חתנו של האדמו"ר מגור שליט"א וחסידי גור בביקור אצל הינוקא במבחן על הש"ס ודברי חיזוק

4:55 make a renunciation to each and every one? And if he makes a renunciation, what does he say? According to Rav - Rav ruled [unclear] - when one renounces, one must say There is no need to give him possession. Must he say it to each one, or is it not said?

5:21 It is a dispute: according to Rav he must to each and every one; according to Abaye, not [unclear] - at the end of the second chapter - [unclear] On page 46a, the Gemara in Tractate Eruvin says that they are called 'the feet of every person' What do they mean? About what is it said that they are 'the feet of every person'? One who was overtaken by nightfall In Tractate Shabbos, page 153: one who was overtaken by nightfall on the road - what must he do?

6:26 If he is near a non-Jew, what must he put? What does the Gemara bring there? Ideally, it is best to give it to the non-Jew Why? Because the non-Jew - which comes first, the non-Jew or the animal? Which comes first? What - he must give his purse Where must he - what does the Gemara explain there? At first, as he said, that at first he gives it to the non-Jew, and if there is no non-Jew with him he gives it to the donkey. If there is a donkey, as against a deaf-mute, one not of sound mind, a minor - he must give it to the donkey as well, because it is not a human being a deaf-mute, one not of sound mind, a minor - so it is better to give it And a deaf-mute, one not of sound mind, a minor: there is a dispute whether the minor comes first,

7:05 or that there is no difference. Exactly! Clap your hands here. I will give you something else nice, in Tractate Chagigah, page 16a There is a dispute of Rabbi Yishmael and Rabbi Yosi whether women lean their hands on an offering or not What do you say? The dispute is whether We say... Very nice There is, in Tractate Avodah Zarah, at the end of page 76 what happened there with Mar Ukva? What does he do?

8:15 He smears it into the ground - and also, what is the practical difference in halachah here? About what does he smear it into the ground? Something that is smeared into the ground, it is smeared - how does it turn from something forbidden into permitted? About what is this? Stick it in ten times, [unclear] - regarding a knife that was used, to stick it into the ground ten times. There are a few more conditions, of the Rambam [unclear], also in ground that is not tilled, that was not used - [unclear].

8:43 Whether it needs to be put in [unclear], and that only for [unclear] - because if so, it is like what was already in the Mishnah: if it is in [unclear], if it is in fire, then one must [unclear]. What is the law of the hide of an animal that was used for idol worship - forbidden, permitted?

9:13 Which page is this in Tractate Avodah Zarah? Yes, and what are the heart-pierced hides? On page 31 - right; it is also on page 32 - right What is the law of the heart-pierced hide? What is it? What is a heart-pierced hide? What is done there? How does one check? What is the measure? What salt is needed? What is permitted to eat, or forbidden to eat? What is done with it?

9:41 Right. Right. Nice. Nice, nice, very nice - a round of applause There is another interesting thing, in Tractate Yoma, page 27a Is bringing the wood valid by a non-kohen, or only by kohanim?

10:19 The carrying of the wood is valid by a non-kohen - wood is valid No - by a non-kohen it is valid. How - also each one - what is the difference between them? How? Why is this one yes and that one no? Because about these things it is written [unclear] - that also about [unclear] it says specifically 'kohen' even though it is really something that does not bring atonement, as with the blood. which is not so regarding the wood, So it says specifically [unclear] 'the kohen'. Specifically the arranging needs a kohen, but the arranging does not need a kohen.

10:52 Applause! Where do we see the Sages teaching us In Tractate Taanis - yes, in Tractate Taanis we see that the Sages teach us something that is mussar for a person, on the one hand but it is the most important thing, which makes a practical difference to a person's halachah Tractate Taanis.

11:28 Where is there, in Tractate Taanis for there are many tractates that have more holiness in them fear of Heaven, teaching a person the ways of Hashem, blessed be He in mussar, in fear of Heaven, in holiness, to come close to Hashem, blessed be He In Tractate Taanis we find very, very many such stories Which story do we find in Tractate Taanis in which story we see nature overturned and things that were all a sanctification of His blessed Name Give me one of them - Nakdimon ben Gurion For how many, in fact, did the sun stand still?

12:27 After all, there are several for whom the sun stood still Nakdimon, Moshe and Yehoshua - and in fact it adds that Nakdimon was not his name. Nice, good, give them a hand May the Holy One, blessed be He, protect you, that you do great things with Hashem's help, that the Name of Heaven become beloved through you, through your Torah through your expertise in the holy Torah that you rise and flourish higher and higher 'Blossom, it shall blossom and rejoice' - there is a nice explanation by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld who says about the Talmud: 'Zion shall be redeemed with justice' 'and her returnees with righteousness' - this adds up exactly to the number of 'Talmud Bavli' and 'Talmud Yerushalmi' 'Zion shall be redeemed with justice' is the Talmud Yerushalmi 'her returnees with righteousness' is the Talmud Bavli

13:22 that the Jewish people should learn both Talmuds both the Talmud Bavli and the Talmud Yerushalmi through this the geulah will come to the Jewish people with Hashem's help. May it be His will that you rise higher and higher Amen! May you have help from Heaven may you flourish more and more, salvations may you have miracles and wonders may you have a good life may the Holy One, blessed be He, raise you higher and higher may you continue to do great things, to shine the light of Hashem blessed be He, in the whole world. And know that the most important thing you are doing is that you know the Torah like this beyond that - this is the most important thing there is in our world It is written in Tractate Pesachim, page 68a in the name of Rabbi Elazar, that it is written in Yirmiyahu, chapter 33, verse 25

14:06 'If not for My covenant day and night' 'I would not have set the laws of heaven and earth' that the Jewish people learn Torah and are occupied with the holy Torah this is the highest, most important and most exalted thing that you actually learn Torah beyond that, you uphold the whole world and you give life to the whole world beyond that, also your level and the ascent a person reaches is the highest, highest level of all you can bring the geulah truly so, especially as you see now that we are truly in very great pain in a very great distance from Hashem, blessed be He and we want to look forward to Hashem, blessed be He, redeeming us and hastening our geulah, and one must strengthen oneself so very much in Torah, in prayer, from the whole situation the Jewish people is going through

14:52 our brothers who are suffering and in sorrow - and we must pray that Hashem, blessed be He, already hasten the geulah that there be no more sorrow for the Jewish people that we have no sorrow that we not have this long exile that it already be cancelled You must know that beyond your level for what you are occupied with in Torah, and you learn and you merit and rise and give Hashem, blessed be He, satisfaction beyond that, the most important thing is that you always rejoice in each and every thing that you are occupied with in the holy Torah You must know that this is the highest and most exalted thing as Rabbi Shalom Buzaglo writes in the book Mikdash Melech Rabbi Meir Paprish also writes in Or Tzaddikim that a person learns the holy Torah, that he learns

15:31 touching the holy books is touching the King's garments it is truly touching the inner depth of the holy Torah it is reaching the most exalted things a person has in this world In this world - there is nothing to do in this world only what a person merits to snatch of Torah But the main thing is that our Torah should bring us to closeness to Hashem because if we learn Torah and we do not burn for Hashem, blessed be He - if our heart does not want Hashem, blessed be He, enough it is still not enough to feel the power and the meaning and the occupation of the holy Torah Therefore one must always learn Torah for the sake of Heaven learn Torah with holy thought learn Torah in purity, in cleaving before Hashem that our heart always be thinking of Hashem, blessed be He

16:19 while we learn and cleave to Hashem, blessed be He this is the most important and exalted thing that you can do, with Hashem's help I will pray for you - I, the small and lowly one that you, with Hashem's help, will succeed that you do great things, that the Name of Heaven become beloved through you that you continue to sanctify the Name of the Holy One, blessed be He A blessing, a great salvation, for the Rav, the Rosh Yeshivah and for the Rebbe, the Admor - may he have a complete recovery may he have length of days and years may he have long days over his kingdom he and his sons and his daughters, in all that is his May you have all the bounty and all the blessings stated in the Torah, in Scripture and in the Mishnah, fulfilled in you

16:59 and in your descendants, the descendants of your descendants, to the end of all generations You know, I once said that once, in their time they would go out to war - they would go out with swords with arrows; they go out and fight Today we fight only through the holy Torah in the war of Torah - that we learn Torah we are fighting the greatest war against all the sitra achra and all the darkness of the world and you are heroes, you who are occupied with the holy Torah beyond your level, that you are such tzaddikim and you give life to and uphold the whole world you also cancel all the filth of the world you purify it, only through your occupation with the holy Torah We mentioned war - there is, in Tractate Berachos, page 4b

17:45 where they learn there about war that they would go out - King David said: 'Go and stretch out your hands with a troop' How many did they have to consult before going out to war? they had to consult - how many did they have to consult? They would go out to war - how? And they would come to him, they would come to him.

18:15 [unclear] - then right away they consult, [unclear] - right away they consult [unclear]. Right. - [unclear] [unclear] - and the general of the army, for the king, Yoav, that they go out to a war of [unclear], Right - for an optional war that they go out to, a court of 71 is needed Yes, nice, Baruch Hashem, you are such Torah scholars Yes?

18:52 It is written in Tractate Sanhedrin, page 105 that there were four commoners - who are the four commoners? How - what does the Gemara mean in saying they are four commoners? How? Why did it mean specifically - after all, there were many why did they single them out as four commoners?

19:20 But why - what is the reason for saying 'four commoners' about them? This is something we think about, but four commoners after all, we find that Achitofel was great After all, we find that Achitofel was great, very great. very great. At what age did Achitofel pass away, do you know? Do you know? That he was - whose teacher was he? Who was his student? The greatest of his students At what age did he pass away? How - yes, at what age did he pass away?

19:46 How? Add one more - right, how much does that come to? That is exactly 34 years. 34 - you know that throughout the whole time Seven and four. Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov says that now also today is the hilula of Rebbe Elimelech, in a little while Rebbe Elimelech, today, right? The 21st of Adar Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov says why we see 'the toil of Torah' What does 'toil of Torah' mean? says Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov that toil of Torah means to toil in Torah - when a person toils in Torah then he refines himself, he refines his soul the 'milan' - it is like the 'milan' that refines refines the person, so that he becomes holy, he becomes pure he becomes - there is nothing in him that belongs to this world

20:47 because of the spiritual level that he merits and reaches and rises to So he says that a person who learns Torah as you, Baruch Hashem, learn Torah and are occupied, sitting everyone who learns Torah refines his soul to such great levels that he does not even need fasts and self-afflictions he does not need any fast or any self-affliction Today we find something interesting in the Shas in Tractate Berachos, about those who did spiritual work like the Baal Shem Tov's students, who broke ice and immersed in the cold - in Tractate Berachos, page 18a side b, at the end of the page - it starts after that, side b, right You know that Rebbe Elimelech once there was a story - I will tell you a story with Rebbe Zusha and Rebbe Elimelech, the holy brothers

21:41 that Rebbe Zusha of Anipoli was the author of the Menoras Zahav Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe, calls him 'the prince of Torah' in the book - he took from him one of the great approbations for the Tanya the book Tanya. And there once was a story that Rebbe Zusha went somewhere to learn he sat there to learn behind the bimah, and sat and began to cry and he cried, cried, cried - and there came there one of the Torah scholars, who sat there wanting to learn he saw Rebbe Zusha. Rebbe Zusha said to him this man said to Rebbe Zusha: what are you learning?

22:15 So Rebbe Zusha - Rebbe Zusha like this no - he did not say anything to him he was silent, sat and looked, and began like this to cry to Hashem, blessed be He he cries to Hashem, really cries, and in the middle of his crying that one scholar took a Gemara and began to open Tractate Berachos - he is learning Berachos in the middle of his learning Berachos, he says to Rebbe Zusha come with me, together - I want us to learn together and while they are learning, sitting together and opening the Gemara Rebbe Zusha faints like this, several times So after he revived him, he gave him a little water to drink So he says to Rebbe Zusha: why does your honor faint?

23:02 For what reason does your honor faint? So he says to him We see that it is written: 'From when do we read the Shema in the evening?' He says to him: 'From the awe of Hashem we read the Shema in the evening' He read 'me'eimasai' - his reading was not 'me'eimasai' as a time he read 'me'eimasai' meaning 'from the awe of Hashem we read the Shema in the evening' that when the evening prayer comes, one must pray, for the reading of the Shema 'rejoice with trembling' - to pray before Hashem You know that the Urim VeTumim, Rabbi Yonasan Eybeschutz this is among the holy ones - after all, we want that prayer at sunrise is the ideal Right - we know that prayer at sunrise is the ideal prayer it is the finest and most praiseworthy prayer

23:41 this is the view of the Rif and the Rambam - it is the greatest thing and the Jewish people do not pray at sunrise from the day the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple, was destroyed - the Temple would not have been destroyed such is the virtue of praying at sunrise so much would they pray for we see that prayer at sunrise is the finest and most praiseworthy What we pray if one reads the Shema before sunrise there is a difference between the Shema before sunrise and the Shema after sunrise Which is the finest and most praiseworthy? What do you read: the Shema prayer before sunrise or the Shema after sunrise?

24:19 In the view of Rabbeinu Chananel and Rabbeinu Tam they say one must read the Shema after sunrise as well that we pray one must also read the Shema after sunrise So therefore we see from here that one who prays Shacharis and also reads the Shema - there are two virtues in them one is that we read at sunrise - we see that according to the distinction, we see there is a virtue at sunrise two things: one is to be early, to join Geulah to Tefillah and the second thing is to take care that the Shema be said before sunrise, that is to say, before the sun rises one must take care to read the Shema And then in the sunrise prayer we see there are two virtues not one virtue - because joining Geulah to Tefillah is one virtue

25:02 but reading the Shema early, before the sun rises is another virtue So therefore from here we see that joining Geulah to Tefillah means to read the Shema early before sunrise This is the view of the Rif and the view of the Rambam and this is also how it was ruled in practice, in halachah According to Rabbeinu Chananel and Rabbeinu Tam, we find that it is reading the Shema after sunrise So this virtue says that a person who wants to be careful and exacting should be careful to read the Shema after sunrise too in order to fulfill his obligation according to their view as well But one can also see another interesting thing here that one can learn: we see that Birkas HaChamah, the blessing over the sun, is said once in 28 years - once every 28 years

25:46 we make Birkas HaChamah and Birkas HaChamah will always fall on a Wednesday, the fourth day There is never any reality in the world that Birkas HaChamah would fall Never - not on a Wednesday - Birkas HaChamah falls on a Wednesday How - yes, it never comes out Can there be a reality where Birkas HaChamah would never be - not on Monday, not on Tuesday not on Sunday, not on Shabbos every Birkas HaChamah will forever be on a Wednesday And this is a wonder, because the great luminaries - when were they created? On the fourth day and Hashem, blessed be He, did this kindness that once in 28 years it returns to the starting point of its creation to the very place from which everything began and therefore we say Birkas HaChamah specifically once in 28 years

26:32 when it stands on its axis at the time it was created, which is once in 28 years 28 years - to come and tell us, every person that every 28 years we, a person, have a renewal because we find that a person who is born - 28 after another 28 - the more 28 years pass over a person then in fact he is coming to an end by the same rule of the Jubilees - this period of 50 and so on - the higher one goes in time the more, in fact, there is departure But also the opposite the higher the level a person rises to the more he also has to give a judgment and an account before Hashem, blessed be He the lower and humbler and meeker a person is before Hashem, then he can always come through judgment

27:17 We see that once the Holy Seer of Lublin Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak HaLevi of Lantzut, the Holy Seer said that they step up to me - that they come to him and bring him kvitlach So he says: everyone can come through judgment Why? Because they have a renewal and it is like those who go and pay some fines in order to get past them so when they come to the Rebbe and give kvitlach through this they can come through judgment so that a person - so that a person he does not - he will be able each time to reach a new level of his Sometimes, when we rise to come closer to Hashem, blessed be He then people often think that they can serve Hashem, blessed be He, alone For this the holy Baal Shem Tov said

27:59 that he brought it about with Hashem, blessed be He, that in this world a person cannot manage without a Rebbe he will always, always have to accept the Sages and listen to all of them, to go and come close to Hashem, blessed be He May it be His will that the Holy One, blessed be He, bless you, amen and may you do great things, amen, and may the Name of Heaven become beloved through you and may you have great success may you have miracles and wonders and may you have a good life and may your holy yeshivah that you rise and flourish and succeed and do great things and may you always learn with great love may you always learn in closeness of friends, in love of friends to learn with love, with desire, with longing for Torah

28:38 always to take care to honor one another to take care to honor one another, to love one another to always think with cleaving to Hashem, blessed be He, while learning to come close to Hashem, and to always say about every learning that you learn - for the sake of Heaven; always to think 'for the sake of Heaven' about fear of Heaven - because what we snatch here in this world is the greatest merit and virtue there is a person who departs from the world we see that the greatest fear when a person arrives at the court above is that he must give an accounting for everything that passes over him everything he went through in this world What they ask - Tractate Shabbos, page 31 they ask the person: 'Did you deal in business faithfully?'

29:16 'Did you set times for Torah? Did you look forward to salvation?' Rashi says: for the fulfillment of the words of the prophets to see whether all the things our prophets prophesied to us whether we wait and look forward to them and we looked forward to them and lived with longing There are two levels in learning one, that he learns in order - truly he wants to learn and know but there is another learning, that a person learns in order to look forward when will it already be fulfilled, when will we merit 'I will hasten it', when will we merit the geulah And you are holy tzaddikim, and truly, know that you do not know how much Hashem, blessed be He, rejoices in you that you are in such a generation and you sit and are occupied with Torah

29:54 with the most exalted thing - you are a diadem you are the crown of creation, the greatest thing there is that in such a lowly generation, in such a hard generation, in such a dark generation what interests you is the words of the Torah it is prayer, it is coming close to Hashem it is to meditate on the holy Torah, 'and on them we will meditate day and night' You must rejoice in it 'like one who finds great spoil' and the more you, Baruch Hashem, learn more and know more and so the whole Shas, with your wondrous expertise you will see that the higher one goes one merits great levels, where a person knows nothing the higher one goes - for the purpose of knowledge is that we do not know until in the end we all merit knowledge of the greatness of the King

30:37 the holy King, our Master, the Creator, blessed be He May we merit, with Hashem's help, the coming of Mashiach, amen may we merit the complete geulah, amen and may we merit that the Holy One, blessed be He, redeem us and may we merit the building of our Temple and our glory and that our Master, the Creator, blessed be He, be our King at our head and salvations, with miracles and wonders, with a good life may all the verses stated be fulfilled in you all the blessings stated in the Torah in Scripture, in the Mishnah be fulfilled in you and in your descendants until the end of all generations So may it be His will, and let us say amen Fortunate are you, fortunate are you...

32:02 [unclear] - yasher koach to the Rebbe and [unclear] for your [unclear], as if it were the holy [unclear] - it is really feeling their sweetness, and [unclear]. Thank you very much, let's do it. Right - [unclear] I think this, I think this - I am simply small.

33:27 Please. May the Holy One, blessed be He, give you help from Heaven blessing and success and a good life all the good bounty - I want a blessing for fear of Heaven - Rabbi Baruch of Medzhibozh, in the book Botzina DeNehora 'Behold, so shall the man who fears Hashem be blessed' whoever wants a blessing from you - 'Behold, so shall the man be blessed' With what should you bless him? Bless him bless him that he be one who fears Hashem This is the proof from Tehillim so writes the Botzina DeNehora: 'so shall the man who fears Hashem be blessed' and one who blesses with fear of Heaven - this is fear of Heaven May you have help from Heaven and blessing and success, a complete recovery, a good life all the good bounty, amen Fortunate are you, Israel

34:17 Fortunate are you, Israel holy and pure - fortunate are you, Israel Sarah Esther, daughter of [unclear] may she have a salvation, with Hashem's help that you succeed in all matters.

34:45 for you - salvations, miracles and wonders, [unclear], your holiness - the Shechinah dwells with you the Shechinah, the traits of holiness, the loftiness of your ascent - This is my son - this is the Rav's son his name is Avraham Mordechai the Rebbe's grandson - May the Holy One, blessed be He, give you help from Heaven blessing and success and a good life may you shine the light of Hashem, blessed be He, in the world may you go in the way of your holy teachers with Hashem's help - Chassidus of holiness, purity, fear of Heaven may you shine the light of Hashem, blessed be He and may the Name of Heaven become beloved through you and nachas - 'may your father and mother rejoice, and may she who bore you exult' - 'And so shall you say: To life! Peace be to you'

35:24 'and peace to your house, and peace to all that is yours' all the good bounty, with Hashem's help When do you make weddings? At what age? - Before twenty. - Eighteen, with Hashem's help, to the chuppah All of them, all of them - some here need shidduchim. Some of them have more brothers and sisters above them. May the Holy One, blessed be He, give everyone salvation, with Hashem's help Yes?

36:09 May it be His will that everyone, with Hashem's help, marry quickly Help from Heaven, healing and life. Yes, yes. But that's enough. There is, there is enough. ...from Heaven. Friday night. Friday night, at the meal. Thank you very much to all of you - [unclear] Thank you very much.

36:40 Did you get it? I am very, very happy with your [unclear], that you have him. With Hashem's help - cling to him, listen to him, see in his ways how much he loves you and cares for you. May you have all the good bounty - and listen. Thank you very much. All the blessings stated in Tractate Kesubos, on page 8a.