איפה אנחנו, הלוואי we would know where we are in the world. Yeah, we're holding סימן ל״ד. ל״ד? Yeah. So the end of the story that we learned yesterday was that after Rabbi Akiva's father-in-law Kalba Savua, who was a very rich man, found out this is Rabbi Akiva, he gave him away half of his possessions. Okay. Half? Half. Millionaire. He became a big millionaire. But now the Gemara continues, משיס מילי איעתר רבי עקיבא. What? Because of three, six reasons Rabbi Akiva became rich. Yeah. We'll see, one of them is Kalba Savua. One is מבת כלבא שבוע, okay. The second one is מאילי דספינתא. אילי דספינתא, it means Rashi says, they used to, in those days on the ship, have an image of an איל, of a ram. איל runs fast, I guess. And what they used to do, they used to fill it up, which I wish we'd learn Rashi inside, they used to fill it up with coins for a good mazal. Okay. So once happened דכל ספינתא עבדין לה מן עינה, in the, all the ships they used to make something like this, and they used to fill it up with coins, with the golden coins. זימנא חדא, one time, אנשיוה על כיף ימא, so the people from the ship forgot it on the edge of the river. Forgot what? That big, when they would come to a place they would take it out. Uh-huh. So they forgot it there, and they left it, they left. Called a hart, H-A-R-T. Okay. They did it, I mean you know, in ships nowadays, okay. Anyway, so what happened, they left it there, Not that they filled it with coins, but they would have a figurine on the on the bow of the ship, sure. Right, that that shape. That's typical. Yeah. So one day they forgot it, אתא הוא אשכחה, he found it. So here he found a whole bunch of golden coins. So he became a millionaire. Rabbi Akiva found it. And he didn't have to return it? Didn't have to return it. For two reasons. First of all, by the yam it's hefker, but second of all, they were goyim. And by goyim there's no din of hashavat aveidah. אני החזרתי עשרת אלפים דולר. To who? To a goy or to a Yid? Goy. A goy, but if it says if it makes a kiddush Hashem, you should. It says here they publicised the loss, he came to them, and because of his honesty, they let him keep it. So from a Midrash, it was from a Midrash, That makes sense, because otherwise it says if you make a kiddush Hashem, you should give it back. I gave it back. It says if you make a kiddush Hashem by giving it back, you should give it back. Sure, the accounting would find, accounting of the company will find it. Oh, that was put into your account. They sent me a check twice, and my secretary, a man, I had a secretary, he tell me this, this, they gave us the same twice, invoice twice. What we going to do with this? I say send it back. Beautiful. What I'm gonna And did they know you're a Yid? Who? The company, that you send it back. I don't know. You should make sure that they know, cuz then they know that how Yidden are honest. Yeah. Okay, then

another case, מגוזא. גוזא is like a box, a box in which in the ships, not this thing, they also a ship, they would keep their money there. What's the story? זימנא חדא יהב ד׳ זוזי לספונאי. Once he gave four zuzim to some sailors. And said, אמר להון, he said to them, אייתו לי מידם. Bring me something, you know, you're going out, I need an investment, go, here's four zuz, go find something that I can buy, bring it back to me, then I'll sell it, then I'll make some money. ולא אשכחו, they didn't find, אלא גוזא, all they found was a box על כיף ימא, the edge, by the by the edge of the water. אייתו ליה, they brought it to him, they had nothing else. ואמרו ליה, they said, יעביד מר עלייהו. You know what? The meantime, take this. We'll find more, cuz I guess this was worth less than four זוז, and they had to bring him something worth four זוז. Take this in the meantime. אישתכח דהוה מלי דינרי, found out that this this box was full of דינרי, of golden coins. How did it get there? Because זימנא חדא, once, טבעה ספינתא, a ship sunk, וכולא עיסקא הוו מנחי בההוא גוזא, and all the possessions, they put all the coins and everything that they had, they put into this box, and it sank. ואישתכח ההוא זימנא דמינקס קריתא, and that time they found it, and this came from this place called קריתא. So this is another way. So we have Kelba Savua with that thing, איל of the ship, and then this box that they found. Kelba Savua and he gave food and he Yeah, that's what, yeah, he came, yeah, they came out like a dog. So he's wealthy, right? Not all about money. Huh? It's not all about money. What do you mean? I mean, there's other types of wealth. Yeah, but here he got Great health is a In a good, but he got money. Then the

next store next case is וממטרוניתא. Yeah, מטרוניתא. What's the story of מטרוניתא? This we have to learn the Rashi. The Gemara doesn't, Rashi must have taken from a Midrash or something. ממטרוניתא, זאגט רש״י אזוי, let's learn the Rashi. The Ran actually, it's here. פעם אחת הוצרך רבי עקיבא ותלמידיו מעות some point רבי עקיבא and his תלמידים needed money. והלכו אצל מטרוניתא, so they came to this חשובה lady. אמרה ליה לרבי עקיבא, she said to רבי עקיבא, הריני מלוה אישך, I'm going to lend you the money, ותהא אתה לווה, you'll be the lend the borrower, והקדוש ברוך הוא והים ערבים בדבר. Who's going to guarantee? Hashem and the ים. The lady said it, \"So I'm going to lend you, but I need guarantors. They will guarantee.\" Okay. We'll see. וקבע לה זמן לפירעון, and they made it a time when he has to pay. כשהגיע הזמן, when the time to pay came, חלה רבי עקיבא, became sick. So she knew that she's not going to get the money from him now. הלכה אותה מטרוניתא על שפת הים, she came to the edge of the ים. אמרה, and she said like this, \"ריבונו של עולם, גלוי וידוע לפניך, you know, שרבי עקיבא חולה, רבי עקיבא is sick, ולא היה בידו לפרוע החוב, and he didn't get it he couldn't pay this loan. ראה, look, שאתה ערב בדבר, aren't you an ערב? So you have to pay me.\" מיד נשתטית בתו של קיסר, at that moment, the daughter of the king became crazy, ונטלה ארגז מלא אבנים טובות ודינרי זהב, this daughter of the king took a box full of diamonds and golden coins, וזרקה לתוך הים. She went meschugge, threw it into the ים. והים הביאה אותה למקום שהייתה אותה מטרוניתא יושבת על שפת הים. And the ים swam, and the ים came to where this lady was. מיד נטלה אותו ארגז והלכה לה, so she took it, and she went, and she got money back, much more than she had before. לימים נתרפא רבי עקיבא, later רבי עקיבא got cured, ובא לו אצל אותה מטרוניתא, so he came to this lady, ומעושה בידו לפרוע החוב, and he came to pay her, now he got a chance to pay her with the money. ואמרה ליה, she said to him, חזרתי אצל הערב, I already went to the guarantor, והוא פרע כל החוב, he paid everything, והלך מה שנתן לי יותר ליותר, not only he pay me, he gave me more than the thing. So first of all, you keep the money, second of all, whatever I got more, because in that box there was more than what you owed me, that's not mine.\" She gave him more. ומאותו ממון שהחזירה לו נתעשר רבי עקיבא, רבי עקיבא became rich from that money, so that's another thing. Back to the Gemara, she gave him, she gave it to Rabbi Akiva, the extra money. What what do do with the what's this to do with the what I mentioned the Kalba Savua? Oh no, this is just since we mention how Kalba Savua made Rabbi Akiva rich and the Gemara mentions this is not the only thing that happened, he became rich some more ways.

Another thing was מאישתו של Turnus Rufus, from the wife of Turnus Rufus. How did he become rich from there? So, Rashi says again, the Ran says, מפני שטורנוסרופוס היה רבי עקיבא מקפחו במקראי לפני קיסר, רבי עקיבא used to this Turnus Rufus in front of the king used to שפכ״ז actually bother him, used to ask him questions about פסוקים, ומקנתרו בדברים, and he would bother him and the guy didn't know what to answer and he embarrassed him. פעם אחת בא לביתו סר וזעף, so once this Turnus Rufus came home to his wife very angry, ואמרה לו אשתו, so his wife said to him, \"Why are you look so sad, why are you upset?\" אמר לה, he said to her, \"Rabbi Akiva, because of רבי עקיבא שמקנתר אותי בכל יום בדברים, because he bothers me every day with words.\" אמרה לו, she said to him, \"אלקיהם של אלו שונא זמה הוא, אייבערשטער, the God of the Yidden hates adultery, זנות. תן לי רשות ואכשילנו בדבר עבירה, give me permission, and I will make him do an עבירה, לפי שהייתה יפת תואר, she was beautiful, she said, \"I'll come to him, and he'll do it.\" נתן לה רשות, he gave her the reshut. נתקשטה, so she got dressed up, והלכה אצל רבי עקיבא, she came to רבי עקיבא, גלתה שוקה, she she revealed, opened up, her thigh, trying to seduce him. כread רבי עקיבא אותה, when he saw this, רק, he spit, ושחק, he laughed, ובכה, and he cried. אמרה לו, she said to him, \"מה ענין הך תלת מילין? What what are these three things that you did?\" אמר לה, he said to her, \"שתים אפרש, two I'll tell you, שלישית לא אפרש, the third I won't tell you. רקקתי, I spit, על שבאת באת מטיפה סרוחה, I spit because I thought to myself, 'You look so beautiful, big deal, you came from nothing, came like everybody from from a drop of nothing.' בכיתי, I cried, על האי שופרא דברא בארעא, because I know eventually going to die, such a beauty is going to go to the ground. And והוא שחק, why did he laugh? He didn't tell her, but why did he laugh? שמצפה ברוח הקודש, he saw with רוח הקודש, עתידה להיגייר, she's going to convert, ולינשא לו, and she'll get married to him, ולא רצה להגיד, he didn't want to tell it to her. אמרה לו, she said to him, \"כלום יש תשובה?\" When he told her this, he saw how smart he was and she did something wrong, she tried to seduce him, so she, \"Is there a way to do תשובה?\" אמר לה, he said, \"אין, yeah.\" הלכה ונתגיירה, she went and she was מגייר, ונישאת ליה לרבי עקיבא, and got married to רבי עקיבא, והכניסה לו ממון הרבה, and she gave him a lot of money, so here's another way he got money. And the

third way is What about his wife? He had a wife. Two wives. He had two wives. Two wives. U'meKatia bar Shalom, and more money he got Who is it, Rashash says, the Ran says? The Perek Kama d'Avodah Zarah it says שנתן כל ממונו לרבי עקיבא, but that's the sixth way that had this Keti'a bar Shalom gave a lot of money to Rabbi Akiva, supported his yeshivah and gave him a lot of money. So here we have six ways how, so imagine how rich Rabbi Akiva became. זאגט די גמרא ווייטער, going back to the Gemara, סימן ל״ה. Says in the Zohar, it says that the zechut of a person to have money comes to the wife. The zechut of the wife. Ah, that's right. She doesn't have zechut? The zechut is there, the guy gets in the way. It's not always תלוי. It just says that the person's עשירות, the Zohar says this by Sarah, that Abraham became rich because of Sarah. When Pharaoh took her away and then he gave him, ולאברהם היטיב בעבורה, that's what the Zohar says. The opposite I don't know. זאגט די גמרא ווייטער,

Rav Gamda, Not not all were poor. Oh, you mean those that were. Yeah. Well, there were, we know Rebbe was very rich, Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya was was רב גמדא יהיב ד׳ זוזי לספונאי, רב גמדא gave four zuzim to sailors לאתויי בהו מידם, to bring him something. No no story there. I don't know, he doesn't bring, it just says no story, it just says he gave money to the yeshivah. That's what the Ran says here. If where did they bring the story, is from Okay, so this is from Avodah Zarah. The quote is from Gemara Avodah Zarah, but there's a story there? Yes. Okay. So it says they Rav Gamda gave four zuzim to sailors and he said, bring me something. לא אשכחו, they didn't find anything. אייתו ליה קופא, they brought him a monkey. אשתמיט, the monkey ran away. עאל לחורשא and it ran into a hole. חפרו בתריה, so they tried to get it out, so they dug under there. אשכחו, they found דריביע אמארגליותא that it's laying on margaliyot, on pearls. אייתוה כולה, so these people brought it all to Rav Gamda cuz it's all thanks to him. So I guess he also became became rich. זאגט די גמרא ווייטער, אמרה ליה בת קיסר לרבי יהושע בן חנניה, the daughter of the king said to Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya, cuz Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya had a lot of dealings with with the Caesar, with the with the chachamim of of of Greece and all these. So she said to him, תורה מפוארה בכלי מכוער, you're so full of Torah, but he was פשוט ugly, he looked ugly. Such a beautiful Torah in such an ugly vessel. אמר לה, he said to her like this, לא למדת מבית אביך? You didn't learn from your father's house, במה מנחי יין? Let's ask you, where do they keep wine? No. How do you keep wine? אמרה ליה, במאני דפחרא, in in in earthenware vessels. אמר לה, he said, כולי עלמא במאני דפחרא ואתון במאני דפחרא? Stam people can't afford very expensive vessels, so they keep earthenware. But in your house also, the king can't afford more and he has to keep earthen vessels? אתון אחיתו במאני דכספא ודהבא, you should put it in kelim of gold and silver. אזלא, she went, ורמתיה במאני דכספא ודהבא. So she put wine into this vessel made of of gold and silver, וסרי, and they spoiled. אמר לה, so he wanted to show a point, he said to her, אף אורייתא כן. Torah is the same, that Torah in a in a not a such an expensive vessel, means in a the person is not so handsome, that's where the Torah belongs. אמרה ליה, she said to him, והאיכא שפירי דגמירי? Don't you have people, chachamim who are great chachamim and they have Torah and they're also handsome, also nice? אמר לה, so he said to her, אי הוו סנו הוו גמירי טפי. Had they not looked nice they would have bigger chachmah, they would learn more. It's a different Gemara. It's a different Gemara. It's the same story in different Gemara with more details. Here, look here on the side, you want to know. There's a little א in the beginning of this story, look on the side, Yad Yosef, א. You see a little א in front, right after ל״ה? So you see on Yad Yosef on the top? Ta'anit? תענית ז׳ עמוד א׳. That same story is brought there. Every time what brings is, not every not everything, a lot of times different details. זאגט די Gemara ווייטער, ההוא דאתא לקמיה דרב יהודה, man נהרדעא, there was this lady came to רב יהודה from נהרדעא, לדינא, to have a דין תורה, ואתחייבת מדינא, and she became chayav, she was guilty. אמרה ליה, she said to him, שמואל רבך הכי דנן? Your רבי שמואל would do the same? Would פסקן the same? אמר לה, so he said, ידעת ליה? What, you know him? אמרה ליה, אין, yes. And she described him: גוצא, he's short, ורבא כריסיה, has a big stomach, ואוכם, and he's dark, he's black, ורבא שיניה, has big teeth. In other words, basically she's saying he doesn't look too nice. אמר לה, so he said to her, לביזויי קאתית? You came to embarrass him? You came to tell us bad things about him? תהא ההיא איתתא בשמתא, she should be in cherem. When he said that, פקעה ומיתה, she plopped and she died. She was already chayav, now what was she chayav? Misah? No, she was cherem, she was חייב חרם. What was she chayav for? For insulting Shmuel. Even though she said the truth, I guess, it wasn't lying. No, she's chayav for something else before that, though. Oh, the chayav, yeah, the chayav is money, I guess. It doesn't chayav it's an aveirah. She had a din Torah, I guess, and she she had to pay or whatever, she lost the din Torah, that's all. So you didn't give me you didn't give a chance to to to do What? to do teshuvah? He didn't חייב מיתה her. Who did? Okay. נשמתה בטהרה? Yeah. Yeah. So this would be more Huh? I imagine so. Huh? This was for her good. I guess so. How was that for her good? מיתת בית דין is supposed to be mechaper. But she didn't deserve מיתת בית דין. He's saying this Yeah, I guess. Who is it? Yeah, yeah. There's this long story about this Keti'ah who who actually mauled himself with his with his teeth and his all his possessions should go to Rabbi Akiva, I don't know Which which דף in Ta'anit? No, no, Avodah Zarah, I meant Avodah Zarah. י עמוד ב. Yeah? Yeah. Okay. Tosafot there. Yeah.