The Ramchal's Essay on Fundamentals - Part 22 - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman

okay so what we have here is the you asked what we're doing this money that's what we're doing in this class so this is an essay which is printed at the back of darkish m and you've read their Hashem imagine the essay is also written by the ROM hall and it is a summary of the fundamental ideas of the book itself so we've gone through you know many of the ideas reincarnation and the world to come and the spiritual realm and souls and demons and Providence general Providence individual Providence and some other you know other topics as well miracles was one remember the redemption was another some yeah but we're up to the last one which is torch about pay and the shots and torch about pay so he's going through basically the the role of torch about pay int or learning the place that to our shabaab pay has in learning Torah and most recently saw the authority of the rabbi's in making different types of decrees rabina decrease and we one of the points it was mentioned yesterday which was kind of an interesting idea is this idea that a smarta which was referring to generally speaking a rabbinic law although the author said that the term is mokta can sometimes be used to refer to the process whereby rabbis will have a tradition that the torah law is x but they don't have an explicit source for that in the Torah and the S bhakta would describe the attempt to find the tour wording which would be the source for that torah law that they have as a tradition that's one use of the word as master the more common use of the word asst master is where the rabbi's came up with their own rabbinic decree but they linked it in some way to the verses in the Torah and the reason why they would link it to verses in the Torah is a bit odd if it's just a matter of you know some tenuous hint 22 to the fact that what they made up is somehow connected in the Torah but the author offers offers a second explanation which is that when God composed the wording of the Torah he had in mind the fact that the sages would come up with new laws and therefore he worded the tour in a way which would provide a basis for that rabbinic law not making the rabbinic law from the Torah that no but that somehow God like I said foresaw the fact and therefore created the possibility that the rabbi's would be able to read their laws into the wording of the Torah this does can have give a divinely ordained character to the ribbon across even without that they are divinely ordained to extort and sent like it says don't depart from whatever they tell you right or left and that the tour gives the the sages the authority to make up new laws and new legislations we started talking about the fact that the rabbi's generally made new legislation to add on to and protect the laws of the Torah sometimes the rabbi's could actually use their authority to suspend the Torah to spend the torah law an example that we gave was blowing the shofar no Shoshana Shoshana falls on shabbos the rabbi said you should not blow the shofar because some gym somewhere might come to carry the shofar in the public area for a distance of more than four animals and therefore transgressed the laws of Sabbath so the sages use their authority to spend the entire Torah law of shofar but we pointed out that that's only generally when they're suspending a tour law but the sages rarely would have a decree transgress the Torah so they won't go against the tour and the difference was that we said is it was rather transgressing within a way which is called cumbias a getting up and doing meaning proactively transgressing the Torah that no but rather what the sages do is shevata say uproot Allah from the Torah through passively refraining from fulfilling it this would be a major difference they can tell you refrain from doing and hace but they won't come and tell you to do to transgress the Torah hospital and even when they were suspending the torah law it was for the purpose of preserving the tort law in some of the way this would be example perfect example they suspended the law of shofar in order to protect the laws of Shabbos what's that no there's no blowing of the shofar I mean it's a good question is it like really the Jewish people would have done it the sages told us not to for the reason so you actually does God consider it as if we've done it no I don't you know I don't think so we're not we're actually doing the midst of so far in that zone like they not have made like the Gazelle the stringency that you have to keep the chauffeur in the synagogue rather than yeah right yeah we're at secret right um because you know that that is the I mean that is the challah you would have to you would have to keep the show in other words what you would have had to write he said I think if I understand it correctly is asking why wouldn't they just make a decree that you have to have the chauffeur int roll on shabbos rather than saying don't blow the shofar because in certain people might carry so my answer is that is in fact the case even without the decree the halacha is that they must have the chauffeur in the show right despite that fact yeah why cuz by virtue of the fact that rosh hashanah is on Chavez it would mean that you can't carry which would mean it would have to be in shortly beforehand and we're excited about the fact that even though that's the case people might not do that you know people might forget and then they come to carry boy mp4 fell on Shabbat how does that work there's a blowing of the shofar yom kippur only only only in the ELA which is after Chavez anyway so if I get this is on go home oh I see what you're saying maybe there should be concerned the other they shouldn't blow on multi yom kippur because somebody might come to get it on Yom Kippur already blow after yom kippur that's a good question I never thought about that but it would seem to me the answer would be that since its anyway after shabbos we're not concerned that the person would go take it like on Chavez of Yom Kippur in order to blow it there's no Mitzvah on that day so people are only go get it when they need it by the time they needed its nightfall yeah so there's no problem and the same thing after you know of course applies not only for chauffeur on Rosh Hashanah but also applies for the young the arbor meaning on jaan tere social circles the first day of this was holiday it is a myth Tory mitzvah to take the four species right the lulav the etrog haddassi miraba if young Rishon shabbos notary social circles is on shabbos know from in RB meaning the same rate for the same concern that people may come to carry it through the shoots arriving to take it to shore to fulfill the mitzvot therefore they suspended the Hispanic so that's tantamount to uprooting the term it's because the captain de cambio meri jaan take for yourselves these force base in the first day the first day is the tour Mitzvah the other days is not mean it's not to rice it's only drive on and so the sages are actually nullifying the Torah mitzvah for the entire Jewish people because the concern that some Jew might come to carry forbidden way instead only applies if if the photo shows for the first day because they assume that you already have it near the surface from the first day of shabbos falls in the second in for example i'm missing you i don't i missed the point so it is specified the rubber the ones are you talking about a scenario you have like two days of yom tov back to back yeah like it both sides is that what you're referring to your eyes what's taken so only one of those days would be shabbos right and the other day you would take it for the second day so good already be there no no necessarily I mean way okay so senator vehicle law is just any day you just don't waive the little that shows on Chavez yes yes yes you don't relive it you don't really that's true you don't leave a little of any downed choppers my point was just saying that if I I was only stressing yom tov rishon on Chavez because that's the dresser the other days are abundant even when it's to rice on the first day of yom tov if it's Shabbos it's a it's a fruit and all the more so in the other days we really don't wanna yeah they're clearly seems like on the moluccas on shabbos they they're there to rebuttal they come through drush that doesn't make them do a button right there do i sir the surface is to rice chavez racer and the 39 categories of malakas are also theresa and there are many and those are called avos of the office each off off general principle has what's called todos the subdivisions and those are all the rice as well now in addition to that rabbis came and added more shabbos prohibitions rabbinic as well but this is a point that it's good you're raising this point is the point that we kind of touched on yesterday which is that we shouldn't confuse the fact that the sages are discussing how to understand the Torah as the idea that the the sages are actually deriving the the laws themselves that's not true they're actually deriving the laws from the Torah and that's that's torture blow up a torch about pay is the rabbinic elaboration what came to be the rabbinic elaboration in writing of the tour laws that was an old tradition until then so that we actually you know the Oral Torah derives the fact that we have 39 general categories of forbidden creative work on Chavez from the Torah and those 30 in the source for those 39 are the 39 acts that were classified and described the Torah as used in order to construct the tabernacle right so there isn't a system of light between light something which is London's explicit to something that sort of derived so that's another very good point and again sonic fur is quite clearly she'll blow right whereas I don't get carrying direct like that's another point another important point that was discussed earlier which is that there are the 13 principles by which we derive meaning from the Torah and that means that even though things are not explicit they're still learned out implicitly through these techniques in learning and once and even though they're only learned out implicitly but since they're learned out through these recorded principles or tools of teaching once they're learned from the Torah that it's Teresa so let's say one of the one of the tools might be a cobbler home error or it might be a hedge but might be there are solver whatever the case may be this is a tool which the torte which which exists within the Oral Torah as a way of understanding with the tourist thing and therefore deriving meaning from the tour which would give it the authority of Torah and the rabbi's were very explicit in the distinction between their explanation of a torah law and the in there originating their own rabbinic law yeah it's not like you know they had an agenda to say certain things from from the tour when they were they weren't because you see that they're very particular themselves to clarify what exactly was their own rabbinic law as opposed to a torah law they made that distinction very clear yeah from versus we derive that it's a mitzvah to build the tent d the tabernacle and also to observe the shabbos from which the guard arrives to the Oral Torah that it's a mitzvah to build the tabernacle but not at the expense of shabbos which means that anything that will any act that was done in the in preparing the tabernacle the mishkan would be forbidden to do on shabbos that the vernius and Mishkin is danke shabbos the building of the mishkan does not push off overseas to procedure blush a lot and therefore that means that and this is the sorcerer idea that any creative act that was done in constructing the tabernacle is forbidden on Shabbat and through the description of the things that the very detailed description of the construction of the tabernacle of Torah the Oral Torah describes derives 39 basic creative acts that were involved there dying and shearing and cutting and planting and sowing and reaping and so forth and so on yeah okay so now let's get back into the text on page 190 I suppose we're somewhere around on page 190 about third of the way down mahina hanhae fresh now there is no difference or distinction between our obligation concerning the mitzvahs which are clarified from the Torah openview vinoba tucanos casa vic 07 or the degree of responsibility we have in keeping the decrees that were decreed by by huzzah by the sages meaning of course there is a distinction between a lobbying de rice order abundant from the Torah or a bennek but in terms of our obligation to keep it you've got to keep it right you can't say well that's only row bundan I'm not going to keep it no you've got to keep the rabbinic law as equally as you have to keep the torah law in fact there's discussion that every rabbinic law has in it an element of tort law as well once the Torah says low so sue we call or show your guru ha you mean a small don't depart from what they tell you yeah which means that every rabbinic law actually has a tour component to it Chicago lots on the phone off janeshia Muhammad vamos rhetoric emotion ish miles LA and that's the will of God that we should keep the laws of the Torah as we keep these a bit of gloss the car monday s peeve however autumn if it was cold their holiday and therefore somebody who transgresses the rabbinic laws he is that's tantamount to rebelling against the Word of God himself they never been in and there's no difference between the rabbinic and the torah law bhimashankar lavaja heaves de lune and distinction between them which is recognized by the sages themselves Dhanush's fake hoes Bettina Torah you don't okumura except for examples is the filing if you have a doubt regarding how to apply the tour law then we are stringent a bit of a subframe you do know the cooler but if there's a doubt regarding rabina claw then we are lenient let's say you have had an apple you've eaten an apple and you've eaten the Apple in a way where you required to make a blessing after the Apple correct which is brain officials and all of a sudden you don't remember till I make that bra did you hear me did anybody else have a beta-blocker profession you remember what you did she don't remember them it's not a good it's not a good thing it's not a good sign but you just remember now what does he do he says it again no he doesn't yes he doesn't say it again why because we have a general principle suffolk brothels laakho when you have a suffolk a doubt regarding Bracco's you should be making lenient and not say the blessing over again would mean you have to make a bra afterwards right yeah it straight up doing the bra but if you already made the bra huh you wouldn't have to make it again right and if you say it again what would it with that involved st. God's name unnecessarily no one sec one second right which which which which is a which is a which is at or prohibition you can't take God's name in vain you can't say God's name unnecessarily for no reason and therefore we have a general rent a general rule of thumb Suffolk Broncos lock it when you have a submarine Abraha which is on the rabbinic you should not eat that yeah even though you might not have said the braja because if you in the case that you actually did say the bra saying again would involve a more stringent transgression of saying God's name now he finishes Brigham's on he finishes his meal yeah and he goes off to class what was it wait till I to trigger some Muslim I don't remember what did he do it's a broker after eating southern brothers dachau thoughts about this is device very good yeah the first breath of the one day was commending which when you wish well the first one are they after go so uh certainly there was certainly better than certainly venison Muslim is the Raisa yeah and if you mean the first Bravo you mean the first Audrina's amazon you mean the first round of the bottom Otzi so there might be a discussion about whether mostly dry sort of London but but but it regarding him british muslim right which was what I'm talk about Chris wasn't it certainly dry sir yeah and he doesn't know he's a dad I don't remember what I don't remember what I make was it wasn't or not so even though it's a brother in this case we do repeat it why because it seems pointing out yeah it's dry sir right confusion is one sec it's it's dry sir so he's suppose different modes on your Torah now he doesn't know where they said it in the event that he didn't say it he certainly has to say on the event that he did say it it is a possibility of mention god's name in vain but but he's but he's got an issue derisive one way or the other what should you do so here we say the suffolk Mitzvah Theresa is the home row so you would repeat the rhythm of zone even even though there's a possibility that that might involve taking saying God's name in vain this would an example when you have a door abundant order I sir one of the cooler the rights of the Hummer yeah what we're going to say you know I say God one with their commandant the third you mean new the option i think that the commandment you mean like it yeah okay so what is his name is a UK bulky or I'm gonna I'm gonna is my master you now I say his name in vain what does that mean you're not supposed to say his name unnecessarily that's what is me your day good hey involving hey we stay all night now no but that's how that's how we pronounce his name but that's not his name that's a day Nick Moore says based on a verse zeche me with a zippy Llewellyn's ish me UK vodka is a zip real oil on this is how I should be mentioned Lt Col oiler LOL em hidden meaning this is my name you give out k but don't pronounce it rather pronounce it out of da da dude that's also when god's name you're not allowed to have any god's name into any of God's name in vain whether it be shocked I or alkene or you give up okay but in this case in any case the name that's used for blessings that you a vodka and even though you pronounce it out of town you that's the court that's how we're supposed to bounce it the reason why we don't see you a clip of cake because God told us hey shamea Ellen it should be hidden Torah says my name you'd say okay my name you'd cave of K should be hidden and not pronounced phonetically as it written only by the Kohen Gadol on yom kippur which is done 10 times we discussed that right only when we had to beat me yeah the base amiga english should we have a word that describes the deity that we often use like the name god yeah so the name God has some holiness but not this not the same as your cave FK but for example it says in our money and God We Trust on that money should not be taken and exposed in a bathroom because it has the name of God has the name of God even in a foreign language but it has the name of God you could have that money in your pocket yeah but I remember once that uh I remember as a child I visited once the house of somebody and they had you know they had like the uh I don't know if a nowadays they probably don't have it anymore if anybody saw what it was they get really kinky but there may be Kings Knight word but they had like toilet seats and the toilet seats were made out of like lumen ated they were covered with none of the right word but like lacquered covering and they had seashells decorative objects up within this lacquered covered toilet seat so I was at a house once where they had money they had quarters and dimes and pennies underneath the lacquer totally so it's like exposed in the bathroom problem you're like sitting on the name of sitting on on on what's written g-o-d shouldn't be there was that what's normal about the market 26 was in the matter of God in the English is there such a thing 16 if you give it a little come into English number it is all right Thank You sports what is it right yeah very interesting I never heard of gamarra in English but III guess it works yeah yeah very interesting but in any case this would this would be an example of total loss which are to be taken stringently and rabbinic laws which are to be taken more lightly yeah I was invested a thought to the survivor does that mean like when you've eaten and your stated yes just any time that you had bread heels burgers amazon is when the aquila is an appeal of syria which means a person is only obligated paratus amazon when he's eaten a quantity of bread that gives him satiation and there's discussion about whether that's a cabeza with it took his eye sore cabeza but the mock me or even even on it because i'm so the rabbi discussion about what states me yes okay yeah yeah yes what was considered to be satiating women who do not have an obligation to the bench peter's amazon Teresa because it says the heart of a servitor octo Michelle okay oh it's a shame no sauna right so who makes the work as Amazon one who was given a land but since women were not given the land as an inheritance they are not obligated to diverse a Muslim horizon only draw a bunny and it's for this reason that a woman should not remotes a man you think of also because she is only high of your opponent and he's high of Teresa you you shall eat and be satiated and thank God over the land and he gave you that idea and therefore a woman should not say recite pick at amazon with the intention of reciting it for a man her husband for example because she only has an obligation of rabbinic origin and his door is from the Torah yeah yeah um the exception would be in a case where a man ate a small amount and he's not sure whether he's obligated to make it to bench or not so it could be that the quantity is only daughter bunin in which case river one infidel history history bottom I saw once an interest explanation as to perhaps why that would be the reason for for some people that have the custom that women do not wash my macaroni yeah the thus far team are quite particular with the mitzvot of my mahoning which is washing before the break of Mazzone and I don't not aware of their making a distinction between men or women you know if you do it you do it yeah men or women there are so much Ozzy don't do it at all not for women or from it no do I not going at all and the reason for this is even though it says my MA her name haha my Mahoney is an obligation the this custom is based on the the pinion of toast vote in the tomorrow who says but the obligation for washing was only because there might be very specially veraleen saltador person had during the meal and and and if he if he touched his eyes with that salt it could be dangerous so he washes his his fingers before doing that to avoid the danger another reason is because in the old days people would eat with their fingers and therefore to bench with greasy fingers is disrespectful but nowadays when we eat with eating implements your hands remain clean so you could so those who have the custom not to debate to wash my mouth on him at all neither women or men why can we not just watch regularly open the sink while doing the cup you can do it in the sink is what I'm really yeah columns and nursing homes and huh yeah there are so so the one costume is justifiable they say it's obligatory and there's no signal to an environment the other is also understandable it's not obligatory neither from an orphan women but there is a custom among certain groups who have the men do in the women don't and that's problematic that doesn't make sense we might have shocked if there's a heel there's no difference we men women and if there's not a heel then this would but y menya and women know so I heard once an interesting explanation is based on this that my Mahara name is a din in Britain's amazon you're supposed to wash before big as a Muslim so there's a doubt whether you really have to wash or not based on toast us it might not be wrong it nowadays so if you're going to do it in a way arguably speaking it's really a home run so since its a home run its really only relevant to be mocked me or for men who seems to write a bit of muslin is the ricer but for women its door opponent you could be make oh yeah you could you can be lenient I'm throwing in Hebrew words I don't know how many of you are familiar Rosa music yeah what's an interesting explanation yeah that's a bad Sam it's it's a Suffolk nowadays where they have to wash or not and the washing of macaroni was associated with bared amazon in which case for men it's the rice a team are clear for women it's 20 Barnaby may kill some n wash and women don't again but nice people in a tensioning they need to own shoulders I don't I think most people who do it wash you know any time for bait amazon whether it's during the week or Shabbat washing my money many ways drive on it anyways it's it's really draw a bunny so how'd they get around that it was the right sir yeah I see what you're saying other words is there scenario where you have a tour Mitzvah which is not yeah I mean you could have a scenario where there's a tour mitzvah but it's not done because the / it's not applicable nowadays right so theory even though it's de Raisa theoretically if it were to rise' yeah but the reasons for it are not applicable then then it's just rest rice it doesn't mean it wouldn't be done but in any case it you're right it is is rabbinic Mitzvah this my mahoney their reason why we do three and three for bread and then just a spiritual wash when you wake up in the mornings 121 why is there a difference like what do you know yeah i mean the the Gomorrah discuss is the way you should wash when waking up in the morning three times alternately from hand to hand as being what's necessary to get rid of the the rua raw the evil spirit that's resting on a person's hands as a result of sleeping and undergoing a type of partial death yeah so that the washing for bread is really not associated with that the Washington bread is a symbolic remembrance of the extra purity of the person would have to maintain if he was eating bread that was truma so it's kind of a it's kind of a remote decree but in any case it's more like totaling in a mikveh it's more like it's an issue of tahara yes not an issue of of you know of Rua and therefore the distinction is made in the morning when you're washing it off the roof ah it's alternately it has to be done that way the other way doesn't get rid of the rock rah but when you're washing for food for bread for example it's really it's it's it's a remembrance of terrace and then people would have to be pure when they ate Kairos which would mean like immersing in a mikveh so there the idea it's not done alternately it's done one two three as you'd like that tobler the mikvah for example my mahoning doesn't require a phoneme really is enough just to wash underneath the tap make sure your hands are clean that's really what it's all that's what about some people are careful to do it with with Ackley but as far as i remember that's not a whole logic requirement I said anything about when you're washing the more water use and then I personally felt so good for my Mahoney remain know for next time to time for just washing for bread pull the whole cup and I put the whole cup of one aim yeah yeah do it again yeah the truth yeah yeah it should be it's good to have a full cup and the truth is if you have a full cup it doesn't even have to be twice or three times it could be once or twice to full cups oh oh yeah okay that's more than necessary really don't understand the Queen if the reason on the doing and I unless I as long as you're paying for the water that's fine but ya know sometimes you find people they they turn on the tap and they're just like they let run and they go but then they get it wrong for the males running running running that's a waste of its always the water you know if the reason is that was that's to do the hi genes we have clean hands what case you're talking about now like mine afraid oh yeah why not just use all day from water on the time so was it so so so so in terms of the whole offer right which is based on uncleanliness it would be enough just to just to just to run it under the tap or even dip it in a little bit of water and clean your hands that's enough that's all you're asking why in addition you would need in mind rouhani maclee so it might be based I don't remember clearly enough I I think I seem to recall that there is something mentioned about ideally using a CLE for my Mahoney but it not being required how logically what would the reason be you know I'm not sure maybe there's some I'll be the Kabbalah maybe according to Kabbalah there's some spiritual component to it as well which would work are the Clio I don't remember but yeah but you know there are people but even if it's done with a clean it doesn't have to be a full do that that's the point just enough that they'd be from a CLE okay so that in the morning the wrong that has to be a CLE that's Bickley does this is mr. abundant yes so before they came up with this slide this rule how do you mean what do people do well they always doing it like what people wake up every morning / crusted on that yeah I never I never thought about that that's a good like what do people it is rabbinic washing in the morning is rabbinic it's not like a tour requirement like 25 thousand off years yeah wake up in the morning just even today maybe they wash yeah maybe they washed but there was no obligation maybe it was a practice that people had but they didn't maybe they did ablutions maybe they totaled in a mikveh I don't know that's what he was just saying something like that but rule has roof I mean come on the higher the soul the you know you could offer me a second Yaakov do about Nagel vesser they did because I kept all the missiles so then it would have been a custom and cloudy throw throughout the ages but it wasn't a requirement oh the rabbi's came and made at a requirement they made it a requirement primarily out of concerned that it was dangerous was dangerous to one's health other reasons were given as well that it's like you're inaugurating earlier like an you're renewing yourself 4444 the day's activities another example is like the Coen go to the code the code name would wash their hands before we being aged in the sample service so we wash our hands and because we are like Coney min the world which is like the temple of God but but the primary reason is is because of Saqqara so what were they doing good question but what does it remain on the fingers the the Rua is really in the entire body the you know the idea according to the Tsar is that when the person goes to sleep the soul loosens from the body that results in a type of spiritual vacuum which becomes occupied by negative spiritual forces associated with the dark side and death when the soul returns to the body it pushes that invasive power out which causes it to go to the extremities of the body and it focuses primarily in the extremities of the body in the hands because the hands are instruments of activity and these impure forces are looking to use our activities during the way during the day as proliferating the fat the power of impurity throughout the world and that's why they cling to the hands that's the idea and and as these instruments activities of ours which would be full of impurity would be involved with the different things that we do during the day we'd actually be causing the impurity to proliferate throughout the world as we what the idea is that as you wash it becomes diminished and it jumps from hand to hand in hand and each time diminishing until by at least six times many three times each it's totally it's totally removed are we more physical than spiritual in the morning week oh I like the second week of this little more physical like our sauvies to like just in a way like and therefore it's harder for us to wake up and you're saying that would be an explanation for this watching me or you're just saying in general general it is because it's just hard like it's hard for me to wake up and I feel like I'm just so on your face of your own takes a while sure the body is literally you know base literally very dormant during sleep and there for you when the soul kind of returns the body still is kind of meshed in in it in the chains of slumber and sleep and physicality it's certainly true cuz you know maybe going abroad without the key like one and into things so you know there are details about the law and just like you need a CLE you also do what's called a co-op gavra Clark alpha means it has to come through the force of a person so so when you put that's one of the event that's one of the reasons why I have to put in a clean now that it's in the CLE it's poured by the human influence of pouring right but if you have a running tab yeah and you're going like this so arguably you're you're lacking the component of Cobra so what's suggested in that case is what he was just saying that you turn on and off the tab is yes if you yes because the tap is a CLE the tap the tab is a vessel and meaning the pipe the pipe is vessel and when you go like this you're arguably it's like it's like pouring it's tantamount recording yeah so you know that's often yeah yeah it happens happens you're an airport hotel room and sometimes the hotels have glasses it yeah that's a like jet turn on and off each time is like pouring so more though and then when you have puppet and what a person does it that way ideally he should he should wash again when he has an opportunity because that might not be the best way of doing it but only the fact that way if you got another choice yeah I'm gonna have to break so you guys can get to next class tomorrow we'll continue