Yeah, we're holding here. This is the middle of siman, a long siman here for a while, סימן ס״ה. It's all about the man, still, that we said that the man got swallowed into the body and there was no waste, that they didn't have to go to the bathroom. So the Gemara asked, it said that they were told in the midbar that they should have like a shovel with them, that whenever they have to go they should go outside of the machaneh, and then they should be able to dig and cover it. But what was it for, if there was no, what is it for? So he answered, the Gemara answered: בדברים שתגרי אומות העולם מוכרים להם, that the things that the goyim sold them from around. That's where we're holding, on top here. Rabbi Elazar ben Parta אומר, Rabbi Elazar ben Parta says: אפילו דברים שתגרי אומות העולם מוכרין להם, מן מפיגן. Even if they ate food that they bought from other people, the man took care of it, and also made it that it shouldn't have waste. So אלא מה אני מקיים ויתד תהיה לך על אזנך? So what's the peshat? Well, the peshat is that they should have the shovel, לאחר שסרחו, after they sinned. When they complained about the man, בעצם the man was supposed to be not to have any waste, and other food along with it would not have waste. But when they complained against the man, amar Hakadosh Baruch Hu, Hashem said: אני אמרתי שיהיו ישראל לפני כמלאכי השרת, I said that you're going to be like מלאכים, ואתם לא עשיתם כך, you didn't do that, you complained about it. עכשיו אני מטריח אתכם ג׳ פרסאות, now I'm going to make you go חוץ למחנה, outside of the machaneh, which is three perasot. In

other words, the machaneh was three perasot, and they only could go one direction. דכתיב, also it says: ויחנו על הירדן מבית הישימת עד אבל השטים. It says that the machaneh took up from the בית הישימות till אבל השטים. ואמר Rabbah bar bar Chana אמר Rabbi Yochanan, and Rabbah bar bar Chana said in the name of Rabbi Yochanan: לדידי חזי לי ההוא דוכתא, I saw that place, והוי תלתא פרסי, it's three perasot. Okay. תנא, and we learned: כשהן נפנין, whenever they have to go to the bathroom, אין נפנין לא לפניהם, we couldn't do it in front, ולא לצדיהן, not on the side, אלא לאחריהם, into back. So therefore, if a person was all the way in the front, he couldn't say, \"Okay, he's in the beginning of the machaneh, so he'll go out a little bit.\" You couldn't do it in the front. You couldn't say people on the side couldn't go to the side. They have to go to the back. So a person that was close to the end... yeah. But a guy who was all the way in the front had to walk three perasot. So the Eibershter said, \"Look, I wanted to make you like malachim. Malachim are people are are are creatures that don't have to go to the bathroom, but you didn't want it.\" \"They don't eat, either.\" \"They don't need to eat. So you would eat... no, it says a lashon of the mon, the food that מלאכי השרת ate, the Gemara has discussed it soon.\" \"לחם אבירים.\" \"Yeah, the Gemara will discuss לחם אבירים.\" \"They ate, though?\" \"So, whatever, not really. When they came here by Avraham Avinu and they ate, so

Rashi says: נראין כאוכלים, they looked like they were eating. And even according to the peshat that they takke ate, not because they needed it, because אזלת לקרתא הלך בנימוסה, if you come to a place, you got to behave like the people in that place. So here, too. Anyway...\" \"Now the Gemara continues...\" \"The shovel was prepared already for them to go off... What do you mean? Because He already created, had the shovel ready, so He knew already that it was going to be an issue.\" \"No, He told it to them later.\" \"When the shovel came in?\" \"Yeah, after they complained.\" \"Why did they complain? There was no fiber in the mon. They figured it was getting all stuffed up in there.\" \"Rashi says, right, let's see. ועתה נפשנו...\" \"How long did they eat the mon without a problem until they complained? Do we know?\" \"Well, that wasn't so long. A year? Wasn't long, happened right away, pretty much.\" \"The first year, yeah.\" \"The pasuk says they complained and said: ועתה נפשנו יבשה אין כל. Our nefesh is died, dry, we have nothing. אמרו, this is what they said: עתיד מן זה שיתפח במעיהם. The end will be we're eating and nothing's coming out, so we're eating, we're eating, we're stuffing ourselves, we're going to blow up, and the mon will be והורגם, and it'll kill them. כלום יש ילוד אשה, is there such a thing as a human being, שמכניס ואינו מוציא, that takes in and doesn't take out? So this is what their complaint was. Okay. כשנאמרו דברים...\" \"A gnat.\" \"Huh?\" \"Not a human, a gnat.\" \"Say a gnat, the smallest thing that's made... very selfish.\" \"A mosquito.\" \"Okay, they say a gnat, but a mosquito, whatever, there was no...\" \"Was it all of them complaining, or was it just...\" \"No, stam, I'm sure not all.\" \"Was it particular to the ערב רב, or was it more than just...\" \"Well, it says והאספסף. אספסף, it was on the ערב רב. But there was twice that they complained. The complaint is in Behaalotcha and the complaint is in Beshalach.\" \"Was Korach issue or after?\" \"Before. The complaint could've been after.\" \"Because Korach was right in the beginning.\" \"Is that when all the troublemakers died, no? Datan va'Aviram.\" \"No. But the mon, the first beginning, they were Datan va'Aviram. Later could be not. Later, Behaalotcha, is stam after after Korach.\" \"No, by the gnat...\" \"I'm not so sure, even though it's written before Korach, I don't know exactly.\" \"By the gnat and mosquito, it's a negative connotation that it takes in, but it doesn't let out. It's very selfish. Here it's a maalah.\" \"Yeah, because it was... The reason is because it was ruchniyusdige food, ruchniyusdige food doesn't have any waste.\" \"Yeah.\" That was ruchniyus. See, ruchniyus doesn't have waste. כשנאמרו דברים לפני רבי ישמעאל, when this was said to רבי ישמעאל, אמר להם, he said to them, אל תקרא אבירים אלא איברים. And it says that the mann is לחם אבירים. אבירים is really מלאכים, but he says it means איברים, the limbs. דבר שנבלע ברמ״ח איברים, something that's absorbed into the 248 איברים. אלא מה אני מקיים ויתד תהיה לך על אזנך, so what's the peshat that they needed this hook, this shovel? דברים שמביאים להם ממדינת הים, like we said before, things that they brought from other places. That was. דבר אחר לחם אבירים אכל איש. Another peshat, when it says לחם אבירים אכל איש, who does it go, the איש on? Moshe? Now, peshat we say לחם אבירים אכל איש goes on every yid, that the mann was לחם אבירים that people ate. But now he's saying it goes on Yehoshua. And יהושע שירד לו מן כנגד כל ישראל. He got mann as much as all the yidden. The peshat is, when Moshe Rabbeinu went to Har Sinai, so it says Yehoshua went along with him. Moshe went up the mountain, Yehoshua stayed down there. And he stayed there for all 40 days. Now, what did he do for food? He didn't go into the machaneh because when they made the egel, he didn't even know what was going on, he was sitting there, and he said to Moshe that something is happening in the machaneh. What did he do for food? The mann came down where he was. According to this peshat, he was standing there, and the mann came down. Now how much came down? In other words, in other place came down for all the yidden, and the same amount came down here. For 40 days, he doesn't need... No, I think everyday. That's what's mashma from here: כנגד כל ישראל. In the stomach, it gets a little bit raining. But it says that the mann, no matter what amount you took... Yeah, but it's a she'eilah how much came down. How much could he eat? No, he didn't eat it all. That's the man that was there, and he collected from it. And where do we get this from? כתיב הכא, because here it says לחם אבירים אכל איש, וכתיב התם by Yehoshua it says איש אשר רוח בו, so it means that the לחם אבירים איש ate. So the לחם of the אבירים, it means that much, that that much fell there. And you can't say it's Moshe, but it says איש, how do you know Yehoshua, maybe Moshe? וכתיב it says והאיש משה ענו מאד, it says איש משה. So the Gemara answers: דנין איש מאיש, ולא דנין איש מהאיש. By Moshe it says האיש משה, by Yehoshua it says איש, and by the man it says לחם אבירים אכל איש. So we compare איש to איש, not איש to האיש. Why doesn't he give a simple terutz that Moshe Rabbeinu was in שמים and he was on the earth. What does he... Moshe Rabbeinu didn't need man, he was in שמים. It could be peshat is it means Moshe also, some Midrash does say. Midrash it says לחם אבירים אכל איש, זה משה, that when he was in למעלה, he ate... He ate man? Well, it says it's לחם שמלאכי השרת אוכלים. So it's a type of man, whatever, stam in a different darga, but it's the man is the food of the מלאכים. Yeah, לחם of regular food, according to this peshat. Says לחם לא אכלתי ומים לא שתיתי. Means regularly, only ate the man, I the man was the chiddush, everyone ate the man. But that's what it says, that he ate לחם שמלאכי השרת. איש אלקים? Huh? Isn't there a lashon by משה אלקים, איש האלקים? Yeah. But also they say... In וזאת הברכה it says, וזאת הברכה אשר ברך משה איש האלקים. איש האלקים. A good kashya. You can compare it to איש of Moshe. It says Moshe, not האיש, it says איש אלקים. There it says איש אלקים. איש אלקים is a connected איש, and here it's סתם איש. איש אלקים is a title, it's not איש. It's איש אלקים. And here it's איש. It could be that, we're just, I'm just playing the sevara. It's like in the kabbalah, Rabbi, when somebody is niftar, he didn't realize yet that he is niftar. So when he wants a cup of coffee, they give him. Sandwich, they give him. And he's eating and drink. There is a period of time between when he niftar till he realize that he is dead man. But they say, the Kabbalah says, that he, you know, we desire everyday in the morning cup of coffee, they give him coffee, till he realizes. He's talking, nobody answers. Put a feather by his nose. Put a feather by his nose to see if he's still alive. Oh, he says when he's stuck dead, but in his mind, he's not used to it, he's, you have to catch that. It's a transfer between. But the peshat of the Alter Rebbe, the Alter Rebbe bringing a peshat that's really the cloud, he had the, the ענן basically that through the ענן משה got basically, that's what made the chiyut. He wasn't needing real food. Peshat is he didn't eat at all. But it says לחם לא אכלתי ומים לא שתיתי. Peshat is he didn't... Over there, he's talking about the ענן. Which is different than, than Eliyahu HaNavi. It says Eliyahu HaNavi also for 40 days didn't eat. So there it's different. Not for that, afterwards, but then it says, it says that בכח האכילה ההיא that he ate the, before, That food lasted for 40 days. It's not that he didn't eat food. Okay. Zogt di Gemara vayter: שאלו תלמידיו את רבי שמעון בן יוחאי. The talmidim asked Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: מפני מה לא היה יורד לישראל מן פעם אחת בשנה? Why didn't it come out once a year? You should go and take, and put it into storage, and they have for the whole year. Why did they have to every day to go and collect? אמר להם: אמשול לכם משל.

I'll give you a משל. למה הדבר דומה? What it's like. למלך בשר ודם, like a king, שהיה לו בן, he had a son, וקצב לו פרנסתו פעם אחת בשנה. He says, \"Once a year I'll give you your money, and you'll have your money for a year.\" ולא היה מקביל פני אביו אלא פעם אחת בשנה. So when did he come to see his father? Once a year. עמד וקצב לו פרנסתו בכל יום. Says, \"Okay, every day I'm going to give you a little bit.\" I'll come every day. לא יפה עשה? לא היה ראוי לאותו הבן שיקביל פני אביו בכל יום ויום? Isn't it that he was going to come every day? Same thing. כך ישראל. The Yidden also. מי שיש The man was special holy food. How could they What did they give to the animals to eat? Huh? Did they give the man to the animals, too? Probably not. You said that there were goyim all around that also tasted it. It says the goyim taste it, even from the water. Water that was The man melted in, and then game that food that tasted delicious, and that the deer that they caught had the taste of the man. That's how they knew how delicious the man was. Okay. But even the goyim, yeah. But couldn't they have bought food animal food from Huh? From what? that bought from the peddlers who came through the desert, come overseas? Maybe. Maybe. And a lot of animals. Very lot. Where do you get food for so many? No, that's the donkeys. Yeah, donkeys, yeah. כך ישראל, the Yidden, too. מי שיש לו ד' וה' בנים, a person has four or five children, היה דואג ואומר,

worried and said, שמא למחר אין המן יורד. Every day they were worrying, maybe tomorrow there won't be man. ונמצאו בניו ובנותיו מתים ברעב. They were every day they were worried, maybe their children will die, and won't have food tomorrow, cuz they only have for today, and they finished eating it at night. There's nothing left. What's it going to be tomorrow? ונמצאו כל ישראל מכוונים את לבם לאביהם שבשמים. So every day they had to think about the Oibershter. Every day they had to be mitpalel. Every day they had to have bitachon in the Oibershter. So they had to have bitachon, this brought them to think about the Oibershter. That's why the Oibershter made it. But the simplest answer would be, well, why are they going to carry the man in the in the desert? דבר אחר, another reason, שאוכלים אותו כשהוא חם. First of all, they should eat fresh. Every day should be fresh. And דבר אחר, משום משא דדרך. Another peshat is because of the because of the load. They schlepped for a year. Imagine they have to schlep it around and they have to At first of all, even to go to take it, it took big trucks to the tons of wagons to take for for a year's supply. And then later on when they moved, they had to So therefore the Oibershter that's a simple reason why the Oibershter made it. There's another nes, no problem. If there was another nes, it was light as a feather, wouldn't weigh anything. Right, one place 19 years, another place also a long 19 years. Yeah. So it's not the traveling. The poshute peshat is not just the traveling. Just the collecting. Going to collect it and to schlep such a משא. It would be long. So So the question is: Could have made once a week? Could have made warehouses. Exactly. No, but a warehouse to schlep once to just has to collect everything. Think about it. Enough food for a year! Yeah. I mean this is he's The reason he gave it to him everyday is because he wanted to make sure that he stayed righteous. This is This is the same thing, no? This is the point here, that they should be מכוון לבם לאביהם שבשמים. Okay. With all the food. Huh? All the kids, the father. Okay, they collected with all the food. I mean, they didn't know any better. With all the food, with all the riches, everything they Instead of what, they worry they would worry about the mon? Because they wanted the spiritual stuff.