Shoneh Halachos Siman 8 Seif 1-12 History of Tzitzis & Tefillin, Checking Tzitzis Before the Bracha

okay good morning everyone we're uh beginning I want to begin by speaking a little bit about the history of tius if you were to imagine in your mind for a moment when do you think the mitzah of tius began like when was the first time Jews wore tius we know AB ainu is M before it was given so Didu have a did he have who are the first Jews to to put on situs when was it so in next week's par and the same thing about were they commanded in this week's par this week we have two par of the but how do you say they wore I mean has four is in seemingly wasn't given yet is in it's also in it wasn't n given yet so to say that they started to wear and already what in they wore tius did they have how could they have if they didn't have yet the par of and so just uh by way of introduction the says that you can't say they started performing mitv before for example he says the MIT the mitz they worin right away after this week when gave themes and the par of they don't have yet the par of sh and the para of Shay next week we say the the waters was a wall to them from their right side and from their left side so what exactly does that mean the waters was a W to them from the right and the left so the that when were passing through the yam Gabriel came and he stirred up a certain and the water said um after CLA inited right it says gel came and he said he called out he said on to the waters on the right side be careful with the Jewish people they're destined to accept the Torah that's given yeah and then he goes to the waters on the left side and he says watch out for cl is they're destined to put on thin on their left side now wait a second that clearly indicates they did not yet start wearing thin in because if they were wearing in what's Gabriel saying they're destined to wearin then he says to the water behind them be careful and is they're destined to be mean destined they didn't wear titas when they left MIM I mean they had a stral when they left MIM so of course they wore titas no they had a stro but they didn't yet have tum says and then the the dasum brings down that the water listen and they stood like a by the way he says from this medish we see that what does it mean CL is destined that's referring to the time of the that at that moment all four tius are behind them we always like to say um I never like to lose the uh opportunity just to point out most people have no idea how to put on a Talis they do a token gesture to the ancient Hebrews that wore tal but to actually put it on correctly this is for ashas now excuse my back but okay is you're supposed to put in the front ad PIV okay some I go like this just to make sure it's ad PIV that it's supposed to cover your eyes until your mouth then when you wrap in the back excuse my back when you go like uh when you when you put it over your back your shoulders and part of your back has to be covered otherwise you're not fulfilling atifa cuz isas not um if you look around this is what many people do they they cover and they make like a scal yeah no no no it can't go up to your neck you have to have your shoulders and part of your back covered okay that's you know just in case you forgot from from last time so this tius implies that when the Jewish people came out Mim they did not wear tius and they did not wear Talis now tius it seems pretty clear they weren't even commanded on tias yet anybody remember when were clao commanded on the mits of tias where do we have the MIT ofas inas in the aftermath of the mes you have a guy he's collecting wood on chabas he's violating uh bundling or gathering and the the Met says because when the was it says in the but the problem is you're not to carry on chabas if they would have had a Mitzvah to remind them they wouldn't have been says okay give them the mitvah so that indicates that the MIT tias was commanded in the midbar in the in response to the what about the because we just brought from the that seemingly they did not havein yet when they left MIM and one strong indication would seem to be the fact that how could they had we have the two ofes commanded in this week's par but are not commanded until there's a very interesting in makes a a li from the par of to the par ofes so the rash asks what do you mean how could that liod have we basically the says we learn out P from a sh so the Raj as what do you mean we learn from wasn't given yet was in in in Egypt wasn't given until so the Raj says and even though it wasn't written yet it was given to so according to that it could be they did wear even in sh wasn't given to later who told you that oh because sh wasn't written till later so so even though it wasn't said it was n or the Raja says were said at the time of P they just weren't written down yet so according to that it could be that they had all four par in fact it was just the art disin has a famous Dr on the where we say listen carefully like you saved those who drowned or in the swamp of reeds what's is is what Y is MIL viar is so when it says when you save those who are going to drown in the they brought with them their their this we's there was a lot of time between the and the leaving of so who said to them the par of and he told them about the of they went they madein from the hides of the carb p and the G and from then on wor again you'll have to come on to the rashba that even though sh were not written until later it was given already in okay that's just by way of introduction we're about to start right after you you should put on best to avoid walking for without which means let's say you know let's say you washas right away or if you don't have it by the bed you go to the bathroom you washas you should try to put on situs right away don't be like walking around in your um in your team's t-shirt you know just because it's uh they're in the playoffs you should still cover your pajamas with your Titus as soon as possible is there to sleep with it is there an inion to sleep with it so I there's an Indian to sleep in the tit according to Baseline no because then you can't make a br in the morning you T and then that you have in mind right right but um in general we're going to see when are you in situs are you only in the day or are you only in a day garment but to sleep in it it's not the day it's the night and then you're going to sleep in it it's not it's it's a day gar it's um it becomes a night garment then it's not even okay B taing yourself making a on the should both be standing both if you were sitting in other words let's say you have a hospital someone's is bedridden they can't stand up they still put on the and they still do sitting all are supposed to be standing so you'll say sit when they put on that's should stand not I heard you supped to stand that's a different reason that that might be now we're learning you should sit stand you should say standing okay now when exactly should you make the when you're holding theal you're about to wrap yourself in it not while it's still folded so you don't you don't make the while it's still in the bag the best is so as you're about to do the when you're holding it you make the and then you wrap okay oh no this is very important what's the if a person puts on and they don't think I'm having what happens is hopefully there'll be M other a different Mitzvah that day like f in but sit will not be a Mitzvah that they M that day we that means you need to have a formal actualized thought I have of some people say that's not required According to some it's not allowed but what is required is that you have to formally think now there's a the B says one should also think when he puts Onin on that they're putting on in order to remember all the mitz so you say why do have to think the reason for the Mitzvah the reason is says there are three Mitzvah in the T where the T says the following word you're doing the Mitzvah because so T is saying you're doing this Mitzvah because what are the three Mitzvah so byus the box says you need to think I'm putting onus to remember the 613 when you put Onin you should think I'm putting Onin so that the T of should be in in my mouth that hasem took us out of and when you sit in the Suka you should think I'm sitting in the Suka in order that whenever the tah says and the tah is giving an explicit reason for the Mitzvah you you should have that in mind so really one thought is if you don't think it you're not and one thought is what is that you're you're being and you should think doing it in order to remember all the if all you thought was that you want to be so the most important is I have added to that I'm doing it to remember all 613 mitz now question how does tius remind us of all 63 mitz TI is 600 six TI is gat 600 s Sadi T 590 is G 600 and then you have the eight strings and you have the five knots so is gatria 590 but well we'll say it's 600 and 8 strings is eight because Gat of eight is eight and the five knots five is gat of five that's 613 but the big question tus asks is the word sit is spelled so how's it gatria 600 so says it's written it's pronounced what's the difference between whether there's a y or not there's a difference okay this is a very important there's something called you know what a is okay what are they learning now in no what's the after kin right if you pronounce the word Kadin you're pronouncing it incorrectly the word isan why why do I say that because there's a y right final n you can't say it's not a not a sound it's an e sound why because there's a y for example what do you say to God at the end of when you bow no what do you say what word right no you can't say my what's the difference there's no difference just one is correct and one is incorrect let's say you know let's say you go into your house and you put in the wrong code what's the difference between the wrong code and the right code the difference is one is correct and one is not correct one gets you into the house one doesn't get into the house so let's say you have a Mitzvah you want to know did I do the mitzvah yes if you said the words you did the Mitzvah if you say you didn't say the word if you say you did say the word and don't say who's there was to say there's a difference between now this makes a bigina by the word sit if we see it's [Applause] written but according to T it's a it's written but it's pronounced but we don't we don't go like that tus tus gives another answer tus says four times it says situs one of the times it says the L is dispersed among all the so it gets 10 10 laa is 30 so it excuse it says three times so that that 30 is divided by the three CES and each one gets 10 That's How is 600 okay but that's important to know about Mal what are some examples of that the is an example of that you'll hear anyone say yeah there's no such word it's why there's a y there what are you going to do you yeah but nobody says that I can't help you that nobody pronounces the Y the yud would like you to recogn recognize him I mean it's insulting imagine like they people in the sh and you shake everyone's hand except for one guy cuz you don't see that he's not going to feel very good if you completely ignore him also the Y the Y does doesn't have a question yeah you say why because there's a after the nobody says kid so you don't have you're not prejudiced against that you a what's the next word no why you should say because you say or the answer is you're being biased you're randomly prejudiced against certain Ys you just have to be aware that all Ys are created equal all Ys deserve equality and fair treatment okay so the here here's an example M um and there many other here's another um first of all it's not there's no word it's it's a it's a okay so that's a anyway what does it have to do it's the word of um let's see okay so what's the difference one is you're saying and one is you're saying a token gesture to the ancient practice of the Hebrews who would say it's not okay now hat now now um when we're learning it in the in the I should be to say it okay fine okay see there he puts two there but that's not how it is in sa you have to now before you when you take out your Talis in the morning you need to separate the strains of the so they're not entangled the it but sadic separates his Titus always the word Titus is in other words you don't want to have the Titus inter intertangled and subish and fished and all other things you know that denote you want them to be distinctive okay and that's what sadic Now by the way that's not the only thing sadic does that sadic is uh not a good guy and he's always separating his his he that doesn't make him aad it means you know among other things now what if you're coming late to sh and by untangling your you're going to be even later if you're delayed coming to and you're going to miss minion you don't have to untangle your ti now by the way what does it mean to Mis minion very simple the definition of ding with the minion is starting with the it has nothing to do with being in the building that a minion is dobing at the definition of ding with a minion is starting with theor if by separating your you're going to not be able to start with you don't have to do it it's not clear you definitely have to separate them it is possible that according to some opinions you should not make a on them while they're still entangled look in the and like sometimes does he quotes says Tangled you could make it's only beautiful for the to be untangled but it's however the does have a that Tangled is an issue you should try to untangle them but if you're running late to minion you don't have to before you make a you want to glance at the strings to make sure they're CER now have a more than once you also want to check the hole you want to check the hole where the sit is come out of both okay why is that very simply especially the Talis a few things so you want to check the strings that they're not torn you want to make sure the hole is not freid cuz sometimes because of the pressure that that seis the hole opens up a little bit tear slightly so you say big deal if it tear slightly big deal is if it tear slightly now the loop is going to be too close to the edge of the baguette and the ti could be P so basically each morning you want to glance at the holes you glance at the strings and you glance at the holes to make sure now art cus usually have a the hole is reinforced with stitching but even so it's happened to me more than once not on my to's God but on my tow cut on that you know it's uh the hole is a little Fray and uh they could they could be P so you want to take a look at it before you make a okay you want to check the hole that should not be slit what about on chabas should you check it on chabas nothing you could do about it on but you should check it on especially if you're going to be walking in them afterwards outside because if your s is are pule then it's carrying but car even if you're only going to a caral we're carrying is you should still check that best practices check your Talis Friday when you put it away this way if there are any issues you could actually fix it better to do that than to have to rely on checking it on chabas the thing is that doesn't really work if you have a separate uh Tas for shabas now what if you're like a rub shinberg you raise your hand if you wear a 100 pairs of titas Now's the Time to come out of the closet you know it's okay nobody knows I won't uh post it but let's say you wear more than one Garment of uh situs how many bras do you make actually uh I'm going um you know they have this game my my son is involved in this game is called I'm going to make my friend a good commercial holy doubles holy doubles it's basically a card game for kids of matching G you know when I was a kid what do we match I I don't know you know who are the who are the characters on the match I don't remember you know different you know individuals but nowadays they have card games where they match yeah so now they're making so my son was like a graphic designer of the second holy doubles too now they're making a game called guess who with gdin you know does your God all have a a white beard a black beard anyway one of the pictures is R shinberg Lighting the wearing you know Mish 100 garments you know you see a small man he's he's he's frail you know but with the he has a 100 garments and he's lighting them it's like anyway so how manyas do you make you got to check all of them okay you want to look at the strings but you don't have to check the holes why but to check the holes checking the holes you only have to check one of them so it's very interesting by the way cuz why are you checking them are you checking them because if they're pule you're wearing a begot of do con without situs or are you checking them for the BR that if they're puzle you're making AAL so it seems likei the strings you're checking them maybe their pule and then you're going to be wearing a bot of doad confus without without uh tius so that so for that for the strings you got to check all the but the whole the hole is only so that it's not CU we have a higher standard but if anyway you're wearing 100 garments you don't really have to worry about you know one of them is going to be good okay let's do one more you should check them every day in the morning when you put it on let's say you took over your towel midd day they used to wear the towels the whole day and you got distracted even though it needs have to check again okay I'm I'm sorry I'm doing two more because I want to do do you need to do you need to check your married men do not make a yeah correct do you know about that if what when you when you tied the N when you said to your wife it relieved you of a major responsibility did you know this no yeah yeah now even though you have many responsibilities now now you can't leave your socks just throw them on the floor somewhere she's not going to be happy when you let's say when you brush your teeth you need to TI you have to tighten the the cap you can't leave a toothpaste untightened but the good news is that you save yourself a good few seconds every day you don't make AAS good to know what do you do when you put on your T godal you have in mind to exempt the T C so now the questiones do I have to check tal I'm not making a on it if the reason I'm checking a Talis is to ensure the is a good well I'm not making a so look at this okay now if I check my Talis now when I put it away I don't have to check it in the morning it's staying in the bag nobody's fooling around with my Talis while I'm gone talison I'm sorry you check your you take it off the bag you don't have to check it in the morning shab what for shabis so it's you check it m shab it's good for the oh yeah correct yeah you're right good point in other words a is pointing out if you have your shabas Talis and you check it m shabas when you put in the bag you won't have that's a good you don't have to check it when you put it on but one last if you don't make because the strings are to make sure it's not a beg of without situs the only reason you check the whole is to make sure it's not but there's no issue because you're not making a it's not common to be pule by the ne my experience is that if you wear your Titus out it puts a lot of pressure on the hole so that then you might want to check it if it's if it's not out then then I don't think the is the same level that um it might tear over there okay so the bottom line is that the of checking a talison is primarily on the string and not the hole Talis God you should check the string and the hole it is correct occasionally to look even on the uh holes especially someone who sleeps in it now one thing I will point out is let's say remember when you were 3 years old and they gave you a Talis Katan in Yesa you should not still be wearing that Talis Katan you need to wear a t cuton that suits you many people they open up their shirt and you see the TS cuton goes up to here seriously not a joke they they couldn't find the tal coton so the and there's a choo choo train on it with like you know you need to have a that actually fits you okay um now the is something that a 9-year-old could cover the the majority of the Goof of a 9-year-old it should be at least 18 in yeah have a good day everyone