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The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-אצל הגאון הינוקא: התלמידים שנבחנו וגילו בקיאות מפתיעה בכל הלכות מוקצה The Yanuka - English CC

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The Yanuka — Rav Shlomo Yehuda

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0:17 What are these tzaddikim learning? Have you written more books? - Shemiras HaLashon. - I would be glad to see it. Tzaddikim, come tell me: in which siman of the Shulchan Aruch are the laws of muktzeh?

0:57 - Siman 308. - Well done! Did you finish the whole siman? - Almost. In Tractate Shabbos, page 151a, the Sages taught about a dead person on Shabbos. on Shabbos Do you know? about a dead person on Shabbos, What is the law of a dead person on Shabbos?

1:30 What did you want to say, Reb Yisrael? - Muktzeh machmas gufo, muktzeh by its very nature. - So what did the Sages learn? Is it permitted to touch muktzeh? On Shabbos, is it permitted to touch it? What did the Sages learn from this? If one wants to touch muktzeh, is it permitted to touch it, or is it forbidden? - In the Gemara, this was King David: they put a loaf of bread on him and then moved him. - And if one wants to touch muktzeh? Without moving it.

1:55 Is it permitted only to touch, without moving? - Yes, it is permitted. - Nice. And with an egg, if I want to touch it? Permitted. No, to touch. If I only want to touch muktzeh, I want to touch muktzeh, only to touch muktzeh: is it permitted or forbidden? What do you say?

2:19 What do you say? There is a difference, right. What did we learn before? - If I touch the egg, it will move, and it is forbidden to touch it with a touch that will make it move. - Right, very nice, well done. If a non-Jew cooked a dish for a sick person who is not in danger, is it permitted to move the dish or not?

2:52 - It is permitted to move the dish, because there are other sick people in the city who are not in danger. - Nice, you know it well. In Tractate Shabbos, page 127, they learned about terumah, that it is permitted to move it for a Kohen. And what is the law if there is no Kohen, is it permitted to move it? - Forbidden. What did they learn from this? What can we learn from this?

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3:29 What is the law of neveilah or treifah meat? - It is permitted, Rav, because you can bring it to a dog; even if you don't have one at home, since there are dogs and cats in the city, it is permitted. And if there are no dogs and cats in the city, it is forbidden. - Where is this brought in Tractate Shabbos? - Page 156. - Side a or side b? - Side b. - Nice, well done. In which siman did the Shulchan Aruch rule it? - Siman 308, se'if 29.

3:58 - Well done, you are great Torah scholars, you are! What did they learn about a utensil whose use is permitted, in Tractate Shabbos, page 123? Is it permitted to be moved, or forbidden to be moved, a utensil whose use is permitted? - It is permitted to move it for its own use, for its place, and from the sun to the shade; but with no need at all, it is forbidden to move it. - What about books that are kept for sale?

4:23 - It is permitted, because one can enjoy them on Shabbos. Demai fruit, is it permitted to move it? - It is permitted, because he can bring them to the poor; even if he did not redeem the fifth, it is permitted. It is permitted to move them, since he can bring them to the poor. and one can also bring them to the poor. - And what about ma'aser sheni that was redeemed? - Ma'aser sheni that was redeemed, and he did not redeem the fifth, it is permitted to move it. - Where is this brought?

4:50 - In Tractate Bava Metzia, page 54a. - What does one do with the fifth, milgav or milbar? Do you know this? Milbar or milgav, from outside or from inside, is the fifth made? Adding a fifth, do you know what it means? How must it be done? If there are four dinars and one wants to redeem it, how much must be added? A fifth.

5:17 So how much will it be? - Five dinars. - So what is the law on Shabbos? About demai fruit, about... - It is permitted to move it. - Permitted, are you sure? - Yes. He can bring them to the poor. - One can bring them to the poor, nice. How many kinds of muktzeh are there? - Seven. - Tell me, what are they? - A utensil whose use is permitted, and a utensil whose use is forbidden, muktzeh because of fear of monetary loss, muktzeh by its very nature, a base for a forbidden thing, cancelling a utensil from its readiness, and muktzeh because it is repulsive.

6:00 I'll ask you another question. In Tractate Eruvin, page 102a, there is a beam. How many people...? - Ten. - You are Torah scholars! It is brought in the Shulchan Aruch, se'if 2. Se'if 2, right. So is it permitted to move the beam? - It is permitted. Even if it takes ten people to carry it, it is permitted, because it has the status of a utensil.

6:26 And if one wants to lift some bookcase, a cabinet, something big? Even if it takes ten people to lift it, it has the law of a beam that has the status of a utensil. What is the difference between the Rambam and the Raavad regarding muktzeh? - Rav, the [unclear] and Rashi said that [unclear] because of carrying out - that if you [unclear], he will carry it out So after that [unclear], and then they will carry it out, in the private domain, in the public domain.

7:05 Raw fish, is it permitted to move it? - If it is salted and smoked, it is permitted to move it. - And if it is not salted and smoked? - Since people do not usually eat fish that is not salted and smoked, it is forbidden. Even if it is not salted, since people do eat it that way, and there is a dispute about this in the Shulchan Aruch, and the ruling is that it is permitted, because in our times there are those who eat raw meat.

7:36 And if a glass broke in the house and there are pieces of glass, may they be moved? - It is permitted, because a glass in the public domain, with broken pieces of glass, one may carry them four amos in the public domain, even though our Sages forbade it. And if it cannot harm anyone, is it permitted? No? - No; if it will not cause harm, why should it be permitted? If it is inside the sink, for example, a glass broke, it is forbidden, because it cannot harm anyone.

8:08 Now come, let's see something else nice from you, something else interesting for you to tell me. What happens if a door came out of its place? It is permitted to remove it. - The Ritva, right, nice. I'll just tell you something small for you to keep: just remember mussar; it is very important for fear of Heaven.

9:28 It is very important that you keep up the respect between one another, that you respect one another among yourselves. It is good that you want to be Torah scholars, but the most important thing is that you take care that none of the children among you is embarrassed in class. And whoever you see is having a hard time and doesn't know, go sit with him, learn with him; that is the greatest mitzvah.

9:53 And have patience too, and also make your rabbi happy: listen to him, encourage him. And with Hashem's help, know that this is the way, the most beautiful and right one, to rise in the levels of Torah: to learn Torah for the sake of Heaven, not to provoke, and not to act proud over his friend. That way you will learn nicely. And whoever doesn't know: to comfort him, to bring him close, to teach him so that he will know too; not to act proud over someone who doesn't know; to teach him, to explain to him, to see what is hard for him, to help him, to sit with him.

10:23 And that is the learning the Holy One, blessed be He, rejoices in most. Do you understand? That is the most important thing. Now I'll tell you something beautiful: that from muktzeh, too, one can learn mussar. Muktzeh: we see that muktzeh is something that we need to put out of ourselves, that we have no connection with, or that does not belong to us on the day of Shabbos.

10:47 On Shabbos we see... What is the holy Shabbos day? What is so important about 'the Shabbos day', do you know? The Shabbos day comes to tell us that we need to be like angels. On one hand, we are here inside this world, inside matter, inside physicality, inside a body; we eat, we drink, we live in the world. But on the other hand, we are like angels: we don't touch anything that could lead to forbidden work, anything that could come to cause a transgression on Shabbos.

11:15 We are like angels. On one hand, we eat and drink, and on the other hand, we are not in the world at all. And that is the beauty of Shabbos: that the Holy One, blessed be He, gives us Shabbos so that we can rise and be elevated to levels, the greatest and most awesome in the world, in that we do not touch the world. That is the beauty of the holy Shabbos day, that is the inner meaning of muktzeh: that we do not touch this world, to show the Holy One, blessed be He, that not only are we as if in the World to Come, but we have no connection at all with anything connected to work on the Shabbos day.

11:49 And that is why we are called holy, and we rise on levels and ladders, higher and higher, so much so that the Butzina D'Nehora writes, he writes in his book, that all week long one can reach levels in the service of Hashem with a limit, with a line, a measure, but on the Shabbos day one can reach endless levels, without end. Without end. That is the holy Shabbos day. May we merit, with Hashem's help, to rise and be elevated.

12:14 And what we learned that is most important: what is most important? Between a person and his fellow: to respect one another. And the laws of lashon hara, do you know them too, so I can test you, or don't you know them? - You can, Rav. No, no. - When is it permitted to speak lashon hara? - Never. - Never, very nice, well done.

12:38 Never, nice. Very nice. What do you say: is the prohibition of lashon hara from the Torah or from the Sages? - From the Torah. It's not from the Sages? No, why not? Where is it written? - With Miriam and Moshe: Miriam spoke lashon hara. Hashem told Yehoshua that someone had trespassed with the banned spoils, so Yehoshua asked Him who it was, and He told him that He did not want to tell him who it was; He told him: cast lots, and...

13:09 But where is it written in the Torah about lashon hara? But is there some verse from the Torah that is written about lashon hara, that you know? You can tell me, you know it! "And let him not be like Korach and his assembly." Right. What else is there? "Do not go about as a talebearer among your people."

13:33 And where else? Some other verse where there is something like a curse on the one who speaks, where the Torah says 'cursed'... "Cursed is he who strikes his fellow" - nice, very nice. "Cursed is he who strikes his fellow in secret." And what else? When a person speaks lashon hara, he transgresses...? On what else? - 17 mitzvos and 31 prohibitions.

13:58 Thirty-one prohibitions. But what else, what other prohibition? - For example, "Do not hate your brother in your heart", that it is a prohibition to speak lashon hara. And what did Rabbi Akiva say? - "Love your fellow as yourself": this is a great principle of the Torah. In the Prophets. You are tzaddikim, you are Torah scholars!

14:23 Really nice, nice, well done. With Hashem's help, may it be His will that you rise and flourish higher and higher, and each time, with Hashem's help, you will learn more, and with Hashem's help we will test you on more nice things that you know. May the Holy One, blessed be He, raise you higher and higher, to Torah, to the chuppah and to good deeds, to good blessings, help from Heaven, protection and shielding. And may the Holy One, blessed be He, also bless your rabbi, the tzaddik, that he have help from Heaven and a good life.

15:19 [unclear], of all good, Fortunate are they, well done to your Rav, too. They say: 'Fortunate is he who [unclear]'. That's what you said: 'Fortunate is he who [unclear]'. That is what you want to say. There are no words to speak. Is the statement ready? What statement?

15:45 Are you filming? You're filming. [unclear] - film. You want to give it to someone so that you can film. Film him. A great genius - may you succeed, [unclear] right away, outside. With the Rav, with the Rav. May it be His will that [unclear], [unclear] in Torah and its mitzvos, and all the good bounty.

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