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I purposely left off a little bit a little bit early on a little bit short of the end of the daf on yesterday's daf cuz I wasn't here in person and there are certain suggios you want to be able to do in person. So today's daf is samech 60 and we are picking up 2:10 on the bottom of nun tes amud bais 59b. Amar lei Caesar l'Rabi Yehoshua ben Chananya, which is about say two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, about 16 lines up from the bottom. So some really incredible gemara ahead of us today. 2:27 Amar lei Caesar l'Rabi Yehoshua ben Chananya, so the Caesar said to Rabi Yehoshua ben Chananya, "Elokeichem k'aryeh masil, your God is compared to a lion." Where do we find that? The pasuk says, "Aryeh sha'ag mi lo yira." Ultimately, it's the lion cries out, "Who is not afraid?" The gemara is recording the pasuk from Amos. Well, I just want to point out how incredible this is. This pasuk of "Aryeh sha'ag mi 2:51 lo yira" is also a pasuk that is used in conjunction with Elul. Right? With Elul. Why? Because again, remember, the the blowing of the shofar has many different metaphorical allusions. One of them is the crying the roaring of the lion, roaring out of So again, how incredible is it that tapping us on the shoulder? We think We think the next thing, you know, on the docket on the calendrical docket is, you 3:16 know, Shiva Asar b'Tammuz. But the truth is, Elul is right around the corner. Elul is right around the corner. "Aryeh sha'ag mi lo yira" and the lion cries out, the shofar cries out, "Who isn't fearful ultimately of the need to get our lives, to get to get our personalistic situations in order because the Yomim Noraim rapidly approaches?" So my review say, so so the Caesar said to Rabi Yehoshua ben Chananya, "What's so great about the fact that your God is compared to a 3:39 lion? After all, when it comes to a lion, pareisha kotal aryeh, a hunter a hunter." Pareisha literally means like a like an officer. A soldier has the ability to go ahead and kill and kill a lion. So again, Caesar is asking the possuk compares your God to a lion, but again a lion can be killed. So what's the big kodesh over here? Amora Elafka hi arye mosel ka arye 4:02 d'bei loye mosel. No, no, no, our God is not compared to a regular lion, but rather again our God ultimately again is compared to the king to excuse me to the lion of to the to the lion of bei loye. Remember what saying yesterday's daf, we had the lion of bei loye >> [clears throat] >> which was this very large lion. Amora ben Ena d'mis chazis lay. Right in here they say ultimately again the Caesar 4:26 says Amora Elafka ben Ena, let me see let me see this lion. Right let me let me let me I'd like to see this lion. In other words, if you tell me that at the end of the day Second, I'm sorry. If you're telling me that at the end of the day Oh, nothing. Some of No, perfect. If you tell me that at the end of the day that the guy your guy is like the lion of of bei of bei loye, I'd 4:52 love to see this lion of bei loye. Okay? To which the Amora Elafka lo matzis chazis lay. Amora Elafka says he's not capable this lion of bei loye. It's going to blow your mind. Amora Elafka ibra chazina lay. Caesar says try me. Try me. Let let let me see this lion. I'm very curious to see it. Bei Elafka is akmin duchte. So Amora Elafka davin 5:15 and sure enough again miraculously this lion of bei loye again let us remember again yesterday's daf, the lion of bei loye bei loye was a forest a forested area. The lion of bei loye was a huge creature nine amos in between one ear and the next. So Amora Elafka says to the Caesar, you sure you want to you can't you can't be holding you can't handle it. So ultimately you Caesar says try me. Okay? Amora Elafka davins is 5:40 akmin duchte. The lion was uprooted from the place so it came forth from the bei loye forest ki hava marik arba may parsi when the lion was 400 parsecs away, Niham Niham Niham had color. So, it let out a one a singular Thank you. A singular roar. And what happened? A field called my Alberta the Shura the 6:04 Romi Nuffle. All of the bridges, all of the walls of Rome fell down. At the America class may parsi, when it was 300 so now it came apart it came 100 parsecs closer. Now it's 300 parsecs away. Niham Niham color Niham let out another roar. 6:21 Nasser Kavi the Shini the Gavi. Ultimately again, what happened? All of the teeth literally again all of the teeth of the men went ahead and fall out. Enough furthermore not only that, um Good. So, actually I'm sorry I mistranslated. The first one was uh hot color I feel the color my Alberta. So, 6:43 again the women miscarried. The Shura the Romi Nuffle. Ultimately again and then the walls of Rome fell down. It came another 100 parsecs closer. At the America class parsi, Niham color roared again. Nasser Kavi the Shini the Gavi. Literally again the teeth of the men fell out. The full Nuffle my Corsela RA. 7:02 And even the Caesar fell off his throne. Our LA the Matusa Miham. The Caesar then turns to Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai and he says, "Please I beg of you. By Rachamei By Rachamei By Rachamei Alay the Hadra Duchtei. Please govern again that the lion should go back to its place." Incredible. Incredible. I will say you'll see what the common theme amongst these stories are in just a moment. 7:23 Mercy by Rachamei Alay the Hadra Asri. Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai Doven and the lion of Bay Elai went back to his place. Our LA case of Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai. The Caesar once again said Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai, "But you know, the Exi Lailo Kaicho. I'd like to see your God. I like to talk about your God, how great your God is. I would like to be able to see this God. 7:45 I'm really no Moses Khazaria says it's not possible. You can't a mere mortal can't see a college borrow call. I'm really a type of stomach if Khazaria let me see him anyway. Let me see him by the way I just want to point out there's a tremendous muscle hustle on this. 8:03 Right, what's the tremendous muscle hustle from Caesar? What's the muscle hustle? Caesar wants something. Caesar wants something now. Right? But right first he says your your God is comparable to a lion. Ultimately again I want to see this lion of Bay a lion. So what does he say? Impossible. Impossible. Second story. Caesar says I want to see God. 8:22 What does he say? Impossible. What does Caesar say? I want it anyway. I want it anyway. I will say you go through life and people tell you things that things are impossible. You go through life and people tell you that things can't be done. There's only one response when people tell you that something is impossible which is you can even learn from the Caesar. I 8:46 want it anyway. I want it anyway. Just because someone tells you you can't do something, that something is impossible, that something is unattainable should not go ahead and cause you to give up. Again I will say it to you. Obviously Caesar is going about things in a little bit of a wrong way. Right? 9:02 But sometimes even from the mistakes of people you can learn such positive dynamic activity. Even if someone tells you something is impossible do not yield. Caesar says I want to see God. He says impossible. Okay, so also open the top of 68. Also open me. 9:22 Open me the heart of the young with Khazaria so what happens? So one day he brought him outside in the middle of time was again not Khazaria doesn't literally mean the month of time was at all for our purposes of just feeling the kiss of Khazaria. It means a little bit of a literary license. Khazaria Thomas the summer time which of course includes Thomas. Includes Thomas. He brings him outside during Thomas. I'm going to say it's stuck killed day. And he tells him, 9:44 "Look at the sun. Caesar, just stare into the sun." I'm going to say "Luma tsinna." Caesar is a cat who who's who could stare into the sun. I'm going to say "Yoma the had mishamshi the kami kudabihu." So, the sun Yoma means sun. 9:59 The sun is one of the is but one of the servants of God Baruch Hu. I'm going to say "Luma tsinna kudabihu." She never goes again. You can't look at one of the servants of God. How would you expect to look at God himself? And I will say by the way, this is the same monster we're going to see in all of these stories. That was the same idea with the lion. The lion is but one of the servants of God Baruch Hu. And the 10:24 lion of God Baruch Hu, which is like the like the lion of lions. This is but one of the creations of God Baruch Hu. So, again you can't handle the lion. You can't handle God. At the end of the day, you can't handle you can't handle you can't handle the sun. You can't possibly comprehend God Baruch Hu. One more. I'm going to say "Caesar Baruch Hu." Caesar says to Baruch Hu, 10:47 "But you know, the it's like God Baruch Hu." So, I'm going to say it's actually very beautiful. In story number one in story number one, you see a little bit that like the Caesar is almost like a like a little bit of like a challenging tone. Uh your God is compared to a lion. What's so great about a lion? A hunter could compare a lion. Oh, it's not any lion. It's the lion of God Baruch Hu. 11:07 Okay. In story number two, also a bit of a challenging tone. You let me see your God. Why can't I'm Caesar? Why can't I see your God? It's interesting because you see a shift. In story number three, even the Caesar himself is much more differential. Much more differential. 11:23 What does the Caesar want to do in story number three? But you know, the service like God Baruch Hu. I would like to literally again prepare bread, which means I like to prepare a feast. I'll prepare a sukkah for your God. How beautiful. I'm going to prepare a sukkah for your God. Okay. Rashi says over here, sub first line, this obviously nama atkin lo sukkah. I want to make him a meal. All right. Amarlay, lo moses 11:47 lo moses. So two of you shmick and I and you said it's not possible. You can't do it. Why? Am I no fish can do say. He has so many attendants, right? So many legions and legions of malachim of followers. It's not possible to go ahead and not possible to go ahead and create a sukkah for such a large group. 12:06 Amarlay, ibra once again I will say to his credit Caesar, I want to do it anyway. I know you told me it's impossible. I want to do it anyway. Amarlay, book service He says, okay. So he So he says find a place. So essentially he says let's go set this up by the bank of the river. 12:26 Rashi points over here the gida deravisa as fast as shmoravisa. So they found the place by the edge of the ravista river. So they are obviously if need if I will say you need to prepare a sukkah for a kodesh baruch who are you going to do it? You need you need a large you need a large area, right? So what what hall is going to contain a sukkah for a kodesh baruch who says there's no hall. Maybe when the president's social hall is done, you know, but right there's no 12:50 right there's there's no hall. There's no hall capable of doing that. So what do they do? They prepared a massive area by the bank of the river. Okay. The Amora says Tarach shisa yarchi kaita as a zika kanshili yama. So Caesar used used the summer months. He prepared for six months for this beautiful sukkah and at the end of six months what happened? 13:12 What happened? A massive gust of wind came along and blew everything into the water. Okay. Tarach shisa yarchi desisa. He then toiled for another six months during the winter to prepare the sukkah. So what happened? As a mitra Bi'yama. The rain came and literally swept all the preparations into the water. 13:34 Amralei my eye. As he says to him, "Shav Ranyah." My my eye means, "What's up? Right? What what what what what what is this? I don't understand. I was working hard to prepare this beautiful Suda for your God. What's going on over here?" Amralei, "Honey Kinosoi Zilu Hai Da'asu Kamai Kamei." What you've seen is these are like the sweepers and the sprinklers who come before God. So, Rashi points out 13:56 Rashi says Kinosoi Machavya Haba'is literally again is sweeping the floor and Zilu Hai Marbitza Haba'is Bamayim Avaka Ola. So, again so I say remember again as Rashi is pointing out they used to have dirt floors. So, what do you do on a dirt floor? So, obviously you sweep but you also sprinkle a little bit of water on it to keep the dust down. So, Rashi says the wind this was the sweeper, the 14:21 rain the rain this was the this the rain was the sprinkler. So, before I continue so I just want to say I just want to again point out one not that not that we're in the business of complimenting Caesar but sometimes you have to learn Aizu Chacham Mikol Adam. So, I just want to say remember again as Caesar works for six months preparing the Suda what happens the wind comes sweeps it away what does he do? Starts again. Starts again. So, I just want to say there 14:44 there there is a tremendous mussar haskel in this. This Caesar who when Rashi tells him it's impossible he says, "Okay, I'm going to do it anyway." Right? He worked hard for six months every all of his work is for naught has the willingness to start again. Now, chances are he wasn't doing it himself right? He had guys so that's always easier to start again when you can delegate but nevertheless so I just want to say there is a tremendous middah to 15:06 be learned over here. Incredible. Amralei to which Caesar says, "Okay, I tried I can't I can't do it I can't do it." Ultimately again I can't go this I can't do it means it's not possible right? I tried I I I I tried to make this Suda I tried to do this for God but obviously it's not going to work. They will say, "What's what's what's the p'shat over here? What's what's the p'shat?" So, the p'shat we will say is what what are What is the message in 15:29 these three stories? So, perhaps the idea is like this. Story number one, right? So, we're Caesar wants to see the lion. Right? Caesar will see Again, Caesar really is story number one also wants to see God. But, compared to the lion, and the lion of Bayit Illui comes along. And what happens? The lion of Bayit Illui is so powerful, 400 parcels, the women miscarry, the walls come down, 300 parcels, teeth falling out, people 15:51 falling off their chairs. And we'll say, "What's the mussar haskel?" The mussar haskel is that sometimes sometimes the external enemies that we face seem so profoundly overwhelming. If Rome is brought to its knees because of the lion of Bayit Illui, then we have absolutely nothing to fear cuz we have something so much greater than the lion of Bayit Illui. We have Hakadosh 16:15 Baruchu. So, whether it's Rome or whoever other external enemy that we may face, a Jew always has to approach those challenges with incredible confidence and incredible optimism knowing that the Ribono shel Olam is on our side. That's lesson one. Lesson two, which is the second story, where again see Caesar says, "I want to see Hakadosh Baruchu. 16:36 Let's look at the sun. Look at the sun." The sun represents nature. Sometimes there are realities in the natural world that feel overwhelming. See, story number one is about the fact that Rome, external enemies, can be overwhelming. And the mussar haskel is no matter how difficult or overwhelming your external enemies may be, Hakadosh Baruchu says, "I got your back." Story number two is not external enemies. What's story number two? Nature. Sometimes there are 17:00 circumstances in the natural world that feel so profoundly overwhelming. Whatever those circumstances may be, health situations, parnassah situations, family situations, life situations, we'll call them circumstances or challenges of the natural world that just seem so overwhelming. The natural world as embodied by the sun. 17:21 The sun is but one of the creations that can sometimes feel incredibly overwhelming. We have a Hakadosh Baruchu who rules over the sun. So, because I have the Rebono Shel Olam who rules over the sun, which represents the natural world in my corner, I have nothing to fear from sometimes the overwhelming from sometimes the natural overwhelming circumstances of life. It is easy to go through life and just be overwhelmed by your circumstances, especially when 17:45 they're challenging. But I know that Hakadosh Baruchu has my back. And when Hakadosh Baruchu has my back, I know that some way, somehow, everything is going to be okay. Last story. Caesar, after realizing all of this, right now, by the way, this is Caesar realizing this on behalf of the Jewish people. The Jewish people have nothing to fear from external enemies because Hakadosh Baruchu has my back. The Jew has nothing to fear from the normal everyday natural 18:08 circumstances of life because Hakadosh Baruchu has my back. So, what does Caesar do? I got to make a kiddush for God. I got to make a kiddush for God. Let me somehow reciprocate. And I will say, what's the most masculine? You can never reciprocate all that Hakadosh Baruchu does for us. 18:25 We can never give thanks. We can never give proper gratitude for all the Rebono Shel Olam provides for us. You can work 6 months and then another 6 months to make the most beautiful, grandest kiddush in appreciation of the Rebono Shel Olam. But no matter how hard I work, I can never fully reciprocate, never fully give thanks to what Hakadosh Baruchu does for us on the Secha Sheba 18:49 Yomi Manu. For all the beautiful miracles, for what he does for our external enemies, for how he helps us with the internal and just everyday struggles of life, there's not enough gratitude, there's not enough space to set up with the kiddush, there's not enough for us to possibly give thanks to the Rebono Shel Olam for all he does for us. Incredible. Let's go weiter. 19:08 Incredible. I'm really blessed because I wish I was so I say say now, the first story is between the Caesar and ben Chalaia. now there's the daughter of the Caesar and your God is a carpenter. All right. 19:23 It's an interesting one. She was recording so I'm going to I'm going to I'm just going to stick to the words of the the save. The passage says the mind of the Caesar is actually really fascinating so close the passage from literally what this means is the mind of the Caesar means to make a roof or to make a roof and makes a roof in the heavens from water. 19:49 Right, so now again what I'm afraid to say is if you go back to my separation so my in the Genesis narrative remember again the world was water and then the created the and the is what we call I learned this actually from my kids when they were in school they used to come home with their translation of I used to always say that the is like a sky. They said a sky divider sky divider that was 20:12 interesting which which actually is more is more accurate because that's what says the was in my opinion or my opinion the was there to divide between the upper water and the lower water so makes reference to this in my opinion the roofs the world with the upper waters so therefore the Caesar said oh your God your God I mean she could have called 20:36 him a roofer but instead she called him a carpenter. Right I mean he's making roofs so therefore again he is a carpenter and the mystery so so tell your God to make me mystery so she points out over here is literally like a like a like a spindle or a reel upon which you go ahead and you wind thread you spool thread on it 20:59 so a spool so tell tell your God to make me a reel or a spool okay now I was about to say she's mocking right this here what's interesting is the Caesar is interesting and the Caesar's interesting that he showed me it's not clear. Like in other words, is he mocking or or or is it a genuine curiosity? And it could seriously clearly as the story is evolving, interestingly enough, so the Caesar. 21:23 With the daughter of the Caesar is clearly a mockery. She says, "Oh, yeah, your God your God is a great carpenter. Tell him to make me a spindle. Tell him to make me a reel." Amorae, Amorae, sure. No problem. You you want a reel? Here you go. Boy Racham Yala, Vinaga. So, he davened, he davened that she should get her her reel, right? Her spindle for the for the thread, and she got tzaraas. Okay, what did they do with her in the end? Osfa bishuga d'Romi, 21:47 they put her they put her literally again in the middle of the marketplace of Rome. They Yosif lay mistraisa v'havini heigi d'chom minaga b'Romi yovla mistraisa v'yosif bishuga. Cuz what was the custom in Rome? That when someone got tzaraas, they would put them in the middle of the marketplace and their job was to spin thread. To roll like to roll like balls of reels of thread. Why? Bisasa d'layki heichi 22:10 d'lachsu inshi b'dei b'Racham Yala. Now, actually interesting, this is a fascinating This is actually somewhat I I figure that's like a pretty beautiful practice. If somebody had tzaraas, they'd put them in the middle of the marketplace and give them a job. What was their job? To make balls of thread, right? To put the spin thread to to to wrap the thread on the reels. Why? 22:28 In the middle of the marketplace, everybody would see that they were stricken with tzaraas and would daven for them. Daven for them. So, the daughter of the Caesar says, she wants a reel. Reb Shimon bar Yochai says, "No problem. Here we here you go." Davens for she gets tzaraas, they put her in the middle of the marketplace, and what do you get? What do you get? 22:44 Your reel to go ahead and spin your thread. All right. Not exactly what she had in mind. But the Gemara says as follows, Yom echad Hava Kachal d'Chasam, one day Reb Shimon bar Yochai was walking through the marketplace, Hava Yasva b'Sistra d'Duvli bishuga d'Romi d'Ramai, and she was go ahead and she was wrapping her thread around the reel in the middle of the marketplace in Rome. Am I wrong? 23:08 Shapirta, mister Risa. Do you have the avlakai? Do you like the reel that my God gave you? And Shimon I says, "Uh, how's it going? Right, how are things? Right, you like you you asked you asked and you got. Amralei Amalei lavlakeh lishkol my dear heavenly. Can you please ask your God to take back that which he gave me? Please ask him, right?" Amralei Elokai didan mehav yave mishkol lo 23:33 shokel. Sorry, our God gives but he does not take. Our God gives but he does not take. So, I say which which is by the way also fascinating, right? because interestingly enough, one of the most profound phrases that inevitably everyone says over the course of a lifetime is the phrase in tziduk hadin where we say Hashem nosan v'Hashem lokach. Yihi shem Hashem mevorach. So, 23:56 interestingly Hashem does give and Hashem does take but obviously he's giving her mussar. She would say, "What's the mussar haskel in the story?" So, first of all, obviously she's mocking, right? She's mocking. This whole thing was a was a mocking kite, right? This whole thing was a mockery, right? So, that that's obviously what's happening over here, right? But but what I will point out to her is also really something interesting, which is sometimes in life we become very 24:18 convinced that we know what we need. And we become very targeted in our request to Hakadosh Baruchu and ultimately again become somewhat disillusioned when we don't get exactly what we need. To me, there's a tremendous mussar haskel in this story, which is believe it or not, we often don't know what we need in life. We think we know what we need because we see things from a particular lens, a particular angle. 24:43 But often Hakadosh Baruchu not often Hakadosh Baruchu sees things from a totally different vantage point. And sometimes the reason we don't get the things that we ask for in life is not because Hakadosh Baruchu doesn't love us, chas v'shalom, not because he doesn't care, but because he realizes that the things that we think we need are often not the things that we think we need. Right? And that's see again, obviously this story is a she's making a 25:06 mockery, but there's such a profound muscle husk. Right? Give me the real. Give me the real. Okay, you want the real? The real comes along with this. The real comes along with this. And she gets it like, "Ah, I don't want this." Okay, you shouldn't have asked for it. So, that's why sometimes in life when we diving for things, we're going to talk about more about feeling just a little bit. But when we diving for things, it's always important to add in to any of your tfilos "Hashem, I'm asking for this 25:29 because I think it's what I need. But at the end of the day, I also always bend my knee before you. And ultimately, just do for me what's best." Obviously, as a human being, we're always going to ask for things that we think we need. That's the way tfila works. But tfila always has to be accompanied or request always has to be accompanied by a healthy dose of humility. This is what I think I need. But Hakadosh Baruchu, at the end of the day, like we saw before 25:53 with the story of the Caesar, you have my back. Whether you give me this or you don't give me this, I know some way, somehow, I'll have everything I need to make it be successful in this journey of life. Incredible. Let's go back to Rabbi Yehuda. Shar, I suppose I so just back a little bit to animals again. Shar, karsason u'parsason. A shar I will say is primarily defined ultimately again by its stomach and by its hooves. Rav Reish 26:17 Sheva Rav Gnufta. Ultimately again, a shar A shar itself ultimately again has a large head. And right Rashi says over here, shar shar dako lios karsason u'parsason bal keres rachba u'prosas ruchba. So, so again, shar Rav Reish Sheva has a large head, but Rav Gnufta also has a large tail. Okay? Kim vechi nufa b'chamra, and ultimately a donkey 26:41 is just the opposite. Donkey has a small head and a short tail. The mar says, "Okay, shkoyach l'mai nafka mina? What does this matter?" L'mekach u'memkar for business dealings. So, they will say, "If you go ahead, I go to Reuben, I buy a shar, and Reuben sells me a shar, and it has a small head and a small tail, I can get my money back." Cuz like I said, that's not the definition of a shar. 27:01 Definition of a shar is big head, big tail. Okay, shar she also a beautiful gemara. Shar she Adam Harishon possible back to you got it to now. When Adam Harishon offered up a carbon, I going to go and say, "This is a fascinating gemara." So, Rashi points out over here shar she Adam Harishon kidam inom bilifnei idem sachas avodah zarah. So, they will say, "The shar that Adam offered." Now, you're thinking to yourself, "What shar that 27:25 Adam offered?" There is nowhere in the Torah that the Torah says that Adam Harishon offered up a carbon. In fact, the first person or the first people we have offering up carbonos are who? Are who? Cain and Abel, right? Cain and Abel. And again, but the first person that we see explicitly offering up an animal carbon is who? Is Noah. Is Noah. 27:45 So, what does it mean over here that Adam Harishon is offering up a carbon? So, Rashi refers This is the gemara meseches avodah zarah. For those of you that are great a great mesechta mesechta. So, again, so in avodah zarah the gemara says that when Adam Harishon when the sun set on Shabbos night, Adam Harishon of course never experienced the sunset. 28:06 So, when the sun set, he thought that what? The world come to an end. The world fundamentally come to an end. When the sun came up the next day, he was overjoyed. He was overjoyed and he went ahead and he offered up a carbon as a sign of gratitude to our God which I will say, of course, there's so much metaphorical meaning and depth in that also. So, often in life the sun sets in a variety of different ways for us. All 28:31 of us have those circumstances situations in life where you feel, "Oh, life is over." Right? The what what I wanted is over. And then the sun comes up or the gemara says, "Shar she Adam Harishon keren achas b'mesos." Interesting, the ox that Adam Harishon offered for that first carbon had one horn. Had one horn on his forehead. Shinayim are with say they have lasham may shar par 28:54 makrin mafres. So he quotes over the possuk from Tehillim with say they have lasham may shar par makrin mafres. So again they will say so makrin but makrin from loshon of keren but makrin is plural. They will say makrin tarti mashma sounds like two horns. Amar Rav Nachman mikeren k'siv. 29:10 Again it's remember they will say it's written without it's written without punctuation. So it could be read as mikeren from the horn, a singular horn. Amar Rav Yehudah shar she gave Adam HaRishon karnav kol moshe parsoseiv. Another interesting idea over here. 29:25 The shar that Adam HaRishon offered up literally karnav kol moshe parsoseiv means its horns were created before its hooves. Now look at Rashi for just a moment. Karnav kol moshe parsoseiv she kol shvarim in general all oxen parsoseiv no dos himam the karnal sayim g'daylim achas man. Generally again they will say if you look at an ox, right? 29:48 When an ox is born obviously it's born with its hooves. Horns usually only come about later. Right? When as the animal matures it gets horns. Aval shel mais b'reishis b'chol moshe n'eirov uv'karneihen uk'she yotza min ha'aretz rosho t'chilah nimtza she kol karnav kol moshe parsoseiv. The ox of Adam HaRishon was born with its horns. That's number 30:11 one. And number two they will say again karnav kol moshe parsoseiv means now where did the ox of Adam HaRishon come from? So they will say we're going to see all of these things all of creation came from the earth. So it came up from the earth and when it came out of the earth it came out horns first. So there's two things being taught over here. Number one that it was created with its horns and number two when it came out of the earth it came out horns 30:34 first. Shinayim are with say they have lasham may shar par makrin mafres. Makrin which means again horns b'reishis if you notice again horns are written first in the pasuk, v'hadar mafres. And ultimately again then parsa, then the hooves. So we'll say just just in general, what's this idea that the that the ox was made for this two things over here, right? The obviously the image 30:58 over here is that the ox is made fully formed. Fully formed, right? The ox of Adam Harishon that he offered up as a korban was made fully formed. We'll say this is part of a general motif in my separation which is that if you notice when was Adam created? When? When? Day number six, last day of creation. Why? 31:17 Why? You would think Adam is the most important creation in the entire universe. Why not create Adam first? And again Rashi already points out in Breishit, what does Rashi say? Because ultimately Hakadosh Baruch Hu wanted man to come into a world k'shulchan orech, like a set table. Adam Harishon didn't Hakadosh Baruch Hu didn't want Adam to have to live through renovations, right? 31:36 Anyone who lives through renovations know incredibly uncomfortable first world problems, right? But incredibly uncomfortable. Incredibly uncomfortable. Hakadosh Baruch Hu wanted Adam Harishon to come into a world like a set table. Everything was ready to go. What's the mussar haskel of say to teach us? 31:52 Anything and everything we need to be successful in life is already here. All the tools are here. The tools are in the world. The tools are inside of us. Sometimes we face challenges and we wonder, "Oh my gosh, how am I going to get through this? I don't have the skills. I don't have the abilities. I don't have the tools." Yes, you do. Yes, you do. Whatever life throws your way, you got it. How do I know it? Because 32:15 Hakadosh Baruch Hu brought me into a world that was fully fashioned. Why? To teach me sit down at the table. Everything you need to be successful is already here. Anything and everything you need to navigate the sometimes tumultuous personalistic or global waters of life is already here. There may be moments where you feel 32:38 fundamentally and profoundly helpless, but that's only an episodic feeling. Take a deep breath, gather yourself together, and recognize you came into a world cuz put you in a world where anything and everything you need is already within your reach. Just access it, utilize it, and be successful. 32:56 Incredible. The Mar is right there. Say that in the name of my lady. This was like ready for this this this is absolutely amazing. This is my lady. I'm going to be leaving. We're going to dive in at 9:00 today. We're just going to we're just going to go straight. And that's clearly scheduled. 33:11 I'm going to be saying this. Call my separation. Listen to this. Become a son of the Titan of the savior of the world. Okay, so what's a lot of time back over here. He says all of my every all creation was going to become a son of the rush. Look at rush for just a moment. 33:28 Rush he doesn't become a son of the world. So become a son of the coma literally means like stature. Stature. So what does this mean? The rush he says become a son of the world. The common kind of so so sorry emo no through the So again, the coma means full full stature, which is quite literally this is the case of the of the ox, right? The ox was created again with his horns. So 33:52 it's not the that it was born like a little like a little ox you know like a little like a like right it was born Amish full stature. That's become a muscle. So complete stature. What's next? The rush says that's common but Titan. Titan get ready for this. Titan rush he says show them she them also. Ultimately again, that 34:14 everything before it was created was told. Each creation was told it was going to be created. Was told it was going to be created and only then was it created. And ultimately again, but see you rush see you but the most she bought them. Every creation was told about its physical form before it was created, agreed to 34:39 it, and then was created. So, it was I get ready for this. The swarm bring down something absolutely absolutely amazing. What does it mean when we say that everything in this world was created right? And actually says that means this one right about this when it comes to man. 34:57 Every in the sham before it's put into this world is shown exactly what its life is going to be. And the sham is told exactly what its life is going to be. Right from beginning to end. All the difficulties, all the challenges, all of the brothers. 35:15 And in the sham it does not come into this world unless the sham it says, "Okay. I got this. I agree. Every single thing in creation is shown exactly material how things are going to go, what's going to occur, and it's like I'm on the dotted line, and then only then does it come into this world. You know what I'm saying? 35:33 Something absolutely amazing, which means that my sham it saw all the good stuff and saw all the challenges and difficulties it was going to have to undergo in this world. And with all that still decided to come. Which means I will say what? 35:49 That no matter what life throws our way we got it. We got it. Because for us sometimes we just feel like we're thrown like a curveball. Like, "I never anticipated this. I never thought this was going to happen." Okay, you didn't know it, but your sham it knew it. And your sham it knew it and still decided to come down to this world. Why? Because your sham it when shown the life that was going to unfold knew, "I got this. 36:11 I got this." It was a just such a tremendous visit, right? Because like [clears throat] it's Monday. It's Monday. And even though it's Monday, there's one thing I know with absolute clarity, which is it's most probably going to be a week of curveballs, right? It's just like it's just like life is probably going to throw me a whole bunch of stuff. 36:30 And there's probably going to be that moment where I say to myself, "You know what? I'm tired. I'm tired. I just I I I can't I don't know that I can handle like another curveball." And the answer is answer is yes, you can. You can handle as many as life throws you. How do you know? Cuz your neshama saw all of them. How your neshama agreed to it and still decided to come down. 36:52 See, you got this. You got this. You got this by the shinayim are just incredible. By who the sham double schwartz, did you put the same amount of caffeine in the coffee this morning? Cuz I don't know. I feel like I'm bringing my A-game over here. I I I I'm getting I'm getting I'm getting a lot of blank expressions. All right. All right. Let's try yours. 37:10 Yours is shinayim are by who the sham are to hot s'vah. As the possuk says, listen to this. Literally by who the sham are to give us a body also, how great is it? How great is it to go out and it's Monday and you get a possuk about shabbos. So much shabbos. So much so much so much shabbos. So many great things happened by who the sham are to hot s'vah. 37:29 Ultimately, you're going to have a kodesh baruch who completed shamayim v'aretz and all of the hosts. Al tikri tz'va'am ela tz'viyonam. Ultimately, don't read it as tz'va'am rather tz'viyonam. Tz'viyonam means again a possuk said their images and their forms. Incredible. Darsh Rebbi Chanina bar Papa, "Y'hi kavod Hashem l'olam." "Yismach Hashem b'ma'asav." So beautiful. Let's listen to this 37:52 gemara. Literally, "Y'hi kavod Hashem l'olam." The glory of God will exist forever. "Yismach Hashem b'ma'asav." Hashem will go ahead and Hashem will rejoice in his creations. Get ready for this. Possuk says "Sar ha'olam amru." So, this possuk was said by the literally the sar ha'olam. Now, we'll say who is the sar? 38:11 Sar ha'olam literally means the master of the world. Who's the master of the world? Rashi says "Malach hamamuna." This is not referring to God. It's not It's not about Hakadosh Baruch Hu. It's actually an angel. We'll say one of the most incredible things about Rebbi Nachman is that what? but he's still nevertheless delegates. 38:30 Delegates. Not because he has to but because he models for us proper behavior. No person could do everything and as such again delegation is the absolute key to success. He has an angel who's in charge of the world. So the Sarah said this angel is in charge of the world. He said 38:53 this when did he say that remember again when is creating the trees so he says to the trees that the trees should sprout up means according to according to their species. According to their species which means the trees should sprout up in an orderly way. Not like a hodgepodge of trees and apple and an orange and a this and a that but 39:24 trees should come up according to their species. Come up in their according to their individual species. Now the says no the show that here is interesting Rashi points this out. If you look at Rashi actually now also now the same you know. 39:43 It's supposed to be very interesting. When the trees were created says that the trees should come up according to their species. Right they should create food according to their species. So the apple tree will create apples and the orange tree will create oranges and it's not going to be a mixing and matching. Interestingly enough Hashem did not give that same command by what we'll call like herbish. 40:05 Like grass and different types of herbs like other plant life and right which which again just didn't give the same command. So I say so what happened? So the says So the the the herb the erbage, right? The erbage. And again, erbage really refers to everything that's pretty much like like plant life. Plant life. Made a kal v'chomer. In retzon Hashem Kadosh 40:29 Baruchu b'irbuviya, lama omer ne'emar b'ilonos l'mineihem b'ilonos? If Hashem Kadosh Baruchu didn't care how nature sprouted, and everything could just be b'irbuviya. Irbuviya means what? Irbuviya means just like all mixed up. Then why did he tell the trees that they should come up l'mineihem, according to their species? But all kal v'chomer, um mai ilanos she'ein darkam la'asot b'irbuviya, trees which normally don't 40:53 come up in a whole mixture. Generally, trees are pretty segmented, right? They don't come up b'irbuviya. Right? Ultimately, rebbeim, the reason for that is because, remember, trees by definition, Rashi points out, require more space. Right? There's a more complex root system. And because there's branches, also trees don't grow right next to each other. So by definition, trees naturally don't grow b'irbuviya 41:16 within a mixture. B'er Hashem Kadosh Baruchu went ahead and said, "L'mineihem, I want them each separate and individual species." Amra Hashem Kadosh Baruchu l'mineihem, "Anu, al achas kama v'kama. We, the erbage, right? Plant life, who do often come up b'irbuviya, right? Who could grow kind of all together mixed together, we have a problem. Mi'ad, kol echad v'echad yatza l'mino. So we'll say, the the 41:39 in so the plant life took upon itself ultimately to sprout in accordance with its species. Then we sprout forth from the earth in a more mesudar way, in a more orderly way. Pasach Sarah Olam v'Amar, Y'hi kavod Hashem l'olam. 41:55 Yismach Hashem b'ma'asav. The glory of the right, the glory of God should be in this world. Hashem should rejoice ultimately again in His creations. So rebbeim, so if we look at the what what what's the most rational on this? So first of all, Yismach Hashem b'ma'asav is actually quite beautiful because Yismach Hashem b'ma'asav means as follows. Hashem should rejoice in his creations means that when creations try when we always speak about this, what's 42:18 Hasidus? What does it mean to be a Hasid? To be a Hasid means to understand what the Ratzon Hashem, what the will of God is. Mitzvahs are the explicit expression of God. We have an obligation to do mitzvahs. A Hasid says, "Now that I know what the will of God is as expressed through his mitzvahs, I'm going to take that will of God and build on it. I'm going to do even more and 42:41 So, that's what's happening over here. The plant life understands they were not given the command of Leminei, of coming up according to their species, which means the plant life could have just come up above you in a whole mixture, but they understood that what does Hakadosh Baruchu like in this world? What does he say? What does he want? What does Hashem like? What does God like? What does God likes order. 43:00 God likes order. God likes Seder. The verse says, "All of my Seder is Seder." Vayerev, Vayehi Yom, Vayehi Voker, right? There's Yam and there's Yabasha. There's water. Everything about my Seder is Seder. Why? Because with Seder, with order, with order, you could build the world. Without order, it's 43:26 chaos. It's chaos. And where there's chaos, there's no accomplishment. What does Hakadosh Baruchu want from us in our always speak about this all the time. What does Hashem want from us in our own lives? Seder, order. Remember again what the Piaseczna Rebbe told his Talmidim. 43:40 Piaseczna Rebbe said, "Most important thing for successful living is schedule. Schedule. Do whatever you want. You want to have fun. You want to spend time with friends. You want to No problem. Do whatever you want." Check Now, whatever you want, right? But but again, just make sure it's scheduled. Make sure it has a beginning time and an end time. 44:01 Make sure how you utilize your time is accounted for. Because where there is Seder, there's accomplishment. Where there's seder, there's building. Without seder, tohu vavohu, absolute chaos. So, when the plant life realizes, "Oh, Hakadosh Baruch Hu loves seder. He likes order." He likes order. See, even though again Hakadosh Baruch Hu didn't command the plant life to come up with order, right? To just sprout forth with order, 44:25 they took it upon themselves to do so. And when that happens, the Seder Olam says, "Wow." Yihyu kavod Hashem ba'olam. God's glory is manifest in this entire world. When is God's God's glory manifest in this world? When we live with a sense of seder. Yismach Hashem b'ma'asav. Hashem will rejoice in his creations. When does he rejoice in his creations? When his creations live their lives with a sense of seder, a sense of 44:49 order. Incredible. By Rabbi Nachman, here gives the name of Shamshai ben Gavriel. What happens if you graft two types of plant life, two types of herbage together? So, the Gemara says on the base, Rabbi Chanina bar Papa Mahu. What is the status of that grafting according to Rabbi Chanina bar Papa? So, the Gemara says, "Keivan d'lo sibbu l'mineihu, lo mechayev. Odilma keivan d'askim adi d'lo kim adi d'ksiv b'l'mineihu, damya." So, the Gemara says 45:13 very interesting. So, the Gemara asks over here, if you end up grafting two different types of plant life together, is that a halachic problem or not? On one hand, the mitzvah of l'mineihu, according to their species, was that was not mentioned by plant life. As such again, maybe there's no problem of grafting. On the other hand, they took it upon themselves to sprout forth individually. As such, maybe halacha l'maaseh, maybe halacha 45:36 l'maaseh, you can't graft them. To which the Gemara says, "Teiku." Teiku. Okay, the Gemara leaves it leaves it as an open-ended question. All right, the Gemara says, "Let's go right there. Let's go right there." Rabbi Shimon bar Pazi, the Gemara says, "Get ready. Get ready for this Gemara." Rabbi Shimon bar Pazi, "Ksiv, Vaya'as Hashem es hamar hagadol v'es hamar hakatan." So, the Gemara says the pasuk says by by my separations, Hashem made the large 45:59 luminary, which is a reference to the sun, and the small luminary. Now again, what the Gamara what was bothering the Gamara over here was bothering the Gamara over here is that the Sukim themselves seem to be contradictory. In the beginning of the narrative of the creation of the luminaries, it says Shnem Oros, the two luminaries, which seems to equate them as sun and moon are the same. Then the 46:22 Posuk says, "Es Hamor Hagadol Shel Bayom, the large luminary to rule by day, the Es Hamor Shel Layla, and the small luminary to rule by night." So which one is it? Are they the same, or is one bigger, one smaller? They're contradictory Sukim. Gamara says, "I'll tell you what happened. Here we go." Gamara says, The moon said to the Ribono Shel Olam, 46:47 "Ribono Shel Olam, is it possible for two kings to share one crown?" Hello, say right? You know what say you know the best line in Gamara, you know what the Gamara says? If you have a barrel, right? If you have a barrel that's owned by two people, it's never hot and it's never cold, right? 47:10 Why? Cuz what happens when two people are in charge? What happens when two people are in charge? It's not clear. It's not clear, right? Who's getting the job done? Right? Who's Who's in charge? And by definition, it leads to an innate power struggle. So the So the moon says to the sun, "Could two crown?" Gamara says, "Gamara says he's saying good. 47:34 Moon, go make yourself smaller." >> [snorts] >> Go make yourself smaller. The moon says, "What?" Gamara says, "Ribono Shel Olam, I'm not I'm not saying I don't understand. I'm saying good. I I I'm I'm I'm just pointing out the reality in this organizational setup over here, right? In other words, why Why Why are you shooting the messenger? 47:54 Why Why am I being punished? I'm just the one who's bringing up your organizational flowchart to you and saying, "God, hello. This is not going to work. You can't have two people at the head. It's not Two kings can't share the same crown." So, because I'm saying this, I I now have to be the one who has to take a step back? I'm really So, who tries to I have to see what's happening over here. I'm trying to appease the 48:16 moon. I'm really So, who says, "Moon, don't worry. I'm not I'm not diminishing you because moon, you will still shine both by day and by night." Cuz it will say sometimes you can see the moon by day as well. I'm really the moon says, "What kind of What good does it do to shine by day? My say first line, my say the shrug of a tear. 48:37 My honey, what good does a candle do during the daytime?" In other words, people can see me in the sky, but during the day I'm not giving any light. No, moon, it's okay because it's going to count their calendar according to you. So, you see, you're still going to be great even though you have to diminish yourself, you're still going to be great because the calendar we we use a lunar calendar. 49:05 That's not fair. The sun is also used for the calendar. Why? Cuz actually one of these interesting things about the about we we often say the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar. That's true, except remember again our total anchored in the seasons, right? So, the seasons of course go after the solar calendar. So, the moon says even the calendar is not all mine. 49:24 Who tries to appease the moon? Don't be upset. The are going to be known by your name. What does this mean? was referred to as the So, she points out this that alludes to the by each of these just like the moon is the the small luminary. Great people are also known as the small ones. 49:47 Who saw that the moon was not appeased? The moon was very upset, very hurt. Amra Kodesh Baruch Hu K'para Lai She Mi'ati Yisrael. Kodesh Baruch Hu says bring atonement upon me that I diminished the size of the moon. But I knew the Amra B'Shimon ben Lakish my understanding of Siyum Rosh Chodesh She'amar Hashem why is it that we say on Rosh Chodesh there is a sin offering that's brought? And the sin 50:11 offering says Hashem that it's a sin offering for God. What does it mean that it's a sin offering for God? Amra Kodesh Baruch Hu Se'ir Zeh Y'hei K'para Alai She Mi'ati Yisrael. Bring this sin offering for me to atone for me that I diminished the size of the moon. 50:28 So Rebbe Osei what this Gemara means, what's unfolding over here Rebbe Osei? Im Yirtza Hashem tomorrow we'll pick up. Don't worry it's very short after tomorrow. Very easy, very short. So we're right on that Rebbe Osei. I just have to end with one incredible thing. I did this Gemara so I got back late last night and I have friend of late last night and I realized you know Motzei Shabbos, Motzei Shabbos was cloudy. I was cloudy. Last night I saw I haven't had a chance to keep the shabbos on last 50:53 night. So last night late late last night I was like there was the most magnificent Levana. So literally I'm sitting in my in my study in my house and right literally right outside the window was the most perfect beautiful complete Levana. Mamish it's not often you get to say to have a rishus shaft with the with the moon with the moon. 51:15 Mamish last night it was me and the moon learning this Sugya. Im Yirtza Hashem tomorrow we'll see the deeper meaning of it. Rebbe Osei shkoyach. What a what a what an incredible beginning of the week. Incredible. Have a good Shabbos and a good day everyone. >> [clears throat] >> Good morning. 51:39 Thank you. Thank you. I was thinking about yesterday. Tell us
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