זאגט די Gemara that we're holding here in middle towards before right before מ\"ז, ע\"א. אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל. Rav Yehuda says in the name of Shmuel, כשם שאסור לצאת מארץ ישראל לבבל, just like you can't leave from ארץ ישראל to בבל, כך אסור לצאת מבבל לשאר ארצות, you can't go from בבל to other countries. רבה ורב יוסף דאמרי תרווייהו, Rabbah and Rav Yosef both say: אפילו מפומבדיתא לבי כובי. And בי כובי is not so far, but it was outside of בבל, you can't travel from Pumbedita to בי כובי. And the Gemara tells a story, ההוא there was this man, דנפק מפומבדיתא לבי כובי, he did leave from Pumbedita to בי כובי, שמתיה רב יוסף, Rav Yosef put him in cherem. ההוא דנפק מפומבדיתא לאיסטוניא, there was a guy who left from Pumbedita to איסטוניא, שכיב, he died. אמר אביי, Abaye said, אי בעי האי צורבא מרבנן הוה חיי, if he would want, this תלמיד חכם would want, הא גייט, הא גייט, הא גייט, if he would have wanted, he could have lived longer. The reason he didn't live so long is because he did something wrong, he left from בבל to a different place. זאגט די Gemara ווייטער,

רבה ורב יוסף דאמרי תרווייהו, Rabbah and Rav Yosef both say: כשרים שבבבל, the kasher'e, the fine Yidden from בבל, ארץ ישראל קלטתן, ארץ ישראל contains them. כשרים שבשאר ארצות, בבל contains, קלטתן, the good people from the other countries בבל takes them. And what does that mean? למאי? לגבי what din? What do you mean that it takes them? אילימא ליוחסין, if it's a יוחסין, which would mean like this, that the kasher'e people of בבל are absorbed, in other words they marry into families of ארץ ישראל, and the kasher'e people of other countries marry into the families of בבל, but that's not true! The people from בבל would not marry somebody from Eretz Yisrael. No, because אמר מר, we learned, כל הארצות עיסה לארץ ישראל, all countries are like like dough to Eretz Yisrael, just like dough has a lot of ingredients, but you look at the dough, you can't see what's inside. Same thing, the people from other countries compared to Eretz Yisrael, you don't know who was mixed in there, which ones really kasher, the yichus was shvach, Eretz Yisrael was much better meyuchas. וארץ ישראל עיסה לבבל, ארץ ישראל is considered dough לגבי בבל. That means that in Bavel it was much more, in Bavel, there was much more, yichus was much more. So then how do we say that people from Bavel are absorbed by Eretz Yisrael, that they intermarry with Eretz Yisrael? They wouldn't marry the ארץ ישראל'דיגע people, because to them Eretz Yisrael is not good enough! And Eretz Yisrael would not marry with others because others are not good enough for them. Ela what does it mean? לענין קבורה. It means pashut something else, it means לגבי קבורה, about burying. Which means like this, that the people of Eretz Yisrael, of Bavel, since they were not far from Eretz Yisrael, they would get buried in Eretz Yisrael. People who were far would try to make it at least to Bavel. זאגט די Gemara ווייטער,

אמר רב יהודה, Rav Yehuda האט געזאגט: כל הדר בבבל, anybody who lives in בבל, כאילו דר בארץ ישראל, as if you live in Eretz Yisrael. What's the peshat? מאך דא ארץ ישראל. What does it mean if you live in... so the רבי quotes here, the Meiri says, why? Because wherever there is Torah, it's like Eretz Yisrael. So he says that's a makor in in from the Rishonim to the vort of the Tzemach Tzedek, מאך דא ארץ ישראל. If you make it a מקום תורה, you're making it Eretz Yisrael. He was talking then about Crown Heights then. Huh? When the Rebbe said it, he was talking about Crown Heights then. No. Not about Crown Heights. In Heights he was talking, he said then, כאן ציוה ה' את הברכה. Crown Heights? כאן ציוה ה' et habrachah, but mach da ארץ ישראל was talking about any place, he said. Any country, Tzemach Tzedek, but the Rebbe quoted that lashon many times, what the Tzemach Tzedek said. He said to to to somebody, I think it was Reb Hillel, or somebody who wanted to go to Eretz Yisrael, so he said, ארץ ישראל איז נישט פאר דיר, but he said, \"I really want to go!\" Mach da ארץ ישראל. Yeah, so he says if you live in Bavel, it's like you live in ארץ ישראל, שנאמר, it says, הוי ציון המלטי, you from ציון, המלטי means run away, hide, where should you live? יושבת בת בבל, live in Bavel. So we see Bavel is equal to Eretz Yisrael. The percentage of chachamim at that time in Bavel... more than that, much more, so that's why. Yeah, yeah, okay. I mean, like 80%? 80% 20%? Actually from the churban... from the חורבן בית ראשון, החרש והמסגר, so it says in Gemara, ארץ ישראל... Bavel was always more מקום תורה than Eretz Yisrael.

אמר אביי, אביי said, naktinan, we know, אנגענומען, בבל לא חזיא חבלי דמשיח. Bavel will not see the suffering that the Yidden will suffer before Mashiach will come. It's a big zechut, in other words they will not suffer the suffering of Mashiach. great, huh? So wait, no, it's like Iraq? No, I can't believe that. Where where's Bavel? Is that Iraq? What's...? Only Iraq? Just that? Oh, Iraq. But bafoal, now it's not, now it doesn't mean there. There's no Yidden there bichlal, I mean, a few Yidden. So so it means there's other places. Place as a מקום תורה. Something was like... In Bavel the Yidden were there hundreds of years, but then they moved. כלל ישראל moved around. עלו מבבל. Huh? So here Bavel doesn't mean Bavel. עלו מבבל. Yeah, עלו מבבל meant Eretz Yisrael. Mhm. But we're talking about they moved not to Eretz Yisrael, they moved to Europe, different places. So here Bavel doesn't mean Bavel. But he says תרגומא, they דייטשט it doesn't mean the whole בבל, אהוצל דבנימין. אהוצל דבנימין, whatever that area, that's the area that was the best. They called it, and they would... in Bavel, and they would call it כנא דשיזבתא, the corner of protection. Because because that was, would, if you're there, you'd be protected from the חבלי משיח, from the labor pains of משיח. זאגט די גמרא weiter, אמר רב אלעזר, רב אלעזר said, מתים שבחוץ לארץ... Where is it exactly? It's the safest place. It's something else, חבלי משיח spiritual thing. Huh? I don't know. It's not a physical place? That's right, there's problems, but but safest places, I don't know if that has to do with חבלי משיח. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. The Rebbe didn't say it. The pasuk says it. ארץ, the Rebbe said, \"ארץ אשר... ה׳ אלקיך בה מרשית השנה ועד אחרית שנה.\" That's a pasuk. So, it means we have to go back there? We have to go where? South East South East Baghdad? No, no, we could stay here. Don't don't go. Don't go to Baghdad. I know, I'm kidding. At that time, the time when the Gemara said it, Bavel was the place. So, then more it's all taste it, more... Yeah, wherever is the מקום תורה. Like it says, where where is בית רבינו שבבבל? It says in Gemara, what was this similar to the בית המקדש? That's, so in Bavel it was the the בית המדרש of שף ויתיב. And the Rebbe called here, that's it, now it's in other places. Now it's in Crown Heights, now it's the main בית המדרש. So, we see this all moves.

אמר רב אלעזר, רב אלעזר said, מתים שבחוץ לארץ אינם חיים. Those that die in chutz la'aretz will not get up תחיית המתים. Shene'emar, it says, \"ונתתי צבי בארץ חיים\". In ארץ חיים, who will be ארץ, who will be חיים, who will live from the ארץ? Only where there is צבי of the Aibershter. What's צבי? ארץ שצביוני בה, a land which my image is there, my will is there, מתיה חיים, its dead will get up. שאין צביוני בה, a place which is not, which is not ארץ ישראל, אין מתיה חיים. מותיב רב אבא בר ממל, Rav Abba bar Memel asked a kashya, doesn't it say a pasuk, \"יחיו מתיך נבלתי יקומון\"? \"Your dead will get alive, and the נבילות, the dead bodies will get up.\" Why does it say double? Mai lav, doesn't it sound, \"יחיו מתיך\", your מתים will get up, that's מתים שבארץ ישראל. And when it says, \"נבלתי יקומון\", and it doesn't say if my, yours, that's מתים שבחוץ לארץ. That dead they they, those dead bodies will get up. So, we see from this derash that even in חוץ לארץ, מתים שבחוץ לארץ will get up. Then he says, so then מאי \"ונתתי צבי בארץ חיים\"? So, what does the pasuk mean, the first pasuk that he darshent, \"צבי בארץ חיים\", that who will be in ארץ חיים only those places? He says, \"No, בנבוכדנצר כתיב\". That go on Nebuchadnezzar. דאמר רחמנא, the Torah was saying, the Eibershter was saying, \"אייתינא עליהו\", I'm going to bring on them, \"מלכא דקליל כי טביא\". I'm going to bring that on them, against them, a king that's going to be as light as a deer. That's צבי. So, that's the Eibershter was telling them that I'm going to bring Nebuchadnezzar against you. But it's not saying anything to do with תחיית המתים. אמר ליה, he said, \"רבי, מקרא אחר אני דורש. I have another pasuk.\" How is he light as a deer? Huh? How is he light as a deer? Meaning it was easy for him to conquer. Aha. Huh? Was it? He stole 24,000 times, and finally it was lost. Yeah, well, good. In other words, sof kol sof, he conquered it. I mean, which really it should have been harder, they shouldn't have been able to do it. So, he said, \"רבי, מקרא אחר אני דורש. I have another pasuk.\" It says a pasuk, \"נותן נשמה לעם עליה\". \"He will give a neshamah to the nation that's on it,\" on that land, \"ורוח להולכים בה\", and the spirit will come back to those that go there. Okay? So, he has a derash that they won't. אלא הא דכתיב \"נבלתי יקומון\"? It's again a derash that, would, they won't get up. Either other פסוק says, \"נבלתי יקומון\", which we said before means, the second half of the פסוק that even חוץ לארץ will get up? So, he says, \"בנפלים הוא דכתיב\". What was the re'iyah? Because the פסוק said double, same thing. It says, \"Your מתים will become alive and your נבילות will get up.\" So, he says, so why say twice? So, one must be ארץ ישראל, one must חוץ... It's a different derash. One was for people who were alive and died, and one was for children who were born stillborn, who were lechatchilah dead. That's also they also will get up תחיית המתים. דנפלים. Huh? דנפלים. דנפלים it says, no, how בנפלים it's קאי. By נפל. Then the Gemara, ורבי אבא בר ממל? Rabbi Abba bar Memel, what does he say? How does he derash'n this? האי נותן נשמה לעם עליה מאי עביד ליה? He says that חוץ לארץ will also get up, האי the פסוק says he will put the neshamah into the am that's עליה, that's on it in ארץ ישראל? Says מבעיא ליה, he needed לכדרבי אבהו, what Rabbi Abahu said. דאמר רבי אבהו, רבי אבהו said, אפילו שפחה כנענית שבארץ ישראל, even a שפחה כנענית of ארץ ישראל, מובטח לה שהיא בת עולם הבא. She's guaranteed to have olam haba. She's a גויה, שפחה כנענית, yeah, just living in ארץ ישראל. That's what he meant. When he said I'll give the נשמה לעם עליה, that means olam haba. They're not allowed to live there. Huh? I thought goyim are not allowed to live there. That's if they're not avadim or shfachot. כתיב הכא, how do we know that? Because it says here: לעם עליה. She would have the same like a Lashon Hakodesh, eved, comes a חצי איד. Yeah, I mean not חצי, she's not חצי, not It says יצא מכלל גוי ולכלל ישראל לא בא. So they keep all the like an isha. Yeah. And an isha, she keeps like an isha. She's not, see the eved is worse than the regular, different than a regular Yid. She, she's mamash like a regular Yid. She's an isha anyway. She does everything that's an isha. She's also possession of a Yid. She belongs to a Yid, that's, yeah, that's the So when does she become a Yid? Ah? If you meshacherer her, that's it. What about when Mashiach, what about this תחיית המתים? Who are we talking about? Doesn't say, she doesn't take part in תחיית המתים. But what's the re'aya she'll have Olam Haba? Because כתיב הכא, here it says: לעם עליה, it uses the word עם. כתיב התם, there's another pasuk that says שבו לכם פה עם החמור, so we darshen עם החמור, עם הדומה לחמור. When he said, when Avraham by the akeidah said to to Eliezer and to Yishmael: sit here together to with the donkey, עם החמור, says you are a nation like a chamor. And then Eliezer was a Yes, he's a great someone, and he was still a kena'ani. When he wanted his daughter to marry Yitzchak, what did he say? אתה ארור. Imagine, בני ברוך ואתה ארור. אתה, who is the אתה? Eliezer. Eliezer was, it says דולה ומשקה מתורת רבו לאחרים, and he's still called arur, because he's a kena'ani. But here we see it's עם הדומה לחמור, so the word עם goes on כנענים, and here it says לעם עליה, so we darshen that they're going to have Olam Haba. What's the second part of the pasuk where it says ורוח להולכים בה, and there will be a ruach for those that walk on it, walk in Eretz Yisrael?

אמר רבי ירמיה בר אבא אמר רבי יוחנן, רבי ירמיה בר אבא in the name of רבי יוחנן, כל המהלך ד' אמות בארץ ישראל, anybody who walks four אמות in ארץ ישראל, מובטח לו שהוא בן עולם הבא. He's guaranteed Olam Haba. In Yerushalmi it even adds a few words: כל המהלך ד' אמות בארץ ישראל, ומדבר בלשון הקודש, and you speak Hebrew, you're מובטח Olam Haba. לשון הקודש is not עברית. So therefore every Yid who lives in Eretz Yisrael is guaranteed Olam Haba because he lives in Eretz Yisrael, and he speaks, I don't know, that's the problem. He speaks עברית not לשון הקודש. Half of, half of עברית is not לשון הקודש. I once, I once heard a bachur ask, Israeli bachur came, he asked somebody, איך אומרים סופרמרקט באנגלית? He doesn't have, these words, he thinks it's Hebrew. איך אומרים סופרמרקט באנגלית? Anyway, so here it doesn't say in Gemara doesn't even say, the Gemara makes it easier. You don't even have to speak. כל המהלך ד' אמות בארץ ישראל, if you walk ד' אמות in Eretz Yisrael, you're guaranteed you'll have Olam Haba. Then the Gemara asks: so Rabbi Elazar who says that the people from Chutz La'aretz don't get up, צדיקים שבחוץ לארץ אינם חיים, the tzadikim from Chutz La'aretz will not get up? אמר רבי אלעזר, Rabbi Elazar said: על ידי גלגול. They will get up, but not in חוץ לארץ. They'll have to roll underground, pop up in Eretz Yisrael. מתקיף לה רב אבא סלא רבא, so Rav Abba Sala Rava asked: גלגול לצדיקים צער הוא? The tzadikim, you expect them to roll, it's a tza'ar!

אמר אביי, Abaye said: מחילות נעשות להם בקרקע. The Eibershter will make for them tunnels, and they'll be able to walk out, they'll have to walk, but it's not rolling. No? No. Here it says gilgul, here it says מחילות נעשות. So it doesn't say, someplace it says a לשון גלגול מחילות, but here it doesn't even say the word gilgul, but first he said gilgul, but like changed. It's not really gilgul, it's walking. Al kol panim, afilu it's gilgul, it's not that you're going to be in the ground, you're going to be able to So Yaakov was worried, Yaakov was worried Yaakov was worried for this, yeah. That's, yeah, huh? He was still worried, even if he has to walk. Yeah, yeah, he didn't want to, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he didn't want to. Oh, yeah.