visiting for the בית המקדש. So we mentioned Nikanor, that Nikanor brought doors, and there were nissim that happened to the doors. תנו רבנן, the רבנן learned, מה ניסים נעשו לדלתותיו, what kind of miracles happened to the doors of ניקנור? אמרו, they said like this, כשהלך ניקנור להביא דלתות מאלכסנדריא של מצרים, when ניקנור went to Alexandria Mitzrayim to get doors for the בית המקדש, and he got doors, special doors, ובחזירתו, on the way back, עמד עליו נחשול שבים לטבעו, so there was a storm in the ים, and then it was almost, the ship almost sank. He was allowed to go to Mitzrayim? To get... Sure, you're not allowed to live there. Still, he wasn't, I don't even know if he was a Yid. ונטלו אחת מהן, so they took one of them, since they had to, what happens in a storm when there's too much weight, they took, huh? Yeah, he was not a Yid. Who was not a...? ניקנור. But he was busy with the בית המקדש. But he was friendly, he was good. So he went special to get special doors and he got special doors there, but on the way back there was a big storm. ונטלו אחת מהן והטילוה לים, so they had to get, make the weight less, so they took one of the doors and threw it into the ים. Imagine, he worked so hard to get it. ועדיין לא נח הים מזעפו, the ים didn't stop from its storm. ביקשו להטיל את חברתה, so they took, they wanted to take the second door and throw it out. עמד הוא וכרכה, so he stood there, held on, hugged the door, אמר להם, and he said to the people, הטילוני עמה, throw me in together with it, I'm not letting you throw it, if you throw it in, I'll go with it. מיד נח הים מזעפו, right away the storm stopped. היה מצטער על חברתה, but he felt very bad that the other one got lost in the ים. כיוון שהגיע לנמלה, when he came to the, to the, to his port, to the port, של עכו, לנמלה של עכו, היתה מבצבצת ויוצאת מתחת דפני הספינה. He saw it came out in the ים, but it under the boat, in other words, it came along the whole time with the boat. ויש אומרים, בריה שבים בלעתו, so some say that one of the creatures of the ים swallowed it, והקיאתו ל- ליבשה, and it spit it out in the יבשה, in the dry land. ועליה אמר שלמה, for this Shlomo was מרומז when he said, קורות בתינו ארזים, the walls of our house are ארזים, ארזים are are cedar wood, בית המקדש, yeah בית המקדש, of our house meaning of the בית המקדש, and he said, רחיטנו, and and that and that that lashon it's like a רהיטים are are furniture, but there it means a door, רהיטינו ברושים, what's ברושים? אל תקרי ברושים אלא בריתי ים. And there are two peshatim in this Gemara, meaning this, that this is a remez that the doors came from a ברית ים, that the ים made a brit with the Oibershter to give back the doors, and that's why he gave back, or there's another girsa, not ברית ים, but ברית ים, according to the second opinion, that it was swallowed by a בריה of the ים and it spit out, so this is the remez here. לפיכך, therefore, כל השערים שבמקדש נשתנו להיות של זהב, all the doors of the בית המקדש were changed to be gold, because we know originally when they built the בית המקדש, the second one, they were so poor they only made the minimum that you're supposed to. As time passed on, and they got more money, they fixed it up and made it more, and eventually they changed all the doors to gold, חוץ משערי ניקנור, except the doors of ניקנור, מפני שנעשו בהם ניסים, because these are special doors that miracles happened to the doors so they left them. ויש אומרים מפני שנחושתן מוצהבת היתה, even though it was made of copper, it was begildet, it was covered with gold, it was gold plate I guess, the copper was plated with gold, so they didn't change it. ורבי אלעזר בן יעקב אומר, and he said, נחשת קלווניתא היתה, it was a special kind of copper, והיתה מאירה כשלהב, it shined like gold, so there was no reason to change it, it shined like gold, and this was Nicanor. And it was copper? Yeah, copper. But it says ארזים? No no, the לשון ארזים because it's קורות בתינו, קורות is ארזים, but it's it's it wasn't ארזים, it was copper, it was made of נחושת. How do you know that he was a Yid? Huh? How do you know that he was a Yid? What do you mean this, what does this Tosafot Yeshanim, Tosafot HaRosh, What? Because he... No, but there, there was two two The Rabbi didn't say by farbrengen, the Rabbi said it to somebody in yechidus. Oh, I see. In yechidus, so some say he said, mentioned Nicanor, some say he mentioned Herod. They... Somebody had about ta'anot and all kinds of ta'anot on Lubavitcher Rebbe, anyway. So he came back, and the Rebbe sent... some place, he came back, and he told the Rebbe all the ta'anot they had. So, one of the ta'anot, so they had a few, all kinds of ta'anot, the Rebbe answered him everything. He says, אדרבא, זאלן זיי קומען, let them come and tell me if there's anything I do against Shulchan Aruch, because they ask, fragen him if. One of the ta'anot they had that they built then in Kfar Chabad the בית ספר למלאכה, and they called it בית שז״ר. Nu, Shazar... Yes, President Shazar. Yeah, but he was a בית הש- no he was a frey'er guy, not a frumer, first of all he came from whatever. So they had ta'anot. So the Rebbe said The Beit Hamikdash was called בית הורדוס. שבנאו. ווי קומט הורדוס צו שז״ר? הורדוס איז א רשע מרושע. Hordos killed, you know, and they called בית הורדוס. Some say the Rebbe also said to him, נו, ניקנור. How do they call the שערי ניקנור? Nikanor was a goy, how do they call him? It's a siman that you could if the guy gives money and the guy this or this, you could call it. It's נישט קיין שאלה. Why did they call it ארזי לבנון? No, it's it's he didn't the It's not פשוט פשט. It doesn't nothing. You're talking about the second Beit Hamikdash and Shlomo Hamelech. It's a remez. It's it's כארז בלבנון it's Called after the second Beit Hamikdash, Shlomo Hamelech? For the second, the second. This was second.

תנו רבנן, the רבנן have learned, Beit Garmo, we learned that before already, but here the Gemara goes into details. The family of גרמו היו בקיאים במעשה לחם הפנים, they were experts in making the לחם הפנים, ולא רצו ללמד, they didn't want to teach it to anybody else. שלחו חכמים, the חכמים sent, והביאו אומנין מאלכסנדריא של מצרים, they brought special experts from אלכסנדריא של מצרים, והיו יודעים לאפות כמותן. They could bake just as well as them. And in other words if like this, it's only the secret by them, you're you're very limited in who you could hire to get, so they wanted to have more people. So they got them and they fired the first guys. ולא היו יודעים לרדות כמותן. They could bake it like them, but they couldn't take it out. And what would happen? שהללו מסיקים מבחוץ ואופין מבחוץ. These guys would would heat up the oven from outside, I don't know exactly how they did it, but they would heat it from the outside and they would bake it from the outside. והללו and these מסיקים מבפנים ואופין מבפנים. They would heat up the oven inside and bake it inside. And what would come out the difference? הללו פתן מתעפשת, it's apeshish. These new guys, their bread would צעברעקלט זיך, it would it would rot, it would fall apart. Inside the oven? Inside. When they took it out, yeah, it would fall apart. Because they They're the ones who baked it inside? Inside. But they didn't know how to do, so they didn't know how to And outside means it's on the perimeter of the I guess so. I don't know what did they heat it outside, how do you heat the oven outside? They make pizzas like that. Oh yeah? And והללו אין פתן מתעפשת. Outside inside they stick it inside. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Like maybe they did that also. I mean, but they baked it in such a way. Did it outside. Them experts you could No, the the first the first one are the are the אלכסנדריא ones. So the first one it says they would do it outside, the the new guys. And the old guys did it inside. Mimela, by the new guys it would fall apart, so inside is better. But they didn't know how to do it, they were afraid that they didn't know how to take it out. So obviously it wasn't done so good. כששמעו חכמים בדבר, when the חכמים heard it, אמרו, they said, כל מה שברא הקדוש ברוך הוא בעולמו לא בראו אלא לכבודו. Whatever Hashem created was only for His kavod. In other words, everything has to be the best. שנאמר, it says, כל הנקרא בשמי ולכבודי בראתיו. Whatever is called in My name I made it for My kavod. Mimela, for the Oibershter, for the לחם הפנים, you got to make it the best. So they had to take back the old guys. וחזרו בית גרמו למקומן. They had to they took back the Beit Garmo. But how did they take them back? שלחו להם, the חכמים the חכמים sent to them, ולא באו, they invited them to come back, they wouldn't come. You know, you fired us, not coming.

כפלו להם שכרם, so they doubled the salary, ובאו. They came. What was it? בכל יום היו נוטלין י״ב, till now they used to take י״ב מנה. I don't know for how How often? Every year, every month, I don't know. 12 מנה, והיום כ״ד. Now they doubled it, it became 24 מנה. A מנה is a 100. And a year, huh? A year. It's a year I imagine a year, but it doesn't say. Because it's so much to be for a month or. רבי יהודה אומר: בכל יום כ״ד מנה. כ״ד, till now they took כ״ד, והיום מ״ח. Took 48. אמרו להם חכמים, and the חכמים said to them, מה ראיתם שלא ללמד? What's your reason, why don't you want to teach anybody? אמרו להם, they said, יודעים אנו של בית אבא Our family, our fathers knew שבית המקדש עתיד ליחרב, the בית המקדש was destroyed, ושמא ילמד אדם שאינו הגון, maybe if it'll become public, maybe a person who is not proper will also know how to do it, will learn it, וילך ויעבוד עבודה זרה בכך. Since it's used in the בית המקדש, he will go and make the same type of לחם הפנים for עבודה זרה. Mimela, we didn't want to give it. So there's a good reason. In other words, it wasn't stam. ועל דבר זה מזכירין אותם לשבח. Huh? So, no, so we said these were guys were praised. If you give him double, the If you do It's a chiluk. וויפיל איז געווען? No, they no, they. זיי האבן געוואלט. וויפיל? אבער זיי האבן מורא געהאט אז זיי וועלן דאס לערנען אנדערע, די אנדערע וועלן דאס נוצן פאר עבודה זרה. און די צווייטע, די אלע האבן זיי האבן גע? ניין, ווייל זיי קען מען שאלטן. משפחה, עס איז געבליבן אין די משפחה. האבן זיי נאכגעגעבן? זיי האבן נאכגעגעבן. ווער? ווער האט זיי געגעבן דאפל? זיי! זיי האבן געוואלט קומען צוריק. You fired us, גארנישט. If you double, אזוי קומען זיי צוריק. They taught their children. They only taught their family. Yeah, only taught their children. Their family, yeah. That's a good reason right there. וואס נאך, we get, we're not medakdek in this story in the בית המקדש. Yeah, but still, maybe this, maybe they'll need more people. No, but they, okay, but they wanted to have more people to be able to do this. Somebody knows in געזונט און מunter, you can't just have it so limited amount, it has to be broader. It didn't mean teach it to the public, teach it to more people, there should be more כלי קודש. ועל דבר זה מזכירין אותן לשבח, there's one thing that they mention them for praise. We'll see later even what they said here was pretty good, but there's one thing you see that they were good guys, שמעולם לא נמצאת פת נקיה ביד בניהם. They never in their house their children gave clean bread, supposed to be the best quality bread. Why? שלא יאמרו מלחם הפנים הם נהנים. Because if they will see they get the best bread and they used the best techniques for לחם הפנים, people shouldn't be able to say that, \"Look, they're taking from the לחם הפנים.\" לקיים מה שנאמר, to fulfill what it says, והייתם נקיים מה' ומישראל, you should be clean, and basically the whole idea of marit ayin, but this is even more. Lichora, people think, what do I care about farkert, a guy, \"I don't want people to look down at me.\" But the person that helps חסידישע איד, \"I have to do what I have to do.\" No, it's not a peshat. You can't say, \"I don't care what people say.\" You have to be clean, people should not be able to say any lashon hara on you. That's a That's the right thing to do. The פסוק, והייתם נקיים מה' ומישראל, not only from the Eibershter, but from Yidden. הא? דאס יום טוב'דיגע ברויט? ס'איז א נפקא מינה? יום טוב'דיגע ברויט. פאר וואס מאכן זיי נישט קיין לחם הפנים? זיי האבן געמאכט לחם הפנים. It's only this family, so people would think that they took from לחם הפנים. שוואכע ענינים. So they should always make sure, so they never made the best quality bread in their house. That's a madregah, but it's for the inyan for והייתם נקיים, you should be clean. Yeah, the Chachamim listened to them. The Chachamim gave them praises that they did this, the Chachamim praised them, this was the right thing to do. This was the first thing. We had last time two things, side this for לחם הפנים, and then you had the people with the קטורת.

תנו רבנן: בית אבטינס היו בקיאין במעשה הקטורת. בית אבטינס knew how to make the קטורת, ולא רצו ללמד, they didn't want to teach anybody else the special way. שלחו חכמים, the חכמים sent, והביאו אומנין מאלכסנדריא של מצרים. They brought also experts from מצרים, והיו יודעין לפטם כמותן, yeah they could put it together like them, ולא היו יודעין להעלות עשן כמותן. But they didn't know how to put in, there was a certain grass that you put in called מעלה עשן. You put that in, it would make it smoke, but the smoke, הללו, של הללו מיתמר ועולה כמקל, by the old ones, the original ones, the smoke would go up straight, ממש like a straight stick, ושל הללו מפציע לכאן ולכאן. And the second guys, the smoke would go from this side to this side. That was a nes. My peirush they had to derech hateva. They did it bederech hateva. I imagine, א דאנק איר האט געפרעגט די שאלה, I imagine that the thing itself went up straight normally. If it would go a wind, so that has nothing to do with מעלה עשן, the wind could blow it. The nes was that it didn't blow it. But normally when it's by these guys, it wouldn't blow, it smoked, smoke go always. So the nes could be that when it... when the wind blew, it takeh didn't move. By the second, by the first! That's what I'm saying, by the first the nes was that it didn't blow in the wind, but normally that it went up straight that was according they knew how to do it. That was the koach of the מעלה עשן. Maybe it was the quality of the מעלה עשן. Maybe they didn't know the percentage or the proportion. In other words, if it wouldn't be for the nes, even theirs would... theirs, yeah, theirs went to the wind. There, no, theirs without a wind, theirs never, would never... By the original ones, by the original ones, they made it in such a way that the smoke went up straight. Now there was a nes that even when there was a wind, it still stayed straight. So by the first ones, if without the nes, it would have blown around? No, by the first one it would have found without the, by the wind, yeah, yeah, without the nes, by the wind it would have blown, right. And the gashmiyut was that without a wind. By the second was without a wind, it went מפציע לכאן ולכאן. Why you say that? Because otherwise there's a kushya, I had that same kushya, because it says that it was a nes that it was straight. No, I imagine. I imagine. It's a good question. You get a good answer. Check it out. Not because it's a very good answer, you don't know if it's right. You don't know if it's right. וכששמעו חכמים בדבר, when the chachamim heard this, אמרו, they said the same thing, כל מה שברא הקדוש ברוך הוא לכבודו ברא, whatever He's created is for Him, שנאמר: כל פעל ה' למענהו, whatever Hashem did is for Him. So if there is a possibility to make it nice, you got to get it for the Eibershter, so you got to get them back. חזרו בית אבטינס למקומן, so the Beit Avtinas came back. And the same thing happened: שלחו להם חכמים, the chachamim sent for them, ולא באו, they didn't want to come. כפלו להם שכרם, they doubled their salary, ובאו, they came. ובכל יום, the same thing, ובכל יום היו נוטלין י״ב מנה, till now they took 12 מנה, היום כ״ד, now they took 24. רבי יהודה אומר, says, בכל יום כ״ד, originally they took כ״ד 24, והיום מ״ח, now they took 48. אמרו להם חכמים, the chachamim said to them, מה ראיתם שלא ללמד? Why don't you teach it? They gave the same reason: אמרו להם, they said to them, יודעין היו בית אבא, our father's home, our fathers knew, שבית המקדש עתיד ליחרב, it's going to be destroyed, ושמא ילמוד אדם שאינו הגון, maybe this will learn somebody who is not proper, וילך ויעבוד עבודה זרה בכך, he'll go worship avodah zarah. U'mimeila, that's why they didn't teach it. ועל דבר זה, now he's going to go to the next thing, there's something that they did, מזכירין אותם לשבח, chachamim mention them for good. For what? שמעולם לא יצא כלה מבושמת מבתיהם, never did a kallah go from their house. וכשנושאין מקם אחר, no, no, מבתיהם, they never would come out with with perfume, with smelling good. וכשנושאין נשים ממקום אחר, and if they would marry women from another family, from other people, מתנין עמהן, they would make a condition, שלא תתבשם, she should not put on perfume. Why? שמא יאמרו, ממעשה הקטורת הן מתבשמין, cuz if the ketoret smelled so good, they'll think, \"These are the people make the ketoret, maybe they took it from there.\" לקיים מה שנאמר, fulfill what it says, והייתם נקיים מה' ומישראל, to be clean. And the chachamim praised them for behaving this way, being extra careful that no one should have a hava amina, so chas veshalom, if a person does something that some people might think that you stole or you're something, that very careful. Probably hard for the daughters to make a shidduch. But they probably they must have been rich, they make so much money, so they probably gave them other things they put on, like jewelry, they did other things they they compensated for for perfume. 48... 48 manah. 48 manah! 4800! Manah is 100. Now manah is a I don't know exactly if it's zuzim, whatever, it's a lot of money. Equivalent to? I don't know. תניא, it says in the beraita, אמר Rabbi Yishmael, Rabbi Yishmael said, פעם אחת מצאתי אחד מבני בניהם, once I found one of the einiklach, one of the grandchildren of this family. Probably wasn't hard to find. אמרתי לו, why, okay, men don't wear perfume anyway. A new thing nowadays. Cologne. Some people come into shul and you have to make a berachah, besamim... כדי שלא יתעטשו. Anyway, so he found him, אמרתי לו, so I said to him, אבותיך בקשו להרבות כבודם ולמעט כבוד המקום. Your your forefathers wanted to make their kavod, they kept the secret to themselves, they should have the kavod, and mimela they wanted to be mema'et, minimize the kavod of the Eibershter. What happened? עכשיו כבוד המקום במקומו קיים... The people of the ketoret... The last Mishnah. So lema'aseh what happened? כבוד המקום במקומו קיים. בית המקדש טאקע destroyed, but the Eibershter's kavod didn't get less, the Eibershter's kavod is the same, והמקום מיעט כבודם, and your kavod is not is not there, because now you're not doing the ketoret, so mimela your makom is not Okay. Your kavod, I mean, is not. Okay, we'll stop here. Yeah.