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SHABBOS (IYUN)

Shabbos 5b โ€” Iyun

Can a Walking Animal Serve as Your 'Courtyard'?

Part of Shabbos (Iyun) · 42:01

A detailed Shabbos/Kiddushin sugya on kinyan chatzer -- whether a moving courtyard (even an animal) can make a halachic acquisition, and whether a minor has the capacity to be a shaliach.

Audio Transcript
Basics of Carrying: When Are We Obligated?

ืฉื‘ืช ื“ืฃ ื”' ืขืžื•ื“ ื‘'. And as we know the whole perek talks about the melachah of ื”ื•ืฆืื”, the melachah of carrying, and we know that the conditions of when you are ืขื•ื‘ืจ on the melachah of carrying whether it's ื”ื•ืฆืื”, carrying from ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ื™ื—ื™ื“ to ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ืจื‘ื™ื, or ื”ื›ื ืกื” ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ืจื‘ื™ื to ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ื™ื—ื™ื“, or ื“' ืืžื•ืช ื‘ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ืจื‘ื™ื, you're carrying ื“' ืืžื•ืช 4 ืืžื•ืช ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ืจื‘ื™ื, or when you're throwing, the same thing, the condition is, you're only ื—ื™ื™ื‘ if you did an ืขืงื™ืจื” and an ื”ื ื—ื”. If you picked it up from a resting place, let's say by ื”ื•ืฆืื”, you picked it up inside the the ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ื™ื—ื™ื“, carried it out to ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ืจื‘ื™ื and you put it down, so you made an ืขืงื™ืจื” and an ื”ื ื—ื”, you're ื—ื™ื™ื‘. If you didn't make an ืขืงื™ืจื” and an ื”ื ื—ื”, if you made only one of the two, you're ืขื•ื‘ืจ ืžื“ืจื‘ื ืŸ, but you're not ื—ื™ื™ื‘ ืžื“ืื•ืจื™ื™ืชื. So here the Gemara talks about certain things, what's considered an ื”ื ื—ื”, putting it down, what's not. So the Gemara says like this, ืืžืจ ืจื‘ื ืžื™ื ืขืœ ื’ื‘ื™ ืžื™ื ื”ื™ื™ื ื• ื”ื ื—ืชืŸ. Water on top of water is called an ื”ื ื—ื”. If you take some water out, let's say from this is there's a a puddle, and you take some water out from the top, you did an ืขืงื™ืจื”. And ืขืงื™ืจื” is from a ืžืงื•ื ื”ื ื—ื”, from a ืžืงื•ื ืžื•ื ื—. Same thing, if you take some water and put it down on the puddle of water, it's called an ื”ื ื—ื”. ืื’ื•ื– ืขืœ ื’ื‘ื™ ืžื™ื ืœืื• ื”ื™ื™ื ื• ื”ื ื—ืชื•. If you have a nut that's floating over the water and you take the nut and you take it out from the water, let's say in ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ื™ื—ื™ื“, and you take it out to the ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ืจื‘ื™ื and you put it down, it's not called ืžื•ื ื—, it's not called that it's resting and therefore, you did not make a ื”ื ื—ื” ืขืงื™ืจื”. Same thing, if you take a nut and you put it down in the other ืจืฉื•ืช on top of the water, ืœืื• ื”ื™ื™ื ื• ื”ื ื—ืชื•, it's not hanacha. It doesn't have to be moving when you pick it up? Uh? Even if it's not moving, it is it is it's resting. It's not called hanacha, why? Because the water is not like the sun. I mean, just saying it very superficially till we get the water is not stable. It's not concrete. So it's not called hanacha.

Tosafotโ€™s Question on Nut over Water

Tosafos here asks, it says, on the ื’ืžืจื ืื’ื•ื– ืขืœ ื’ื‘ื™ ืžื™ื ืœืื• ื”ื™ื™ื ื• ืœืื• ื”ื™ื™ื ื• ื”ื ื—ืชื•, if you have the nut on top of the water that's not called ืžื•ื ื—, not called resting, so Tosafos asks a kashya. ื•ืืฃ ืขืœ ื’ื‘ ื“ืืžืจื™ื ืŸ ื‘ืคืจืง ืงืžื ื“ื‘ื‘ื ืžืฆื™ืขื the first perek of Bava Metzia it says ืกืคื™ื ื” ืžื™ื ื— ื ื™ื™ื—ื ื•ืžื™ื ื“ืงื ืžืžื˜ื• ืœื”. Now Tosafos needs explanation, it really would be good to have the Gemara, okay, it's okay. The Gemara Bava Metzia. The Gemara Bava Metzia talks about this klal. This is why it's important because the shiur mainly is going to be more on the Gemara Bava Metzia than here, more on ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, but it's noge'a to answer this kashya. There it talks about a ื—ืฆืจ, ืงื ื™ืŸ ื—ืฆืจ. ืงื ื™ืŸ ื—ืฆืจ means, we know, that if a person wants to be makneh something to somebody, I want to give you something, so you will have to make a kinyan. So there are all kinds of kinyanim. One of the kinyanim is if I put it down in your chatzer, if you have a yard, chatzer doesn't mean a yard, a house, and I put something down into your house, you are koneh. The same thing, a person is koneh with chatzer from hefker. If something hefker, that doesn't have an owner, falls into my reshus, into my chatzer, I'm koneh it. There's a there is a condition also, when is a ื—ืฆืจ ืงื•ื ื”, and this is going to be noge'a to later, is if it's ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช. It has to be a yard which is guarded for my sake. Let's say a yard which has a wall around it, which is closed, or I'm standing next to it and I'm watching. So anything that comes in and I'm watching it, it's koneh. So you have to be a chatzer, and it's koneh, and ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช. So here the

Moving Chatzer (Behemah) and Its Ownership

Gemara says that if someone puts something down on somebody else's behemah, the behemah is like his chatzer, because the din is if I have a keli and someone puts something into my keli, my keli is my chatzer. Lichorah, my behemah is also my chatzer. My eved, eved kena'ani, belongs to me, is my chatzer. So what would be the din if someone puts something down on my behemah? So I should be koneh al pi chatzer. So the Gemara says, no, ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช ื”ื™ื. It's a chatzer that's able to walk. ื•ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช ืœื ืงื ื”. A chatzer that walks is not koneh. And then the Gemara continues, ื•ื›ื™ ืชื™ืžื ื›ืฉืขืžื“ื”, you might say that if it's standing, it could walk, but it's not walking. What's walking? What's a chatzer walking? The behemah is a chatzer It's called a chatzer, and a behemah is walking. ืžื ื—ืช ืขืœ ื—ืžื•ืจ. A behemah is, yeah, lichorah, it's the din of a chatzer. So, he says, even if it's standing, because ื›ืœ ืฉืื™ืœื• ืžื”ืœืš ืœื ืงื ื”, ืขื•ืžื“ ื•ื™ืฉื‘ ืœื ืงื ื”. If it could walk, and you're not koneh, so even if it's not walking, but the standing, sitting, you're not koneh. Eino mishtameret. No, not because of mishtameret, because ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช. Not mishtameret, it's ื•ื”ืœื›ืชื ื‘ื›ืคื•ืชื”. The halachah is if the behemah is tied, that it can't walk, it's takeh a chatzer Or the or the eved is tied and he can't walk, and you put it on, you are koneh it. ื–ืื’ื˜ ื“ื™ ื’ืžืจื ื•ื•ื™ื™ื˜ืขืจ, ืืžืจื• ืœื™ื” ืจื‘ ืคืคื ื•ืจื‘ ื”ื•ื ื ื‘ืจื™ื” ื“ืจื‘ ื™ื”ื•ืฉืข ืœืจื‘ื, so ืจื‘ ืคืคื and ืจื‘ ื”ื•ื ื ื‘ืจื™ื” ื“ืจื‘ ื™ื”ื•ืฉืข said to ืจื‘ื, ืืœื ืžืขืชื”, now that you told me that a ื—ืฆืจ ืžื”ืœื›ืช, any ื—ืฆืจ that belongs to me, but if it's moving or it could move it's not ืงื•ื ื”, ื”ื™ื• ืžื”ืœื›ื™ื ื‘ืกืคื™ื ื”, if you're going in a ship, ื•ื›ืกื• ื“ื’ื™ื, and fish which are ื”ืคืงืจ jumped in, ื•ื ืคืœื• and fell into the vessel, ื”ื›ื ื ืžื™ ื“ื—ืฆืจ ืžื”ืœื›ืช ื”ื™ื ื•ืœื ืงื ื™? You'll tell me so it's a moving ื—ืฆืจ and you're not ืงื•ื ื” it? ืืžืจ ืœื™ื”, he said to him, no, ืกืคื™ื ื” ืžื™ื ื— ื ื™ื™ื—ื, the ship on the water is really resting, ื•ืžื™ื ื”ื•ื ื“ืงื ืžืžื˜ืœื• ืœื”, the water is making it go. Mimaila it's not it's considered resting, it's not considered a ื—ืฆืจ ืžื”ืœื›ืช. And the same thing the Gemara continues, ืืžืจ ืœื™ื” ืจื‘ื™ื ื ืœืจื‘ ืืฉื™, to ืจื‘ ืืฉื™, ืืœื ืžืขืชื” ื”ื™ืชื” ืžื”ืœื›ืช ื‘ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ืจื‘ื™ื, a woman was walking in the street, and if you want to divorce your wife, ืขืœ ืคื™ ื”ื“ื™ืŸ you could just, not ื—ืจื Rabbeinu Gershom, ืขืœ ืคื™ ื”ื“ื™ืŸ you could just write a get and throw it to her, and the moment it falls in she's ืงื•ื ื” it, falls into her hand or falls into her ื—ืฆืจ, she's ืงื•ื ื” the get and she's divorced. What happens if she's walking, ื•ื–ืจืง ืœื” ื’ื˜ ืœืชื•ืš ื—ื™ืงื” ืื• ืœืชื•ืš ืงืœืชื”, and you threw while she was walking, you threw it into her or you threw it into her basket, she's carrying a basket on her hand or on her head, you know, the ืกืœ, and ื”ื›ื ื ืžื™ ื“ืœื ืžื™ื’ืจืฉื, is she not divorced? ืืžืจ ืœื™ื”, no, ืงืœืชื” ืžื™ื ื— ื ื™ื™ื—ื, her basket is not moving, the basket is standing, ื•ืื™ื”ื™ ื“ืงื ืžืกื’ื™ ืชื•ืชื™ื”, and she is the one moving, right. But the first thing that the Gemara said was that by a ืกืคื™ื ื”, which is an object floating over the water, so the Gemara said that is called munach. That is called resting. So Tosafos here by us, no, Tosafos in Bava Metzia also asks it in kushya, but Tosafos here in Shabbos asks: how could the Gemara say here ืื’ื•ื– ืขืœ ื’ื‘ื™ ืžื™ื is not munach, if the nut is floating over the water it's not called resting, ืืฃ ืขืœ ื’ื‘ ื“ืืžืจื™ื ืŸ ื‘ืคืจืง ืงืžื ื“ื‘ื‘ื ืžืฆื™ืข, we say in ื‘ื‘ื ืžืฆื™ืข, ืกืคื™ื ื” ืžื™ื ื— ื ื™ื™ื—ื ื•ืžื™ื ื“ืงื ืžืžื˜ืœื• ืœื”, the ship is considered resting and the water is moving? Tosafos answers: ืœื’ื‘ื™ ืงื ื™ืŸ ืฉืื ื™. Teirutz, it's different dinim. By a kinyan there is a different din that there we don't care that it's moving because of the water, because ื“ืœื ื™ืงืจื™ ื—ืฆืจ ืžื”ืœื›ืช, because ื—ืฆืจ ื™ืœืคื™ื ืŸ ืžื™ื“, ื•ื™ื“ ื ืžื™ ืื™ ืžืกื’ื™ ืชื•ืชื” ืงื ืžืžื˜ื™ ืœื”. Chatzer, the kinyan chatzer is learned out, the Gemara says, from yad. Just like you could put in someone's hand, the chatzer is an extension of the person. The yad Tosafos says is the same thing. The yad is you are walking, and the yad is is is also moving, but not by itself, it's moving because of you, and the yad is koneh, so the chatzer also. The teirutz of Tosafos, the

Tosafot vs Rambam: The Chatzer Debate

bottom line is vos iz noge'a here to the shiur. Tosafos asks the kushya and gives a teirutz that chatzer is the din of chatzer is different. Tosafos continues and brings another thing which is also a problem with our Gemara. The Gemara says here, ืจื•ื›ื‘ ื›ืžื”ืœืš ื“ืžื™. ืงื™ื™ืžื ืœืŸ ืจื•ื›ื‘ ื›ืžื”ืœืš ื“ืžื™. It says like this: if you see a talmid chacham coming walking, you have to stand up. If the talmid chacham is standing, you don't have to stand up. So the Gemara asks what happens if he's riding? So he is not walking, he's not moving, the horse is moving. So we say ืจื•ื›ื‘ ื›ืžื”ืœืš, that the riding is like walking. That fits to our Gemara. Just like we say that the water is moving, so anything that's moving on top because of the water, the Gemara says is called moving. The nut is not munach, the nut is not called resting. Just like over there that the talmid chacham was riding a horse is not called resting. So it's another also a kushya to the Gemara in Bava Metzia. Gemara Bava Metzia says that if the bottom is moving and the top is not, and it's the top is moving because of the bottom, it's called resting. So again, by chatzer it's a special din, over there it's different. But what I want to bring out to the shiur is one thing. In sefinah it says, where does the Sefinah fit in? There it says that a Sefinah is munach. And here the Gemara says that egoz is not munach. The egoz and Sefinah is the same thing. The difference is the egoz is small and the Sefinah is big, but the same idea: an object floating on water, is that called resting or not? Yeah, but over there with the ship, that's not that's not the that's not the object of what we're examining. Yes, we are. The ship is the keli. What we're examining is what goes into the ship. No, no, we examine the chatzer. The ship is a chatzer. The ship is the chatzer, but the the the thing that we're ื—ืฉื™ื‘ื•ืช the thing that we're interested in is what jumps into the chatzer. The fish. No, of course, that's the object what you're koneh, yeah. But the she'eilah is whether is is if the ื—ืฆืจ ืงื•ื ื” or not. That's the result. The result is what whether you're koneh or not, that's the result. ื ื•ื’ืข is ื ื•ื’ืข, is it mehalech or not. But the Gemara says that it's not called mehalech, it's called omed. And our Gemara says that the nut is called mehalech. It doesn't say the word mehalech, but it's not. Anyway, I'm not trying to get to the teretz of Tosafot. Moving water in a pond? No, it's also... It's it's it's... is it, it's not, not stable. Right. The keli of the get, the get is the ื—ืฉื™ื‘ื•ืช, is the issue that. No, it's not also the keli. No, we're not talking, the get is the get. We're talking, is the kinyan of the get, that came through the chatzer, is it a moving chatzer or not? Because if it's a moving chatzer, it's not koneh. If it's a standing chatzer, it is koneh. And we consider this a standing chatzer. And Tosafot's answer: ื—ืฆืจ by, by, by ืงื ื™ืŸ ื—ืฆืจ, it doesn't matter if it's moving, as long as it's moving because of something else. What's the difference between a puddle of water... moving, and an animal that's tied up... also moves around. No, exactly, you make it not move. In one place. No, but you make it it shouldn't be able to move. And this couldn't move. How do you know that it's tied and it can't jump? Yeah, that's what he says. ื›ืคื•ืช is since it's ื›ืคื•ืช it can't move. That's all it is. No, but what he's asking is, it can't move, it can't walk ten feet away, but it could... Can move, so you tie it so tie it up it shouldn't move at all. I mean, what I want to say is, yeah, tie is up that it's not ืฉื™ื™ืš it should move. What I'm trying to bring out is that as as I will explain, that I think according to the Rambam, Tosafot's kashya is no kashya to begin with. So I'm not going into the teirutz of Tosafot. I'm going into the kashya of Tosafot. And Tosafot finds a teirutz to make a chiluk because of ื™ื“, but I want to say that according as we will explain peshat in Rambam in the Gemara here in Bava Metzia, we'll see that the kashya from Bava Metzia to from Bava Metzia to Eruvin is no kashya according to the Rambam. It's only according to Tosafot is the kashya. Where do we see it? So let's start off in this ื“ื™ืŸ that a ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is no good, therefore by a ื‘ื”ืžื”, if you put on a ื‘ื”ืžื” it's not ืงื•ื ื”, unless it's tied. Tosafot in Bava Kamma, ื“ืฃ ื™ืดื‘, Tosafot says that besides the ื‘ื”ืžื” being or the ืขื‘ื“ being tied, he has to be asleep. And Tosafot says, why? Tying takes care of the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, a ื—ืฆืจ that walks. There's another problem: ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช. It has to be watched, watched for you. So the fact that he's awake, it's make he's watching it for himself, so to speak. So even if you'll be standing next to him, it's not a real ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช ืœื“ืขืช of the person. He has to be asleep, that takes care of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช. So therefore, the halacha is, when is the ื‘ื”ืžื” or the ืขื‘ื“ ืงื•ื ื” as a ื—ืฆืจ? If it's ื›ืคื•ืช, tied, and ื™ืฉืŸ. The Rambam, the Gra actually ืขืจื’ืขืฅ ื•ื•ืื• writes that ืจืžื‘ืดื ื—ื•ืœืง, but if you look through different, we're not going to go through the different details, but the Rambam in quite a few halachot, three times at least, where the Rambam says that it doesn't have to be ื™ืฉืŸ. Which means according to the Rambam, ื›ืคื•ืช takes care of both problems. Tying it automatically is okay. That's what the Rambam, the Rambam says clearly if he's awake and you're standing next to it, and he's tied, you are ืงื•ื ื”. The ืื™ืฉื” she ืงื•ื ื” the ื’ื˜ or whatever it is, you are ืงื•ื ื”. But why wouldn't you say, sir, it's watched if it's awake? It's tied up and you're standing right next to it. So? What's the issue? The fact that it's watching. The fact that that the fact that it's that it's able to look itself and it's... So that, we're going to have to go through the whole thing. But wait, please wait till the whole thing. I'm just saying the dinim. So Tosafot learns it has to be both and the Rambam does not. What's the nekudah here of the machloket between Tosafot and and the Rambam? So we got to go, if we want to understand the machloket by ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, we have to understand what is the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช. In order to understand what is the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, we got to understand, what's ื—ืฆืจ? Okay? So let's start, just want to say that what I'm trying to get to is whether the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, let's use these two words, is a problem of ื”ืขื“ืจ or a problem of ืฉืœื™ืœื”. What's the difference of ื”ืขื“ืจ and ืฉืœื™ืœื”? We all know that. What does ื”ืขื“ืจ mean? I'll explain. ื”ืขื“ืจ means not, ืฉืœื™ืœื” means not. Is there a difference in not? There's a difference. Something that it's not shayach to begin with, it's not into the picture to begin with. And then there's either it is, but there's a problem with it. The example always given: during the day, there's light coming in. If you close the shades, that's ืฉืœื™ืœื”. You're ืฉื•ืœืœ. Negate. Negate the the light. At night, there is no light. That's ื”ืขื“ืจ, there is no no light. Or the the the mashal of of of a candle. The candle burned down, no more candles, it's ื”ืขื“ืจ of the of of light. When you extinguish the candle in the middle, that you're ืฉื•ืœืœ the light. So that's it. So ื”ืขื“ืจ means it's lechatchilah not that. ืฉืœื™ืœื” means it's that, but there is a problem, and that's why there is there's there's something that's stopping, something that's ruining it. And we find that in halachah many times. I'll tell you where ื‘ื›ืœืœ in what kind of halachot. Whenever we find a halacha that there is two things, two conditions to a certain din, so there's a possibility one of them is the reason for the din and the other one is only a condition. And the shaylah is which one? And I'm I'm going to give an example in a second. If the one that the ikar reason for the din is missing, so lekulei alma the din is not there, it doesn't have the reason for it. If the other one which was only the condition means the reason, the din is there, That since there's a certain condition missing, it's not. I'll give you an example in a different halacha, it's nothing to do with this, but just, and this is a famous thing cause we're talking, I mentioned Bava Kamma, Bava Kamma we find we learn about ืžืžื•ื ื ื”ืžื–ื™ืง. If your ox caused damage, you have to pay for it. There are two things, two conditions have to be there: has to be yours, and it has to be that you didn't watch it. If you watched it, and nevertheless some something happened and it was able to be mazik, you're not chayav. Or even if you watch if you if you didn't watch it, but it's not yours. And the shaylah is always and that's a big chakirah, and the Rebbe has about it a whole letter of long letters, as the Rebbe I mentioned it once before, I told you the whole history behind that letter, I remember there was a guy, Nachum Zevin, was a bachur, now he's a very elderly man, he's a rav in the in the south, the einikel of Rav, Rabbi Zevin, Shlomo Yosef Zevin. So he sent him to 770 to learn, he learned in Ponevezh', he sent him to 770 one year to learn, so he stayed in my room, he was my roommate, and they he went into yechidus, and the Rebbe spoke to him in learning, and when he came out of yechidus later on, he he wrote something to the Rebbe ื‘ื”ืžืฉืš, so on that letter the Rebbe answered him, and the Rebbe answered him full a whole page, small small writing and going into another page, and remember he couldn't read a word, he couldn't understand it, so I remember I sat down with him and we copied over the whole letter, word for word, because I was familiar with the Rebbe's handwriting, and that's how it got printed in Likkutei Sichos. So in that letter the Rebbe goes very arichut, very deep lomdishe letter, but the nekudah the Rebbe speaks there about is: What is the main reason why you are chayav for the damage that your animal does? Is it because ืžืžื•ื ื• ื”ื–ื™ืง? Anything that belongs to you that causes damage, you are responsible. There is a condition: if you watched it, then you we don't make you pay. Or the opposite: the reason why you're chayav is because you didn't watch it. There is a condition: if it's not yours, then we can't blame you for it. And the Rebbe brings there nafka minah's, halachot. The Rambam seems clear, the Rebbe doesn't bring the Rambam, but for the Rambam the Rambam says clearly in the beginning of ื”ืœื›ื•ืช ื ื–ืงื™ ืžืžื•ืŸ, if your ื‘ื”ืžื” is ืžื–ื™ืง, ื—ื™ื™ื‘, ืฉื”ืจื™ ืžืžื•ื ื• ื”ื–ื™ืง, your ืžืžื•ืŸ. So I'll give you an example, like if somebody, if your child breaks someone's window, they'll come out to you and ask you to pay. Why? You didn't do it. Why should you pay? Your child! So in halacha that's not true. In halacha if a ืงื˜ืŸ breaks, the father is patur. But in if you go in court, what will be? They'll make the father pay. Why? Why liable? Because it's your responsibility, it's your it's yours, it belongs to you. The ื‘ื”ืžื” is yours, you're responsible. Ela mai, if you watched it and it was against to what you tried, or the sevara is not, not because of ืžืžื•ื ื•, it's just a side thing, you're responsible you have to watch it and you didn't. When do you have to watch it? If it's yours. The she'eilah is here, what happens if one of the conditions is missing? So let's assume that the main let's give an example, the main condition is ืžืžื•ื ื•, because it's yours, and it wasn't yours, is that ื”ืขื“ืจ or ืฉืœื™ืœื”? You're patur. You're patur whichever condition is missing. That's ื”ืขื“ืจ, because the whole the whole reason you're chayav, because it's yours, it's not yours. But let's say it was not, but you didn't watch it, but I mean you watched it, so you also patur. It's not because there is no the reason for chayav is there, but there is a reason to be patur, there's something to fix up. So this is given as an example that what's called ื”ืขื“ืจ and what's ืฉืœื™ืœื”. The same thing by ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, I want to I want to think, if ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, what's the, it's not a ื—ืฆืจ, or it can't be ืงื•ื ื”? You could say it doesn't fit into the category of a ื—ืฆืจ. Whatever we'll see why the sevara, but just want to get to the point. Could be a ื—ืฆืจ is if it's not ืžื”ืœืš, if it's ืžื”ืœืš, it's not a ื—ืฆืจ. That's ื”ืขื“ืจ. It's not ืงื•ื ื”, why? Because just like if it's your hand not mine, of course it's not ืงื•ื ื” for me, why? Because ื”ืขื“ืจ, it's not mine, there's no reason to be ืงื•ื ื”. Same thing here. Or maybe not, a ื—ืฆืจ to be ืงื•ื ื” is a ื—ืฆืจ even if it's ืžื”ืœืš. There's a problem with the ืงื ื™ืŸ, because of some side reason it cannot use the ืงื ื™ืŸ, so it's not ืงื•ื ื”. You can say it

Why a Chatzer Isnโ€™t Considered a Koneh

starts out as a chatzer, but now since it can't be ืงื•ื ื”, it's not a chatzer. Why is it not a chatzer? If it's a chatzer, it's a if a ืจืื™ื” other things it could be ืงื•ื ื”, whatever it's But you can say you can say either way, I'm not saying there's no ื”ื›ืจืข to either way. To understand is ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช ื”ืขื“ืจ or ืฉืœื™ืœื”, it depends what the problem with ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is, then we'll see. To know what the problem with ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is, let's see what is the reason for chatzer. So with chatzer, we spoke already last shiur or two shiurim ago, I forgot already, we spoke about how a chatzer is ืงื•ื ื”, why is a ื—ืฆืจ ืงื•ื ื”? Especially when we say ื—ืฆืจ ืžืฉื•ื ืฉืœื™ื—ื•ืช, according Gemara asks, right? Chatzer comes from ื™ื“, or chatzer comes because of chatzer is like your shaliach? And the Rambam ืคืกืง'ื ื˜ ื—ืฆืจ like your shaliach, according it says ื—ืฆืจ ืžืฉื•ื ื™ื“, and a ื’ื˜ ืžืฉื•ื, whatever. The bottom line is, how could a chatzer be your shaliach? Makes no sense. That was that's what I explained last time, a chatzer can't be your shaliach because a shaliach has to be a Yid, shaliach has to be a gadol, not a katan. So how could a ื‘ื”ืžื”, how could a, I mean, a a piece of ground be a be a shaliach? So I explained that the pshat is, how is a shaliach a shaliach? Why is a katan not a shaliach? So the pshat is, a shaliach you'll only say that he's battel to you. He gives over. A goy cannot be battel to a ืื™ื“. Can you shut that off, Mike? That's not first class. A ืงื˜ืŸ, know why he can't be a shaliach? Because a

The Minorโ€™s Capacity: Not a Shaliach, Not a Batel

ืงื˜ืŸ has enough ืฉื›ืœ to be a ืžืฆื™ืื•ืช, but not enough ืฉื›ืœ to be ืžื‘ื˜ืœ himself. A ื’ื“ื•ืœ has more ืฉื›ืœ than a ืงื˜ืŸ. A ื’ื“ื•ืœ is more ืžืฆื™ืื•ืช of a ื™ืฉ, and not battel to the ืžืฉืœื—. But since he accepted the ืžื™ื ื•ื™, the the the appointment of the ืฉืœื™ื—ื•ืช, he has ืฉื›ืœ to be ืžื‘ื˜ืœ. Isn't an ืขื‘ื“ ื›ื ืขื ื™ ื‘ื˜ืœ though? Huh? An ืขื‘ื“ ื›ื ืขื ื™ is battel. An ืขื‘ื“ ื›ื ืขื ื™ is takeh battel, yeah. Can we say because he's a goy, that's that's everything, because he's an ืขื‘ื“. An ืขื‘ื“ ื›ื ืขื ื™ can't be a... A goy can't be battel, you said. Yeah, an ืขื‘ื“... ืขื‘ื“ ื›ื ืขื ื™ is battel. Yeah, but since he's a goy, that kind of bitul, no, it's bitul means to become one with you. He is battel to you, ื•ืžืžื™ืœื then it's ื ืชืื—ื“. A goy can't be ื ืชืื—ื“, and a ืขื‘ื“ ื›ื ืขื ื™ can't be ื ืชืื—ื“ either. What about a ืงื˜ืŸ, a young ืงื˜ืŸ who doesn't have any, you know, mechusar daat, like nine, under nine, under six, or whatever the case is? A person is a metziut. Yeah, but they're not... So it comes out like this. Except that he's a chacham. Doesn't matter. As chacham as he is, under bar mitzvah he doesn't have enough daat. That's a problem. You could say why is he patur from from other other punishments if he's a smart katan and he's twelve and a half? We say that the the cutoff line is a katan is not daat, he can't be mevatel. So it comes out like this, see. The reason for a katan is because he has he has daat, not enough. A chatzer, your chatzer is the best shaliach. Because your chatzer doesn't have any daat at all, so how about a bitul? And that's why I mentioned last time that the

Ri Avuhavโ€™s View: Chatzer as the True Shaliach

Ri Avuhav in in Bava Metzia in the ื“ื™ืŸ of chatzer, says that a chatzer is ืืžื™ืชื™ืช ื”ืฉืœื™ื—. The real shaliach is a chatzer, even though we can say the word shaliach. Okay. So, we know one thing: how the chatzer works. Okay, now we came to a conclusion, that the chatzer is koneh for you because he is batel to you. When something comes into the chatzer, the she'eilah is how does that work? How does that work? How is the kinyan work? So you could say two ways. You could say one way, because he is batel to you, he is in your place, like like your shaliach, and when he is koneh, it's koneh for you. So he is koneh for you because he is batel. That's one way to learn. There's another way to learn why how it works: not because he is koneh for you. When you put something down in the chatzer, it's ke'ilu it becomes part of the chatzer. If the chatzer is yours, then mimela that part of what's yours. So it's not that the chatzer is making the ืงื ื™ืŸ. First you say that why a ื—ืฆืจ is a ื—ืฆืจ, because it's ื‘ื˜ืœ. Now, how the ืงื ื™ืŸ works, then you could say two ways. You could say the ืงื ื™ืŸ works because since he's ื‘ื˜ืœ to you, he's your representative, he's part of you. Just like you could be ืงื•ื ื”, he is ืงื•ื ื”, so there is a regular ืงื ื™ืŸ that's done. And the other way is that, just like when you put it down in ืจืฉื•ืช ื”ืจื‘ื™ื, ืขืœ ื“ืจืš like I keep on saying in Shabbos, that why do you need an ื”ื ื—ื”, what's the reason for an ื”ื ื—ื”, because when you put it down it's ke'ilu, because otherwise, I didn't want to go through the whole thing again like last last time, to say ืžืœืื›ื” ื’ืจื•ืขื”, there's no real change in anything, but if you pick it up and you put it down, that's like a change, you actually plant it ke'ilu, whatever. Same thing here, when you put something down in someone's ื—ืฆืจ and the ื—ืฆืจ is so ื‘ื˜ืœ to the guy, it becomes ืžื•ืฉืจืฉ in the place. So it's not that the ื—ืฆืจ is ืงื•ื ื” for you. It becomes ื ืชืื—ื“ with the ื—ืฆืจ, ื•ืžืžื™ืœื it's here. Includes everything that he... Everything, yeah. So it's but not that it's a special ืงื ื™ืŸ. The nafka mina between the two ways will be, when we get to it, now that we're getting to it, ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, what's the problem? If you learn ื—ืฆืจ is ืงื•ื ื” because since he's ื‘ื˜ืœ, and he's ืงื•ื ื” because he ืงื•ื ื” for you, you could say like this: ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is not ื‘ื˜ืœ. Since he's ืžื”ืœื›ืช ืขืœ ื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•, it's the ืœืฉื•ืŸ Rambam, it goes, the fact that it goes, it has its own ื“ืขืช, it and the going expresses ื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•. So what's the problem? No ื‘ื™ื˜ื•ืœ. It's not a ื—ืฆืจ. ื—ืฆืจ, the whole ืžืฆื™ืื•ืช of a ื—ืฆืจ is it's ื‘ื˜ืœ. If he's ืžื”ืœืš ืขืœ ื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•, it's like a ื—ืฆืจ ื ื™ืฉื˜. So a ื—ืฆืจ ืžื”ืœื›ืช is not a chatzer. The other way you can learn not like that. The reason is because when you put something down, it becomes part of it. ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, you can't be ืžืฉืจื™ืฉ. You could only be ืžืฉืจื™ืฉ something, you can only root if something is stable. But something is is not stable, is moving, so since the second way we're learning the pshat is why does the chatzer work, because when you put it on, it becomes part of the chatzer. For that, you have to have it should be ืžื”ืœืš, it should not be ืžื”ืœืš. So it comes out according to this pshat, it's a chatzer. ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is, according to this pshat, we're not looking if it's a problem because it's ืžื”ืœืš ืขืœ ื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•. That's not the problem. The problem is that you can't you can't be koneh it. The kinyan is a problem, not the chatzer is a problem. So it doesn't work, it's ืฉื•ืœืœ it. The chatzer is there and it's fine chatzer, only what it's ืฉื•ืœืœ it comes out. So it comes out it is a chatzer, but the chatzer cannot be koneh because a chatzer is there. I I think according to this you can explain a machloket between the Raavad and the Tosafot HaRosh. Here on this Gemara, when the Gemara asks in Bava Metzia about the woman, that the woman that walks and you throw it into her basket, lichorah it's a ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช. How come she's divorced if it's a ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช? And then we answered it when it's really not moving. So the Raavad asks a ืฉืืœื”: How does the Gemara know that she's koneh? The Gemara asks why is she koneh, it's a ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, maybe she's koneh on ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช? There's a din that anything that comes within the ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช of a person, you're koneh it. Since the the basket is in her hand, so it's definitely within the ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช, so she's koneh on ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช. Answered the Raavad, ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช is only ืงื•ื ื” if you're standing. But if you're walking, there's no ืงื ื™ืŸ ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช, and here she's walking. Fine, that's a normal answer. Comes the Rosh, the Rosh says, \"No, I'll give a different answer. ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช is only ืงื•ื ื” when there's no ืงื ื™ืŸ ื“ืื•ืจื™ื™ืชื. ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช ืจื‘ื ืŸ makes, it's ืงื ื™ืŸ ื“ืจื‘ื ืŸ. When is ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช ืงื•ื ื”? When there is no ืงื ื™ืŸ ื“ืื•ืจื™ื™ืชื involved. When there is a ืงื ื™ืŸ ื“ืื•ืจื™ื™ืชื, it doesn't allow the ืงื ื™ืŸ ื“ืจื‘ื ืŸ to work. So since there is a ื—ืฆืจ she has, ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช doesn't work.\" That's what he answers. Make any sense? We said it's a ื—ืฆืจ The ืงืฉื™ื in the Gemara was it's a ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช. A ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is not a ื—ืฆืจ. So there's no ืงื ื™ืŸ ื“ืื•ืจื™ื™ืชื. What does he mean that you can't have the ืงื ื™ืŸ ื“ืจื‘ื ืŸ because it's a ืงื ื™ืŸ ื“ืื•ืจื™ื™ืชื? And ื“ืื•ืจื™ื™ืชื, if there's ื“ืื•ืจื™ื™ืชื, it doesn't work. So I'm, and so I'm saying this is the ืžื—ืœื•ืงืช. That's why the Raavad doesn't want to give this ืชื™ืจื•ืฅ. That he holds that it's ืฉืœื™ื—ื•ืช, that it is a ื—ืฆืจ, it just comes a problem. So ืžืžื™ืœื there is a ื—ืฆืจ here. If there is a ื—ืฆืจ ื“ืื•ืจื™ื™ืชื, he says the ื“ืจื‘ื ืŸ doesn't work. But the, the Raavad doesn't give the answer because he doesn't accept, he says there is no ื—ืฆืจ here, you can't give such an answer. There is a ื—ืฆืจ here? ืืœื ืžืื™ the ื—ืฆืจ does, there is no ื—ืฆืจ here. If there is no ื—ืฆืจ here, why can't the ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช come in? So he gives an answer that when you walk, there is no ื“ืณ ืืžื•ืช. So I'm just trying to show that we could have these two ways. Okay. The difference, one of the differences between these two ways what the problem is, is comes out like this: this could be the

Rambam vs. Tosafot: Sleeping vs. Tying the Chatzer

difference between the Rambam and Tosafot whether you have to have him sleeping, because the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช that it's not ืžืฉืชืžืจ, what is that problem? We were talking about ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช what's the problem. What's the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช that it's not ืžืฉืชืžืจ? There, I want to say, I don't think ืืฃ ืื—ื“ ืคืœื™ื’ื™, ืœื›ืื•ืจื”, that for sure is because the ื—ืฆืจ is not batel. If it's not ืžืฉืชืžืจ to you, it's not batel. If you learn ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is also because he's walking on his own mind, it's not batel, the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช and the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is the same problem. If you learn that ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช the problem is because it can't be ื ืฉืชืจืฉ, it's a different problem. Not because it's not batel, it's a different problem. ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช the problem is that it's not a ื—ืฆืจ. ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is a ื—ืฆืจ according to that, but just you can't be ืงื•ื ื” that way, you can't be ืžืฉืจื™ืฉ it. So Tosafot will learn that ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is the way not of bitul, it's pashut a problem of the kinyan. It doesn't take care of the bitul. So Tosafot says you got to take care of the ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช, because it has to become batel. If it's not ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช, it's not batel. You got to do something else. So how do you take care of the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช? Tie it up. How do you take care of the problem of ื—ืฆืจ it should be ืžืฉืชืžืจืช? Go to sleep. The Rambam learns the other way, I'm saying. The Rambam is going to learn that ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช the problem is because it's not batel. So the same problem is ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช. So he says when you are tying it, you're doing a ืคืขื•ืœื” of tying, you took care of both problems. So therefore, it has to be the guy stand there, that's beside the point, but this thing itself is no ืกืชื™ืจื” to the bitul because the tying is for the purpose of being ืžื‘ื˜ืœ it. So that ืคืขื•ืœื” takes care of both. So if we're going to learn like that, that the Rambam goes with this ืฉื™ื˜ื”, that the

Problem of a Moving Chatzer (Chatzer HaMahalechet)

problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is because it's not battel, and the problem of ื—ืฆืจ of the Tosafot learn the problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is because it's because no, for the Rambam it's not a ื—ืฆืจ, according to him because it can't be ื ืฉืชืจืฉ, you know what the ื ืคืงื ืžื™ื ื” will be? According to the Rambam, we don't care if it's called ืžื”ืœืš, it's called walking. The sefinah that's moving and the Gemara says why is it not a ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, because it's sefinah is resting and the water is making it, according to the Rambam the Gemara doesn't have to mean that the sefinah is resting, the sefinah is moving! But the Gemara is trying to say it's not moving on its own. The whole problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is if it's moving on its own, so that shows that you're an own ืžืฆื™ืื•ืช, you're not battel. ื–ืื’ื˜ ื“ื™ ื’ืžืจื: what's the problem with sefinah? The sefinah on its own is is not moving, so it doesn't have. It's only moving because of the water. So that's not a problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช. Tosafot that learns that the problem is because it's, since it's moving you can't put it down, So when the Gemara says that sefinah is resting, what does that have to mean? That the sefinah is resting. Because if it's moving, we don't care why it's moving. So therefore, for some reason, we have to say we look at it as if it's resting. But the Rambam doesn't learn like that. The Rambam will learn ืกืคื™ื ื” ืžื™ื ื— ื ื™ื™ื—ื means the sefinah, the boat on its own is resting. ืื™ื™, it's moving? It's takeh moving! But it's moving because of something else, so it's not. And the whole problem of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช is it's not battel. Why is it not battel? Because it's moving, but it's not because it's moving, it's moving on its own, so it has its own ืžืฆื™ืื•ืช. ื–ืื’ื˜ ื“ื™ ื’ืžืจื, no, it's not moving on its own. ืืฉืจื™ื›ื ืชื•ืกืคื•ืช. Tosafot says the problem is the movement, the problem is not that it's on, the problem is the movement. If the problem is the movement, then when the Gemara says it's not a problem, must be it's not called moving. It's not called it's not called it's called ื ื™ื™ื—, it's called standing in one place. And we takeh see, we look at the Rambam when the Rambam brings this Gemara with the ืกืคื™ื ื”, the Rambam write doesn't write the words ืกืคื™ื ื” ืžื™ื ื— ื ื™ื™ื—ื. And how the Rambam tries to stick to the ืœืฉื•ื ื•ืช of the Gemara. The Rambam says, it would be it would be so to speak better, the Rambam, he says, that the ืกืคื™ื ื”... Here. ื–ืณ, ื”ืœื›ื•ืช ื–ื›ื™ื™ื” ื•ืžืชื ื”, ืงื ื™ื™ืŸ. ืงื ื™ื™ืŸ. ื”ืœื›ื•ืช ื–ื›ื™ื™ื” ื•ืžืชื ื”, ื”ืœื›ื” ื”ืณ, ืคืจืง ื“ืณ ื”ืœื›ื” ื”ืณ. There, the Rambam doesn't quote the Gemara, what the Gemara says... Yeah. Rambam, ืกืคืจ ืงื ื™ื™ืŸ. The Rambam doesn't say it! The Rambam says that it's not moving on its own, it's takeh moving, the water is making it move. But it doesn't say the word ืžื ื—, it doesn't say it's resting! Let's see, we'll find it in a second, if not, we're not going to waste time. Yeah, ื”ืœื›ื•ืช ื–ื›ื™ื™ื” ื•ืžืชื ื”, ืคืจืง ืืณ, ื”ืœื›ื”... Here it is. Look at this. ืดื“ื’ื™ื ืฉืงืคืฆื• ืœืชื•ืš ื”ืกืคื™ื ื”ืด, it's mefurash, this this this a fish jumped into this boat. ืดืงื ื” ื‘ืขืœ ื”ืกืคื™ื ื”ืด, ืดืฉื–ื• ื›ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžืฉืชืžืจืช ื”ื™ืืด. Okay? ืดื•ืื™ื ื” ื›ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืชืด. Now, the Rambam would quote the Gemara, what would he say? ืดืื™ื ื” ื›ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืชืด ืดืฉื”ืกืคื™ื ื” ืžื•ื ื—ืชืด? ืดื‘ืžื™ืืด. All he says is the second half: ืดืฉื”ืžื™ื ื”ื ืฉืžื•ืœื™ื›ื™ืŸ ืื•ืชื”ืด ืดื•ืื™ื ื” ื”ื•ืœื›ืช ืžื—ืžืช ืขืฆืžื”ืด. Clearly! It doesn't mention the word that it's that it's standing! Farkert, he says clearly, he said it's going! The water is making it move! The problem is that the water The reason why it's not ืžื”ืœื›ืช, the water is making it move! And that only fits the way I'm explaining. Why? Because the problem is not the going, going represents metziut, which mimela can't be batel. But that's only if it's going on its own. If someone is pushing it, I don't care if it goes, it's still ืงื•ื ื”. But the And how do we taytsh the Gemara? ืดืกืคื™ื ื” ืžื™ื ื— ื ื™ื™ื—ืืด, ืื™ื™ the Gemara says it's resting? The Gemara means that on its own it's resting. ืกืคื™ื ื” a ship rests. And in this case the water makes it go, that's why it's going. According to Tosafot, the Gemara means pashut ืดืกืคื™ื ื” ืžื™ื ื— ื ื™ื™ื—ืืด, that we look at it as if the ship is resting. That's why Tosafos has a kashya. Tosafos has, how come by the ship we say the ship is resting and here by the ืื’ื•ื–, by the nut, we say it's not ื”ื ื—ื”, it's not ืžื•ื ื—? It's a good kashya, why? Because Tosafos learns pshat in the ื’ืžืจื ืดืกืคื™ื ื” ืžื™ื ื— ื ื™ื™ื—ืืด means the ืกืคื™ื ื” is resting. Because if it wouldn't be resting, it would be a ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช. So it's not resting! But there's a ืกืชื™ืจื”: here it's not resting, here it is resting. Tosafos has to find a teretz, because by by kinyan we have different ื’ื“ืจื™ื, different dinim, we learn from ื™ื“. According to the Rambam, there's no problem to begin with. Because according to the Rambam, it's takeh it's takeh moving! So ืœื’ื‘ื™ ื—ืฆืจ, the fact that it's moving is not a problem as long as it's not moving on its own. By Shabbos, if it's moving, it's not ื”ื ื—ื”. So there's no question to begin with. And... No. I hear what you're saying, but Tosafos said that only because it's a limud from ื™ื“. You don't have to come According to the Rambam you don't have to say because it's a limud from ื™ื“. And ื™ื“ is also the same, Tosafos says. Because the ื™ื“ is is in one place and the person is moving. According to the Rambam you don't answer anything. There's no kashya to begin with. The Gemara never said it's resting. It's ืžืคื•ืจืฉ moving, so what's the problem? No, I I hear what you're saying, you could see like Tosafos had a shaila because of... But Tosafos's answer is a different teretz. Tosafos here and there, because ื™ื“ ื ืžื™, hier in der Gemara, Maseches Sukkah kumt es for. Basket's like the ship. Like the ship. Yeah, the Gemara's comparing with the ship. And it's interesting, in that halacha where the Rambam says about ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, not here with the ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, not ืœื’ื‘ื™ ืกืคื™ื ื”, so by an ืขื‘ื“ ืœืžืฉืœ, what the Rambam says you have to tie him up, and by ื‘ื”ืžื” you have to tie up, and the reason he says, the Rambam says that a true can go, so the Rambam says it shouldn't be able to walk. A ื”ืœื›ื” right before that, the Rambam talks about something else, it talks about an ืขื‘ื“ also, and there he also mentions, and there he says clearly that the ืขื‘ื“ is a problem because he's ืžื”ืœืš ืœื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•. He doesn't speak about ื—ืฆืจ, he speaks about a different ืงื ื™ืŸ, but he says clearly, there he talks about ืงื ื™ืŸ ืื’ื‘. We have a few minutes, maybe I'll explain what it says there. And there he says the problem of the ืขื‘ื“ is because he's ืžื”ืœืš, he walks ืœื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•. Right after that he brings this ื“ื™ืŸ that the ืขื‘ื“ is a ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช, and he says because he's walking. A minute ago he wrote the problem of walking is because ืœื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•, so I assume that the Rambam, when he writes the next ื”ืœื›ื” and he mentions another problem, it's also because of ื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•. According to Tosafot, it's nothing to do with ื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•. He's walking. Walking's a problem, you can't smash is it, ืžื” ืฉืื™ืŸ ื›ืŸ according to the Rambam, so what's the case over there? The case over there is ืงื ื™ืŸ ืื’ื‘. What's ืงื ื™ืŸ ืื’ื‘? If I want to be ืžืงื ื” to you ืงืจืงืข and ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ, land, real estate, and and then ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ, so the ื“ื™ืŸ is that if you make a ืงื ื™ืŸ on the ืงืจืงืข, you don't have to make a ืงื ื™ืŸ on the ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ. And the Gemara in Kiddushin

Raavad vs. Rosh on the 4โ€‘Amot Rule

asks a ืฉืืœื”, do they have to, does the ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ have to lay in the ืงืจืงืข? The Gemara says no, the ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ could be here, could be the ืงืจืงืข could be here, you make a ืงื ื™ืŸ. Then the Gemara asks, do you have to say ืื’ื‘? Do you have to use the term, \"I'm ืงื•ื ื” the ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ ืื’ื‘ ืงืจืงืข\"? So the Gemara answers, the Gemara says, ื”ืœื›ืชื ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ ืœื ื‘ืขื™ื ืŸ ืื’ื‘ ื•ืงื ื™ ื‘ืขื™ื ืŸ. It doesn't have to be ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ, doesn't have to be laying inside, but you have to say the word ืื’ื‘. Comes the Rambam gantz tzu'dreyt, the Rambam says like this, that if you have the the ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ laying in the ืงืจืงืข, you don't have to say the word ืื’ื‘. Where? If it's not laying you have to say ืื’ื‘. Comes the Raavad, I don't know what he's talking about. The Gemara made a clear statement, you have to not have ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ, and you always have to have ืื’ื‘. So the mefarshim, the Rambam learns pshat in the Gemara differently. They go together: ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ ืœื ื‘ืขื™ื ืŸ, that's why, since you don't need ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ you need ืื’ื‘, but if there would be ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ you don't need ืื’ื‘. And the Raavad learns no, it never needs ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ, and it always needs ืื’ื‘. So the way the mefarshim explain, some mefarshim, what's the ืžื—ืœื•ืงืช between the Rambam and the Raavad? What's the logic behind the ืงื ื™ืŸ of ืื’ื‘? So the

Rambamโ€™s Bitul Reason for Kinyan Aโ€™Gav

Rambam learns the logic behind the ืงื ื™ืŸ of ืื’ื‘ is that the ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ become ื‘ื˜ืœ to the ืงืจืงืข. They become ื‘ื˜ืœ to the ืงืจืงืข. So the Rambam That's how the Rambam learns. The Raavad says it has nothing to do with bitul, it's a special type of kinyan. So the Rambam learns like this, how is ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ ื‘ื˜ืœ to the ืงืจืงืข? One of the two: or it's standing inside, if not standing you say ืื’ื‘, you are ืžื‘ื˜ืœ it so to speak, you make it ื‘ื˜ืœ. So that's what the Rambam learns, that since the whole din of kinyan ืื’ื‘ is bitul, so he understands peshat in the Gemara that why you have to do why if it's ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ you don't need ืื’ื‘, the only reason the Gemara says you need ืื’ื‘ is because if it's not inside, how is it ื‘ื˜ืœ? Through saying ืื’ื‘. But the the Raavad learns it has nothing to do with bitul, so he says it's a clear din, ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ... This peshat in Rambam will look... Problem with moving, though, in that case. Ah, one second, we're not talking about moving yet. ืžื˜ืœื˜ืœื™ืŸ is not moving, and the ืงืจืงืข. Then there's a halacha in Rambam which probably is another machloket in Rambam and the Raavad which is connected to this probably to this peshat. The

Rambam on a Slave Buying Land

Rambam says like this: what happens if an ืขื‘ื“ is standing is is ืงื•ื ื” an if you want to be ืงื•ื ื” a ืงืจืงืข and an ืขื‘ื“? So the Rambam says that by the ืขื‘ื“ you could be ืงื•ื ื” only if it's ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ and you say ืื’ื‘. ื—ื–ืง. And he says why? Because the eved goes ืœื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•. The eved goes himself. And the Raavad says no, what's eved different? It doesn't have to be inside and you could be koneh by saying agav. The peshat is like I said, the Rambam learns that the reason for agav is bitul, and an eved, even if you say the word agav, he's still, why? Because he's ืžื”ืœืš, he has ื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•, and he says he walks, he walks for himself. So there you got to have both, you got inside, agav, you got to hack him around there, be ืžื‘ื˜ืœ him. And the Raavad says it has nothing to do with bitul, so what's the difference between an eved and something else, you don't have to say it. That's the last halachah. Right after that halachah comes the halachah of ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช of an eved. And he says an eved is no good, he can't be ื—ืฆืจ ื”ืžื”ืœื›ืช because he's walking. If you look at it, what was the reason for the previous halachah? What's the problem of walking? Because he's not ื‘ื˜ืœ! So I want to say the next halachah is again the same problem. Why is he walking? He's not ื‘ื˜ืœ. Not like Tosafot, that the walking is a problem because you can't put it down on a set place, because it's ืžื”ืœืš ืœื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•. That's what...

Why Rambam Omits Repetition

Why doesn't the Rambam say this, too? No, because it's two different halachot. This is ืงื ื™ืŸ ืื’ื‘, ืงื ื™ืŸ ื—ืฆืจ. Because how did he state it? No, he already said what the problem of ืžื”ืœืš is. He did say it, but the fact that he didn't say it here is showing you it's different. In other words, if he would say the second time also, I would be very happy. But if he didn't say it, there's no problem, because the Rambam doesn't have to always taytsh, especially when he just comes ื‘ื”ืžืฉืš, because that means, a lot of times we look into what's the ื”ืžืฉืš of the halachot. The ื”ืžืฉืš of the halachot, even though this is a ืงื ื™ืŸ ื—ื“, ืื’ื‘ one, then he started a new ื”ืœื›ื”, ื”ืœื›ื” ื‘, ืงื ื™ืŸ ืื’ื‘, ื‘ืงื ื™ืŸ ื—ืฆืจ on the halachot. And say, once that ื›ืœื™ because the the bitul combines the two. And that's why there's another din. He's saying something else, the fact that the Rambam didn't I hear, I hear what he's saying. I hear what he's saying, good. Not that So I said, if he'd write it, it would be very, very good. It would be too good. I think it's good like this. That is, I wouldn't make it too good, so I would have too much pleasure. That's true. But we have another din in the Rambam which also, there's another place in the Rambam by ืฉื˜ืจ, where if you put if you sell a guy a ืงืจืงืข, and you're ืžืงื ื” the ืฉื˜ืจ, if I remember correctly, the Rambam says you don't have to, by the ืฉื˜ืจ of the ืงืจืงืข, you don't have to have ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ, you don't even have to say ืื’ื‘, and he's ืงื•ื ื” the ืฉื˜ืจ.

Reason for ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ and Bitul

Why? Because the whole reason why you need ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ, these or ืื’ื‘, is because it should be ื‘ื˜ืœ. The ืฉื˜ืจ of the ืงืจืงืข is ืœื›ืชื—ื™ืœื” ื‘ื˜ืœ. It's the ืฉื˜ืจ of the ืงืจืงืข. If someone is ืžืงื ื” with the ืฉื˜ืจ, the ืฉื˜ืจ of the ืงืจืงืข is ืœื›ืชื—ื™ืœื” ื‘ื˜ืœ. Right? That that's the ืฉื˜ืจ of the ืงืจืงืข. The ืฉื˜ืจ says I'm selling you the ืงืจืงืข. It's the ืฉื˜ืจ of the ืงืจืงืข, so it's a it's a it's the best bitul. There you don't need anything if the whole reason of of ืฆื‘ื•ืจื™ืŸ and ืื’ื‘ is for bitul. But ืœื’ื‘ื™ what's ื ื•ื’ืข to this ืขื ื™ืŸ, that this, if the ืขื‘ื“ problem is the ืžื”ืœืš ืœื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•, and therefore it could be considered walking ื‘ืœื ื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•, as long as it's not ืœื“ืขืช ืขืฆืžื•. And the same thing by the ืกืคื™ื ื”. Mimeila, according to the Rambam, there is no setira in the Gemara. Right. Okay. What about What about the bitul in the latter part with the Rambam?

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