Everybody's having a hard time with the מנין. Hope tomorrow we won't have. Why? They don't have a מנין here at 7:00? No, yeah, same, but still. 7:00 there was five people, and then... Construction? Huh? Is it construction? No. Traffic was fantastic, guys. Fantastic, good fellows. Okay, the last thing that we learned here was, one of the things at the end, is that he said to him, Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar said you should do tzedakah as long as you can, meaning when there are still poor people around, because Mashiach will come, you won't have poor people. No. I mean by Shlomo HaMelech. No, that's something else. We're talking about what Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar said. And do it as long as you have money, and do it as long as, as, as before you die, as long as you're able to. And it says that Shmuel holds that even when Mashiach will come, there will be poor people. So there was a machloket here. So Tanya, we're holding in ק״ט. Tanya we learned: רבי אלעזר הקפר אומר, רבי אלעזר הקפר says: לעולם יבקש אדם רחמים על מדה זו, should always ask the Eibershter for this, that you shouldn't have poverty in your family. שאם הוא לא יבא, if it's not going to come to you, יבא, יבא בנו, his son will come with it. אם בנו לא יבא, יבא בן בנו, your grandson might have it. נאמר, it says, כי בגלל הדבר הזה, speaks about tzedakah, it says because of this you should give tzedakah, always poor people. But the word בגלל, תנא דבי רבי ישמעאל, and Rabbi Yishmael taught, בגלל comes from the word גלגל. גלגל הוא שחוזר בעולם, it's like a wheel. It's a wheel of fortune. So eventually you could be rich and then eventually become poor, so you got to always daven for this, that you shouldn't be poor, because it's definitely sometimes going to happen to you, to your son, to your grandson, so you should daven for it. דאס איז א יידישע ווערטל: געלט איז קיילעכדיק. יא, יידישע ווערטל... It's what? What's that? Money is round. Oh, round. That's Napoleon, he said it would be, but a Yid should be rich. Why shouldn't a Yid be rich? אלע יידן זאלן זיין רייך. It says: הזהרו בבני עניים שמהם תצא תורה. But you could have תורה וגדולה במקום אחד, you could have, you could have Torah, yeah, you could have it. אלע יידן זאלן זיין רייך. The Kotzker was very... people came dressed in fancy, I don't know if he did it, but the Chasidim would tear off the fancy clothes from them. Yeah, if they would come to join his... The she'eilah is you could have money and not ליגן אין גשמיות. The vort is to lig, involved in gashmiyut, that's what's no good. But to be rich, Rebbe was so rich, Rabbi said... like נהניתי מזה, נהניתי מעולם הזה אפילו באצבע קטנה, he was the richest person. He said, \"I didn't have any hana'ah from the עולם הזה even like a finger, like an אצבע קטנה.\" Whatever the true that Rav Leibel Eiger, did he, fancy clothes... He did, but he was... and even if he ate the good food, it says, Rabbi and Antoninus never was the, צנון וחזרת they always had the most fanciest food on the table, but he didn't have hana'ah from it, everything was עבודת השם.

Can a person influence the גלגל? Huh? Can a person stop the גלגל, can he influence it? Oh, yeah, you could ask the Aibershter, sure, you could daven, you can do מעשים טובים. Through tefillah and tzedakah. Tefillah, yeah, aveirah... you could, but you got to daven for it. So he's saying daven for it! It's a גלגל, so it's very possible that it'll come, so you always got to daven. You can't say, \"Well, I'm sure that's not going to happen.\" It's not, you can't be sure, but if you daven, indeed. How to stop the ball rolling? Where did Rav Leibel Eiger go to learn Chassidus? To the Kotzker. By the Kotzker, they tore off all his fancy clothes, and his mother-in-law said, \"You want to stay, now you can stay.\" Meantime, this is the first step, if you want to be a... Yeah, many stories with him. אמר רב יוסף, Rav Yosef said: נקטינן האי צורבא מרבנן לא מיתעני. We have a klal that a talmid chacham doesn't become poor. The Gemara asks: What? והא קא חזינן דמיתעני! We see that they are poor! So he says that אין, אי סברי דמיתעני, even if he becomes poor, אהדורי אפיתחא לא מהדר. The Aibershter doesn't allow that he should have to go collecting. Could be poor and, but to reach a level of being poor to have to go around collecting tzedakah, that's a real embarrassment, bizayon, and that the Aibershter doesn't want. אמר ליה רב חסדא לרבא... How does a talmid chacham really live? If they're, if they're learning 20 hours a day, 24 hours... Wives worked, or they worked a little bit. They were. Rabbi Yochanan Hasandlar was a shoemaker, Rabbi Yitzchak Nafcha was a blacksmith, and they had businesses. Yeah, and the Chafetz Chaim made his wife close the store when they start to have too many customers, \"You better close the store.\" Oh, because all he wanted was enough to live on, didn't need any extra. He said it was a zechut to go door to door to collect for others, in order that you wouldn't... For others, yeah, but it's a bizayon to go to collect for yourself.

אמר ליה רבי חייא לדביתיה, רבי חייא said to his wife, כי אתא עניא, if a poor man comes, אקדים ליה ריפתא, give him right away give him food to eat, bread, כי היכי דלקדמו לבניך. You do that, our children will have the zechut and that they'll give them too. אמרה ליה, she said to him, מילט קלייט, what are you cursing them? As if saying as if saying, \"Your children, children will have to go beg?\" אמר לה, he said, קרא כתיב, there is a pasuk it says, כי בגלל הדבר הזה. That because of this. ותנא דבי רבי ישמעאל, that says, גלגל הוא שחוזר בעולם, it's a גלגל. So, sometimes the children the sometimes it's going to have to happen. So, if you'll have the zechut that you give him, so then when the children if when it comes to this time, so then they'll also give them. תניא, it says in a ברייתא, רבן גמליאל ברבי אומר, רבן גמליאל ברבי says, ונתן לך רחמים ורחמך והרבך. The Eibishter will give you rachamim and have rachmanut on you. Double-talk, if he'll give you rachamim, then he'll have rachmanut, why does that to say ונתן רחמים ורחמך? To teach you, it goes the opposite, כל המרחם על הבריות, if you whoever has rachmanut on people, מרחמין עליו מן השמים. So, the Eibishter, so it's double. So, if you give rachamim to other people, you'll get rachamim from the Eibishter. בריות goes on animals too, no? Huh? רחמים על הבריות goes on animals, not just people, no? Okay. חולו עליו מן השמים, yeah. תניא says, what's the peshat? That you'd אהבת הבריות, says even people who have no ma'alot, the only ma'alah is that they're created by the Eibishter. Not chachamim, they're stupid, they're everything. Well, that's a big thing, they're created? There's the only thing they have, and still then you have to love. So, anybody who has rachmanut on the בריות has the Eibishter have רחמנות מן השמים. וכל שאינו מרחם על הבריות, whoever doesn't have רחמנות, אין מרחמין עליו מן השמים. They won't have rachmanut. In other words, everything works מדה כנגד מדה. If you have rachmanut, the Eibishter will have rachmanut. If you give tzedakah, the Eibishter will give you tzedakah, and for the Eibishter we need tzedakah. I mean, no one deserves anything. It's all tzedakah. And that's a famous taytsh in the vort from from Yirmiyahu. I think it's a Kotzker vort, I don't know, that Yirmiyahu says so they threw him in the pit the bad people threw him into a pit. Later when he got out, he asked the Eibishter, \"Please.\" So the Gemara says in Bava Batra, he asked the Eibishter, \"Please, הכשילם בעניים שאינם מהוגנים.\" That make sure that even when they do tzedakah these people, they should give it to to poor people who don't deserve it, who are not good. Such He has a kashya, Yirmiyahu is like angry at them, but it's asking the Eibishter to be machshil them? He says, \"No, far-kert. He asked the Eibishter the Eibishter shouldn't punish them for what they did to him. He begged the Eibishter. So, he says if they're going to give to עניים that don't deserve it, the Eibishter will be good to them even though they don't deserve it. So, he was asking far-kert for the for their benefit. That's, yeah, that's the briyot, in today's Tanya, the word briyot. That's a peshat that I was told when I went down Oh, so now you now you know the real peshat. Now you know the real peshat. Yeah. This is a this is the real peshat. Yeah, yeah. But that's what he says, who to love? אפילו דברי הבטן, those who are nothing but creatures of the Eibishter. Even them, you have to love. זאגט די גמרא, תניא, it stands in a beraita, Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel אומר, Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says, תינוק בן יומו, we have a child a day old. If חי, if it's still alive, מחללין עליו את השבת, you're allowed to be מחלל שבת to save the life. Cuz אמרה תורה, the Torah says, חלל עליו שבת אחד, you should be מחלל one שבת, כדי שישמור שבתות הרבה, should be able to do a lot of Shabbos. That's amazing. He's the one who's who's who's meikil. He's the one who says that if if if if you if you're not sure, the כלו לו חדשיו, then he's like an So, obviously here, we are sure. He's muktzeh there. He's not כלו לו חדשיו. We know for sure it's not כלו לו חדשיו. For example, he's born in the eighth month, and you're not even עפ״י הלכה you're not allowed to touch him. He holds He holds, as long as you don't know that it was for sure In other words, as long as if you don't know for sure it was כלו לו חדשיו, he's he's he's So, obviously, here he says when you do know, when he's alive. The Rebbe gave me the same answer. Once I was scheduled for an operation, and it came out on the nine days, so I wanted to put it off and everything else, like, and he asked the Rebbe, and he said, \"Have it. You'll be able to spend Enjoy many You told many more Yomim Tovim.\" That's right. But as long as he's alive, דוד מלך ישראל מת, אפילו דוד! Who could you give a better example of the greatest person, David HaMelech, so when he died, אין מחללין עליו את השבת. Can't. Why? כיון שמת אדם בטל מן המצות, when he died he's patur from battel from mitzvot. היינו דאמר רבי יוחנן, רבי יוחנן just said there's a pasuk, במתים חפשי. By the dead people, it's free. Free from what? כיון שמת אדם, נעשה חפשי מן המצות, he's free from mitzvot. So, it's all connected. Why can't you be מחלל שבת? Cuz you should be able to keep more mitzvot. Cuz if a person is dead and can't can't keep any mitzvot anyway, you can't be מחלל שבת for him. They put a ככר on him. What's a ככר? They couldn't move him, so they put a piece of bread on him. I mean, he's muktzeh, but you could put a piece of bread and you want to move the bread, so you can move together with a dead body. תניא, it says, רבן שמעון בן אלעזר אומר, רבן שמעון בן אלעזר says, תינוק בן יומו חי. You have a 19-year-old, though. 19, 18-year-old. תינוק, a cynic, it says תינוק and a ככר, yeah. A תינוק בן יומו חי, you have a little child, a day old, is alive, אין צורך Oh, it was called a תינוק, it was before he was Oh, that's not, that's a that's, that's when he is dead, that's, yeah. So a child even a day old, as long as he's alive, אין צורך לשמרו מן החולדה ומן העכברים. You don't have to protect him from the mice and from the the weasels. Even though how big is he? Tiny. אבל עוג מלך הבשן מת, עוג מלך הבשן is so big, but if he's dead, צריך לשמרו מן החולדה ומן העכברים. You have to protect him from the mice, from the חולדה. From עוג מלך הבשן. And so he gives an example. Even that person is very big, but if he's dead, in other words, the mice feel that if he's alive, they won't touch him, they'll be afraid of him. If he's dead, with the biggest person, like עוג מלך הבשן, they are not afraid. שנאמר, it says, ומוראכם וחתכם יהיה, says, the Aibershter made that the fear of the people should be on the animals, but it says וחתכם. חתכם is also from the shoresh of the word chai. כל זמן שאדם חי, as long as a person is alive, אימתו מוטלת על הבריות. His fear is put onto the animals. כיון שמת, when he dies, בטלה אימתו. I noticed they didn't mention a נחש here. I don't know if you can rely on this for a נחש. Why not? Because a נחש is Oh, he tries to bite anyway. Yeah, that's from the קללה. Are you allowed to kill a fly or an ant? If it's annoying, yes. It bothers you. When a person he died he died, so the fear of him ceases, he's dead. So, I mean, obviously the The animal doesn't fear him. How does the how does the animal know? How could you see whether you could tell if he's alive or not? He knows if he's alive or not? Instinct is That's the way the Aibershter made that he should be able to know if he's alive or not. It's a chidush. חולי, he looks at that guy. What if a guy what if the child is sleeping? What does the animal what does the mouse know? He knows.

אמר רב פפא, Rav Pappa says, נקטינן, we have a כלל, אריה אבתרי לא נפיל, a lion will not attack two people. A lion could attack one, but not two. Freigt di Gemara, הא קחזינן דנפיל, we see it does attack two. So di Gemara says, ההוא כדרבה בר אבא, that's like Rabbah bar Abba. דאמר רבה בר אבא, Rabbah bar Abba said, אין חיה שולטת באדם עד שנראה לו כבהמה. When does a חיה attack a person? When it's to the The person looks like a בהמה. In other words, the צלם אלוקים is taken off. שנאמר, it says, אדם ביקר ולא ילין נמשל כבהמות נדמו. Now, פשט פשט נמשל כבהמות נדמו means he's compared to a בהמה. But the word נמשל means it's a משל, compared. נדמו is compared. Why does it say two words? So we darshen: נמשל is from לשון שליטה, שלט, control, that when does the animal have control? כבהמות נדמו, if you look like a בהמה. But that's if a person doesn't have a צלם אלוקים. Even if one he should be if he's a tzadik, even one should be ein hachi nami, ein hachi nami. So why does he say two? He does say, he said, we see by two, he said, those two that you saw happen to be like בהמות. But he's but he says he won't he won't grab two. In other words, he says he won't grab two. Yeah. Why didn't he say he won't grab one? Should say he won't grab one if he's a tzadik. The lion won't attack one if he's a tzadik. Why does he say If he's a tzadik, probably דרגות of צדקות. If it's a צדיק one, it's less. Two, you combine the צדקות of both, so even if each one is like, let's say, half a צדיק. But if a guy is a צדיק גמור, then he won't attack him either. There're plenty of stories told, plenty of stories where the there's זכות הגדולים that came carrying the lions, fed the lions and Yeah, circus, got the circus, and, yeah, he held the lions. Or HaChaim? What? Was protected by a lion. That's why Rashi says that he's if he's חייב, so bad that he's חייב מיתה בידי שמים. Who? Rashi says. On what? On on the animal that he that is behavior is so bad, that's why he's like an animal. That's your answer. Not here. Is that your answer? That's what it says here. It's like a bear. Two guys running away from a bear, so one one said to the other, you think you could outrun him? So he said, no, I only have to outrun you.

אמר ר' חנינא, Rabbi' Chanina said, אסור לישן בבית יחידי, you're not allowed to sleep in a room alone. Obviously, it means if there is no light on, no fire. וכל הישן בבית יחידי, you sleep alone, אוחזתו לילית. Lilith will get to you. Who is Lilith? Lilith, that's the shed. It's a female shed, female shed. The mother of all shedah. She is the the mother of all, the queen of all the shedim. This means never, or or on a regular basis? No, never. So you should always have a little light on if you're by yourself. You got a Lilith? Yeah. I have to say Mishnayot, so thanks. So we're going to daven, we're going to daven in five minutes, but I stopped before.