Parshas Terumah 5785 (Rav Hershel Schachter)

the med says that MOS was instructed to make the man and he found it very difficult so wasn't able to do it so he threw the gold into the furnace and it came out miraculously so the bother with the question what was so difficult in the days of the man was used for made a new so what's so difficult for to do explains that the says was instructed to make a with they different pieces and then there was a there was a that didn't apply in the days of has to look exactly the way the vision that you saw when you were on so that he didn't remember exactly he can make with but it won't necessarily be exactly the way the vision appeared on so that was a that only applied in the Mish so that's what was difficult for M and the par says that you should have the yeah you should have L you should have one next the other one and then cross him to hold together the the L so the expression appears they're not sisters whenever it's something that but it mean sisters so the often quotes the Kim the interpretations that they gave and he says that they're utterly ridiculous so he quotes that the Karim interpreted the in the list of the Forbidden relatives that you're not allowed to marry so it says you're not allowed to marry man marri two uh two sisters unless unless the first wife died if the first wife died he's allowed to marry her sister because on the first life is first wife is still allowed even if he divorced her he not allowed to marry her sister so the interpreted have two wives here does mean a sister means the L should be opposite each other so that was their interpretation see he shows but it's incorrect they thought that we assume it's that you're not to marry two wives they interpreted that that's if it's feminine you even though they're not sisters at the end of the you have uh the says the of the Mish was 100 long and 50 wide so it says should said it says 50 by 50 it wasn't the width was not 50 by was 50 has one the first half of the there was nothing there it was empty starting from the first half is 50 by 50 amas there were nothing there then in the second half of the of the length of the starting from 50 then you had the and and all the other things maybe that's so the has a comment on the means 50 square but it wasn't 50 square it was 100 by 50 so the says take 100 by 50 so what how much square am how many square AMS were there in the mishon if it's 100 by 50 so it's a 5,000 no 50 * 5,000 so if you take if you make a square out of that that'll be 70.6 amas each bar the square root of 5, 70.6 70 and 35ths that's called sh0 plus 70.6 and what does it have to do with anything so the gamar said that has to do with with when you're making the when you there's a dinner inab that if you have a city just because you have a lot of houses together it's not called a city in order to be called a city there's a m and there's a m Aran that says the same in order to be considered a city you have to have three and each has to me three areas that have a wall around it and and um and each has to have at least two bot in it two different bot how close did the have to be can have one in New York one in Los Angeles and one in St Louis and the whole America the whole North America is is one ear said there must be some she not that they have to be contiguous the have to be touching each other think I think that's probably the and the says with respect to uh the houses in the city let's say you have a city and then every city the gamor says you calculate you consider it as if it's in a rectangular shape even if it's not a rectangle didn't consider a rectangle so Manhattan is approximately a rectangle it's not a rectangle according to the Northeast Southwest but it's approximately a rectangle so the gor says it's just just fill in the rectangle so that's the city limits and then and then you say 70 amus 70.6 amus outside of the city limits is called I like a pregnant woman so that's that's extra and outside of the then you then you measure Al or let's say when you're trying to calculate so Manhattan is approximately a rectangle so just fill in the rectangle the way it is what if it's not approximately a rectangle at all you have a city that hous all all the place sloppy so how do you draw the rectang every city has to be a rectangular shape so you draw it according to according to a map NorthEast Southwest so you take the northermost house and you draw a line there easternmost house you draw a line there and that's going to be the city limit then you measure 70.6 outside of that and then you measure Al L outside of that so what do you mean to take the northernmost house let's say you have a lot of houses over here then you have a house 25 mil away so that's that's the northermost house of this city 25 miles away is not part of the city how close does the house have to be there the other houses that should be considered an extension of the city so that's the she in the like that so the question is says it on the level of the he can say we is so you can say the whole thing is an to me it sounds like an really means you take 100 by 50 and you multiply it so this so the area of the of the was 5,000 square and then you then you take the square root of that if it would have been in a it's not a square it's a rectangle it would have been a square would have been 70.6 on every bar each of the four bars so I would have thought for sure that says no that's for only like only if it has the three in it that's this a real real very unusual this shabas is an unusual shabas going to take out three the first the second that we read today and um we're not going to read the just going to just going to read shabas and the says says falls out on chabas lay the whole thing what we read today and we don't follow the we follow the says he only L was it's not from It Was Written in the days of the by that's what writes said all the other like they were all written in the days of the going so that's it disagrees with the tradition so for some reason we often do not follow we don't do like the B that you Le everything that you read you only and so tomorrow we're going to Le three first one is going to be he [Music] give he gave six Alas inum and then you finish the whole then you give the seventh Al is going to be then you Sayes after the seven alas then in the third say about yeah so what is schum all about a lot of people don't know what is all about is the pay for Theon uh by a is learns that from a learns that from a that if a person is obligated to bring a Corin he can't afford it so if he has good friends and neighbors they can without embarrassing him they can go to the giz the B say next a neighbor a friend has to bring a Corbin send him a letter that it was that it was paid for as long as he agrees will be he has to agree as long as he agrees we say they can pay for the so that's learned during the period there was had a lot of trouble from day number one till till the end there was a lot of trouble from theim a lot of they didn't follow there were many many years that the was run by the incorrectly so this was one of the issues that they allow just like in said the same thing by so they would have wealthy families donate $10 million to cover all the carbers this year and then they put hang up a sign all the carbers were taken care of this year by the Goldstein family so that's so the says when the finally succeeded in kicking out theim a lot of the K would they kicked that it St him a lot of times it's St him around the sanedrin also when they kicked them out so then they they made one of the the was established properly that you can't have individual families donate all the money it's only called the Corb is paid for by the money if you take all the Jews who are alive today and they all chip in and they give that's not called a Corb that's called a Corb means all of Cl is starting from till everybody's called it even the people who died already usually you can't means all thews that's a special of when they had the suggestion in the days of the there was Al so they had a discussion maybe they should make a and bring Caron somehow the whole some say the whole discussion only was about why not about he can bring it to T so they say because because himself have to buy it from money so how many Jews are going to give not even it's not going to be 51% of their Jewish population let's say today 51% of Jewish World Jewish population is not Orthodox so probably the majority will not want to chip in to give money to bring carbon they don't they don't hold from carbonis they think that it's a pagan thing so that was a big issue that the was known as a big Zionist but his his are printed on the bottom of the page in day he has good things to say and then once got stuck when was giving he did know and he said o on the bottom of the page has aide that's a good who is he didn't know who it was he looked on the first page and the Y there and it says who wrote everything knew how to learn he didn't know that he knew he was a Zionist was one of the religious Zion they didn't know he a has good things on on so came up with the idea in the early 1800s we should just go build a b build bring and everything is fine he he wrote a whole he thought that he solved uh all problems so they point out one of the problems that he never dealt with was that was already after the beginning of the reform movement so they doubted that very much that you get 51% of the world Jewish population to chip in for Carbono so is that called is that called Carbono I be questionable yeah so the rid and his comments on the has an interesting comment the it says in in in Ezra that when came brought the Jewish people back there they completed the building on the second and then they gave so everybody gave they gave gigantic golden coins instead of which hardly anything $5 probably they gave gigantic golden why so the ra has the suggestion that's quoted in we have a meing that on we give you shouldn't say it's because may become that's what says really you can't use it for you can't use it for other purposes so um so that's um so it says that the many he give a half a dollar half a dollar doesn't correspond to so that's based on the r that the r says you have to give in America the dollar is the basic thing in Russia it's the ruble in uh Britain it's the the Shilling whatever the whatever is the that all the other the pen niol dimes quarters everything is based on the dollar dollar is the Bitcoin so the r says that you have to give of that of that coin and it can never be less than always has to be at least and every yearz has to decide how much everybody has to give so they have to determine what's considered there's a who says like that with respect to says that that you have to give five Ruble he lived in Russia you have to give five rubles even though it's way more than P needs they have to give five of the so the ra says that that's why they had to give because that was the the at that time they R next ra said what are you talking about the people were so poor it says in they were so poor how can it be that the M was uh Darkon all golden big golden coins they were living on pennies how can it be that the main he doesn't think that that's correct so the rabit says like this the best has to figure out every year how many is they going to bring is it going to be a sh 13 months or 12 months if it's 13 months you have to bring more caronus then they have to figure out how much will the animals cost today we know how much the animals cost today you have to ask experts in economics in this field that they think the the cost of animals will go up in the course of year so how much money will they need to buy all the carbonis for 13 or 12 months then they have to figure what's the world Jewish population how many people are going to chip in not everybody gives even though it's a Mitzvah not everybody's got do the mitah we hope we have 51% less than 50% that's the time that they said how can that be called a if not participating then you have to figure how many people are going to pay on time they have to have the money starting from is the beginning of the fiscal year in the for the so you start you announce that another month it's going to and the newon have to starting from have to be purchased with the new money if you paid for it from last years left is also good the pay for the Caron starting from with the new money so whenever they make let's say whyu makes an appeal they raise money the people pledge money but it takes them a long time to they pay the money so fine everyone is are they going to give it before you have to take them money and buy the three times a year they would they would take the money so two weeks before P that's then two weeks before she was and two weeks before sukus they would take big sacks three big sacks full of money so there a question will the people how many people will bring the money on time doesn't enough they're going to bring the money 20 years later and B they had big pushk big boxes where they put the money so the money that they giving for this year's is called there's a guy 90 years old who became a and he found out that he was supposed to have been giving for the last 75 years and he never gave so he has to give he has to check in the in the records how much was the year that I was by Mitzvah how much was it the next year the next every year it's a different amount depends whether the theer has 12 months or 13 months whether how much the animals are going to cost price can go up once in a long while the price goes down and they have to figure out how much every every year they would announce how much the is this year it can never be less than but usually more usually way more sometime I'll say this year is $20 14 cents so the you're not allowed to give donations in the the Caron have to be purchased with money only let's say uh a non-jew will say I want to donate miss that you don't accept donation or let's say a Jew already gave so he can't donate another $100 that's no one can give a penny more than what they said $268 no one's allowed to give more than that amount no one's allowed to give less than now and even if there are billions of Jews in the whole wide world and they're all giving way more than you need you never give less than that's a question for what age on do you give so the you only D people in the Army from the age of 20 young and now they DFT in before 20 so that's really after maybe they don't send them in in um in combat until a 20 I don't think I don't think that's I think they do send into the combat before 20 also if you have no choice you have no choice during the I had a brother-in-law who passed away already before last PES so he was he wasn't even bar mitzah he was in he was call in an army he was in the Army doing they needed every every able every every person who was healthy was helping helping in the world but strictly speaking if you have you don't D people younger than 20 so if you're taking a sensus of the people to see whe How many people you have over how many men you have over the age of 20 to serve in the Army then it's only 20 years 20 and above what about for the purpose of purchasing May there two about that the says that it doesn't depend on 20 what have depends on depends on so there's a there was a collection of CH that was called um R the one who claims that he found the manuscript his father was a prominent Rabbi so all gave gave all they all knew the father they didn't know that the son was a crackpot so he made a forgery refers to it as Bas some Chas that are clearly not by The Rush he says that we're not the married women don't have to go to mik that's 100% wrong that's 100% wrong so they know there was a mish they knew his father so they all gave H so this Crack part not only did he Forge the Chas he put his own footnotes on the bottom of the page that's called KAS so the kasad he has this famous comment that many quote since the the SL written by the so that writes in like this that women are not like women are not because says the women need also but that's only but is only in that's in the place of carbas we don't have carbon so we have to say will accept it as if we brought since women are not so therefore it follows logically that women are not as it follow logically Highly Questionable the women are not to pay for the Cory but once they once the men pay they mo it Mar it on the half of everybody even on behalf of the women who didn't give them but the not like that that a respect for like that the women are not so this character the KAS in his footnotes on the bottom of the he writes that we all know that people before the age of 20 were not very questionable the P says that it's not correct that's when you're counting how many people there are in the Army how much is the population to know how many soldiers you have so you only you only count from 20 is on but as far as probably from 13 on so he's assuming that it's 20 so just like say women so anybody before the age of 20 so he can't be the for old the people if they people in the I'm a lot older than 20 some of you are older than 20 soever is older than 20 cannot be with who younger than 20 because I think the quotes this he didn't realize that the whole saer is a fake then there's a a mish in that says if a coton started giving even though he not nether means before the age of 20 before the age of 13 whichever it means so's to continue to give that's it's based on that that famous is AAS so how can how can he be magish money he can't get give donations to you can say even though the C is not a he can he can he could be sometimes you have so he can he can take only the but can't accept donations as to be for this purpose so says that you see from this that that works not only to Beka someone's property even to give them money to someone else not only no I Can Be Ma my jacket by making a declaration so to so so has the right has the ability to be my jacket against my wish bz as if they had the B just like the B could be m a jacket without a m so the bz can do it also but I can't be mock my jacket to you without a so how can help to be to someone else so that's a big in earlier generation generation they had that works so the claims this Mna that says that a kid before Aon a coton could be a person before the age of 20 if you all like that that before the age of 20 they're not to give but they're old enough to be let's say women are not but they have the same as the men so if a woman wants to volunteer to she can give it it's not a problem but if a go wants to volunteer then not so let's say a is going to volunteer so if it's only based on says works on the level of the even to so that's why it works and the thinks that it's not correct it only works so how can they accept the C so the says cuz the coton puts it in the big the so is kind so the whole thing is a doesn't make sense and doesn't make sense you don't accept donations so if the kid's going to put it in a is going to be with that's is going to be with you have to be very difficult that uh that she very difficult there is a is talk about that's say I owe a lot of money to people and I can't I don't have so much money to pay so a Good Samaritan comes over and he and he pays the money and he pays the money for me so uh so the m has no right to Ching me to bother me so the raises a question that the mother can't to pay is that because maybe she say no the is not parua it wasn't the who paid a Good Samaritan paid someone else paid but it's as if it's self understood it's implicit someone else is giving him I owe $5,000 someone else gives the $5,000 it's understood that the ma is because I gave him someone else gave him $5,000 on my behalf is is the someone else pays say learned by and by so sometimes he has from sometimes they he heard from that there's a the in the middle of that if I took not get someone else he's he can be he can do me a and pay on my beh if the someone else paying my is that the is so how is the you have to have gave so he said isn't it right from the that when someone else pays my is that's thought that that's a r I thought it was not a good r I thought it was not a good R because there's that you learn out we said before that there's an institution of of when you give themy it's not a not the coin that you give so that's covered with the of doesn't prove to any other it's only by by just like someone be on my beh and they can bring it to the giz and the giz will send the letter that it was send the letter to the other person was taken care of is the is the is the beginning of the fiscal year in the starting from the new be paid for with the new money so the odds are 6 to1 that not going to fall out on a shabas seven days in the week probably going to fall out the middle of the week sometime so every week on shabas he put upon him on the it sits there for a week then take it off next shab and the eat it before it's they eat it until so when they when they pay for the shabas a week ago in the middle of the week going to be they paid for it from the old the new money that's a Corban that's going to be after but he put it on before so the learned in and he writes that the they they they learned Kim and they were breaking their heads they couldn't they couldn't figure out what what's going on there and then they learned they didn't know the then they learned it a second time and then they finally began to understand what's going on so the CL was in the if you come up with any you have to write them so everyone will be able to be done so this R raport he wrote like encyclopedic essays based on all the that he had access to the rash and the and and whatever he had and they they all so he wrote fantastic so he thinks about the he thinks that the that they put on the the before the had to be purchased with the money but if you look in the it doesn't sound like that sounds like two weeks before PES means they start using the new money according to him they had to buy the carbon had to buy the carbon of the upon him they had to buy the flower for the upon him before CU they they put it on the on shabas and they sat that till next week so that's a question which money did they use but the if they use the old money it's also the old the old money it's also good but that starting from the new should be paid for uh with the new with the new money okay sh everybody I think a little bit the um in the spect I think it kind of makes sense for the exactly for the Cs on I think a little bit