Parshas Pinchas - The Split Vav - Splitting Opinions Shiur by Rav Nachum Scheiner at Scheiner's Shul

I would like to devote this morning sheer to my gr nishmas my grandfather raag ruen Shiner whose yard site his fifth yard site was yesterday one of the big Milas of the sh as they call it Sher sh is that it's a place welcoming to all my grandfather who grew up in Scranton Pennsylvania went to tvas he was Marb TOA for over 40 years 50 years had that Mila to the fullest extent he was somebody that loved every single ye it didn't make a difference Who and the people felt it people gravitated his tal and other people he really really loved every single e and this week's par Paras penas we find something unique that it's once in the whole entire the says sh to the word sh the gar and kadan and I want to take a minute to read the gamarra inside to understand the background and that's what we're going to focus on the word says that that do says like this do you know that we have a this week's so thear says when the person is whole the T says in this week's para when he does the has to be not that does the wait a second we made a not of somebodys shol peace peace so how do you make a that the person has to behold and this is what we're going to focus on on this morning morning the of the word sh is up is amputated we'll soon see in a minute exactly what is different what is abnormal but what the gar is saying is true that in the to it says sh peace however we can make a even though he Evol cuz you could you could look away from the V cuz the V really is a it's not it's a little bit of a a missing V let's try to understand what exactly does it mean V obviously this means that it's written Devol the is written differently it's and that's something thatas you do not find anywhere else in the T you find other let's call it abnormal is small you find big letters but this that you have a letter but it's as we'll soon see what it means might be the only time in the T explains what's v nothing a particular abnormal that you don't find anywhere else in the means that it's small of course the gamar says it's upak but really the idea is that it's a small V and it's as if the T doesn't have a you can make the they bring that is a I looked and I was not able to find it that also says that that means that it's a small V that's she number one she number one is that the V is a small V and that's what the gar makes a it's a small it's just like without the without the so here also you can read sh sh without the it's a small V it's commanda the second the over there in Kad understands when the gor says means uped amputated not that it's smaller the cell says that if it if it means smaller so then the gamar should have said the it's small and therefore you could have still made the but the gar should have said when the gar says means chopped it's chopped now that the says that it's chopped how exactly is this V chopped how is it chopped well soon see these multiple different ways had to chopped a the says that it's a small V small as small these other ois in the T that are small also but chopped how is it chopped the explains the lived in the 1600s Chu brings him and he says that it's chopped in a way that the top of the V is a yud this is the that it's a small V compared to the test this is the we'll soon see the other ones if you see it's chopped over here there a y on the top and then a remainder on the bottom if you realize it's on a slant so the top piece is is a yud this one all the way to over here it's a y so the way it's chopped is that there's a y on the top and then there's a piece on the the bottom so if you take a look at it when you're reading it the say it's a isn't that funny that the the druss that's telling us that the can't be about moment is made up of a letter only way to get that is with a letter that's broken what what's you're asking that what's you're right it's Unique it's the only time but the concept oh it's I'm think it's funny it's to tell me you have to be sh and the word is spelled the letter is it's just like the idea is I hear and you'll soon see what we're going to end off with a very very interesting story which is also even more interesting with the word we'll get to that in a minut in couple of minutes but right that but the idea of is is that you don't have the so if you don't have the whatever we don't use the that the that it's chopped so understands this is opinion number two but it's an explanation in the RV he brings he brings the RV and theat is that it's chopped and away at the top is a and then you have a piece on the bottom so when you look at it it's a he brings the same is also brought in the safer that's a safer of safas that was before him that also writes that V means that it's chopped in a way at the top is a y then you have a piece coming down and that's the V and the say that's a pish that the wrote on his on safis and on the top he writes he goes through the pares different pointers on different letters and he on the top he writes on the bottom he goes through what is so he brings at the SA is from the earliest call it like a tick a guide book of he already brings this is the I saw like this to do this opinion that he's a y on the top and on the bottom there's another piece so it's a after the the others that also said like that the Mar in kadan the mar says that the top is a y the mar says says the means it's caught the bottom is is hanging off and the top you have a y sh with the inside thear says sh but then the says says and therefore what before says sh a person has to be whole here sh maybe answers that it's it become the leaves us with a Y taka pce hanging down lower but he's a and says is the of you do find in the T sometimes a of tum by yov and LA says that's says of you have it this week's para also learns and he says that the top piece is a y that he goes on to hisat yashim he says that P is going to is the Yash he's the person that's going to make shom Yash but also with a Y he pulls a y from the word before and also the Y inside with the so he learns like opinion number two on the top the same is also brought from thear aish that goes with the like this and he says that it's also like a yuder in a Chua goes very much not like the and he says that if you're going to do like the his lotion is meaning to say let's stop for a minute if you're going to make a y on the top which means you don't have a V and that was number one what does it mean a small V but you have a v says like but if you're going to do like this and only make a on the top like we just s from the and from others to say might be because you might not have you don't have a v you have to write a you're missing a therefore he says says what you should do is make a small V on the top which is really like ra and then on the bottom add another piece no problem to be able to be is just a small V so make a small v ah you want to also go with the that it's chopped it's amputated so add on another piece on the bottom doesn't bother anybody and that's like this the middle one there's a regular V the middle V there's a regular V however there's a piece on the bottom regular V there's a piece on the bottom the she we mentioned before is to have a y on the like the says no not like my son-in-law he doesn't bring the but not like if you make say at the end of the ch when I was to have a like what we said to have a on the top small and then also to have like the make a piece on the bottom brings that he saw his grandfather that was written like that was caught was a on the top and on the bottom there was a piece now aav it's not aav but even with this sh what a piece on the bottom cuz really you have a on the top you have a v if you learn like the other that on the top so then you need to make a real piece on the bottom a line to make it into a but the middle she you see this she you have to have a real piece on the bottom to make it into a v the technically you could just make a DOT on the bottom the idea is that it's amputated you have a little dot caught off on the bottom says the then afterwards if you go back to you see iter also he he speaks out it shouldn't just be a DOT like a he says it should be a it should be a line in other words even if we're going there you have a small V you should make another piece on the bottom another V so to speak what do we have so far just our M we have shea number one when the gar says V means a small V nothing is caught a small V she number two is that it's caught in a way that the top is a y you have another piece on the bottom it's a v she number three is that on the top is a V and the bottom is a piece she number four iser is his safer on says a different you have a sliver cut off on the side of the V if you take a look over here you have a regular V regular regular V absolutely a regular V and it's kind of cut off on the side some actually have it I I think by some of the they go with this understanding of that it's it's a regular full V but it's kind of cut off on the side it'sa it's amputated but you have a regular regular V how do that help you for the tomorrow why the whole problem was was sh sh it's a reg you're right right however what the is saying you're asking to regular regular how do you have the but at the end of the day if it's something that's abnormal in the the idea is is that there's something different in the sa what's this wiser like that you never ever find that there such a to have a piece cut off why is it cut off the terit is it's being maramis that this V you could also not use the V Tak there a pure full V it's not there you're right in in the if it's small so then it's like it's not there if it's cut off whether if it's cut off that it's only a y so you don't have a v or even if it's small it's V to small you're saying here you have a full flge V but the D is because he's something abnormal in the VA very good point very good point there's something not regular there's a cut over there that itself says wait a second for the you should read the word without the V there's yet another sh and that's theas I was not able to find the RAS but has a longle and he goes through the sheas over here he brings theas and the way he brings the advas I'm quoting the advas from what I saw in a ezri I couldn't find theas inside but he says theas understood that it's split the V is split is amputated like the however you learn in the RV but it's it's split and RV says that he saw like that that was in Fez Fez is a miracle an old that was that was caught however you'll learn one way he for sure doesn't learn like the the whole is also in the lines of lot of on the but he brings the RAS that theas learns he doesn't I couldn't understand if how exactly learns if he learns like the second like the or like the but not like the because he says that the top is like a V it's it's like a V so I'm not sure if it's a V and it's caught on the side caught on the bottom butas says like this and then he says that it's attached with a little streak it's attached it's t cut off it's t amputated it's broken off the bottom piece or the side piece either like this or like this is like a little tiny line that attaches the two pieces so it's really a full vve but it's connected it's Tak connected so we have over here multiple sheas in the definition of v what's is it smaller is it broken if you take a look in the r and the you're not going to find it you're not going to find this whole discussion we had for the past 20 minutes nothing of it in the goes through all the different changes in the the how it's written not regularly spells it out the big letters the small letters the the the spells it out why is it that the doesn't spell out at least to write V and then will come as we try to understand what but there is no discussion about this it's a gar it's AAR K you open up the gar there's no o by the G where it's brought in there's no R there's no says that if you learn like the first she we mentioned that it's a small the first says it's included in the r because the r says so the ra means also in this week's par the small it's included but what's about if it's it's abnormal there's no other such a type of o in the whole to why doesn't the r bring it so maybe maybe but it's to say that because is speaking about the is the one who showed us the r and says it's good but if you take a look in the ram the next line the r says there are letters in the T that have a DOT on top that the letters are are abnormal different is which would answer even the the other that is brought in the r but we'll soon see in a minute it's not so paral we'll get to Mish in a minute but if if it's Tak under ra and if the is that it's supposed to [Music] be when the says on the says you should fix it explains what it [Applause] is you should change you should edit you should be that's written as a Regal of but wait a second before before you jump into action and this afternoon you're going to run to yes and you make changes let me share an unbelievable story if you do need so first of all the theas theas says again I didn't see theas inside I'm quoting from the theas says that it's it's not it's not you should fix it if you are fixing it how do you fix itman these are that holds that is one of the names of so you can't go and the simple way how to fix it would be is to scratch off either to make it a small V or to make a neat line like I did over here with white out so you go with a razor and you make a line in the middle but if it's how you going to make a line what are you going to do have you expand out on the letters on the side the shin the L and the end and you make it a little bigger and with that it's going to become devolve in the middle become either small or it's small and you'll add a DOT on the bottom basically you make the other letters bigger smaller what you say yeah but what are you going to do you're going to add if the V is a regular size V and you're going to add a DOT on the bottom so then the dot has nothing to do with the V it's like adding another dot on top of a letter but if you make everything bigger and then you add on a DOT that'll be beautiful or a line before we said that if you leave a thin line connecting them the next line yeah but you know but a thin line is only that is a separate piece and you make a streak going from one to the next here you have a regular healthy regular V you can't scrape off I think that goes into you can't even a little bit you're being I want to try to share the story briefly it's already the time it's I don't want to go overtime over here I'm going to try but what the takeway over here is we have many different cheetas how it's not brought says you should be M it it's a that the G says there a m story that happened in Italy 291 years ago in the town of theun brings it in the town of padva in Italy Moa the RO one of the rabam of town his Min was AR of shabas to do from the the I think did that from the anyways he's doing this shabas shabas he's reading from the and he sees that the V is a regular V he was very bothered why was he very bothered because the gar in kadan says it's so he called us that was another R of the town or another R of the Sho the assistant R and he he asked him he what should we do they both came out that it has to be fixed they called the cipher of the town to fix it immediately today to fix the a shabas KES it should be fixed for um for this shabas for the the CER said yeah yeah yeah sure Lisa he didn't fix it and he put the that should be taken out foring he put that that one of the within the arish had a reg and he put that sa we is going to take out so they're going to take out a sa with a reg and that's what happened that chabas this r the next Friday when he went to go be do mikra either they didn't move it away or he was just wanted to check to see how they fixed it what type OFA did they make and he went and he saw that it wasn't changed Lisa the r always got M shabas K coming up in two weeks so as a because it seems like they still didn't change it he made his own Minion not to be oil on that didn't help because the r always got the cree of that saradis and they called him up for sasis and he didn't go up I don't think because he held a sa as apostle of sa but I don't think for his the says so what's going on over here if it's you need a he didn't go up they called up the other R was also not and then they called up other people and even if it was the lay menit that didn't know but if you saw that the RA are not going up for whatever reason they're not going up is it the I don't know also not going up nobody wanted to be and made a huge over the word sh like you said it's interesting that over the word in the the split a split some went with theer and some went with the they weren't giving so they sent a delegation to Venice also in Italy they sent a delegation to Venice that was considered the mo of Thea was there and the the most the biggest Mo T in Italy was in Venice to ask what to do should we change it should we not change it and whenever they're going to say that's going to be the and we have to move on in life what's the question to fix it not to fix it what he ask me yeah what tell me what what's bothering you why not fix oh why not fix it very good why not fix it what was the cipher it's interesting that the CER had such AAS but let's get to that in a minute why not fix it why not why not but what could be the worst thing it's a small V I mean what what's you'd even attach like the rvas why not they sent a delegation to Venice there were the Rabon the handle from there they sent to check out they sent to the town of Ferrera am I pronouncing it right also a town in Italy Venice we all know but Ferrera had a collection the biggest collection in Italy of cph 140 sephra the ronam of Venice sent somebody to check all 140 to see what what should we do should we yeah make it smaller not make it smaller to their amazement they found 138 of the 140 had a regular V only two had a one was a small V one like one was like the at amputated chopped and they came out with a conclusion not to change it now our Ma on your engagement asked what's the big what's the big deal is asking what's the big deal so so do it what's the big deal especially we're talking aboutus not to be on the that are written regularly not to change they made that they said that anybody that's going to change the that's written regularly should be put that's the story and it doesn't say everything went back to normal but Al they didn't change it not to change it not to change it correct so what's the takea away from this whole story we spent a good 20 minutes going through all the sheas involve a lot of different sheas it's a gor it's a gar kadan and we went through to understand and you'll take a look by the way if you're not a Cen and you're not a KRA it's likely that you must probably didn't see it because it's in the first Aliyah you'll know for next year when they dogba Monday and Thursday if you look out you'll see it but regularly on a hgba you don't when you look you don't see and if you would see it but it's the so you could look in this shabas you know I think many of us myself for sure I'm going to go up by wherever I'm ding to see in the is it and if it's how it's but all all the takeaway is with a Clark ey is in particular for this that however it's written obviously it shouldn't be changed and in general this is a limit sometimes a Shila comes up upro we have to know that when the's a m to come and to change something it's not So Posh here the change up here but you see there was 138 that didn't do it says and with this I'm going to conclude and I apologize for going overtime but a little bit I guess a story I'm get away with it I I the says m in a second if you learn the gamor it could be the these this only one furthermore even in this if you take a look inz how he understands means that it's really chopped it's amputated it's a it's a it's kind of like a play on draia that even though he Evol read it the is like a Korean doesn't mean means cut it make it smaller chop it means read it like without the V means that it should be a regular it doesn't mean to change the V when you looking at it look at the sh the word without the V doesn't mean to really change the V have a wonderful shabas where's where's that where