When I was a kid they told me that you say עלינו יום כיפור מוסף because az men zogt dos nisht. Der Eibershter farlozt, azoy vi men zogt oyf di kinder, יום כיפור after שמונה עשרה עלינו, אז מען זאל זען צי איינער... Ken er kumen tsum shiur, er ken zich opgebn a shiur. Der vort like that in עלינו, עלינו came with a ta'anah to the Eibershter: What when is it? It's at the end of the davenen, so everybody says... everybody runs out, yeah, and so he said, because of that, we'll put it in once, not that you should say it, one year we'll make it so chashuv, it'll become such a chashuve tefillah. Put it right in Musaf. But there's a there's a whole joke about it. Yeah. Three Three things came to the Eibershter with a ta'anah: The Aleinu came with a ta'anah, either the ta'anah was everyone spits in it. Yeah. The The cigarette came with a ta'anah: You burn me. Yeah. And the mamzer came with a ta'anah. The Tanya used to say this. What's my What's my fault, why am I a mamzer? So Aleinu, the Eibershter answered, so there's a few a few perushim into this into this joke. One answer is that he put it into the Musaf of Rosh Hashanah. You bow down. Another Another answer they say is that the halachah is every time you come to shul and they say Aleinu, you got to say it. The cigarette, so he answered the Eibershter, you know, because of that, a person wants to be mechabed somebody, he'll give him a cigarette, so it's kavod. The mamzer, he goes, don't worry, you'll go to America, you'll become a president of a shul. Go to America, you'll become a president of a shul. There you go. Okay,

we're holding here in the middle of the Gemara: The בי זדזא, we said that the shedim that find themselves in by this tree, the בי זדזא, are called שידא. So the Gemara says, האי זדזא דסמיכא למתא, if it's a זדזא, tree זדזא that's close to the city, לא פחתי משיתין שידי, has at least 60 shedim in it. למאי נפקא מינה? What's the, if there's 60, and and if it's that's 40, don't get scared. I mean, what's the, למאי נפקא מינה? למיכתב קמיע. If you're gonna write a kameia, you have to write a kameia. If you're gonna, so a tzadik is gonna write a kameia, he has to write a kameia knowing that there are 60, so the kameia should be against 60. Then the Gemara tells a story: ההוא בר כיתא דמתא, there was this guard of the city, דאזיל וקאי גבי זדזא, he was once standing next to a זדזא, דהוה סמוך למתא, it was, stuck close to town, חזא בה שיתין שידי, so he noticed there are 60 שדים there, ואיסתכן, and he was in a סכנה. אתא ההוא מרבנן, there came one תלמיד חכם, דלא ידע דזדזא דשיתין שידי היא, he didn't know that זדזא has 60 שדים, כתב ליה קמיע, he wrote him a קמיע, לחד שידא, he thought it's one שד, so he wrote a קמיע for one שד. שמע, so this guy heard, דקא מרקדי בגוה, there was a gantze party, the שדים make a party inside this tree, וקא משרו הכי, and this is what they were singing: סודרא דמר כי צורבא מרבנן, this guy wears a סודרא like a jacket, like a, like a תלמיד חכם, the special סודרא he used to wear, ובדיקנא ביה במר, but we looked into him, דלא ידע ברוך, he doesn't even know how to say a bracha, look who's the guy, he makes himself look like a תלמיד חכם, he's a groiser am ha'aretz, the שדים were singing, but this guy doesn't know anything, the one that wrote the kameia. אתא ההוא מרבנן, came a different תלמיד חכם, דידע דזדזא דשיתין שידי הוה, that he knew that there are 60 שדים there, כתב ליה קמיע דשיתין שידי, so he wrote him a קמיע for 60 שדים, שמע, then he heard, דקא אמרי, that they were saying to each other, פנו מינך, get out of here. So the שדים when they got the, when he got the קמיע, they said let's get out of here, and emptied out, because the קמיע worked. Then the

Gemara says, קטב מרירי. There's a פסוק that says, in פרשה, פרשת האזינו, קטב מרירי. So the Gemara says, תרי קטבי הוו, they're two קטב's. חד מקמי טיהרא וחד מבתר טיהרא, one is in the first half of the day, לפני הצהרים, one is after צהרים. דמקמי טיהרא, the one that's first, קטב מרירי שמיה, it's called קטב מרירי. ומחזי כי כדא דקמחא, and it looks like a barrel of of of כותח. כותח is a kind of כותח was a kind of dip that they used to have in the time of the Gemara. Was מילכיג, made of sour milk with breadcrumbs. So it talks about it, סייַן, הלכות פסח, הלכות חמץ ומצה, in Gemara Pesachim, so I talked about it, נוגע בשר בחלב, because it's both. והדר בי בכשא, and and and they go around like a spoon that mixes the food. דבתר טיהרא, the one that's afternoon, קטב ישוד צהרים שמיה. It's called קטב ישוד צהרים. ומחזי כי קרנא דעיזא, and it looks like a horn of a goat, והדר בי כנפיא, and they go around like a sieve. I don't know exactly the difference, but listen.

זאגט די Gemara ווייטער, אביי הוה קאזיל באורחא, Abaye was going on a trip, ורב פפא מימיניה, and Rav Pappa stood on his right side, ורב הונא בריה דרב יהושע משמאליה, and רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע was on the left side. חזייה לההוא קטב מרירי דקאתי להא דשמאליה. Abaye noticed that one of these שדים, קטב מרירי, was coming on the left side. What did he do? אהדריה לרב הונא לימיניה, so he took רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע who was walking on his left side, took him to the right, ואותביה לרב פפא משמאליה, and put Rav Pappa on the left. אמר ליה Rav Pappa, Rav Pappa said, ואנא מאי שנא דלא חשישת בי? \"Why you put me here? You cared about him and you didn't care about me?\" אמר ליה, he said, את שעתא קיימא לך. You have a good mazal, you're rich, Rav Pappa, you have a good mazal, so I have more trust that nothing is going to happen to you. It reminded of a story with Reb Mendele Horodoker, you know the story with when the guy put him in front? It's a long story, but the Alter Rebbe, when they came to arrest the Alter Rebbe, the Alter Rebbe asked, called, went out to field, anyway, he called Reb Shmuel Munkes. And he said, \"What do you think I should, run away, hide, or I should give myself up?\" So Reb Shmuel Munkes told him this word and he told him a story. He said, \"I don't understand you, what are you afraid of? Mah nafshach! Zayt ir a Rebbe, so Kayn koyl vet aych nisht nemen, no bullet will hurt you. Zayt ir nisht kayn Rebbe, you deserve it.\" And he said why? Because what kind of right did you have to take away the geshmak of gashmiyus of thousands and thousands of Yidden through your שיטה if you're not a רבי? Then he told him a story, that Reb Mendele Horodoker once wanted to get to the Alter Rebbe, to the Maggid, I mean, to his רבי, the Maggid, so he hired a wagon driver and he told him he should go fast because he has to get there on time. So they're driving, driving fast with a wagon and horses. They came on top of a mountain, then when they're coming down the mountain, because the horses were going so fast, because Reb Mendele told him to go fast, he couldn't stop them. So the horses went straight down the mountain, straight, couldn't stop, and went straight into the window of a פריץ. The פריץ ran out, saw who saw these Jews there, took out his gun, and wanted to aim. As far as aiming, took the at the בעל עגלה, took the בעל עגלה Reb Mendele, and put him in front of himself. And then the guy tried to pull the trigger, his hand froze, and he realized this, so he asked for mechilah, and they whatever, and he said if you promise not to touch any Jews. Okay, and and they went, they continued. Reb Mendele turns around to him, \"What did you do? The guy was going to shoot, why'd you put me in front? He should shoot me?\" He told Reb Mendele, \"This word, mah nafshach! Zayt ir a Rebbe, vet dach kayn koyl nisht nemen, if you're a רבי, the bullet, I am not afraid. Zayt ir nisht kayn Rebbe, you deserve to be shot! You keep making, cheating everybody, you lied to everybody.\" Same thing here, he came and put him on The שד was coming, so he put him on the left side, he says, \"Well, what did you put me there for?\" So he said, \"Because you, I know, is going to be good.\" זאגט די גמרא ווייטער,

מחד בתמוז עד שיבסר בו, from ראש חודש תמוז till שבעה עשר בתמוז, ודאי שכיחי, for sure they're in these trees. מכאן ואילך, from then on, ספק שכיחי ספק לא שכיחי, maybe yeah, maybe not. ספק. ומשתכחי בטולא דחצבא, they find themselves a lot in the shade of this plant called חצבא. It's a plant that Yehoshua put to make the borders, דלא חצף גרמידא, that didn't grow an אמה yet. That's where they hide. ובטולא דצפרא ופניא דלא הוה גרמידא, and also they hide in the shade in the morning and the evening, where there is something that's not an אמה high. ועיקר בטולא דבית הכסא, where are they mostly? In the shade of a בית הכסא, of a toilet. That's בית הכסא. Yeah, but dirt is a מקום טומאה, you know, dirt in the בית הכסא is used so much for עבודה זרה. Huh? The Gemara says on בצר of סכיסתא when Yeah, yeah, yeah. אמר רבי יצחק, he said, הני תלת מילי יהבי חלשא לעינים. These are three things that will cause you to go blind, or lose your light eyesight, affect your eyesight: מאן דסריק רישא יבש, if you comb your hair while it's dry, מאן דשתי טיף טיף, and one that drinks wine out of a barrel when it's dripping, you know sometimes you fill up a barrel, and it drips out so you put your, that's no good, ומאן דסיים מסאני דכרעי תרטיבן, if you put on your shoes when your feet are wet. Cause blindness? Uh oh. Am I Am I sure? It's in the Gemara. So if you don't have hair, you're already safe. Then the Gemara says, Huh? For shedim, it has to do with with with the shedim. Hashem protects the simple. Most of us don't know about this. Yeah, it says that in the Gemara many times, anything that's אסור מפני סכנה, if דשו בי רבים, if people don't care and do it, שומר פתאים השם, then the Eibershter watches so the Gemara says that. תלוי בביתא קשה לעניותא. If you

hang up in your house bread hanging from the ceiling in a basket, it's no good, it'll make you poor. כי דאמרי אינשי, like people say, תלא סילתא תלא מזוני. If you hang up your bread, the basket, you're hanging up your food, you're hanging up your your support. ולא אמרן אלא It's only by bread, אבל בישרא וכוורי, פלייש און פיש, meat and fish, לית לן בה. There's no problem, אורחיה, that's the normal דרך. Then the Gemara says ווייטער, פארי בביתא קשה לעניותא. פארי is is שחליים, I don't know you know what what the What? Bran. If you have in the house Bran. It's not שחליים, this is מורסן, מורסן, I'm sorry. סובין, what's, bran, yeah. So that's if you have that around your house, it's no good, it could cause you to be poor. פרורי בביתא, if you have crumbs around the house, I mean you know, you shouldn't step on crumbs, קשה לעניותא, it's no good, can make you poor. ובלילי שבתות ובלילי רביעיות, Friday night and Wednesday night, שרו מזיקין עלייהו. The mazikim, the shedim are there. So yeah, so Wednesday means the night till till Wednesday. What? They come on Friday night? Yeah. Kind of nerve is that? They're They're chutzpadik. They're very chutzpadik. Huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why it says people don't, I mean it's Shabbos, they still don't go out in the street. Friday, Wednesday, Tuesday night to Wednesday, that's when the shedim raise havoc more. Friday night also. It says when it's talking about Eretz Yisrael, Hashem will give rain, it says when? When people don't go out in the street. When don't they go out? So Rashi Rashi says Friday night, and the Gemara says Friday night, and בלילי רביעיות, Wednesday night, Tuesday night. So Friday night you can understand, maybe people daven, they come home, they don't, why don't they go out Wednesday night? So the joke that people say is why don't they go out Wednesday night? Because it's raining. So come on, it says it says the Eibershter will give you rain in the time when people aren't out. So one of the things is Wednesday night. Why aren't people out? Because it rains. It was a joke, but it says because שדים are around. איסרא דמזוני, נקי שמיה. The the מלאך, the שר that's ממונה, appointed on food, his name is נקי. Comes from the word נקי, clean. He likes cleanliness, that's gonna be the reason why if you have crumbs around, these things, he doesn't like it. איסרא דעניותא, נבל שמיה. The the the ממונה on עניות, on on poverty, נבל is his name. And that's why he doesn't like dirt, so if you're gonna make things dirty Huh? No, in other words, the נקי doesn't like dirt. כסא אפומא דחצבא קשה לעניותא. If you have on top as a cover on the barrel, you put on a plate, no good for being poor. מאן דשתי מיא בכסא, if you drink water from that plate, קשה לבר כוסי. It's no good for בר כוסי. What's בר כוסי? בר כוסי Rashi says is כליון עינים, also has to do with eyes has to do with eyesight, it's not good for eyesight. Okay, we'll stop here. Yashar koach. חיים וטובים. Was the was the Maggid was Huh? That's about prayer. Man oh man, Shabbos. Man oh man, Shabbos.