The Sanctity of Snow

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone this is our snow share why is it called a snow share because even though it's not really snowing but they said it was going to snow so everybody stayed home so we'll take advantage of to learn uh one hash kafa and one interesting halacha about snow first of all you know that snow obviously is very prevalent in New York but even in Arches Royal you have a famous Gamora Yuma and that flaming has some of these about who about hello that every single day that he would come to the base of matters he made very little money he used half on his family's expenses and half he would pay the Sharma of the base I can assess and one day he couldn't afford to get in so they they didn't let him in if you don't pay your membership you can't come in so he sat upstairs by the skylight lamid hey I'm in base here it says lemon okay lemon hey on the days and he sat on the Skylight and he was uh sort of listening in and the lotion of the gemara is he was listening to DeVry I like him Italian and uh in the morning they looked up it looked a little bit foggy and they really they knew it was a sunny day and they saw hello was up there he was frozen and they uh they warmed him up and that's the story so there's a very uh interesting halach on this story and that is it says that hello made whatever a tarpica day let's call ten bucks a day five for his food and five to get into the basic nessus that means how much what percent of his money did he give to tadaka he gave 50 of his money to tadaka you're now to get fifty percent of your money tits um someone who wants to be very generous can't give more than a fifth so how was Hillel allowed to give 50 of his money to sadaka it's a very powerful so he happens to speak about this gemara how is Hillel allowed to give so much money to sadaka Khan says the key to answer this question is really found in the words of the gemara he was going to hear divreya like what does that mean that means like this if would you have a castle let's say somebody spent 60 percent of his money on food you need food to live if you don't have food you can't live so a person's eternal life is dependent on the Torah that they learn so the more a person wants to learn you can't say well you know how to give so much sadaka for your learning this is my learning this is my life the reason you know how to give so much for sadakis Hashem wants you to care about yourself you know you have to be generous and go to other people but your own needs come first but Hillel recognized and we should all recognize that a person's learning is their Eternal chaos is their eternal life and therefore Hillel was not being spent Thrifty the Hillel was at was was caring for his soul the same way you have to use your money for your food and your clothing you have to use your money for your own personal learning a person's personal learning is it's not sadaka it's for yourself okay but that's just for those learning and snow so that's what I have on snowman what I really wanted to talk about was an interesting we know there's a Mitzvah of kise anyone here have chickens or deer but if you did hey he wanted so morkai wanted to raise chickens and his wife went a lot we have that on camera officially so uh if you check the chicken you ever do you probably slug caparas one time in my life what do you do why only once because I follow the gra they I use money that's why that one time one time and I was an artist with some friends and you know sometimes you do things that without a thing peer pressure so um so there's when you shift one of the one of the questions about Sean Kappa says whether their legitimate um but we know when you shut the bird you have to do kisoi hadam and it's interesting the Lush which is it's the only Mitzvah where you put into the text of the bracha how you're doing them so you don't say is but here you say Al um right why do you say why do you say the word yeah whether you're allowed if you don't have the and it's a question who says what whether you switch around okay bottom line is the uh Taz I believe says that there are two minutes of you have to cover on top for that it would be enough to say but you have to you have to you have to put offer under it as well so in order to indicate there are two aspects of the Mitzvah formulated fine very interesting Mordechai the Mordechai says he quotes the going that what if you have no dirt and you only have snow could you cover them with snow you might you know you might get hungry today and you might want to shuck the chicken and uh that place on Union Turnpike with chimchery is going to be a little bit too far to walk in the snow so what are you gonna do what Rockaway Turnpike whatever so are you allowed to cover the the blood with snow so the Mordecai quotes are going who says you're allowed to because there's a plastic in eov that says to the snow God says be Earth so if God says snow should be Earth and it's Earth and you could cover you could do kisia down with snow and the Mordechai says it's a wonder because it doesn't say shelleg is afar it says it's Earth and you need afar Earth is not good enough it says we don't need eres we need offer and the Posse says it doesn't say how they offer it doesn't say the snow is called erets the plastic means God tells the snow it should go down to the Earth but to read the Posse that God tells the snow it should be Earth that's a misreading of the pasta God is not telling the snow it should be Earth God is telling the snow it should go down to the Earth and therefore the Mordechai says you cannot be samek and you cannot cover blood with snow asks another two questions on this coin oh question number one he says what's gonna happen if you cover with snow it's gonna melt it's gonna melt so tomorrow you're gonna have uncovered blood so how practically speaking it's not a good idea well so you'll say but it will be it will be mixed with water and be diluted yeah but it will still have the appearance of blood and therefore says it's a tallest to save you could cover with blood and what the plastic means is that God has the ability to transform snow into Earth but not that snow is considered Earth and therefore we pass in and all the parts can pass in you cannot do kisi hadam with snow this is what I was getting at if you look near the Mordecai there's a commentary called asks if he says in my eyes it's a Pella seem to have ignored a murderous listen to this pasok the parakeet of Lazar says that how did Hashem create this world it's amazing he took something from under the kise and with that he created the Earth what did he take from under his he took the snow from under the case I covered and he used the snow from other kids that covered to create the Earth so says if God was able to take snow and make this world out of it that means everything in this world is really snow and therefore you could take this world and use it to cover blood because if it originated as snow okay now it's offer but everything in this one offer was created from snow so if offer was created from snow and you're allowed to use the offer for kise Adam so of course you could use snow just like very interesting let's say I don't know you know maybe are you allowed to do kise you're allowed to use gold for kise now why would somebody would want to do that beats me that Allah with gold because there's a plastic and the dust of gold is his so from here we see that to God gold is like dust so if to God gold is like dust then really it's dust so too when it comes to dirt dirt is released no it comes from snow and therefore you're allowed to use snow poskins the hidushi Adam now so don't rely on this but to me it's a very interesting concept that this world was created from the snow that is under the kise so maybe we could just say on a deeper level you know there's a morale the morale says the word bracha is from the root is Bayes Reish two bases two races 200 Huff is 20. all numerals of two the word bracha indicates extra proliferation double so that's what bracha is special uh from Hashem but it's indicated in the letters when I look at the word shelleg Shen lamid 333 it's like extra bracha it's like concentrated wrong it's super bracha and maybe that's why that was the building block of creation it's it's the item that has the most concentration of hashem's bracha maybe anyway give you something to think about have a great day and stay dry in the snow that maybe didn't happen won't happen is happening only time will tell have a great day you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com