תניא, it says in the ברייתא: ביקור חולים אין לה שיעור. To visit the sick, there is no limit. The גמרא asks: מאי אין לה שיעור? What do you mean there is no limit? סבר רב יוסף למימר, רב יוסף thought, אין לי- that means אין שיעור למתן שכרה אמרו. What they said was that there is no limit to how much reward you get for ביקור חולים. אמר ליה אביי, אביי said: ובכל המצוות מי יש שיעור למתן שכרן? And all other מצוות there is a limit to how much שכר you get? והתנן, it says, it says in the משנה: הוי זהיר במצוה קלה כבמצוה חמורה, should be careful with a light מצוה like with a strict מצוה, שאין אתה יודע מתן שכרן של מצוות, because you never know the reward that given for מצוות. So we see that there is no limit to- It doesn't mean because it's a small מצוה you get less reward. אלא אמר אביי, אביי said, what does it mean that ביקור חולים has no שיעור? שאין אתה אין אתה- No. אמר אביי: אפילו גדול אצל קטן. That's what it means. There is no שיעור who's to go to who. We think a חשוב person doesn't have to go to a simple person. There's no שיעור. Even a גדול to go to a simple person should go, the מצוה is there too. What is אין לה שיעור? Talking about אין לה שיעור. What's the פשט there is no שיעור? רבא אמר, רבא says: אפילו מאה פעמים ביום. What it means אין לה שיעור, there's you could go and you could go again, you can 100 times. You can't say I was יוצא. It's like once a day you have to go and then you're יוצא the מצוה. Like you have to bentch esrog once a day. No, even 100 times. ותניא נמי הכי, actually it says in the ברייתא: ביקור חולים אין לה שיעור, and it טייטש what it means:

אפילו גדול אצל קטן, even a גדול by a קטן, אפילו מאה פעמים ביום, even 100 times a day. אמר רב אחא בר חנינא, רב אחא בר חנינא said: כל המבקר את החולה, anybody who visits the sick, נוטל אחד מששים מצערו. You take away 1/60 of his pain. אמר ליה אביי לרבא, אביי said to רבא: אם כן, if so, have a easy יוצא to cure a guy. ליעלו שיתין גברי וליוקמוה. Let 60 people come in, and then they'll get rid of the whole thing. What's the If everyone every person gets rid of a 60th? אמר ליה, so he said, no, כעישורייתא דרבי ובני גילו. When it says everyone is a 60th, it's not just that yeah, whatever is left over, like the case of רבי, and also besides that, it's only if a person was born under the same מזל, the same day, under the same time, under the same מזל. What does עישורייתא דרבי say? You have to attend if you go, if you Where does Where does it say? In the גמרא here. We just read. בני גילו means he's a מזל. What's עישורייתא דרבי? What does it mean the the חשבון of רבי? 'Cause רבי אומר, it says like this, רבי holds in a different דין, but the idea is brought out: הבאה ליזון מנכסי אחין. It talks there about the father dies, and he leaves over estate. The daughter, the son, only sons inherit. The daughters have to get money from the estate, enough money to get married. How much do you give them? So it says if she is supported by the estate of the brothers, which is the father, so she takes, נוטלת עישור נכסים, she gets a 10th of the possessions. That's what the כלל is. So אמרו לרבי, they said to רבי: לדבריך, according to that, מי שיש לו עשר בנות ובן אחד, the guy has 10 daughters and one son, אין לו לבן במקום בנות כלום, the son gets nothing, 'cause all 10 take away, and there's nothing left. אמר להם, so he said: No, כך אני אומר, this what I'm saying. ראשונה נוטלת עישור נכסים, first one takes the 10th. The oldest, yeah, takes 10th, that's $100, she gets $10. שניה במה ששיירה, the second one takes 10th of what was left. 90 was left, she only gets nine. שלישית במה ששיירה, now that she only gets nine, there's left eight and a eight and a 8 1, 8.1, so you get and then after everyone gets after the other, then וחוזרות וחולקות בשוה, and then you put it all together, and then you divide it into 10. So there'd always be left. The גמרא's שאלה was there'll be nothing left for the son. Same thing here So so there will be left because not that if they all take 10% of the 100. Same thing here also. The first one takes away a 60th. The second one takes a 60th not of the whole thing, of what's left. And the next one a 60th of what what's left. So it's very far in order to take away everything. Besides that, it has to be בני גילו. It has to be only somebody born under the same מזל. Take away 60th of his of his sickness. Why? That's what ביקור חולים the סגולה of ביקור חולים. What's the פשט that we we distract Maybe that's the גמרא later. Oh yeah? Something, I don't know if that's what you mean, we'll see soon. That's not actually actual sickness, but just the the focus on the sickness at the time that he's Oh, the גמרא says later, certain times you shouldn't come, because when you come, you'll take away his focus on the sickness, not only sickness, sometimes the beginning of the day, and then ממילא, if he won't focus on the sickness, he's not going to דאווען to the אייבערשטער. We'll get that in the גמרא not later, I don't know if we'll get to it today. זאגט די גמרא, רב חלבו חלש, רב חלבו got sick. נפק, אכרז רב כהנא, so רב כהנא went out, made an announcement, רב חלבו ביש, רב חלבו is sick. ולא איכא דקאתי, and no one came. Expected people to come to מבקר חולה, no one came. אמר להו, so he said to the people, לא כך היה מעשה בתלמיד אחד, wasn't, don't you know the story what happened with a certain תלמיד, מתלמידי רבי עקיבא, שחלה, got sick, ולא נכנסו חכמים לבקרו, חכמים didn't visit him, ונכנס רבי עקיבא לבקרו, רבי עקיבא himself came in to to visit him, ובשביל שכיבד וריבץ לפניו, חיה. And because he helped him out, was dirty, so he cleaned up the floor when he was there, and that made him live. אמר ליה, so the תלמיד said, רבי, החייתני, you gave me חיות. יצא רבי עקיבא ודרש, so רבי עקיבא came out and דרש'נט, כל שאינו מבקר את החולה כאילו שופך דמים. Because if by מבקר חולה you could save his life, you can make give him חיות, so if you don't, you're you're not you're not giving him חיות, so it's like murder. Strong words. Huh? Strong words. כי אתא רב דימי, when רב דימי came, אמר, he said, כל המבקר את החולה, גורם לו שיחיה. If you visit the sick, you cause him to live. וכל שאינו מבקר את החולה, גורם לו שימות. If you don't, you cause him to die. פרעגט די גמרא, מאי גרמא? What is it that you cause him to die? אילימא, you'll say the reason is like this, כל המבקר את החולה מבקש עליו רחמים. Why does ביקור חולים make the guy live? Because you see how sick he is, you'll דאווען, and ממילא, שיחיה, so you ask the אייבערשטער he should live. ושאינו מבקר את החולה, מבקש עליו רחמים שימות? And the one that is not, doesn't go, so you make him die? Why, you're דאווענינג he should die? שימות, סלקא דעתך? סלקא דעתך? What you think? What did he mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, but you don't see really what to דאווען. If you see him how sick he is, you'll דאווען. No, אינו דומה שמיעה לראיה. אלא, he said, meant something else. כל שאינו מבקר את החולה, if you don't מבקר חולה, אין מבקש עליו רחמים לא שיחיה ולא שימות. You don't ask... So רש''י explains, the נראה לי רש''י says, נראה בעיני, sometimes, it says, you should דאווען the person should die. If you see the person is very sick and he's suffering a lot, yeah, so at least get out of the צער. You can't do anything, חס ושלום, to, but, but to דאווען. Actually, the גמרא we learned before told the story of רבי, that his maid, was it רבי, saw how he was suffering, השפחה של בית רבי, saw how much he was suffering, and it was could not, not possible to put on תפילין, so she דאווענד to the אייבערשטער to take him away. First she דאווענד to live, and then she saw how much he was suffering, she דאווענד. So here like this, if you go in to a person to מבקר חולה, then you'll see. You'll see if he if he's not suffering, you'll דאווען he should live. If you see he's suffering, you'll you'll דאווען he should die, but you'll דאווען for his טובה. If you don't go, you won't דאווען. That's what he meant. He doesn't mean to say he'll die, but then you won't דאווען for him to die if you have to. You won't דאווען for him to live either. זאגט די גמרא ווייטער:

רבא, יומא קמא, רבא the first day of חוליו, the first day he was sick, אמר להו, he told his תלמידים, לא תגלו לאינשי. So saying our דאווענינג by not seeing him is not not worth anything? Not worth much. No, you have to go see him. It's worth, but not as much. But if you if you don't go in, you will not דאווען either way. Not דאווען as you should, because you might hear hear how he's sick, but you don't see him. רבא the first day that he got sick, אמר, he said, לא תגלו לאינשי, don't tell anybody, דלא ליתרע מזלי, my מזל shouldn't be ruined. מכאן ואילך אמר להו, In other words, he doesn't want to acknowledge that he's sick. Always say that sometimes people come over, want to make a מי שברך for this and this guy. Says, what's wrong? He has a cold. He said, don't make. Says, why not? מי שברך קען דאך נישט שאטן, what could it hurt? No, no, it could hurt. By making a מי שברך by the עליה for a חולה, you're acknowledging this guy is sick. You're you're you're saying he's sick. We don't want we don't want to agree to that. A cold is a cold. Making a מי שברך here... So he didn't want they should announce it. But after, מכאן ואילך, he he stayed more than a day, אמר להו, he said to them like פוקו אכריזו בשוקא, go make an announcement that I'm sick, that רבא חליש, that רבא is sick. What will I gain? So, like this: דסנאי לי, those that hate me, ליחדי, will be happy. Now, if they're happy, it'll help me. Why? כתיב, it says, בנפול אויבך אל תשמח, when your enemy falls, don't be happy. Why? ובכשלו אל יגל לבך, if he stumbles, don't be happy, פן יראה השם ורע בעיניו והשיב מעליו אפו. That it says that if the guy is happy for someone's downfall, the אייבערשטער will take and make the other guy, take it away from you and put it to him. So, if they know I'm sick and so my enemy is happy, so the אייבערשטער take away my sickness! Now, ודרחמי לי, one, the more enemies the better then when you're sick. No, but ודרחמי לי, those that like me, also good, לבעי עלי רחמי, they know I'm sick, they'll דאווען. Hard to imagine these אמוראים had enemies. I'm sure they did. Yeah, no, the great עם הארצים, they had they hated the תלמידי חכמים in those days, it was ממש terrible. And especially רבא, it says רבא was in מתא מחסיא, he lived in מחסיא. And you know, other people, yeah, think it's a new thing that people don't like the רבנים, don't like... It's always was.

אמר רב, רב said, כל המבקר את החולה, whoever visits the sick, ניצל מדינה של גיהנם, is saved from the דין of גיהנם. שנאמר, it says, אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו השם. Good is the person who's smart about a דל, we'll see what a דל is, the day of bad, השם will save him. אין דל אלא חולה, דל is a sick man. שנאמר, it says מדלי יבצעני, השם, save me or take me away from being a דל. דל really means a poor man, but sick is also someone who's missing. And what does the פסוק say? That someone who understands the דל, so when the יום רעה comes, he'll be saved. What's the יום רעה? יום רעה is גיהנם. It's going to say right, you know another פסוק where it says shows that דל is a sick man, מהדין קרא, from this פסוק: מדוע אתה ככה דל בן המלך. It says in שמואל, he said why are you so so sick? You look so sick. So, it says if you're משכיל to a sick person, you will be saved from רע. ואין רע אלא גיהנם, רע is גיהנם, שנאמר, it says, כל פעל השם למענהו וגם רשע ליום רעה, a רשע will go to a יום רעה, goes to גיהנם. So, the פסוק says that if you are מבקר חולה, you'll be saved from גיהנם. How does the תניא... תניא brings that פסוק. Yeah, how does it go? I can't think... Whatever השם does is for Him. השם will help you if you do something for Him. And a רשע will go to a יום רעה. חיים, the תניא טייטשט different, though. וגם רשע, it's also, a רשע, ליום רעה, he takes רע, קליפה, and makes it into יום. That's מהפך חשוכא לנהורא. That's why it says there's מטעמים, there's two types of food. There's one food that's לכתחילה tasty, and there's one food that's sour, but you add stuff to it, you make it, that's even tastier. So, a רשע that changes the רע into יום, that's even greater, because פעל השם למענהו is a צדיק. ואם ביקר, מה שכרו? So, says if you מבקר חולה, you're safe from גיהנם. And if you מבקר him, what's the שכר? Someone said, what what's your שאלה, מה שכרו? The גמרא, we just said what the שכר is, ניצל מדינה של גיהנם. He's safe from גיהנם! אלא מה שכרו בעולם הזה? He's safe from גיהנם, that's of יענער וועלט, that's in עולם הבא. What's the שכר here? So, he answers, השם ישמרהו ויחייהו, השם protects him, gives him חיות, יאושר בארץ, he's established in the land, ואל תתנהו בנפש אויביו, he will not give him over to the enemies. Now, what does this פסוק mean? השם ישמרהו, מיצר הרע, saves him יצר הרע. יחייהו, he'll give him life, מן היסורים, won't have suffering. ויאושר בארץ, he will be מאושר, means confirmed in the land, שיהו הכל מתכבדין בו, everyone will give him כבוד. ואל תתנהו בנפש אויביו, he will not give him to the נפש of his enemies, שיזדמנו לו רעים כנעמן שריפאו מצרעתו, you will, the אייבערשטער will make you find friends that will give you good advice, just like נעמן got good advice from his friends to go to to אלישע, ah, by the שפחה, to go to אלישע. So, the אייבערשטער will give you, you'll have good friends who'll give you good advice. ואל יזדמנו לו רעים כרחבעם שחלקו מלכותו, and you will not get friends like רחבעם that because of his friends' advice to, see, he had like this, he had advice from some people who told him advice, young people told him in order to establish your מלכות, make it hard on the people. The זקנים told him פארקערט, you want to be nice, people should like you, be lenient. He listened to the youngsters, the bad guys. And what happened, the end was that he had to split his מלכות, there was a revolt and they split his מלכות. Do another two lines, then we'll start arranging the מנין. We have 20 people? Did you count? That people left. Count, count before we start. אה? אה, ס'איז דאס, ס'איז נישט אזוי פשוט. Okay, תניא, it says ר' שמעון בן אלעזר, ר' שמעון בן אלעזר says אם יאמרו לך זקנים, it's all the המשך to before. If the old people will tell you סתור, you should break, you should destroy, וילדים, and the youngsters will tell you בני, build, סתור ואל תבנה, destroy and don't build, מפני שסתירת זקנים בנין, the breaking of זקנים, of old people, is building, ובנין ילדים סתירה, and if the youngsters tell you to build, it's really destroying. וראיה לדבר, the ראיה is רחבעם בן שלמה. Over there, that was the case there. He did what this what the young sprigs told him, and he lost out. Had he done what the old people told him, he would have won. We're doing another line here.

אמר רב ששת בריה דרב אידי, לא ליסר אינש קצירא, you shouldn't visit a sick person, לא בתלת שעי קמייתא, this is what I was saying before, not the first three hours of the day, דיומא, of the day, ולא בתלת שעי בתרייתא, not the last hours of דיומא, of the day. Why? כי היכי דלא ליסח דעתיה מרחמי, shouldn't take his mind away from from asking, for davening. בתלת שעי קמייתא רווחא דעתיה. The first three hours he feels good, so if someone comes in and sees him the first three hours, doesn't think to daven for him, \"Oh, ס'איז נישט געפערלעך, the guy looks pretty good.\" And בתרייתא תקיף חוליה, פארקערט, when he's at the end, he looks so sick that the people walk in and see, doesn't... Okay, it doesn't look like the guy is, it's too late anyway. So therefore you should not visit him then. Okay, we have to have two מנינים, so please, ten people go into that room, ten people stay here.