Playing Ball On Shabbos with Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

over at Boy's say, "Welcome to Torah." Anytime, welcome to our kind of cottage. Another Wednesday night kidusha shabbos sheer. Let's play ball. This is playing ball on shabbos for adults. For adults. Tonight's sheer is in the nishmas of Reuben ben Yehuda P and P Rosa. Whose yard shloishim is tonight. Question. Opening page, shaila. Ha'im mutar l'adam gadol mutar l'adam gadol an adult l'sachek b'kadur b'shabbos? You allowed to play ball b'ofen she'misaneg b'kach? It's pure pleasure. He's not breaking a sweat. Sweating is a shaila of refuah. It's not tonight's sheer, but it gets an honorable mention. But this person is a maila etzli simcha But this person is a maila etzli simcha v'tzchok. It actually gives him a little bit of oineg shabbos. Would you like a booklet? B'vakasha. What's the question? Ma'achar chakira, as we do every week. First we shtel a vek the shaila and then we quote the chakira and then we get into the question. Ma'achar she gozzu chazal al issur m'sachek b'kadur b'shabbos. We will learn that there was a specific that there was a specific g'zeira against people playing ball on shabbos. There was such a g'zeira. It dates back thousands of years. Yeish l'adam im am misachek b'kadur hamotzi etzlenu nichna b'issur zeh? Is the issur that once was in a sense, outdated because [clears throat] we have new games and new toys. And the mail is not included. Or the way we play is different. The mail So, maybe the gazeras that were are no longer prevalent. That's the shiva. Let's go, gentlemen. Rabbi page one, right here. This is what it looks like. It starts with a Yerushalmi. This is a quote of the Yerushalmi. You see this towards the bottom of the page is always where the gray area is. Stay arrows in.

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1. 0:00over at Boy's say, "Welcome to Torah." Anytime, welcome to our kind of cottage. Another Wednesday…
2. 3:46The playing ball and the zilzal of shabbos was why they lost was the reason for…
3. 7:28Let's go back a page and let's see what the Shulchan Aruch says. Siman Shin Ches…
4. 11:05and you want to take out a splinter, needles are used for sewing, but there's a…
5. 14:42that would be a problem there. So, indoors where there's no problem of smoothing things out…
6. 18:16These are the the the halachas that were asked to Yasha. Page 12 or six on…
7. 21:56Problems of smoothing out the ground etc. If you're playing on a table no problem. The…
8. 25:30opportunity. I always say a very positive Zach about how to connect to your kids. If…
9. 29:07walk, which has a certain advantage. But el is s'lichas yelodei mekalis rosh. P'shat zeh oiy.…
10. 32:45And that's what a person has to learn how to do with his own this sort…

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