1. 0:01 Helping the Poor Without Invoking God

Says when the poor man comes to you, and he wants some food, he's hungry, don't say to him, \"זאל דיר העלפן דער אויבערשטער,\" forget about דער אויבערשטער! Give him! Help him! Forget it, don't don't mix in דער אויבערשטער here! So the same thing here, someone you come and you say, \"Okay, it's דער אויבערשטער, he'll take care of it.\" זאל ער אים העלפן, you mean not doing anything. So here also, these guys are רשעים and they rely on דער אויבערשטער, and מתחננים להשם. ואין הקדוש ברוך הוא משרה שכינתו על ישראל, דער אויבערשטער doesn't make the Shechinah rest on the אידן, עד שיכלו שופטים ושוטרים רעים מישראל, till the bad shofetim veshoterim, the the judges and the the police, the bad ones will stop from the Yidden. שנאמר, it says like this: ואשיבה ידי עליך, I'm going to bring my hand back to you, ואצרוף כבור סיגיך, and I'm going to meva'er, I'm going to purify the the the the bad, the פסולת, ואסירה כל בדיליך, I'll take away everything that's bad from you, ואשיבה שופטיך כבראשונה, I'll bring back the shofetim, the good ones like before, ויועציך כבתחילה, like before. And what does the pasuk continues there? Right after that it says no no, the לשון הפסוק, אחרי כן יקרא לך עיר הצדק. So then דער אויבערשטער said is that Yerushalayim will be built up. So it has, before Yerushalayim gets built up, has to be ואשיבה שופטיך כבראשונה ויועציך כבתחילה. And yeah. The dollars is Sounds so good? Ah, that sounds so good. Why? Maybe we have good judges now, too? Don't believe everything you read. Do we really have judges in in in terms of the judges they're talking about here? I mean, it's not talking about the the the הנהלה of the country, it's talking about the dayanim? Oh yeah, yeah, it's batei dinim I mean Supreme Court in Israel is not No, that's not, that's nothing, they are not shofetim They are talking about the batei dinim. Supreme Court is beit din. Yeah, but they are not Jewish. Talking about the batei dinim, the real batei dinim. We're here? Yeah. Yeah, but I heard he's not so widely, he doesn't pasak according He doesn't pasak according to Torah. That's even worse. Go to Okay. Okay, good. They don't pasak according to Torah, that's it, so then that's the problem. אמר Ulla, Ulla said, אין ירושלים נפדית אלא בצדקה, ירושלים will only be redeemed with tzedakah, or it says in the side here that it's supposed to be אין ישראל נגאלים אלא בצדקה, that Yidden will only be redeemed through צדקה, שנאמר, it says ציון במשפט תפדה ושביה בצדקה. Tzion will be redeemed with mishpat, what does mishpat mean, Torah, ושביה בצדקה. Now, שביה has two taytshn. We're so used to taytshn שביה to return, but that's not the pshat. You know that שביה, שביה בצדקה means it's it's the one people who are captured, the captives will come back with tzedakah, the ציון will be תפדה במשפט and the captives like, but there's another pshat also, שביה will be return, tzedakah. A baal teshuvah? Ha? A baal teshuvah? No, that's another pshat. It's still teshuvah. It's a return, that's teshuvah, like return. אמר רב פפא, Rav Papa says like this: אי בטלי יהירי, בטלי אמגושי. So, now יהירי, לשון Rashi makes out of it the word יוהר, מחזיקי קומה means somebody who makes himself look big, Arrogance. arrogant, yeah. So these are people the way Rashi describes it, people who have long hair, great big troops, and they dress up that they like, you know, like they, you know, people like modern people. So if that would stop, אמגושי would stop. Who are the אמגושי? So Rashi say they are the מזיקין who are bad people who hurt the yidden, so if these people will stop, they will stop. אי בטלי דייני, if the bad dayanim will stop, בטלי גזירפטי, the גזירפטי will stop. What is גזירפטי? Rashi says these are the שוטרים of the goyim who oppress the yidden. So if the dayanim by the yidden will be fine, the bad dayanim will stop, this will stop. And the Gemara brings ראיות. אי בטלי יהירי בטלי אמגושי, the first thing we said, if the יהירים will become batel, the אמגושי will be batel, where do we see that? It says, כתיב ואצרוף כבור סיגיך, I'm going to purify like כבור סיגיך, what's סיגיך? סיגיך is from the word גסי הרוח. So these גסי הרוח, these people will stop, will be batel. So then what? does the pasuk say vayter? ואסירה כל בדיליך, I'll take away all those that are bad for you. Then that means if the יהירי go away, אמגושי goes away. אי בטלי דייני, בטלי גזירפטי. If the, the bad dayanim will go away, will be batel, these, these oppressors will go away. As כתיב it says, הסיר ה' משפטיך, if ה' took away your משפט, the bad משפט, פנה אויבך, then your enemies are gonna go away. אמר רב מילאי משום רבי אלעזר ברבי שמעון, Rav Milai said in the name of רבי אלעזר ברבי שמעון: מאי דכתיב? What is the pshat when the pasuk says, שבר ה' מטה רשעים שבט מושלים? ה' will break, breaks, broke the מטה רשעים, the stick of the רשעים, and the whip of the rulers. So it says like this: שבר ה' מטה רשעים, אלו הדיינים, it's talking on the bad דיינים. What's the מטה? שנעשו מטה, a stick, שנעשו מקל לחזניהם, they become a stick to their שמשים. In other words, they do all kinds of things that their שמשים should be able to get more money. So they're looking out for money for their, for the workers. שבט מושלים, and He'll take away the שבט, the whip of the rulers, אלו תלמידי חכמים שבמשפחות הדיינים. Those are the תלמידי חכמים that are family members of these דיינים and they protect these bad דיינים. And מר זוטרא אמר, Mar Zutra says who are the שבט מושלים? אלו תלמידי חכמים שמלמדים הלכות ציבור לדייני בור, that they teach the הלכות that have to do with tzibur, but who do they teach it to? To dayanim who are empty, bad. And mimela, if you teach them and, and you appoint them later as dayanim, they're gonna pasken wrong, so this is a problem. אמר רבי אלעזר בר רב מילאי משום רבי שמעון, משום ריש לקיש: מאי דכתיב? It says a pasuk: כי כפיכם נגואלו בדם, that your hands are soaked in blood, ואצבעותיכם בעוון, and your fingers with עבירות, שפתותיכם דברו שקר, your lips speak lies, לשונכם עולה תהגה, and your tongues spoke עולה, spoke bad. So we're talking about different people, different categories who the pasuk refers to, they're doing bad. So he taytsh't who they are. כי כפיכם נגואלו בדם, it says your hands are soaked in blood, אלו הדיינים. Those are the dayanim, we're talking about bad dayanim. ואצבעותיכם בעוון, and your fingers in, in עוון, אלו סופרי הדיינים. Those are the sofrim, the ones that write for the dayanim, and they write all kinds of shtarot and they're also fakes, they also write, they forge, they say they wrote, and that has to do with the fingers, that's why it's ואצבעותיכם, fingers, because you write with the fingers. Now, why the first one has to do with dayanim? Because their hands, if they take shochad, they stick out their hands. So the כפיכם, when you say your hands are full of blood, that goes on the bad dayanim. Why Why blood? Why blood, I mean? Because if you pasken wrong based on bribery, then the end is you'll, you'll kill somebody shelo k'din, you'll, you'll take away someone's money shelo k'din, you'll... And the fingers, that goes on the sofrim. שפתותיכם דברו שקר, and your lips speak lies, אלו עורכי הדיינים, those are the lawyers. טוענים. טוענים, the so-called. Well, yeah, nowadays we have this idea, this phenomenon by the batei din, they have טוענים, טוענים. And they're basically regular lawyers. They're mamash like lawyers. So whenever we talk about lawyers, they fall into that same category. And Rashi says, what did the What is the problem that they do? They teach the, the people what to ta'anah, and they tell them to ta'anah lies and they tell them all kinds of things to do. And then, לשונכם עולה תהגה, your tongue says עולה, speaks bad, אלו בעלי דינים. You're not patur, the, only the dayanim are bad, the בעלי דינים are also pretty bad. The בעלי דינים, those that come to the בית דין, they also lie. So when you make a whole cheshbon of all this together, we got a pretty bad package here. ברוך ה', ברוך ה'. יא, יא, היינט אלע בתי דינים זענען גוט. Because we have the best dayanim the, the Yidden ever had. חסידים פלעגן אמאל זאגן, Chassidim used to say, I heard it per chance, מ'האט געפארברענגט and took a lot of mashke, Chassidim used to tell a story that once למעלה in גן עדן, מ'מאכט א שאלה, you know, a she'eilah if that's kasher or They couldn't find one rav in גן עדן. So they had to go to had to go to גיהנום, and there there were plenty rabbanim. So the way he describes, it's like a big kettle or big pot, און קאכן זיך דארטן אלע, so they came מיט א גאפל, און אריינגעשטאכן, took out a רב, געפרעגט די שאלה, אריינגעהאקט צוריק. געוואלד, געוואלד. Yeah. Okay, let's change the subject. It's too scary. It's too You get so much heartache from this. ואמר רב מילאי, something else רב מילאי said, משום רבי יצחק מגדלאה, in the name of רבי יצחק מגדלאה, מיום שפירש יוסף מאחיו, from the day יוסף left his brothers, לא טעם טעם יין, he didn't taste wine, דכתיב, it says, ולקדקד נזיר אחיו, the berachot of Yaakov that he gave him, and he referred to him as נזיר אחיו. Pshat, pshat נזיר אחיו means the one that was separated from his brothers. But in the meantime, it uses a לשון נזיר. And a nazir can't drink wine, so he was like a He didn't drink wine. רבי יוסי בר חנינא אומר, and רבי יוסי בר חנינא says, אף הם לא טעמו טעם יין. The brothers themselves also didn't drink wine all these years. דכתיב, because it says when they came second time to מצרים, וישתו וישכרו עמו, they drank and they got drunk with him. מכלל, there's a ראיה, דעד האידנא לא הוי שכרות. Till now they didn't get drunk, because it makes it a whole thing. The Gemara, ואידך, the other מ''ד who says that only Yosef didn't taste wine, but the brothers did, how does he learn this pasuk, if this pasuk is mashma that they also didn't till now? So the Gemara answers: שכרות הוא דלא הוי. They didn't get drunk till then. אבל שתייה מיהא הוי. It's not that they didn't drink, they got drunk for the first time. Till then they drank only a little bit. And then they and here they got it. What about maybe his hair grew he let his hair grow also? Because he had to cut it before he went to see Yeah, could be. Does it say it? It's just I'm asking. פשוטו כמשמעו, ולקדקד נזיר אחיו, לא נזיר ממש, דאי בעי גלח ואי בעי שתי חמרא. That's what he's saying. Right, if they could ask because we see he had to cut his hair. I was thinking, why is that a ra'ayah? Maybe he says even like regular nezirim. If by ones they cut his hair, he has to start his nezirus over, but there is a din there, it doesn't mean he's he's not a nazir. No, there's some that's a נזיר עולם. 12, every 12 Every 12 months, yeah. No, but he's It's stam, it's connected with yayin, so he says, why? Because he was sold when they were eating and drinking. So m'meila that inyan of drinking was something that he was, you know, very careful with. ואמר רב מילאי, something else Rav Milai said, בשכר וראך ושמח בלבו, the שכר Eibershter said to Moshe Rabbeinu to go to Mitzrayim, and Moshe says let Aharon go. So the Eibershter said to Moshe, he didn't want to go because he didn't want to take the place of Aharon, because till then Aharon was the the the leader. So the Eibershter said, don't worry, he'll see you and he'll be happy בלבו. And they farginen, he will he won't mind. So because of that, זכה לחושן חושן המשפט על לבו. So he was zocheh to have the choshen on his heart because he his heart felt good about this. Yeah, make the connection so before for the dayanim is חושן משפט. Yeah, let's learn another another few lines. אמר רב חסדא, Rav Chisda said, בר בי רב דזבין ירקא, if a talmid buys vegetables, ליזבין אריכא, let him try to buy When he buys packages of vegetables, buy the longest ones. The prices are the same for every package, but if it's longer you get more. Why? But don't look at anything else, because כישא ככישא, ואורכא ממילא. The size of the thickness, they all were the same. I guess they had that certain string that they had to tie around, so they had all the same size. So you can't say, I'm going to look to buy a fatter one or a... But the length, that everything is different. So if you manage to get a longer one, you gain. Why is this part of Torah? What is this? What kind of teaching is this? It's Jewish business. הקב''ה חס על ממונם של ישראל. ממונם של צדיקים. Yeah. Sach hakol lefachot. A lot of rebbetzins that want to hear about this. Gemara tells them how to get long cucumbers. Pick out the longest cucumbers. Yeah. No, by cucumbers you No, by cucumbers you take thicker also. But here he's saying they're all The same thing he said, אמר רב חסדא בר בי רב דזבין קניא, if you want to buy wood, not wood, reeds. Yeah, reeds. ליזבין אריכא. Also the same, buy the longer ones, because כיתונא ככיתונא, ואורכא ממילא. The thickness, like you say you're going to buy a bigger package, a thicker package, you're going to get the same, but if it's longer you'll gain more. Okay, I guess we'll stop here. Practical איך שטיי דא. נאך א קטע, נאך א קטע. How about if there's something deeper than depth though? Yeah. Pushed can be stronger, yeah, yeah. Do you remember the question we