Rosh Hashanah - The 3 Reasons Not To Eat Nuts and the Halachik Guidelines

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning rabbi sai welcome everyone hope everyone had a great day yesterday i want to speak out an interesting indian relevant to rosh hashanah the rama in semen writes as follows in sift base haga yesh medaktikim there are those who are careful shalom not to eat nuts and eggos has the numerical value of hate after all ego is gematria 18. excuse me eggoys is aleph gimmel is four bob is six ten zion's seventeen and hate is tess seventeen and therefore they have the same comatrial so the first question is they don't have the same goomatria because you don't spell 18. so the first reason is a bit difficult the igumatria is not precise even though we do know that when it comes to ganache are you allowed to be one off in fact i have a safer over here called the pardesiosafe where he says well it's well known gamachia could be one off and they say that it comes from arashi and pasha's vasquez and we've mentioned this many times rashi says that we have a haftah the shantan baras that if we would be in earth's israel 852 years and then it would it says kisaway 852 years hashem would have to destroy us so hashem exiled us after 850. so the question is we got gypped off a year hashem could have uh kept us there one extra year and we still would have been okay the answer is no because if we would have been there 851 years that's the equivalent of 852 and then that would we would have to uh it would have to be fulfilled the ibadate but it's interesting in this safer it says that he heard this is the makar well it is the makhar the masadesh and writes in the safer lack of yahushua this is the source and when it comes to gematria you're allowed to be one-off okay so that's the question it's a major question in fact if you look in some additions in sephora yoshaya in paragur alef by rashi there's a footnote that asks this question now what it's doing there i'm just curious are there like an older ushaya here um i'm curious if if they have an addition that that has it in that print that's the newer edition it's not going to be in that one is there an old to older tanakh that this question is asked that why is why you now to eat nuts on rosh hashanah because it's not gama-triya well this is um the marsham in the da's torah he brings down samara makoyam um and it's interesting says that in a footnote on rashi this question is asked um the xiao sichuva cesaros chuva also brings down this question and uh he says the following answer he says you know every avera has some redeeming quality to it whenever somebody sins there's always some kind of rationalization justification or good motivation i mean it's usually 99 rotten and evil to the core but there's always one kernel of of redeeming quality to it that's the aleph of hait that's the good part of the faith so every shade has a good part so when we say that you can't eat a nut because it's gamache it is it's gamache the bad part of the hate there is a good part of the faith but that's uh but that's okay one very interesting answer i saw here in the safer paradise you're safe is he he brings an amazing answer actually in the torah when the word hate is written it's always spelled alef but there is one exception in parshas ba in se forba midbar parak tesvav pasikhaf dalid and there the word khattas is spelled without an aleph now why is it spelled khasa with aden aleph because there we're talking about a specific hate it's talking about if somebody violates avoiding zara so interestingly when the torah refers to the sin of zara it's spelled khatos without an aleph so he says it could be that look inside everyone is going to have khatam but what we're trying to avoid on rosh hashanah specifically is a hait which is the very antithesis of the purpose of the day the purpose of rosh hashanah is to accept hashem as the melech as the ruler as the mashiach as the boy ray and the hate of zara is the very antithesis of the whole theme of rosh hashanah so the hate that we don't want to allude to is the state of avoidazora and in fact that hate is spelled [Music] without the aleph okay that's the first reason of the rama ramos is another reason says because they increase the phlegm and the mucus and they're going to interfere with your davening which is true nuts they're a little scratchy and they are um phlegm inducing and therefore one should not eat nuts on rosh hashanah because it's going to interfere with one's daubening now according to that once let's say the second day you've dived in minh already it would seem you would be allowed to have nuts the problem according to the ramah is that it's going to interfere with your adopting now the if you look in the maril the maril says it a little bit differently than the way the rama caught it the rama says darash maharishi sago marie segal is the maril be careful not to cough and not to sneeze and not to clear your throat during why because you want to hear the entire noise the entire sound villa yafsa kamlanima you don't even want to interfere with hearing a hero's breath okay so in other words if you're going to and you're going to miss ever so slightly the beginning of that's kia so now if you're going to be shortening the tkia now it's shorter than the shearer you're not going to say so you say what do you mean i heard both no trey kalilloy there's a halal rule you can't hear two things at the same time so a person should be very careful in some shows the rav announces please refrain from coughing and sneezing during i did that once it did not go over well yeah yeah then my rule says the person has to be careful not to cough and sneeze during the gas anyone who has the need so i'll see it on the camera anyone who has the knee no yeah it's because even if you only have to hear 30 kylie's right but still right you wanna so i'll say online anyone who has a need to cough or sneeze please take it outside you know or hold it in hold right right therefore says my real avoid eating any food that's going to produce phlegm ah their force is not real for this reason the nation so according to the maril's reason it would come out that after the tsukiyais you would be allowed to there's a third reason given now these are the two reasons that the rama quotes now what's interesting is rabbi say according to the first reason that is gematria i could understand why the rama says yesh medaktikum you should be careful but according to the second reason that it's going to interrupt with your dhavaning why is it only yesh medaktik and you think it should be us or maybe there are those who say that because sometimes no you cannot make coughing but you can make eating the nut saucer there is a safer shout out to chubas river hazard who has a different gear son rama who completely takes out the first reason because the gematria is off and takes out the words viesh medaktikim and only has the following meaning it's not a dikduk it's not just like uh extra careful practice don't do it and he removes the first reason entirely but our gersa has the first reason and there is a third reason the mccarthyism of the chavocyar writes don't eat nuts and the reason is alpisoid meaning it's a kabbalistic reason so the question is what is this kabbalistic reason some suggest as follows some some suggest the marsham quotes the um compared to a nut why that there is a unique feature fast in how you plant a eggo is different than any other tree every other tree when you plant it you cover the roots very important when you plant something to cover the roots the eggos you uncover the roots why just like an egg is if you cover the roots it won't be successful so too mesasa pisha of la yatsuliyah one who covers over his sins and makes it like he did in sin will not be successful so claudius compared to the nut just like the nut the the roots are revealed klaus says vidoy and they saw their magala their hashem and they don't hide it they don't make believe they didn't sin they acknowledge their sin ah then you think you should not but there's one day a year you now say rosh hashanah we don't say veda on rosh hashanah why because since the ledgers are open hashem is judging us and all the accusing angels are in our face it's the one day a year we ma we make believe so to speak we don't have khatam it's how could you bring yourself to cevide with all the prosecutors hanging around just that's a general thing you know look that no kidding that's so that that we could get away with you know but to enumerate and articulate exactly how we sin we don't do on rosh hashanah so the ego is which is the representation of vidue that also we don't eat on rosh hashanah no self-incrimination no self-incrimination now let me talk to you about a very interesting shyla that i remember i got last year so a lady wanted to know could she make fish pistachio crusted fish right people liked uh on the salmon gourmet pistachio crusted fish now let's again talk about the ramen only brings down two reasons number one it's gamachuyacheit and number two it produces phlegm now the first thing you have to know is what about peanuts are you allowed to eat peanuts on rosh hashanah now peanut is not a nut a peanut is a legume so a peanut they there is no indian not to eat peanuts other than you know people are allergic to peanuts and in most public places you can eat peanuts but you're still allowed to eat peanuts in in your house they haven't forbid that yet it's not an airplane so peanuts are okay what about hazelnuts what about pistachio nuts what about pecans well one second the reason of the rama is eggo is guma a hazelnut is not an eggos hazelnut is losing a pistachio not is not not is not an egg it's obstacle not his uh pistachio you know or however you say it egg it says yes not a general uh term for naught eggos means a walnut however that's according to the first reason other amma that is but what about according to the second reason of the rama all nuts are phlegm-inducing right but what but now i cooked it now a knot that you eat raw is flam-inducing but if i bake it or i cook it it's not flam-inducing it's not the cooking takes out the it softens it it makes it uh that's the reality easier to digest it's absorbed with the other food it's coated with the other food so here here here's what the place can never say my mind had an issue with coughing or fleming that i couldn't recall because eating possession maybe even scientifically maybe you've immuned yourself to the effects so now here it's like this what it's going to depend on is what the name of now what would you say if you cooked walnuts into another food so on the one hand it's still an egg eyes so eggo says on the other hand it's not going to be marbel quiche so the place can say like this that if it's cooked it's not marbeque but it depends what the food is called if it's called wall not this walnut that will not cover that then it's gonna be a problem it's not called that because it's just a side ingredient so you don't have the reason of echoes and you don't have the reason that it's marabeki so then it would be okay but if you have let's say a pistachio cooked into something so even if you call it pistachio pistachio stem is not gamache it's gamache it's marbeque it's not but if it's cooked into something so if you have pistachios cooked into something not a problem pistachio's raw it would seem like drama would say a yeshma doctor kim to avoid it if it's a walnut cooked into something so if it's a walnut cooked into something then it would depend on what the name is if it maintains the name walnut then maybe better to avoid if it doesn't have that name so then neither reason applies now uh robichesko roth he says that even if a walnut is cooked into another food may cardinal will be mother but the minute is still not to eat it but some people can say well once the food is made you could uh you could eat it already but what a nut cake so if it's um a walnut cake probably shouldn't do it but if it's a pecan pie so you'd be allowed to uh have on rosh hashanah okay so that concludes this uh uh not so by the way just uh just to sum it up if not is guma hait there's another thing that we should avoid on rosh hashanah now which is also okay so probably yes not to do also on rosh hashanah okay have a great day you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com