Rav Yaakov Emden & the Chasam Sofer Uncover the Secret of Pesach Sheini

Good morning everyone. Thank you everybody for coming. We have an amazing topic today. Timely topic. Today's shar is dedicated by our dear friend Garfinkle in honor of his uncle's yard of his whole family. Thank you. Okay, we're going to talk a little bit about PESI. The first question is, is that the name of it? Is it called PESI? Before you begin a topic, you have to know what the topic is. So, what are we learning about? If you look at number five, the Medish says what exactly happened on there were there were people who were impure. They came into contact with a dead person. So it says they became who? So they tell who exactly did they become to Adam refers to it says a tent was dwelling in Adam. Who's the tent? And it says inim. That's what it says in because that's where we're up to in Yeah. It says they hated the tent of So it says the tent is referring to and it says the tent is referring to Adam and the merit of your bones. You ready for the name of the upcoming yiff? Pesak katan pes kan pesak katan. So that's one surprise says the matnaz kahuna the matnaz kuna is one of the classic perush on the medish written by rabis berakoyen who was born in shebra in Poland and he passed away in really he's buried near rebel yod vidas I was just about to say I need to go to his kev but I was I must have been at his kevar cuz I was at the kev real vidas but I don't think there's a mata there they probably didn't I don't think they made a mata for him there's a mata for him I don't think so anyway he writes on the medish pesi now why is it called it's not as stringent as the first p so it's called the small pes because it's not stringent. So where does this name pesi come from? Like who who decided to call it PESI says you know why it's called PEI not because it's a second P it's not a second P. How is it a second P? You don't eat macaroons. It's not a second P. It's a it's the PES of the second month of the year. Ear interesting. [snorts] So that's a good, you know, I don't think anybody knows that. Why is it called PE? Because it's a pes of the second month. Not because it's it's the second P. You don't have those wind up frogs for this P. So how could it be second P? It's not a second P. It's the P of the second month of the year. Now here are some interesting about Pi. Let's go back to the Mishna. The Mishna says, "What's the difference between the first pes and the second pes? You have a prohibition. You're not to seek. You're not to find." That's not true about pes. You're allowed to see. You're allowed to look at Cheerios. Let's say Friday morning, you could go home and look at a Cheerios box. You're allowed to look at it and you're allowed to have it. You're allowed to have you could have and matzah with him in the house. You need halal when you eat it. You don't need when you eat the but require when you eat it roasted you eat it on and it pushes away shabas. Now this year Pia doesn't come out on shabas but if it would it would be shabas. Okay. Is there anything that we need to do this pesak sheni? Could someone get me? Thank you. Is pesak sheni a yamtiff? Is it a yamtiff? Says rashi. Look at number two. Rashi says in parali mat. Thank you. You have matzah and with you in the house shame. It's not a yam is and it's not prohibited to have. Now by the way there are two ways of reading rashi. I think one year we gave a shir from do you read there's no at all rather you're allowed to have it with you while you're eating the or you're only not allowed to eat while you're eating the pes we're not getting to that this year okay there are two ways of reading rashi so rashi says it's not a yumptiff if it's not a yumptiff the million-dollar question, but everybody wants to know. That's why everybody came this morning. Do you say, "Do you say so?" You say, "What's ankamina?" If you say, "Let's say you you go over to a woman and you say I on condition that we say." So if you say you're married and if you don't say you're not married, right? So what does the say about is it on the list of the and the adds. Does anyone say boo about? No, there is no mention of pesi. So if if the car would be this year, she would say hello, right? Everyone say hello. So how would you say if in other words >> I'm not talking about the guy who's bringing it? The guy who's bringing it if if he bring a car if anyone >> whenever you bring a carbon whenever you bring a carbon it's yumpt for you >> and the rest of the >> no >> so we would say and he would >> like like most days of the year you have something like that you know you have some guy who for whatever reason you know he's not saying >> no that's this is >> yeah yeah it would only be a yam for him let's say a guy makes a breast you So not there are situations where a guy not saying takna doesn't exempt the whole sear. Anyway, what about pesi says in yad ona of all places in a very obscure place he says it's not a he says We don't eulogize. We don't fast. And means we don't say. It doesn't mean you don't say. You're allowed to say. It means you don't say. The says you don't say. The says the if you don't say that means you're don't say [clears throat] the primadum says you do say the says you do say what's the is of course you say taknan what's the minhug there is a legitimate min not to say in mo I don't think in I don't I think in that too many places they're going to say let's see what the one second I should have I should have told you this first in the United States of America the is like the Ezra the MS that's in the United States of America you follow Rahen and let's see what he says meaning you say, but there's a custom not to that custom is pretty prevalent. Um, that custom is pretty prevalent. >> Depends where it lands on the wheel. >> Yeah, right. [laughter] They have a special wheel on Pesakeni. What's your min, you know. Okay. Now, what about eating matzah? Is there a reason to eat matzah and peseni? Do you have to give kids a kimon presents even since Lego has gone up in price? You know the says The is to eat leftover matzah. There's no to bake matzah. They asked in he says he asked his friend I asked my friend and he wrote it's a minimum to eat matzah by us there is no such minhug. So, is it a official Minhug to eat matzah? No, there's no Minhug to eat. It's mini. Okay, you could do it. Just you need to know what it is. >> Reb used to have a tish. >> Oh, Scalen Reba had a tish. >> Yeah. >> Very nice. We usually have a tish also because it's Romeo's yard site. Romero Balaness. So we'll see. We'll see what we're going to do. Okay. Now here here's the real question. Real question is what in the world is pesi? Here you have a guy. He wasn't able to eat in the suka pes. Why? He had bad allergies. The pollen level was too high. The doctor said he can't be outdoors. Now it's the 15th day of Could he now go outside and eat in the suka? Could he comes into it's test? You see a random guy in the sh. Yeah. What what's he doing? Let's say a guy wasn't able to eat chol on chabas. So could he make it up by you know I don't know on a Tuesday random Tuesday he sits down for gila fish herring and all the important mitzvah. Or let's say somebody didn't eat cheesecake on shis, heaven forbid, and could he then on vav tamos make it up by eating cheesecake? We don't find by any mitzvah in the Tory there's a makeup date, right? There are no makeup dates. There's not major league baseball game where if you have a rain out you could, you know, have a makeup date. The the calendar actually has significance. You know there's c we don't take a yumptiff and say you know it would be really nice if it came out on the weekend so we're going to schedule it for the weekend. It's not up to us how to schedule a yumpt the days are bay. So what exactly is the idea that 30 days later you're allowed to rem of the Quran pass of the you're bring [snorts] how can you bring to what by the way give over to that if someone is coming on they're allowed to bring the no when when these guys came to Mosha and said we can't bring bees because we're tummy said, "Uh, I need to ask the boss. I don't know what to do. I I I don't have any information about that." Why wasn't number one, what's the explanation? We don't have this by any other mitzvah. And number two, why didn't give? You don't have other examples like this or too many other examples like this. So, let's start. Look, let's go to to number 11 asked this question. and he says, "Let's say you didn't take or there's no makeup in [snorts] you heard about the guy. It was the 21st day of everyone else was in the show like you know just diving and yeah one guy he's smashing a rice on the floor. What? What? What's wrong with you? >> But is not about Corbin. So we should also ask him is it possible to bring or eat corban on shas or sukas if he [snorts] can do it right. It's all about corban. It's not about any other was >> oh the carbon was eaten with the the ma the the matzah and the mar. So yeah >> it's all about >> you want to know why is the why do the have a min to eat matzah? They should have a minute to eat lamb chops because a kash you're asking a kasha why the why they don't eat because they want >> my question [clears throat] is like it's all about >> cuz then they wouldn't be able to eat it on a regular Sunday night so it's more convenient I don't know you know yeah the is the carbon but that's the question we don't find this by any other mitzvah so we're going to begin this is the ofden famously addresses this question even though he doesn't ask the question and he says that a reason for pes was revealed to him from that nobody ever said before by the way you know the said that was a says in his because we know that the Israel took out of Mitzim Matzah. Yeah. You heard about that story? You know that that when the Jews left Egypt, their their bread didn't have a chance to rise, so they took matzah. For how long did the matzah last? >> How long did the matzah last? >> 30 days. 30 days. Look in number 12. Rashi says, it says the B Israel ate man for 40 years. F Rashi, what do you mean for 40 years? It was 40 years minus 30 days cuz the man didn't start to fall until the began to fall and it stopped when they entered. Okay, that's that's a different statement of but the they took out Adam lasted for 30 days. The mun began to fall on tv. So that's very interesting. So that means the miracle of mitz continued with them for 30 days. The mitzvah of a matzah continued for 30 days on pesi they had matzah and yeah you hear what's going on historically on the very first peseni they had leftover matzah from the 30 from when they left mim and they needed breakfast so they started buying cheerios the matzah was about to deplete so on the very first pesaken in history they had matzah and they had kates so to commemorate the miracle of that was nimsh that continued for 30 days. On that 30th day we we have an opportunity to bring the carbon because the miracle of had continued for 30 days says who says this explanation. Nobody in the history of the world ever said this explanation. Where did I get it from? The heavens told me says the reason for was revealed to me from heaven because the miracle lasted for 30 days. They took the matzah out of it lasted for 30 days. And then on the 30th day they had the matzah and they had the and therefore to commemorate that to commemorate that we have an annual opportunity to bring the carbon pes if we did not bring pes. >> So why wasn't it said in >> because I didn't answer that question yet. I didn't address that question. We're going to get to it. Okay, that's the answer of the Indian of Okay, himself says a bit differently says something amazing. How many eyes do you have? It's it's somewhat of a personal question. How many eyes do you have? Besides the ones on your head, do you have do you have behind do you have behind your head? You know, most teachers have, you know, at least three eyes because they have one eye behind them. And each profession, depending on what you do for a living, you might need extra eyes. Now, but all kidding aside, Samur says a Jewish person has four eyes. You have physical eyes and you have spiritual eyes. The more you close your physical eyes, the more your spiritual eyes can see and perceive spirituality. The more you indulge your physical eyes, the less your spiritual eyes can operate. Question. A mythbuster today. Mythbuster. I was so happy last night. I heard that I really I never liked this story and I'll tell you the truth I never believed it and I think writes the opposite of it in it's probably the most famous story of about they say about that was once on a train and somebody was saying uh was sitting next to somebody and said where are you going and he said I'm going to Raden. He said, "Well, why are you going to Raden?" "I'm going to to meet the great and said, "He's not so great. He's not so great." And the guy said, "What? He's not so great." And he and he decked him, you know, and the said, "From here we see you're not even allowed to say about yourself." I'm sure you heard that story, right? I'm sure you heard it in kindergarten and pre-1A and first grade. No, there's no way that story is true. I I never liked that story. I never liked it and I never believed it like many stories. And the reason I didn't believe it is because for what? Huh? If you're not, let's say you're allowed to speak about yourself, but the guy didn't know it was so that of course he wasn't allowed to say that. It's not because you know how to speak lash about about yourself. Maybe you're allowed to speak l about yourself. But the guy didn't know it was the so how is he allowed to say oh he's not so great that it's marion second of all the writes openly that if you say lash about yourself and someone else that if somebody says lash about themselves and someone else you can't believe them on what they said about someone else because since it's lash then they're are they're a navarian they're a sinner and if they're a sinner you can't believe them but you could believe them about what you say about about what they said about themselves which implies clearly you are allowed to say lashar about yourself. So I just heard last night rail said it's a myth. It never happened. The story is not true. The never wrote anywhere you know how to speak lash about yourself. There's no such anyway. So in the another mythbuster is did the mun taste good? Was the mun good? Was the mun good? Bottom line. Was the mun good? I know what you I know what they told you. I know you could imagine that it tastes like anything. Okay. Really? Okay, great. So here, here's my battery box. Okay, now it could think about what do you want. What do you like to eat? What do you like? Just say something. >> Bagels and cream. >> Bagels and cream cheese. So you're going to eat this. You know, you're going to put this plastic thing in your mouth. You're going to chew it and it's going to taste like bagels and cream cheese. Within 2 days, you're going to need therapy. You can't you can't do this. Okay, eat the table and imagine that it tastes like anything. So yeah, it tasted like anything, but it was the main thing of eating is what it looks like. and how it feels, right? The taste is really a minor part of it. So, you're telling me that the mun was delicious cuz you could imagine what it tasted like. Imagine if every day you took you took out a bottle of, you know, gray pills, big gray pills, and you could imagine what it tasted like. Yeah. But then, you know, you'd have to be institutionalized within days cuz that's not food. That's why contrary, I know what your teachers told you, but what the Tory says is the Mun was torturous. Okay? I don't care what they told you. The Tory says the Mun was torturous. You were tortured and you were starved. Okay, that's a that's enough. We could call it a day just for you to absorb that it was a the man was torture and they were starving. So why did Hashem do it? That was the whole point. There was no physical quality to the man. It was all therefore when they went home. You see, part of most of eating is you see the plate and you see the food and you're satisfying your your lust for food through seeing, not not through tasting, through seeing. When the restaurants will get in their mind to turn the lights on so people could actually enjoy the food, that's a that's an old story. Why in the world are the lights dimmed? They you lose half the enjoyment of the meal by having the lights dimmed. >> They don't want you to see the creepy crawling things that are living in the food. Shak. Yeah. And they also don't want you to read the uh the FDA, you know, reports about what's going on in the kitchen. Anyway, on that note, the Mun was torture. It had no visible ria. Therefore, what the Mun did is because there was nothing to look at, it strengthened their spiritual eyes so that they could understand the Tory on ARI. shortly after the purpose of the one the man was to prepare Israel for the Tory. So you say but the mun didn't start falling until of okay but at least the matzah they took out of what did it taste like? Tasted like mun. When did the man fall? says on the 15th day of that's the reason for because on that day is began if Hashem took us out of Now one question will >> we would not be >> why would the punish for speaking badly about the mom >> they were no they complained >> yeah they complained it was terrible >> why weren't they punished You know, so if it was really terrible, then they had every every right to say that. >> Yeah. In fact, in the in the introduction of the Shvita, he brings that the purpose of the mun was to prepare Clausalis for the Tory. that through eating the man, it coerced Clal Israel to accept the Torah. They they lost free choice regarding accepting the Torah. That once they ate the man, they completely lost any free choice. In fact, the name of the Malik who gave them the Mun was kata. Kata was the Saratra. He's the one who was m to Cl. The man came from the Saratra. They then had no ta once Khaliso ate the it rid them of their tya. Anyway says that ones which is interesting because we celebrate pesi on but he says that on var we're commanded on peni which is the beginning of kadush is and that was what the the man accomplished for Israel. Uh let me just show you a couple more items. Okay, take a look at number 14. This is okay. At the end of the life of Yakov Aino, does anybody know what day did Yakov Au come down to Mitsayim? Yakovu was born and he died on Sukus. Yakavinu was born on sukus and he died on sukus. When did he come down to Mitzim? He came down on Pesak. How long did it take him to get settled? Says it took him 30 days to get settled until he came before and Jacob was par and he took five of his sons. This took 30 days. In other words, from Nissan until that's when the the depleted. So reads theim starting of until 17 years. From tesva until tesva of tish the end of his life was exactly 147 days. each day for another corresponding to another year of the life of during those 147 days he lived. So the reads like this 17 years that was completed on the 15th day of Ear on the 15th day of Ear. So, the days of Jacob that corresponded to his years which were 147 beginning on Jacobu lived 147 days of paradise that corresponded to the years of his life. Let's come back and answer the question that we started with. Why didn't Hashem give the mitzvah of onai? You ready? Cuz there was no such pesi. They didn't need it. Why wouldn't they need it? Over the years, we've said over many times a well-known sarno that on hari according to the swarno, Hashem also didn't tell Moshe not to eat pig and not to eat [music] rabbits and not to eat crab. So you could go to North Woodmare Park. You could catch a crab, which they have there. I've seen them. You could catch a rabbit, which I've seen also. You could even catch a dolphin, which I've seen that, too. Yep. I'll tell you about that a different time. You could eat tra. There was no mitzvah of tra originally. You know why? Why should there be a mitzvah of tra by the way? Originally was there a mitzvah to build the mishkan? There's no mitzvah to build the mishkan. Where was Hashem going to rest? Hashem was going to rest on every single but then because of the we were downgraded. So now we need a medium upon which Hashem will rest namely the mishkun. And now Hashem said, you know, you need to elevate yourself further. You could only eat kosher food. Now you could only go to bingo to eat or wherever you want to shop. But originally there was no mitzvah of eating kosher food and there was no mitzvah of building a mishk. So asks based on the means originally where would hashem dwell on the individual. on the individual. But I thought Hashem only rests on the Mishkan. No, that means before the the had a and Hashem would rest on a Y which would mean you wouldn't have to d with the minion cuz the Y had a den of it. Therefore, Hashem originally was going to rest on the Y. By the way, by the way, what's the reason for cuz what happens if somebody doesn't bring the carbon? What's the punishment? What's the punishment if someone is not pes you know there were great people until today they don't stay in for pes cuz maybe you have to bring a karm today and if they don't bring so they make sure not to be in the vicinity of the mikdash on but wait a second if before the can can No, can be only now before the an individual had the status of a seor which would then mean that an individual would not be for not bringing the pes. Moreover, what would the be if somebody was tummy? What's of somebody's tummy? can't bring what's the if the is okay >> you could bring >> but before the had of so even if was he would still be of the there was no purpose of had no place before the before the every individual had the status of it so there was no of if somebody didn't wasn't the and he could be of the Those were >> that was after the that was after it was in year two. >> It was in year two. So it says the reason why Hashem didn't tell about because before the where every individual had the status of it and therefore there was no purpose of before oni and therefore Hashem did not tell Mosher Rabenu. And it's not that Mosher Rabu forgot it. He never knew it. Why didn't he know it? There's no point. Hashem didn't need to tell him. And I'll end with this question. Maybe we'll talk about it later in the week. And uh on Pes when we when we're the we say The problem is that we're quoting the wrong is the it says It says, "Why does the cite the wrong?" Why does the Hagada sight the wrong Pak? This is the kasha of the saleim [snorts] of bells. Okay, fine. You want to know the answer said bells the balag was being aashaim we don't have a carbon we're not bringing it we're only we're the mikdash should be built before and therefore we're ding we should be to the that's why we don't bring the wrong. It's the right PK. It's a Bd should be built now. We miss Pisha and we want to be Pen. So the Shalom asked, "What are you talking about?" If the Bikdash is is built between you won't be the only is pushed off to Pes is not pushed off to that's what we just said is not pushed off to Paksheni. So they brought it to the bellba and the bellerba said the yami says it's true that sour is not pushed off to pesi but if the b mikdash is built between pes and pesi do we still say that sor is notim [snorts] and the huda says ini that if the b mikdash is built between even though in general if the whole seabore is they're not pushed off to but if there's No B mikdash and the B mdash is built's opinion is that we will bring the so the said that of is according to the opinion of the so we should be that we hope is built in the interim and then will let us know whether we will have this in the meantime you could still eat matzah And of sing.