Says וכן, what time is the bris tomorrow? What time is the bris? 10:00. Let's get seated. Davening there at 9:30 and then 10:00 right after 10:00. I think the מוהל can't get there earlier. Somewhere? Somewhere, I think. Okay, so it's talking here about fasting and about blowing שופר when you're looking for help. So here also it says, וכן שפסקו גשמים בין גשם לגשם, if מ' יום, there are certain times when the rains and it's supposed to rain, if it's more than 40 days between one rain and the other, מתריעין עליהם. You're allowed to already blow שופר then, which means they're allowed to already דאווען to the אויבערשטער because מפני שהוא מכת בצורת. That already is a מכה of בצורת. בצורת means like a hunger, but we'll see. The

גמרא asks, מאי מכת בצורת? What's בצורת? Because in one place we find a לשון that it's called כפנא. כפנא means a hunger. בצורת is another expression for hunger. What's the difference? The גמרא says, אמר רב חנינא, סאה בסלע ושכיחא, if you could get a סאה of wheat, let's say, for one סלע, and there's plenty of it, that's בצורת. It's it's pretty expensive to get a סאה for a whole a whole סלע, but it's available, it's just very expensive. That's called בצורת. ד' ולא שכיחא, even if you get a lot, you could get four סאה for one סלע, so it's pretty cheap, but לא שכיחא, but it's not available, כפנא, that's already called כפנא, that's already even the worst level. אמר רבי יוחנן, רבי יוחנן said like this: לא שנו, it's all said, בזמן שהמעות בזול ופירות ביוקר, money is cheap, which means money is available, but the food costs a lot. אבל מעות ביוקר ופירות בזול, but if you don't have money, even though the פירות is cheap, but you don't have money to buy it, מתריעין עליהם מיד. Right away you could blow שופר, you could start fasting, it's already a big problem. דאמר רבי יוחנן, רבי יוחנן said, נהירנא, I remember, כד הוו קיימי ד' סאין בסלע, there was a time there was four סאה for a סלע, which is very cheap to buy the food, והוו נפישי נפיחי כפנא בטבריא, in טבריה there were so many people who died from hunger. Why? Nobody had money. מדלית איסר, they had no money. If you don't have money, it could be very cheap, but if you can't get it, you have no money, that's the worst thing. What about if you have money, but there is simply no food? Why is that the worst? So you heard before, that's called בצורת, it's also a problem, but not as bad. Why is the worst thing? Maybe you could maybe you could borrow it. If there's no food, that's not you can't borrow it either. Yeah, but here you can't you have to have money to get food, that's the first thing. That's that's what he that's the חידוש of the גמרא that But if there's no food, it doesn't matter how much money How there is no food? It's it's hard to get, but you can get it. It's a different story. All I'm saying is, I'm... see, we're talking about a מציאות. I guess the מציאות is that if that's happens and if you don't have money, it's hard to get. People don't give so fast and people don't lend, won't give you because they know you don't have money to pay, so תניא, it says in a ברייתא, אמר ר' אלעזר,

ר' אלעזר בן פרטא said: מיום שחרב בית המקדש, from the day that the בית המקדש was destroyed, נעשו גשמים צמוקין לעולם. So now the rain is dried up. In other words, it's not so clear. Used to be till the חורבן בית המקדש, things were ממש מסודר. We would have rain at certain times and that's right time, enough rain, and not too much, not After חורבן בית המקדש, the the whole world became crazy. יש Only on Friday nights? On Friday nights, maybe Wednesday nights, too. Would not rain? Would would not rain. Friday nights? No, Friday night would rain and Wednesday night would rain. Would rain. Because those are times people are not outside. Oh, Friday night. So Friday night people are at home, unless you go to שלום זכר, but otherwise, what's Wednesday night? So there's a famous joke, it's not a true פשט. Once asked somebody, it says, what's ממילא Friday night, what's Wednesday night? Why aren't people on the street? Because it's raining! Because why? Because it's raining! No, the real thing it says, because people were careful then, cuz לילית, the שדים, לילית used to דריי זיך on the streets on Wednesday night. Only Wednesday night? Yeah, Wednesday night was the main Abraham's first wife? No, אדם הראשון's. אדם הראשון, I meant to say, yeah. Who? Who's talking about? לילית. They call her Lilith in English, לילית. Why was she there every Wednesday? I don't know. Wednesday night she דריי זיך. Actually, רש\"י in חומש on ונתתי גשמיכם בעתם, so רש\"י says אלו לילי שבתות, and there's another גירסא, בלילי רביעית. And the שאלה is, does it mean Wednesday night or Tuesday night? Says Wednesday, so does it mean Wednesday after Wednesday or does it mean Tuesday, which is Tuesday night, which is Wednesday? Whatever. But here it says like this: יש שנה שגשמיה מרובין could have years where there's a lot of rain. יש שנה שגשמיה מועטין, certain years it's a very little rain. יש

שנה שגשמיה יורדין בזמנם, certain years the rain comes on time, proper time. יש שנה שאין גשמיה יורדין בזמנם, certain years they don't come on time. And the גמרא says, שנה שגשמיה יורדין בזמנם למה הדבר דומה? If the rain comes on time, this is similar לעבד שנתן לו רבו פרנסתו באחד בשבת, like a servant who has to prepare all the food, he gets his money on Friday, on Sunday sorry, Sunday, he has in advance, he's able to go buy food. נמצאת, it comes out, עיסה נאפית כתיקונה, you could bake the bread on time properly, ונאכלת כתיקונה, you eat it properly. שנה שאין גשמיה יורדין בזמנם, if they don't come at the right time, למה הדבר דומה, what's it like? לעבד שנתן לו רבו פרנסתו בערב שבת. Imagine Friday you have to prepare for ערב שבת, he just gives you the money on Friday. נמצאת עיסה נאפית שלא כתיקונה, you can't bake the bread properly, ונאכלת שלא כתיקונה, you don't eat it properly, fine. שנה שגשמיה מרובין למה הדבר דומה? A year that there's a lot of rain, what is it like? לעבד שנתן לו רבו פרנסתו בבת אחת, like a servant that his master gave him his money all together, in other words for a long time. Now there's a problem here. It's better if you get not a lot at a time. What's the מעלה? We'll learn inside, but just to explain before, because the words are not so clear. Look at California now. Ah? Look at California now, flooded. Flooding, so it's too much, but what's here, but here's a different ווארט it says. Yeah, but here it's saying something else. He

says, gives a משל, a משל if if you have flour, and you grind it, there's always left after you take out the flour, you take the wheat, you grind it, you take out the flour, there's always a little bit left inside the the mill. So, if you put in a lot at the same time, משל leftover will be leftover let's say an ounce, I'm just giving a משל. Whether you put in 10 lb or a 100 lb, the leftover is going to be the same. If you put in 10 lb separately each time, so you're going to lose 10 times the ounce. If you're losing in a 100 lb at the same time, you lose 1 oz for all. Same thing here, he says, so משל, נמצאת, it comes out, ריחים טוחנות מן הכור מה שטוחנות מן הקב. If you have in if you give him everything at the same time, it means that it's grinding from a כור, which is a lot, the same way as מן הקב. So נמצאת עיסה נאכלת מן הכור כמי נאכלת מן הקב. That's good? That's good. שנה שגשמיה מועטין, if you don't have a lot of rain and you go slowly, למה הדבר דומה? לעבד שנתן לו רבו פרנסתו מעט מעט, give him slowly. נמצאת ריחים מה שטוחנות מן הכור טוחנות מן הקב. So what happens is it comes out what you grind from a כור you get from a קב, and every קב you get the same amount, so if every קב there's left over there's a loss of 10 of an ounce, you lose 10 oz. If you put in a lot, then you lose only 1 oz at the same time. נמצאת עיסה נאכלת מן הכור כמי נאכלת מן הקב, it eats up from a כור the same way, in other words each each קב eats up separate, so when you have a כור, you'll have let's say 10 קבין there, whatever it is. And the same thing here, what's the משל here? The מעלה of getting it all at once? Getting it all at once, yeah. The מעלה of getting it all at once. And the same thing with the rain. When it rains slowly, part of the water is wasted. It seeps into the ground and it gets wasted into places where you don't need it. Wouldn't it be better to have rain a little bit at a time? I guess it's more separated than you sp- than you should. That's probably what it means, more than 40 days. Because when it rains, there's a certain amount that gets lost. So if it rains a lot, let's say let's say if it rains a 100 gal, a gallon is lost, because a gallon seeps in and it loses it. So if it rains a 100 gal, here's a gallon that lost. If it rains 10 gal at a time, every time that it rains you lose a gallon, and when it rains in in in next time it rains again you lose again, so you lose a lot of water. So this is worse. דבר אחר, another פשט, די מען ש- גשמיה מרובין, if you have a lot of rain, למה הדבר דומה, what's it like? לאדם שמגבל את הטיט. A person who makes cement, takes the cement and mixes it with water. אם יש לו מים רבים, have a lot of water, מים אינם כלין, the water is not used up, והטיט מגובל יפה, and the the mud the the cement becomes good. אם יש לו מים מועטין, you have a little, so use the water, מים כלין, there's no more water left, והטיט אינו מגובל יפה, and it doesn't work good. So it's better if you have a lot of rain at the same time than you have slowly, obviously in intervals which is too much. זאגט די גמרא ווייטער תנו רבנן, די רבנן האבן געלערנט, פעם אחת עלו כל ישראל לרגל לירושלים. This is a

famous famous story. There was once that all the יידן came to ירושלים for יום טוב, ולא היה להם מים לשתות, there was not enough water for all of them to drink. הלך נקדימון בן גוריון, נקדימון בן גוריון went אצל הגמון אחד, he came to one officer, one places, one rich guy, a גוי, שהיה שם, that was there. אמר לו, he said to him, הלוני י\"ב מעיינות מים לעולי רגלים. Lend me 12 wells reservoirs of water, lend them to me. ואני אתן לך י״ב מעיינות מים, and I'll I'll make sure you get back by a certain date, you get back with water. אם לאו, if it's not going to be back at that time, הריני נותן לך שנים עשר ככרי כסף. I will give you 12 ככרי כסף. וקבע לו זמן, and he set which date it's going to happen. כיון שהגיע זמנו, and the date came, ולא ירדו גשמים, no rain yet. It's the last day, the day. There's no rain yet. And he, this guy, this גוי, he hoped it's not going to rain, so he will not have given him back the 12 reservoirs, and he'll have to give him 12 ככרי כסף. בשחרית שלח ליה, so in the morning, the גוי sent him, שגר לי, send me, אי מים אי מעות, give me the water, if not, give me the money. שיש לי בידך, the water, the money that you owe me. שלח ליה, so he answered him, עדיין יש לי שהות ביום, it's just the morning, I have till the evening. חמי בצהרים, came the afternoon, חמי במנחה, towards the evening. שלח ליה, he sent him again, שגר לי אי מים אי מעות, give me the water or money. שלח ליה, he answered, עדיין יש לי שהות ביום. There's still, it was still enough time in the day, was close to the שקיעה. ליגלג עליו אותו הגמון, he laughed at him. אמר לו, he said, אפשר כל השנה כולה לא ירדו גשמים, possible like this, a whole year didn't rain, ועכשיו ירדו גשמים? Now it's going to rain? The last The last half hour it'll rain to fill up these מעיינות? מיד נכנס לבית המרחץ, and the גוי went into the bathhouse בשמחה, in a great שמחה. עד שאותו הגמון נכנס בשמחה לבית המרחץ, while he was going into the בית המרחץ, נכנס נקדימון בן גוריון לבית המקדש. He went to the בית המקדש. כשהוא עצוב, he was sad. The other guy went in בשמחה, he was sad. ונתעטף, and he covered himself, I guess with a טלית, ועמד בתפילה, and he davened to the אייבערשטער, ואמר לפניו, he said to him like this, to the אייבערשטער, רבונו של עולם, גלוי וידוע לפניך, you know for sure שלא לכבודי עשיתי, I did not What I did, I didn't do it for my honor, ולא לכבוד בית אבא עשיתי, not for the honor of my family, my father's house, אלא לכבודך, I did it for you, כדי שיהיו מים מצויין לעולי רגלים, so the עולי רגלים should have water. So why should I have to suffer? מיד עלו עבים, right away the clouds came, וירדו להם גשמים, and it rained. עד שנתמלאו כל המעיינות, all the wells got full, והוסיפו, and there was even extra, in other words, it got filled up more than what he took. No, wait. יצא אותו הגמון מן המרחץ, so he went out of the מרחץ, and נקדימון בן גוריון יצא מבית המקדש, and he came out of the בית המקדש. כשפגעו זה בזה, when they met each other, אמר ליה, so he says to נקדימון בן גוריון, תן לי דמי... No, בן גוריון said to him, תן לי דמי מים יתירים שיש לי בידך. I gave you more water than I took from you, you owe me money now! אמר ליה, so he said to him, יודע אני שלא הפך הקדוש ברוך הוא את עולמו אלא בשבילך, I know the אייבערשטער made this all for you, אבל עדיין יש לי פתחון פה עליך, I still have an excuse why you still owe me the money, שאוציא ממך מעות, I have an excuse to take my money from you, שכבר שקעה חמה, when it rained, it was after the שקיעה, ומים ברשותי ירדו, when it rained, it rained mine. So then that doesn't count. חזר ונכנס נקדימון בן גוריון לבית המקדש, נקדימון בן גוריון went back into the בית המקדש, ונתעטף ועמד בתפילה, he gets dressed, and put on his davened, אמר לפניו, he said to the אייבערשטער like this, רבונו של עולם, הודע שיש לך אהובים בעולמך, show the world that you have friends in this world. מיד נשבה רוח ונתפזרו העבים, right away the wind came, the clouds moved, וזרחה חמה. The sun came out. It was really really after the שקיעה. אייבערשטער made a miracle, the sun came out. Huh? I don't know what it did. It says the clouds, took away the clouds. Because it was. No, but he showed him it wasn't, so apparent that it was. The sun was I don't know how the אייבערשטער did it, but the אייבערשטער made that it was that the place of the sun by the שקיעה was before, so I guess he moved it back. No, because by יעקב אבינו we got it back. By יעקב אבינו, when the sun came out, the שקיעה came early, then later זרחה לו השמש, the sun later on, but when he was hurt from his So זרחה came early, so ממילא it stay evened out. This, I don't know, doesn't say. אמר אותו הגמון, so this guy, גוי, said, אלמלי שנקדרה חמה, if not for the sun to show now, היה לי פתחון פה עליך, I would have a good excuse, שאוציא ממך את מעותי, that I should take your money. But now you are right. תנא, we learned, לא נקדימון שמו, his real name was not נקדימון, אלא בוני שמו, למה נקרא שמו נקדימון? Why is it called נקדימון? שנקדרה חמה בעבורו, that the sun נקדה means לשון קדם, early, the sun Huh? נקדרה. נקדרה. נקדרה, okay. נקדרה. Well, we never pronounce the words the way it's על פי within the print in the גמרא. Yeah. Never. I mean, not everywhere. Not everywhere, a lot of words, but not... Broke through. That's his father's name. Does it mean broke broke through? So that's the whether it's see נקדימון is לשון קדימה. נקדרה, see there's two נקד נקדרה or נקדמה. So if you use the גירסא נקדמה it's קודם, נקדרה means the sun shined through at a time when it shouldn't. Back in תנו רבנן, שלושה there are two גירסאס here, נקדרה or נקדמה להם חמה.

There are three people that the sun was changed for them, אלו הן, משה, יהושע, ונקדימון בן גוריון. נקדימון בן גוריון הא דאמרן, נקדימון was what we just said. יהושע, where do we find יהושע? Very simple. דכתיב it says, וידם השמש, it says, יהושע said, שמש בגבעון דום ירח וכולי וכולי. Whatever, and then so the sun stopped, and ירח עמד, this moon stopped. So we see a פסוק clearly. So we know this story of נקדימון בן גוריון, because of that's the story, the גמרא says we know יהושע. אלא משה מנלן? Where do we see by משה that happened? אמר ר' אלעזר, אתיא אחל מאחל. גזירה שוה אחל מאחל. כתיב הכא, אחל תת פחדך, by משה it says, השם said, I started showing the fear on the גוים after סיחון ועוג. וכתיב התם by יהושע it says, אחל גדלך, I started showing your greatness, so the same word. So just like, huh? אחל תת פחדך. אחל תת, yeah, what did I say? אחל פחדך, I mean אחל תת פחדך. And here so obviously whatever happened by יהושע happened here also. רב שמואל בר נחמני אמר, רב שמואל בר נחמני says from a different לימוד, אתיא תת, the word תת. כתיב הכא here it says תת, אחל תת פחדך it says by משה, כתיב התם there it says, ביום תת ה' את האמרי, the day השם gave over the אמרי. And how did they win the war, because of what happened by יהושע, so we have a גזירה שוה, and there we learn out. ר' יוחנן אמר, ר' יוחנן says, אתיא מגופיה דקרא, we don't need a גזירה שוה. You know of a direct story about or in the גזירה שוה of what happened with משה? That's not written in תנ\"ך. Yeah, it's a good שאלה. Well, it's a good שאלה, but באמת you can ask that שאלה in half of the גמרא, half of מדרשים. Is there a story about about a war that משה... So, you know how many stories we have in חז\"ל, in מדרשים, it happened with אברהם, happened with... you can always ask why doesn't that say it? They threw אברהם אבינו into into the fire, how come it doesn't say in חומש? And the רמב\"ן has a big שטיקל on that. Yeah. רמב\"ן says because if you would tell that story you would have to tell the story of what they said. רש\"י asks, why isn't... רש\"י brings it from מדרש. No, no, he says you would have to talk באריכות about the עבודה זרה and the תורה doesn't want to go into talking about the עבודה זרה. That's what he says on this. But I gave that example because of there's רמב\"ן. But I'm saying בכלל there are so many stories that we find in the גמרא, we find in מדרשים, we find in all מדרשים and you can always ask why doesn't it say it. מדרש רבה, ספר הישר, look ספר הישר tells the stories in this week's פרשה with with יוסף, they sold יוסף, oh the whole thing how they sold him and how he was crying and how he went by קבורת רחל and all everything. You look in the מדרשים, doesn't say, how come? It's a גזירה שוה, it's meaning a לימוד to learn something that happened, that's more of of more of a stretch, isn't it, than than than the than the מדרש? גזירה שוה is is given מן השמים, in הלכה למשה מסיני. So it's more Okay. Then the גמרא says, ר' יוחנן says, מגופיה דקרא, the פסוק itself. It says in פסוק that אשר ישמעון שמעך ורגזו וכולי מפניך. The אייבערשטער said they'll hear you, and all the nations will be afraid of you. So what could happen to משה רבינו that all the nations in the world should know? Maybe now, something happens to יידן here, through the internet they know about it all the way. How could they know what's going to happen? אלא מאי, אימתי ורגזו וכולי מפניך, when will they be afraid of you from all over? בשעה שנקדמה לה חמה למשה, when the sun came out for משה רבינו early. He said only ניסים that the whole world would hear of. By קריעת ים סוף, how did the world know about it? No, that's later. But בשעת מעשה, didn't you know, all the water split, the אייבערשטער made something special. Oh, but why special things happened. But if they'd not, they wouldn't know. Yeah, everything split, right? All water in the world. That's how they know. Today you know, today they would know about that. Yeah. They get a video, someone take a video.