Pirkei Avos Ch. 5: At Twilight of the First Shabbos, G-d Created the First Pair of Pliers. Why?

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Welcome everybody. Today's class is dedicated by the honorable Nancy Miller in honor of Lagbo. May Hashem keep all of his people, all of the Jewish people safe and send us Messiah now. Amen. Thank you. Amen. dedicated by for a complete and speedy recovery and for a successful surgery and may hashem protect all of our soldiers and rewatch the class. So we know these weeks between pes and shu we learn the perky the ethics of the fathers and this shabas we're going to study baser hashem chapter five pavis per in that per in that chapter there's a very fascinating Mishna very well-known Mishna but there's one and the Mishna uh has triggered aroused a lot of commentary and explanation by the commentators throughout the generations but there's one line that really you know stands out in a unique way and apparently at first glance seems completely out of context. Let's see the Mishna says again this is per you have it the first source in the original Hebrew and we also have a translation which I took from Safar Safaria website of Shabasmus 10 things were created on Friday on the eve of Shabas Baymash which means during twilight we usually call bay hashmas that period between the setting of the sun and complete nightfall. Sometimes people call it dusk or twilight and it's like this intermediary time. Even halically we're not sure. There's no clear direction in what the definition is. Is it part of the day? Is it part of the night? Is it an independent time that stands on its own? Not day, not night. Is it a time that synthesiz synthesizes day and night? And because of all of

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1. 0:05Welcome everybody. Today's class is dedicated by the honorable Nancy Miller in honor of Lagbo. May…
2. 6:25which means it was nightfall." So now I had a problem because I didn't even know…
3. 12:50uh very precious hands into dangerous way. So he says tongues are fashioned with tongues. That's…
4. 19:13the apple and you have a new apple tree. So now the question is and how…
5. 25:40Besides, wait the first pair of pliers or the first pair of tongues. We got to…
6. 32:03whole idea of the garden. in the garden where Adam and Mav were put in was…
7. 38:25He's missing the punch line. He should have said a fat the grave of a the…
8. 44:54into sugar. And then the endoperm can disintegrate. I don't need your food anymore because I…
9. 51:09you have fire and now mold metal into a knife. Fashion metal into a knife and…
10. 57:27trees it takes 70 years, 70 years. People plant trees knowing that they themselves won't be…

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