Why Do We Make Blessings on Food? To Redefine Who We Are

so today's class is dedicated by dr eustrol and connie kaplan in honor and for mazel tov for the upcoming marriage of shayna dinnerman to simha friend online this year five seven eighty two topshin paybays mazat of masaltov and obinion adeyad and all of the bronchus and hatslachus thank you very much one of the most ingrained institutions in jewish life is what we call brachus blessings ghazal our sages instituted that we make brachas and there are different types of blessings there's what's called burkha mitzvahs the blessing you make before you do a mitzvah for example before you light shabbos candles you say barakatah or before somebody fixes a mezuzah separates khala most mitzvahs have a bracha that we say before before lighting hanukkah candles reading the magilla before eating matzah before blowing shauper et cetera and then there are what's called birhas hanenin perham means brachas blessings that we make for enjoyable experiences and of course the most common is eating and drinking before we eat or before we drink whether it's a glass of water or a cup of coffee whether it's eating a tomato or a potato a chicken or an egg or a piece of cheese there's blessings and there's different types of blessings if i'm eating bread if i'm drinking wine if i'm eating cake if i'm eating meat if i'm eating fish salads vegetables or fruits as we know different types of blessings but they all go into the to the rubric to the genre of berkshire and blessings for enjoyable things and it's not only eating and drinking before we smell or other types of hana other types of enjoyable experiences the khazal instituted various bracha's various blessings this also includes the british when we wake up in the morning there's the whole list of birka sasha the blessings we say in the morning which are essentially blessings in which we express gratitude for the gifts for the gift of living for the gift of waking up the ability to be able to see the ability able to to to move our limbs the ability to walk the ability to step on the to step on on the earth et cetera all over the list of berkeley today we're going to try to dissect the underlying theme under all these blessings so let's begin with our first source which is masechis brachus da flamed hey this is tal the gemara brachas which is the track day the message is dedicated to blessings da flamin hey page 35 tanurabanam the rabbis taught us it's forbidden for a person to enjoy benefit from this world without introducing it without first making abraha blessing if somebody does if somebody does take enjoyment from this world without abraham [Music] it's considered a case of mila the word meila means misusing property that belongs to the basa miktash if there's property that belongs to the basal mixture say there's a an animal somebody dedicates an animal offering to the basal it's going to be a carbon let's say an ox and then i use that ox to plow my field this is called mila i'm basically using property that belongs so to speak to the reborn of shalom to hashem to the base amiktas and i'm using it for my own benefit or anything any of the assets or any of the objects or items alive or not alive that belongs to them it could be meal it could be flour it can be oil it can be any item that belongs to the mesa and i then use it for my own use this is called mila it's a misuse of the property of the basal matrix without permission and the person needs to even if they do it inadvertently by mistake they didn't realize so i have to pay back a karen i have to pay back the principal and add a chemist and add a fifth and there's even a carbon that's called asham it's a special offering of atonement that the person brings for me so the gemara says here that if i take enjoyment from this world anything of this world my banana that i want to eat this morning without a blessing it's the concept of me i'm basically so to speak stealing or manipu exploiting and using the property of the base amigdas without permission the gemara continues a few lines later kache shamayim revie means sacred items that belong to heaven that belong to hashem like an offering of the best it's called kache it's sacred it's holy shnema what's the source because the possible the whole earth the planet earth and everything that is contained on earth anything that fills the earth anything that walks on the earth anything that's part of the earth is really it's all part of hashem's property it's his world it's his world kainesha maya and varits so therefore if i take it without a blessing and i enjoy it it's nana mikaci shamayim from something that belongs to heaven that's sacred that's what the gemara says in other words the bracha is what allows me to eat it to drink it to havana for my lamas and here the commentators struggle with a fundamental question the fundamental question is one second if you're saying that anything in this world if i enjoy it without a bracha it's me ila it belongs it's like it belongs to the vasamiktas belongs to hashem it's his property it's under his domain and i'm now using it what exactly happens when i make a blessing when i make a blessing is it shot that now it gets taken out of hashem's property it's now taken out of kachi shamayim doesn't so to speak belong to hashem anymore and therefore it's not holy anymore if it's not holy it's mundane they reckon eat it that's what it would sound like but that would be very strange because what happens by a blessing what do you do in a blessing and a blessing you're actually acknowledging that it's hashems so what's exactly this formula in halacha what's this mechanism before i make a blessing it's divine property and after i make a blessing it's like okay not holy any more mundane so through making a bracha you extricate it from a place of hackness hectic means it's holy it belongs to hectares means belongs to the best that's when there is when there's hectis if it's not hectic if it's not sacred there's no mila right if i use this bottle of water it's not me i'm allowed to use this bottle of water i mean if it belongs to you i'm not going to take it without your permission but it's not called meelo if you take it from somebody else it's called xailer geneva meela means it belongs to hectic so the gemara is saying it belongs tactics and when you make a barakah what happens through the barak it doesn't become it's not hectic anymore it's a very strange formula but there's really let's let's put the question a little bit of different words so it it becomes clear if it's really hectic if it's really sacred if it's really divine property and therefore i'm not allowed to benefit from it so what exactly happens through the blessing does the blessing extricate it from kache shamayim from holiness that would be strange because the bracha acknowledges that it belongs to god so you're going to say no of course not the blessing doesn't take it out of hektesh it still remains hectic if it still remains hectic so then how am i allowed to use it if i make a bracha on hectis i'm not going to use it me illas even if you make a bracha let's put the question maybe in clearer terms how are we supposed to understand this whole concept of rakh as we say whichever way you look at it it's a little perplexing if hashem gives me permission to use the world so then even if i don't make a blessing i'm not stealing from him if you give me permission to eat from your home or to use your drinks so then i'm not stealing fashem gives us permission to benefit from the world so then it's not me-illah i'm not misusing hectus the rebel shalom gave me permission if he doesn't give us permission if he doesn't give us permission like in real me illah i'm now going to use what belongs to the mesa magdesh what does a blessing help saying thank you helps you know there's an old anecdote about a tourist who came to israel and he was it was a hot july day and he was walking around up north and he was really really starving and thirsty and he suddenly sees a beautiful orchard with a large vine tree so he goes in and it has this most delicious lush grapes and he starts eating the grapes and the owner comes out to his porch and sees this american tourist eating one grape after another grape after another grape and really you know satiating himself with his grapes and he starts hollering he says sir don't you know that there's a passage that says in parishes yesterday cigna if it's one of that serious diplomacy now let us steal and there's another person that says ignore you shouldn't steal any money there's another passage that says oil this is gnavenzela and the man looks up and he says wow there's no country like israel you get to eat such delicious grapes and while you're eating you get to hear advaithara too if you if you don't give me permission to eat something making a rock i could say thank you thank you it's yours i know it's yours okay doesn't mean i'm allowed to eat it before i make a barakah i'm not that i want to make abraham allah steal from you so you say no god gives us permission okay if he gives us permission so then even if i don't make it it's nice to make a bracha it's a beautiful thing to make abraham why are you calling it why are you calling it nanamikachi shamayam and the truth is hashem did give us permission to eat he told other men right when he created them he gave them the right to enjoy the world to build the world to protect the world to heal the world to repair the world but also to enjoy the world so he gave us permission in fact for many generations there were no brackets besides birkhand that already exists from the time of moshe the blessings that we make before we eat them before we drink were created by the khazal by the ancient nasa sagittarius the beginning of the second base of mikdush so they ate without a bracha so on a most simple level one might say the ghazala just saying something simple something straightforward and that is before you eat you should say thank you you should acknowledge the fact that this comes from hashem it's his food shahaka like we say baruch minority extracts the bread from the earth he creates the fruits from the ground or her birthday preheats he created the fruit of the trio everything came into existence through his word alberto priya gaffenberg i mean his own is whatever the exact text of the bracha is it's basically a form of gratitude of expressing gathered gratitude before i eat to meditate for a moment that this peach didn't just emerge in a vacuum this apple didn't just emerge in a vacuum this piece of bread didn't just emerge in a vacuum there's a process there's a mechanism and never to take for granted the miracle of life and the fact that our earth produces this type of food that works for our organisms to replenish it and to give it the nutrients the nutrients and the vitality that it needs in order to live now that's a beautiful idea it's a beautiful concept but the ghazal then could have said it very simply they could have just said before you eat you should be grateful you should say thank you. and that's why you make a blessing but their formula the language they use is a little different not just a little different a lot different they say if you eat without a bracha it's me ila it's taking something from the basamiktus it's taking something from hectus so what happens to the bracha it's not hectic anymore or you're going to say hashem gives you permission to use hectic after the bracha what happens why it's not hectic if it's hectic i'm not letting you use it what exactly are they trying to say what the bracha accomplishes there's something also interesting if you continue your second source the gemara continues rabbi levi rami rablavi asked a question sieve it says la shmoo the whole world belongs to hashem there's another passage in tehillim we say it in halal hashemayam shamayim la shem it's not saliva adam in fact these are two verses in tehillah one is in capital have dalit and one is later in tehillim in the kapitlak of tehillim capital kuftaswav and the earth he gave to people sure believe he says i don't understand one place in tehillim it says la shema at somalia the earth belongs to in another place it says nasa living adam he granted the earth to people sort of believe he says is a contradiction who does the eretz who does our planet belong to one place says it belongs to hashem and one place it says belongs to people so the gemara one person is talking after abraham in other words before i make a blessing it belongs to hashem and therefore if i eat it then i'm stealing i'm taking something that belongs to god and i'm using it for my own benefit that's theft and it's not just theft as the gemara continues later it's taken from the base i'm ignorant it's taking kache now the earth was given to people and here again we have to understand this is again very interesting if i don't make a blessing who does it belong to hashem once i make a blessing what do you say in the blessing and the blessing you say that it's his suddenly now it's not his anymore now it belongs to you again i can understand what you tell me that the blessing is just there to say thank you i come to your home you're giving me food i say thank you thank you for allowing me to enjoy your food but the gemara again formulates in a very interesting way before the barakah it's his and after the baraka va arith nasa live in ayadam now it's yours so now it's not his anymore by saying the bracha it was extricated so to speak from his domain how are we supposed to understand the formula that the khazal are giving us here for brachas so you know a lot of people when you read these things it's more like we don't sometimes look too deep into it it's just a way of saying thank you as i said gratitude but you could see from their language that they're referring to something a specific idea that's why they use the word meila they use the word nanami kachi shamayim they use the word nasa to understand this we're going to change the subject for a moment to discuss another theme which will then bring us back to us there were different types of foods that were eaten throughout jewish history one of them is known as truma what is truma truma which is discussed in parishious emmer and in other parshis truma is sacred food literally it means tithing that which you separate or that which you uplift because jewish law obligated jews living in their tissue who produced their harvest and their fields and their farms and their and their uh their orchards to give a certain percentage of the food to those who needed it one of those taxations of sadaqa is called truma basically approximately two percent let's say i'm growing wheat or any grain or other fruits or vegetables so two percent of my grain i separate and i give it to the cayenne i can give it to any kind the cayenne didn't own property they didn't own fields they worked in the bay mikdash or they were teachers they taught they were so to speak the spiritual um representatives of the jewish people who were involved in serving in the basamiktus or learning or teaching so the other jewish people supported them and one of the ways they got their food was that if a jew owned earth owned a field so two percent of the grain that was grown was given to the cayenne this is called truma truma is sacred food it's holy food another jew is now eat rum once the turmeric is separated it has a kedusha a lady is now let her eat it are you strollers now let it eat it and it's so serious that there's a penalty if somebody does it willingly there's a penalty of me bidet shamay a penalty of heavenly death unless the person does truva that's how allergic a regular person is it's like if i'm taking in something some medicines for one person it's a lifesaver and for another person it's toxic for enough one person a certain energy is very helpful for another person it can actually be very destructive so truma is that type of food for the cayenne it's sacred but somebody else who eats tremor it's actually very damaging because it has a very intense holiness that's not good for your system so there's a penalty of misibideshimayan so any labor you use for all is never allowed to eat rama only kayanna marladitrum the same is true with other foods that were sacred certain carbonaries certain offerings or parts of offerings that could be eaten only by cayenne and nobody else can eat those foods they belonged exclusively to the cayenne and this was a very sacred food that belonged to kaina and here we have a very interesting halacha and that's what i want to read with you in your next source rambam hill has truma is paired with says the rambam truma o trumas maiser when you have truma again what's truma truma is the two percent of grain or vegetables or fruits that are given to kayanim to eat and enjoy what's troubas my true smile says something very interesting in addition to the two percent that you gave to the cayenne you gave another ten percent to the levin the levium also didn't own their own properties or run their own businesses they also worked in the bay hamiktus and they also served as spiritual mentors and teachers so kayanim would get truma and levine would get mice so if i have let's say i'm growing uh a hundred stalks i have a hundred pounds of wheat a hundred pounds of wheat so two percent i gave to a cayenne after i gave that to that's truma now i have 98 percent left 10 of 98 now i give to a levy these are the taxations of sadaqa that hashem obligated the jew to give a certain amount just like today we give sadaqa you give my sir the word myself means me esser one of ten may esther one of ten so ten percent which means nine point eight i give to the lady that's called myself risha and then there was another ten percent after that after nine point eight what am i left with i gave away two percent so i have 98 now i do 9.8 so i have around 89. now i give another 10 percent that goes either to your shalom or to poor people depends on the year during the seven year cycle did levium got 10 percent there were many more of vm than kayanim of course because levine is everybody from the tribe of levy cayenne are only descendants of aaron hakai in just one particular family of the tribe of levy who worked in the basa mikdush bringing the karbanas the lavim also worked in the basement but in a different role when the lady gets my sir ten percent he has to give ten percent of his ten percent also to the kayak that's called trumas myself the truman that you get from isis so the cayenne gets truman from me the owner of the farm and he gets another tremor from the micer that the lady got that's called troumous mice okay it's clear so this truma is sacred food nobody besides the cayenne is allowed to eat it as i said there's a very serious penalty if i eat it willingly if i eat it unwillingly i also have to pay back the cayenne there's again a penalty there too says the rambam trumatrum could be eaten only by kayanna bengdulenbanktan no difference if they're adults or their miners i don't need a cayenne who's bar mitzvah even a baby a child cayenne canitrum bain skyrim bene cavus no difference a male cayenne or a female cayenne a cayenne may have a daughter who's two years old three years old she eats the tumor just like her father just like her brothers everybody of the cayenne family can eat trauma haim they themselves and also their non-jewish slaves can eat rumah and not only that the hempton animals can eat rumah now what is an evident kenaini let's give the definition evidence there were two types of servants in the ancient world an avid ivory means a jewish servant which means is a jew who doesn't is completely broke he doesn't have literally anything and he has a wife and he has children and he has to support himself and there's a time when there's no food stamps and there's no other benefits or grants so this tutmen he's literally desperate the man is desperate so what does he do he sells himself as a servant to another jew this is called an evid ivory now we use the word slave it's really not the definition of a slave as we're used to the common concept of slavery for two reasons first of all he can't sell himself for more than six years so it's more like a lease rather than slavery in the sen it can only be a contract for six years means after six years he's going out unless he wants to stay he could stay till he evil he could stay till the 50th year besides that the avid ivory has to be treated with tremendous dignity to the point that the gemara is telling conducion that if you only have one pillow in the house who do you think gets it you don't get it your slave gets it if there's only one piece of chicken in the house right so you eat luxian and the slave eats chicken if there's only one roll of sushi yeah you eat potato and he gets the sushi to the point that the gemara summarizes it and says if you acquire a jewish servant you basically acquired a master so be careful it's like sometimes you know you say you're hiring this employee you didn't hire an employee you hired your boss it may take a few years but but you may see that that's called an evident ivory inevitably basically belongs to himself it's just like he made a lease with you and for six years he has to work for you so it's called an evid because he's a servant he has to work for you every day according to uh according to the to the rules of the according to halakha then there's something called evideni evidently was a completely different category everything is as it sounds like a non-jewish evident a non-jewish servant who is purchased by a jew and undergoes some form of conversion analogically he has the status of being semi-jewish not fully jewish but semi-jewish he has to go through a bris obviously if it's a male evident not obviously uh shiva knightness would obviously have a different category and he's obligated in some mitzvahs not in all the mitzvahs he's exempt from all the mitzvah's essays just like a woman the toyota obligates it from the midfielder like filling ortiz or spherus mirror sook all the mitzvahs that are time-bound she's exempt because of her preoccupation with raising a family so therefore the evid knight is also exempt from many many of the mitzvahs he can't work on shabbos of course even your animals can't work on shabbos so shabbos he had a day off so this was an evidenti yesterday he wasn't jewish and today he's semi-jewish if you emancipate him if you emancipate your evidence he becomes a full jew but till that point he is considered an evid and therefore he has a semi status of a jew so the rambam says the evid khanini can also eat truma if he belongs to the kayan and not only that the animals as well shinema the possib when a kayan purchases a soul it's an acquisition of his money he can also eat rama and the rambam says even avid cayenne shabarach if a cayenne has a servant who ran away he escaped the ish asia's cayenne or the cayenne has a wife who also rebelled against him she's not interested she doesn't want to be with him but they're not divorced hare elu aiklin they could still continue eating trauma because she is legally still married to him and the evidence still has evident even though he ran he fled he's not home and therefore he's not in the house of his master they can eat from and the next source mishna massachusetts the eleventh chapter of mishnah is trumas karshini truma which means kernels of truma noise you could give them to eat to an animal a domesticated animal akaya is even an undomesticated animal if you own it let's say like a deer will it turn the garlic and to your chickens to your roosters you can give them all the cayenne can give them seeds of trauma now here is a fascinating and very perplexing question and i saw it's raised by this fast emis swash emis emer 1801 raises the question in very sharp terms your next source the zed var pella this is very strange the holy one the holiest jew if he's not a kayan if he's a israel is forbidden to eat rama the evid and the servant of the king the slave of the cayenne who's semi-jewish and the animal of the cayenne who's certainly not jewish they're allowed to eat rumor and understand the question truma is absolutely sacred food it's like divine food it's holy food so if my shirabainu assuming that maeshrabena wasn't a cayenne there's two opinions in gemara if maisha was considered a cayenne or just a lady but let's say bhaishnavena was not a cayenne so if my benu if my shirabenu or david or shloima great people but not kayanin rabbi akiva rashid the rambam himself the greatest giants of the jewish people should be israel the holiest of the holy if they eat rumor there's a penalty of mesa bidet a heavenly death that's how damaging that's how destructive it is for their soul and here you have a behavior an animal a chicken who's allowed to eat this trauma here you have an evid canine a few hours ago he wasn't even jewish or a shivchakaninus a maid that came from the non-jewish world they just went through a conversion a semi-conversion and they now are in the house of the cayenne and the is that this evident knight is allowed to eat trauma not only is it not meesa but ishmael not only is there no penalty the client could serve the evid the evid kanini trump how are we supposed to understand this it's a very very strange phenomenon he says it's a varpella you have such a holy food the holy is jew in the world is now let it eat it why he's not a kayak sorry he's not a cayenne he's not going to eat it he's not let it digest this food and here this everett kanini is allowed to eat the trauma it seems so strange he's holy enough for the trauma and mushroom is not holy enough for the trauma how we supposed to understand this the answer to this is we have to understand the definition what it means that the chicken of the cayenne eats turmeric or the cow of the cayenne or the donkey of the cayenne doesn't have to be a kosher animal it could be a bahama a kaya tarnickal kosher not kosher if akoyin owns a donkey he can give the donkey karshine truma so you have here a fascinating thing the treyfa animal is eating truma you're giving this holy food kashini truma you don't give them food that's edible for people but you give them food that's not edible that's why it says karshini seeds kernels and yet the holy is jew sorry this is too holy you're not louder something very strange very enigmatic the answer to this is we have to look at the words of the passage the next source partials emer peric of base pass if he acquires a soul what does it mean he acquires a soul he purchases a non-jewish servant kenyan kaspehu this is the acquisition that came from his money who kenyan kaspe who it's now the acquisition of his money meaning it's part of his his estate so to speak that servant is allowed to eat rama the elite basay and the one born in his home may be a child of that servant they can all partake in the bread of the cayenne even though it's trimmer most truman was turned into bread because it was grain wheat or barley or spelt or oats or rye but the initial most room or at least much much trimmer was was was grain so that's why it's lachema was turned into bread they're allowed to eat the bread so the rambam explains pirosharam turum is pretty cute olive the ramen has a commentary on mashnaya so chapter 11 of meshes traumas he says because it's the acquisition of his money it now belongs to him he can feed you know today sometimes people rent a car in the ancient world you may rent a donkey or you may rent a horse or you may rent a camel or you may rent an ox you need an ox to plow your field you rent you pay somebody to rent it so now the client has to feed the animal he has the animal for a week you got to feed the animal you got to feed the puppy so he says then the coyote can't feed the animal trimmer why because he doesn't own it even though he's renting it he's responsible for it he has to take care of it if i rent your car i have to take care of your car i can't just let it become a shipwreck i'm responsible for the animal it's a as a shiner i'm a custodian but it's not mine it's yours i rented it from you i have to give it back to you in a week and a month whatever the time is whatever the lease is so therefore that animal the cayenne can't feed trauma what is the rambam explaining to us he's saying the definition here the reason the animal of the kayaking kenichiro is because the animal belongs to the cayenne it's kenyan kaspai it's part of the property of the cayenne so when you say i don't understand how can a chicken eat trauma behemoth eats trauma the answer is when the chicken with my if i'm a coyote when my chicken is eating truman my chicken is not eating trauma because the chicken eats turmeric because the chicken is completely subservient to the cayenne the chicken belongs to the cayenne the chicken is so to speak part of the of the household of the domain of the kite just like nobody's going to ask a question if a cayenne marries his wife she's not a client she's the daughter of a israelis she allowed etrum of course she's already trauma even if she's not home she's a lot of it from a why the answer is ishta kagufa because marriage takes two people turns them into one unit one entity ish goofy the governor says that his wife is like part of his body because i'll say a person has to love his wife as much as he loves himself and respect her even more than he respects himself it's like two parts of one like it says in zarya by ikerab shimon says that a man and a woman it's like plague it's like two halves of one body or two halves of one soul like other men so therefore once they're married she's part of the cayenne the kalina's part of her so when she's eating truma it's because she's part of the kaya lahav they'll not to compare a person to an animal when the cayenne has a bahama the behemoth is not considered a separate entity outside of the world of the kayan the behemoth is subsumed the behavior is belongs to the kind the behemoth is like an extension of the kind it doesn't have its own identity whose chicken is it it's the cayenne's chicken so the kite the client has to feed the chicken he has to take care of his chicken so the chicken eats the truma or the behemoth is an extension of the kind the same is true with an evid again between a person and an animal the arm of a servant is like the arm of his master or khazal what a servant acquires the master requires why because the evid as long as he or she belongs to the cayenne they are like an extension of the cayenne just like the cayenne has a child a child the child is allowed to eat rumor the child doesn't work in the bay samiktas but the child and the cayenne they're one as long as the evident belongs to the cayenne so it's like yad evident it's like an extended arm of the master mashikana have it why because the evid doesn't have his own separate identity the evid belongs to the client he's an extension of the cayenne it's almost like he's a continuum of the cayenne so when he eats trauma who's eating trauma the cayenne is eating trum if the and when they may be the holiest first people in the world but they're eating it as their own they are eating it because of themselves they have their own identity they have their own identity they have a distinct identity so the toyota says if you're not a kanye truman the avid kanini you can't compare that with kennedy to mushroom of course not but the evid ninety now who is he he's completely connected and like an extension of the cayenne not separate not a separate identity so when the evidence eats tremor who's really eating the tumor the cayenne is eating the trauma it's like a family like part of the family if he's part of the family it's the kyan's family eating the tumor so therefore the avid kind is larry the evid ivory even if you work for the cayenne for six years for ten years but if you have your own identity i'm an employee of the cayenne cayenne hires me to work in his house i may be his bookkeeper i may be his computer programmer it's very nice i may be in his house but i can eat rumor why can't i eat roma because i'm not kenyan casper of the cayenne i don't belong to the queen i'm not an extension of the cayenne i'm not part of his body i'm not ishta kagufu i'm not married to the kai and i work for the korean i'm an employee of the cayenne doesn't allow me to eat room that's that's the definition of this that's why the animal can eat and the and the the holiest person can't eat that's the answer to this vasanas question that's why the cayenne rents the animal the animal can't eat from why because it's rented it's not bought if you look at the next source the same is true with carbonus swahili the fifth chapter of zwakan we actually say every morning before davening you remember there's a chapter it's called izaw mccoy manchester it's a chapter of msnais where we go through the different alakas of offerings so there's a line over there that we say every single morning and we speak about different parts of carbon is that only kayannam are allowed to eat so the mission says hamuram mayhem what gets separated from the carbon kayode cayetzabam like the rest of the carbon the parts of the carbon that amuram that are segregated and given to the cayenne they can be eaten by the cayenne they can be eaten by his wife they can be eaten by all of his children and they can also be eaten by his servants again if i'm not a kind of malaria why is the evidence eat it just like david is allowed to eat tremor because yad avid kia drabboi there it is an extension of the current it's like it's his mouth is an extension of the kind right no so not everything and you're asking if everything in the house of the kind is true no truma is only the two percent that was segregated from the israel's grain and give it to the cayenne and then the two then then the other 10 percent that was given by the levy to the cayenne only that was trauma so the cayenne may have regular food in this house that anybody can eat so the grandchildren visiting depends what type of grandchildren if it was the cayenne's son's children so those children are cayenne but if his daughter married or israel so then those grandchildren indeed can't eat truman right now let's say the cayenne passes away he only leaves this daughter and he only leaves these grandchildren as ears so here you have a situation where yes inherited a lot of trauma so they can't do anything with it what are they going to do with it but they can sell it to a cayenne the price is not going to be that steep because the supply is always you know you have to know about supply and demand truma doesn't go for that more much money because there's not a big demand for it because a very small group of people can eat it but that's a case where the grandchildren will inherit truman from their zaidi they can't do anything with it because they're israel them because their father is a eustral their mother is a daughter of a client it may be a situation where he had no sons and they inherit the rumor from their mother maybe their mother is also not here and therefore what happens they now have truman they don't know what to do with it so they sell it to a cayenne they don't have to give it to a client they inherited it rightfully so they sell it to a client but again the price is going to be pretty uh low for it you get it so when the grandchildren come the cayenne had to give them cheerios that were not roma they may have had one box of cherries on which it said shroom another box that said khulen and uh and they gave them the khulen so it's not like all the cayenne's food is trauma that would be impossible because truma is only a small amount the client could go to the store and buy regular food however there was a in the cayenne's house there was always a section known for trauma and they were very careful with that because you couldn't allow that to become impure and of course if you had a guest coming they couldn't eat that unless they're cayenne et cetera so it's a fa it's really a fascinating thing the cayenne could have you know the the greatest jew of the generation sitting at his table right and the man wants to take a piece of khali says no no no no no no no sorry not new we got to get you uh you know the sourdough trumakala is only for us and uh we got to get you the other khala you know with the oil and the sugar and this no there's joking true hulan can also be very healthy and uh and then when the evidence comes you know he gets a piece of the tumor so it's almost like discrimination against this holy jew he's not let eat the holy food and then the evid who was yesterday not jewish he gets the truman that's what we're explaining because he's not a guest visiting the house rather he is the house he is an extension of the cayenne himself so therefore the holiness of the cayenne extends to his evidence because it's like one larger entity according to all of this after this introduction we'll now be able to understand the depth of what abraca is i don't know if you see where we're going with this class but let's now come back to our discussion what is a bracha we usually understand abraca is just saying thank you you invite me to your house for shabbos what do you do at the end of a meal right you say thank you and what do you do before the meal you say thank you in advance thank you for having us thank you for your hospitality it's so kind of you it's so gracious and then you sit down to eat that's a menstrual way of living you say thank you a dank right when i was growing up they used to tell an anecdote in lubavitch they used to send every summer they still send bakram have somewhere off they would send them on what's called american schliches to communities small communities where there's no infrastructure to meet jews and inspire them and connect to them and many communities were built from those visits it already began in the nineteen forties in america so the laboratory had his chief of staff so to speak his secretary is a jew was named rabbi rabbi so he would give training to these yeshiva boys before they traveled of you know what to do what not to do so he would always have a special session with them and he would always say you're going to go to a city and you're going to may maybe there's still an old rub there you know from the old days and you're going to eat at his home friday night so make sure that at the end of the meal you go to the kitchen you find the bellabuster and you say thank you you know yeshiva beckham you sometimes have to teach them these things especially if nobody taught it to them earlier i don't know why but if nobody did she said you make sure you don't leave the house before you go to the bala busta and you thank her for a delicious meal and for her warmth and hospitality and the good food and so forth they say there was a baka who was somewhat abstract and the meal finished he went to the kitchen he asked the husband where's he where he said he's in the kitchen he went to the kitchen and he said rabbi khadikov told me to tell you that the food was delicious [Laughter] so uh the bottom line is so we understand the bracha to say that hashem after i eat i benched is abraham whether it's allah whether it's burna fascists whether it's the blessing after brexit after bread which is actually biblical but even before we eat i'm about to drink my cup of water i say thank you thank you and then i drink my water what we're gonna discover now is that there's some that's all true that's all true but what the gemara is telling us is something much deeper the gemara says if i eat without a barakah what is it it's not just i didn't say thank you it was not nice hashem gave me permission but you should say thank you that's what i would expect that would make a lot of sense the gemara is saying that without abraham it's me ila it's holy it's sacred it's divine food and we asked what happens with abraham it's not divine it's not holy it's gone it's now mundane now let's see what a bracha is what is abraham let's hear the words we don't just say todaraba we could do that we could say okay a cup of water thank you hashem you know that new organization thank you hashem right so you can do today i think there's a hebrew uh what's the hebrew song whatever one of those nice songs about thank you say thank you abraham is actually somewhat intricate baruch the accomplishment of the brock is much more profound when a jew takes the food and makes a bracha what am i saying in this bracha hashem you're the king of the universe you're the king so what am i you're the melaka islam oh i'm your evident i'm an evidence ah if you're an evan hashem of course you can eat for my table of course you can eat the heck dish you are hectis you're part of hectis that's what the bracha does the bracha redefines the person malacha islam it's not that the brahman makes it ice hackness the barakah makes you hack this that's the word the broker redefines the person i belong to hashem i'm part of you i'm part of your domain you're a property of course i can eat everything on his table i'm one of the children i'm one of the servants and even if you're going to say i feel like a behemoth can also eat i feel like an animal but you're hashem's animal there's god's behemoth i feel like an avid i'm a servant i'm not but you're hashems of it that's what the brahma achieves in other words to put it in these words the barakah doesn't change the kefta the bracket changes the gavra and yeshiva language the bracha doesn't alter the object the item the food before the bracha it was divine food and after the barakah it's earthy food no the bracket changes the gavra the bracha alters the person partaking in the food i become a different person consciously versus before the brah the person is redefined i'm part of the basal meter it's like a cayenne eating a carbon it's like a cayenne eating trauma in fact the gemara says in sanhedrin who your god is a cayenne the gomarya calls hashemakayan so if hashem is a cayenne of the cake so now i'm the evident of the queen malachi islam i'm and that's why we started with the word baruch the word baruch actually doesn't mean thank you there's another word for thank you the word for thank you in hebrew is thank you that's the word tada there's something called carbon tidal a carbon of thanks of gratitude the word baroque we translated it as blessed what is really the word baruch mean the word barak in hebrew in modern hebrew you call a pool the word baroque means when something extends when something is communicated for example in mishnais you'll have hamavrik if you have a vine and you take a branch and you extend it you want the divine should grow from another place so you take a branch you extend it you put it in the earth and you create a new vine that's called bracha that's why breka is called a pool because a pool is always drawing water from some source whether it's a faucet it's a water reservoir it's a well spring it's a river the pool brings in the water and it becomes a brecha that extended the water from its source whatever its source is and it now creates a cistern or a pool filled with water so why are we saying the word baruch because the fact that hashem is true even before the bracha what barak is it's creating the awareness of it the consciousness of it it's extending that awareness into my psyche i'm breathing it into myself before i'm eating this peach before i'm drinking this cup of coffee or this cup of tea or this cup of celery juice or or coconut milk whatever i'm drinking i could say coca-cola but i didn't want to ruin your appetite but even coca-cola or pepsi baruch is the awareness it's bringing into my consciousness the fact that atta hashem eloy keno melech oil ah if this is who you are ask his own to hate my kin eat eat and eat more mishol expressions it's like i'm i'm eating from the table of hashem now that's the meaning when the gemara says before the bracha it's la shama arutsumlaya after the barakah it's not she gives the earth to people and the question is it's so it seems strange if i don't make abraham belongs to if i make abraham now it doesn't belong to him anymore now he says it's yours he says okay now i'm detaching from it now it's yours enjoy it the idea here is after a person makes a bracha now the person is not separate from hashem now the person acknowledges herself or himself to be part of the divine so when you say vahret hashem gave the earth to people who did he give it to he gave it to his his extension his ambassador his partner because i'll have an expression in shabbos that a jew becomes shutter flake baruch a person could become a partner of hashem in the work of repairing the world of healing the world when the person defines himself or herself as divine khazal say evad melech hareu kamela is like the king and in rashi and pastor's variable and it's free it says evid not even kim allah and gemara the expression is evident in sifri and rashi in various says the avid malik is the malek what do you mean it's not the melo he's the evid mele a real aved is mashikana evit khan rabbi what the evident acquires the master requires and the rashbook explains in conduction it's not separate it's not that i acquire it and then my master requires it no like when i acquired it my master acquired it already why because my eye is an extension of my master's eye so when the jew makes a bracha he or she is not separate anymore you're not disconnected you're not detached you're shutting you're an evident malach malek you're completely one with hashem so now you're an ambassador of hashem in this world you're a manifestation of hashem's light in this world so he gives you the earth it's not separate anymore from him that's what he says the arithmetic is also god's because the adam revealed that the whole earth is hashem and that includes also the purse you know how it is sometimes you have a guest in the house and how do you know that a guest feels really comfortable in your house we always try to make guests feel comfortable so i'll tell you my barometer they can open the refrigerator themselves you know what i mean you have hoes they're very nice but you always have to serve you what do you want this you want this you want that you know sometimes i travel and i have to stay by somebody or whatever they say how can i help you i said you can help me by not helping me imagine i'm your teenage child who comes to the pantry 100 times you know to check what food was created in the last five minutes since they opened the pantry five minutes ago when somebody is a guest they can't open their data i can't open the refrigerator i have to wait the moment the moment you become a bambias so what's the definition you open the refrigerator why what's the difference the guest feels i can't open the refrigerator it's not mine i'll eat your food when you give it to me the benbayas it's already i'm part of the household it's like a child opens the refrigerator okay mommy can i open the refrigerator they feel comfortable why because we're one it's one family unit it's mushbacha it says in swarm it says on shabbos it doesn't say it's a minute so there's a beautiful vert what's the difference shabbos is holier than yamato because on shabbos the guest doesn't feel like a guest shabbos there's such a holiness that the guest feels like completely part of the house it's not a classic it's family so when the jew makes a bracha it's like i'm part of hashem so open the refrigerator take eat the truma eat the carbonas but you're in ever that call you you can eat the katri shamayam you can eat the tremor so after the jew makes a bracha hashem could already give me the earth he's not giving away the earth in a way that the earth is going to become disconnected this full trust if i'm evident he can give me the earth why because i'll transform it the qatar everyone said hashem i am he gave to people so that they should transform it to heaven heaven is heaven it's heaven on its own or it's not they should reveal the heaven in the earth that's what the bracha accomplishes it's a different type of eretz because it's a different type of ben adam so beautiful word from the balsam that we say at the end of shema ani hashem what is the meaning of that i am your god i have taken you out of eretz mitzrayim of egypt leo islam layla kim so that you that i should become a god for you so i'm your god who took you out of egypt so i should become your god so the basham that once said that there's a deeper interpretation is that which belongs to you that even that which belongs to you you should realize is part of elikim leo isla ham layla kim even that which is lachem it's your own it's part of your own domain even that you should realize is completely one with the divine there's no separateness there's no detachment even your elohim should also be laila kim is also permeated with godliness with divinity what does this mean in a person's life there's a beautiful vote from uh rebellion of legends he writes in parties it says masteroise seogla which means when you give my sir when you tithe when you give to dhaka it's a syag it's a it's a fence it's like a preparation for wealth because the posix says when a pr number zeiss when you give charity assailant give tithes in order that you should get wealthy so mysterious mysteries is a jug it's like the beginning it's a fence in order to get closer to wealth asks usually when you say something is a sug it's a fence it means it's not the main thing the main thing is what's inside the fence right when you create a fence around something it's like a protection you say you know this is a very special thing people come to a museum or they come to some very special place so you put a gate around the prized item and the gate is getting close to it but that the gate is not the objective the gate is just like the prelude the preparation you know you hold on to the gate here it's funny maestrous so the the name ali malek says that that's the shot of the mishnah that a person should treat their money the way they treat their money their own money with such holiness that the mysterious the mice that they give is only a seagull oyster it's only a fence that prepares for the wealth because the wealth that they have is so permeated with kedusha that even the micer that they gave away is only a sure that's how holy the archer becomes that's how deep they recognize god's presence in the money that belongs to them that even the micer is only asyagla they tell a story about the magala mukhas the magala mukhis was a jew named shapiro he's a rabbi in krakow he passed away around the year 1640. it says on his mat in krakow that he learned familia and at one point the magala he wrote a staffer called magala mukas we spoke about it say for a few weeks ago so at one point he decided he wants to leave the rabbinate in krakow and he wants to move to a small town so you should be able to sit and learn and daven all day he was a very very holy jew he just made a decision you know the the burden of the rabbinate was very heavy and he just wants to segregate himself as he was already finalizing his decision and making the final preparations two people came to him for a dintara they came for a court case a wealthy jew and a poor jew so he expected one of these classic situations where the wealthy jew is bringing the poor jew is bringing the wealthy jew to court to the rabbinical court to ask for money that he feels the man owes him but it was actually the other way around the wealthy jew was summoning the poor jew to the rabbinical court what happened the wealthy jew tells the magalla mokus you see this man he owned a bagel store he was a baker he had a bakery and he would make bread and bagels but he was very poor it was not successful and i realized that he's struggling with finances and i came to him and i said listen you're really made to learn you're not made for this business so why don't you close your store and you sit and learn and let's make a deal like you saw her in zwollen we'll make a deal half of the mitzvah of your learning goes to me and i'll support you makes more sense you do what you're good at i'm making money anyway i'll give you the money once a week i'll give you what you need we'll make a deal and that's how it is so the jew said fine great this jew and he did it for three months and then he quit he told me no more i'm going back to my bagel store and it's not fear we made a commitment i'm supposed to support him i want his mitzvah of learning and he quit so the magala amokus turns to this poor jew and says what happened he said i'll tell you the truth when i had the store i always thought about hashem i always spoke to hashem the first thing is i would grind the kernels into flour so i used to ask hashem that the flower should be good flour it shouldn't be rotten it shouldn't be decomposed it shouldn't be moldy it should be good geshmaca a fine flour so that the product should come out good then i would knead the dough i would need the flour with water and turn it into dough i would ask that the dough should be as a good robust dough and then when i put it into the oven i ask that the wood should be dry without worms and without moisture so it should be a good fire so that the baking should be good and then it finished i would ask hashem that everything should get sold and i was always talking to god then i find myself learning i'm learning because i'm not talking to hashem anymore so he says i decided it's not for me i'm going back to my old store so the magala mukha says lebanon if these are the jews who live in krakow i'm not leaving the city if this is the detroiter of krakow this man wants that he should stop working so he could support him and this man says learning is gevaldic but he doesn't feel that same intimate relationship so then he's staying in krakow mukha stayed in krakow and he's taken buried in crack on the cemetery of krakow i think that's pratt nanayam ali malik sometimes maestrous a jew makes a rock it's not just he makes a bracha verbally baroque a jew makes a bracha it's a transformation of consciousness it's really a meditation of tuning into who the person is once i redefine myself the food is a different food why is the food a different food because the person is a different person so the food doesn't become different in the sense that it's mundane the food remains divine and sacred but once the person is a transformed person so for me the food means something else i can eat the holy food i can eat the divine food because the food is not extricated from holiness the person is transformed so therefore what does it really mean that ghazal instituted this this this institution of brachas what it's really telling a person is it helps a person redefine themselves because one of the great challenges that we have in life is when we feel detached separate broken alone alone bothered alone what does the aloneness come from i'm in my own orbit i'm in my own space how can i eat rumor i can't eat trauma how can i eat kochem the jew understands who are you who am i at every single moment the barakah doesn't change the reality the brahma is baruch it reveals the reality it extends the reality i'm an extension of hashem if i'm an extension of hashem then who am i really i am a piece of infinity i'm a helical kami mal evid malach malek a child is part of a father and a mother an evidence an extension of the master even a behavior is an extension of the master so if that's the case a person realizes that my very eye is never ever separate i'm never alone the great anxiety that comes with life is as a result of experiences and a result of being through the ringer and as a result of challenges the person starts looking at themselves as being disconnected as being separate as being on their own and now i have to compensate for that connection through finding validation but it's a very lonely place it's an extremely lonely place because i'm trying to validate and find existence in something that doesn't have real substance because when i'm separate i'm not living i'm not anchored in real reality i'm anchored in superficial reality so i have to compensate for that superficiality by getting validation and feeling less lonely because i'm not feeling part of wholesomeness so i need to find that wholesomeness in different ways but it's always a distraction and it's never real wholesomeness because i'm trying to validate myself with things that i'm not really really looking for it's just to fill that void of being broken and separate and lonely you understand what i'm saying right what does the bracha do the bracha redefines the person kenyan kaspai the person is redefined who am i i'm kedusha i'm heknish i didn't leave the bassaminus i'm part of the cayenne i'm one completely one i'm completely aligned only in my awareness can i be misaligned but in reality i'm completely aligned the moment i realize that i'm aligned so even if i'm dealing with a struggle or i'm going through a difficult situation or i'm handling or dealing with something that may be uncomfortable and it's tacon comfortable i have to work it through i have to figure it out i may have uncertainty there's stuff that i have to deal with but the moment i realize i'm not dealing with all of this as a detached human being alone in a very cruel world the very eye that's dealing with it is i'm dealing with it as hashem's representative as an extension of hashem it's hashem dealing with it through me i'm the facilitator i'm the conduit i'm the evid evident i'm your arm i'm your mouthpiece i'm your mind i'm your heart so you're working through all this darkness through me never separate so now i have access to all the holiness in the world now i have access to all the sacredness in the world because the very eye is a conduit for the rebinder shallow that's the revolution of what the chazal meant what abraham accomplishes without ibrahim but i'm all i'm extricating hectic and i'm using it for something that doesn't belong to hectors country shamayim as a separate person you're an enemy country shamayim you're enjoying country shamayim as part of kochi shamayim nakalakayanam in the shameless now let's see the words of the svasemas the last the last source ms emmer tofresh he asked a question before a jew can teach roma the avid is completely bottle completely one completely subservient completely aligned committed to the master therefore he can eat from his bread and those are the key words however bottle of gamma rates they're not two separate beings so you say the holiest jew can't eat how can they ever eat the answer is it's not the evident eating it it's the audience eating it it's not the servant eating it it's the master eating it through the servant i will say he's a separate person physically he's a separate person but halogically he's not separate so you say how are you eating god's food the answer is i'm not eating god's food hashem is so to speak eating god's food what do you mean you a person is completely one with hashem hashem is eating his food through you you are his light in this world israel this is aramis this alludes to every single jew bomb the soul comes from above meaning it's divine venezuelan so the soul eats heavenly bread how can the soul eat heavenly bread the answer is because the soul is mill military heavenly bread it's heavenly so it eats heavenly bread what should it do eat earthy bread the moment you align your body with your soul so the body also eats the bread of the soul the body also eats divine bread even the physical bread it's divine bread that's what a bracha is almighty like is divine bread and i'm divine my soul and my body so you eat divine bread allah in the generation of the desert it wasn't only they made abraha this was very physical because the man was heavenly bread in fact it says in asarama maurice that remember writes what bracha did they make on the man he says they couldn't say mean it didn't grow from the earth it grew it came from heaven it's interesting that he says that they made a bracha on the man even though barakas were instituted later the gemara says that it's called the bread that angels eat lechem avirim it's the bread the gemara says in yuma at the end i inhaled the bread that angels eat so the jews ate it physically because it was very transparent their body was transparent the body was aligned with the soul so you eat god's bread just like the evidence eats holy bread because the heaven is one with the master the heinous this is true about all the jewish people they are the kenyan the acquisition of hashem we say at the end of the shirin parties bashallah every day adiaba hashem this nation that you acquired it's the same words that the terror uses to explain why the servant of the cayenne could eat the tremor so of course he can eat the bread because he's kenyan he's part of the kind he belongs to the coin he's inside the coin so to speak he's part of the the the entity the reality the umbrella of the cayenne the jew is amza evan so you can eat luck they could nurture themselves from the divine bread just like the evidence of the queen me nadine that's who you are you have to understand who you are even if a jew says i'm an animal i'm a behemoth it's fine you can also eat the name of the thing so i need some marissa the passage says my flock is the flock my pasture my marriage might sign if it's my sign so then even the behavior can eat the bread of the kind so if the bahama can eat the bread of the cayenne so therefore even when a person feels sometimes like they're in an animalistic state that's also belongs to hashem don't think you're separate god can own an animal too animals have their function sometimes a person could be in an animal state you know we have a divine soul and we have a nephew shabhamas we have an animal consciousness sometimes the animal consciousness is making a ruckus you know the puppy is barking pretty loud you ever saw that or heard it the puppy is barking okay but you don't have to detach from the boss you don't have to detach from the master it's his puppy it's his chicken sometimes i'm kukurikuing but it's his chicken it's his babe it's his you can eat rumor you could take part of the divine food the relationship is not interrupted the relationship is just functioning is being facilitated through a certain venue through a certain medium now i have to work through this part of my system but it's hashem working through this part anoid mulvader there's no separateness and the rambam tells us this that we had in the earlier sources in source 3 even the servant of a cayenne who runs away and even the wife of the cayenne who rebels are a lot of itruma you would think the servant he's not home anymore he left he doesn't like the client he has issues with his client he ran away he's hoping he's not going to be found he may be found and we will be returned he's still allowed to eat from why i understand if he's in the house of the cayenne and he's working for the cayenne and he loves the cayenne fine you're part of the family you're part of the mishpochah as we say but not this avid sorry buddha he ran away says the rambam no he also eats drama why because the running away is ultimately an external reality the running away from the cayenne is ultimately external sometimes you have a jew he's an avid kai and shaborah consciously i don't want to be in this house i'm not interested we say you could still eat god's food how much i ran away i'm not interested in you my voices are telling me that i'm not interested but the relationship is innate yad evident we're still one ultimately i'm going to come back it's a temporary condition as far as you may roam you will always come back home the old camp song i'm not a poet so therefore even then sometimes asia's cayenne every jew is the wife of hashem marda i feel rebellious i don't like this relationship i'm not interested so you would think how could you give this woman trauma how can you give this servant truma why are you giving them true but rumor is holy they're not holy anymore says the rambam they are holy she's still the kayan's wife you're married to hashem you're one with hashem ishta kagufa the heaven how could you give them the holy food don't give them holy food they laughed throw them away says no never on the contrary continue feeding them with this holy food why because you trust that they're holy you know who they really are even if they don't know who they really are and when you believe in them they'll ultimately be able to find themselves to discover themselves on the contrary in the truman there's holy sparks that holiness will help the servant come back he would think deprive him from the bread he doesn't deserve it no he needs the trumpet more than everybody else because the holiness of the trimmer will ultimately trigger and arouse and bring out who he truly is and therefore he'll come back and the oneness will ultimately emerge in its full splendor have a wonderful week