Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin: A Kabbalistic Approach

So we went through about 12 sugitles in today's DV, but we're going to go back in the raid to what we began yesterday and that is part two of the overview of Mutan. Once again, yesterday's raid was just setting up a little bit the related to nothing fancy. Just going through the basics, sheba basics. So, let's just over what we talked a little bit about yesterday. Everyone knows that there's a meaning in claustro that many people have and that is to wear two pairs of film what's known as rashi and raenutan fill respectively. There's also a mill to wear one period filling and that would be rash. So the yidden that we're one period fill or wear rashi there are people that wear a second period filling that second period filling is what's known as raenut phil. What exactly is Rashi and Rabutan fillins that we spoke about yesterday? It's really two peers of fillin that are made in different ways. One following of Rashi, the other one following Absaken. Rashi and Raen Utam respectively are both mentioned on the same exact. It's six lines from the bottom. It's a very short albeit cryptic bryer. And because there was some ambiguit over there what emerged was these two gracitas in terms of how to understand the hence the two pairs that the bras was discussing how exactly a sipher is supposed to be mad the four paras infill. So we know the four paras are the four times that mentions the mitzvah of the two times in the end. And then the two times in par where it says and then again in par where it says which concludes with the but the Bryce is discussing what exactly is the how are you supposed to order it says to Bryce the way you're supposed to do it is you're supposed to on the right side on the left side as there's a price that said it literally just the opposite and says like is it my right or is it your right but from the standpoint of the right of the k someone who would be looking at that fill or looking at someone that's wearing that fillin. So if you're reading right to left it's what the means to say is that going from right to left is to the far right then comes then comes and then comes what does the mean when it says the time of the bry was making in the four par and he was discussing the two that are to the right and the two that are to the left. So, as it relates to the two to the right, going from right to left, it's as it relates to the two to the left going from right to left, it's going to be but really it's one continuum. It's and it's says it's prepared in the way that it's written in the so the order of these four paras are as such and that's the way they're supposed to be written and that's the way they're supposed to be placed in the tom had a different understanding of the ram said that what the means to say is that if you're going from right to left kesh is on the far Right. And is immediately to its left means that if you're going from the left to right, you're going to have to the far left and is going to be to its right, which means it's going to be and then you're going to have said the Bryce is more mash like me. And the reason is because the bryer is bifurcating the right side of the tin, the left side of the tin, which alashi what you want to somehow single out the right half versus the left half. It's a little uh right the way I'm learning it, it's a little more giz. What the bride is saying is is that going from right to left it's and then going from left to right it's but either way according to it's not but rather it's and then and like famously said you're gonna have the both going to be so the two fillins that some people Here the rashi and fillins respectively. What's the is in the s of the paras is it or is it and then now the stakes are very high as it relates to this because the very next said what that means but according to it means any type of if you're going to mix any one of the paras with another Doesn't matter if it's an outer with an inner, an inner with an inner, an outer with an outer. In all situations, it's going to be possible. Which means that you really really have to get this right. But the bottom line is these are the two pairs of it says that the in other words the is like it's also and is like stating that someone that's how should he do it that's a long try to put them both on at the same time right but two pairs of twillin if it's hard for you to do that your is too big do one after the other. Either you can do one and then immediately the other you'll be eat both pairs of throne with the same or you dab with one and afterwards you put on the second and if you can do that is like so that's what you're supposed to with and then afterwards you're going to put on we mention that I don't understand it sounds like from that we pin like we asking like if that's the case why here did the feel that should be there's so many there's so many that we don't pass and like and there's no mention anywhere of being so if that's the case why is it right why is it that punked here this somehow the that should be careful and be sensitive and he should try to be this and the way the is with a pump and that is he told this is there's another it's also the sh is should the parishes be or should they be standing or should they be lying flat is standing is that's supposed to be lying flat. We pas like Rashi and the does not mention any about it should be and he should make sure that it's going to be and what's the reason because as much as this raen and everybody knows but at the same time we don't ask him like and if we don't pass him like so he said Why is it when it came to this is it is it suddenly different told him the reason is is because this raenutam was really an old musenut notes this was an old old and is not just butenutam really has many many and it's for that reason this is not an ordinary and because it's not an ordinary here there was a sensitivity ready to go and to be for this meaning this has so much ammunition supporting it that the should be sensitive to this idea. Now the chuva from is very short. We said it several lines we will mark it a little bit again it's all app to what it is that is saying but we mentioned from infos the third in so right in the beginning he talked about this in he has a very comprehensive chuv on this topic and one of the things he does like no one else was able to do is he's catalog all the shittas on one side of the spectrum on the other and as it relates to rashi he mentioned that it's rashi and the ramen to the It's the rift of the bottom line is there's so many and that's really where the is coming from. We mentioned that there's a place already quotes the last that seems very much to say Rashi and then there's the infamous that the rivet brings in an art that the isim under says that I saw different in different places and he quotes one of the places and that is that says in kachim that what that the are supposed to be the which is And by the way, we'll see soon that already quoted this shi but the bottom line is there that seems to say the on the one hand and I have the shami on the other hand we added to this that in so in one of these shas that came literally so the was told that it's relates to this shil No. So if you have a literally half of the in the on one end, half of the on the other hand and you have already between braces without a clear and if you have already as it relates to the so this is that when you have a situation like this you're forced to say that should be not but as in the commentary on this is in this is he brings the question that the asked again is discussed in this is in but he brings this question that the asked and he brings tonight and he says that I want to suggest another mahalak and this is already based on the world of so obviously this is way way way way above my pay grade but at the same time just uh to get a little bit of a sense of what's going on and that is the benes in his so this is in pares he talks about and he says as follows. Back in the day used to think that is like whoever is right is right. Whoever is wrong is wrong. that came to and he was in the name of that really both are MS and that this is really a completely different and that a person has to a person has to put on both fears at film. In fact, that result said that going back to was already wearing two pairs of fillin of soil was wearing two pairs of now. What were these two pairs of fill? I was skipping a little bit. One of them was as far as and the other one was the other person should hold both of the fill in his hand at the same time. You should put them on your arm at the same time and you should supposed to put them on. Either way, the Beneskai goes and he's very very much based on based on this that they were from and that is that really this is a very different type of usually you have a one person is right and one person is wrong and just to be clear even though you find an idea of but means one person is right one person is wrong but on some Right. What's the classic example of when the Gmorra says so the Gmorra says that there was they couldn't figure it out until a bas came out and said right so the was said in the we know that if somebody would be right assuming he violated some that has a That's above our pay grade. But the bottom line is when it comes to this result, this is a real that really was being one type of was being another type of he's supposed to wear both. And these two has nothing to do with it was confusion. Somehow mysteriously the forgot exactly how supposed to be. But literally going all the way back then the island was always wearing the was always wearing two pairs of and then the continues and he says if a person is going to only wear so said of course you have to take a just when you're supposed to make it but it comes this is the because the is The bottom line is bottom line is the said that said that a person has to wear two pairs of you have to wear Rashid fill in and Tom fill in not because there's a suffici right or Tom's Because they were already wearing two pairs of fillin because was not to wear one pair. It's to wear two pairs. We got it all wrong. It's to wear two pairs, right? Just like everybody understands, you have to have a shy and you have to have a in the same vein. You're supposed to understand you have to have a rash. You have to have it's not one and one. It's supposed to be two shy and it's supposed to be two. One of the greatest cabalistic marists to this Indian is a safer that's called Matsas Shimurim. The author of the Mats Shimurim was the great Makob Rabnas Shapiro. Not to be confused with the Malamas Shapiro was ashi. He was a shad that eventually made his rounds around Europe. We spoke about this when we went through the he wrote another called the hammer where he railed against the Italian Jews that were misal. So he was the one that came out very very very shar against it. He was a grace of Makobel and in a say from Matashimurum he has about 50 pages about fillain specifically and he said something very very shar he said somebody that doesn't wear he's a man and if a person goes through his life without wearing he's going to go up to say you never put on what I wear but you didn't put on and if someone doesn't also wear fillin he's mishad for extra credit if you take a look in his he brings that said that if somebody doesn't wear he's very upset he said there was so many that was they live their whole lives they never put on how could you say something like that being so many this is way way above my pay grade and beyond the scope of this share but the bottom line is it's mur here in Kabala that and it's not who's better who got it right and not just every right and and every this is a whole different right this is because both of them were being worn already going back to the times of it's interesting that Margolus in his on. So he brings different on and almost all his mar are in because really in nigla there's the very very short cryptic price six lines from the bottom but he brings a lot of different I was just going through a little bit just to get a little bit of a sense of what's going on just like mention a few the inious this is so the zy brings the Indian that we in today's that it says what did the say so he says what's the plemius of that Indian he said the pmius of the Indian is that we know fillin has four paras and the four par of the connected the four of the one parish is the y the other one is the he the other is the and the other one is the he so the four parach to the four that make up the and that's the going to see the ones that see are going to see they see the says because the four parach goes and explains it a little bit the first parish which is kadesly called the that is the is the first of all the spheres and all the right that's the that's the par of then he goes on that's the then he goes That's the And finally the train citrine again above my pay grade but the bottom line is says desire very very clear that is referring to the fact that the four parishes to the v and he goes on to explain what's one two three and four and it's mafurish it's kadeshly That's that's the first and then there's and then learning that it's supposed to be this is also again it's discussing the same of the four paras and then says that is quoted in the tune is because if you understand the of the formulation of the and the different why when you write the how you supposed to do it you're supposed to do it. So we have here just mentioning one on each side. is many it's like it's already it's supposed to be one more this is the EU Right. Skipped a very important word. So delay. How's the supposed to be? It's supposed to be true in the next world. begin but it's written and that's the and that's a reference to the four not in this world. So this seems to be making sh the seems to be saying there's some element of on the one hand it's true it's consider the way has it on the other hand there's an Indian which is the way raen had it what's the in this world it's supposed to be the way Rashi has it they seem to be steerous over here with a little bit of a maybe a mahik in this which seems to say that but the steers are a good thing because that's what said was you have to wear both. So if you have a zeresh that says rashi and you have a zeresh that says that's exactly what we're trying to find because we're trying to find one because the said in the world of cabala in the world of nister in the world of already was wearing two pairs of this is this Indian that you find already in cabala that the benes brings the great makob brought that's already mour kadesh that the apparently wrote wrote a lot about and that is that really was already wearing two pairs of fillin and the surah ofin is by wearing two pairs of fillin says why is it that when it comes to over here this should be what about the other right we mentioned yesterday himself were he to put on today's villain would in his mind not be because is going to say why the par they're supposed to be right the irony of all ironies Tom couldn't use Tom but the bottom line is the bottom line is it's that is a very big to wear two pairs of fill in that was that this is a different type of this is not a where one person is right and one person is wrong this is a where both are right and Rashi was meal one type of fillin and rabbit was mala another type again this whole Indian is above my paper exactly how this works but either way says the shahua that when you understand that our pe this is the way it's supposed to be so it's why this would be treated differently by the and that's why in other words we have two why when it comes to this of the all of a sudden even though we don't pass But the already says we have the which is really a truth with said it's because this is it's not just there's so many and this braces and already got involved in so because that sheet is such a powerful sheet it's not something you could simply reject by saying that based on we don't pass in this way so therefore it's going to be out the second mahal is and that is it's based on that is such a big deal that even though you can't ask in that way when it comes to but at the same time because of the fact there's such an in I saw the in his very very first chuva so are called shim and in his very very first trua he talks about this also pretty comprehensively ly incidentally he quotes the shuv as well he brings that there was a that held that the shilu was written by you ever heard this raid so he says it's a very very big mistake that would be very himself was the one who wrote the shah to shay to try to get a what type of phone you're supposed to wear but he says it's a mistake it was another one of the balas whose name was and he was also known as Ishtam and that's why people confused him sometimes if your name was yakov and you were in Ishtam you would become known somehow as Raakovish is the most famous form but apparently there were others that also had that they was to that incredible title and the author was such a person but either way he says that says this is the one we don't mention yet there's another that says as it relates to only someone That's only he should do it. What does that mean? So says that develop. So being that we have a so if somebody decides that he wants to be it looks like why because it looks like you're such a meaning think about this guy right this guy already he keeps all theness he keeps all the he keeps every he's running out of things to do so he says you know what maybe there's a somewhere that we don't pos anyways cuz I want to show that I'm about someone's going to go ahead and do that and he's not holding them back. He's wearing a talis that doesn't really fit. I mean, pun intended, right? And as a result, he's misgivful. So, if it's consistent with your mahan life, then do it. If not, now then this is and the truth is this a big problem because not every person is holding on that. How many people are holding on that level? That's a huge level. Yet, to try to be of this. The most basic answer to this question is is that only someone that's should be meant if you're going to wear the two fillings on at the same time where it's nicker that you're wearing. If however you're going to put one period filling on at a time. So it's not if it's not but says at first glance it feels counterintuitive but if you think about it it's very intuitive and that is what's the is because why you oh BECAUSE YOU only do that if you're and to be clear even though this is not a regular that was the and already told them it's not a regular that we don't like and even though it's true said you can't but again only otherwise work on all that you for sure have to do and then come back to this and we'll talk that right but says that's only true if the reason you're putting in is because you know there's this other and you're a little bit misopic I don't know maybe that's really the right way and even though like maybe it's supposed to but once was that a person has to wear two types of and member that didn't like that says if somebody doesn't wear I don't then says that have to be to want to put I'm putting not because maybe I know I know but at the same time at the same time already said that in you have to wear two so what I'm just going to have to go ahead for that you don't have to be for to be for the suffic but to take on the world of the ger of for that you don't have to be a force and said once we had the world of we have so many that put on because of what was so at that point even if I want to put on because I'm more ner about the nidl I hold but maybe there's no anymore because it doesn't look necessarily like I'm someone that's worried about every suffix but it looks a looks like I maybe it doesn't look like a when I wear a bum spilling it does so the bottom line is it's that I'm violating any and it's for that reason it's going to be okay but the bottom line is that this would be a tremendous whether or not I'm being because or I'm being said this is a whole different Indian here you got to be oh it's very very different I'm not being because of a I'm being because of that's already very very different that doesn't fall into this of needing to be so the bottom line is what's the is that as it relates to the is we passing like rash again we passing like rash we passing like rash we passing like rash that's not negotiable at the Same time there is a which is not only and the uncharacteristically says that should be there's 9,000 that did not say that but when it came to this said yeah the question is why it's a very good question asked and we have two that come from one from the other one from the said it's based on the fact that it wasn't just for there was so many held that way and it's for That reason the felt that there's an Indian for to be for what was once upon a time a very very important even though the is like and but at the same time you can't neglect that hence should be the other is based on where said that already wore two pairs of fillin and it's not it was never it was always rashi and raenutam and rashi was being meal one type of fillin and raenutam was being maggala another type of film So there's a lot of directions that we can go in from here and maybe in the next few days we will but just one postcript to this and that is it's yoda that the vulgarian didn't wear to let's put them in the and it's a ya and the question is why so if you look in the back of the mserav have it on the side but the new ones have it in the back there's a called pphas mserav have some of it comes from his glove and from different what's known as the miserab they bring a few different anecdotes in terms of why the vilgoyan did not wear fill the most well-known is that one of the tid hagr said ostensibly it was rais that he heard said, "I heard from my the great he said I heard me that he once asked the vaguan why the guy doesn't wear." So the responded to that it sounds like from your Shiloh that you do wear and you're asking me why I don't. So he said why do you wearin? So I told him because I know there's two and I want to be the and based on that I wear a second. You would have to 64 pairs at Fin. And it's based on the fact that if you would go and do a how many there are in Finan there are 64 sheetas. This is sort of wellnown. What's a little less wellknown is what were the 64 shittas. The guy actually explained it. You ready? No. So you don't have to go through all 64 shittas. But there's a very very short way to do this and that is so we have the sedanas paras. We have the two shittas. We have rashi and rau time. Rashi learns says are the two ends but really there are two other we mentioned last night already the arrival with the rivet learned like that it's but at the same time he had it the way the rivet had it going right to left this is the k looking at the person wearing fillin it's on the far Right? Nobody had this then and then so it's the inverse of he has like but he flips everything right everything all four are in different places even the two are flipped and the two ends are flipped as well there's a fourth and that is the of the shimo the shimush that going from right to left it's volume one shimat 2 and kadesh four but either way They're going told that right off the bat it's not twoas. It's not but really what you're going to end up with is you're going to end up with four. Okay. Now if that's the case really in order to be all the different what you would have to do is you would have to with the four fillins and the shim respectively and you would have to wear each one with the pario standing and each one with the pario ling which means you're ready up to eight. So we saw a little bit of that in the but do you write it on the buser side of the cloth or do you write it on the side of the cloth which means if you want to be you'd have to take all eight of these fillins and you would have to do it one time he said you're ready up to 16 says right is the so that relate to So you would have to take all 16 of these fill in and write it twice. Once once like he end up with 64 zugas. So asked the very innocently, "How come the doesn't wear?" So why do you wear? What do you mean? So the goyan said, "Really? If you're going to go down this road, you're going to have to be all the different you're going to end up with 64 pairs of and then the told that at the end of the day we have a is like rashi and the riff so the go had the riff on rashi side the raan and being that's the way it is the and it's for that reason that I pass in the way I pass and by the way if you take a look at the goen in his right here so he brings a little bit of this pull them and he says the kashita going to the he was he had no ambiguities he didn't feel like I have to and it's for that reason the guy held 100% positivity but then asked him another he said that's the third that we mentioned the one inn He said over there that told the guy wrote you have to right with all the came along with that memo and the responded to he says I'm not He said somebody that wants to be and then he and he said and he says besides the way that is not the way I understand and this is what he told and the next line is said that told him that when he heard this line from the sounds like he was afraid to put it on at that point you don't put on he stopped putting on the now went and he said that told him that the emphasis is this between the and in terms of how to understand that line in the zya that and had like two responses and besides so again this is above my pay grade. But he said quote and the wants to be you know we've spoken over the years that there was a fundamental between the and had to understand the zire in terms of do you have to reconcile as best as possible the nista and the nigla or not right what's the classic example of that that you have to have scholars. based on every right. So every year on Shabas he has to have scholars and the go says no you don't have to have scholars says you have to have what kind of he said you have three sudas each you have two and you cut them each in half that's grow and based on that you end up with 12 halves and that's the we're talking about but that too if you look at all the they say that there was this fundamental between the go and the go that you have to figure out a way to make between the and the and the said no it's not something you have to do this is a different she Maybe this what this means. I have no idea. But here's the bottom line. The bottom line is did not wear a benu filling. He didn't wear a ben. Incidentally, there's another version. I'm sorry that of this story that told the guy that you know should I wear a Benu Thomas filling and he told the guy I I know the rabb doesn't wear a ben. I'm assuming the reason you don't wear a ben is because you wear f the whole day and being that you wear film the whole day. So for you to put on a benam fill it means you're going to have to be rash but I don't wear film the whole day. So for me maybe I should go ahead and I should wear a ben and the guy told why I don't wear a bam. He said the reason I don't wear a ben hotish with the fact that I wear it's a good but it's not because I wear filmed all day and he told him what we just mentioned but bottom line is the goyan didn't wear by the not wear and that means obviously he's being says that and the was definitely if there ever was one so the is not misspel from the right but that means that and the is that even though it's just but like told the child it's not just there's all these different no is like and if like is like and by the way just to speak this out a little bit shyer but what did the go tell what did the guy tell he said if I'm going to wear a thorn I have to wear 64 pairs of thorn what do you think the behud would have said if the go would have told the same they were contemporaries right They live they were mamish alive around the same time. So if the guy would have told I think the night would have told him he says no it's very different is not just another the other 62 that the other about and the sh of and the raashita these these areas that we don't pass in but every area in you're going to you're going to have 64 pits filling it up 19 muzas and 11 that's not to do that right but when it comes to this it's different but the wasn't from there the wasn't in the goyan's world is another that we don't ask like so if you want to be for this you have to be full again this is because everyone knows this anecdote with the what's the response to the going it's you can't compare being to the 62 other that told him to be that's as it relates to the nigler component but there's also a holistic component this said that to me I don't agree with the way that understood this whole inab and even that says what does this mean I have no idea he said but I'm not he says no if you want he had to be the that is what the such incidentally I'm pretty sure in the world of brisk they don't wear fillin for sure this is based on the brisk is wear ramblain this is already a whole different maybe we'll do a a rabbit bite on that This is already aesh but it has a from either way there's a lot more to talk about on this topic but we have to stop somewhere so we will stop