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Shabbos 69b

How Do You Count the First Day of Something?

Part of Ein Yaakov · 2:23

A short halachic piece on counting the first day in a timed obligation, and a property dispute over shared fruit.

Audio Transcript
How to Count the First Day in Halacha

first day you remember, keep the first day, and then you count. מאי קמפלגי? What is their argument? מר סבר כבריאתו של עולם, one says you count like the creation of the world. The world was created the first six days of weekdays and then was Shabbos. מר סבר נעשה כאדם הראשון? Adam HaRishon came, the first thing is Friday night. How is the first the first day that had a full day was Shabbos, so you start with Shabbos and then you go to the weekdays. כי אתא רב דימי, when Rav Dimi came, אמר he says, שבתא דרב ביבי הוה. This week was the week that Rav Bibi was supposed to be the waiters, the waiter. They used to have turns in the yeshivah there, every day there was a different, every week was a different person, so his week. ואיקלעו רב אמי ורב אסי, and Rav Ami and Rav Asi happened to be there. שדא קמייהו ככלא דפירי, he took a basket of fruit and just put it in front, like threw in the front of them. But what he didn't do was he didn't take out, there were the peirot there with the leaves with this, he didn't take out, could have can take out the fruit and give them. He didn't, he threw the whole thing. ולא ידענא, and I didn't know what was his reason. אי משום דסבר אוכל מתוך פסולת אסור, cuz we know you're not allowed to collect the bad from the good on Shabbos. But the good from the bad you're allowed. So he could have taken out the good. Maybe the reason he didn't do it, because he held that even the good from the bad you can't. So when he threw it, it separated by itself. What makes it when you, when you take the basket and you throw it, the things roll. No, but the אוכל מתוך פסולת you're good, you don't have to do it, so why not take out the good? אי, or another reason is משום עין יפה הוא דאיכוון, cuz he wanted, you know, to give them each one you give like, you know, an apple or whatever. He wanted they should take a lot, they should take whatever they want, so he just didn't want to and he just put down the whole thing and you can take whatever you want. As

Baal HaBayit Rights Over Shared Fruit

long as you're a baal, it's the baal habayit, it's not his fruit. He's he's waiting Whose fruit is he giving? If you're the baal habayit, you want to give a lot, but I don't I don't know if he was a baal habayit, but he had the right for it. The waiters had the right to give whatever they felt was they have the right. That's why. Give me. You want to give me. Give me. First time I came in from Eretz Yisrael, Rosh Hashanah before Yizkor, I came from Eretz Yisrael. Now, I closed already a shidduch b'ezrat Hashem. I'm going to Israel to marry her. I'm 34, the kallah 32, she אלמנה. This guy know me from from long time ago. I rent a house for him 2004, I live, he done my refrigerator.

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