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May Hashem Yisborach shower them with bracha 1:11 and with success in all their endeavors. And they are following the the tragic news in Eretz Yisrael with the four individuals who were stuck under the rubble in the home that was sustained a direct hit in Haifa. Unfortunately, we learn the iluy nishmas some as well. I don't think that their names have been released yet, but we hope that Hashem Yisborach will provide their precious nishmas with an aliyah, their families in a nachama, and halavai klali. So, may 1:35 Hashem Yisborach should be given b'soros tovos, yeshu'os, nachamas, and the geulah shleimah b'asidim b'heira b'yameinu. Amen. And with that, let us begin today's daf peh 85. We're going to pick up actually back up just a little bit on page 84b, the third wide line in B'Chol Dos. 1:55 If you remember again, we actually began we we we were a good number of lines into this already, but this is a good natural point to start again. If you remember, we saw the machlokes in the top of the daf, top of the amud, between Ulla and Rebbe Achabar Abba. Specifically, is what happens if one goes ahead and consecrates as bikurim fruit of the inferior quality. So, Ulla said that al halacha l'ma'aseh doesn't 2:18 work. Such a designation is totally invalid. Rebbe Achabar Abba said that ultimately it does work. So, the Gemara says b'chol daf daf in reality, this machlokes is the same machlokes of Rebbe Yochanan and Reish Lakish. Rebbe Yochanan amrin Reish Lakish. Rebbe Yochanan says, if you brought fruit of this inferior quality as bikurim, the consecration doesn't even devolve upon the fruit. So, in other words, the idea 2:40 that that the bikurim status won't even devolve upon the fruit itself. Reish Lakish amrin Reish Lakish says, im hevei kodesh nasei k'kodesh b'kodesh. Reish Lakish says, no, listen, it's not it's not ideal. It's not ideal to consecrate such fruit, but if you did so, ultimately again it works much in the same way that although you should bring a zaftig animal as a korban, if you ended up bringing a weak and animal, a 3:03 thinner animal, the consecration works as well. So, the Gemara says bishlama Reish Lakish k'dam ta'ama, ela Rebbe Yochanan mai ta'ama? So, Reish Lakish espouses his reasoning, right? Reish Lakish says that inferior fruit is no different than a thin animal. As much as it's not ideal to use a thin animal, it's not ideal to use inferior fruit, but just like designation of a thin animal works korbanically, the designation of 3:26 inferior fruit for bikurim will also work. To which the Gemara says ela, however, ela Rebbe Yochanan mai ta'ama? What's Rebbe Yochanan's logic? Why why does he hold that such a designation ultimately will not work? Amr Rebbe Elazar Rebbe Yochanan chazei b'chalom amr Rebbe Elazar Rebbe Yochanan chazei b'chalom milsa d'lo yasra minah. What did Rebbe Elazar mention to us yesterday? If you remember again, Rebbe Elazar said, I saw Rebbe Yochanan in a dream, and because I saw him in a dream, 3:51 I know if I dream about Torah, I know I'm going to say something good in the Beis Medrash. Amar kra, meireishis v'lo chol reishis, me'artzecha v'lo chol artzecha. So, Rebbe Yochanan darshans as follows. The pasuk when it says by bikurim says meireishis from the first fruit from your land, so from indicates that some of it is fit and some of it is unfit. So, therefore, if you have 4:13 produce of proper quality, ultimately again, it will work for bikurim, but if it's inferior quality, it won't work. So, that's Rebbe Yochanan's drasha. Me'artzecha meireishis. Reish Lakish, hai artzecha mai offis lei? What does Reish Lakish do with his artzecha or me'artzecha? What does he do with it? 4:31 Meibayen l'chiddush san'yo. He needs it for the following reason. Rebbe Elazar bar Rebbe Omar, ne'emar kan aretz v'ne'emar l'halan aretz. Ma l'halan shevach aretz, af kan shevach aretz. Interestingly enough, Reish Lakish uses this Reish Lakish uses this ultimately again to go ahead and talk about the idea that bikurim only comes from what's called shevach Eretz Yisrael, which means the 4:55 shevas minim. The shevas minim, the seven species. So, it says aretz by the shevas minim, it says aretz ultimately by bikurim, just like aretz by shevas minim refers to these unique seven species, so too by bikurim the obligation is only to bring not of any first fruit, but only of the first fruits of the shevas minim. I the Gemara says, v'ida aretz me'aretz. And again, Rebbe Yochanan will darshan that from 5:18 the fact that it could have said aretz, but it says me'aretz. V'ida aretz me'aretz lo mashma lei. Okay. So, since that's the machlokes of Rebbe Yochanan and Reish Lakish, echoing the same machlokes as Ulla and Rebbe Achabar Abba. But, if you go out and you designate inferior produce as bikurim, does it work or not? Fundamental machlokes. So, the Gemara goes right to the Tanna Kamma. Sheb'gag, sheb'churva, sheb'atzitz, sheb'sfinah, mayvin koren. 5:42 Let's listen to this. We have one braisa that says that if you bring fruit that was grown on a rooftop, in a churva, right? In a in a in a ruin, atzitz, in a in in a flower pot, and b'sfinah, or on a boat, in all of these cases mayvin koren. And you know what I'm saying? 5:59 Mayvin means you bring the bikurim. Koren means you recite the accompanying the accompanying psukim. So again, the idea is when you say remember cuz the act of bikurim is not just bringing the first fruit. You gather the fruit, you bring it to Yerushalayim, and there's a whole recitation that we got. And we say to ourselves, amazingly enough, this isn't yet in the Yom Yov. This is the Haggadah. Right? In fact, the a good part of Maggid, a good part of Maggid, 6:22 the psukim that we recite in Maggid is actually the Havos Bikurim. Those are the psukim that you recite when you bring your bikurim. You essentially do a little bit of a recap of Jewish history when you bring the bikurim. So, the braisa the braisa says over here that if you bring this fruit and we say to ourselves, the common denominator amongst all of these fruit, grown on a roof, in a ruin, in a flower pot, or on a boat, would seem to make this less 6:47 than ideal produce. Less than ideal produce. Yet, the braisa says that you bring you could bring it as bikurim, and also you could even recite the accompanying psukim. Okay. On the other hand, the Tanna Ida, another braisa says, mayvin einan koren. Says you could bring you bring these bikurim, but you would not recite the accompanying psukim. You do not recite the accompanying psukim. 7:12 So, the Gemara says, which indicates to us that it's not ideal bikurim. So, bishlama Reish Lakish kaga gag lo kasha. So, according to Reish Lakish, now again, let's remember again, Reish Lakish was the opinion who said that normally you could even bring compromise produce as bikurim. So, according to Reish Lakish, there's no contradiction between these braisos. Why not? Lo kasha, lo gag ha b'gag d'ma'ara, ha 7:34 b'gag d'bayis. Could be that the braisa that says l'chatchila you could bring fruit grown on a roof, you could bring it, you could read the psukim, that's talking about the roof of a of a of a ma'ara. Ultimately again, of a cave. So, we'll say the roof of a cave is what? It's soil. So, it's regular ground, it's regular earth. On the other hand, the braisa that says that you could bring bikurim, but you can't do the psukim, that's talking about the roof of a 7:58 house. Cuz even Reish Lakish would agree that that is compromised compromised produce. You could bring it, but you can't do the psukim. Churva churva lo kasha. Similarly again, the ruin, the two cases of the ruin also aren't contradictory. Kan b'churva avuda, kan b'churva she'einah avuda. One is talking about again a ruin where the soil is plowed, right? In which case you could bring the bikurim, you could even do the recitation. One is talking about where it's not plowed. 8:22 However, the Gemara says, atzitz atzitz lo kasha. Similarly again, there's no contradiction in the two cases of the flower pots. Why? Kan b'nikura, kan b'she'einah nikura. One is where it's perforated. So, a perforated flower pot has the status of soil. If that's the case, you could bring the bikurim, you could do the recitation. Versus a non-perforated flower pot, where Reish Lakish would say you could bring it, but you can't recite the accompanying psukim. Similarly again, sfinah sfinah 8:45 lo kasha. There's no contradiction in the boat cases. Why? Kan b'sfinah shel eitz, kan b'sfinah shel cheres. This is interesting. One is talking about a boat made out of wood. One is talking about a boat made out of earthenware. Apparently, an earthenware boat would have the status of soil, of earth, since it's made from right, earthenware, which comes from the earth. Versus a boat made out of wood, which ultimately again doesn't have the status of soil, and therefore al halacha l'ma'aseh, you 9:09 could bring bikurim, but you cannot recite the accompanying psukim. Ela, top of peh 85a. Ela Rebbe Yochanan kasha. But Rebbe Yochanan, what do you do with this? How does Rebbe Yochanan reconcile this? To which the Gemara says, tanai hi. Rebbe Yochanan says, in reality, this whole thing is a machlokes tanoyim. 9:29 D'sanyah, sheb'gag, sheb'churva, mayvin koren. Sheb'atzitz, sheb'sfinah, einan koren. So again, Rebbe Elazar said Rebbe Yochanan was saying it's a it's a it's machlokes tanoyim, cuz he goes to another braisa. The braisa says that if you have fruit that grows on a rooftop or in a churva, you could bring and you could read the psukim. Now again, that's that's easy to reconcile cuz we already reconciled that. That could be talking about again roof of a cave, which is 9:54 soil, or that could be referring to a churva which was already plowed, in which case that's normative produce. However, again, this other kind of does say that if you have produce grown in a non-perforated flower pot or in a boat, ultimately again, you can't bring that at all. Incredible. Incredible. So, we'll say, so how do we pasken? Right? 10:13 So, again, so the Gemara ends up with this machlokes Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish, Ulla and and and and Rabbi Akiva bar Abba about what happens with this produce, this compromised produce. Can it be used for Bikurim or not? So, the Rambam paskens the Rambam paskens like this. He says in Hilchos Matnos Kehuna, he says in perek perek base halacha gimmel, he says, listen to this, "Ein 10:36 mevi'in lo mitmarim shebeharim u'mifarei shebe'amakim v'lo mizeh she she'einan min hamuvchar." So, the Rambam paskens that halacha l'ma'aseh, halacha l'ma'aseh, you cannot bring from dates that grow in the mountains, nor can you bring from produce that grows in the valleys. "Elah mitmarim shebe'amakim u'mifarei shebeharim u'fishan min hamuvchar." So, the Rambam says that halacha l'ma'aseh, you can only bring 11:00 Bikurim from produce that is min hamuvchar, the best, highest quality. "K'gon tmarim shebe'amakim u'te'enim shebeharim u'fishan u'mishnei shlish u'shavua u'kadish." And interestingly enough, he says halacha l'ma'aseh, if you go ahead and you you consecrate um less than less than um No, I'm sorry. If you consecrate If you consecrate inferior quality produce, the Rambam 11:23 paskens it does not achieve Bikurim consecration. So, bottom line halacha l'ma'aseh, the Rambam paskens like Ulla, the Rambam paskens like Rabbi Yochanan, that again, for Bikurim, you must have high quality produce. And if you consecrate inferior quality produce, the consecration does not work. And we'll say tremendous mussar haskel. Now, why And now, by the way, what's intriguing 11:47 about that? So, again, remember, what happens if you go ahead and you consecrate a lean, thinner animal, what's the halacha? What's the halacha? Consecration works. So, what's the chat? Why is it the "Vayikchu banav"? If you consecrate If you consecrate a thinner, leaner quality animal, the consecration does work. Yet, by Bikurim, if you consecrate inferior quality produce, it does not work. Now, the simple answer is 12:11 because again, as the Kessef Mishneh writes, the possuk says "V'lakachta meireishis." So, again, it could very well be that it's based on the drasha of the possuk, you shall take from the first fruit. What does "from the first fruit" take be? Not It doesn't teach me not all the first fruit is qualified for Bikurim. It has to be the highest quality. But perhaps on a mussar haskel level, what does it teach us? There's a 12:33 big difference, I would say, between the first and not the first. In life, if you want to be successful, you have to start strong. If you don't start strong, if the if the foundation If the foundation ultimately again is inferior, then halacha l'ma'aseh, it's very hard to build anything like that, right? It's it's interesting. Uh you'll back me up on this one. Right? The the the the one 12:57 thing you can't cut corners on is on a foundation. Right? You want to use cheaper windows, right? You want to use uh you know, less expensive siding or less expensive stone, that's fine. You you could Not Avi. Not Avi. Right. I'm sorry. Correct. Not Park Hyatt Park Hyatt builds. I'm not leaving that. I But the perhaps perhaps the competition may do that. All right. 13:17 All right, good. But I'm saying not right, you can The point is one can cut corners on finishes. But I would assume the one thing you cannot cut corners on is the foundation. That foundation has to be watertight, right? That foundation has to be solid. If you cut corners on the foundation, then that that ruins the store that can compromise the structural integrity of everything else you're 13:41 going to bring. That's the mussar haskel. Bikurim is the first. Bikurim represents this idea that you've just put in all of this effort in creating this year's bounty. And now it's the farm Bikurim represents the farmer's opportunity to say to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, I realize it's not kochi v'otzem yadi asisa chail zeh. It's not my work. 14:01 It's not my prowess. It's not my avodah that creates these realities. It's you, Hakadosh Baruch Hu. That's the theological power of Bikurim. It is the farmer's opportunity to go ahead and lay down the foundation of emunah, which will then mark the rest of his agricultural career. So, the halacha is when you put down the foundation of your spiritual structure, when you put down the foundation of your spiritual 14:24 edifice, it's got to be strong. Later on, is there room for error? Later on, is there room to cut corners? Later on, is there room to go ahead and substitute less than ideal materials? Yeah. It's not the best, but you can do it. But the foundation, whenever you start Whenever you start, that's got to be what we'll say. And by the way, it's not just true with Bikurim. This is why even when you start the day, how do I start my day? 14:50 How do I start my day? This is the power of starting our day with Torah. The power of starting our day with tefillat tzibbur. The power of starting our day with spirituality is that what it does is it says the foundation's going to be strong. If there's one thing I know for sure, which is what? One thing I know for sure, the rest of the day is not going to be all strong, right? There's definitely going to be a lot of cut corners. 15:12 There's probably going to be some sub-par materials, right? There's probably going to be some substitutions for things that are less than ideal, but such is the way of life. But my avodah every single day is one simple thing. Start strong. Because if the Bikurim of the beginning of my day, the Bikurim of my life, the Bikurim literally again of each and every morning is something that is solid, that is strong, that means 15:35 again, the foundation is strong. Once the foundation is strong, it can deal with some substitutions and some lack of quality in the rest of the structure. Start strong. Start strong and it'll stabilize you for a successful day. Start strong and it'll stabilize you for a successful life. Incredible. Let's go back there. "V'chulin einan ba'in ela min hamuvchar." So, remember again, we'll say, the rest 15:58 the the Mishnah then ended off by saying The Mishnah ended off by saying "V'chulin einan ba'in ela min hamuvchar." Right? "V'eizehu muvchar shelahem? Magnes v'Zatka u'Alfas." So, again, Magnes v'Zatka u'Alfas. So, again, so if you remember again, the Mishnah then went on to say that ideally, you should go and offer up all of these korbanos from the ideal. And then the Mishnah went on to discuss where the most ideal 16:22 items come from. "V'eizehu muvchar shelahem? Magnes v'Zatka u'Alfas u'Solesh Neilin u'Frayim." And it went on to list all the places. So, the Gemara says as follows. "Amri Lei Yuchna u'Mamrei l'Moshe." So, we'll say this is this is actually a very beautiful Gemara. So, Yuchna and Mamrei said to Moshe Rabbeinu, now, who are these guys? Take a look at Rashi for just a moment. Rashi, look at the top 16:46 Rashi, fourth line from the top. "Yuchna u'Mamrei, roshei machshavim shel Mitzrayim." These were the head sorcerers of Egypt. And they said to Moshe Rabbeinu, When Moshe Rabbeinu began to perform the makos, the Egyptians were convinced that Moshe Rabbeinu was using sorcery. So, these two guys, Yuchna and Mamrei, these were like the the head sorcerers of Egypt. They said 17:14 to Moshe, "Teven ata machnis l'Afra'im?" Are you bringing in straw? Right? Are you bringing in straw to Afra'im? Now, look at Rashi again. "Teven ata machnis l'Afra'im, Afra'im she makom chabiv hu." So, again, we'll say this is the connection to the Mishnah. The Mishnah mentioned Afra'im as a place as a place that had superior wheat. So, they said to Moshe Rabbeinu, "Are you trying to 17:38 sell wheat in Afra'im?" Now, again, we'll say, if you think about it like this, it would make no sense for an out-of-town merchant to come and try to sell wheat in Afra'im. Why not? Because Afra'im has Afra'im has such good wheat, another guy from the outside is not going to be able to break into the market. So, these two sorcerers said to Moshe Rabbeinu Yuchna u'Mamrei said to Moshe essentially, "You want to do 18:00 sorcery in Egypt? Egypt is the capital of sorcery. What do you think you're going to come in with your little magic tricks? You're going to pull some hat out of a rabbit out of a hat? Turn some blood into water into blood? You think we're going to be impressed? That's like coming to sell wheat in Afra'im." "Teven ata machnis l'Afra'im?" "Amri lo so Moshe Rabbeinu responded to them, 'Amri inshi l'massa yarqa, yarqa 18:23 shakal.'" To a place where they sell vegetables, bring vegetables. Now, what does that mean? Take a look at Rashi again. Rashi says "Amri lahem l'massa yarqa, yarqa shakal. Eisha gadol sham yerek harbei, hevi yerek shel chulin kar u'fishan u'kapsin sham u'mach." Moshe Rabbeinu said just the opposite. Just right Forget it. Just the opposite. In a place where they sell vegetables, or that's a place where customers for vegetables come. That's the best place 18:48 to sell your wares. So, again, Moshe Rabbeinu was saying, you know, dafka, in Egypt, this is the best place to show you the yad Hashem. Because you're you're so proficient in sorcery, I'm going to show you something that's even greater than sorcery. Now, we'll say, now, what's interesting, by the way, it's interesting that that ultimately again, the machlokes is between between Rashi, top Rashi, bottom Rashi. Top 19:11 Rashi indicates that Moshe Rabbeinu was answering them almost like in a mocking way. Bottom Rashi seems to indicate that Moshe Rabbeinu was answering them legitimately. But the pashut is that Moshe Rabbeinu was saying is dafka because you are so steeped in sorcery, I'm going to show you something even greater than sorcery. I'm going to show you something that defies your understanding of sorcery. And by the way, this was this epiphanical moment 19:34 that the Egyptians had, right? When they said "Etzba Elokim hi." Right? When they when they even Egyptians had to admit that what was unfolding in front of them was not sorcery, but rather was the yad Hashem. Again, we'll say, why is this Gemara here? So, besides the fact that it's another ridiculous Pesach tiyan of the makos on Pesach so another kiss to my college Baruch on days when we need as many kisses as 19:57 we can get but also again remember because the mission of coded Ephraim that that that mission coded Ephraim the cartoon and right the sorcerers of power said to Moshe what you're going to be the guy who brings wheat to Ephraim we're going to bring sorcery to Egypt to which Moshe Rabbeinu said exactly. I'm going to show you that what we're doing over here is not sorcery at all but rather something so much greater the Yad 20:21 Hashem incredible mission in the being so I say so again we're now continuing we're getting now with that with the details about where you're allowed to bring the barley for the Omer and the wheat for stay from right that that's that's our discussion over here so the says as follows in the being in the being so I say so I say so listen to this you cannot bring again 20:49 so right now if the barley for the Omer and the wheat for the stay you can bring the barley or the wheat from the following types of fields a fertilized field an irrigated field or a field that has other trees planted inside of it now they come to nominate between all of these fields is there they don't have they're not considered to be fields of complete vitality right 21:13 if the field that has to be fertilized that indicates that the soil can reduce its own nutrients if it has to be irrigated that means it's not sustained by rainfall and if there are trees growing in the field that means the trees are also utilizing some of the soils nutrients therefore again the eyes of Israel the produce the crop the wheat and the barley of these fields will not be of superior quality and therefore 21:37 ideally should not be used for the Omer of the stay however they may be but if you did bring either the Omer of the stay from this field kosher it's still kosher okay so it's very interesting really quite fascinating this is agriculturally how do you how do you best prepare a field to produce to produce optimal optimal 22:00 barley and optimal grain for the stay and for the Omer listen to this shana rishona the first year so fascinating the first year you plow it but you don't plant but she says not a means you plow it but you don't plant but she says so called on the Pesach shivim so I say year one this is incredible so 22:24 if you have essentially like virgin soil that you want to use to produce barley you want to use to produce wheat for the Omer of the stay so number one what you do is year number one you plow it don't plant year number two year number two right so called as year number two that's when you're going to sow the field and you do it 70 days before Pesach 22:48 and if you and if you follow this regimen if you do this also so this maruba ultimately again it'll make a lot of fine flour incredible case and so I say by the way when you bring fine flour to the base of Tash how do they check in the base of Tash if it's really fine flour or not very interesting I guess by you're doing so so the who's the temple treasure he puts 23:12 his hand literally into the flour all about Sula if dust comes out of the flour then ultimately again the flour is it's not yet so less I give you have to sift it again so apparently again finally sifted flour so less fine flour does not create any dust the dust apparently is indicative enough indicative of the fact that it has not 23:36 been it has not been sifted enough the if the if the flower became wormy ultimately again it is possible so I just think about this how incredible this is you have virgin soil you want to create a field that is capable of growing barley and wheat that is fit for the Omer and stay what's the process what's the process 23:58 year one plow it but don't plant it year one plow it but don't plant it year two year two now again we're going to see in year two is there another plowing that has to happen that's me get down in just a moment but year two that's when you sow the field that's an ultimate again it'll grow the necessary the grain both barley and wheat of the 24:22 right quality so what's the most skill the most skill is that if you want to grow something beautiful in life you have to prepare the field you can't just roll into it this is one of the most important things in the realm of spiritual development success of spirituality requires preparation requires preparation you have to prepare the field and if you don't prepare the 24:45 field if you think you're just going to walk in there and just drop a couple of seeds in and tada I have Omer and I have I I have Omer worthy barley and I have stay worthy worthy wheat it doesn't work that way you can this is goes back to brockas everything goes back to brockas what does brockas say proceed mission proceed show them how you show and show called the original pious ones would literally 25:08 again show and meditate cogitate prepare themselves for an hour before diving or so on for diving now what does that mean proceed teaching us you want a meaningful prayer experience it requires preparation it's anything in life requires preparation this is why again in general like even when it comes to that all of us know this there's a big difference between coming 25:32 on time for diving 5 minutes early for diving or 25 minutes late for diving diving right on time is fine late inexcusable unless it's a on the way right right late right what why why you wouldn't be late for the business meeting you wouldn't be late for your flight right so why why why am I going to be late for diving right but that ability to come a couple of minutes 25:56 early and get myself like settled I don't need an hour early 5 minutes get get myself settled get my head right just the ability to take a take a deep breath so like I'm not running in it makes all the difference in the world if you want to create beautiful and sustained spiritual results you got to plow the field before you plant anything 26:22 so I say this is the piece of again I want to point out this is a little something that we missed cuz today what's beautiful about the door that we live in right every generation wants something different what does our generation want what does our generation want and I know there's a lot of generations represented here right what is our collective generation what what do we want it's interesting today when you look at what people want is they want inspiration 26:46 people do want inspiration but here's what's fascinating about this we want inspiration without preparation that's what we want inspiration without preparation that's what I will say we love like like the the shorts right and and and the the little messages if I could tell you like like how often the most common feedback I get which is fascinating is great sheer great this 27:11 needs to be a little shorter needs to be a little shorter I'm like no you need to be a little bit more mature and work on your attention span I'm fine >> >> it could be a little shorter I would agree we want inspiration without preparation I want to get the high but I don't want to have to prepare I I want I want I want to get I want to get it now and it doesn't work that way that's why again if you look at like the most popular things the most popular things are like 27:34 these short consolidated clips which are fine what do they do for you in the long run what do they do for long run zero zero is easy come easy go right it comes in you get a little burst doesn't change you it doesn't impact you it doesn't do anything because inspiration always requires now again it's still good because any amount of inspiration is good and any amount of 27:57 good and yet you know what we'll say even if it's inspiration comes and go comes and goes when you have it for those few moments it's yours and that's beautiful loves it anything we do to to uplift ourselves is fantastic but you want to talk about creating real results in life real result inspiration real inspiration requires preparation you want to grow something meaningful in your heart and 28:20 in your soul year number one first step is plow the field but what are you planting nothing nothing prepare the soil because if you don't prepare the soil you can't play can't plant you can't grow anything in it that's the mission year number one first step plow the soil don't drop any seeds in but if you prepare your soil 28:43 you get yourself ready preparation then true and lasting sustained inspiration will incredible said the case and also so how exactly do you do this not a shana rishona so again what did the mission say the mission says virgin soil so virgin soil you go ahead and you plow the field year number one without planting anything so I say now here's 29:07 what's interesting and this is a little bit of the ambiguity from the mission itself take a cover not a shana shana not a so okay so now I know I'm planting in year number one and not seeding anything in year number two do I plow again and then sow or no I don't have to plow again in year number two that's the shala so I say not a shana not a shana 29:31 shana not a and year number two I plow again and then seed or not a shana shana shana shana below not a or maybe not maybe year number two again all I need to do is seed I don't have to go ahead and plow again So, let's analyze this. 29:48 Let's all say, remember the mission itself is ambiguous, right? The mission itself is it's not clear. What I know from the mission of a short is two things I know from the mission. In year number one, plow and don't seed. And in year number two, seed. What I don't know is does year number two require another plowing as well? 30:06 So, the says let's analyze this a little bit. If you by the way, if you look at Rashi, Rashi by Rashi Rashi the yard the bottom Rashi in the wide lines three six eight by seven lines in the yard the yard two times. So, the challenge is again is there a second plowing that is going to be needed in year number two. In year 30:29 number two. So, the says as follows. says Rashi I feed them with them and this is the yard in the yard So, this is like this. The wheat of this was a place in the yard. The yard is a village, right? Another place. The yard in the yard If these places were close to the yard how you in the yard We 30:53 would bring the wheat and the barley for the yard from them. We had this a while ago that you bring the wheat and the barley from the fields closest to the yard. Remember again why? in my view in all of this is in my view in all of this is that ultimately do the from the close proximity. So, now he says the wheat and the barley that grows in these fields in the yard the yard is of such quality that if they 31:17 were close to the yard we would bring it from there. However, So, he says the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard because it is best to go ahead and to bring wheat and barley from the fields which almost always means have a southern orientation which we're going to see means that they get maximum sunlight. 31:41 Furthermore, the yard in the yard they're consistently plowed for this purpose. the yard in the yard in the yard because these fields that have the southern orientation have a lot of sunlight in the yard in the yard in the yard which means literally again the sun rises the sun sets their maximum sun exposure. the yard in the yard How do you prepare these fields? in the yard in the yard in the yard You plow it year number one but don't 32:03 plant anything. in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard And listen and in in year number two plow again. Right? Plow again. Or plow it. Then again, plow it again. And seed it. Call them actually in the yard. 70 days before the yard. the yard in the yard in the yard in order to maximize again the days of the sun exposure. the yard in the yard 32:27 the yard and if you do so it'll create stalks that are the size of the yard. the yard the yard in the yard and again literally the top kernels the yard in the yard the yard the yard in the yard and again you harvest the wheat and the barley. Then you go and you pile it. the yard you thresh it. the yard you winnow it. the yard you do you sift it out. the yard you crush the yard you sift it. the 32:51 yard in the yard and you bring it to the yard. The yard in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard The yard sticks his hand into this flower. in all of the yard if dust comes out of it in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard Right? Then he tells he tells the person go back and sift it a second time. the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard a little bit of a different approach or a different model. He says the yard in the yard in the yard in the 33:14 yard Interestingly, the yard was a temple treasure. He covers his hand with oil. the yard in the yard He puts his hand into the into the flower. the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard until he takes out all of the dust. That is the your hand is if your hand is oily the dust will cling to it. the yard in the yard So, different processes that has the yard in the yard in the yard but 33:38 what do you see from here? the yard in the yard Interestingly enough the yard says that in year number two you are plowing again. That's that's the takeaway from all of this. You're plowing a second time ultimately in year number two. the yard But according to your laws according to your logic the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard So, we'll say here's the problem. that the yard says you plow again in year number two but our mission does not say that. in 34:02 the yard So, the yard in the yard in the yard So, we'll say we have a contradiction. Contradiction. The mission doesn't say anything about plowing in year number two. The yard does say something about plowing in year number two. So, what do you do? the yard the yard the the yard in the yard To which the says it's not a contradiction. 34:20 It's not a contradiction. Rather again one is talking about a field that was already worked. And one is talking about a field that was not already worked. What What does this mean? Take a look at Rashi. bottom Rashi Rashi in the yard So, Rashi the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard I see this is interesting. So, the first answer they the answer the seems to say is it could very well be one talking about a a a field that was 34:45 plowed in year number one. And one is talking about a field that was not plowed in year number one. That's an interesting answer. So, my hobby law So, bottom line what is the and we'll say So, what do you do? In other words obviously the ideal is you have virgin soil. You're plowing it year number one but not planting it. You're planting it year number two. The challenge is does year number two require its own plowing or not? So, my hobby law Here we go. What is 35:08 incredible. the yard the yard in the yard near the yard the yard in the yard near the yard the yard in the yard So, this is quite fascinating. In fact, the says the says that in fact there is a little bit of a totally different process for this which is we go ahead and we plow half of it. Don't plant it. And then 35:32 plant half of it. And then in the next year you reverse. In other words, the side that you planted you leave fallow. The side that you didn't plant you go and you plant in. Okay. So, so so what So, what does this What does this mean practically for us? So, listen to this. 35:47 So, listen to the this the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard listen to this. the yard in the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard How would they go ahead How would they go ahead and plant the fields? 36:02 They'll get a Remember this is the barley for the yard and for the wheat for the yard. So, what would they do? near the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard the yard in the yard They would plow half of the field in year one. Right? And ultimately again but not but not seed it. And seed the other half. in the yard in the yard near the yard in the yard in the yard in the 36:25 yard in the yard the yard the yard the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard So, yeah. So, we'll say so incredible. Now, all of this So, this is talking about by the way a field that has already been worked. So, you can have a field that has already been worked. So, now what you do is again in every year essentially you plant half of the field leave the other half fallow. 36:47 That essentially maximizes field productivity. Now, the says the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard But what happens if you have virgin soil? What do you do with that? the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard This is very interesting. So, the says the says that the yard the yard in the yard you go ahead the yard you plow it. 37:09 Right? Year number one you plow it. And then he says interestingly enough the yard then you plow it again. And then you plant. So, it's interesting. So, the way that seems to understand it is not as much about year one year two. But the says the process for virgin soil is plow it. 37:28 Don't plant anything. Then plow it again next to the time that you seed it. And then seed it again. So, for virgin soil two acts of plowing. One sometime earlier on sometime earlier on. And then a second plowing right next to the time of seeding. Then seed it. If it's a field that's already been worked over the years then the process is always divide the field into two. And 37:51 essentially alternate between fallow and planted. Incredible. Incredible. So, let's go back there. So, the yard that supports No, I'm going to be on. He says like this. in the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard So, the makes a statement over here. You only bring You only bring the yard and by the way generally whatever we see for the also 38:16 applies to the yard So, you only bring the yard and the straight from from fields the yard the yard Sorry, they're from the yard. Southern orientation because that gives you maximum sunlight. the yard in the yard the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard because there the sun rises and the sun sets. Which means maximum sun exposure. the yard in the yard in the the yard in the yard in the 38:40 yard the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard the yard the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard So, again the testimony is says they used to bring the yard from the yard the yard in the yard It was a field of three yard. It was southern 39:05 orientation. Maximum sun exposure. near the yard in the yard in the yard near the yard in the yard and they followed this process of leaving half of it fallow. Planting half of it and then in the next year reversing. the yard in the yard the yard in the yard in the yard So, the yard in the yard had a small corner of land. near the yard the yard in the yard near the yard the yard in the yard And they followed this process 39:29 again leave part of it fallow. Plant part of it. the yard the yard the yard And it produced twice as much produce as the norm. the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard in the yard And he was able to sell off the wheat to produce fine flour. Incredible. 39:45 Now, the missioner said, "If it sleeps if the flower became wormy, then it is possible you can't use it again for Omer for Shalachan." Turn around on so let's chase the Rub up Sula. The heating chase the Rub up Sulos. So I'll say if you have fine flour that the majority of it became wormy, it's possible. So again, if you have wheat and the majority became wormy, it's possible. 40:09 Rub Sa'a. Does that mean again like the stalk of wheat or the majority of the measurement? To which the Amora says, "Teko." Okay. He gets to Mashia like Mashia Bamon. So what is this fascinating? This is actually fascinating. What happens? Now we've established that you cannot go ahead and utilize flour that's wormy. What if you are Makdish wormy flour? You consecrated 40:32 wormy flour. So you know what I'm saying? Now here's what's interesting. Do you get Malkus for that? The same way that you get Malkus for being Makdish a Bamon. Now both sides, this is actually very interesting is I don't know that we ever explicitly mention this. Right? We all know the Halacha is that you can't offer up an animal that is a Bamon as a carbon. But the Amora is saying is by the way that the act of consecrating a 40:55 Bamon animal in and of itself is a prohibition. Take a look at Rashi. It's bottom Rashi. Rashi Kisyad about I don't know, 20 lines up from the bottom. Mashia Lakia Mashia Bamon. The Kamla Para Kamla gets Mudah. Hamaktish Bali Mumin Mizbe'ah over Bechamisha Lavin. Wow. If you're Makdish you will say we always thought that if you're 41:19 Makdish a Bamon, what's what's the effect of consecrating an animal that's a Bamon? What's the effect of that? Wasn't just like it's a meaningless designation? The Amora says, "Yeah, it doesn't work, but if you do so you're in violation of five Lavin." I will say say to yourself doesn't make any sense. Like so why do it? So why do it? Right? What do you even do? I will say so it's a good Mussar Haskel cuz the truth is on some 41:43 level sin never makes sense. Remember again, if we take out our piece of paper, take out our ledger paper out of deference to the accountants who are coming up on April 15th, right? So you take out your ledger paper and you make two you make two columns, pros and cons. Right? Which column will always be longer when it comes to sin? 42:07 I will say I will say God, I'm like my whole career has been wasted just now. Cons. Cons. Cons. Cons list is always longer, right? Cons is always longer. I will say right? Just think about it. Choose the best Aveira you could possibly commit, right? 42:23 The most enjoyable Aveira. Whatever pros you're going to get out of it are always going to be temporal and limited of nature. The cons, the fallout of sin could be eternal. Right? So sin, remember when when we think about sin intellectually, it never makes sense. It never makes sense. So it's interesting, but like we convince ourselves that some of it makes sense and then we come 42:46 across an Aveira like this of being Makdish a Bamon. You're like this makes no Why would anyone in a million years do this? Right? It makes no sense. You're in violation of five Lavin. What don't you get? You're right. It makes no sense because hate in general makes no sense if we just take the time to think about it. In any event, so a person's Makdish a Bamon, you're in violation of five Lavin. So here's the Shaila. If 43:08 you're Makdish wormy flour I will say what is that? Is that like being Makdish a Bamon and therefore again you're going to be Chayev? Or Dilma in Bamon Beheima? Or maybe not? No, no. I will say here say here how interesting this is. Is the act of maybe consecrating wormy flour, is that like being Makdish a Bamon? And therefore just like being Makdish a Bamon is five Lavin, being Makdish wormy flour is also 43:33 five Lavin. To which the Amora answers, "Teko." Okay, leaves it open. So it's called Shimon Botlas possible. God, I mean that was very interesting. Wood. Remember again, wood was necessary for the Mizbe'ah. If you have wood that has worms in it, it's not fit it's not usable for the Mizbe'ah. So Mashmu Ela Lach. That's only true of if the wood 43:55 was moist. Avaya Vish Go Rova Kasha. So what's here's the interesting So apparently, if you have moist wood that's wormy, you can't really get out all of the worms. If however the wood is dry, so apparently then the worms could be scraped out and the wood could be used. By Rava. He gets to Mashia Lakia Mashia Bamon. So what I will say what happens if you're Makdish wormy wood to 44:19 the Beit Hamikdash? Do you get Malkus on that Mashia Lakia Bamon? Is that the equivalent of being Makdish a Bamon and you get Malkus? Given the Pasuk Bamon because wormy wood is essentially possible just like a Bamon. Or Dilma in Bamon Beheima? Or maybe not? Maybe Bamon I will say is only a din by Beheima. 44:36 Doesn't apply by wormy wood. Teko. Well, leaves it as an open question. Incredible. So I will say let's go back there. Tekoa Al Falishman. So what's listen to this very beautiful Gemara over here. So the city of Tekoa the city of Tekoa was known again for its excellent oil. The best oil comes from Tekoa. Avishal Omer. So Avishal says, "Shnia La Regev Be Bayarden." 45:01 Second to second to the oil of Tekoa ultimately again is the oil that comes from Regev in Efraim Transjordanian area. Call that lots of Shailos. Now technically speaking again I will say you could bring oil from wherever you want. Right? You could bring oil from wherever you want. However, the Amora says Ela Me Chana Hayu Mevi'in. 45:21 But oil was ideally brought from Tekoa or from Regev. In Mevi'in Beit Hamikdash. However, you cannot bring I will say again this for carbonik purposes. You cannot bring oil from oils produced in a field that is fertilized. Maybe it's a Shachin or an irrigated field. Velo Min Mashin Is Rabeineihim. 45:38 Or from a field that has other things planted in it besides olive trees. This is what we saw before. Why? Because apparently produce grown in any of these types of fields is an inferior produce and therefore cannot be used carbonikly. Im Mevi Kasher. But if you did bring it from these fields, ultimately it's still going to be kasher. Ein Mevi'in Unpiktan. Im Mevi Kasher. You can't 46:00 bring Unpiktan. What's Unpiktan? We'll see now. Interesting Rashi on top defines a Mashin Shachin of unripened olives. Rashi on the bottom says, "We'll define it in the Gemara." Okay. You can't use Unpiktan which we'll just assume means right oil from unripened olives. Im Mevi Kasher. But if you brought it, it's still kasher. Ein Mevi'in Min Agar Grin Shni Shuba Mayim 46:24 Velo Min Kvashim Velo Min Ashlakin. So again I will say you can't use from you can't use from olives that were soaked in water. We'll see again exactly what this means this Gargarin. Rashi says over here Shel Zeisim Shenaflu Min Ashuba Mayim Beshuba Harbei. So Rashi says it refers to olives that fell off the tree and that were soaked in water. 46:43 Or again Kvashim which means again also soaked for a prolonged amount of time. Shlakin which means usually like pickled. So you can't use any of these types of olives. Im Mevi'u. But if you did bring these types of olives, ultimately again it is going to be possible. So I will say the Gemara says as follows. So I will say so interestingly enough, the Gemara says where does the best oil come from? The best oil comes from Tekoa. Tekoa. 47:06 I don't know by the way. I have to see if you know I don't know if this is Tekoa in the Gush. Like or it's a different Tekoa that the Gemara refers to. But possibly it's assumed it's the same Tekoa. So the Gemara says as follows. Vayishlach Yoav Tekoa. Listen to this. The Gemara just points out how do you know that the best oil comes from Tekoa? So Vayishlach Yoav Tekoa Vayikach Misham Isha Chachama. Yoav sent right Yoav sent a messenger to Tekoa and he 47:30 brought from there a wise woman. So I will say this is just just a just a bit of context. This is in the aftermath of the episode where Amnon violated his sister Tamar. David Hamelech banished Amnon. Yoav was trying to make peace between father and son. So this was the case where he hired a woman essentially an actor an actress to go ahead and 47:54 portray right a whole a whole story a whole story ultimately in effort to get David to reconcile with his son. So the Gemara says Vayishlach Yoav Tekoa Vayikach Isha Misham Chachama. She brought brought from Tekoa a wise woman. So the Gemara says Ma Ish Na Tekoa? So I don't understand why why there are only wise people in Tekoa? There's not wise people in Tel Aviv? There's not wise people in Yerushalayim? Why Tekoa? So 48:17 the Amora says Amru Kol Me Tok She Given Beshemen Zayis Chachma Mitziya Bahen. It's very interesting. So apparently, because they have good olive oil there, therefore again they're very wise. What's what's the Pshat? What's the Pshat? So Rashi points out over here bottom Rashi. Chachma Mitziya Bahen Shemen Zayis Mefake'ach Es Halev. So 48:40 apparently, good olive oil literally opens up the Mefake'ach cuz it literally means makes the heart wise. I will say what's the connection ultimately again between between olive oil. By the way, it's not just olive oil. You see this concept both by oil and by wine. Because oil and wine have a shared common denominator which is in order to be able to go ahead and get the maximum use out of the pre, you have to 49:05 know how to extract what's inside. Right? I will say good By the way, I will say I don't know that we appreciate this here, but I I remember I remember what is the that there's a there's a beautiful winery right in the Beit Shemesh area called Emek Ela. Emek Ela Emek Ela is a place, right? The Ela Valley. Ela Valley wines. Ela Valley Ela Valley is that's where the that's where the battle 49:29 between David and Goliath David and Goliath happened. There's a beautiful winery there. They produce award winning wine. This just is an aside. This is the season where we drink a lot of wine. Baruch Hashem, I will say I will strongly encourage only drink Eretz Yisrael wine. There's no need to drink anything that doesn't come from Eretz Yisrael. We live in a time where Baruch Hashem Eretz Yisrael produces a world-winning wines. And Baruch Hashem, 49:53 which is in and of itself part of the indication that Mashiach is on his way, the land has come back to life in such a dramatic way. So, in Emek Ha'Ela, it's the first time I ever had this. I went to the I went to the winery. I went to the winery and they offered me olive oil. 50:09 So, I'm like, "On what?" "On what?" No, just taste the olive oil. Which is fascinating because again, the Gemara says the brachas discusses what bracha do you make on olive oil. So, in America, you're like, "Who's drinking olive oil?" No, it doesn't. But in Eretz Yisrael, I will say it's incredible. The olives are so sweet that they produce sweet oil. You could literally go ahead and and and drink the oil. So, you know, I will say, 50:34 "So, what's oil? You have to know how to extract it. You have to get it." Right? If if you just come and you take an olive with blunt force, you're like, "That's it. You're you're not getting There's an art. There's an art to the crushing. There's an art to the pressing. There's an art to what comes out when." So, ultimately, this is why olive oil is also is often associated with wisdom. 50:55 The Rebbe will say, "What's wisdom? Wisdom is very different than knowledge. Anyone could acquire knowledge. Open up a book, read information, shkoyach, you have knowledge. The world is filled with people who have plenty of knowledge and very little wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to take knowledge and figure out ultimately how to apply it, how to 51:18 utilize it." So, the Gemara says, "Ah, it's a lot like olive oil. You have this olive and what do you have to try to figure out? How do There's a beautiful oil in there. How do I get it out? How do I get it? And how do I maximize it?" Because remember again, if you know what you're doing, you could have multiple pressings from one olive. So, that's why interestingly enough, Tekoa, which produced beautiful oil, was also a place 51:40 of incredible wisdom. Because wisdom again, I will say, not knowledge. Anyone could acquire knowledge. Wisdom, the ability to figure out how to extract the proper meaning from any life circumstance, like extracting the oil from the olive, that is true wisdom. Turn around. I was in Israel with my wife. Return around. I will say this is beautiful. It's absolutely beautiful. 52:02 Turn around. Listen to this. This is from Asher. So, I will say, so ultimately again, this is So, this is actually really beautiful. Tell me something I don't know. So, this is from the This is from the brachas of Moshe Rabbeinu. Right? The brachas of Moshe Rabbeinu in Israel is a bracha. 52:17 So, the to the different shot. Tell me something I don't know. Literally again, he will dip his feet in oil. This is from Asher. This is from the tribal portion of Asher. What was unique about the tribal portion of Asher? Listen to this. The tribal portion of Asher is so beautiful. They have so much oil that oil flows Oil flows like a like a spring. So, I will say, isn't that beautiful this is? I'm going to tell you something I don't know. 52:41 Asher Lutzkia with shamen. One time the people of Lutzkia required oil. So, what happened? So, a So, a So, they appointed a What's a Rashi says over here? A gentile messenger. So, the people of Lutzkia required oil. They appointed a gentile messenger. 53:01 Listen to this. So, I will say, listen to this. So, they said they were they sent him, "Go and go and bring us a lot of Marybo." I will say it's like a like a like a like a million mana. Right? Go ahead and bring us Bring us an exorbitant amount of shamen. So, what happened? So, the guy in Jerusalem I will say So, people in Jerusalem said, "No, we don't We don't make oil over here. We 53:27 don't have enough oil for you. Go to Tyre." He went to Tyre. He went to Tyre. I will say "Go to Gush Halav." Go to Gush Halav. Okay. He went to Gush Halav. He went to Gush Halav. I will say So, he went "Go to this guy in Halas." So, go Go to this guy. So, they referred him in Gush Halav to a particular to a particular Jew. 53:49 Said, "Go to this guy. Go to his field and he'll give you the oil." I will say, "By the way, it's it's interesting." So, what Well, Matsu Shaya says So, this So, this gentile messenger comes and he finds this Jew and the Jew literally again is working around the trees. Right? Literally again, he's he's hoeing. Right? He's pulling around his trees. I will say I will say, "Do you have shani Do you have this exorbitant amount of 54:13 oil that I'm looking for?" I will say So, the Jew said to him, "I'll share my work." So, the Jew said, "Wait for me. Let me finish my work over here." Right? He didn't finish his work. So, ultimately again, he said, So, the messenger waited for the Jew to finish his work. After he finished his work, he took 54:36 the Jew took his utensils. Literally again, it looked like a shovel, his hoe, his his whatever, his cloak, put it on his shoulder. And as he was And as he was walking, he was clearing away the stones from the field. I will say So, again, the messenger once again said to the Jew I will say remember again, the Jew just looked like a like a like a like a farmer. Right? Not like a not like a merchant. So, again, the gentile again says to him, "Do you have 55:00 the oil I need?" I will say, "I think the Jews are making fun of me. That they sent me to this guy who clearly does not have the inventory that I need." Once they got to the city, they got to the Jew's house. Right? So, they brought So, the maidservant brought out for the for the Jew and his gentile guest literally again like a like a basin of water to wash themselves. They washed their hands 55:33 and feet. They washed their hands and feet. Listen to this. The maidservant then brought out a gold basin filled with oil. They washed their hands and their feet in oil. Like Moshe Rabbeinu. Like Moshe Rabbeinu blessed that the Now again, Gush Halav is in the area of Asher. 55:56 Moshe Rabbeinu blessed that the Now again, Gush Halav is in the area of Asher. Like Moshe Rabbeinu blessed the Asher that they will have so much oil that they're literally be immersing their hands and feet in oil. And after they ate and they drank, the merchants went ahead and measured out for his gentile customer all of this exorbitant amount of oil. I will say So, the Jew said to the gentile, "Do you need Do you need any more than 56:19 like a million barrels of oil? Do you need any more of that?" Do you need any more than like a million barrels of oil? Do you need any more of that? So, the Gemara says, "I will say "Hey, I would love more oil, but I'm out of money. I'm out of money." I will say "I'm out of money." I will say "No problem. If you need to take, take. If you need to take, take. And 56:47 don't worry, I'll go with you back to Lutzkia. I don't know I'll essentially give you the extra oil on credit. I'll accompany you back to Lutzkia. And when we get back to Lutzkia, ultimately again, I'll go ahead and I'll collect the money." I will say So, he measured out for him like another another 180,000 barrels. 57:02 So, he measured out for him like another another 180,000 barrels. I will say Listen to this. So, again, the gentile was transporting back so much oil to Lutzkia that literally there was not the horse or a camel or a donkey that he did not rent in order to go and take back with him. I will say we're getting to the best part. Get ready for this. I will say we're going to see three tremendous life 57:25 lessons from this. I will say just remind me three three. When it got back When it got back to the city, they got back to Lutzkia. So, again, the gentile messenger comes back and I will say he's the hero. He's the hero. He brought back all of this oil to Lutzkia. I will say ultimately, I'm not the hero. It's the Jew. The Jew who went ahead and gave me all this oil. Not only that, he extended all the credit. 57:45 I will say this this is a key of what we say. There are some people who look rich but have nothing. There are some people who look poor but have a lot. There are some people who look poor but have a lot. Okay, so I will say So, first of all, what's the point of this story? The point of this story is that first of all, as much as the Mishna said that Tekoa was the ideal oil, it's also said that the bracha of Moshe Rabbeinu that again for Gush Halav, the area of Asher was filled with all of this oil as well. But I will say a number of tremendous life 58:07 lessons from this story. Number one, I will say if you notice the messenger, right? He went from Lutzkia, went to Jerusalem. There wasn't anything in Jerusalem. They sent him to Tyre. He went to Tyre. No, not in Tyre. Go to Gush Halav. I will say sometimes to get what you want in life, you have to show up at a lot of the wrong places. 58:26 Sometimes you just make wrong turns. You just get to the wrong destination. You get so frustrated. When I want something out of life and yet I'm not at the right destination. And sometimes, right? This guy gets to Jerusalem. No, wrong place. Tyre. No, wrong place. Gush Halav. Life you have to What you want offers Sometimes the journey of life just sends you to a lot of like wrong destinations. 58:47 Because each destination ultimately gets us closer to our ultimate destination. The difference just is most people give up at the first wrong turn. And they say, "I'm not going to do this anymore." But the journey of life is not a straight line. It's a journey of ups and downs. It's a journey of wrong turns. It's a journey of wrong destinations. But each wrong turn and each wrong destination ultimately gets us closer to our ultimate destination. The difference just is most people give up at the first wrong turn. And >> the destination. The difference is, most 59:32 people give up at the first wrong turn. And those who don't give up on the first wrong turn, sometimes give up on the second wrong turn. In life, you have to be ready to take your wrong turns and recognize that even the wrong turns get you a little bit closer to your ultimate destination. Lesson number two. The most I If you notice what's incredible about this story, when the Gentile when the when the when the when the Gentile shows up to the Jew, he essentially says, "I 59:56 need I want to buy like a million dollars worth of worth worth of oil." So, the most I say, "So, what happens? What happens?" You would have thought what would the Jew have done in that moment? Somebody comes here and say, "I have a deal, million dollars." What do you do? What do you do? What do you do? You throw down your shovel, you throw down whatever you're doing, and you just jump on it. What did the Jew do? 1:00:14 "I'm in the middle of doing something right now. Let me finish up pruning or hoeing the trees. Let me get my stuff, clear out the rocks." Here, the most I say, "Success in life comes when you find sader, when you have an order. When when you have an order, and the Jew understood if the money's going to be there, the money's going to be there. 1:00:33 But, there's a sader to follow in life. Sometimes, we chase the money and we disrupt the sader. We disrupt the sader of ruchniyus, we disrupt the sader of family, we disrupt so many things in chasing in chasing that profit. That's not the way that parnassah works. 1:00:51 Parnassah will be there because it guarantees it's going to be there. But, sometimes, maintaining the right sader and that's by the way, that's shemen, right? Shemen is wisdom, not knowledge, wisdom. Understand there's a sader to things, and if you follow the sader, not only again will you have the money, not only will you have the deal, but at the end of the day, she even made more money. And the most I say, "Lastly, what do we see from here?" 1:01:12 We see the most I that oil flows because Hashem chooses it to flow. It doesn't matter who's in charge of the Straits of Hormuz or anywhere else. Oil flows because Hashem chooses it to flow. 1:01:30 It'll stop flowing when Hashem doesn't want it to flow, and it'll start flowing the moment he wants it to flow. Sometimes, we look at the world and we think that there are human actors who determine the progression of of of the events in this world. It's not true. It's so important always for us to understand that Hashem controls the world, that Hashem has always controlled the world, and will always control the world. And 1:01:52 that's why again, the most I If we go ahead and we stick to our sader, we recognize that our job is to be servants of the Pharaoh, and Hashem we are to Hashem. If we keep that sader, and we keep that lifestyle, and we maintain a strict adherence to that which Hashem wants from us, somehow, some way, no 1:02:16 matter how many times you get lost over the course of life, everything works out. Maintain the sader, maintain the order, maintain the fidelity and allegiance to things that Hashem wants us, and the journey will end up where it's supposed to end up. We will get to where we need to get to, and ultimately again, the events of life will unfold the way that Hashem wants it. The difference is, we so often kind of get 1:02:40 we lose our way. We lose our way. Right? This the deal comes our way, we we run this way. Some event happens, we get lost, we we we give up. Stay the course. If you stay the course, maintain that fidelity and allegiance to Hashem, recognize that this is the season where we pledge our allegiance to Hashem, then and only then do magnificent things happen. I will say, 1:03:03 Have an incredible day. We'll pick up here tomorrow. Good night, everyone. Everyone zoom in. Good night, everyone. Wonderful to see everyone.
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