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Daf Yomi Summary ?''? ? OUR SHEET IS DEDICATED TO THE REFUAH SHLEIMAH OF ALL THOSE INFECTED BY THE CORONAVIRUS. DAF YOMI SUMMARY MAY HASHEM KEEP EVERYONE STAYING AT HOME, SAFE AND WELL! ????? ?? ?? HUGE HAKARAT HATOV TO ALL THE DOCTORS & MEDICAL STAFF THAT ?? - ?? ??? ARE LOOKING AFTER EVERYONE DURING THIS TOUGH TIME. path of Gd and try to emulate Gd?s ways - the ways of A MESSAGE FROM HASHEM.... righteousness/humility and stand in awe of Gd?s greatness ? this is THANKS achieved by complete Teshuva As we start a new Sefer from the Torah ? the Sefer of Bamidbar (a ?? ??? ?? ???? ?? ? Chafetz Chayim ? Shmiras Halashon 8:7: "the name that has at its root an expression of ?wilderness? and ?words?) ? men of the tongue" (in our instance) shall stumble in them?? ? by perhaps this week we might say a few ?words? about the speaking Lashon Harah. ?wilderness? that we find ourselves in at the moment as a result of the plague of Covid 19 The message to us all?? don?t speak about doing something ? Just go ahead and do it. There is a scene in M onty Python?s ?Life of Brian? where Brian is Do what? fleeing from the Romans and his shoe falls off. Brian?s disciples each Do Teshuva..... give their opinion as to what the ?sign of the fallen shoe? means. Leave the rest to Gd. One says ?it is a sign that we should all walk around with one shoe?. Another claims that it is a sign ?that everyone should gather as GADOL OF THE WEEK - ABAYE - THE DEBATER many shoes as they can?. What follows is a chaotic discussion with THANKS TO DAVID LIPSHITZ increasingly idiotic suggestions as to the meaning of the ?lost shoe?. Abaye was a fourth generation Amora, who lived in Babylonia about 1700 years ago. He was orphaned at a young age and was Over the last few weeks after the unfortunate arrival of the adopted by his uncle Rabbah, a famous Rav at the illustrious Yeshivat Coronavirus COVID 19 ? I have received a multitude of emails, texts, Pumbedita. His real name was Nachmani (comfort) but is known as whatsapps etc. from people claiming to know the what the message Abaye, the Aramaic word for comfort. of the Virus is, in terms of it being Gd?s ?sign of something or another?. M aybe some of them are right and maybe not ? what is Abeya was known to be a very skilled juggler and was also a definitely true is that the purveyors of these theories certainly don?t master chef, where many of his noted recipes start with ?M y mother know if what they are saying is true or not told me? ? M y Rebbe Zt?l taught me that guessing Gd?s intentions and signs is Discussions between Abaye and his dear friend Rava paved the a fool?s errand ? because everything that Gd does to educate us way to the discourse we are so familiar with in the Talmud. These about our situation can be found in the Scriptures. Consequently, I debates are known as the ?Havayot d?Abeya VeRava? (debates of think it is appropriate to point out the Prophet?s direct message from Abeya and Rava). Gd about what one must do when a national/international plague or These halakhic controversies are scattered throughout the emergency strikes - in order to mitigate and remove it - described by Gemara, where, except for six of his decisions, the opinions of Rava Hoshea 14:10 as he explains to the Israelites how to avoid are always accepted as final. destruction/exile. He learned under his uncle Rabbah and Rav Yosef bar Hiyya, who ???? ?????? '? ???? ???? ? ?? ????? ???? ??? ???? ??? ?? succeeded each other as the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Pumbedita. ?? ??? ?? ???? ?? ?? When Rav Yosef passed away, Abeya become the Rosh Yeshiva, until ??? ???? ??? ?? ? Who among you have the brains and the ability to his death five years later. connect the dots here and realize that the only way to salvation is through complete Teshuva ????? ???? ? To work it out (what I, Hoshea have been saying throughout this book) you will need to have Bina (ability to put 2 and 2 together) AND Da?as (the ability to experience Gd in the world) ? Then you can come to only one conclusion '? ???? ???? ? ?? ? Gd always plays it straight ? and expects you to do the same - Ran says in Drasha 6: Gd?s ways are not hilly or crooked, rather they are straight ways ???? ? - which can be traversed with no great effort at all - BUT after that realization - then you have a choice which path to take Har yavnit (near sefat) ?? ???? ?????? ? Sefer Chasidim 1: The righteous will follow the Abeya formulated a basic principle in halachik discourse, where ? ? 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Abeya was known for his derech eretz, saying that a ?gentle answer quells anger, and increases peace with his brethren and his relations, ? so that he may become beloved above and desired below, and accepted by his fellow man?. Abeya also gave us guidance on how to behave when interacting with each other, ?engage in business pleasantly with people. What will people say of him? "Praiseworthy is his father who taught him Torah; praiseworthy is his rabbi who taught him Torah, ? this person who has learned Torah, see how beautiful his ways are and how proper his deeds." ? ? ? ?? (Thursday 14 May) Thanks to Hadran (www.hadran.org.il) performing melacha, in order to teach us that a person is obligated on As the Gemara moves toward the central M ishna of the masechet each separate melacha that he performs. which outlines the 39 prohibited acts on Shabbat, the Daf discusses Why is lighting a fire used as the archetypal melacha to illustrate the meaning and implications of these forbidden categories. To this concept? The Ibn Ezra and the Ramban suggest that the Torah is violate Shabbat ????? ?? one must have intent and full awareness, but highlighting the difference between Shabbat, on which fire is what is the exact nature of ?lack of intent?? forbidden, and Yom Tov, on which it is permitted for use in the Does this mean one forgot that today was Shabbat or simply that preparation of food. he/she forgot the particular act was forbidden. This might be The Imrei Emes (fourth Gerrer Rebee) offers another explanation. formulated as a question of the significance of time or behavior. Hashem completed the creation of the world in six days and ?rested? Perhaps to illustrate this enigmatic distinction, the Gemara continues on the seventh. The Gemoro in Pesachim 54a tells us that fire was in with the discussion of how to designate Shabbat as a traveler who fact only created after the first Shabbat, when Hashem gave Adom has lost sense for the Jewish calendar? the ability and understanding (deah) to rub two stones together and Does he count 6 days and then keep Shabbat or does he begin with make a fire. Thus, the melacha of lighting a fire was distinguished Shabbat (as the biblical Adam did) before counting the six days.
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