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Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Sukkah: Fifth Perek – Wednesday night shiur, Av 11, Daf 52b-53a (08/14/24)
Learn “גמרא דף נב: “ארבעה חרשים” (middle of the wide line) until the two dots.
The Gemara lists four חרשים
Why are these four great tzaddikim referred to as חרשים?
Why specifically these four?
Learn ערוך לנר
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14414&st=&pgnum=206
The Gemara lists seven רועים
Why are these seven great tzaddikim referred to as רועים?
Why specifically these seven?
Learn בן יהוידע
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14473&st=&pgnum=169
The Gemara lists eight נסיכים
Why are these eight great tzaddikim referred to as נסיכים?
Why specifically these eight?
See שם משמואל, חנוכה, שנת תרפ”ג עמ’ רסא-ב
Learn the “גמרא דף נב: “ארבעה סולמות (the two dots eleven lines from the bottom of the Amud) until דף נג. “הוא היה אומר
Questions:
What is the significance of the height of the lanterns being 50 Amos?
What is the significance of the volume of each basin of the lanterns containing 120 Lug?
Learn תוספת יום טוב
Learn ערוך לנר
May one benefit from the light produced from oil of הקדש?
Learn תוספת דף נג. “אשה
Why were these praises specifically said at the Simchas Beis Hashoeva?
Learn בן יהוידע
How could Hillel say “If I’m here everyone is here” it seems like a very haughty statement? Especially for Hillel who was known for his extreme humility?
Learn “רש”י “אם אני כאן
Learn “תוספת “אם
Rabbi Zev Wolbe: Mishna Berura Halacha Shiur – Hilchos Sukkah – Siman 631: A Sukkah that has More Sun than Shade and additional Laws of the Schach (08/14/24)
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Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Eruvin: Second Perek יום רביעי Av 10, end of the Perek (08/14/24)
City Eruvin
Does a body of water larger than a בית סאתים disqualify a city eruv?
What type of water is מבטל שם דירה?
What type of water is considered לא חזי לתשמישתא ?
How deep does the water need to be?
Learn שולחן ערוך אורח חיים ס’ שנ”ח סע’ י”א with משנה ברורה and “ביאור הלכה “והוא
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https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=60389&st=&pgnum=44
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If the water is ten Tefachim deep why doesn’t the wall of the lake act as a mechitza and separate the lake from the rest of the area outside of it?
Learn מגן אברהם ס’ שנ”ח ס”ק טו
And ביאור הלכה “דינים
Is the duck pond in the middle of the Passaic Park considered like זרעים / garden and is מבטל שם דירה thereby prohibiting to carry inside the entire Passaic eruv as it is פרוץ למקום האסור לו – open to area that one may not carry?
See ספר ה’ עירובין פרק ט ס’ ב אות ג
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Kinnah 12 ועתה מה לי פה יום יום שני Av 8 (08/12/24)
I will be learning the Kinnah 12 today “ועתה מה לי פה
as Introduction to this Kinnah – See Gemara Sukkah דף נב : “אמר רב חנא בר אחא (second wide line ) until “אמר ר’ יוחנן
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Eruvin: Second Perek יום חמישי Av 4 (08/08/24)
City Eruvin
Do the following areas larger than a בית סאתים disqualify a city eruv?
Park
See שו”ת אגרות משה או”ח חלק א ס’ קלט (the beginning)
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=916&st=&pgnum=232
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=916&st=&pgnum=233
And שו”ת מנחת יצחק חלק ז’ ס’ כד
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=1600&st=&pgnum=51
See ספר יוסיף חן ס’ כא
Zoo
See שו”ת נודע ביהודה או”ח תנינא ס’ מז
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=1447&pgnum=28
And קובץ תשובות חלק א ס’ מה
Cemetery
See קובץ תשובות חלק א ס’ מה
And Laws of an Eruv from Rabbi Francis & Rabbi Francis Chapter 9 end of section II who quotes a the ruling of Hagaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Sukkah: Fifth Perek – Wednesday night shiur, Av 4, Daf 52b (08/07/24)
Learn “גמרא דף נב: “אמר רב שמואל בר נחמני (twelve lines from top of the Amud) until “ארבעה חרשים” (middle of the wide line)
Questions:
Why does the pasuk refer to the fact that yetzer harah testifies against a person in a hidden gematria form?
What kind of parable is the different manifestation of the yetzer harah as stranger, guest, and master?
See בן יהוידע
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14473&st=&pgnum=168&hilite=
Questions:
How do we explain that Hashem regrets as Hashem is perfect and does not make mistakes?
First place it mentions that Hashem has regret – וינחם is בראשית פרק ו פסוק ו
See Rav Shamshon Rafael Hirsch on the above pasuk who explains the difference between the regret of Hashem and the regret of man.
But we still need an explanation of the regret for the four areas listed in our gemara?
Learn ערוך לנר
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14414&st=&pgnum=206
and בן יהוידע
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14473&st=&pgnum=169Why specifically these four areas?
Learn מהרש”א
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14319&st=&pgnum=509
See מהר”ל תפארת ישראל פרק יג pg. רט הערה 67 (in Rabbi Hartman explanation)
See מהר”ל נתיבות עולם – נתיב כח היצר פרק ד ” היצה”ר שברא
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14205&st=&pgnum=135
Continue learning “גמרא דף נב: “ארבעה חרשים” (middle of the wide line) until the two dots.
The Gemara lists four חרשים
Why are these four great tzaddikim referred to as חרשים?
Why specifically these four?
Learn ערוך לנר
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14414&st=&pgnum=206
The Gemara lists seven רועים
Why are these seven great tzaddikim referred to as רועים?
Why specifically these seven?
Learn בן יהוידע
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14473&st=&pgnum=169Why specifically these four areas?
The Gemara lists eight נסיכים
Why are these eight great tzaddikim referred to as נסיכים?
Why specifically these eight?
Learn שם משמואל, חנוכה, שנת תרפ”ג עמ’ רסא-ב
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Eruvin: Second Perek יום רביעי, Av 3, end of the Perek (08/07/24)
City Eruvin
Halacha question –
Do farms larger than a בית סאתים disqualify a city eruv?
Quickly review ביאור הלכה ס’ שנ”ח סע’ ט’ “אבל אם who brings a ת’ דבר שמואל for a new reason why a city eruv can include with קרפף inside of it.
What is the reason of the דבר שמואל that a קרפף inside a walled city will not disqualify the Eruv?
See חכם צבי ס’ נט
And Laws of an Eruv from Rabbi Francis & Rabbi Francis Chapter 9/II/2 who quotes a different explanation in the name of Hagaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
What’s a halachik difference between the two reasons?
Would a halachik wall made from צורת הפתח also be included in the chidush of the דבר שמואל?
Do we rely on the דבר שמואל?
See ספר יוסיף חן ס’ כג
Do the following areas larger than a בית סאתים disqualify a city eruv?
Botanical Gardens
See שו”ת דברי חיים או”ח ס’ כח
And שו”ת שואל ומשיב מהדו”ק ס’ קלא
And שו”ת מנחת יצחק חלק ח’ ס’ קח
Forests
See שולחן ערוך או”ח ס’ שנ”ח סע’ ט’
See ספר יוסיף חן ס’ כב
Parks
See שו”ת אגרות משה או”ח חלק א ס’ קלט (the beginning)
And שו”ת מנחת יצחק חלק ז’ ס’ כד
See ספר יוסיף חן ס’ כא
Zoo
See שו”ת נודע ביהודה או”ח תנינא ס’ מז
And קובץ תשובות חלק א ס’ מה
Cemeteries
See קובץ תשובות חלק א ס’ מה
And Laws of an Eruv from Rabbi Francis & Rabbi Francis Chapter 9 end of section II who quotes a the ruling of Hagaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Eruvin: Second Perek, יום שלישי Av 2, Daf 26b (08/06/24)
Topic for this week:
City Eruvin
Halacha question –
Do parks or wooded areas larger that a בית סאתים disqualify a city eruv?
Yesterday we learnt the תוספת ישנים underneath “תוספת דף כג: “איכא and the רא”ש פרק ב’ ס’ ב “ומתוך פ’ רש”י (approximately 20 lines before end) that according to Rashi gardens only destroy דירה for a קרפף but not for a חצר
However the שולחן ערוך ס’ שנ”ח סע’ ט & י rules there is no difference.
Learn ביאור הלכה ס’ שנ”ח סע’ ט’ “אבל אם who brings a ת’ דבר שמואל for a new reason why a city eruv can include with קרפף inside of it.
Based on the above would a city eruv be permitted to include park or wooden area?
What is the reason the דבר שמואל that קרפף inside a walled city will not disqualify the Eruv?
See חכם צבי ס’ נט
And Laws of Eruvin from Rabbi Francis who quoted a different explanation in the name of Hagaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
Would a halachik wall made from צורת הפתח also be included in the chidush of the דבר שמואל?
Do we rely on the דבר שמואל?
See ספר יוסיף חן ס’ כג
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Sukkah: Fifth Perek – Monday night shiur, Av 2, Daf 52a-52b (08/05/24)
Questions:
Why is Moshiach Ben Dovid so concerned about staying alive?
What is the need for two Moshiach – Ben Yosef and Ben Dovid?
Learn מהרש”א דף נב. “”על משיח בן יוסף
Learn מהר”ל נצח ישראל פרק לז
Learn “גמרא דף נב. “ת”ר ואת הצפוני ארחיק ” (third wide line) until דף נב: “אמר רב חנא בר אחא .. ד’ מתחרט עליהן הקב”ה (second wide line)
Questions:
Why does the yetzer harah specifically set his sights on talmidim chachamim?
What does it mean the yetzer harah of a great person is stronger than for regular person?
Does the yetzer harah attempt to attract a talmid chacham to base sins?
See שיחות מוסר מאמר צא page 390
See עלי שור חלק א שער שלישי – דעת תורה פרק י page 227-228
See מעלות התורה note from אור התורה אות יד
Why the need to drag the yetzer harah to the beis medrash instead of saying the person himself should run to the beis medrash?
What is the message in comparing the yetzer harah to a stone and to iron?
Learn בן יהוידע
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14473&st=&pgnum=168&hilite=
Learn פ’ גר”א משלי פרק כה פסוק כא & פרק ב פסוק יב
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14229&st=&pgnum=149
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14229&st=&pgnum=150
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14229&st=&pgnum=12
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14229&st=&pgnum=13
Learn פ’ גר”א מגילת אסתר פרק ב פסוק יב
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=39741&st=&pgnum=20
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=39741&st=&pgnum=21
See commentary from Rav Brevda zt”l on this pasuk במקורות והערות “שישליך תאוות and עיונים ומליאום בסוף הספר
Why does the pasuk refer to the fact that yetzer harah testifies against a person in a hidden gematria form?
What kind of parable is the different manifestation of the yetzer harah as stranger, guest, and master?
See בן יהוידע
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14473&st=&pgnum=168&hilite=
How do we explain that Hashem regrets as Hashem is perfect and does not make mistakes?
First place it mentions that Hashem has regret – וינחם is בראשית פרק ו פסוק ו
See Rav Shamshon Rafael Hirsch on the above pasuk who explains the difference between the regret of Hashem and the regret of man.
But we still need an explanation of the regret for the four areas listed in our gemara?
Learn ערוך לנר
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14414&st=&pgnum=206
and בן יהוידע
Why specifically these four areas?
Learn מהרש”א
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14319&st=&pgnum=509
See מהר”ל תפארת ישראל פרק יג pg. רט הערה 67 (in Rabbi Hartman explanation)
See מהר”ל נתיבות עולם – נתיב כח היצר פרק ד ” היצה”ר שברא
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Eruvin: Second Perek, יום שני Rosh Chodesh Av, Daf 26b (08/05/24)
Question:
Does רב ששת (who explained the opinions of ר”א and the רבנן ) disagree with רב פפא who entertains new considerations regarding splitting a courtyard and a house?
Learn מהרש”א
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37954&st=&pgnum=299
Learn קרן אורה who disagrees with the מהרש”א
Topic for this week:
City Eruvin
Halacha question –
Do parks or wooded areas larger that a בית סאתים disqualify a city eruv?
Learn תוספת ישנים underneath “תוספת דף כג: “איכא (in Rashi script)
Learn רא”ש פרק ב’ ס’ ב starting from the words “ומתוך פ’ רש”י (approximately 20 lines before end)
Clarify the chidush of the תוספת ישנם and the ספק of the רא”ש
Based on the above would a city eruv be permitted to include park or wooden area?
How do we conclude l’halacha?
Learn שולחן ערוך ס’ שנ”ח סע’ ט & י with משנה ברורה
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Eruvin: Second Perek, יום חמישי Tamuz 26, Daf 26b (08/01/24)
Review “גמרא דף כו: “א”ל רב פפא לאביי” (middle of the Amud) until the two dots.
Questions:
What does רב ששת (who explained the opinions of ר”א and the רבנן ) hold in regards to these new considerations being introduced whether a person lives in a house without having rights in the courtyard?
Learn מהרש”א
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37954&st=&pgnum=299
Learn קרן אורה who disagrees with the מהרש”א
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Sukkah: Fifth Perek – Wednesday night shiur, Tamuz 26, Daf 52a (07/31/24)
Questions:
According to the explanation that the Navi is discussing the death of the yetzer harah.
How does the Gemara answer its question as to why people are eulogizing the yetzer harah?
Learn מהרש”א
Why are the tzadikim crying?
How is it possible for the yetzer harah to be different for tzadikim than the reshaim?
Learn מהרש”א and ערוך לנר
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14414&st=&pgnum=204
What is the concept the gemara is teaching us with the comparison of the yetzer harah to a mountain and to a strand of hair?
Learn מדרגות האדם מאמר תיקון המידות (page 37 in new print)
See שיחות מוסר מאמר צא page 390
Learn the גמרא דף נב. “א”ר אסי ” (middle of the Amud) until “ת”ר ואת הצפוני ארחיק ” (third wide line)
Questions:
What is the significance of the seven names of the yetzer harah?
Learn מהרש”א and ערוך לנר
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14319&st=&pgnum=508&hilite=
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14414&st=&pgnum=204
Learn בראשית פרק א פסוק לא
https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.1.31?lang=bi&aliyot=0
See מדרש רבה ט, ז which says טוב מאד is referring to the yetzer harah.
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14385&st=&pgnum=23
This seems contradictory to our gemara that Hashem calls the yetzer harah רע?
Learn מכתב מאליהו חלק ה page 160-162
Why does the yetzer harah specifically set his sights on talmidim chachamim?
What does it mean that the yetzer harah of a great person is stronger than for a regular person?
See שיחות מוסר מאמר צא page 390
See עלי שור חלק א שער שלישי – דעת תורה פרק י page 227-228
(See מעלות התורה note from אור התורה אות יד
Why the need to drag the yetzer harah to the beis medrash instead of saying the person himself should run to the beis medrash?
What is the message in comparing the yetzer harah to a stone and to iron?
Learn בן יהוידע
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14473&st=&pgnum=168&hilite=
Learn פ’ גר”א משלי פרק כה פסוק כא & פרק ב פסוק יב
Learn פ’ גר”א מגילת אסתר פרק ב פסוק יב and commentary from Rav Brevda zt”l on this pasuk במקורות והערות “שישליך תאוות and עיונים ומליאום בסוף הספר
Why is Moshiach Ben Dovid so concerned about staying alive?
What is the need for two Moshiach – Ben Yosef and Ben Dovid?
Learn מהרש”א דף נב. “”על משיח בן יוסף
Learn מהר”ל נצח ישראל פרק לז
Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Eruvin: Second Perek, יום רביעי Tamuz 25, Daf 26b (07/31/24)
Learn “גמרא דף כו: “כמאן אזלא” (ten lines from top of Amud) until the two dots.
Questions:
What does רב ששת (who explained the opinions of ר”א and the רבנן ) hold in regards to these new considerations being introduced whether a person lives in a house without having rights in the courtyard?
Learn מהרש”א
Rabbi Avraham Meisels: Gemara Pesachim – First Perek: Daf 4a (07/30/24)
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Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Eruvin: Second Perek, יום שלישי Tamuz 24, Daf 26b (07/30/24)
Very quickly review “גמרא דף כו: “כשתימצי לומר (top of the Amud) until “כמאן אזלא” (ten lines from top of Amud)
Questions:
Can the מבטל renege his ביטול?
How can the residents lock in the ביטול?
How do we conclude l’halacha?
Learn שולחן ערוך ס’ ש”פ סע’ א and the משנה ברורה
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=60389&st=&pgnum=111
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=60389&st=&pgnum=112
(also see ס’ שפ”א סע’ א)
In case where the person is only מבטל his rights in the courtyard. The מבטל is permitted to carry items from the other residents houses to the courtyard. However he is not allowed to carry items from his own house to the courtyard.
We learnt a Machlokes between רש”י and רבינו יהונתן
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37954&st=&pgnum=348
See ריטב”א for נפקא מינה between the two explanations.
https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=9610&st=&pgnum=150
Learn רשב”א who brings a different reason from the ראב”ד why the מבטל is not allowed to carry items from his own house to the courtyard.
Note: The ראב”ד understanding of ביטל of ones house
How do we conclude lehalacha?
Learn שולחן ערוך ס’ ש”פ סע’ ב and the משנה ברורה
Can the מבטל carry items from the other residents homes to the courtyard before they made a chazaka in the courtyard?
See ביאור הלכה “וגם