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Daf Yomi: Avoda Zara 57 | Rabbi Shmuel Silber

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Rabbi Shmuel Silber

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successful. With that, let us begin. We have a lot to do today. A beautiful daff ahead of us. Today's daff is nun 57. Now, we are picking up on nun 57 2 4 six lines down from the top. So, we are continuing today. Actually in a suga that we began yesterday a really fascinating and let's begin says there was an episode that happened in was the name of a place what happened in there was a certain who was scaling who was climbing a palm tree and he brought down with him literally a palm branch what happened the says So what happened as he was coming down as he was coming down the palm tree the top of the the top of the Lulov went ahead and touched the wine. So essentially he touched the wine through the lulaf. So again going up the palm tree coming down bringing down with him a lul love and on his way down he inadvertently touched the lulaf to wine. Now the shila of course is what's the status of the wine? Is this considered to be wine touched by an akum or not? And if it was touched by an akum remember again what's unique about this case clearly there was no libational or religious intentionality on the part of the akum over here. Right? He's just doing his thing. He's coming down. He got a palm branch and he's coming down. He inadvertently touched the palm branch to the wine. So what is now the status of

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  1. 0:44successful. With that, let us begin. We have a lot to do today. A beautiful daff
  2. 4:08say you could sell the wine to an so the interestingly enough indicates that holds that
  3. 8:00now in this case here this is interesting right? So I the mother is already my
  4. 11:48so interestingly enough the second opinion says that's so uncommon that someone that that a servant
  5. 15:32case let's say maybe we would not make this distinction between adults and children okay very
  6. 19:13if they touch wine the wine still becomes until they forget about I asks how long
  7. 22:40touch the wine the wine becomes the only time the wine doesn't become is when they
  8. 26:34process. So obviously once there's mil and that z status goes away that status goes away.
  9. 30:21once it was if there was and nothing to talk about right they're members of my
  10. 34:10it's interesting to note it's a tremendous skill about how when we react out of anger

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