How come he become Tzeduki at 80 years? I once heard with Rav Shmuel Levitin yetzer hara. Rav Shmuel Levitin said, how does that happen? How do you become from being a tzadik, and he's a real צדיק, והא ראיה, he went to the לבית קדשי הקדשים, he came out alive and he didn't die 80 times? Now what made him Yochanan Kohen Gadol, 80 שנה Yeah, this guy, yeah. So, he said Those guys that remember him how he used to talk. איר געדענקט רב שמואל לעוויטין? It's just שווער צו פארשטיין, hard to understand the way he talked. ס'איז א גדולה ווי ער איבערקומען דיינים, אלטע דיינים. וואס פאר א גדולה? פאסט עס? יא, א גדולה איז עס. No, but he didn't he didn't plan to do it. Gedulah means that it came out by itself, but it always came out good. But he said like this, that er Huh? What? Yeah, right. Well, this too. Full of, yeah yeah. But so he said, he said, Tzeduki, we know it's Tzedukim, but צדוקי מלשון צדיק. ער איז געווארן גערעכט ביי זיך. So, I like it. He became, he started, tzadik is someone that's righteous. He started looking himself as a righteous person. He became righteous in his own eyes. The moment you start realizing you're righteous, cuz a righteous person thinks that they, you know, Moshe Rabbeinu was the biggest עניו, the moment you start getting the ga'avah, so that's why he said נאכער איז צדוקי, ער איז געווארן גערעכט ביי זיך. That's what the Gemara said it's for the kavod? Huh? That's what the Gemara said so it's kavod? Cuz he was looking for kavod at the end? And why didn't Where did they give him? I don't I'm sure if they didn't give him kavod. Something that's I don't remember the story Same idea. Same idea, yeah. געווארן אן אב הרחמן, yeah. And then he became self-important. Yeah. Is there such a thing as Tzeduki nowadays, or what would you compare it to? Not to the Karai. You know, a Karai. Yeah, still consider it a Karai. Cuz they only do de'oraita? Yeah.

Also והיה לשון של זהורית מלבין, that in the time of Shimon Hatzadik they would put like a piece of material on top of the head of the of the שעיר המשתלח, of the שעיר לעזאזל and it was red to the horns, and this time when he was Kohen Gadol used to get white. Used to turn white by itself. That was a siman the Aibershter forgiven the aveirot. מכאן ואילך, after him, פעמים מלבין פעמים אינו מלבין. After 120 years? 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 of the שעיר לעזאזל and that would get white by itself. Siman, but after him, not always. והיה נר מערבי דולק. נר מערבי was one of the candles of the Menorah. And they put in the same amount of oil it's this light lasted longer. But that's only in the time of Shimon Hatzadik. מכאן ואילך, פעמים דולק פעמים כבה. Sometimes it burned, sometimes it's extinguished. והיתה אש מערכה 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. It did never needed more wood. The only one they did is חוץ משני גזירי עצים. They would add the two, what's it called, loaves? Not loaves, log, 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. מכאן ואילך, That's like the nes. A nes, yeah. Two logs? Yeah, yeah, yeah. During day after day? Talking night and day. Yeah, but they added every day two logs. That is just for a symbol. For the mitzvah. מאי קא משמע לן, it's a mitzvah. מכאן 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 bring After him till then they wouldn't bring wood, and they had to bring because 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 Shavuot, and the לחם הפנים that was there every week. What was the bracha? כל כהן שמגיע 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. מכאן ואילך, after him, נשתלחה מארה, there was a קללה, a curse, in the עומר and שתי הלחם and לחם הפנים. וכל כהן שמגיע 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. It was a berachah. Here, every kohen was able to get כפול המצרי, like a little bean. והצנועים מושכין את ידיהם, and since this is so small and way, so the the the frume, the frumah kohanim would not fight, not push for it, cuz they they don't get much anyway. והגרגרנין נוטלין ואוכלין, the fressers, the the chappers, the the, what you call this in English? Gluttons. The gluttons, they used to take more. But wait, why, why wouldn't they even try to get the little bean? They had to fight for it. Not fight for it, just walk in and say, They wanted it, but they didn't, but they had to fight and they didn't want, so since the other guys were fighting and pushing the lines, pushed around.

ומעשה באחד שנטל חלקו וחלק חבירו. The story, one guy took his, and fighting, he grabbed away the other guy's also. והיו קורין אותו בן חמצן. They called him בן חמצן עד יום מותו. חמצן means a ganav. They called him the the ganav, all his life was called a ganav because of this thing that he did. אמר Rabbah bar Shila, Harav Shila, Rabbah bar Shila said, מאי קרא? Where do we have a pasuk that the word חמץ, חמצן means a גניבה? חמצן means חומץ. What does it mean a גניבה? So it says, אלקי, פסוק 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 ganav. Rava אמר, Rava says a different, מהכא, from a different pasuk. The pasuk says, למדו היטב, learn good, דרשו משפט, and and look for mishpat, huh? Is there a derashah about חמץ? Well, a ganav is חמץ. חמץ is יצר הרע. Yeah. For heat goes, yeah. Then it says, אשרו חמוץ. אשרו means be nice to the חמוץ. What's the חמוץ? The guy that got stolen from! אשרו חמוץ ולא אשרו חומץ. אשרו, be good to the חמוץ, give koach, like you say Yashar 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 גנב. But all this fits with the word that חמוץ means a גנב. So this guy who stole someone else's share, called him the חמצן, the גנב all his life.

תנו רבנן, the Rabbanan have learned: אותה שנה שמת בה שמעון הצדיק, that year that שמעון הצדיק passed away, אמר להם, he said to them, בשנה זו הוא מת. He says, I'm dying this year. אמרו ליה, they said, מנא ידעת? How do you know you're dying this year? אמר להם, he said like this to them, כל יום כיפור היה מזדמן לי זקן אחד, every Yom Kippur, when I went into the קדש הקדשים, I would see this old man, לבוש לבנים, dressed in white, ועטוף לבנים, surrounded with white, ונכנס עמי ויוצא עמי, and he would come in with me, and go out with me. He only comes on the last year of his life? Yeah. The last year, he saw him, he dressed in black. This is not Yom HaKippurim, this is Shimon Hatzadik. עתיק יומין? This is a מדרגה, this is an image of of some מדרגה he saw. Who was it, Eliyahu Hanavi? No, it's not Eliyahu Hanavi. Not עתיק יומין, no? Yeah. עתיק יומין? No, it's a, it's a, אצילות, I don't know which מדרגה. I mean, זקן 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, ונכנס עמי, he went in with me, ולא יצא עמי, he went in with me, but didn't come out with me. לאחר הרגל, so after יום טוב, חלה שבעת ימים, he got sick seven days, ומת, and he died. How old was he when he died? Huh? How old was he? 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 ברכת כהנים, and when the brachot that they said, because his time the people were better, as soon as he died, they said, new תקופה, a new period, and things changed and So which שם did they first? Just say Hashem? No, they used יקוק the real way, we don't say יקוק. They said Yeah. We don't even know how to say it. Right. That's right, yeah. No, we don't know, we don't know the נקודות. That's when we stopped using it always? Yeah. For anything? Yeah. זאגט די Gemara ווייטער, 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 it quotes here from the Gemara in Menachot. So it says here in small words, זאת הברייתא במנחות, במנחות, שלא נסמכה פה, not here, וראוי לחברה כאן, it says I added it here, להיות כל ענינו 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. Gemara wants to bring a re'aya that Beit Chonio was not a house for avodah zarah. As we'll see, Chonio built a Beit Hamikdash, he called it, or whatever it is, in Mitzrayim, a duplicate of the Beit Hamikdash, and they brought korbanot there. And there's a big machloket, was it to the Aibershter, or was it avodah zarah? Now, even if it was to the Aibershter, it was asur, you're not allowed to bring korbanot In Alexandria? In אלכסנדריא של מצרים, in Alexandria. Even if it was for Hashem, it's still an aveirah, because it's שחוטי חוץ, you're not allowed to שחט a korban out of the בית המקדש. But at least it's not avodah zarah, it's a lav, 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 do I mean 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, all right. Says on top Zevachim, it's supposed to say Menachot. Oh, it says on top Zevachim. Oh yeah, Menachot, yeah. That's a that's fixed, 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 did he What's the story with this Chonio? What is 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 can do something good, you know, so he didn't do it l'shem shamayim, but he was מקריב לשם השם. He meant to like do Hashem, which was an aveirah, but it wasn't l'shem shamayim. Soon we'll 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, Shimai and Chonyo, and he said Chonyo should be the Kohen Gadol. You get it? Tzava'ah. Even though Shimai was older, he said Chonyo should be. They were both pretty shvache chevra, both pretty big amei ha'aretz. But so he said, \"I want Chonyo to be.\" נתקנא בו שמעי אחיו, his brother Shimai was jealous, שהיה גדול ממנו שתי שנים ומחצה, two and a half years older than him, and he wanted to be the Kohen Gadol. Was there a voting process that had to happen? Isn't there a vote? Yeah, but if the Kohen Gadol could 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 can say I want Well, you have to have what do you say, an haskamah from the Sanhedrin. But if he said, probably the Sanhedrin would have been maskim. So they would have voted or they would have I know, it's a vote. They have to look into it, and they have to get his haskamah. They have to give their approval. Is that Is there a process that had to be done? Yeah. Is there a way to skirt the vote? But but lafo'al, lafo'al it's a tzava'ah. מצוה לקיים דברי המת. Yeah, but that's his son. Because it No, but it says הכהן הגדול מאחיו, so Rashi says that uh no, בבניו I mean, בבניו, that that if they're ראוי, the son is ראוי, the son is first. So he thought the son is shayach, so I guess he didn't know so much, but he's they're going to teach him. So it says if the son is ראוי in יראת שמים, so you can teach him. But here he was יראת שמים. He said not even in יראת שמים. Huh? You said not even in יראת שמים. We'll see, we'll see. Yeah, yeah, but he thought probably that there will be. So Shimai 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. \"Go, 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 this was not Yom Kippur yet. הלבישו באונקלי, he said put he put him on a leather jacket, וחגרו בצלסל, and he put on a gartel, like not a gartel like we have, but he put on like a belt a belt, a little belt, actually was women's belt, והעמידו אצל המזבח, and he put him by the מזבח and he said, \"Here, this is how you do the avodah.\" And then, אמר להם לאחיו הכהנים, he ran to the other kohanim 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 means to his beloved? To Hashem? No, to his wife! נדר וקיים זה, this guy made a promise to his wife that if he becomes Kohen Gadol, he's going to wear this her clothes. And this is what he put on, and that's what he You see what a stupid guy! And I'll wear it, איזה יום שאשמש בכהונה גדולה, that day that I'm going to start with becoming a כהן גדול, אלבש, \"I'll dress אונקלי שלך ואחגור בצלסל שלך, I'm going to put on your your jacket, I'm going to put on your gartel, your belt.\" בקשו אחיו הכהנים להורגו, so his brothers, 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 מזבח there, והעלה עליו לשם עבודה זרה. This opinion says, and he started bringing korbanot for עבודה זרה. כששמעו חכמים, and the chachamim said, אמרו, they said like this, מה זה שלא ירד לו כך, this guy, the this שמעי, he didn't even become Kohen Gadol and he was jealous of wanting to be כהן גדול, היורד לה, על אחת כמה וכמה, that if someone is a is a in a 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 עגמת נפש you're going to do him? Look, this guy has עגמת נפש without even becoming, just why he didn't become. Someone already gets the position, surely 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, רבי יהודה says לא כך היה מעשה, that's not the story. אלא לא קיבל עליו חוניה, אדרבה, שמעון הצדיק said Chonyah should become Kohen Gadol. Chonyah didn't want for this reason שהיה שמעון אחיו גדול ממנו שתי שנים ומחצה, because his brother was older two and two and a half years. So what happened? So שמעי started becoming, they were going to make שמעי because Chonyah didn't want. ואף על פי כן נתקנא בו חוניה בשמעי אחיו. When Shimon was going to become Shimi become kohen gadol, Chonia, who could have been and gave it up, got jealous. When it came lama'aseh, he got jealous. אמר, he said, so now since he got Chonia got jealous Shimi got jealous of Chonia, Chonia got jealous of Shimi, I meant. אמר ליה, so he said, בוא ואלמדך סדר עבודה. So Chonia said to Shimi, a safe story, I'm going to teach you what to do. הלבישו באונקלי וחגרו בצלצול, so he dressed him with the clothes, והעמידו אצל מזבח, ואמר להם לאחיו הכהנים, and 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, באותו 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 Chonia was So Shimi told the כהנים that it was all Chonia's fault. Chonia is the one who told me. So ביקשו אחיו להרוג את חוניה. So now I want you to kill Chonia. רץ מפניהם, he ran away, ורצו אחריו, they ran after him. Who wanted to kill him? The כהנים? Yeah. Because he tricked, yeah, he tricked the other guy and he got him to this. Yeah. Good. No, so he wanted to get him to to do עבודה in the wrong way. They're upset, yeah. So he ran away. ורץ, what did he say, he ran to the בית המלך, the house of the king, ורצו אחיו כל ורצו אחריו, and they chased him. כל הרואה אותו, this is the guy. And he ran הלך לו לאלכסנדריא של מצרים, he ran to Alexandria. ובנה מזבח, he built a מזבח, והעלה עליו לשם שמים, and there he put up, we're talking about the באשע. Now that it says, והיה ביום ההוא יהיה מזבח לה' בתוך ארץ מצרים. The pasuk says that a time will come that there will be a mizbeach to Hashem in מצרים, and that refers to this בית חוניה. כשאמרו חכמים דבר, when the חכמים heard this, אמרו, they said, מה זה שברח ממנו, what does this guy who חוניה, who ran away from being a כהן גדול, he לכתחילה gave up the being a כהן גדול, כך, nevertheless, he got jealous of the כהונה גדולה, המבקש לירד לו, somebody who wants it, עבודה is going to be careful to push him away, אחת כמה וכמה don't push him away. Huh? Whichever way.