Should You Kiss the Stones of Eretz Yisroel? The Unusual Practice of Brisker Rav

okay good morning friend this is our uh last onus we made a there was the uh National or International Shear on cuis uh Thursday night in the Brightstone in in our show we made a see onus beem in tab I'm going to be at Theus in South Africa there's going to be a a ma major celebrating subus in South Africa but now today we we have a very special and that is we actually had some kind of I mean we dug into something on every BL so this is a separate inion that we were to uh spend time on an inion on every blotting subis I might break this up into two parts one will be new for everyone and the other I'll repeat something we said on chabas okay so we have a very interesting question here because the gar tells us we're going to start with the the gar tells us that of the very loving practices of the toward R ABA kissed the stones if I'm not mistaken the first time I went to I was 10 years old and I was told that when you go to to you have to get down on the floor and kiss the stones I don't remember who told me that maybe my grandparents I don't know so that's what people were doing so I think I I think we did that not that I felt any particular uh a special at that age but that's what you were told to do so I think that engendered a certain I think at the time people were doing it in any event it comes from this that he kissed the stones of AK I'm just thinking is AK even because the mishna says that it's not part of but anyway actually to to asks this question that's to to asks Mas yeah we learned this okay fine so says half was okay in any event he brings a story about the brisar when he came to is somebody was following him the guy was going to you know he was snooping on him to see if he would kiss the ground he saw the gz didn't kiss the ground so he said Rabbi why are you kissing the ground the r doesn't just bring down stories what does that mean um the ramom doesn't just bring down stories and he oh the ra that's what the gri says the ramom doesn't just bring down stories and and the Grizz didn't explain what he meant one the Grizz Sons asked what did the gri mean what do you you mean the great sages would kiss the borders of Israel by the way that rambam is very telling to me I didn't realize this I think the Ram's bother by to's question another other words question why did reab AB kiss why didn't he kiss it seems like he's kissing the borders of right that's what it sounds like from the r he's kissing the borders why the borders because that shows this is there's a certain there's a certain in other words when are you mades shabas your mades shabas at the beginning your mades at the end when there's a when you could see the difference between the alternative that that should engender the theba so maybe that's the emphasis on why RAB ABA would be Mas like like to says half of it was in and half of it was out anyway but that's not the emphasis that the Grizz was picking up I'm just pointing out that's another interesting n on the ram the ram says the great sages this is not just a story this is this is only for the great sages it's not so writes the writer of the so here we have a very authentic source the magazine the paper reports the story about the Grizz that the reason why the Grizz did not kiss because when the r records it he says not every you know and not every Joe and not every regular person so to speak um kisses only now the r also says in other words you could ask a question why do we say why don't we go out to the fields you ever wonder about that why don't we go out to the fields the answer is because when the raham codifies it he says that this was something the used to do well we're not on the level of and therefore this is not a practice practiced by everyone this is the I want to add you know at the C on Thursday night uh rev Lea gorth spoke and he said a diok in the Rashi one of the rashis on because the gar brings other practices the gamar brings the practice of Rami and rasi who would go from the Sun to the shade and from the shade to to the sun because um they didn't want to be uncomfortable and it would bring them to complain about is and then the brings the practice of would roll in the dust and the quotes the like the says for your servant loves her stones and cherishes her dust and Rashi amazingly says something very unusual Rashi says Rashi just cites the and Rashi omits one word he omits the word the says andash omits the word sh he just quotes the p and the R gorth said over from the B I saw this from IM that rash is saying something very important that if you just go over to the stones of and kiss them because that's what it says in the you're a phony you're a fake you can't kiss something because it says in the PK you should kiss it kissing means you love it you can oh the T says kiss it okay mwah mwah mwah it's meaningless it's it's an empty meaningless Behavior so Rashi takes out the word shanar shanar is not why you should kiss it the shanar is saying as we know there were some people who loved AR so much that they cherish the stones but not you can't kiss the stone because there's a in in the that says to kiss it so perhaps maybe the motivation behind what the brisk grv was doing was that this is not like a go kiss the stone it has to be completely natural and if it's not natural it should not be done it's similar to another idea the brisar says you know the Kaz say that one of the Amar um would wait would say that he's like vinegar compared to wine compared to his father CU his father would wait 24 hours between M and fik and he wouldn't so the risk says why wouldn't he if your father did it so do it what do you mean his father did it but he's like vinegar compared to Wine don't be like vinegar wait 24 hours so the bris would say when it comes to a a is meaningless unless you really feel the concern and the worry of it could lead you to do something wrong only then are you allowed to be M but if you're just doing it I want to I want to be M it's it doesn't mean anything so he would have done it if he felt the need for Ziro he didn't he wasn't on that madga meaning in order to keep a you have to be on that madga similar to that in order to show love you have to really love it anyway um yeah you know uh you could make the same case for that you could make the same case by the way you know rhenen says you're not a lot of kiss the Tyra you know that rev henin said that who do you think think you are you're so close to the Tyra you could just go kiss it who's it do you think your T is your wife she the tar is like your fifth cousin 70 times removed sohin says you should not put your mouth on the Tyra besides he says that you're transferring billions of bacteria to anybody who's coming after you he says it's um presumptuous okay look nowadays if you're not going to kiss the T you know they're not going to give you Al and they're not going to they're going to check into your if you don't but uh there is there is what to think about anyway um here in this saer which saer is this Mas it's the Mas so he asks you know the ra uses the same in y regarding s you should give s before and the of the ra here in the booklets he brings the by the way it it doesn't mean right before you when you say G you should give means sometime before whether it's by Ash or whether it's by this way of so the ra says um to give before the would give and they asked well why do you give you don't kiss the stone only says so why do you give before ding so the safer answers is is a great mitzvah for every single Jew now the timing of it is to give it before so that the G do because it's he's not doing something that only do everyone has to give that so if the timing of it is only for then the Grizz would do it but the whole inion of kissing the the stones is not a Mitzvah it's only for that the Griz didn't do the the D booklet brings down that the r interestingly in writes anyone who's buried in gets kapar but you're better off being there when you're alive and the gar says even though you're better off being there when you're alive the great sages would would try to be buried there so is that only for to be bued in or you'll say well I would say the same thing Kap everyone needs kapar so the indion of kapar is not only for I don't know okay that's an interesting tumble so he's saying uh there it's not presumptuous it's just it's just less painful okay [Music] um very good so that that concludes this segment I want to share with you just one uh short thought record