Pesach: The Laws of Chol Hamoed - Rabbi Reuven Lauffer

[Music] okay the truth is like this and I love the Kalevala really not very complicated Barack I said Col avoid is an interesting description it's two different words together whole Android the whole means everyday mundane the weekday and my Dean's festival that means that it's a combination of two it's like a like a blend of the two together so darling is normally much longer under column I'd in the mornings we have so for example we're going to have Hallel and createrra and more stuff every single morning but on the other hand half hallo which is always a bit of a bit of a swiss because you're only skipping out too the reason for that is interestingly enough because the sacrifices that were brought during pacer after the first day peasant were all the same they were uniform and that the hal l that's recited when we recite whole hello so it's when we're commemorating sacrifices that were different so for example on saccade every day we say whole hello because every day the sacrifices were different on on Pesach it's not like that and therefore that's one of the reasons as for the other reason has brought is because on the seventh day of Pesach when the young super woman went through the Red Sea so the Egyptians died and I coach Bach who didn't want us to sing a whole hala lover there so it would have been a little bit out of place to recite whole Halloween column Lloyd and not to recite the whole color a whole hallow on on yontiff so it's a half Hallel be that as it may yeah except first the first date first date guys with whole hallow seventh tears well half a level however so what's gonna be Dominic Dominic is longer but aside from that here drink during the column right so there are no restrictions like there are on yom tov for example so we can drive on column wide you can go you can use money on column ID you can go and buy things in that you know under McCulloch whatever whatever you need you can cook and you can put on the lights all the things that you can't normally do on Rosh Hashanah Yom Tov and on Shabbos you can do on Halloween however there are certain things that people tend to be a little bit more restrictive about so for example washing clothes people tend not to wash clothes however in the in the old days washing doing washing was any normal thing you had to take your washing down to them to the to the river and it was a whole lot of work you know they had wash days when the whole day was dedicated to washing and cleaning and it was very difficult it was hard hard work today with the advent of washing machines so it's a lot less complicated therefore if somebody has small children at home and small children have this habit of getting themselves dirty even before they put the clothes on they get themselves dirty so if you're you know if you if you need to if you need the clothing then for sure you can run a load in the washing machine in order to have clean clothing for the children what you should try to avoid doing though is if you have enough clothing for yourself then don't assume because you're running alone for the kids that you can put your stuff in there as well rather just run a load for whatever is really needed another example might be for example nowadays tablecloths you don't have enough tablecloths because of young to the guests and whatever it was and you need for the last day of Yom Tov you need tablecloths or to make your shower you make the on the table look beautiful so you'd be able to wash the tablecloths in the washing machine you should not be washing things by hand though again unless it's delicate children's clothing other things that people are careful not to do for example sewing knitting other things that people do is that they try not to write unless there's a real need what's called a devar ved if there's something very important so that's an exam you've got to write down a very important message otherwise you're forgetting signing a check is okay if the if you if you have to pay the person there right so for you know what scientist signing a credit card slip you got other mycolic you buy you know what have you buying then you want to pay with your credit card you can sign the credit card slip on a column mode because that's called a devolve evade if you don't sign it then they won't take you know that they won't let you have the goods that you just bought although here in Israel they're very lackadaisical about these things and sometimes they'll take it they don't really care it's really hard actually but x marks the spot the the so if you've got an important message you need to write down or you've had the most incredible incredible tone of thought and you know that if you don't write it down right now then it's going to hit it's going to it's you're going to lose it then you need to them for sure you need to write it down and that's okay to do so however all the other things that we normally write down are okay there's an interesting interesting discussion about writing using phones for example or computers that's great right you could you could talk your kiddush into the phone and then listen listen to it after write it all down after you answer you could do that that I'm saying that the content of writing today is very different from when I when I was young maybe years ago writing writing was a big deal because that's what you had to find you know a turkey of some kind and pluck a feather out and then and then you know then you had to sort of go and mix it mix ink together and so today again like writing writing when you when you write a text to somebody right is that writing well that's not that's not a halakhah cry ting it's it's I don't know how we're supposed to define it exactly when you write something in your computer right so when you write something on the computer what what have you done I mean really you've pressed on a key and the key is bringing up pixels in a different on some kind of a format that's going to give you in the shape of a letter it's interesting according to many many my portion according to many illogical thora T's writing on a computer today is not a problem in holla mode what might be a problem is saving what you've written that might have a separate there might be a separate problem over there if it auto-saves then I don't imagine you really don't you haven't done anything have you which means if you're working inside of a pre if you're working inside of a pre-existing filed and it's Auto saving itself don't know you know it's an interesting how logic dimension of you know right think how far we're going to take the definition of writing and what does it mean I mean you know today I am the truth is does anybody still use pens today on Shabbos you have to write two letters in order to be in order to be held accountable according to torah law you have to write to two letters is what's going to cause the the problem which means you can write an Aleph and according to torah law you haven't done anything if you write another Aleph next to it that's a problem writing two letters together becomes a problem from the idea of the logic definition of writing the rabbi's came along and they said that you shouldn't write anything at all yeah like the pen at the pen itself there if there is no Torah prohibition with holding a pen on Shabbat right the problem is of course that if you write six days in the week you're right and you're holding a pen on Shabbat so the chances are that you're probably going to forget either you'll end up writing on Shabbat as well so the rabbi's came along they introduced this concept called mobster mobster is pushing pushing things away so that if a person does forget and if they do make a mistake that they're not going to transgress a Torah prohibition so there is an Indian our column or the good news is and our column mode there is an Indian to eat and to drink and to you know to have a good to have a good time to be married to eat drink and be merry because if you eat enough not servants of all you mean no no the that so there is an Indian of being in a state of simcha scientist I see Optive means - you know - I mean because I'll say that symptoms young - is - you know ain't some kind of a boss of a yang that you should have needs and you should have wine each to the wrong whatever makes a person happy but there is an Indian of being in a state of simpler junior column ID and it's normally time which is you know it's good it's good family bonding time I've done lots of showers the multi showers have yontiff right the first debut on - so that's going to be a regular half-dollar the same way that you make have done I want to shove every other one - Chavez that's what you're going to do it's a sham after the first day of pay stuff is over seventh day there's no I'm dollar because you're going from Yom Tov to Shabbos you're on tip to Shabbos is you're going up in kaduche you're going up in sanctity and therefore there is no special dollar that's recited on what's a Shabbos again after Pesach is all over then you'll recite a regular a regular dollar you have to make sure that you light your candles before it gets before it gets dark before sunset right in order to make sure that that you've said everything up the best thing to do because you're going from yontiff into Shabbos is to try to get all of these things ready before yontiff comes in so that when it comes to light the candles on Friday afternoon they're there they're ready you can just light them and make the broker then you make the broker of likely commercial Shabbat right unless you're keeping two days anyone that's keeping two days so they'll be keep they'll be saying the brothel of Mladic meirschultz Shabbat beyond Earth because for them it's the second day on term as well but all of us on the first night we're all going to be reciting dad lick ner shel shabbat the aunt of because it's shovers and it's going to be pasted up in 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