Rav Eli Stefansky: “They Know Shas Cold”

I had the privilege and the honor to to give a fair for Shas then. And these are I don't know I don't know how many people you can see in the video probably maybe I don't know 70 80 who knows how many people that they know Shas cold cold cold cold. One of them I'm I'll point out in the video is Reb Nachman Fenster. He he learns in our college and he's the top of the top. He's unbelievable. I call him the Belzer you know the whole thing. So questions that I asked and you'll see it in the video I asked them so what tree produces fruit but only the male version of the tree and not the female version which is the opposite of typical you know typically the female produces over here it's the male. What tree? So right away they start screaming this what they all knew the answer and they start if you listen closely you'll hear them screaming different daf. And one guy screams out And then I say okay who knows and he says the Tosefos in Menachos daf in seconds. I say what what does he say and he and he thinks for a second he quotes the loshon and within that he gives a little shot. He says so let's we'll see it here. I'll tell you what he says. Eitz eitz like a zochor with the peiros not the nekeivah. This guy is one of the geniuses the big genius. That's a genius. He quoted okay he didn't just learn it today. And it's the Tosefos. He's quoting the Tosefos word for word. And when he finishes he sticks in a little stick and he says so here's Tosefos let me just show you the Tosefos. It's a Tosefos says super interesting stuff here. He says I didn't really want to go into it you can read it yourself I guess. He said I'll read the words I'm not even going to explain. Those who understand understand. He says Shachim the kolam nekeivah is shaimis avin lezochor. There's a there's a nekeivah tree and a zochor tree and one wants the other. And then he says all the way at the end he says and it's it's highlighted here ma tamar zu yesh lo taavah av Yisrael yesh lahem taavah. The the the the palm tree has taavah. It wants the other palm tree. So too Yisrael kol Yisrael has a taavah to do ratzon Avinu shebashamayim. And he says and he and the guy finishes off after he quotes this verbatim he says and also Shas didn't love Torah we love Shas. Okay anyway. Yeah this is what he quoted. Yisrael degel Yisrael omer dekolam shebiyericho mesavev. Okay I think no he quoted the first thing. Great. So that's why you have to do grafting you have to take