Yom Haatzmaut: Israeli Independence Day in Halacha Part 2

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning can i give you thank you so uh we're going to be continuing what we're learning last week and the topic was uh israeli independence day in terms of our attitude and whether one may say hello let's just briefly review some of the arguments we gave last week we began with what the sicilia ezra said and that in 1967 a a rabbi and a moshav asked him whether that moshav was allowed to say hello for the miracle that occurred that they were spared from the uh the oncoming arab army and uh that cecilia first said that he suggests that they include their halal in a general burkha sagaima that somebody should be appointed to be uh go up to the almond and say um based his sock on a mice that happened in the times of sam seifer where the sephora also uh did such a thing then the title yesterday gave an argument not to say hello because he said it would be improper while many uh jews are suffering the loss of the relatives who fought to defend the country and they themselves were still reeling in pain and in suffering for from their children or their friends and family it would be inappropriate for uh other year then to be singing halal i mean how could it be some people are mourning and some people are singing hallo and we brought in the argument of rabbi yosef that that would be analogous to that which we say that on you now to say because then we brought in another argument from the tzitzel yes and that is based on what we say in guinness that we're not authorized to establish a new day of mourning for the tragedies of the crusades because once a certain period in jewish history has ended we're no longer authorized to add new days new days of commemoration new days of memorial and in fact that says eliezer makes reference to the concept of the rosh hashanah that says that if many original days of mourning are ended we can add new days right we quoted the letter of said that for anyone in this generation to get up and be que veya to establish to be guys there to make a new day that comes from a fundamental lack of understanding of our unworthiness and our the fact that we're full of sin compared to earlier generations okay then we got into a halachic reason now we're going to begin again this week this is number 12. and this comes from the in and let's take a look again and basically that argument was based on the fact that we are only authorized to say hello for a miracle that happens for all of claude israel not for a small section of claudia so not for the majority of kalisa you need all of claudius that's the argument of the qidah look at number 12. we read it last week in the now we're going to see the synopsis in the sha's of truth number 12. we find further s that we say hello for every sorrow that we shouldn't have to face israel it has to be a miracle that happened to all of kaiser and that is why for some reason you could look through the shanar you could look through the rambam you could look through the rift nowhere do they bring down that if a miracle happens you say hello why does the rambam leave out that why does the rift leave why does you know why because it's not irrelevant because once the goddess happened and so scattered all over the world there will never be a miracle to all of christ so it's impossible that's why they leave out because it's not relevant ever to say hello for a miracle it's just an irrelevant that's what he does countless times in jewish history miracles happened in jewish cities or in jewish countries and they even made yamantai them the yeshikawa yamataviyan by beyond vietnam even made megillos there are cities that composed books of chronicles that they read on the day the miracle happened we will never find throughout two thousand years of jewish history until 1948 anyone who had the audacity to think to say hello this is 200 years ago a miracle happens to a city you could say that's the opinion but we don't agree to the mirror the rush the rift around them they disagree the haki why didn't the raman put down that when the miracles of uh mashiach come we're going to say hello perhaps because what day are we going to say hi and say hello every day well that may be true we're not going to have to remember yatismith with the same obligation because of the miracles of mashiach but is there going to be a specific day that we say hollow perhaps not perhaps not doesn't ask the question why we don't say how well on forum and the memorians is because it's fitzgerald yes it doesn't give any of these answers well no no why because there was a miracle for all of clarison because all of kaiser was endangered because ah the verse right every last jew is in danger so you can't give this argument over there right because it was it purim taka was a miracle for allah right so it's a good point but but yeah that would be the one exception where it was an s to on our own what kind of fillers for example uh let's say they made it so that you can take all the sugar every day you should say no no you can so we do it every day here you know let's say in fact it gets to a point now that children think that this is part of the darwinian already that's why the gura even writes hashem all that can't say it so on the other hand there are certain hundreds of years of tradition that sort of you know we started here [Music] and now well let's see those yeah that's the landing i mean yeah they say in the uh yeah every single day or during certain periods of time i know let's say yeah they will make you know if there's a danger in arizona they'll say say capital right every day but there are tools is you ask you know people bigger than me about uh you know i didn't instituted and i'm not questioning it whatever was uh instituted but that's cool before chris if necessary if necessary but to make a takkano that every single day there's a new part of davening i think it was a trouble and that's as well so we started saying it and we didn't stop saying it but it has to be clear that it's not part of this it has to be clear it's not okay here's a big question you asked about for him how could you say hello on hanukkah was hanukkah a miracle that happened to all of khalifa absolutely not absolutely not hanukkah was in times of when second base had made us there were jews already in europe all right so how could we use it good but we're learning now you can only say hello if it's all of cloud so how could you say hello hanukkah but even in the rory jews in in in europe correct um in the times of purim he ruled over the whole world so oh everyone was in danger the jews in bara park even in the times of purim were in danger but in the times of what by the time she didn't rule over absolutely absolutely he means everything it was like he never ruled in spain sure he did absolutely gemara says in fact if some sofa says on the opening of the megillah why do we need tanaka ruled over the world that was the whole miracle of purim that he ruled over the world why because if he wouldn't have ruled over the world let's say he would have ruled over the whole world except for monroe so then you know what maybe he would have been successful in carrying out his plot because hashem could have said you know what they'll still be jews but now that he ruled over the world and hashem never destroyed claudius so hashem has to save us so the biggest miracle of purim was possible yes now it can't happen that's what some server says but what about the greek empire did not spread over the whole world so why don't we why are we allowed to say hello okay he asked this question and you know he answers he gives a good terrorist the hate divasher curse of shamble targets us he answers very nicely you're right khannaka was not for all of kaiser but the kivan show your rights in mahakarab since the greeks wanted to destroy the basha mikdash saras call israel makeri that's considered a tragedy for the entire jewish people the kivan shlain nakarav had solas since the temple was not destroyed hat solas call you almighty that's called the salvation of holy islam is bothered by a question if you can only say hello for a miracle the heavens parole of khalifa how could you say halal on chanukah the answer is you're right there were jews all over the world but it was a tragedy for all jews because they wanted to destroy the base hamikdash and it was therefore a salvation for all of kaiser so here you can say the same thing and the earth israel is belong to all the jews okay to be intellectually honest that might be a good point that maybe you can make the same case that if pharisee swirl is in danger of being in the hands of the and then we gain a certain control over israel could we not make the same case then that this is considered yeshua for all of kai as well but on the other hand it's not a matter of it's just a matter of control of the land did the nation's world want to destroy arts israel no they wanted it for themselves so to extend the same logic to 1948 maybe but it's a stretch it's a stretch it's not the same thing as they wanted to destroy the base to make this after all we know the ramadan right samara that why doesn't the torah tell us where the bay samitis is going to be built right look throughout the hamish doesn't say where the where is the basement the place that i choose why doesn't hashem say it's a new shalom because if hashem would have said where you shalom is and where the way something is going to be all the 12 shots would be fighting over it we want it we want it done would say we want it after he would say we want it so hashem left it undecided until the final moment so the truth is based on mikdash belongs to everyone right there's an opinion like but to extend it to knight to independence as opposed to foreign sovereignty it's not exactly the same although you could stretch it i could hear such a thing i can't argue if you want to say well the fact that i saw was under the dominion of the golem and now it's under our control could we not say that that would be a salvation for allah okay but the the better is built on on the on the land of binyamin no it's built under shiva but in terms of itself was it in other words yes you shall i am half of it is in yehudas and half of it is in vinyaman but who owns it who owns the vasa public property it's not you can say yehuda owns it or it's in you who does territory it's in his airspace but he doesn't own it it's an international zone right international exactly exactly okay let's just see one added point that the qidah makes and the kida says opinion was not to say hello for a miracle but he says even if you want to say hello beyonce even though we should really parallel the way the original hell was set up and that is right after all concepts of prayer are built and found in al adenair on the pillars of the secrets of the world in other words if we want to know the positioning of the thela why does rasha amar and then haidu and then mizmar al-asada and then and then if you wanted to know why that progression tremendous secrets tremendous kabbalistic meaning we don't know what it is every the flow of the tefila has tremendous soyuz in it so if you're going to insert a halal on a day that halo should not be said who knows what you're doing to the world no you know the way i look at it is like um imagine if you know you took an atom and you have you know protons and neurons and you just wanted to slip something in between you blow up the world blow up the world so what fila is not as powerful of course it's more powerful so you want to and you want to insert something what you're a nuclear physicist if you're a nuclear physicist you can insert something in the atom if you're not a nuclear physicist you're you're meshuga to certain anything if you don't know the power of the tv the way it feel was formulated based on the reason and you're going to start slipping in this political thing to you have to be insane you have to mean that you have no right to do that because you can't tamper with the tv the cabanas it was all established with great secrets were able to do it they were nuclear physicists they had the hidden secrets 200 years ago we're simpletons it's like a guy who walks into the nuclear room oh what's this button right so i think you should say hello what would you know about the way that philo's position okay and then he says like this says the tits i like the way that concludes that you know what i suggest look on the third line in the last paragraph says may be there right now right i praise the rabbanimen uh levarno shakasha iran in the year it happened in sara's harass there was a big earthquake beneath soilu and they were saved what did they do they didn't make halal they established that on that shabbos they're going to get health got to come in and when they get up to kuf they're going to sing it with a nice they're not adding anything they're saying the regular tourist villain they're going to give special attention with a nice into the hala hagado bimakum the same place i say the same thing that if you want to celebrate the miraculous salvation don't say hala on a different day when you say hello you'll put a nice tune to the words you know hoydu and yoitzuzain that's how that's the conclusion of the hida rabbavadji yosef is not persuaded by this by the way at the end of schwann estrella because who are we to insert it so revad yourself this is the number thirteen in the mass of adja he's down on the tenth line when we call malcolm nirlan writes some lamer hollow if that zebra wants to say hello you see these words he doesn't say the rabbi should get up and say you want to know what to do i think you should say hello no yourself says if you're a rabbi takifa you have a strong hand you should get up and say don't say hello but not everyone is in that position so if the zebra wants to say hello beloy bracha adam don't throw tomatoes after right because what's the proof because don't be so such a stickler for the don't say by inserting hollows like you're destroying the atom don't we do that insert hello so you say we have to say hello no we don't have just a minute three quarters of the shoe leaves and then you have hardly 10 people who say allah they're smart they don't know correct but you said it according to this oh you know you can't you can't have both ways i don't know i that i never saw i never saw that announcement do it you won no would they announce you know whoever wants to say it said whoever doesn't want to say that after this they finished sure okay the badges says like this brother says we do the same thing on that we've been saying hello for you know 1800 years if they could do it then don't throw tomatoes at the people who do it either he does says this is a kabbalistic reason that's for those who know so if you're making you're not going to say hello but we're not going to start protesting based on the kabbalistic reason not to say hello again this is based on this reason bavaria is not saying don't protest he's saying if you want to protest because of this reason al-qidah that you're not authorized to tamper with the twila ravages says that wouldn't be a strong enough reason to protest okay let's move on a little another reason that's all for this reason is offered by the situation it's offered also by rabbi yosef why not to say hello on on a day that a miracle happens for with which upon which miracle do they establish it because of what miracle who remembers what the gemara answers the war right now foreign doesn't say a word about the war what does the gemara say let's see the gemara can we put the camaro on the sheets i shouldn't the mishna mention something you know i asked this question is there anywhere in the mission that says you have to wear twillion no does it say anywhere in the mission you have the words no all it starts is when do you have to say krishna whoa wait wait a second before when say you have to say it says everybody knows they have to say so everybody know you had to light the menorah so so what do you want to tell me you want to tell me the story everyone know this so random says it was it was well known it was well known element there are few added halachus okay there's more to say about that but okay the gemara says like look at number four my hanukkah on the 25th day of kiss slave what happened we don't eulogize we don't fast the greeks entered the temple tim they sully they one flask of oil with enough oil to last for one day and it lasted for what eight days as the maritz look at number 16 just very briefly wait a second why does the gemara say the miracle was they had enough oil to ask for one day and it lasted for eight days the gemara ship said simple the miracle was they found it they found it i mean 99.9 percent of the maybe hundreds of flasks were impurified so why did they make america why didn't they celebrate the fact they found it you can use it but the gemara doesn't can use it in a regular chairman that is uh okay that's also a good question the fact that they found the tahara one so you can ask that what the kumar says also what was the miracle you didn't need a miracle come ahead it's seven days so what we didn't eat it what would happen if they wouldn't light it they need we'd like for a different oil oh yeah yeah so sesame seeds i'll ask you a different question why does the gemara not say a word about the military victory look throughout shots there's not one word about the military victory you know what the answer is because the military victory has nothing to do with hanukkah because we don't what's hanukkah what's the main thing we do in hanukkah manila do we do melaka of course so what's hanukkah hal so what is a military victory have to do with hallow you can't say hala for a military victory a military victory as outnumbered as you may be it's couched in the natural process you have big guns you have big bazookas the other guy is not a good shooter you shoot him down bam pal and you win i but there are ten thousand year five did anything change did the moon move out of its place did the kris yamsa split did nature change no so if nature didn't change and chanukah is about how well military victory has nothing to do with halo you cannot say hello for anything that resembles the natural process that's what the russians says look at number 16. says okay he says like this he was uh the miracle that he knows the torah yeah it was very difficult for him to learn in the beginning yeah that's the story he says like this oh yes a little different why didn't they celebrate why don't they why don't we say it's a miracle that they didn't make that flask of oil tummy why isn't that the miracle vigamar should say you know what the miracle of hanukkah is that that flask of oil didn't become tummy says doesn't mention a word about the military victory sigmar doesn't mention a word about the fact that it was miraculous that they didn't make that flask of otame what do we see from here look he says we're not authorized to say hello for hidden miracles but what do you mean it was so amazing the jewish people had a small army in the times of hanukkah 13 men against thousands of people but it's not a obvious miracle it's couched in nature it's couched in teva and since it's couch intelligent you're not authorized to say hello and what in 1948 all of a sudden it was a murder it was an open miracle sir it wasn't an open miracle you had jews who were maybe uh renegades or they they were not fully equipped against the big army yes certainly hashem was on their side certainly it was miraculous but was it an open miracle obviously not no nobody would claim that open miracles happened nobody would claim that nature changed nobody would claim that the moon moved out of its place if that's the case you can't say hello that's it finished finished but i want to say hello good good wonderful but you can't put it in these cells what what they put oh so why do we say hello for the oil because that was an open miracle there's only enough to last for one days and it lasted for eight days there was nothing natural about that so therefore what the gemara's asking is my hanukkah what are you saying hollow for it's not for the military victory because you can't say hello for a military victory it must be for the oil we could be grateful for it certainly you could be grateful for it but halo is a specific thing were there open miracles yes but not a miracle you could say hello for was it more miraculous for the victory of the kashmir over the evening no it's hard to make that case the kashmir were all 13 people right though whatever they are good and the israeli army they were you know much much larger than that hanukkah was certainly more of an open miracle than 48 now they do there was which ones the secular we'll see we'll see no miracle is a generic term it's hard to in terms of it being a miracle to say hello no one can make no one could make a logical argument that it was more miraculous than hanukkah nobody could say that could anybody say that anybody really say honestly that hanukkah was more miraculous that 194 is more back than hanukkah how you can't say no and hanukkah the gemara says you can't say halo 4. well why you cannot say that why not now what's the reason why you can't say hello for a natural thing so this is a very important exercise and this is the gemaran chaba number 19. looking at number 19. the gemara says like this i wish that i would have a share and those who say hello every day aye the goomaras the master said hakoye halab zamakari from agade says halal every day is a blasphemer you hear this you have a guy who says he's saying blasphemy says he committed himself to zimmer you could save sukita zimmer every day you can't say halal every day says the gemara why what does the gemara mean why can't you say halal on an ordinary day says shah if you say hello every day what are you what are you praising god for every single day you're praising him with the halal that means you're praising him for the natural process as if to say god can't change it but if you say hala and you reserve it for miraculous events then what you're saying is god could supersede the system if you say halal every day you're only praising god for the system he put into place when you reserve halal for supernatural you're saying god could override the system so if you're going to say it every day you're a mecca you're a blasphemer as if to say god could only run the system he can't override the system but we still say so what would you say what chanukah the military victory was the nissan gloom or nissan it's a nation 1948 you would say it's a nice galois you can't say that you can't say it but how could you say it's more of an open miracle than the military victory by sanika you see five nations going against one little puny nation and they win something's gotta be amazing it's i'm not it is it's a hidden miracle but again in hanukkah there were 13 jews fighting the war against hundreds of thousands of people so how do you explain that certainly is a miracle but it's not an open miracle if it was an open miracle then the gamer would have said on chanukah you say hello for the military victory i mean that's uh that's that's as strong as nils you can't budge that but with miracle but you don't say how well yeah that's what we're saying we're saying there are two types of miracles are we here denying that it was no we're saying it was a miracle couched in nature and we're just saying we just don't say howard correct but when we say it's not the type of miracle you're authorized to say hello foreign we're not here to judge anyone we're just here to give the halachic arguments we're not finished we still have a lot to do here we have a long way to go but it said only the fight doesn't talk about the the mana the lighting because in modem what are we thanking hashem beautiful oh so we don't mention this because my dam is not a hollow my dim is thanking god for hidden miracles we say thank you i could breathe thank you my heartbeat thanks the sun rises and thank you for the military victory but we're not going to thank him for the oil it's not the time to thank for the oil maiden is not for for the supernatural modem is for the natural so it fits in beautiful hallel is for the oil my dim is for the uh well the mind is for the uh it's beautiful i never i didn't realize that before but it comes out very nice to compose a molding for for 67. oh do you think that could be sanctif is the rabbis with sanctified and allowed to be studying [Music] there's a proton here and there's a neuron here that would be if you shall i miss here you're going to what he's saying is even to inject it after schweinster is tampering even saying it okay we still have a long way to go now takes this a step further in an interesting safer that he wrote called a terrorist suvi maisha number 15. number 15. we're going backwards are you ready to say something okay we're gonna have to do a lot of uh unteaching of of our youth to learn uh the history of israel and the history of our nation it wasn't a miracle that was not there was an oil there's a lot of excitement and a lot of the enthusiasm generated by uh the story the way we tell it and i'm gonna tell you as well we found an extra an extra flask of uh we're not saying not to say hello is not trying to minimize the enthusiasm we're not trying to use halal as a political statement and we're not trying to not say hello as an anti-political statement it's a matter of technical halacha there are certain things you say hello for certain things you don't say halal for it's not a matter of your allegiance to the country it's not a matter of your feeling of the importance of israel it's a matter of understanding the hillary process the process has specific requirements to say hello and one of them is it has to be a change of nature and a war as miraculous as it may be is not a change of nature if you have three guys with guns shooting a hundred guys with guns and the three win are you going to say it's an open miracle the gemara in chaba says hanukkah's military victory was not an open miracle i think you need to speak to rabbi okay let's see i think continues um so the mauritius says that this concept of only saying halal for an open miracle is what we see clear in the gemaran chandras when the gemara says the milita the the miracle of the oil and then the maritzkies takes it further okay very interesting very interesting the gemara says in the rosh hashanah and that's in the second paragraph we don't say halal on rosh hashanah anyone here say hello the books of life and death are open you're going to sing la la la la la and god is you know judging your life says there's a deeper meaning what is halal halal is god could change nature what happened on rosh hashanah god created the world he created man he set nature into motion to start singing that god could change nature the day he created nature is incongruous it doesn't make any sense it's as if to say god you know the nature you created wasn't good you had to supersede it you had to change it how could you dare say halal on rosh hashanah which is the day that god sent nature into motion as if to say god you know the nature you send to motion it doesn't really work so well that's why you have to change it no you want to say hello different day on the calendar fine not the day that god created the world rosh hashanah is the day he created the world it's the day he set nature into motion why would you praise him that he could change it as if to say there's something lacking in creation that's what he says he created from also foreshadows what before shabbos that day also he created the nissan yeah but to get you know allow allow the natural process to work first it's as if he's saying is to say hello would be to say hashem that which you created there's nothing wrong with it because you immediately had to change the system no hashem changes it if necessary if needed that's it's an interesting thought very interesting thought and then he goes on to say hey are you ready for this he goes on to say that remember when yaakov avina was wrestling with the sari shalesa with the ministering angel of asap and the ministering angel laser says sorry yaakov gotta go adios right gotta leave why my day came to sing shira well that's a good excuse he came up with jaako is wrestling with imagine you know you're in the you're in a boxing match and all of a sudden you say gotta go i have to say hello i haven't said hello yet i mean that how do you come up with that excuse me you know you're in class the teacher's like did you do homework sorry i didn't say hello yet you're right all of a sudden this he he says i haven't said hallo since i was created and now all of a sudden he's wrestling with yakov now of some he has to go and say hello well what happened what happened so the maurizio says like this when a person is born he should really say hello he's born into this world he opens his eyes he sees the sun rising wow how who's pulling the sun where's the string i don't see a string causing the sun to rise you should say hello right do you know why we don't say hello because we're born in this world without any seiko without any intellect and we don't realize what's happening so by the time our saha is fully developed we're already used to it but that's the only reason we don't say and once we're used to it it's a natural process we can't say hello anymore but come into this world with full sacha fully developed that is why the moment the mallet is born he says hello why because all of a sudden he sees the sun rising the sun setting the water process evaporation photosynthesis he's shocked by the miracle of it he says halal but on day two he realizes this is a natural process he no longer says how adam harishon was born what fully developed with complete safa that is why the day that he was born what did other mauritian do ms marshall he said he said shira but we weren't born that way we're born without seika and that's how we don't say this he said shira the first day of his life but he hadn't sang shira since he meets a human being like yaakov who is able to elevate himself so much that he could be greater than an angel the angel says wow the natural process has been changed now i have to say hello very interesting approach from the mauritius but what we're learning from him is the concept that halal is only authorized to be said for an open miracle rabbi look at number 17 that sits eliezer that sits eliezer um quotes the maritzkios word for word and he concurs with this approach look five lines from the end from the first paragraph to number seventeen the tselano after quoting them only on a complete miracle leaving mitzrayim blood grasshoppers lice frogs those are open miracles splitting of the sea those are open miracles clouds of glory those are open miracles okay but if there's even a little bit of nature in it oh you ready for this this is also a very strong argument in the times of the second temple the jews return to aras israel they gain independence they gain what we call atzmios is there any memorial day to commemorate the jewish people's return in the time of the second temple no didn't when did more jews return to israel 1948 and tour in the times of ezra 48 the ramban says most jews did return the times of ezra that's not necessarily the authoritative opinion we learned to come and hurry us last summer that only minority of jews returned they're unbanned and some resham learned the majority of khalifa returned why is there no holiday commemorating the return from the goddess in this time of the second temple we weren't happy that we did we gained there to smile that's only because tish above was made for a specific reason that no longer applied but there was no day commemorating as a holiday why didn't they establish hallow why don't they establish hello you know why says it's because when there's when the natural process is involved you don't commemorate and you don't say how so bachelors bring up maybe because they knew it was temporary they knew that regionalists and ibishits and biafra we don't find that any memorial day was established or that they they established hello uh right to get makusho said when the way she's built it's a salvation for all of kali israel oh yeah so why'd they say hallow the day they built the second base and according to most of kaiser was there the national history because it was natural how about if one city wants to set a date not for all of kalasong let's say there's one moshaven that wants to say we were saved on and that was the day the arabs surrounded us and hashem made a miracle for us could we make a holiday just for us yes as a private thing as a prime minister you can establish for all of kaiser but we find the rambam some cypher we find that when salvation occurs to one individual or a small group of people as a private thing they could make no hallo no halloween when they built the first place in english now no all right okay and he goes on to say look on number page six okay page six the bottom paragraph on the right hand side this is something to say from masa iwaya masa ibaja is a collection of and uh and shirim from abravadio seth on uh contemporary issues number six okay page six in the independent form is if let's say the jewish people would have attacked the iran and the arabs would have suffered casualties and the jews would not have suffered one casualty then you can make the case it was an open miracle but that's not the case there were jewish lives that were lost the community many precious lives were lost in qibla even okay this is this is what we'll call part two of the share part three is a little touchy so you know you'll decide if next week you want to get to part three part three we could advance with uh what you said calls whether the establishment of the state of israel we could call ascata we'll see he makes reference to a safer that i happen to have called hatakufa hagadola which is a historical work by ramanakam kashar the malacham kashir was one of the great disciples of the rugged shower and in this is big safer about the uh epic period of uh independence he brings down a letter from basically many of the majority of the israel in 1948 about whether the establishment of the state was in fact asgartha the gula and signed here are many many israel franc rabbi michael tikicinski who was a young man at the time and about a hundred other israel signed to the letter that it is considered now we'll have to see what the ignition say about that we still have to see the opinion of the samara and um also with marcia feinstein and uh we still have electrical so if you would like to explore that let me know and we'll save that for a different time you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com