before described, the גמרא described, what happened in הר המלך, טור מלכא, that because of the incident with the תרנגול תרנגולת, the king sent a whole army and they destroyed the whole city. So the גמרא says it was a very big city. We'll see soon how big it was, גוזמא, and was so big, the story goes like this: First, he came. Why did he start? Because the מנהג over there was that they used to by a חתונה, they used to take a chicken, a rooster and a hen, in front of the חתן כלה. It was a סימן that they should multiply like chickens. So, army, soldiers of the army happened to pass by, they saw the chickens and took a כאפ, they grabbed it. So the people jumped on them and hit them. So they went to the king and they told the king, the יידן are against you. מרדו במלכות. Yeah, מרדו במלכות. So what happened? The king brought an army. There was one ייד, was so strong that he could jump a mile, a מיל, and jump into the enemies' place and kill people, and they were very afraid. So the king took down his crown and said to the אייבערשטער, "אייבערשטער, I'm asking you, even if we have to lose, but it shouldn't, it's not nice that we should lose in the hands of one person." This guy did פארקערט. He said to the אייבערשטער, "Please, don't help us. Don't go against them, but you don't need your help. We'll take care of ourselves." So the אייבערשטער made a snake bit him and he killed him. When the king saw that something happened, a נס happened, he said, "Okay, I'm going to leave him alone." So he left. As he left, the people in the city saw he left, they started celebrating. They started singing and dancing and having parties. The king heard they're having parties, "Oh, they're making fun of me." So he came back, and he started killing people. It says how many people, he said 80,000 soldiers with... So what happened was, when he came back, he was killing, the city was so big that in one side of the city, three days in a row they were killing people. On the other side, they didn't even know what's going on and they were celebrating still. That's how big it was. So now the

גמרא continues, "בלע ה' ולא חמל את כל נאות יעקב". Wait, wait, wait, where... כ"ה. כ"ה? סימן כ"ה, yeah. Okay. So he דרשנ'ט from here, what does it mean the אייבערשטער didn't have רחמנות? כי אתא רבין אמר רבי יוחנן, he said, "אלו ששים ריבוא עיירות", there were 60 600,000 cities שהיו ליה לינאי המלך בהר המלך. ינאי המלך in הר המלך had 600,000 cities. דאמר רב יהודה, רב יהודה said, אמר רב אסי... 60,000? No, ששים ריבוא, 60,000. ששים ריבוא is 60 times 10,000. 60,000. No, 60 times 10,000, 600,000. Not six times 10,000, that would be 60. 60 times 10,000, 60... Oh, 600,000. that's 600,000 cities. דאמר רב יהודה said אמר רב אסי, ס' ריבוא עיירות היו לו לינאי המלך, ינאי המלך had 600,000 cities in הר המלך, וכל אחת ואחת היה בה כיוצאי מצרים, each one of these 600,000 cities had 600,000 people, חוץ משלש, besides three of them, שהיו בהן כפלים כיוצאי מצרים. They had a million point two. 1.2. And these are the three, אלו הן: כפר ביש, כפר שיחליים, כפר דכריא. Now, why are they called with these names? כפר ביש, it's called כפר ביש, what does the word "ביש" mean? ביש means bad. דלא יהבי ביתא לאושפיזא, and they never would let their house for guest. They wouldn't מכניס אורח. כפר שיחליים... סדום. Huh? Like סדום. כפר שיחליים, שהיתה פרנסתם משיחליים. Their Their Their פרנסה was for this vegetable or fruit, it's called שיחליים. כפר דכריא, what's כפר דכריא? Why is it called? אמר רבי יוחנן, שהיו נשותיהם יולדות זכרים תחלה ויולדות נקבות באחרונה ופוסקות. They would have boys, then a girl, a סדר like that, and then they would stop. And דכריא, דכר is a זכר. After the girl. After the girl it would stop. So we see from here, I mean, to make a חשבון how many people were there is פשוט בגשמיות is impossible. Hashem knows where's all the space. You know what that is? 600,000 times 600,000. How much is that? Who wants to figure that out? It's more than billions, that's billions upon billions and... Was the

custom to have the girl first or the girl last? I had a girl, and they say it's a special ברכה... First of all, it was, yeah, it was a סדר. to have a girl first, like... The גמרא says a ברכה to have a girl first. The Mishna said to have a girl last. No, but here they had the boys first, but some want a... No, some want a boy first, because a boy is בכור. The גמרא says, בת תחלה, סימן יפה לבנים. But that's for for the בנים it's a good thing, but not בעצם. בעצם it's good to have a girl first. No. No? It's good for the בנים. It's good because she helped, the girl helps raise the children. But in this case, it says like a קללה, it's not the... these people. could be a ברכה. אמר עולא, עולא said: לדידי חזי לי ההוא אתרא, I saw that place, ואפילו שיתא ריבווא קני לא מחזק, can't hold 600,000 sticks. How did it hold so much people? אמר ליה ההוא, yeah, אמר ליה ההוא מינא לרבי חנינא, so this אפיקורס said to רבי חנינא, שיקורי משקריתו, you're lying, you said these things, it's impossible. אמר ליה, he said to him, the פסוק calls ארץ ישראל ארץ צבי. Now,

normal פשט ארץ צבי means the land that he wanted. צבי comes from the word צבי, it means he wanted. But צבי also means a deer. So we דרשן, מה צבי זה, ארץ ישראל like a deer, just like a deer אין עורו מחזיק את בשרו, the skin doesn't hold its its body, its flesh. When you skin a deer and then you'll want to put the skin back to the deer it won't go, because it was stretched. When you take it off, it becomes smaller. So it means it stretches according to the needs, that when it's on the body, it stretches. אף ארץ ישראל, בזמן שיושבין עליה רווחה, when יידן live there it becomes wider. בזמן שאין יושבין עליה גמדא, when יידן don't live there it becomes smaller. Okay. What happens, everything it's very this is very strange to understand. This is אגדתא. How could he argue? How could the צדוקי argue? There is it's a clear פסוק. Yeah. So the גמרא weiter, אמינא בר חלקיה ורב חלקיה בר טוביה ורב הונא בר חייא, all these three הוו יתבי גבי הדדי, they were sitting next to each other. אמרו, they said, אי איכא דשמיע ליה מילתא מכפר סכניא של מצרים, לימא. If anybody heard something about this place called כפר כפר סכניא כפר סכניא דמצרים, let him say it. פתח חד מינייהו ואמר, so one started saying like this. מעשה בארוס וארוסתו, story with an ארוס and an ארוסתו. ארוס is the חתן, ארוסתו is the כלה. It was they didn't get married yet, but they were ארוסה. Now we know, when you're an ארוסה, not nowadays, nowadays does, but at the time of the גמרא, if he gave קידושין, she was an אשת איש, 100%, but they were not allowed to live together till after she became a נשואה. So there was an ארוס and an ארוסה שנשבו לבין הגוים, they got captured amongst the גוים. Did they have כתובה before they got נשואין? No. Unless they wanted to, they could have, but the כתובה, then they could live together if they had... No, it's not because of the כתובה. השיאום זה לזה, and the גוים who captured them put them together, married them off, married them together, they said, 'We'll marry you,' and they like they put them in one room, they put them in one bedroom, and, 'You are now husband and wife.' Now, the truth is, they were husband and wife. מדאורייתא, they're allowed to live together. It's a גזירת דרבנן. אמרה ליה, she said to him, בבקשה ממך, I'm asking, I'm begging you, אל תיגע בי, don't touch me, שאין לי כתובה ממך, I don't have a כתובה from you. Now, the לשון כתובה, it doesn't mean כתובה only. It's a problem also, but she was not a נשואה, and an ארוסה in all these אסור. In the ברכה, when you're מסדר קידושין, that's the ברכה: ואסר לנו את הארוסות והתיר לנו את הנשואות לנו על ידי חופה וקידושין, so it's אסור. ולא נגע בה עד יום מותו, טאקע didn't touch her till the day that he died. They were they were married by the by the גוים? They they considered them, they said, 'We're marrying you off.' Is that legal? I mean, for the גוים? They were kidnapped, they were captured. Right, I understand. But if that's not a legal marriage, that's fine, it's טאקע not. That's why they weren't married, no. So, he didn't touch her עד יום מותו. וכשמת, when he died, אמרה להן, she said to the people, ספדו לזה, be מספיד him, and what should the הספד say? שפיפד ביצרו יותר מיוסף, he fought his יצר harder, more than יוסף. אילו יוסף לא בא אלא שעה אחת, יוסף was one moment, one time. והאי כל יומא ויומא, every day he had the same נסיון. אילו יוסף לא בחדא מיטה, יוסף wasn't sleeping with her in one bed. והאי בחדא מיטה, they put them they gave him one bed and they put them in one bed. Another thing, אילו יוסף לאו אשתו, this wasn't his wife. It was a married woman. והאי אשתו, here it was his wife. In other words, the עבירה wouldn't have been like a terrible עבירה. She was his wife. She wasn't someone else's wife, and not only she was a single woman, she was his wife! אלא מאי, it didn't come complete. Was that their purpose to make him suffer like this? No, they didn't know they would do that. They didn't know that they wouldn't they would have relation. Right, they thought they sure would. כתובה... huh? כתובה in case that he shouldn't hurry to give her a גט. Okay. It's not only because of the כתובה. Because some people ask, If the problem is only the כתובה, why didn't you write a כתובה? Take a piece of paper, write her a כתובה and give it to her. It's not the כתובה only, she was not a נשואה. I wonder if it's possible they would force them to be married? Yeah. They didn't really want to be married, but they were because they were captured they had to stay in this... Yeah, what should they do? What could they do? Yeah. The only שאלה is what do they care if they get married or not. Probably they wanted the children and the children then yeah. So this is what one said that happened in that city of כפר סכניא. פתח אידך ואמר, the other one said, מעשה, the story, ועמדו ארבעים מודיא בדינר. The story like this: usually 40 מודיא, 40 measurements of wheat, you could buy for a דינר. נחסר השער מודיא אחת. So they saw something happened and the price went down that you could get... for a דינר you could get only 39. Things became more expensive. The שער, the 40, became less. So now that it was more expensive, like this you could get 40 for a דינר, here you could get 39 for a דינר. So obviously to them it felt that there's something wrong with this. If something happened wrong, what is it? כלל, you got to figure out what עבירות are being done and that cause there should be this let's call it קללה. So inflation is due to עבירות? Yeah, we got a lot of עבירות. ובדקו ומצאו אב ובנו, they found they researched and they saw a father and a son that both of them באו על נערה מאורסה ביום הכפורים. Had relations with a married woman, she was מאורסה, she wasn't a נשואה yet, but she was an אשת איש, and they did it obviously דווקא, on יום כיפור, on a נערה מאורסה, and a father and a son. והביאום, and בית דין found out, והביאום לבית דין וסקלום. They brought them to בית דין, they tried them, and the end was they stoned them. Why did they give them סקילה? Because she was מאורסה. If they be a married woman completely it was חנק, this is סקילה. וחזר השער למקומו. And the שער came back. It was clear that this was because of this. פתח אידך ואמר, so the other one started, he said, I have a story. מעשה באדם אחד שנתן עיניו באשתו לגרשה, person decided to divorce his wife, והיתה כתובתה מרובה, but it was a big כתובה, he was afraid he'll have to pay so much. מה עשה? He was so smart smart, אוי ואבוי, he was using his שכל to for for evil. What did he do? הלך וזימן את שושביניו, he came and invited his, like, friends, his והאכילם והשקם, and he gave them to eat, he gave them to drink, שכרום, and he got them drunk, והשכיבם על מיטה אחת, and he put them on this on one bed, and he put them on on one bed with his wife. והביא לובן ביצה, and he brought the white of an egg, והטיל ביניהם, and he put it on the bed in between them. Now, it says that שכבת זרע is similar, the same color, as the white of an egg. והעמיד להם עדים, he brought עדים to see, look, they're laying on one bed with שכבת זרע there. ובא לבית דין, and he came to בית דין, and what he wanted that בית דין should פסקן that he has to divorce her, but בית דין, in a case like this where he has to divorce because it's her fault, is תצא בלא כתובה. Anytime that there's a דין that you have to divorce because of something that she did, no כתובה. So in this case, he would be פטור from the כתובה. היה שם זקן אחד מתלמידי שמאי הזקן, there was one of the זקנים, תלמידים of שמאי הזקן, ובבא בן בוטא שמו. אמר להם, he said to them, כך מקובלני משמאי הזקן, this is what I received from שמאי הזקן, that they look alike, the white of an egg looks like שכבת זרע, but there's difference: לובן ביצה סולדת מן האור. If you have if the egg, the white of a egg, what happens is, if you make it hot, comes under the heat, it dries up. It gets פארהארטעוועט, it gets hard and dry. שכבת זרע דוחה מן האור. If you get שכבת זרע, what happens is when it gets hot it gets absorbed in into the into the the linen. So let's check it out. בדקו, they checked it, ומצאו כדבריו, and they found that this חכם was this right, that proved that this guy was cheating. והביאוהו לבית דין והלקוהו, they brought him to בית דין and they hit him, והגבו כתובתה ממנו, and they got the full כתובה from him. מלקות? Ah? מלקות. They gave him מלקות. He was מוציא שם רע, but it's not the regular דין of מוציא שם רע, so he got מלקות. It's not מלקות the 39 מלקות, no, it's מכת מרדות. It's unlimited. It's unlimited, it could be a little, could be a little more, yeah. So אמר ליה אביי לרב יוסף: ומאחר דהוו צדיקים כולי האי, since they were such great צדיקים, you see ממש every of these stories are ממש shows like great they were, מאי טעמא איענש? So why were they punished? Because they were also destroyed. אמר ליה: משום דלא אבילו על ירושלים. Because they didn't have אבילות on ירושלים, they didn't mourn the חורבן of ירושלים. דכתיב it says: שמחו את ירושלים וגילו בה כל אוהביה שישו אתה משוש כל המתאבלים עליה. You should be happy with the with the with building of ירושלים, but you should be happy those that are mourning. It means it comes from here that someone who mourns ירושלים will be זוכה to see it. You see, they didn't mourn ירושלים, so that itself was a חסרון. Yeah, ווייטער. אשקא דריספק חרב ביתר. It's all בהמשך to the beginning of the סוגיא. הגמרא quotes a פסוק: אשרי אדם מפחד תמיד. A person should always be afraid. And בהמשך to that פסוק, the הגמרא brings three stories: קמצא ובר קמצא, the בית המקדש was destroyed, תרנגול ותרנגולת, הר תור מלכא was destroyed, and because of a piece of board from a wagon, ביתר was destroyed. What's the connection to the פסוק אשרי אדם תפחד אשרי אדם מפחד תמיד? What it means is that a person should always, whatever you do, should always think ahead. Be afraid, you never know what consequences will come out. Don't deal with things just what what you do now. Now you do a small thing, but always think ahead. Like it says: איזהו חכם? הרואה את הנולד. חכם עיניו בראשו. So here also, what this guy did by the party when בר קמצא came and he didn't want him, he threw him out. So it's a bad thing, he shouldn't embarrass a person, he didn't throw him out. But he should have thought further, what could happen? Look what took place afterwards, the חורבן בית המקדש. Same thing with the story with the תרנגול, when they grabbed the תרנגול, the chickens, so the people jumped them. So think, what are you doing? What are you doing? You're jumping on these soldiers, these are Roman soldiers, you definitely know what's going to be, and look what happened. So now we have another case, that because of a story with the wall, with the piece of wood from the wagon, ביתר was destroyed. What happened? דהוו נהיגי, there was a מנהג, כי הוה מיתיליד ינוקא, when a child was born, a boy was born, שתלי ארזא. So the parents would plant an ארז, a cedar tree. ינוקתא, if a girl was born, a child, a little girl, שתלי תורניתא. They would plant a תורניתא, so another type of tree. Also I guess they say it's the same family as the cedar tree, but it's another tree. וכי הוו מינסבי, when a boy and a girl got married, קייצי להו, they would cut it off, ועבדו גננא. Yeah, and they would make from that the חופה. יומא חד, once, הוה קא חלפה ברתיה דקיסר. When they were getting ready for the חופה, getting the daughter of the קיסר passed by. איתבר שקא דריסקא, so piece of the wood from the wagon broke. So what happened? So they were looking for more wood. So they saw this, one of the the cedar trees, קצו ארזא ואייתו ליה. So they broke they cut off a piece of the ארז and they brought it. אתו, they came, so the people who saw, what are you cutting off? This is a סימן for the children! They came ומחונהו, and they beat them up. So what happened? אתו אמרו ליה לקיסר, so they went and they said to master, to the king: מרדו בך יודאי, the אידן rebelling against you. אתא עלייהו, he came on them and he destroyed the city of ביתר. And the פסוק says: גדע בחרי אף כל קרן ישראל. Says that the אייבערשטער cut off with His anger all קרן ישראל. אמר רב זירא אמר רבי אבהו אמר רבי יוחנן: אלו שמונים אלף קרני מלחמה, these are 80,000 horns of מלחמה שנכנסו לכרך ביתר בשעה שלכדוה. 80,000 soldiers. Now, קרני מלחמה means the heads of the, like like officers. So it was not 80,000 soldiers, 80,000 officers of soldiers. And they came in והרגו בה אנשים ונשים וטף, they killed men, women, and children, עד שהלך דמם ונפל לים הגדול. The blood became such a pool of blood that it ran into the ים הגדול, ים הגדול is the Mediterranean. שמא תאמר קרובה, you might say maybe it was very close to the ים, so that's why it came, רחוקה היתה מיל, it was a מיל far. Imagine, the water came ממש like like a river, the blood. תניא, we learned in a ברייתא, רבי אלעזר הגדול אומר, רבי אלעזר הגדול says: שני נחלים יש בבקעת ידים, there's an area called בקעת ידים, and there is two rivers there, אחד מושך הילך ואחד מושך הילך, one goes this way, one goes this way, ושיערו חכמים, and the חכמים, when this happened, and this came from the ים by the ים הגדול, they measured it out, and it came out: שני חלקים מים ואחד דם. A third of the ים became was blood. 33% of the ים was blood. And תניא, a ברייתא says: שבע Are these two rivers, both of them a third? Yeah. It says, שבע שנים בצרו עובדי כוכבים את כרמיהם מדמן של ישראל בלא זבל. Blood is good as fertilizer. For seven years, the גוים didn't have to fertilize their fields because the blood, so when they used the water from the river to water their fields, the water was already with blood, so that fertilized the fields. This reminds us of the Holocaust, that's I mean these things, it's It's a problem, sure. Another minute or two, let's start the next piece. אמר רבי חייא בר אבין אמר רבי יהושע בן קרחה, סח לי זקן אחד מאנשי ירושלים, an old man from ירושלים told me, בבקעה זו, he showed me a certain valley, here הרג נבוזראדן רב טבחים, נבוזראדן רב טבחים, who was the general and officers, מאתים ואחת עשרה ריבוא. 201, 211, I mean, times 10,000. 2,100,000. That, yeah. 2,110,000, that's how many people he killed here. ובירושלים הרג תשעים וארבע ריבוא. There he killed 94 times 10,000. על אבן אחת, on one on one stone. עד שהלך דמם, the blood went, ונגע בדמו של זכריה, and it met up with the blood of זכריה הנביא, לקיים מה שנאמר ודמים בדמים נגעו, because they killed זכריה and this went and went met that blood. That's how much blood it was. They couldn't they couldn't cover the blood of זכריה. We will stop here. I mean, we still have to finish with a good thing, but מסיימין בטוב, but it's Yeah, but they couldn't cover the blood of זכריה. Yeah, they didn't, they kept on killing. It wasn't really good, oh yeah? Huh? Doesn't seem too many That's why we have to add the words מסיימין בטוב. The רבי was very much מקפיד, yeah, always to be מסיימין בטוב. They found in the רבי's, the רבי's room a ספר that the רבי had a ספר. I'll tell you even which ספר it was: the בית ישראל from the גערער רבי. So one of the volumes finishes off with something and I think the last word is or מיתה or חנק or something. So they have saw they when they opened it they

saw the רבי added with his כתב יד מסיימין בטוב. I remember when the first time we gave out the הגדה, the רבי's הגדה, and gave to the, they printed, I think, 10,000 copies, gave the רבי a copy. So the רבי looked at it. Turned out that the last word was a הערה of a letter. And the last word, the רבי's מסביר why we don't say שכינה by a ברית, משום צערא דינוקא. So the last words of the ספר is צערא דינוקא. So the רבי wrote us a צעטל we should make חותם של גומי, a rubber stamp, with the words לשנה הבאה בירושלים, and take every ספר and stamp in the end לשנה הבאה בירושלים. So we had to sit hours and hours to take all, I think how much, 10,000, 5,000 ספרים? Because, because it ended Because it ended up with the word צערא דינוקא. Wow. Now, it says in ספרים that there is a, a bad מלאך who is always waiting for somebody to finish with something bad and then he's a חטף on them. On the left.