Anyway, we're getting back here. Avraham Avinu was a זקן ויושב בישיבה, it says אברהם זקן בא בימים. Yitzchak Avinu was a זקן ויושב בישיבה, he was living in yeshiva. שנאמר, ויהי כי זקן יצחק, it says the word זקן by Yitzchak. Yaakov Avinu was a זקן ויושב בישיבה, Yaakov Avinu was in yeshiva. שנאמר, it says ועיני ישראל כבדו מזוקן. Every time it says that one's זקן, זקן means really, not old. It means old also, but it means זקן זה שקנה חכמה. אליעזר עבד אברהם זקן ויושב בישיבה הוה. Eliezer the עבד of Avraham was also learning in ישיבה, שנאמר, ויאמר אברהם אל עבדו זקן ביתו. He told his עבד, the זקן, the זקן of his house, המושל בכל אשר לו, which controlled everything of Avraham. What does it mean controlled? אמר רבי אלעזר, שמושל בתורת רבו. He controlled, in other words, he ruled, he was baki in the Torah of his Rebbe. And when the pasuk says הוא דמשק אליעזר, what does דמשק אליעזר mean? אמר רבי אלעזר, שדולה ומשקה מתורת רבו לאחרים. He used to draw and give the Torah of his Rebbe to others. I

always told the story with Rav Yoel. I don't know if I ever told it before, Rav Yoel the רבי'ס חוזר. So Rav Yoel told me that the Rebbe once first spoke about the inyan of going over the קו התאריך. If you go over the international dateline during Sefirah, you have to count your own Sefirah and then you have your own Shavuos. And that was the Rebbe spoke about it תשכ\"ט, I think. A few years later, he said Shavuos came out on Sunday, Sunday and Monday, so ערב שבועות was Shabbos. So he had a guest, someone asked to take a guest for Shabbos, for Yom Tov, so three days it's. So Friday night, they were sitting by the meal, and Kiddush, they ate, and during the meal, the guy was telling him that he's came came from Australia. He happened to be an ארץ ישראל'דיקער, and he it was one day יום טוב בכלל, and came from Australia. So Rabbi Yoel tells me, so he made a cheshbon according to what the Rebbe spoke last time, today is his ערב, but by us is ערב שבועות, by him it's Yom Tov, Shabbos, which was שבת, ערב שבועות. Can you do that again? What year was that? This was כ\"ה באייר. The first the Rebbe spoke, I think כ\"ה באייר. But this was already a few years later. So he says, he told the guy, according to the Rebbe's p'sak, tonight is Yom Tov, so first of all, you have to daven Shemoneh Esrei over, because you davening Shabbos Shemoneh Esrei, you should Shavuos, Yom Tov are you. Second of all, you gotta make Kiddush over. And you ain't gotta make the meal over because it wasn't you weren't yotzei the Yom Tov, anyway, that was a joke. Anyway, the next That Friday he was maskim to it right away, right? He was maskim to everything. The next day, he went over to the Rebbe, they waited by the door when the Rebbe came out anyway, and he asked the Rebbe, and the Rebbe said, \"Yeah, today is Shavuos.\" So he asked the Rebbe, but b'foal, according to the month, it was not ו' סיון. It's ה' סיון. But it doesn't matter, Shavuos doesn't depend on the month, Shavuos depends on 50 days from Sefirah, so by him it's 50 days Sefirah. But b'foal,

Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch paskent that in those years when Shavuos could come out ה', ו', or ז', depends if Nisan and Iyar were מלא, חסר, sometimes it came out on ה'. The Alter Rebbe says if it came out on ה' or ז', you didn't say זמן מתן תורתנו. You would daven, those who daven, say יום חג השבועות הזה, but they wouldn't say זמן מתן תורתנו, because it wasn't the day of מתן תורה, מתן תורה was ו'. So he asked the Rebbe, should he say in שמונה עשרה זמן מתן תורתנו because it's ה'? Now, the Rebbe didn't want to answer, didn't answer. Because the siddur is different than the Shulchan Aruch, of course. No, no, no, the siddur doesn't speak about it. So he didn't answer. So he wanted to know, so Rav Yoel tells me he like asked again. So again, the Rebbe took out his handkerchief, he didn't want to answer. So he pressured, he asked a third time. And when he asked the third time, and the Rebbe said, \"Yeah, you shouldn't say. You shouldn't say, because it's ה', you shouldn't say.\" This and this, what happened then, and that's it. It's a few months later, at least, he was thinking about it, he said, it started bothering him, the chutzpah, not chutzpah, but that he had to pressure the Rebbe, like he's pressuring him, the Rebbe didn't want to answer, and he asked again, and he asked again. So, okay, he got an answer, but it's bothering him. So יו\"ד שבט, I think it was that יו\"ד שבט, by a farbrengen, in between the sichos, you know, he says he doesn't know why, but his mind wandered away, you know, okay. So this came to his mind and he started thinking in his mind, Rav Yoel, he told me this, started thinking in his mind, why did he have to do that? He doesn't know why it came, but it was something that was really bothering him. But then he thought to himself, but maybe he didn't do wrong, because he's the chozer, and he used to write the sichos, so maybe it's gonna be noga to write the רבי'ס פסק, so he asked it, not for himself, he asked it pashut, noga to know. Oh, the olam was the one that can pressure... Yeah, Rav Yoel pressured him. No, no, Rav Yoel was speaking to the Rebbe, and Rav Yoel asked and about. So he was thinking just like this, and you can stay, you know, the Rebbe sat on the bimah, he's down, he's down here. So as he's thinking, and they're singing the nigunim, someone gives him a knak, \"The Rebbe is calling you.\" So right away he jumped up. The

Rebbe gave him mashke, and the Rebbe said to him, \"ס'איז דאך פאר דולה ומשקה מתורת רבו.\" In other words, the Rebbe read his מחשבות. And in מחשבה he was bothered, did he do the right thing or not, but then he thought maybe I did the right thing because after all, I take the Rebbe's Torah and I write it, so maybe it's נוגע. So as he's thinking, the guy calls that, the Rebbe gave him mashke. L'chaim. ביסט דאך פארט דולה ומשקה מתורת רבותיי. Which means you, like it says here, you take the Rebbe's Torah and you give it to others. Oh, I see. So the Rebbe like to tell them you can, whatever he did, but he said as he's thinking those words, the Rebbe gave him. Okay, right there. So we learned we learned here in this place when we learned that sugya, we learned it with you Rabbi, that sugya. He said that that Rabbi Yosi paskent that that מתן תורה was ו'. But we don't pasken like that. We don't pasken like that. Of course Magen Avraham says we do. But the Alter Rebbe says, I mean Magen Avraham says we do, the Alter Rebbe says we don't. The Magen Avraham says what? That we do pasken that it was ז'. ס'איז א נפקא מינה? What do we pasken this? What's nafka mina lema'aseh? Yom Tov is Yom Tov. Nafka mina lema'aseh is נפקא מינה לגבי וסתות. The whole din of וסתות, how much that he has to wait is The whole reason why we wait, went through that last time when we learned, wait five days when a woman gets her period, five days. Why? Because you don't know, maybe she'll be פולטת שכבת זרע, and that is only good for six וסתות, six עונות, which is three days, and then we're so we're afraid whatever. This is only according to Rabbi Yosi, because Rabbi Yosi there was three days that they had to wait for מתן תורה. Why? Because they should wouldn't be פולטת שכבת זרע. According to the רבנן you only wait two days. So here we see clearly we pasken like Rabbi Yosi that we have to wait three days. B'foal it turns out to be four, it turns out to be five, aber it's all based on this. So there's a big So Rav Nechemia, Rav Dovber ben Rav Nechemia takeh says that even according to the Alter Rebbe it comes out that we pasken that it was ז'. Aber the Rebbe that's not a pshat, and דער רבי איז מכריע the Alter Rebbe clearly it's on ו'. And the emet is we we say it's זמן מתן תורתנו because of ו'. But this And see it's a huge machloket. It is, it is. This This guy, interesant, he kept Shabbos Yom Tov. So if you're at least there in chutz la'aretz, so the second day, his second day was our first day. He kept one day Yom Tov. So Erev Yom Tov was his Yom Tov, the other two days Shavuos was by him not Yom Tov. And this This is a big controversy. This is something that the Rebbe's chiddush, and the other rabbanim questioned it, and it is and but not that it makes a big difference, but Blumenkrantz in his book Blumenkrantz with the with the Pesach book? Yeah, he paskens like the Rebbe, he paskens like the Rebbe. He says that if you cross the dateline, you have to keep your own Shavuos. Shavuos is not what everyone He doesn't even bring the Rebbe. I mean, I'm sure he knew, otherwise. Whatever, he brings it, others hold not like that. Anyway, okay, going back to the point of the Gemara.

אמר רב, רב said, קיים אברהם אבינו כל התורה כולה ש אברהם kept the whole Torah. Before we're saying Avraham learned Torah, but here it says not only that, he did all the mitzvot. שנאמר, it says, עקב אשר שמע אברהם בקולי. Because אשר, because Avraham listened to my voice, means he listened to me. אמר רבא, ואיתימא רב חסדא, ואמרי לה רב אחא בר רב חסדא, How do you know that meant that he kept the Torah? ואימא שבע מצוות. Oh. Maybe that means he did what the Aibershter wanted him to do, he was kept the שבע מצוות. Said the גמרא, ההוא אפילו מילה, you can't say שבע מצוות. He had more than שבע מצוות, he had the mitzvah of milah. ואימא שבע מצוות ומילה. Maybe תאקע means that, שבע מצוות and milah. אמר ליה, he said, אם כן, מצותי ותורותי למה לי? It says like this, he listened to my voice, and what did he do? מצותי ותורותי. What is that? If it's So that must be that he kept more. אמר אמר רבא, ואיתימא רב אשי, קיים אברהם אבינו אפילו עירוב תבשילין. He kept, he wants to say not only the מצוות דאורייתא, but even the מצוות דרבנן, even עירוב תבשילין. Remember? Who created Shlomo Hamelech who made that? Right. And other things which later they made. All the all the מצוות דרבנן were made by בית שני, even later. Few were made before. But Avraham kept all the mitzvot that all the chachamim will say, אפילו עירוב תבשילין, which is a small mitzvah. שנאמר ותורותי, אחת דברי תורה ואחת דברי סופרים. תורותי לשון רבים, two Torah. What kind of two Torah? Even the דברי סופרים he kept. So he read megillah? הא? Mordechai vaEsther for sure. He read the megillah? Yeah, he read the megillah on Purim. Avraham had one day הא? Avraham would kept one day Yom Tov. He kept one day Yom Tov? That was blank. He lived in He lived in Eretz Yisrael. So he didn't have עירוב תבשילין. הא? Eretz Yisrael not. But when he was in Mitzrayim, maybe he kept two days. If you didn't go over the dateline, then עירוב תבשילין. You could have an עירוב תבשילין. Not in one day, in Israel? Yeah, for sure, if it's Friday, Yom Tov is Friday. How How often does Yom Tov fall on Friday? When Yom Tov is Friday, then you can have עירוב תבשילין. There's one thing he didn't I think maybe Pesach, it's the only Yom Tov. There's one thing it was impossible for him to keep. The day of Tisha B'Av comes out What? There's one thing it was impossible for him to keep. Esther was גוזר a תענית on Pesach, so he would have to eat Pesach on But we don't do that either. Nobody mourn like that, we don't fast on Pesach. No, he only kept the mitzvot, he didn't keep things that happened. Did he fast on Tisha In Zohar it says that it wasn't all כפשוטו. למשל Zohar says that the tefillin that he put on was not pashut the tefillin. When he made the מקלות, the sticks there to get by the That was Yaakov? Yaakov, that was the tefillin. That was the same המשכה as tefillin. So that's על פי זוהר. So ברוחניות. In other words, he kept it all, but not בגשמיות. But לפועל, לפועל, the מצות מילה was the only one that he kept בגשמיות and the seven mitzvot, yeah? Huh? According to the way it says in the Zohar, but if you learn without the Zohar, peshat, pashut, he did all the mitzvot. למשל matzot, says he baked מצות, מצות אפה. לוט אפה... Even Lot baked made מצות, כפשוטו is, doesn't mean he gave him ברוחניות he gave him matzot. Huh? Is celebrating an event that hasn't occurred. Yeah, he did. He keep Pesach? First of all, is a גוי מחוייב? If he wasn't before the Torah, he was מחוייב בכיבוד אב. But Rashi says that he left, that it says that that Terach died even though he didn't, no one should complain that he didn't keep כיבוד אב. If he's not mechuyav to keep כיבוד אב, why is he mechuyav? Then why does Dama ben Netinah keep כיבוד אב if he wasn't mechuyav? Yeah, that's a good kashya. And we praised him, the Gemara praises him, the goy. Is a goy mechuyav? A ger

can keep his כיבוד אב for his father? Says miderabbanan he is. שלא יאמרו that he בא מקדושה חמורה לקדושה קלה, it says he's mechuyav miderabbanan. But is a goy is a is a goy בכלל מחוייב? It's not one of the seven mitzvot. So there two two inyanim here. One peshat is the Ramban learns that כיבוד אב, any mitzvah that falls into the geder of Shabbos, that it's for the civilization of the world, a goy is mechuyav. Because of that, we know that there goyim have We say seven mitzvot, it's not seven. It's, I think, 45. They're called the שבע מצוות and the se'ifim and the senifim. These are all senifim, branches of the seven. Seven are the main ones, but there are others. But כיבוד אב, because it's part of civilization, so therefore a goy is mechuyav, but not as a separate mitzvah. Where does it include it? So the Ramban learns it's included in dinim. What are the seven mitzvot? The seventh one of the cheshbon is to keep courts, to have a judicial system. So the Ramban says this is not only a judicial system, this includes all kinds of things that have to do with with civilization. למשל צדקה, they're mechuyav in tzedakah? Well, so if not mechuyav in tzedakah, why do they complain to Sodom? Sodom didn't do tzedakah at all. Sodom made an aveirah to give tzedakah. Good, so that so They said that's an aveirah. In other words, that's extreme and that's against civilization, so that's why they're... That's not what the pasuk says. The pasuk in Nach