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Okay, [clears throat] good morning
everyone. We're continuing in
Mishnah Berurah
We're up to siman kuf nun zayin.
Tomorrow we begin
a major topic dinei netilas yadaim.
Now we're going to talk about dinei zman
kvius seudah.
The laws of the time to establish your
meal.
Now we already talked about pas
shachris.
Which is some kind of breakfast. Now we
talk about
some type of lunch.
That
when the fourth hour comes
you should
establish your meal.
So let's say the morning is uh
6:00. Let's say the day is 6:00 a.m. to
6:00 p.m.
So when the fourth hour comes
which
6:00 to 7:00 is hour one, 7:00 to 8:00
is hour two.
8:00 to 9:00 is hour three.
9:00 to 10:00 would be your second meal
of the day already.
9:00 to 10:00 would be your second meal
of the day.
Most people haven't even eaten their
first meal.
But 9:00 to 10:00 would be the first the
second meal.
Shishas.
If you're a talmid chacham
and you're oisek in your learning
then you wait till the sixth hour. Then
you eat at 11:00.
Okay, you've already eaten pas shachris.
So
technically speaking the schedule would
be you get up
shachris would be 6:00. Shachris over
7:00.
You have to learn something. At 7:10 you
eat breakfast.
Then
at 9:00 you eat lunch.
What about coffee? Yeah.
Yeah, if you're a rabbit then you could
drink coffee.
But if you're a human then the first
meal is at 7:00 and 9:00 would be the
second meal. If you're a talmid chacham
second meal would be 11:00.
You don't delay it more. You don't delay
it more. You don't delay it more. It
would be like throwing a stone into a
thermos. It would be like throwing a
stone into a thermos.
If you don't eat in the morning then
whatever food the rest If you don't eat
in the morning then whatever food the
rest of day will not nourish you. You'll
say yeah, but I'm gaining weight. This
is not a matter of gaining weight,
losing weight. This is a matter of
whether your mind is functioning on an
optimal level.
In order to think clearly
this is the regimen.
Okay. Says the Mishnah Berurah
This is for an average person.
The worker
would be the fifth hour. The fifth hour
would mean
so 10:00.
Meaning 6:00 is the 6:00 to 7:00 is the
first, 7:00 to 8:00 is the second. 8:00
to 9:00 is the third, 9:00 to 10:00 is
the fourth, 10:00 to 11:00 is the fifth.
So basically there are three categories.
The average person is the fourth, a
worker the fifth, pi and the talmid
chacham the sixth. Revius.
When you get up in the morning when you
get up in the morning you calculate the
hours from the beginning of the day.
You calculate the hours from the
beginning of the day. Come in
after that.
If you get up later
the hours are subjective. It goes by
your rise by the time you get up in the
morning.
The hours are subjective. It goes by
your rise by the time you get up in the
morning.
Now the Mechaber says
The talmid chacham should not delay. The
talmid chacham should not delay.
The talmid chacham should not delay.
Um
till the end of the sixth hour.
This fourth hour this sixth hour is
shais zmaniyos.
Now still we haven't really um
we haven't committed ourselves
definitively. Is this really talking
about lunch or maybe this is breakfast?
Because the lashon of the Mechaber is
don't delay beyond the sixth cuz it's
like throwing a stone into a thermos if
you didn't taste anything in the
morning.
So doesn't that imply possibly that this
is the first meal of the day?
And that's making you feel much better
cuz you eat breakfast very very late.
We'll see in the Mishnah Berurah no,
this is not referring to the first meal
of the day. It's the second meal of the
day. Okay? We'll see in the Mishnah
Berurah.
Even the chaim es says the Mishnah
Berurah
chaim
es yayin she chaser by days and if come.
For example a thermos of wine that was
missing and by doing so it was in
if it was nifgam
and you just throw a stone to fill it
up.
In other words you have a thermos of
wine some of the wine spilled out. You
want to you want to get the wine up In
other words you have a thermos of wine
some of the wine spilled out. You want
to you want to get the wine up to the
amount that it was before so you fill it
up with a rock. So too if you eat too
late in the day
so I don't gain weight this way. You're
right that you know what the reason you
don't gain weight is cuz it doesn't do
anything for your nourishment.
The wine is does not increase.
It would be better if you fill it with
wine.
So too with this eating you will not
gain koach.
If you eat too late in the day you it
will not nourish you.
Okay.
Your eating in the day should be lighter
than the night.
What does that mean? Your your supper
should be more than your lunch.
Okay? So basically contrary to
everything you've seen or learned to
your supper and you know in uh
in Eretz Yisrael they have the big
dinner they have the big lunch and the
smaller dinner. No, halachically
smaller lunch bigger dinner.
Okay. You should eat twice.
Eat twice.
Okay, this is besides the chiyur this is
besides breakfast. Meaning besides pas
shachris.
If you're weak. If you're weak.
Don't fill yourself up all at once.
In the night eat meat.
In the morning eat bread.
Now
this evening that we're talking about
the Kaf Hachaim says
is after chatzos hayom.
>> [laughter]
>> That's what erev means.
But the Mishnah Berurah doesn't say
exactly what it means.
A person should not cook food [snorts]
from Sunday to Monday.
Meaning don't cook on Sunday for Monday.
You will cook on Monday for Monday.
According to the Zohar.
Cabalistically
um the Zohar was not a fan of leftovers.
This is also one of my cabalistic
habits, you know, that I try to follow.
The the Zohar was not a fan of cooking
on Sunday for Monday.
And not to save food from one day to the
next cuz it's a lack of bitachon.
That's what I feel. It's a lack of
bitachon. You should have every day you
should have fresh food, you know?
The reason is you're supposed to be
asking for your food every day. The
reason is you're supposed to be asking
for your food every day. By the way, you
know the Zohar says before you eat
one of the practices that one should
have before they eat is they should
daven for Hashem to feed them. Even
though the food is on the table, even
though they're about to eat it, one
should always be asking for your food.
That's one of the hanhagos that the
Mishnah Berurah brings from the Zohar.
One of the reasons why uh some people
even say mizmor l'Dovid
even between netilas yadaim and hamotzi.
Not that that's halachically correct,
but there is such a custom. Or on
Shabbos many say mizmor l'Dovid at the
beginning of the meal. This is all based
on this Zohar that you should be asking
for your food.
You should ask for your food every day.
And this way you will find your blessing
every day from above.
Say it before your meal.
It is good to
defecate before your meal.
What if you don't feel you need to go?
The Shulchan says, check yourself.
See if you need to go.
But if you did taste, like I have
because I gave them the hummus. If you
eat later in the day, it's not like
putting a stone into a thermos.
Says the Mishnah Berurah, my opinion
this whole siman is talking about even
somebody who did eat pas shacharis.
So,
if we're talking about someone who ate a
little bit of pas shacharis,
that
like this.
If you had pas shacharis,
then and you delay lunch after 11:00,
it's not like eating it's not like
zoreik even lachaimas.
However,
it's best
even if you did have katzas pas
shacharis,
still to have your lunch by
the end of the sixth hour.
Okay.
And on that note, let me finish my
coffee.
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