashi and R and that is um the says let's get a little bit of the over here look at number says in number 14 the way to put your btim the way to arrange your btim according to rash and the ra Kadesh on the left side and on the outer side and then and then and then and then he brings down brings down that what not rather sh and who do we passing like says we don't passing like anybody the is to follow and the ra say a God-fearing person should wear both so where does that leave us says a God-fearing person should wear two pairs of T so we'll come back to that why why a God-fearing person should wear both and whether we should wear both but the first thing we would like to address is that if in fact we're supposed to uh be on this of and you'll see among most as the is only to follow Rashi but what so we want to be careful for but here's a major problem because asid aside for the regular between as to how to arrange the whether it's there's another famous between look at number 20 and that is how to put the in the should they be standing up like we do it the way we put the parish in the btim the way we put the sa in the the way we put the Maza on the door door post or should it be horizontal or should it be horizontal rash says the need to be erect says they need to be laying horizontal it's not covered that it has to stand the whole day you don't think eventually the para is tire out how long are they going to stand they are long to make them stand give them a break spell them a breather so holds if you that says on the second wide line according to tus the need to be reclined say isn't that what we do that when the sear is standing in transit everyone has to stand up for it because it's not at rest and when the sear sits down so then everybody could sit down because the sear is at rest so you see that things need to be in a restful position so maintains that you're Tyra that your Pas and your and your mza need to be what horizontal so ask Huda guess what if you're going to be m on R you're all you guys who have R fill in you don't have to tell me who you are you're not say according to because ra would say your parishes need to be horal so what do you benefit by wearing will look at your and he would say put it in G bury it so what are you accomplishing you want you want to wear all you're doing is getting is wasting your time not even to the one person who would say his what are you doing you're not and they're put in standing up are also putting put in standing up so they put standing up you're not even this is the Kasha of the you like the Kasha that according to the time you're not even look at number says or I receiv your letter why are the careful to arrange their par like Rashi excuse me why are they careful to arrange why are they not careful to how to put the according to they're upright like we do and according to they're horiz what are you doing it's not ra it's aot it's a CH you can't pick and choose this ra what are you wearing first I put rash and then I these these are the I do it's like shs this is the sh I do D in and this is the sh I don't D in so these are the that are good and these are yeah good what what in the world are says we don't wear and those who wear it because they're worried about the r because it's not only r r you know who agrees with like we mentioned and maybe and the and the and many other so it's not that we are so concerned about that individual named but when it comes to the way to put the par in thein whether standing upright or horizontal it should be horizontal nobody else agrees with him on that point so it's not not that we want to be it's that that position of the arrangement of the par is one that is very much maintained by many as opposed to the the positioning of the par that's RAB is regarding that issue nobody else agrees with him and therefore regarding that issue we're not concerned for the the look at look at number 21 look answers just because people are like in that which and agree with him does that mean we need to suspect for his opinion by the positioning of the two that they should be horizontal go him that nobody else agrees with him in other words it's not R it's that opinion is very much respected by many other and by the way the gives the same answer look at number 22 pay doad he says that the should be Zak standing up and not lying down even though RAB holds they should be lying down like TOA says but we hold like Rashi and even though in terms of the arrangement of the we are that's because many agree to him but regarding that the Tain should be standing upright and how they should be um where the top of theas toward the top and the bottom one is to the end that we hold like Rashi and nobody agrees to Ra's opinion so again again the question was why we only regarding the order of the par not regarding the positioning the answer is regarding the order of the many other agree to him but regarding the positioning he's a okay but there's another answer to this question look at number 23 says cha the cha printed with the together with the Mish printed on the page of he says it could be there's another reason why we're only regarding the order of the par and not regarding the position that is because we are worried about R we are worried about the man RAB because if RAB would walk into the room first thing we would do is we would all stand up and we what do you hold about rashi's Arrangements of the par ra would say they're all it's pule we say it's a even it's you can't have they must be if you do it the wrong way you're not even fine I'll make the fil like you want but do you want me to make it uh horizontally say I would prefer you did but if you keep it upright I'm ask so says you know why we're only concerned with r regarding the order of the paros and not regarding the the position of the paros because the order of the par maintains is necessary even that if you don't do it correctly you're not even so that we're concerned with but regarding the positioning of the that's only a preference that's only whether it should be horizontal or vertical so therefore if even R would agree butash is okay so therefore we're only concerned with regarding something which is even and here comes a very important and this is between rash and that is the third answer of the sh and that third answer I'm going to give you the following introduction I want you to turn on your sheets to number 42 one one of the Bali had a very interesting practice his name is uh ROV marush and his practice was M marish his practice was the following when he didn't know C he wouldn't necessarily call his local Orthodox Rabbi instead he would ask Hashem go to the go straight to the top so he would do something where he would do he he wrote a saer called sh instead of sh you know from a certain God he took it straight to the top and he would ask through the he wanted to know you want me to put on just do me a favor let me know what kind of should I put in who's right who's right that's the always the big question right who's right so it depends at home she's right but we have to know who's right yeah so look at number 42 this is my says the holy please act kindly with us today that which we're in doubt and if you mix it up some say it should be like the order that it's written in the who do you like better right like your kid asks you who do you like better so that's why you want know who do you like betterer and here's the answer the same way you have dispute down so he say so the says who what what do you [Applause] hold whatever that means so we have this idea that even though it's pin in downstairs but upstairs there's an idea of so you say yeah but that's true by every no not necessarily there's an idea that both sides have a kernel of truth but more by the by is there this idea that both have a certain validity in fact like andash so you say who cares what they pass him last right in other words doesn't M it doesn't matter what they it doesn't matter what they pass in but the fact that they're telling us what they pass in that means there's a certain validity to both to both approaches if be pule why should the other side be puzle that's why you we are both you want to say the last take a stand as long as sh the first as as long as shma is first he say I agree with Pia because the is first which is and that's why I agree with it who agrees AG that's what answer him right according to is before that and that's why I agree with it so why does say then he say have a reason they're doing first I agree with it mean they're I hold it should be the other way but but they're doing this way because they want to be M made exactly but what do I hold what does Hashem hold he still hold so who's right then okay so we have this idea that both both opinions when looking what does it say in his is the opposite it doesn't say the it's okay so then that's like nobody yeah that's like nobody but actually um okay so we have this idea RAB say that more by in fact take a look on your sheets in um number 15 where the kades which we saw last week brings down that in this world it's but in the world to come it's and that's normally it should be but in it's which the two ha are in the middle the there's an idea that the of are the of in fact somebody once asked why doesn't he wear he says cuz I would prefer to remain in I prefer to remain alive I'm not ready yet to put on the of in in fact the and ra questions ra says to me that sound sounds too sharp the never would have said such a thing and therefore says even though it's an incredible Source in the C he doesn't believe V would have said such a thing but that's that's the we'll see that in upcoming weeks now if you look in the number 16 he also brings this idea that um that the Z mentions both types of rash and R and he brings down that the of r are thein of the world to come and the of Rashi are thein of this world and again look at number 17 in the he says right like we saw in the both of them and then Theon writes both opinions are true so again we see this idea that when it comes to this both opinions have validity and that's why if you look in the Ben look at number 18 in the sh he brings down there four in thees that's rash's opinion says the opposite and thenotes that they found the fill in on the of and it was found there to be like rash and says listen carefully at first everybody thought that this was like every other that by every other someone is right and someone is wrong comes along the and he told us through the my the mysticism of the Torah from both opinions are true and therefore what do you need to do you need to wear both so you'll say when did they start wearing both pairs of says in the mid already they were F so we started off this year that they had they had not only but in the midar maybe says you know what kind of they wore they wore two pairs of we're in the mid how could you wear two pairs of that's why the says a number at 19 there's enough room on the head to wear two pairs ofin and therefore the Ben not only should you wear two pairs ofin but you should wear both of them at the same time not like the people that only wear Rashi and then put on R you need to wear both at the same time and you need to put RAB on top of the Rashi because R are Holier and that's why we make ra a little bit smaller than the rash so you should know this is the cabalistic opinion cabalistic opinion is that even though when it comes to all other and we say follow the when it comes to this we saw from the that and they got the response and we see the holds both opinions are true that cabalistic and this is opinion of many both opinions need to be embraced and you have to wear both pairs ofin or at least but I let me tell you that according to the um the M certainly of ashm in the nonic worlds who do not use cabalistic thought to affect this is not the reason to where because we don't allow questions from heaven or fromi to affect the practice so this is what the Ben writes but we're going to seein and don't necessarily allow this type of idea to govern the practice of the so let me just clarify um one thing we had a question question was why be on if R would say that the are pule because you're not putting them in horizontally so we gave reasons and cabalistic reasons theic reason is because we're not for the opinion of the order of the Paras which many reine him in brace but in terms of the positioning of the that's regarding that issue that's a reason or we gave a reason's view of the position is only so we don't have to be so worried about it but the cabalistic answer to that question is that when it comes to fill in there's an idea that both opinions have a a a element a kernel of truth that both opinions have to be embraced and that is why the benai says that those who follow that type of thought should wear both pairs ofan at the same time but these are two very much Divergent approaches one is the approach that it's not that we were worried about ra because we heard a Heavenly Voice come down from heaven and told us ra is also right no nothing to do with that it's a process because many like but regarding the positioning of the that's how the those who follow the the normative approach of just strict sh the diverent path are those who follow more cabalistic thought maybe among the maybe among the that they um they're M the the AR in terms everyone's in terms of practice so then they value this idea of so let me just clarify everyone values the idea of but the question is regarding practice of so those who value and and who emphasize the the uh cabalistic approach even to practice they'll say look regarding the positioning of the Pari and the never told us that both opinions are they only said regarding okay so these are the two approaches and we're going to see these two Divergent approaches will continue to diverge as we explore the topic further let me just tell you one additional thought okay the idea of the idea of the two she of in the middle and the um the idea that the of are the of what is that supposed to mean that they wear the fill of and with this we will conclude okay if you take a look in the in number 47 tells us that according to rash as opposed to the opinion of excuse me an unbelievable thing he says even though my intention is to write a and to get involved in what I'm about to get involved in is really better off being held a secret says really it's better not to write those matters that should be whispered and the secret should remain to God alone and certainly and in our generation we have no understanding of this but so it should not be a wonder how we could have a about let me explain the following and that is like this the gar tells us that that in this world even though we could spell the name of God but we don't read it when will become and will and all Theus will end and will understand everything will understand that that means the K and the will be the same that the way we write God's name will be like the way we pronounce God's name what does that mean that means the following that in this world we see and what appears to us we will understand how everything in fact was the of is the [Applause] of that if you don't listen to in this world it's it's sh is on the inside the the is not is not on the outside it's not a parent what's a parent on the outside is the second that's the way we see it will be Hashem Hashem together theid will be not apparent theid will be on the inside and it will be and listen carefully kades sh on the outside that means like this that means the wearer will have sha on his what side the inside or the outside on his right side so that means the sh the shin is next to the shin of the outside of thein and the kades the shin of Kadesh is next to the shin of the outside of the Fain so you're going to have four shins you're going to have the shin the two shins are the outside of the bias the shin of sh and the shin of Kadesh how many crowns well shin has three heads but one of The Shins has four three + three + 3 + 4 is what 13 is 13 on that day you're going to have the two Shas on the outside where the mid of sh the will be apparent the that will be as opposed to is on the outside we see the we don't we don't see the we don't see the that's the deeper meaning of the of what it means the but the say have a wonderful day you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com