Hey, סימן נ״ה. תנו רבנן. תנו רבנן, געלערנט האבן די רבנן. פריער לערנט מען, נאכדעם וועט מען רבנן. קענסט זיין א רבנן פאר מען לערנט? פריער תנו און נאך רבנן. נ״ה. סמ״ז. Yeah, the pasuk says, ונתתי גשמיכם בעתם. We started actually a few lines. אייבערשטער said, \"I'll give you rain if you do the right things בחוקתי תלכו, ונתתי גשמיכם בעתם, I'll give you rain at the right time.\" That means not only the right time, the right type of rain. לא שכורה ולא צמאה, not אנגעשיקט, not like too much water, not too little, not like thirsty, אלא בינונית. שכל זמן שהגשמים מרובים, if there's too much rain, מדשדשין את הארץ, דאשטין דאס ארץ, it ruins the earth, ואינה עושה פירות, it can't grow. So it has to be not too much, but not too little. Too little vadai doesn't grow. דבר אחר, another pshat, בעתם means in its time, בלילי רביעיות ובלילי שבתות, Wednesday night and Friday night. And the

reason is why? So we said Friday night it says because people are home, people don't go out, unless there's Shalom Zachar, but otherwise What do you mean, what about shul? Friday night means after. After, yeah. Come home and eat the meal, when you come to the meal. But I'm saying if there's Shalom Zachar, it's not a problem, okay. And why Wednesday night? It says רוח רעה, no? It says yeah, the שדים were there before, I mentioned it before. Why does Rashi in Chumash only bring down this this one? There is a גירסא, the other one is also. Yeah? It's Rashi in Chumash, it's פשוטו של מקרא that fits the klal. The Rebbe, when he learned Rashi, he said Rashi is not doesn't bring the Gemaras. Even when he brings a Gemara, it's only because whatever fits the pshat. Wednesday night is not a פשוטו של מקרא thing that that. Actually, it doesn't mean Wednesday night, probably it means Tuesday night, just like לילי שבת doesn't mean Shabbos, it means Friday night. But anyways, because then the שדים go, but in פשוטו של מקרא we don't find that. So why doesn't he bring מדשדשין את הארץ? That's more more simple. No, בעתם is time. Why is it simple? בעתם is time, not place. Smacht בעתם. The first פשט בעתם doesn't mean time, it means the right way, but Peshat is time. But anyway, even in Rashi there's a girsa with parentheses, some are בלילי רביעיות. But the famous she'eilah, why is לילי רביעיות is a good time to The velt zogt a kvartl, no? They said a vort 100 times. A vos? Why are people not outside בלילי רביעיות? Because it's raining. Agra bat Machlat. It says Wednesday night, they get married. Yeah, אלא אי איתמר איתמר, שכך מצינו בימי שמעון בן שטח. We

find the time of Shimon ben Shetach, which was a good time when Yidden were fine, שירדו להם גשמים בלילי רביעיות ובלילי שבתות, it rained Wednesday night, or Tuesday night, and Friday night. And it lichorah rain twice a week is not Whatever it rains, it's not enough. Lichorah it should rain, but still we see עד שנעשו חטים כשתי כליות, the wheat were the size of of of of kidneys, שעורים כגרעיני זיתים, the barley was the size of the the pits of the olives, ועדשים, and the lentils, כדינרי זהב, the size of a golden coin. And that was very big, and two times a week was enough. Why? Because if the Aibershter does it as a brachah, it's a brachah. וצררו מהם דוגמא לדורות, and the chachamim took some of it and hid it that later on they should be able to show. That what? להודיע, to tell people, כמה חטא גורם. If it doesn't happen, it's because your fault, you're sinning. שנאמר, it says, עונותיכם הטו אלה, your aveirot turned it, וחטאתיכם מנעו הטוב מכם, and your aveirot, they held back the good. וכן מצינו בימי הורדוס. Where where are these? Did they show them? Huh? Did they hide them away or we're going to see them? Hidden, I guess so. Like forever, like the manna? Yeah. It's Thank you. That's ledorot, in the inyan. How long this stuff is going to last? Why? If you put it in an airtight bottle. Also in Masada they found food that you could eat because it Dates? Huh? Dates, dry. Not only dried, no, they also found wheat. They found wheat? Yeah, which was and it's how long? 2,000 years old. Yeah, how? Because it's so hot there, just like freezing preserves, heat preserves. It's so hot there and it was in the sand and everything, it preserved it. What did they What is preservative called? It's כפיפת, כפיפת, no? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And

what happened the time of Herod? We know הורדוס בזמן שהיו עסוקים בבנין בית המקדש, the building of Beit Hamikdash. Famous story in the beginning of Bava Batra, Herod killed all the chachamim, so later he asked Shimon ben Shetach what should he do to forgive. He said, \"Rebuild the Beit Hamikdash.\" So he said, \"I'm going to rebuild this, I have to ask permission from Rome.\" So what he did was, he said, \"Okay, start building.\" He sent a messenger to Rome, it took a year to get there and it took a year to get back. So when they came to Rome, they said to him, he said to the shaliach, \"If you didn't start yet, don't do anything. If you knocked it down already, don't rebuild it.\" If you started building, then what should we do? Lif'al, by the time they came back, it was already middle building. But there is different opinions what he actually did, if he just renovated or he pashut knocked down the whole building, knocked down and rebuilt a whole new building. But it was the most beautiful building. It says מי שלא ראה בנין הורדוס, לא ראה בנין מפואר מימיו, never saw. So when they were working on building during the time of הורדוס, שירדו להם גשמים בלילות, it only rained at night and it seems like mefarshim say it means takeh the two times a week, only two nights a week, and lemachar, the next day, נשבה הרוח, the wind blew, ונתפזרו העבים, the clouds spread out, went, were cleared, וזרחה החמה, the sun shined, because if it would continue raining into the day, can't work on the Beit Hamikdash. כל אחד משכים למלאכתו, everyone came to work, להודיע שמלאכת שמים בידיהם. It showed that the Eibershter accepted as they're working מלאכת שמים. She'eilah is what did they do during the interim at the time when the Beit Hamikdash was knocked down? What did what did they do with korbanot? Well, that's probably the idea that he didn't knock it down. He just took part by part. That's not a she'eilah because the din is מקריבין אף על פי שאין בית. As long as you have the mizbe'ach in the right place, you could build it you could bring korbanot without Beit Hamikdash. That's why Yechiel miParis wanted to bring the Korban Pesach. So what's the question then? Huh? Then what's the question? No, that question Some say that he didn't knock it down, right? Not because it doesn't say he knocked it down, it says he fixed it, because it says that But even if he did knock it down So yes, so that's the answer. The she'eilah, do they have a mizbe'ach? Did they What's the ta'am of Yechiel miParis by the way? Because there's a lot of rishonim that want Not a lot, there's a lot. No, he wanted, no one else wanted. He wanted only Korban Pesach because it's קרבן ציבור and טומאה הותרה בציבור. If it's tamei, you're טמא, טומאה הותרה בציבור. Weren't there later people that also wanted to do it based on his psak? Uh no. No? So, I remember reading about it somewhere. No, Schlesinger wanted to blow shofar by Shabbos by the by the Kotel, by the I'm confusing it. Schlesinger, it was a Rav Schlesinger, it was like a hundred years ago in Yerushalayim. Had a ta'anah that not only in the time of the Beit Hamikdash, but even now, in the מקום המקדש, you have to blow shofar on Shabbos. Yeah. And what מקום המקדש would be But by the כותל. By the כותל yeah. Yeah, the מקום on by the by the הר הבית. So, he wanted it. לפועל, I don't think they they let the the other רבנים were against him. But uh he wanted to do it. A taanah, that's a The The The Rif blew. The Rif blew shofar on Shabbos Rosh Hashanah, because he טענה'ד when it says בית דין הגדול, it doesn't mean the בית דין הגדול, בית דין הגדול שבדור. The biggest בית דין of the דור, he was the biggest בית דין of the דור. The Rebbe once spoke about it באריכות. The Rebbe טענה'ד based on that that he thinks It's not in the מקור, this is It's a little uh I I just heard that מסתמא מ'געפינט נאך אמאל עפעס א פסק כתב יד פון א ראשון וואס ער שרייבט אזא זאך, out of this world. He says that the Rif with his בית דין probably was מקדש החודש על פי ראיה. The Rebbe said that, did he? Wow. You don't understand, the other רבנים didn't agree and maybe made a different Yom Tov than somebody else. I know, it's such a בלבול. But the Rebbe said it. I'm saying, as long as there's no מקור to it, the Rebbe said himself that there's So, maybe that did he, everything would come around? No, it made according to it like the time of the Sanhedrin, they did it up here. And you're saying he was at that מדרגה, but didn't actually do it. No, the Rebbe said he did. Ah. Okay, that's that's that's like That's what it is. Yeah, but I'm But you have to find a מקור to this. The Rebbe said probably, there was So the Rebbe said, it's mistaber, and I'm just saying, my mir is mistaber that מסתמא קען מען נאך אמאל געפינען עפעס א ראשון, עפעס א פסק כתב יד פון א ראשון וואס ער שרייבט אזא זאך, because that's a this is an outlandish thing to say that the Rif is מקדש על פי ראיה. Yeah, it shouldn't it shouldn't it shouldn't be documented by anybody else? Contemporaries of the Rif didn't write it down. I don't know. Adrabah! They should criticize it. Fallen, fallen against Someone I remember when when it I remember I was listening to the hookup. There was a weekday farbrengen here. It was mamash, but the Rebbe said it based on the sevara, that they he was he blew shofar on Shabbos because he held that this is the בית דין ש... so mimeila the Rebbe said על דרך זה. Blowing shofar is is not נוגע to the גאנצע כלל. That's true. What should I tell you? This is uh Did Herod do something with Masada? Did he redecorate that also? Something He built Masada, he He built it, actually. He has a palace there, there's a palace, Herod's palace there. He never was there. Right, but he built the palace. He built a palace in case he'll have to run away from because he was also under Rome. He wasn't independent. He was under Rome, he wasn't He was like the king there, but he so he was afraid in case he'll have to escape. He was the local He made himself an escape place in Masada. Real estate developer. Yeah, all the buildings today you have from בית שני is from him. Everything that remained is כמעט all of it's from Herod's. Even Me'arat HaMachpelah, I was going to say Even Me'arat... no? Half of Me'arat HaMachpelah, yes. It's not from him, it's much later. No, it's from the Crusades, but the Crusades built 8, 900 years ago. The Crusades built on his on his structure. Maybe he was Half of the structure is still from him.

זאגט די Gemara weiter, שטייט אין די Mishnah: מעשה שאמרו לחוני המעגל: התפלל שירדו גשמים. The Mishnah says there was a story, they told Choni HaMe'agel: Daven for rain. So, he says here: מעשה זה כותבו בקיצור באידך פירקא ובברייתא זו, even though the Mishnah mentions it, but the Mishnah is not באריכות, and the ברייתא it's more באריכות. תנו רבנן: פעם אחת יצא רוב אדר ולא ירדו גשמים. Once already most of אדר passed and there was no rain and He felt like it would be a hunger. אמרו לו לחוני המעגל, they told חוני המעגל, התפלל, daven, וירדו גשמים, it should rain. התפלל ולא ירדו, he davened, it didn't help, didn't rain. עג עוגה, he made a circle in the ground, ועמד בתוכה, and he stood inside, כדרך שעשה חבקוק הנביא, like חבקוק did, שנאמר, it says, על משמרתי אעמדה. He says, \"I'm standing here, I'm not moving till you help, till you give it.\" I just wonder if he was already called this before he made the circle? No, we call him like that. Not for rain. He might have made other circles before this story. He also davened. Did he also say that he's not moving from the circle? Yeah, משמע like that. The מהרש״א says because there's an extra לשון in the פסוק there, it's mashma that he did the same thing. The Gemara quotes him as the same. אמר לפניו, and he said to him, to the אויבערשטער, רבונו של עולם, בניך שמו פניהם עלי, your children put their face to me, they're counting on me, שאני כבן בית לפניך, I'm like a family member of your house. נשבע אני בשמך הגדול, I swear by your holy, big name, שאיני זז מכאן עד שתרחם על בניך, I'm not moving from here till you have rachmanut on your children. התחילו הגשמים מנטפין, so it started dripping, small drops. אמרו לו תלמידיו, so his talmidim said, רבי, ראינוך ולא נמות. We see you now, but if this happens we're going to die, we want not to die, because this is not going to do any good. כמדומן כמדומין, we think, כמדומינו שאין הגשמים יורדין אלא להתיר שבועתך, the only reason it's raining is your not because to help us, because of your שבועה, but it doesn't do any good, it's אמר, he said, לא כך שאלתי, he said to the אויבערשטער, \"I didn't ask for that, אלא גשמי בורות שיחין ומערות, I asked for rain that will fill up the the the the pits, fill up the holes.\" ירדו בזעף, so it started raining and then with such כעס, such, right? עד שכל טיפה וטיפה כמלוא פי חבית, each drop was the size of a bucket. ושיערו חכמים, the חכמים משער, שאין כל טיפה פחותה מלוג, a לוג. How is it possible? A rain has That's the only thing you want millions of rain drops. That's why it's called גבורות גשמים, גבורה. Millions times a לוג. That's the only thing you want When the rain comes down, there's millions of rain drops that are coming down, each rain drop is a לוג. You know what will happen? That's what they said, אמרו לו תלמידיו רבי ראינוך ולא נמות, we see you, we don't want to die, כמדומין, and we think, שאין הגשמים יורדין אלא לשחת עולם, it's raining to destroy the world, that's what's going to happen. אמר לפניו, so he said to the אויבערשטער, לא כך שאלתי, this is not what I asked for, אלא גשמי רצון ברכה ונדבה, want good with good rain, for a ברכה, נדבה. ירדו כתיקונן, it started raining normal, עד שיצאו ישראל מירושלים להר הבית, יידן had to leave Jerusalem and go to a higher mountain, מפני הגשמים, it was raining and it cut, so it started flooding. But not flooding like a flood, but it started to get a lot of rain. אמרו לו, they said, רבי, כשם שהתפללת עליהם שירדו, just like you davened that it should come down, כך התפלל עליהם וילכו להם, daven that it should go away. כדרך, it's a quote from the Mishnah, אמר להם Still in the circle? Uh, yeah. אמר להם, he said to them, צאו וראו, go see, אם נמחת אבן הטועים. In the Mishnah it says, he said, go find out, he wanted to see if אבן הטועים was a stone outside of the Beis HaMikdash, was like a place where people could get up and make announcements. Just like if someone lost an object and wanted to announce it, it says you have to announce it, they would get up on the אבן הטועים, so it was a high stone. Why was it called טועין? טועין, that's where people That's טועים? טועים, that's לשון טועים, לשון saying things. So they so he said, go see if that's covered, because he knew how high it was, and if it's more than that, then ready that's ready enough, but till then, it's a lot of rain. What's the big deal with the circle? I mean, if he stands in the circle, doesn't stand in the circle, what does Hashem care? How does he make an oath like that? What's the problem there? He makes an oath, and just wants to force Hashem. What's the pasuk? So like the story with the with the Ruzhiner, who said, we say that in davening, ברוך אתה ה׳ שומע תפלה, so he gave a mashal. There was a father who wanted his child to learn or whatever, so there were apples, and he says, \"Do you want an apple?\" So he says, \"Yeah.\" So he says, \"I'm not going to give it to you until you learn whatever.\" Nemt the kid, and makes a ברכה, בורא פרי העץ. The father had no choice. You're not going to let him make a berachah levatalah. So he had to give it to him. Same thing, we say a ברכה, שומע תפלה, you have to answer it. Same thing, he swore. The Oibershter had no choice. He swore and the Oibershter had to listen, the Oibershter wouldn't make him swear false. And is the ego maybe you know, deciding to you know you know, to get the rain, so The Oibershter probably has a separate accounting with him, you know, for going Oh, so the Gemara is going to say that. The Gemara is going to say that, yeah. אמר להם, he said to them, כך מקובלני, he told the people, he told the people the people, \"This is what I was mekabel: אין מתפללין על רוב הטובה. Right. You don't daven for for a lot of good. You don't daven the Oibershter should give you too too much money, you don't daven for that, that you should stop. אף על פי כן הביאו לי פר הודאה. He says, \"Put this and I'll I'll daven. Bring me a korban, bring me, it was in the time of the Beis HaMikdash, bring me a par which I'll bring as a thanks to the Oibershter.\" הביאו לו פר הודאה וסמך שתי ידיו עליו. and made the semichah, and אמר לפניו, he said to the אייבערשטער, רבונו של עולם, עמך ישראל שהוצאתם ממצרים, you know, that you took out of מצרים, אינם יכולים לקבל לא רוב טובה. Yidden can't take not all too much good, ולא רוב פורעניות, not too much פורעניות, not too much punishment. כעסת עליהם, you are angry at them, אינם יכולים לקבל, you're angry at them and give them פורעניות, they can't take. השפעת להם רוב טובות, אינם יכולים לקבל. You give them so much good, they can't take it either. Why can't we take so much good? Like here now, so much rain. It's a good thing, it's Too much rain. It's flooding and everything. יהי רצון מלפניך, let it be the will שיפסקו הגשמים, that the rain stop. יהא רווח בעולם. Too much rain is not good, so that's his theory. Can't have too much good? But whatever you daven, if you do want to daven for too much good, it's because it's not good for you. But be'etzem, it's good, but something is good. In in my chase, it's not good, so you don't daven. That's in everything. Too much good too much of something Too much of anything, yeah. Well, you call it a flood uh which brings so much Too much in definition is negative. Yeah. Too much, right? You're already saying too much. It it it's not that too much. An abundance of good is not too much. It's a lot. It's a lot of good. But if you can't take it? You can take it, why can't you take it? That's the question. Sounds like the rain is one thing, but If someone's going to throw at you golden coins, going to throw so much that'll you'll cover you and they'll drown you. Was this You can't take it, right? You can't take it, that's all. What's the point of gold coins if you're not here anymore? Imagine, everything you'll touch will turn into gold. So, then it's not good. That's what I'm saying. If you're saying it's good, it's good. It's not good in What That's what we're saying. If something is be'etzem good, in your case it's not. If everything that you'll touch will become gold, a big problem. What are you going to eat? That's the story with Alexander Mokdon. He came to a place and everything he touched was gold and then Then so he said let the rain stop, יהא רווח בעולם, זאל ווערן א רווח אין דער וועלט. מיד נשבה הרוח, right away the rain the wind blew, נתפזרו העבים, and the the the clouds spread away, וזרחה חמה, the sun came out. יצאו העם לשדה, the people came out to the fields, והביאו להם כמיהין ופטריות, and they brought mushrooms, because from the rain, big mushrooms grew, so they already had already had what to eat. שלח לו שמעון בן שטח, so שמעון בן שטח sent him a message. אלמלא חוני אתה, if it's not you, if it wouldn't be you חוני, like he said, גוזרני עליך נידוי, I'd put you in cherem. Nobody can say such a thing. How do you swear such a thing? שאילו היו שנים כשני אליהו, had it been let's say the years like in Eliyahu, this is a modern statement, but שמפתח של גשמים בידי אליהו, the Aibershter gave the key to rain in Eliyahu's hands. What would be if Eliyahu who who wanted to stop the rain, what would be if Eliyahu would swear the rain should stop, and you'd be there, and you'd swear the rain should come? Nu, what would be? נמצא שם שמים מתחלל על ידך. One of you would would be lo wrong. In other words, it's something how

could you do that? You can't rely on that. How could you swear like that? There was you said one, two, three keys. I think we learned something about that. That's That's Gemara. It was here, no? It was rain, it's In the beginning of Taanit we went. Oh, yeah? אבל מאי אעשה, אבל מעשה, really I should put you in cherem. אבל מה אעשה? Vos ken ich tun? שאתה מתחטא לפני המקום. You are close, you you you talk to the Aibershter, you're you're close to the אייבערשטער ועושה לך רצונך, and he listens to your will. כבן שמתחטא לפני אביו, just like a child who is close to his father, ועושה לו רצונו, the father listens to him, does what he wants. אומר לו, he says to his father, הוליכני לרחצני בחמין, I want to go take go to go take a go to a swim in hot water. הוליכו, he takes him. שטפני בצונן, I want you to wash me with cold water. הוליכו, he takes him. תן לי אגוזים שקדים אפרסקים ורמונים, give me nuts and almonds and pears and and and pomegranates, ונותן לו. He gives him. Doesn't mean that you got always do that, but that's what happens. How to bring in a child, wants you got to give knocks, nisht alles vos men git. That finished, pets can the children. עליך הכתוב אומר, and you the פסוק says, ישמח אביך ואמך, let your father and mother be happy, ותגל יולדתך, the someone gave birth to you should be happy. So,

you're like a child to the Aibershter, and mimela, you, I can't do anything, you like a ben to the Eibershter, kivyachol. That's what he, takeh, said in the beginning. That's probably why he started off, Eibershter, they came to me, why? Because I'm like a ben bayit to you. Ben bayit, you shouldn't give a different different different rules, and different things. You know, yeah, hat protektsye. That's what it yeah, by the Eibershter, no. The say, \"Protektzye nisht amol yotzat.\" Sometimes you're not allowed to You take his chutzpah his chutzpah was for the sake of the Yidden, so really you might חוצפה דקלאפי שמיא מהני. Sometimes you have chutzpah to the Eibershter, in a way that you want to accomplish something good, it helps. תנו רבנן, the רבנן you learned, כך שלחו לו בני לשכת הגזית לחוני המעגל. The people from לשכת הגזית, סנהדרין sent a message to Choni Hame'agel. They quoted a pasuk where it says, \"ותגזר אומר ויקם לך.\" You decreed, and what happens? אתה גזרת מלמטה, you made a gezeirah down here, והקדוש ברוך הוא מקיים, and דער אייבערשטער מקיים אמרך למעלה, fulfills your words למעלה. Then the pasuk continues and says, ועל דרכיך נגה אור, and through your ways shines light. So they taytsh, דור שהיה אפל, a generation, a time which was dark, when there was no rain, it's dark, הארת בתפילתך, you lit it up with your tefillah. Then the pasuk vayter says, כי השפילו ותאמר גוה, you lowered and you said pick up. דור שהיה שפל, a time, a people who were low, הגבהת בתפילתך, you picked it up with your tefillah. Then vayter it says, ושח עיניים יושיע, and putting down your eyes, you helped. דור שהיה שח בעווניו, a a generation which because of the aveirot, their eyes, they were down, הושעת בתפילתך, you helped with your tefillot. Then the pasuk continues, ימלט אי נקי, the one that's not clear, not clean will be saved. דור שלא היה נקי, a generation, there's people which not clean, מילטת בתפילתך, you saved them with your tefillah. The pasuk says ווייטער, ונמלט בבור כפיך, they will be saved with the purity of your hands. במה נמלט? במעשה ידיך הברורים. How would they get saved? With your מעשה ידיך which were clear. Seems very repetitive.

What's the difference? Huh? What does these things really mean? It's the same praise over and over. Just wondering if there's some kind of diff- I'm sure there is. Okay. We can look into the Maharsha and suggestion. This is the Rebbe's style. He would take these words and דרשן הלכות and things in the avodah. Honestly, it's it's five different the repetition of the same thing basically. This is the hands, this is going down, this is going up, this is everything has a everything על פי קבלה. על פי פשט, maybe, too. Has the Rebbe spoken that that style, repeated things in different ways? Huh? The Rebbe's spoken that style, repeated things, abi m'zol farshteyn vos er zogt, you know, maybe the first one I didn't understand, maybe I was then second. Yeah, but here it's pretty clear. It's pretty clear. Everyone is clear. Each one is a different מדרגה, yeah, different ספירה. Uh-huh, okay. סתם הבלים. I think actually that's What if What if the sicha was on the lens of how it how it played out. Maybe. Yashar koach. This is all we heard from Choni. I see this is the only It's the Gemara on Choni. No, vaiter also. Oh, I mean with this Yeah. It's too large. I was I spoke to Reuven? It was nice. Yashar koach.