people take zugot and they have two, they could kill them for it. בד', if you have zugot, four, מנזקינן, they don't kill, but they could be mazik you, could hurt you. בב' - another thing he says - בב'... Now if a person drinks two cups of wine and drinks two pieces of bread, so we said before it's dangerous. Right, right. What could they do to you? They could even kill you. But if you take four, which is also in the wrong, but then they won't kill you, but they could be mazik you. Then another thing: בב'... Huh? I'm not talking about Shabbos. Not talking about Shabbos. That's, the Gemara says later. בב', by two, בין בשוגג בין במזיד. Whether you do it intentionally or shogeg, you didn't realize that you shouldn't do it. בד', if it's a problem of four, במזיד, אין בשוגג לא. If you do it meizid, then they could bother you, and like we said before, they could hurt you, damage you, but not by two, not by shogeg. Then the Gemara says, ואי איקלע, if it happened you forgot, and you drank zugot, ונפק, and you went out, what do you do? And we said before if you go out, that's what the problem is. Stay home you have not a problem, unless you're an אדם חשוב, but like this... So what happens if you had zugot and you went out, what do you do now? You're in tzarot, you got problems. מאי תקנתיה? What's the eitzah? So he says like this: the eitzah is like this, לינקט זקפא דידיה, דידא דימיניה בידא דשמאליה, וזקפא דידא דשמאליה בידא דימיניה.

Take your thumb, the right thumb put it in your here and the left thumb put in the other one, hold it like this. Okay. ונימא הכי, this is what you should say: אתון ואנא הא תלתא. You're talking to the shed, what are you afraid? If you're doing this, the shedim will be there. Talk to the shedim and tell the shedim, you know, you and me, we're three. as if saying, you know, probably you guys are two, two shedim coming to harm me, but if you count us, they were three, so we're not zugot. Okay, if you say that, that'll take care. ואי שמע איניש דאמר, but if you hear a voice of somebody answering saying אתון ואנא, you and me, הא ארבעה, we're four, you say we're three, so he'll answer you we're four. נימא ליה, answer him, אתון ואנא חמישא. You and me are five. ואי שמיע ליה, if you hear him answer דאמר, he says אתון ואנא שיתא, no, you and me are six, נימא ליה, tell him אתון ואנא שבעה, we're seven. And go on and on and on. If he'll answer eight, then you'll answer nine. He'll answer 10, you'll answer 12. הוה עובדא, there was a מעשה, עד קוף וחד. So they went on. The man said, I am three, he said four. He said five, he said six. And it went on and on and on until they came to 101, ופקע שידא, and the sheid plotzed. In other words, he went on and on and on, and that's it, and then he couldn't take any more, and then he plotzed. What? 101. Yeah, maybe. I know, what's, like why do, are they makpid, why do they get you for zugot? What? Shedim, they're half, no, their guf is not finished. So it says they were made ערב שבת בין השמשות, so the Aibershter didn't work on Shabbos, so they just managed to make part of it, that's it, and the rest didn't do. Huh? Yeah, they Behind the הרי חושך. Things we have no idea, all these lachashim and stuff. There is such a forest called the Black Forest. Yeah, that's where your matchmakers That's what they mean, הרי חושך? I don't know if that's what they mean, that's what people say that it is. Who's he? What? Oh, there's a place called Black Forest? There's a Black Sea, I never heard of the Black Forest. Germany. Why? Carpathia is the Black Forest? Carpathia is is is Hungary or Galicia... Transylvania. It's a few Black Forests in the world. Okay. Wherever it is. אמר אמימר, אמימר said, אמר לי ראשינה דנשי כשפניתא, the leader of the women witches told me, האי מאן דפגע בנשי כשפניתא, if anybody met these witches, these women who do כישוף, And you want to protect yourself, נימא הכי, this is what you should say. Okay, here we're going to go on what to say.

Say like this: חורי חמימי בדיקולא בזיא. And he says like this: hot צואה. How do you say צואה in English? We don't want to say. Excrement. Excrement. Hot excrement are in the baskets, in your torn baskets with holes, לפומייכו נשי דחרשיי. That should go to your the mouth of you women who do כשף. That's what you say. Yeah. That, it's not finished. קרח קרחייכו, that your hair with which you do the כשף should fall out. פרח פרחייכו, and the the pieces of bread with which you do כשף, the wind should blow away. Okay. איבדו תבלינייכו, let the תבלין, the spices that you use for your כשף, let it all be spread out and fall out fall away. פרחי זיקי למוריתא חדתא דנקיטיתו, and let the wind throw away the new perfume or the new spices that you guys are holding to make the כשף. And then you go weiter, this is all part of what you say: נשים כשפניות, you women of כשף! עד דחנני וחננכי לא אתיתו לגבאי. As long as they had rachmanut on me in Shamayim, and I I had rachmanut on myself, and you had rachmanut on me, I didn't come here. השתא דאתיתי לגביי, now that I came to you, כד חוני וכד חוני. Now that I came, you should know that now your rachamim became cool of me, and I myself did not have any rachmanut on me. To these women. And he's saying things that don't make any sense. Can we say it in English, or we have to say it in Aramaic? In English. Cuz you said the angels don't understand Aramaic. What about the the sheydim? They understand Aramaic? They ask you? I know, I guess they do. So you say this to the women, and then Amemar She learned from him. No. That was witches, so she was not, no witches Real witches. Through the water the people the sheydim. She said, \"Excuse me, I heard this myself, and this come from her father, the big rabbi, her father.\" Then the Gemara continues, the מערבא in ארץ ישראל, they לא קפדי אזוגי, they didn't care about זוגי. רב דימי מנהרדעא קפיד, רב דימי of this did care, אפילו ארושמא דחביתא, not only eating זוגי, when he would make simanim on the barrels he would not make זוגי, he would not make it if it was an even number. הווה עובדא, once happened דפקע חביתא that he did do it, and the barrel busted! Obviously there is something there. כללא דמילתא, the rule is like this, כל דקפיד קפדי בהדיה, anybody who cares about it and worried about it, they they care for him. ודלא קפיד, if no one cares, whoever doesn't care, לא קפדי בהדיה, they don't. מיהו, the Gemara says, למיחש מבעי. Still, you should still you shouldn't, even if you are not makpid, if you're not makpid, there's something to think about, why? Because if there would be not, if you're not makpid and it's nothing, why did the Gemara even mention it? Gemara shouldn't have mentioned it, we'd never know, we'd never be makpid and finished! Gemara mentions it. A siman. Don't, don't be concerned about it, that's the whole problem. Ayin hara, the same thing, you see. Don't disregard it completely, but. But he's, something's there, but don't really pay attention. Huh? There is a lesson that everybody heard not to be makpid. There is such a thing as ayin hara, there's no question about it, but if you don't care, but למיחש מבעי. What about, what about the problem of being superstitious? At least the the sheydim and all these these problems with the Torah, is there is there etzah about being It's not a, it's a fact. The sheydim are there, and you have to be afraid of the sheydim. But the klal is, if you're not afraid, then they don't bother you. Red? Wearing the

red string on your hand against ayin hara? The Rebbe told somebody in yechidus, עבודה זרה. Wow. Really? דרכי האמורי he says. So how come people do it? In Tosefta it says. I looked it up, I found it. In Tosefta it says wearing this red string is דרכי האמורי. The red string that comes from around the קבר רחל? So they say if it's from קבר רחל, it's different. I don't know, usually the red string is not from קבר רחל, there are always people saying you wear something red, that's against ayin hara. You hear it all day. Yeah. And the Rebbe, someone there was a bachur who learned in yeshiva here. Not from Lubavitch actually, he came from, from a Litvish yeshiva. So he went to yechidus. He was a sick boy. He went to yechidus. So his, I don't know whether his mother asked him, he asked the Rebbe what about the red string? If there's anything to it. So when he came out of yechidus, so I was standing there, so he told me the Rebbe didn't want to answer. The Rebbe like didn't. So he asked again. So finally, when after, the Rebbe said, מיט צרות נשטענס is דרכי האמורי. Later, we found it. In the Tosefta, the Tosefta in Masechet Shabbat. תוספתא מפורשת. הא? תוספתא מפורשת. תוספתא מפורשת. Right? You say that one is about דרכי האמורי. There's a גמרא מפורשת. הא? Someone showed me. I asked him and he said he didn't, so I found it. It's brought down someplace. Tosefta, so we looked it up, and the Tosefta says clearly. Shabbat. So it's here the Binyahu Yada. Oh. Completely negates the שדי זוטא. But they had a they had a minhag the Sephardim to send two even numbered baskets to as gifts on berit milah. At berit milah. It goes back all the way But they shouldn't do that. It goes back all all the way. The goyim swore. אמר ריש לקיש, ריש לקיש said: ארבעה דברים, there are four things, העושן דמו בראשו, whoever does it, his blood is in his own head, ומתחייב בנפשו, and he's חייב נפשו, he's doing like suicide, he's something danger, ואלו הן, הנפנה, הא? הנפנה, הנפנה, is if you go to the bathroom בין דקלא לכותלא, between a a palm tree, a date tree and the wall. If you're in between the two, Yeah. והעובר בין שני דקלים, if you walk through between two date trees. ושאישא מים שאולין, and if you drink borrowed water. Yeah, they're saying all these things that sound like The Gemara says, it's not מנחש, no. These are facts. They're not מנחש. מנחש is if you say it's like No, you say you go this, the start It's like Yeah, but that that's not, because like These are dangerous things to Just like, why is it not safe to eat this? It's poisonous. מנחש, not מנחש, because it's a natural thing. Same thing here. This is natural. That's something else. Yeah, walking between women, it's another black cat. We'll see. It's all about it. Because there are שדים around, and the שדים care. The שדים something, if you borrow water, the Gemara also says the שדים might upset they need the water, so they're going to come and harm you. If if there were שדים around, when there were שדים around, when there were שדים around, it's a natural thing. Like you say, don't walk at night in a black neighborhood because you'll get hurt. It's just מנחש? Because they're they're going to kill you, that's all. How you do you like that? A typical one, maybe? True or not? I don't I don't get it, but used to be. In fact, a snake drink? Now it doesn't matter. I wouldn't do it. והעובר על מים שפוכים, and if you walk over poured water, if it's dirty water that's poured out, and someone walks over it, dangerous. מים שאולין, borrowed water. You borrow it from somebody. ואפילו שפכתם אשתו בפניו, even if your wife was the one that poured it, you're not allowed to walk over it. Way to walk around it? Yeah. Okay, the Gemara explains it: הנפנה בין דקלא לכותלא, what we say that if you make between the palm, the date tree and the wall, לא אמרו, this was only said אלא דלית בה ד' אמות, there is no four אמות in between. אבל אית בה ד' אמות, if there's four אמות in between, לית לן בה, there's no problem. וכי לית בה ד' אמות, and even when there is no four אמות, לא אמרו אלא דליכא דרכא אחרינא, there's no other way. The only way to go. אבל איכא דרכא אחרינא, if there's another way, לית לן בה, there's no problem. Because the שדים will bother you if they want to go through and there's no other way, but if there's another way, they'll go someplace else. So they go through water? So they connect to water? Wait a second. והעובר בין שני דקלים, if you walk between two date trees, לא אמרו אלא דלא פסיק רשות הרבים, it's only if there is no street in between. אבל פסיק רשות הרבים, but if there is a street in between, לית לן בה, there's no problem. ושאישא מים שאולין, I have I have a sidewalk. In between them, I have a In our estate, palm trees are not going to be dates. It's considered, what if they're what trees is it? Host trees? For years, I had a bench, so You know 30 ft in between it, some 25 ft in between it. I don't know, ושאישא מים שאולין, when you drink borrowed water, לא אמרו אלא דשאילינהו קטן, only if a child borrowed it. אבל גדול לית לן בה, but if an adult borrowed, there's no problem. ואפילו שאילינהו קטן, even if a child borrowed this, נמי לא אמרן אלא בשדה, it's only said אלא בשדה, In the field, דלא שכיחי, there's not much water available, one pshat. Mimeila the shedim need the water, so they're going to be upset. אבל בעיר דשכיחי, but in the city where there's a lot of water, לית לן בה, there's no problem. ואפילו בשדה, yeah. Orchard is different. Could be, I don't know. ואפילו בשדה נמי לא אמרן, even in the field we said, אלא במיא, only by water. אבל בחמרא ובשיכרא, but beer, wine, לית לן בה, there's no problem. והאי דאמרן, and if you walk over poured out water, לא אמרן, it's only said, דלא אפסקינהו בעפרא, you didn't cover it up with sand, ולא תף בה רוקא, and you didn't spit on it. אבל אפסקינהו, but if you covered it with sand, אי תף בה, you spit on it, תף בה רוקא, you put spit on it, לית לן בה, there's no problem. ולא אמרן, it's only not said, אלא דלא עבר עלייהו שימשא, the sun didn't pass yet, ולא עבר עלייהו שיתין ניגרי, a 60 steps didn't, like the time I guess, the different pshatim, but one pshat is that the time of how long it takes to go 60 steps didn't pass yet. אבל עבר עלייהו שימשא, if the sun passed already, ועבר עלייהו שיתין ניגרי, and 60 steps passed, לית לן בה, there is no problem. ולא אמרן, it's only said, דלא רכיב חמרא, if you're not riding a donkey, that was you walking on the floor, ולא סיים מסאני, not wearing shoes. אבל רכיב חמרא, if you're riding a donkey, וסיים מסאני, you're wearing shoes, לית לן בה, then there's no problem, even though walking over the water. והני מילי, but all these things that we say that there is no problem in most cases, היכא דליכא למיחש לכשפים, that's just I'm afraid of shedim, but there's nothing to be afraid of of כשפים, of black magic. אבל היכא דאיכא למיחש לכשפים, but if there's some reason that could be a fear of black magic, אף על גב דאיכא כולהו, even if you have all these conditions which which mean that you shouldn't be afraid, חיישינן, we're afraid. כההוא גברא, like the story of a person דרוכב חמרא, he was actually riding a donkey, וסיים מסאני, and he was wearing shoes, and he went over the water, וגמד מסאניה וסתר כרעיה, and and his his his feet, shoe shrank, they shrank, the shoe, yeah, the shoe shrank and the feet dried up, shriveled and died. וסתר כרעיה. תנו רבנן, the רבנן learned, שלושה אין ממצעין ולא מתמצעין,

there are three things that you can't walk in between them and they, one of them, should not walk in between two to people. אלו הן: הדקל, palm a date tree, that was you shouldn't walk between two date trees, or two people shouldn't shouldn't walk and a date tree will be in between them. And not to walk between them. והכלב, a dog, והאשה, sorry, it's a שד, and a woman. You're not allowed to have a woman walking between two men and a man cannot walk between two women. ויש אומרים, also, אף החזיר. Shalom Aleichem. It could be different. We said women. But a lot has to do with sheydim anyway. What about between a woman and a dog? Oh that I that I don't know. Yeah. ויש אומרים אף נחש, some say a snake also. מאי תקנתיה, and if it did happen, what do you do? אמר רב פפא, רב

פפא said, ליפתח בקל ויסיים בקל, say a pasuk that starts with Kel and finishes with Kel. And Rashi says which pasuk: קל מוציאם ממצרים, until you finish off להביט און ביעקב עד מה פעל קל, so you say that pasuk. אי נמי, or, ליפתח בלא ויסיים בלא, start off with a pasuk that starts with the word lo and finish with the word lo. So Rashi has which pasuk: לא איש קל ויכזב, and it finish off ולא יקימנה. Gemara says, הא? No, it's Balak. Balak. Oh, what's, talking about if you happen to walk between, oh, you have to say this pasuk. הני בי תרי דיתבי, there were two two sitting, two men, ופסקה אשה נדה ביניהן, and a woman a niddah passed by, that's even worse thing. So אם תחילת נדתה היא, if it's the beginning of her period, הרגס אחד מהן, it'll kill one of them. אם סוף נדתה היא, if it's the end of her period, מריבה ביניהן, they'll make an argument between them. מאי תקנתיה, so what's the etzah if that happened? ליפתח בקל ויסיים בקל, say the pasuk that you said before. How are they going to know? Well, if you see a woman walking by, you're always choshesh. Oh, okay. I once saw a פשט נוגע אסתר, a pshat like this, I think it's from the Gra, which you called, she wanted, you know, she had a problem, so she called, made a se'udah, and called Achashverosh and called Haman. Why? Because it says ותתחלחל המלכה מאד, she became a niddah. So she called them bedavka, she'll sit between them, one of the two things will happen: or one of them will die, or they get argue. One of them will die, mima nafshach: if Haman dies, והיא הנותנת, good. If Achashverosh dies also, the rule is that if a king dies, all the All the decrees get batel, and if they'll have an argument, adraba, also good. So she said mima nafshach it's going to be good. That's why she did it. That's what, like, I think I saw in the name of the Gra. Yeah, but they didn't know this Gemara. For sure. Who didn't know? Haman or Achashverosh? I guess not. Or she they didn't know she was a niddah. Hold on, but they're always choshesh. One woman can't walk between two men. Right. One dog can't walk between two men. Right. Right. And a man shouldn't walk between two dogs. And so if there's a dog dog coming, you guys have to just go walk around it, you shouldn't walk between two dogs. Yeah. They used to? Yeah. Now they're they're goyim. Unless it's a goy dog, and verses start with אל. And they would be choshesh. They would also. It's just that, were they smart enough they would also? Achashverosh and Haman would know this. They'd know this Gemara? Where's that where's that berachah? Where's that berachah that starts with אל? פרשת בלק, בפרשה. It's in אל מוציאם ממצרים, etcetera, and then you say the whole pasuk: לא הביט און ביעקב, and then it's כעת יאמר ליעקב ולישראל מה פעל אל. Oh, yeah. Strange Gemara. Strange Gemara. This it says in the Shulchan Aruch not to walk.