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0:20 All right, so we'll say good morning or good morning or good night or shabbos. What does Baruch Hashem begin the week, to end the week, or in the middle of the week, not exactly sure. Baruch Hashem, it's all beautiful shabbos, see you on Friday, Sunday. What does it matter? Whatever it is, we're we're doing the daf. We're doing the daf, Baruch Hashem. One of the great zechus, if you have to have a short week, you know it's going to be full of 0:43 daf yomi in Hashem. So let's begin by thanking all of our sponsors this morning. We thank our Torah sponsors for the month of Nissan. Avraham and Tova, Avraham coming to Eretz Yisrael for dedicating all of Hashem this month in memory of Avraham's mother, Sarah Raina bas Yehoshua Heschel, zichrona livracha. 1:00 We have learning sponsors, Paul and Kathy in memory of Paul's mother, Sarah bas Avraham, zichrona livracha. And the good daf yomi sponsors for today, Alan and Sarah Steinberg, in the zechus of continued health for Shulamis Chana bas Sosha, and for an ultimate refuah shleima. And of course, as always, in the zechus of our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael, may Hashem Baruch Hashem continue to shower them with 1:22 shmira, seidera, bracha, and simcha. Our holy soldiers, may Hashem Baruch Hashem give them success b'chol ma'asei yedeihem. May we zocheh Hashem to continue to see beautiful brachos and geulah in this holy month of Nissan. Blessed with that, let us begin. Today's daf is page 89, and we are picking up in Hashem on the top of page 89a at the two dots. If you remember again, 1:47 we had the Mishnah on the bottom of page 88a, where the Mishnah, in the previous Mishnah, the Mishnah went through the seven midos, the seven measures. Then that was on page 87b. Then on 88a, page yesterday's Mishnah, the Mishnah then went through each of the measurements and what they are used for. So that's 2:10 where we're picking up. So the Mishnah on the top of page 89a, literally top line, chatzi log shemen letoda. So half a log of oil was used for the carbon todah. Right, chatzi log, I'm just reading the Mishnah. Chatzi log mayim bashemen, chatzi log mayim basotah, v'chatzi log shemen letoda. So again, the half log measure was used for the water for the sotah, 2:33 as well as for the oil for the carbon todah. Says the Gemara, Tanyo, Rabi Akiva Omer, Rabi Akiva says as follows, "Ma tam lomar bashemen bashemen?" Why does it say the word bashemen twice? And again, we'll say, this we're trying to figure out, how do we know that there is a half a log that is used for todah? That's the Gemara's question. So the pasuk that the Gemara is quoting over here is, "Im al todah yakrivenu, v'hikriv al zera chatzi 2:56 log chalos matzos belulos bashemen u'rekikei matzos meshuchin bashemen." The Torah says as follows. So it says the word bashemen twice. So why the why the need to say the word bashemen twice? To which the Gemara says, "Ilu lo ne'emar al bashemen echad, if it would have just said bashemen once, hayisi omer carbon mincha log, I would have thought that carbon todah is no different than any other 3:20 mincha. General, what's the default measure for a mincha? One log of oil. So had it not said anything, right, I would have understood carbon todah is a mincha. Mincha gets a log. Achshav shekasav bashemen bashemen, now that it says bashemen bashemen twice, havei ribui achar ribui." This is what we'll say, an exegetical principle called ribui achar ribui, which again, 3:43 remember, a ribui means I'm in we'll call it an amplification phrase. Marbes, it's including So ribui achar ribui, and interestingly enough, exegetically, ribui v'ein ribui achar ribui ela l'ma'it. This is one of these fascinating exegetical principles, which is whenever we have a ribui followed by a second ribui, it's actually coming to exclude something. What is it coming to exclude? "Mi'utah kasuv l'chatzi log." 4:08 So interesting, say if it wouldn't have said, right, if it wouldn't have said anything, I would have understood that carbon todah is like any other mincha. A mincha is one log of oil. Now that there's two ribuyim, bashemen bashemen, and now that we know exegetically, whenever you have ribui achar ribui, it's coming to limit. It's coming to say that carbon todah is not like a regular mincha. Rather, it's less than a regular mincha. Therefore, whereas a regular 4:31 mincha gets a log of oil, carbon todah only gets a half a log of oil. To which the Gemara says, "Hold up. Ribui achar ribui, what do you mean ribui achar ribui? There's one ribui." In other words, we'll say, the word bashemen we assume is necessary. The second bashemen, ultimately again, is an extra. So therefore again, it's not two ribuyim, it's one ribui. It's one ribui. To which the Gemara says, the Gemara says, "Ela, you're right. Let 4:54 me reframe this. Ela, ilu lo ne'emar ilu lo ne'emar bashemen kol ikar, hayisi omer carbon mincha log." The Gemara says, "You're right. Here Here Here's actually the argument that we have to construct. The truth is, it didn't have to say anything. It didn't have to say bashemen at all by a carbon todah. Why not? Because had it not said anything, I would have understood carbon todah is a mincha. Mincha gets a log of oil, and 5:19 that's it. Conversation is over right there. The word minui. But now, you went out of your way to say bashemen. Achshav she'ne'emar bashemen bashemen, and by the way, so interestingly enough, what the Gemara is suggesting is like this. There was no bashemen necessary at all to be stated in this context, and I would have understood carbon mincha, sorry, carbon todah is a mincha. Mincha gets a log of oil. Now, not only does So 5:43 therefore, it says bashemen bashemen twice. Now the moment Now makes sense. Now both of those words are extra. Therefore again, havei ribui achar ribui. This is indeed two ribuyim. V'ein ribui achar ribui ela l'ma'it. And again, exegetically, whenever you have a ribui after a ribui, that is coming to to diminish or to exclude. And therefore, what does it come to exclude? 6:05 "Mi'utah kasuv l'chatzi log." So it's coming to tell me that again, carbon todah is not treated like a regular mincha. Rather again, it is unique that whereas a regular mincha requires a full log of oil, carbon mincha only requires a half. "Yachol yehei chatzi log zeh mischal shlosha minim." So I would have thought it was Remember again, back to our back to our todah days. We spent a fair amount of time on carbon todah. 6:30 Siman tov, okay. So we'll say, so now this is very important. So what do I have? So this is what we'll say, just we always speak about this in daf yomi. One of the great things in daf yomi is is that is that you pick up nuggets of information as you go along the journey. So now again, we've learned this before, but it's good to reinforce reinforce how much oil for a standard carbon mincha? A log. You ever have a lull in 6:53 conversation with someone, you need a quick conversation starter. By the way, did you know that there's a log of oil, you know, in a carbon mincha? You're welcome. And again, and now also know carbon todah is unique cuz carbon carbon todah is only a half a log. Fine. Now that I know that carbon todah is a half a log, what else do I know about a carbon todah? Carbon todah is made up of three categories of loaves. Right? What are the three categories of loaves? 7:16 Chalos, rekikin, and revicha. Which means again, chalos means loaves, rekikin are wafers, and revicha are revicha are scalded. Are scalded. So I might have thought that maybe the half a log of oil gets equally dispersed amongst those three types. "Kishu omer bashemen birevicha, she'ein tam lomar she'ein tam lomar." But what Again, we'll say, interestingly enough, it says 7:38 shemen again by revicha, which was an unnecessary statement. The Gemara says, "Tam lomar ribui shemen l'revicha." It's coming to teach me that the revicha loaves, or the right, we'll call the revicha matzos, get more oil than the rest. How so? "Hakaitzod? Me chatzi log shemen, you bring a half a log of oil for the todah that we've already established. And what do you do? 8:00 V'chotzei'hu l'chalos u'l'rekikin, v'chatzi l'revicha." This is very interesting. You take the half a log of oil, we'll say, and what do you do? You split the half a log in half. Half of that is used for both the chalos and the rekikin, and the other half is used for revichos. Right? For for the revicha. So you see from here that al loch l'ma'aseh, the revicha gets more 8:24 oil than the other two types. Okay? Interesting. Let's go out. Amar lo Rabi Elazar ben Azarya. So Rabi Elazar ben Azarya says, "Akiva, Rabi Akiva, im ata marbeh kol hayom kulah bashemen bashemen, eini shome'a lacha." So we'll say, this is great. This is great. And we'll say, by the way, I just want to point out how beautiful this is. 8:45 Another sweet kiss from Hakadosh Baruch Hu on Isru Chag of Pesach. The Ribono shel Olam knew how much we would miss Pesach, so what does he give us? Rabi Elazar ben Azarya and Rabi Akiva in one line. Rabi Elazar ben Azarya, "Hareini keman shiv'im shanah." For those of you who know, he should have lived longer. 9:02 Rabi Akiva was the one who was leading that incredible seder in Bnei Brak. All of the great rabbonim were coming to Rabi Akiva. Rabi Akiva out of that, right? Ma'aseh shehayah, everybody was Muslim in Bnei Brak. Rabi Akiva was the only one of that group who lived in Bnei Brak. They all came to him for seder that year. So incredible. Rabi Elazar ben Azarya and Rabi Akiva on Isru Chag of Pesach. So Rabi Elazar ben Azarya says, "Akiva, im ata marbeh kol hayom 9:25 kulah bashemen bashemen, eini shome'a lacha." So Rabi Akiva was Rabi Elazar ben Azarya said to Rabi Akiva, "Even if you're marbeh, even if you make this ribui the whole day, I'm not listening to you. Ela, chatzi log shemen letoda, u'revi'is shemen lanazir, v'achas l'nidah l'nidah halacha l'Moshe miSinai." Remember that pasuk in just a moment. not a pasuk. It's halacha l'Moshe miSinai. 9:50 It's a very law. It's halacha l'Moshe miSinai that a todah gets a half a log. That's it. That's it. It's not a drasha. Just simply learn that as a halacha l'Moshe miSinai. Which I will say I have to tell you is also so beautiful that on just supposed to just just appreciate what happened over here just now. That on the day after Pesach, as we now officially 10:13 Well, we already started officially, but now it's post Yom Tov, begin our march towards Shavuos. What do you have over here? A halacha l'Moshe miSinai. Halacha l'Moshe miSinai. So, reference to Sinai Shavuos reference to Pesach of Ben Azai and Rabbi Akiva all on Issur Chag Pesach. Absolutely. But I will say well, turns out amazing over here as well as Ben Azai and Rabbi Akiva. This concept 10:36 that a total is a half a log of oil and not the classic full log of a regular korban mincha is a halacha l'Moshe miSinai. It's a Sinaitic law. You know also we know that halacha l'Moshe miSinai represents an entire body of law literally transmitted from Hakadosh Baruch Hu to Moshe Rabbeinu at Har Sinai and then conveyed to Klal Yisrael. It's not recorded in the Chumash, right? As 10:59 opposed to the other parts of the Torah that Moshe Rabbeinu received, rather this is transmitted generation after generation. So, now we'll go back to the list. The half a log of oil for the toda, the revi'is of oil for a nazir which will which we'll touch on, and the 11 days between nidah and nidah. 11:15 You will say we're going to come back to this when we get to the when we get to the next nidah, but this concept is actually very interesting that also subject to a lot of dispute, but the concept is like this that there are essentially 11 day intervals between when bleeding is considered to be menstrual blood versus when it's considered to be zavah blood. There's this concept that depending on when a woman bleeds, interestingly enough, that 11:38 distinction between zavah blood and nidah and menstrual blood is not a din necessarily in the type of blood, but rather when the bleeding occurs. So, a woman creates a cycle, and then again we assume that cycle in between 11 days of those cycles that's zivus that's zavah versus nesh. 11:58 Okay, the Mishnah says that is a halacha l'Moshe miSinai. So, we will say the beautiful part about this is everyone agrees on the bottom line. What's the bottom line? That a toda korban toda gets a half a log of oil. This stands in contra distinction to a typical korban mincha where the mincha gets a full log of oil. How do I know that a min toda only gets a half a log of oil? So, apparently again this is 12:21 a machlokes between Akiva and Rav Eliezer ben Azaria. Rabbi Akiva ba'shemen ba'shemen ribui acharei ribui e ribui acharei ribui el l'ma'et. Okay? And Rav Eliezer ben Azaria halacha l'Moshe miSinai. Incredible. I will say which is also very interesting um how you see over here. You would think to yourselves is what does that mean? It means that there's a machlokes about a 12:44 halacha l'Moshe miSinai. Which is which blessing which is an interesting thing to say. So, we do see examples of this where sometimes there is a machlokes in the mesorah. In the mesorah, yeah, there's a machlokes. The beautiful part is bottom line everyone is agreeing on the halacha, but there is a machlokes is this one of the Sinaitic laws handed down from Moshe Rabbeinu to Klal Yisrael or not. Okay? Differences in the mesorah. Next, u'v'log hayah 13:07 modeh. So, we will say the next part of the Mishnah The next part of the Mishnah was um u'v'log hayah modeh l'chol hamenachos. Right? You used one log of oil for every single mincha. So, again after we kind of spoke about toda, which is an exception to this rule, the Mishnah then reinforces the rule that in general for Right, for every korban mincha you used 13:31 a log of oil. Now, the Mishnah then goes on I'm going to read to you the Mishnah. Right, "Afilu mincha shel shishim issaron nosin lo samech log." So, for example, if you bring a mincha that is made up of 60 issaron, right? Normally again a mincha would have one issaron of flour and one log of oil. If you were to bring a mincha that is made up of 60 issaron, you would bring 60 log of oil. 13:55 Now, then Rav Eliezer ben Yaakov disagrees with this and he says "Afilu mincha shel shishim issaron eima ela loga." Rav Eliezer ben Yaakov disagreed with this. He said "A log of oil is the amount of oil you use no matter how much flour you use. Even if you bring a mincha of 60 issaron, you are still only bringing one log of oil." "Shel amar l'mincha v'log shemen shishim 14:18 log." So, again that's a machlokes. So, turn around on "B'mesorah on iksev." If I will say a person is an impoverished metzora. So, what does the Torah say? "Issaron balul v'log." He uses these three expressions. Issaron, which is an amount of flour, balul, right? Mixed together, and log, oil. 14:37 "L'meit al issaron shetal log derech acharon." The chachamim say that from this phraseology here you learn a very important principle. What's the important principle? That every issaron of flour requires a log of oil. Okay? So, therefore standard mincha is an issaron of flour, and therefore standard mincha is a log of oil. And therefore again by extension, if 15:00 there is a direct ratio between your issaron and log ratio, right? So, you bring 60 issarons for a mincha, you will bring 60 log of oil. "Rav Nechemia bar Rabbi Eliezer Rabbi Eliezer omrim." We'll say first wide line on page 89a. "Rav Nechemia bar Rabbi Rabbi Nechemia bar Rabbi Eliezer omrim afilu mincha shel shishim issaronim eima ela loga." On the other end Rav Nechemia and Rabbi Eliezer they disagree. And they say no, 15:24 that even if you have a mincha of 60 of 60 issaron, you only use one log of oil. Right? There's not a log issaron ratio. One log of oil is the maximum amount of oil used for a korban mincha no matter how much flour you are bringing. 15:39 "Sheneimar l'mincha v'log shemen." "Ai Rav Nechemia Rav Eliezer ben Yaakov ai issaron balul v'log mai avdei?" What do Rav Nechemia and Rav Eliezer ben Yaakov what do they do with the chachamim's drasha of issaron balul and log? "Trei mar d'mai avdei hahu l'gufei." This is coming to teach us the ikra halacha "D'ka amra Rachmana l'aisi chad issaron." That the 16:02 poor metzora should bring one issaron. What do you mean what is it possible teaching the ikra halacha? The ikra halacha is that an impoverished metzora only has to bring a mincha of one issaron. "Sedei mar idach l'gufei lo tzarich." The other opinions, i.e. where the chachamim will say I don't need the pasuk to teach me that ikra halacha. Why? "Medei galui Rachmana gabei metzora gimmel korbanos u'shlosha 16:27 issaronos." So, the fact that when the Torah speaks about the rich metzora, right? By the rich doesn't have to mean rich. I mean rich just means he he has he has funds. That is three korbanos and three issaronos. "Haha d'chad korban b'chad issaron." It means that by the ani, again if the rich metzora is going to bring three korbanos and three issaronos for his mincha, then the ani is going to bring one korban and one issaron. So, therefore again that frees 16:50 up the pasuk for the drasha. "Ai v'idach itz'tilach kamina d'chachamim." opinion will say "No, I need the explicit drasha by a metzora who's impoverished. Why? Sadai kamina I would have thought "Hahu d'chash Rachmana alei l'asuyei b'dalos eima lo meibai minei klal." So, I might have thought like this, since it's clear that in general the Torah Torah has compassion upon an impoverished individual and therefore normally 17:15 diminishes his sacrificial responsibility, I might have thought that in the case of an impoverished metzora, maybe he doesn't have to bring a mincha at all. Maybe there's no mincha obligation. And therefore the pasuk is teaching you that no, he has a diminished mincha obligation, but he still has an obligation. "Ai v'idach l'gamrei lo ashkecha." He says no, there's no such thing even if 17:38 even if the individual impoverished, there's no such thing as having no liability. "V'Rabbanan ai l'mincha v'log shemen mai avdei?" What do the Rabbanan do with the pasuk of Rav Nechemia and Rav Eliezer? Of that pasuk of l'mincha v'log shemen. "Hahu l'misnadei mincha shel yachid chos midaber acharon log." So, this comes to teach us that if someone [snorts] pledges a mincha, "Kamin d'davar mincha," that he should not do something 18:02 less than a log. "U'mainihu?" What does this mean? What's the amount of flour, the least amount of flour that would correspond to a log? "U'mainihu? Issaron." "Issaron." That again the minimum amount of flour that you're going to bring with a log of oil ultimately again is one issaron. "V'idach d'had kamina lo say." "Tartei shamas min yichad." Both of these concepts ultimately from the same pasuk. 18:24 Incredible. So, we will say the point to hold onto over here is fundamental machlokes between chachamim on one hand and Rav Eliezer ben Yaakov and it turns out also Rav Nechemia on the other hand. Namely, namely, is a log the minimum maximum amount of oil brought with a mincha or no, log is the minimum. That's the chachamim. Right? 18:45 The chachamim have said No, incorrect. The chachamim say that every log corresponds to one issaron of flour. So, therefore for every issaron you're going to bring another log of oil. Rav Eliezer ben Yaakov and now in the Gemara say no, the log is the maximum amount of oil irrespective of the number of issaron that you're bringing of flour. 19:06 Halacha l'Moshe one log of oil and that's it. So, even if you're going ahead and you are bringing a mincha of 60 issaron, you are only going to bring one log of oil. Incredible. All right, let's go guys. That's the machlokes. Next, "Shishah l'par arba'ah l'ayil shlosha l'keves." So, again we will say this last part of the Gemara Gemara This last part of the Gemara was the following. The Mishnah So, the Mishnah 19:30 said "Shishah l'par." So, you're going to go ahead and bring Right, six for the par, four for the ayil, and three for the keves. So, this is talking about the issaron, right? The amount of flour you're going to bring in the mincha. Um Yeah. 19:46 Fine. Fine. Okay, there's more Let's go to the Gemara. There's morning there was actually interesting in the Mishnah it says we'll do this now. Sorry, I just want to make a vest. We know where do we know So the Gemara says listen to this. How how do I know this? So the possuk says in this came yellow par. Hin tracer lugi avyon. So 20:11 hin ultimately again is 12 lug. The shemen zayis hin. Or k'siv shemen mishchas kodesh year. Zeh l'ilo dorosaychem. Zeh is very interesting drasha. Zeh bigimatriya tracer avyon. So zeh in gematriya is 12. So from here you see ultimately again that it's 12 lug. 20:33 Okay, fascinating. All right, interesting. Shlosha mitzvos minora chatzi lug l'chol ner avaryas. The next thing the Mishnah said was chatzi lug l'minora. Um I'm sorry. Was three sorry three and a half for the menorah. Three and a half lug of oil for the menorah. And three and a half lug of of oil the menorah total means a half a 20:57 lug for every candle. Okay, so I said this is very important. We're going to we're going to now we're going to focus on this. So a total allocation of the menorah of three and a half lug for the menorah. Divide that of course by seven. That gives you that gives you a half a lug for every lamp. Okay. So the Gemara says as follows. 21:22 So I will say this is very interesting. What essentially asking is I mean where did you come up with that measure? Like why why is the half a lug per ner why is that the magic number? So this is really interesting. So the Gemara says as follows. 21:43 So it says again remember the menorah must remain lit may erev ad boker from the evening until the morning. Right? This was yesterday's daf where we saw the interesting halacha that if the ner gets extinguished we have an obligation to rekindle it. Right? How much oil you have to replace that was a machlokes. 22:01 But l'maiseh again the menorah must remain lit may erev ad boker from the evening until the morning. So the Gemara says what does this mean? So this teaches us how much oil do you need in the menorah? How much oil do you need? The amount of oil necessary to allow it to remain kindled from the evening until the morning. 22:22 Davar acher. So we'll say by the way I just want to point out how well let's see davar acher. May erev ad boker. Ein l'cha avodah shek'sheira may erev ad boker ela zu bilvad. Furthermore again I will say and actually before we go on there's a tremendous mussar haskel with also. 22:38 In other words may erev ad boker means the menorah must remain lit from the evening until the morning. So the Gemara says oh if the menorah must remain lit from the morning to the evening then what? Then what? Then what? How much oil do you need? How much oil do you need? 22:53 Enough to remain lit from the evening till the morning. The Gemara teaching us that halacha l'maiseh if you want to be successful in life you need to plan. You need to plan. Like in other words you might have thought what's the big deal? Right? Let the coin Anyway there's always kohanim in the Beis Hamikdash. So therefore what should you do? Put some oil in. As you see it's diminishing pour a little bit more in. It's diminishing pour a little 23:16 bit more in. What is it what do I need to worry about how much No that's not the way it works in life. If you want to be successful in life if you know you want a particular result you need to plan for that result from the beginning. So the Torah says you need the menorah to remain lit may erev ad boker okay. 23:33 From the outset put in enough oil from the beginning to go ahead and allow it to remain lit from the morning to the evening. Now if you plan does it always mean that your plans are going to come to fruition? No. That's yesterday's Gemara. Sometimes the ner goes out. But the fact that my plan may not come to fruition does not exempt me from planning. I will say too often we live 23:57 life by the seat of our pants. And when you do that you sometimes you're successful but more often than not you're not. Halacha l'maiseh if you know you want something you want may erev ad boker plan ahead and put in the requisite amount of oil. Put in the requisite amount of of effort. Have a clear vision of what you want to accomplish and how 24:22 you're going to do it. It doesn't always mean you're going to be successful but you certain heighten you certain you certainly heighten the probability of your success with a good amount of pre-planning. Incredible. Incredible. I will say this is what we miss with the Beis Hamikdash. All of these incredible and beautiful like life lessons that you just saw by simple observation. Just by looking what's going on around you you 24:45 came away enriched with how to lead a successful life. Gemara says another thing. Davar acher may erev ad boker. Ein l'cha avodah shek'sheira may erev ad boker ela zu bilvad. Furthermore again I will say what's unique about the menorah is that there was no other avodah in the Beis Hamikdash which was done from evening until morning. Because remember again in the Beis Hamikdash in general there was no avodah done at night. What was done at night? What was done at night? 25:08 Burning of the sacrificial right fats and limbs. Fats and limbs. So this is the only avodah that was from evening until morning. And Chazal said how much oil do you need from morning until evening? Ultimately again it's a half a lug. So I will say what's important about Gemara it seems to be suggesting over here is this is the it's not the Torah didn't give us the measure. What did the Torah give us? 25:35 The Torah told us how long we need the menorah to remain lit for. And then what's our job? What's our job? Figure out the amount. Figure out the amount. I will say listen to this Iged Amri. So this is fascinating. The Chachamim came along and said who came along and said oh how much oil do you need to remain lit from morning until evening? How long? How much oil? A half a lug. Which I will say also is 25:59 such a tremendous mussar haskel. The Ribono shel Olam tells us what he wants from us. And then what does he tell us? Does he tell us? Figure out how to get the job done. Figure out how to get the Hashem Baruch Hu is not going to spoon-feed success to us. He's not going to tell us do this and do this and do this and this. 26:18 Instead what he does is he gives us mitzvos. And what are mitzvos? What are mitzvos? Mitzvos are expressions of what Hakadosh Baruch Hu loves. When you see a mitzvah this is what God likes and therefore he's telling us to do it. But how do I be successful in life? Hakadosh Baruch Hu is saying I'm going to give you general set of like road map. I'm going to give you a general road map. 26:36 But I'm not going to spoon-feed you how to be successful. That you have to figure out on yourself. This is a beautiful metaphor here. Hashem says I need you to create light from morning from evening until morning. I think about this. The profundity of that. 26:53 The iker job of a Jew is to create light at night. That is the iker job of a Jew. Anyone could create light when it's light outside. The iker job of a Jew is dafka night time. When things are difficult. 27:09 When things are When the rest of humanity is ready to hang it up Hakadosh Baruch Hu says to his children I need you to create light may erev ad boker. Okay, how do you do it? Hakadosh Baruch Hu says figure it out. 27:25 Figure it out. Figure out how much oil you need. Hashem just tell me how much oil do you need? Right? How much effort do I need? Tell me what do I have to do in order to create light may erev ad boker? Hakadosh Baruch Hu says no. I'm not telling you how much oil. You figure it out. Because I believe in your ability to figure out. I will say is that not the most incredible thing? Number one the iker avodah of a Jew is to create 27:48 light may erev ad boker. Fine I'm willing just tell me what I need to do. How much oil? Hakadosh Baruch Hu says nope not telling you. Not telling you. You figure it out. You figure it out. This is very reminiscent of the tzaddik says the tzaddik says what's the Oh well okay we're not going to finish. 28:05 We're not going to finish. All right so I will say so again at at the ah fine. The tzaddik says the first mitzvah of a mitzvah bar mitzvah has are you can use this one by the way right? First mitzvah of a bar mitzvah has is what? First mitzvah? Krias Shema shel Arvis. 28:22 Ma'ariv. Night time Shema of Ma'ariv is the first mitzvah a bar mitzvah has. Why? Because the iker avodah of a Yid the moment you join the ranks of Klal Yisrael is the ability to forge a relationship with Hakadosh Baruch Hu even at night. 28:38 Even when things are difficult. Anyone can have a relationship with Hashem when things are good when things are easy. But you become bar mitzvah the iker you have is you have to form a meaningful relationship even at night even when things are difficult. The iker avodah of a Yid create light may erev ad boker. 28:54 And our sacred mission is I but how? How do I do it? Hashem says figure it out. Figure out how much oil you need. Figure out what tools you need. Figure out what strategies you need. That's how much Hashem believes in us. That he believes that we have the ability to try to discover to figure out of course with the tools he gives us how to create light even in the darkest of times. 29:13 Incredible. So the Gemara says Iged Amri mil'ma'alah l'ma'alah mil'ma'alah l'ma'atah she'iru. So I will say so here's what's interesting. The fact that this came from Chazal indicates that there obviously was like some trial and error with this. Right? In other words I will say no one knew. Right? In in the beginning no one knew how much oil do you need in order to go ahead and allow the menorah to remain lit from evening 29:36 until morning. So they experimented. Listen to this. Iged Amri mil'ma'alah l'ma'atah she'iru. Some say they started first with a lot of oil. So like they first had start with of oil. And then again they realized they didn't need all of that oil, and they slowly diminished the measure until they got to until they got to a half a log. So, the Gemara says, "By half a log each night." 29:59 No, others say no, they started with a small amount, and then again, when they saw they weren't going to have enough till morning, you know, they they slowly increased it until they got to the sheer of a log and realized that was the magic amount. Manda shiru So, the one who says that they started with a minimal amount and then slowly increased until they got to the requisite amount of a half a log. Kadosh Baruch Hu has compassion upon our resources, and he didn't want us to 30:25 waste Uman da amar mi mala l'mata shiru, but the one who says they started with a lot and then diminished, the Gemara says, "Ein aniyus b'makom ashirut." There is no poverty in a place of wealth. Meaning what? The Wellspring, the Beit Hamikdash is a place of grandeur. The Beit Hamikdash is the home of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. No expense is spared. So, here's what's interesting. 30:46 When it comes to our wallets, right, in our homes, in our ritual and spiritual practice, then Hakadosh Baruch Hu takes it easy on our resources, right? But when it comes to Hakadosh Baruch Hu's home, the whole essence there is grandeur. "Ein aniyus b'makom ashirut." There is no poverty in a place of wealth. The Beit Hamikdash was a place of wealth, was a place of grandeur. So, the thing that you're going to start with a little bit of oil, "Oh, we need 31:10 more, we need more." No, that's not the way it works. Start with a lot, start with a lot, and ultimately again, diminish it until you get to the requisite amount. The Wellspring, this beautiful idea of "Ein aniyus b'makom ashirut" is also so beautiful. The Wellspring, every Jew is an ashir. Every Jew is wealthy. Why? 31:28 I'm I'm not feeding into any anti-Semitic tropes. Okay, I'm just saying like, right? What do you mean every Jew is a They're all saying, "We all are the beneficiaries of the greatest treasure the universe has ever seen, which is which is Torah." So, because each of us is so profoundly spiritually wealthy, don't walk around life like a pauper. 31:45 Don't walk around life like an unrecognize this Can you imagine like the rich person has all the money but yet walks around with tattered clothing because he doesn't realize that he has all this money, right? It's got it in some bank accounts. Like, "Oh, it's in the bank accounts. I don't have any access to it." Of course he has access to it. Go to the bank, take out your ATM card, and pull out whatever you need to buy yourself. But the pauper, the rich person who thinks, "Well, it's not in my pocket. If it's not in my pocket, I don't have it. It's in the bank, so it's 32:09 not mine." Of course it's yours. You just have to access it. So, spiritually, we walk around life thinking that we're so impoverished. We might We walk around life like spiritual aniyim without recognizing that there is this beautiful and incredible spiritual trust trust fund that is ours to be accessed. You just have to access it. "Ein aniyus b'makom ashirut." Don't walk around life 32:31 spiritually poor when you have access to the greatest wealth fund of spirituality the world has ever seen. Incredible. Incredible. The Wellspring, by the way, also points out cuz Tosafos has this discussion as well, cuz it is interesting, by the way, that a half So, halakha l'ma'aseh, a half a log becomes the standard amount of oil that they would use for the lamps. Now, what's interesting about say is erev ad boker is not the same duration throughout the 32:56 year, right? You remember again, summertime, wintertime. So, Tosafos says, interestingly enough, the way that they would account for the difference in the length of the night was through the thickness of the wick. Shorter nights, thicker wick. Longer nights, thinner wick. Right, because this way again, the wick would draw up the oil faster. So, interestingly enough, always the same amount of oil, half a log per lamp, but 33:21 the one variable was the size of the wick depending on the duration of the night. Beautiful Mishna. Next, sorry, so you can go ahead and Wellspring, now again, we're assuming over here that now in general we speak on The second means two things, right? The second can mean minchas, right, like wine like oil, flour, and also wine. So, we're assuming for our purposes right now, 33:49 they refer to all these things. So, you can mix together the of with the and the of with other of and again, the Wellspring, the logic over here Rashi points out is because with and right, they both have the same consistency. Both of them are They both have a looser consistency. 34:12 Therefore, there is no problem going ahead and mixing them together. Same thing with the So, you can mix together the You can mix together the of an individual of on the days of Similarly again, today's and yesterday's could all be mixed together. However, what can't you do? And again, the Wellspring, when we say mix together, mix together and offer it up in that 34:36 way. However, what you can't do is you can't mix together the of with the and that's because the of has a looser consistency, and the has a drier consistency. That you can't mix together because then the problem is that you're going to throw off all of 35:01 the ratios. However again, if the individual groups are mixed together, Rashi says over here, However each individual type was mixed together, and then after they were then the groups were mixed together, ultimately again, However again, if before they were mixed on their own, they were mixed together with these other types, they will be passul. 35:41 The keves that was brought with the omer, even though again, it has a double mincha, right, the omer has a double mincha, ultimately again, the were not doubled. Okay, beautiful. Says the Gemara, "U'minum are The possuk says So, you know, Wellspring, in general, the possuk says "You shall offer it." "You shall offer it" means in general that when you have korbanos, korbanos are not mixed with 36:07 each other. You don't mix korbanos with each other. That's it. Each korban is offered up Yet here, the Mishna seems to be giving an allowance for mixing minchos or mixing together. What's going on over here? Amar Rebbi Yochanan, "Im nis'arvu Rebbi Yochanan says, "Right, no, no, let's be clear. Ideally, one should not mix with each other." Rather, Rebbi Yochanan says, "It means to say im nis'arvu, if 36:30 they were mixed together. They should not be mixed together, but if they were mixed together, ultimately again, depending on what was mixed with what, it could technically be kosher." I have here that's the case, but it's not the same. 36:50 So, again, the Wellspring, that's the case. Then when we said that you can't mix together the of What is Sounds like even if they were mixed together, it's invalid. But how many times say They have to look at the safe of the Mishna. What does the Mishna say? That if you mixed each type with each other, and then ultimately again, then they were subsequently mixed together, kosher. That it is kosher. 37:18 The It makes it sound like in the ultimately again, they can be mixed together. Rather, says, "No, no, no, we're not talking about again, the mixing of the of the of the mincha, right, of the oil and the flour. Rather again, what are we talking about? The mixing of the wine libations." Ah, so Wellspring, now that's a different story. If 37:45 So, ultimately again, if the respective made up of oil and of these was already mixed together, then you can go ahead and proactively mix the wine as well. In other words, if the if the elements of the was mixed together, then you can mix the wine. The So, wait a second. I thought you could actually mix wine 38:11 Right, the wine, which is going to be the same at every carbon. I thought you could proactively mix that. I thought One is this so? The shamen. When it comes to the flour and the oil. However, when do we say that you can't mix That's talking about the of the 38:35 But wine, you can mix together. However, it means to say So, listen to this. When the part of the has already been offered up. Right, so again, when the and the shamen has already been offered up, you can go ahead and mix their respective wines. 39:02 However again, if the and the So, and the oil, right, the oil, sorry. The Yeah, the and the shamen has not been offered up. In this If they've been mixed already, then you can mix the wine. However, if not, but if not, you can't go ahead and mix it. 39:23 I, why not? Because you may come to go ahead and mix the oil and the shamen. So, it comes out to be something really very interesting that So, halakha l'ma'aseh, ideally, you should not mix minchas together. So, right in the second together. If it turns out that the minnows are coming were right the minnows of the minnows are mixed together and already burnt, you're 39:51 allowed to look at the table mix the wine together. If however again how long the mice are they the minnows got mixed together, then you can go ahead and at mix the wine together as well, but you can't look at the table mix the wine together unless you come to mix the minnows together. Okay, beautiful. Last part of the mission. I said why my mom so I mean again the sheep that came with the cover of my what's a credible cover 40:14 of my cover of my Cool. Okay, so right we we've got to be Cuba about a lot of Azaria how long the motion we see now carbon over all on Easter holiday Pesach. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. 40:30 We should have to pay to do this. Right? That's how good this is. It should require a fee. That's that's how incredible this is. So what was I saying before the mission said cover of my mom so remember again the mission of Ben said the sheep that comes along with the owner even though the minnows are coming of the cover of my is doubled [clears throat] then it's coming were not doubled. Okay, says the mirror camera banner or minnows also schnitzel 40:54 in so remember again what I say the minnows normally let's go back to this where we started. How much flowers you don't only bring for a cover of my how much flower one is so round how much are they going to cover of my how much oil one log cover of my is unique in that it's minnows also schnitzel in there's two ways to cover of my limited alcohol so I bought him over schnitzel to love this teaches us that 41:17 again when you bring the cover for the owner so it has a unique minnows which is cooler which is two astronauts. You have to change the minnows cooler caffeine or coffee. I might have thought that the same way that there's two astronauts for the minnows so to again this should be the wine. 41:34 Right? The wine libation part of it should also be doubled cover of my mom the minnows are coming with the beer sign. Therefore the policy says it's necessary of wine review of your sign your whole lawyer you know coffee schnitzel in the minnows also have our schnitzel in coffee schnitzel in the minnows also I might have thought like this the wine is not doubled. Why? Because the wine itself the libation part of the wine is 41:57 not mixed together with the flower, but the oil which is mixed together with the flower should have a doubled portion cover of my mom the minnows are coming call the minnows lawyer you who are the reviews. Therefore teaches us that no all of it the minnows should only be a review. The mirror says my time with what exactly is that Russia on the second review the carrier and the minnows are coming 42:20 it's right it's written as the minnows are coming but it's green except but we read it as the of the in the minnows the iron the of the which the reference to the oil is ultimately again like the of the wine my iron review. I shall mean not mean review just like the wine is a review so to the oil is going to be a review as 42:44 well. So I was interestingly enough the only thing that is going to be doubled by or anything that's going to be doubled ultimately again by the cover of my mom is going to be the flower part of it, but the other parts ultimately again remain a constant. I was you know we'll stop over there for today cuz the truth is the next part of our schnitzel is a different part. Also give us a few extra minutes of all sides for those who haven't put on to fill in since my so 43:09 again relish the minnows tremendous tremendous opportunity you know they say that we need to be able to teach the school again a little. Did not go to sleep on my say Yom Kippur my say Yom Kippur. Why? He was so excited to perform the minnows of to fill in that he literally couldn't sleep the entire night. Okay, so perhaps we're not in that level. Right? 43:30 Perhaps we slept and we're feeling like we didn't sleep enough. We didn't sleep enough, but again at least we got as we have this opportunity to at least maybe approach a little bit like about minnows are coming spend a couple of days for many of us how long the minnows are coming to re-engage the minnows with the new schnitzel and excitement and good night of schnitzel of all sides schnitzel. 43:50 Everyone have a great day everyone. Good night of schnitzel. You mean after he turned over after he turned After he turned over after he after he turned over. The rest of it You don't um
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