Parshas Bo: Responsa From Heaven - Archaeology and the Tefillin of Rabbeinu Tam

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com so in par we're introduced for the first time to the Mitzvah ofin so we're going to discuss this week over the next couple of weeks this is really a major topic and uh discussed before but never never in as great depth so we're going to go through the Su ofin the two different types ofin of course we know they're different two versions of the there the of rash and to go through the development of the Su it's a fascinating in okay says how do we know there four in the where does it say doesn't say anywhere in the explicitly that there have to be four par in the we know that of the four par two of them are in this week para right you have kades and at the end of this week's para then you have and then you have so it's interesting you have two in sh and two very close to each other in but we in the T does it say what should be in the doesn't say anywhere explicitly maybe you should put doesn't say anywhere first how do you know there four in the it says two of them are one of them is so we have four paros so I checked it up this morning there actually two of them are Malay but that's what the gumar says how how our version of the seara coincides have what that's why they're not arguing on the and the that's how you write the word yeah but anyway what the is it says one time another time and a third time you don't need the why because the word in the Caspian language T is to anyone here speak Caspian right fluently right and an African pass is to so you have tat and two two 2+ 2 according to higher mathematics is four yeah now why the Torah is writing all of a sudden in Caspian and in African you know we're being very politically correct you know but since one does a t write in African well the meaning is like this because the first language with which Hashem created the world was all the languages are actually a distortion of I know someone is writing a book that he has like this that he has 70 different permutations of a word and each one of those permutations makes a different language so in other words some let's say the word uh um fins right in English fins how do you say fins in in the T snap well snap is the word f you just rearrange the letters right but if you make it P you get fins so one way of getting a language from is backwards one way is taking the second letter so he has a whole Theory but every but what we what we all accept is that the world started off withes so all the gar means to say is not that the Torah is all son speaking African or casan it just means means two Kat is to um um tat is too in Caspian and and P is too in African it doesn't mean we're using an African word just means the Africans or the Caspian took thises word to mean two for their language okay so that's what the gar says so we have four par in okay so each one of them is is four basically so T is two p is two there three no so says you don't need the of you don't need that each word by itself is four why do you have it three times then for for whatever reason the Tor is writing the mid of yeah okay now says that's a nice that is two plus two but what does the word mean as is what does the word mean so says the word means it's the part of the head near the forehead Kam like in thear shabas there's certain kinds of ornaments certain kinds of jewelry that women wore on their heads or another meaning of taes it's austion of looking Hab Vision like the in Milla that says the duck walks around with his eyes low but meanwhile he's yenting around sing you know far in the distance so is a of looking gazing okay and then says what does the word mean what does the word mean says the word means a language of proof Clarity says doesn't mean he means he made clear he had an argument he demonstrated and demonstrate that God rests his name on a on a Jew okay but here's the million dollar question and that is how do you arrange the par in the yeah how do you arrange your Pas you say what's the sh you put them in order right you have two in this week's and you have that's how it should be well you have to Lear the G says the look at number three what is the order of on the right side you have kades and from this week's para two on the right side and on the left side you have what do you have on the left okay simple as that what's the left side I'm a little bit confused about the left side okay good question in other words when you have four the right two are being called the right and the left two are being calling the left you mean of the four of the four par or the four bottom of the shell okay right the two on the right are called the right side and the two on the left even though You' say what do you mean why are two of them being called the right only one of them is on the right and only one of them is on the left and the other two you could call the middle but that's a simple way of learning the gamar the two not forward facing like cu I'm not okay I yet I'm not there yet I haven't given you that much information we're leaving it unclear right now right now the two on the right arees and the two on the left are we learned in just the opposite that are on the left and are on the right right you got the one place it says the right is the another place it says on the right one Bry is talking about the right side of the one reading the par when I stand opposite you what's on my right side and one Bryce is talking about the right side of the one wearing it in other words when I if I out my right hand I'm sticking it out to your left hand and when I stick out my left hand I'm sticking out to your right hand so one Bryce is talking about from the perspective of the one who's looking one Bryce is talking about from the perspective of the one wearing it but if the one who's standing opposite the one wearing it were to read it he would be able to read it in order says Rashi what does this mean take a look at the rash's look at number four K said what is the order of the way the way you put it on one is on the right side of the reader one is on the right side of the one putting it on when the reader stands opposite the one wearing it the right side of a corresponds to the left side of [Applause] B and the one who reads it reads it in order so here's our first if you're looking at someone wearing Fain and you were to read the you would be able to read it in the way in the order that it appears in the whatever comes first comes first and whatever comes after comes after therefore that which it says earlier the that says on the right side not not on the right side of the one wearing thein but on the right side of the one looking at the person wearing thein the right side of the one reading now when the one looking at the reads the in a usual way he reads it from right to left it comes out he reads it in order but the says no on the right side is yeah that's on the right side of the one wearing it now it comes out that the person wearing the Fain does not have sha in the most right part really is in the most right part because the one reading it reads he sees let's say I'm I'm reading and Alvin's wearing Theon yeah so I see on my right side first kades then then sh then now your sh is not on your right side my left side it's the second from the right the one most on the right is but that's what that's how Rashi understands doesn't really mean all the way on the right side it means the right half as opposed to the left half okay that's the rash ends that which we learned in that it says on the left side it means on the left side of the which is the right side of the reader so Rashi has already established for us his according to rashash ises but not so fast that's not that's only the way I see it but the way you see it it in other words the order that it's in on the one wearing it what order does the person wear that's fill in he put puts in it's in backwards right on his right and then the next to the right is sh and the next to the right is and the next to the right is is okay that is the of all Jews we are rash at least okay says the M okay so that's the opinion of rash take a look at number five the is the med on look at number five there are four places that mention the number one number two number three sh number four theah of the four of the hand are one long parchment the four the sounds very clear exactly like rash you write them in order and if you did not write them in order you have to bury the so it's not enough to put it in in order it's not enough they should be arranged in order they also must be written in order for so so if you write sh and then you write and then you go back and write according to now just give you if you turn over your sheet for a moment if you want to know what rashik fillan look like just I know it's exciting but we don't need any music to yeah okay so let's let's see let's see rashis let's take a look at page so we have here a diagram of Rashi fing and this is from the perspective of the one wearing it yeah you see that the right side of the man in other words if you're wearing this is from the perspective of the one wearing thein not from the perspective of the one reading the so that this would be on if you could cut this out you'd put it on your head as is okay we is on the right next over next over next overes that is from the perspective of the and of course the reader would be reading it from the left side of the man to the right side of which is from the reader right to left kades this is the of rash does everybody agree with Rashi just joking right does everybody agree with [Applause] Rashi okay take a look in this [Applause] is one who reads it reads it in [Applause] order rash explains the way they're arranged in the when it says on the right side that's on the right side from the reader perspective and now the reader you ready you ready foru why would you divide the in in why would you call the first two the right side and the other to the left side why would you include two on the right and two on the left it's not two on the right two on the left how could you say that kades and on the right only kades is on the right how could you say sh sh is on the left no only sh is on the left I mean when you when you say right and left there's only one right and only one left everything else is in the middle why would you call it right and left and refer to two on the right and two on the left the first one should be the right everything else the left or the opposite that the first three on the on the right and the fourth one is on the left in other words why would you cut it in half and everything on the right side comes under the category of right and everything on the left side comes under the category of left and tus brings from sh that normally we don't just split things in half and say this is the right and this is the left the right like the nari of the manira do we have three or four naris and the rest are ninis no there's one nari there's one on the left and everything else is not the left why we why do we have this General category of right and left all of a sudden and therefore look on the first wide line of Tes disagrees explains are on the right side of the reader but only one of them is the right the kades and the left side is sh sh is the outermost para on the left side not like rash no on the right and on the left the outermost one is sh and the innermost one the inner one is and now we understand why we divide it because yes kades is the only one on the right and Sh is the only one on the left Sony puts it on uh the right is the one the right is the one facing the left no um the right and left are if you're wearing thein according to rashin I were to read your paros so it's going to be what's the way I see it is going to be the opposite for the reader for the weer right so then I would be able to read it but in terms of your right according to rash your rightest most is kades um right like we have on the diagram on page two so that's a read somebody who's reading someone who left who's putting on his left hand it doesn't matter um no it doesn't matter do matter no it doesn't matter okay look at the no but even the arm even the arm it doesn't matter which arm you're going put on the readers going be able to see it the same way okay so so disagrees with Rashi and tus feels like if you turn over your sheet look in page two tus says no the from the perspective of the reader it's kades in his left most side Then followed by but the only difference is the that according to Rashi the reader would read it in order and according to is in the middle and sha is on the right side of the wearer and the left side of the reader okay the way to remember that the way to remember the of and says take a look for a moment also agrees with me because learns the that says any outer box that cannot see the air is tle what are the outer boxes kades and Sh according to Rashi sh is not an outer box sh is in the middle say is on the outside is the outermost box that for the wearer sh is on the right side and for the reader it's all the way on the left side says tus you ready for this it's not only me it's not only R excuse me it's not only r r as well earlier than also wor actually right but before so right even though and came before nevertheless is we give him credit for these and he's bringing proof that it's not only him you ready for this and would give a Simmon how to remember the correct way to where it's filling the two shame havos are in the middle what does that mean that means if you take a look at the word the word v is an unscrambling of says you want the two sh to be next to each other you want them to have good company in the middle you don't want to be m the two so the way to remember the and and the is you want to have the in the middle and says more than that this is also the written by think is called right something what okay and they also wear right but also maintains the what does it mean according to Rashi the reader could read in the order of the ACC to you're going to be reading ites sign an order it's not what it means says when it says it doesn't mean that it means something else okay and then T says look in the next line ah what about the M we mentioned look at number five the M says pretty clearly like rash and it says you have to write it says is definitely Mas like rash four places the mentions and then the then it says you write it in order that implies it needs be written in the way that it mentioned earlier in the Bria says to is fine so write it that way but it doesn't mean maybe you have to put it in theone that way maybe really I'm right and yeah when you write it you have to write it cader but it doesn't mean you have to put it in the partial cader n it's not masma that way in therefore concedes that the is Mas like rash's and then cites an ancient work called shim which is also like Rashi so what do we have right now we have the of rash we have the of we have the of theim they all say is and then we have the and and that they all say even introductory before put on film who says you say that well for those of us who have time to say that right no but I'm saying even if you do have time doesn't IM either one what why what say we I think we we had a share whether uh from the did not was not a proponent of that F okay but anyway yeah it's in a different it's it's not it's not it's not like what does it say there well from the perspective of the one wearing thein according to it is saying the of the what does it say there that gets into a big sh so saying it's not like it's definitely not from the perspective of the from the perspective of the the wearer I hear out no matter what you do right I hear it's a good point from good casha I don't know we'll see maybe by the end of our uh journey we'll have an answer to your casha I don't know I can't answer right now so that's what we have we have the two rash what is the opinion of the Z what is the opinion of thees so says take a look at number seven the of the head of can you do that again yeah I'm not trans I'm just reading the words says that is why the Masters thei they tell us you need to have the two Vayas in the middle now if you want me to explain what the is saying sorry about that but if you want to know what the of the Z is he says very clearly so the the of I'm not going to say the Z this line of the Z is clearly now the question is what do you mean thei we have Yi on we don't have Yi on what you well the writes on his comment on right we know the wrote a tremendous biblography on all the that lived before him in one section and all the names of in another section and one of the speaks about isi and he says it appears the second and that they had and the r also in his also says he saw youi on all and says I'll bring you a nice proof that there's because if you look in the that we just quoted he says so this is a proof now the is not talking about time Asos to just commenting on the existence ofi and says I prove to you therei the but we see that the of the Z over here is that like the and the rid in his commentary on the if you open up your handy you'll notice that there's a commentary of the rivid not to be confused with the comments of the rivid on on the rambam right you know what Shakespeare said no wherever you have a rambam the rivot is not far behind right it's a famous famous Shakespeare he says the says in in his commentary so now we're stacking the weight over here now we're giving look on side he has on his side he has on side and he has a on his side and rashi rashi him in the M but the big question here is what does the r what is the ram what is the the r like Rashi or like this is going to be a very interesting question what kind of T did the r wear so the Mish was written by he brings down look at number nine he brings down a question the ra asked us what is the order of the the head first he put the last so that's what the r writes you put in the last para in the first which is the right side of the in other words like the says we but wait a second they asked the ra where are your students we have a tradition from that receive from we your students ra we have a tradition for so what are you telling us to put on in but and that's it's that kades says says the r you ready for this this is one of the best things you'll ever see you ready for this says the ran you have a tradition from ra that let me tell you a little history about how wearing developed says the r this that you have an opinion about the arrangement of the par he's also talking about another about says the the way you think to put on that's the way I used to think so not bad you're not you're not too far off the way you wear Fain is the way I started off wearing like you says the when I was in the west not in America but when I was in what Spain in Spain my Spanish not only were my like but there is a great man who wrote a work on his name is RA from Cova who is basically the Ram's impostor and we once had a share on it last year there was another man in Cova named Moa who is also a great and by the way you know sometimes if we have a Ste on the r One Way Out is you don't have to make not a joke talks about it there's another says my impostor fooled me when I read his work that theone should be I accepted it and not only was I fooled but all Spanish jewry was fooled to hit like I don't know but he was a big person what many argued on our practice all the men in the East argued on us and everyone whoever lived in were not like more like Rashi and they said that honest trustworthy that you claim you have a tradition from to it's not true because they opened up you claim he no relation to yeah when he came from the West he had and when he showed it to the they took the and they threw it out that's how much they held that Rashi is Right R is not correct not only do they not hold that we like Rashi they held that's not they held ra is not so when ra brought hisain from Spain to is and they showed they showed the words of and he tossed his so therefore the r concludes definitively like Rashi so now we have Rashi and the m and the R against R and R says the r you take out of your Camp put it on our scales cuz we open up ra he hadash so so you know we started off out the r also went over to Rashi it's only R and the r but whoa has on his side he has on his side and he also has thei on his side comes along with muger and he says not so fast ra before you put the Z On Your Side you should know the Z himself also says like Rashi elsewhere so it's really a in the Z so don't be so fast yeah we're because I'm a I'm a big and I hold like the Z well which Z which page in the Z do you hold like says look at look at number 10 he said says I want to let you know it's not why because if you look in in [Applause] says wow who's that like rash the says explicitly like Rashi and on the very next [Music] page not and then hey and then and then hey [Applause] hey now that's an amazing thing no first of all um no did not write even one word of Des he dictated it to his tal but it's also from many and amaram so he was the primary contributor to Z but he's not the only one you'll see amaram quot in the Z so but was what yeah okay so so this is amazing thing because what we like to discuss in future sh is that there are countless areas in which are and we don't try to put up fulfill both Shas for example you're not putting two muas on your door nobody puts two misas on their door nobody wears I shouldn't say nobody majority of K are now wearing two pairs of tias one light Rashi one light we don't make twice you don't do you don't have four different why is it when it comes to is basically the only two kinds of mat this mat is I mean you do a mitvah you know you hope why by Why by is really the only in where two different ways the answer is many began in the times of the so it's a relatively newer but now we're learning that the is not only this goes back to times of the goes back to the times of so such an old in other words each way is so is so established it's so early established since ancient times perhaps that's the reason why there is more of an to but that's something we're going to have to explore in upcoming sh okay let's go a little further yes but the usually concludes the yeah we you know words there's nothing to talk about other but this is the doesn't so now we have age old that never got right it was not okay comes along the now so that's what we have we have ourselves which according toer was actually so he said what kind ofus is this why don't we just find out what kind of no go to the right they went to the bottom of the Red Sea and they found the wheels of P's Army so go find out we don't is BU so find out what kind of in yeshu war war okay so guess what we found it we found ready for this you want to know what kind of you say what what are you talking about you found we found it says the the following document was sent from a wooden board fell that was on the grave [Music] of fill in and they found very old they found rash from the time of you know why we wear because what more do you need to know as reported by the SM and the mor says the it's not it's not a that Rashi is Right pink it's a r against rash is right why because if these were koser what they bury them for they're kosher why would they bury it with you know why they buried it because rash is wrong and they had to be is the it's a you're you're bring a proof everyone you know it's like you know the Dead Sea Scrolls look uh they used the ancient hebraic script no they didn't they deny everyone most Jews right ask them what kind of script do they use the ancient hebraic script no we don't we don't the the consensus of the they did not use that they usedas yeah but when I went to the Israel Museum I saw the Dead Sea Scrolls yeah that's why they were buried because they didn't have kadus the ran writes that whatever they use for but all the coins are in the anci of break exactly ran says that they didn't want to Sully the Hebrew language anguage by putting on on coins so they had a different script to put on coins but those are not those are not the way they wrote but any event that's what the jsh is saying you're bring a riot to Rashi from the fact that they found buried Rashi fill and they buried it because they weren't ker theer made a mistake theer had temporary Amnesia and he learned wrong in the uh in the and he read he accidentally wrote Rashid so they buried it so they buried it for different reason could be what it could it could be right so we're not going to bring a to for the fact that rash were buried but you can't bring arah to Rashi from the fact that they were buried maybe the reason they were buried is because they wer in kosher the is just there's nothing wrong with them just it's the wrong one why theying let the but even the is not totally clear because it's good for sh is not good for we'll see we'll see so you say what you say why they have to bury them you just just just change them around what about the Shad it's it's written on one parchment so could you according to the B cut them and then repe them but that's what says the we're now we're jumping ahead our we're going very fast we're going very fast okay says I heard the name you can't ask a you can't disprove from the fact that they could say because they were written out of order you could say their puzzle because they were written out of order that's why they are buried in his grave like pusles for that are buried in the K of aad so comes the B and the B says wait a second you have to bury the because they were not put in correctly you don't have to bury them all you need to do is rearrange them what good good Kasha right now that might only work and the but the but if you look carefully at the Thea said the reason they had to bury them is not because they were arranged in the botom in the wrong order says because they were written in the wrong order they were written in the wrong order and this is really wants to know let's say you find fill in arranged like could you just quickly rearrange AR them or do we say the following if we pass like rash that means puzle so ifer had in Z if the had in mind to write like that's like he had in mind to write it let's say somebody had a mind they just want to practice calligraphy and after they finish say it's pretty nice let me put it in F in it's not kosin so maybe if somebody wrote you can't just rearrange Fillin let me rearrange that but if theer had a mind to WR that means according to rash he had in mind to write Apostle he had in mind so maybe it's considered written sh says raar come on got a life don't the CER doesn't have to have in mind I'm being writing to fill inash theer just has to have in mind I'm writing koser I'm writingin I'm writing it K there're two legitimate cheetas we pass in like one of them but you can't say that if he had in mind to write it's like he had in mind to write a his doesn't have to be so precise that he has to be to write rash as long as he had in mind to write that's considered lishma however RAB raber says I'll bring you a r that you could rearrange them the clear R from the B cuz the B says that don't right what does the B say the b says don't prove that Rashi is wrong from the fact they had a bury's Rashi Fain because if they were pule you wouldn't have to bury them you could just rearrange themar you see from the back that if the CER had a mind to write rash Rashid if like and the had a mind to WR in then you could just rearrange it and vice versa as well if theer had a mind to write you could rearrange it to make rash but says that's the but the drisha who wanted to bring ARA against Rashi from the fact that thein were buried the drisha obviously holds that you can rearrange it so says it sounds like my sh without filling written according to one to switch it to the other it sounds that like that would be because the fact that the drisha felt you could bring aah against Rashi from the fact that the T were buried that means the drisha holds you can't just rearrange the par you would have to bury this Fain but then rer says it's not MRA that they argue about this point and then he says bottom line is very possible that you can't rearrange it fing why not not because of but for the following reason if you take a look in the last paragraph of what's the if you if anyone here nobody has to admit to it but if anyone here we is RA are you allowed to keep railling in the same bag as Rashi no you have to have a separate bag why do have to have a separate bag confuse because if is like rash then are not they're just the are you allowed to keep your pens in youring bag you allow to keep your if you have a mirror you allow to keep it in youring bag you can keep in the bag well you're not to keep them in the bag that's why the r okay there not you have to have two separate bags rash and because if Rashi is right then you can't keep your in the bag so says you cannot switch into rash maybe yeah maybe no it depends if you hold if you wear and you hold well maybe the is like Rashi maybe is like well is like then is not like Rashi that means is Rashi is not then how could you switch R to Rashi but then you're you're being you're descending them you're taking them down in says if you go like is like rash and R is only a then you could switch into Rashi because we pass is only so you could upgrade from to but if you wear because you really feel that maybe and have to do both because maybe like this maybe like that then you can't switch so it depends what your usual practice is and why you would wear if you just out of but really then you're allow to upgrade into rash but if you're really if you really are concerned for both opinions both rash and and maybe this one is right maybe that one is right then you would not be able to upgrade or it wouldn't be an upgrade you not be able to make one filling into another pair so say so where are we holding now this is where we're going to hold off uh until next week and that is we have the sh of and that is that is the opinion of Rashi that is the opinion of the M that is the opinion of the rambam according to the ramb also had Rashi and according to muger there is an opinion in the Z like Rashi as well on the other hand you have R and you have and you have and you have a comment in the and you have and you have the of thei in what Didi we well one thing we know the in his grave were rash why they were rashin some want to say because he were rashidan some want to say because they were pin and some say that's not a reason to not a reason to bury them because you could always switch the pasas okay say we will pick it up here next week thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com