180 years, right? That's what, or maybe it's 100 based on At least 93, you know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How come he became a Tzeduki after 80 years? So I once heard from Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Deutsch. Yetzer hara. Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Deutsch said, \"How did it happen? How do you become from being a tzaddik, and he's a real tzaddik. והא ראיה, he went to the קדשי קדשים, he came out alive and he didn't die 80 times. So what made him?\" Yeah, this guy, yeah. So he said, those guys, they remember him, how he used to talk. You can think Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Deutsch. It was just shver tzu farshteyn, hard to understand the way he talked. No, but he didn't he didn't plan to do it. It means that it came out by itself. But always came out good. But he said like this, that Huh? What? Yeah, right. Well, he's still... Full of, yeah... yeah. But so he said, he said, \"Tzeduki, we know it's Tzedukim, but צדוקי מלשון צדק. ער איז געווארן גערעכט בא זיך.\" ער איז געווארן started צדק is much more righteous. He

started looking himself as a righteous person. He became righteous in his own eyes. Ah! The moment you start realizing you're righteous, because a righteous person thinks that they, you know, Moshe Rabbeinu was the biggest anav, the moment you start getting the ga'avah, so this is צדוקי, ער איז געווארן גערעכט בא זיך. That's what the Gemara said, it was because of kavod? Huh? That's what the Gemara said, it's kavod? He was looking for kavod at the end? And why did what did they give him? I don't know, they didn't give him kavod. Something that I don't remember the story, but had Same idea. Same idea, yeah. A ta'avah for kavod. He became so important. Yeah. Is there such a thing as a Tzeduki nowadays, or what would you compare it to? Karaite. You know Karaite, yeah, still continues, Karaite. Cuz they only do de'oraita. Yeah. Also, והיה לשון של זהורית מלבין. That in the time of Shimon HaTzaddik, they would put like a piece of material on on top of the head of the of the שור המשתלח, of the שעיר לעזאזל. And it was red, the horns, and in his time, when he was kohen gadol, it used to get white. It used to turn white by itself. That was a siman the Eibershter forgiven the aveirot. ומכאן ואילך, after him, פעמים מלבין, פעמים אינו מלבין. After they threw him off? Who? Oh no, that's What was white? There was a piece of cloth made of red cloth on top of the horn, between the horns of the שעיר לעזאזל. And it would get white. By itself. By itself, a siman, but after him, not always. היה נר מערבי דולק. נר מערבי was one of the candles of the Menorah. And they put in the same amount of oil, its light last longer. But that's only in the time of Shimon HaTzaddik. ומכאן ואילך, פעמים דולק, פעמים כבה. Sometimes it burned, sometimes it's extinguished. והיתה אש המערכה מתגברת. In his time, the fire on the mizbeach used to get bigger and bigger. ולא היו כהנים צריכין להביא עצים למערכה. They didn't need, like this, you know, the fire burns, wood burns up, you need more wood. They didn't never needed more wood. The only one they did this, חוץ משני גזירי עצים, they would add the two, what's it called, logs, not logs, logs of wood, לקיים מצות עצים. Pashut because it was a mitzvah to put it on, but not that the fire needed, it burned by itself. ומכאן ואילך It was a nes, yeah. 2. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Burning day after day. Yeah, but they added every day two logs. Just for a siman. But a mitzvah, to be mekayem the mitzvah. ומכאן ואילך, afterwards, תשש כחה של מערכה. Then it became weaker, fire. פעמים מתגברת, פעמים אינה מתגברת. Sometimes it burned longer and it didn't need wood, sometimes it did. ולא היו כהנים נמנעים מלהביא עצים למערכה כל היום כולו. And all day they had to bring wood. I mean, they always were bring after him, till then, they wouldn't bring wood, then they had to bring wood, cuz they didn't know the fire might go out, so they always had to bring wood.

Another thing, ונשתלחה ברכה בעומר ובשתי הלחם ובלחם הפנים. There was a bracha in the קרבן עומר, that you brought on the second day of Pesach, in the שתי הלחם, that they brought on Shavuos, and the לחם הפנים, that was there every week. What was the bracha? כל כהן שמגיעו כזית, if a kohen got a kezayit, how much is a kezayit? A small piece. יש אוכל ושבע, some ate one kezayit and he got full. יש ומותיר, some got full and even had leftovers. That's how the bracha was. ומכאן ואילך, after him, נשתלחה מארה, there was a klalah, a curse, in the עומר, in the שתי הלחם, in לחם הפנים, וכל כהן שמגיעו כפול המצרי. And a kohen, first of all, they wouldn't get This, every kohen, first case, every kohen got a kezayit, how could it be? It wasn't so much that every kohen should get a kezayit. There was a bracha. Here, every kohen was able to get a פול המצרי, like a little bean. והצנועים מושכין את ידיהם. And since it was so small, and frume, frumere כהנים would not fight, not push for it, cuz they don't get much anyway. והגרגרנים נוטלים ואוכלים. The fressers, the swipers, the how do you say this in English? The gluttons. The gluttons, they used to take more. \"Well wait, why why wouldn't they even try to get the little bean?\" They had to fight for it. \"I don't fight for it, just wanted something.\" They wanted it, but they had to fight and they didn't want... so since the other guys were fighting and pushing the lines, pushed around and then... ומעשה באחד שנטל חלקו וחלק חבירו. There's a

story one guy took his, and like this he grabbed away the other guy's also. וקורין אותו בן חמצן. They called him בן חמצן עד יום מותו. חמצן means a גנב. They called him the the גנב, all his life he was called a גנב because of this thing that he did. אמר רבה בר שילא, Rabba bar Shila said, מאי קרא? Where do we have a pasuk that the word חמץ, חמצן means a גניבה? חמצן means חמץ, what does it mean a גניבה? So it says, אלהי, a pasuk in Tehillim, \"my God\", פלטני מיד רשע, \"protect me from the רשע\", מכף מעול וחומץ, \"from the hand of a מעול,\" a person that does עולות, that does bad things, \"and from a חומץ.\" What's a חומץ? חומץ is a גנב. Rava אמר, Rava says a different, מהכא, from a different pasuk. The pasuk says, למדו היטב, \"learn good\", דרשו משפט, and and look for משפט. Huh? Well, a גנב is חמץ. חמץ is יצר הרע. Yeah. So he says, yeah. And then it says, אשרו חמוץ. אשרו means \"be nice to the חמוץ\". What's the חמוץ? The guy who got stolen from. אשרו חמוץ ולא אשרו חומץ. אשרו, be good to the חמוץ, give koach, like if a Yishar koach, אשרו, give koach to the חמוץ, to the one that, the victim, and don't be מאשר, don't acknowledge, don't be good to the חומץ, to the guy, the גנב. But all this fits with the word that חומץ is a גנב. So this guy who stole someone else's share, they called him the חמצן, the גנב all his life.

תנו רבנן, the רבנן have learned, אותה שנה שמת בה שמעון הצדיק, that year Shimon Hatzadik passed away, אמר להם, he said to them, בשנה זו הוא מת. He says, \"I'm dying this year.\" אמרו לו, they said, מנא ידעת? \"How do you know that you are dying this year?\" אמר להם, he said like this to them, כל יום כיפור היה מזדמן לי זקן אחד. \"Every יום כיפור when I went into the קדש הקדשים, I would see this old man, לבוש לבנים, dressed in white, ועטוף לבנים, surrounded with white, נכנס עמי ויוצא עמי, and he would come in with me and go out with me.\" \"Excuse me, could he go out in the last year of his life?\" Yeah. \"The last year...\" This is not... this is Shimon Hatzadik. עתיק יומין. This was a מדרגה, this is an image of of some מדרגה he saw. \"Who was it, Eliyahu Hanavi?\" No, it could also be. עתיק יומין, yeah. עתיק יומין, I know, it's a, אצילות, I don't know which מדרגה. \"I mean, that just means old man, right?\" Yeah, yeah. והיום נזדמן לי זקן אחד, \"Today, this יום כיפור, I I saw this old man, לבוש שחורים, dressed in black, ועטוף שחורים, and surrounded in black, נכנס עמי, he went in with me, ולא יצא עמי, he went in with me, but he didn't come out with me.\" לאחר הרגל, so after יום טוב, חלה שבעת ימים, he got sick for seven days, ומת, and he died. \"How old was he when he died?\" Huh? \"How old was he?\" I don't know. I don't know if it says. Maybe it says, I don't know. ונמנעו אחיו הכהנים מלברך בשם. Since he died, they stopped using the שם המפורש in the Birkat Kohanim, when the bracha that they said, because his time that people were better, as soon as he died they said, \"A new tekufah, a new period, and things changed and...\" \"So which shem at the first, Hashem?\" No, Yud-Kei-Vav-Kei the real way. We don't say Yud-Kei-Vav-Kei. \"They said...\" Yeah, we don't even know how to say it. \"Right, that's what...\" No, we don't we don't know the nekudot. \"That's when they stopped using it always, for anything?\" Yeah. Yeah. Zogt di Gemara vayter. Now, this next piece in in Ein Yaakov is not in the Gemara. Actually, not in the Gemara Yoma. We're learning Yoma, but since it mentions Shimon Hatzadik, so he quotes here from the Gemara Menachot. So it says here in small words, זאת הברייתא היא במסכת מנחות, מנחות, שלא נספייס, not here, וראוי לחברה כאן. It says, \"I added it here, להיות כל עניינו במקום אחד, so all the inyanim of Shimon Hatzadik should be in the same place.\" And really this is the Gemara in in Menachot. The Gemara there starts to say, מכלל דבית חוניו לאו בית עבודה זרה היא. The Gemara wants to bring a re'iyah that בית חוניו was not a house of עבודה זרה. As we'll see, Chonio built a Beit Hamikdash, he called it, or whatever it is, in Mitzrayim, a dup- duplicate of the Beit Hamikdash, and they brought korbanot there. And there's a big machloket, was it to the Aibershter, or was it עבודה זרה? Now, even if it was to the Aibershter, it was asur. You're not allowed to bring korbanot in... in אלכסנדריא של מצרים, in Alexandria. Yeah. Even if it was for Hashem, it's still an aveirah, because it's שחוטי חוץ, you're not allowed to shachat a korban out of the Beit Hamikdash. But at least it's not עבודה זרה, it's a lav, it's it's a lav. Karet, it's a it's a lav. But there's a machloket: was it l'shem Shamayim, לשם השם? What means l'shem Shamayim? לשם השם, or לשם עבודה זרה? His name was Chonio. Chonio was the son of Shimon Hatzadik, and the Gemara tells the story what happened here. This is Zevachim? I mean Menachot, Zevachim, no? No, this is a mistake. Oh, I liked it. Zevachim. It's the Gemara. It says on top Zevachim, it's supposed to say Menachot. Oh, it says on top Zevachim, wow. Oh, it is Menachot here. They fixed it, it's a new print, this is a copy of the old print. Yes, so he wants to prove that this בית חוניו was not for avodah zarah. What do we What's the story with this Chonio? What's the difference between לשם השם and l'shem Shamayim? No, I said l'shem Shamayim, it's an expression we're using, you do something good, you do it l'shem Shamayim. You do something good, so he didn't do l'shem Shamayim, but he was מקריב לשם השם. He meant, you know, like to Hashem, which was an aveirah, but it wasn't l'shem Shamayim. We'll soon see it wasn't l'shem Shamayim, it was for his own kavod. תניא, it says in a ברייתא, אותה שנה שמת בה שמעון הצדיק, that year that שמעון הצדיק passed away, בשעת פטירתו, when he was dying, אמר להם, he said to his children: חוניו בני ישמש תחתי. He

had two sons: Shemai and Chonio. And he said Chonio should be the Kohen Gadol. He gave צוואה, even though Shemai was older, he said Chonio should be. They were both pretty שוואכע חברה, both pretty big עם הארצים. But so he said, \"I want Chonio to be.\" נתקנא בו שמעי אחיו, his brother שמעי was jealous, שהיה גדול ממנו שתי שנים ומחצה, two and a half years older than him, and he wanted to be the Kohen Gadol. There isn't there a process that has to happen? Isn't there a vote? Yeah, but if the Kohen Gadol How could the father do it the wrong way? It wasn't the wrong way, he thought they would teach him. Yeah, but you still got to vote, you could say, \"I want...\" Well, you have to have an, er, what would you say, an הסכמה from the סנהדרין. But if he said, probably the סנהדרין would have been מסכים. So they would have voted or they would I don't know if it's a vote, they have to look into it and they have to give an הסכמה, they have to give their approval. Is that is there a process that has to be done? Yeah. Is a way to skirt the voting? But, but לפועל, לפועל, it's a צוואה. מצוה לקיים דברי המת. Yeah, but that's his son Because it No, but it says הכהן הגדול מאחיו, רש״י says, that, er no, מבניו I mean, מבניו, that if they're ראוי, the son is ראוי, the son is first. So he thought the son is שייך, it's, I guess if he didn't know so much, but they're going to teach him. So it says if the son is ראוי in yirat shamayim, so you could teach him, but here he wasn't You said, \"Not even in yirat shamayim.\" We'll see, we'll see, yeah, yeah, but he thought probably that there will be. So Shimi was jealous. אמר לו, so he wanted to get it away from his brother Chonyo. So he says to his brother חוניו, בוא ואלמדך סדר עבודה, \"Come, I'm going to teach you how to do the avodah, I'll show you.\" What he meant to do is he's going to teach him something stupid and the guy will do it and then they'll throw him out. Throw him out, or he won't make it through the No, this is not Yom Kippur yet. Right. הלבישו באונקלי, he said put he put him on a leather jacket, וחגרו בצלצול, and he put on a gartel, like not a gartel like we have, but he put on like a a belt, a leather belt, actually was a woman's belt. והעמידו אצל מזבח, and he put him by the מזבח and he said, \"Here, this is how you do the avodah.\" And then, אמר להם לאחיו הכהנים, and he ran to the other כהנים and he said, \"ראו מה נדר וקיים זה לאהובתו! Look, look what this guy did! Look how he's doing the avodah. You know why he put this on? Because he promised his wife he's going to wear her clothes for the avodah! So that's why he put it on!\" לאהובתו? לאהובתו means to his beloved. Hashem? No, to his wife! נדר וקיים זה, this guy made a

promise to his wife that if he's comes Kohen Gadol, he's going to wear his her clothes. And this what he put on, and that's what he's, you see what a stupid guy! \"אותו היום, and I'll wear it, אותו היום שאשמש בכהונה גדולה, that day that I'm going to start with becoming a כהן גדול, אלביש, I'll dress, אונקלי שלך ואחגור בצלצולך, I'm going to put on your your jacket, I'm going to put on your gartel, your belt.\" The rumor was about her shoes. The rumor, yeah. בקשו אחיו הכהנים להורגו, so his brother, the other kohanim wanted to kill him. רץ מפניהם, they chased him, he ran away, והלך, and he ran away to Alexandria shel Mitzrayim, to Alexandria, ובנה שם מזבח, and he built a mizbeach there, והעלה עליו לשום עבודה זרה, this opinion says, and he started bringing korbanot for Avodah zarah. כששמעו חכמים בדבר, אמרו, they said like this: מה זה שלא ירד לה כך, this guy, this Shimi, he didn't even become Kohen Gadol, and he was jealous of wanting to be כהן גדול, היורד לה ונדחה הימנה על אחת כמה וכמה, that if someone is a is in the position, in other words, what they wanted to say, we learn out from here, be careful, someone is in a position, don't fire him from the position, you know what agmat nefesh you're going to do him? Look, this guy had agmat nefesh without even becoming, just why he didn't become. Someone already gets the position, so we should be careful not to do it. That's what they learned out. But this whole story, דברי רבי מאיר, that's the opinion of Rabbi Meir. אמר ליה רבי יהודה, Rabbi Yehuda says, לא כך היה מעשה, that's not the story. אלא לא קיבל עליו חוניו, farkert. Shimon Hatzadik said Chonyo should became Kohen Gadol. Chonyo didn't want, for this reason, שהיה שמעון אחיו גדול ממנו שתי שנים ומחצה, because his brother was older two and a half years. So what happened? So Shimi started becoming, they were going to make Shimi because Chonyo didn't want. ואף על פי כן נתקנא בו חוניו בשמעון אחיו. When Shimon was going to become Shimi become Kohen Gadol, Chonyo, who could have been and gave it up, got jealous. When it came lema'aseh, got jealous. אמר, he said, so now since he got Chonyo got Shimi got jealous on Chonyo, Chonyo on Shimi, I meant. אמר לו, so he said, בא ואלמדך סדר עבודה. So Chonyo said to Shimi, the same story, \"I'm going to teach you what to do.\" הלבישו באונקלי וחגרו בצלצול, so he dressed him with this clothes, והעמידו אצל המזבח. ואמר להם לאחיו הכהנים, then he came and said to the כהנים, ראו מה נדר זה וקיים לאהובתו. Look what he promised his wife and he did. He promised his wife, אותו היום שאשתמש בכהונה גדולה, that day that I'm going to become כהן גדול, אלבש באונקלי שלך ואחגור בצלצול שלך, I'm going to put on your clothes. Yeah. So now, what happened? ביקשו אחיו הכהנים להורגו, so they wanted to kill him. סח להם כל המאורע. So now, since Chonio was so Shimei told the kohanim that it was all Chonio's fault. Chonio is the one told me. So ביקשו להרוג את חוניו, so now they wanted to kill Chonio. רץ מפניהם, he ran away, ורצו אחריו, they ran after him. Who wanted to kill him? The kohanim? Yeah. Why? Because he tricked, yeah, he tricked the other guy and he got him to the Just two brothers, why do the kohanim care? Yeah, good. No, so he wanted to get him to to do avodah in the wrong way. So they were upset. They're upset, yeah. So he ran away, ורץ, so that he ran to the בית המלך, house of the king. ורצו אחריו, and they chased him. כל הרואה אותו, זהו, אומר זהו, and anybody who saw, oh, this is the guy! And he ran, הלך לאלכסנדריא של מצרים, he went to Alexandria, ובנה מזבח, he built a מזבח, והעלה עליו לשם שמים, and there he put up for the for the Baashefer. Now where it says, והיה ביום ההוא יהיה מזבח לה' בתוך ארץ מצרים, the pasuk is that the time will come that there will be a mizbeach to Hashem in Mitzrayim, and that refers to this בית חוניו. כששמעו חכמים בדבר, when the chachamim heard this, אמרו, they said, ומה זה שברח ממנה, what that this guy who Chonio who ran away from being a kohen gadol, who lechatchila gave up to being a כהן גדול, כך, nevertheless, he got jealous of the כהונה גדולה, המבקש לירד לה, somebody who wants it, vadai we're going to be careful to push him away, על אחת כמה וכמה don't push him away. It goes both ways to bring the point. Huh? Same story. Whichever way.