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Yoreh De’ah 179:1-4. Prohibitions of Divination, Astrology, Omens, Superstition, Sorcery · SHULCHAN ARUCH YOMI: Own the Halacha in 25 minutes a day!

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  OK, good morning. We are continuing with your
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  idea, Kuf I in Tet. Now we're going to be discussing
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  Hilkos mahonen Umekhashif. OK, just one quick thing.
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  Yesterday we spoke about Kukusa gleam, if it applies to all
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  gleam or only of the Abbottizara.
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  So the DIT as far as I know, everyone agrees it refers to all
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  non Jews as long as you're non Jewish.
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  Has nothing to do with Ogde Abbottizar Dafka and what was
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  quoted Dexter Moshe Askar was he pointed out the HIDA agrees with
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  that. He was just pointing out don't
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  think dressing like a Muslim is a problem.
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  You're allowed to dress. That's that's certainly not an
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  issue unless it could be an issue.
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  If there's something a specific unique dress that they're doing
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  which is rooted in Pritzus, it won't be rooted in Avarizara
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  because they're not Avarizara, but it could still apply to
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  Yushima Alien theoretically, but usually not.
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  OK, fine. We're going to start with Simon
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  Kufa in Ted, which is Shaloh Lakhashev, La Onene Ulenachesh,
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  just to throw out a few words out there for you.
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  Ring a bell? It's district's parsha.
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  It's good to know what's what. There's a few different subtle
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  differences. We're going to be discussing
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  following superstition, sorcery, witchcraft, divination,
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  incantations using omens and sticks.
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  That's the cosine ksamium and the parsha.
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  Consulting the dead then depends how sorcery astrology acting on
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  my own. My own name has to do with the
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  times. So it depends again, all these
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  things have slightly different interpretations in the Gemara,
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  such as Sanhedrin, Sanhje or just in the Mafarshi.
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  Even animal charmers is is there.
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  So here let's start. Olive EIN Shoalin, the khosim,
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  the ko khaveem villo, the goralot.
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  So we don't ask on any of these things.
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  We do not consult to find out how I should behave.
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  Now let me finish reading the Rama and then we'll take a step
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  back. What does it mean exactly, EIN
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  Shoalim? So the Rama writes Haggah now
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  just so that's stars, astrology or making some kind of acting on
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  some kind of a lottery horoscopes.
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  OK, So it depends. All right, So all these things
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  can be right. So we're going to learn a little
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  bit of details, which we'll see where it's on Mahloka and what
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  makes it clearly us. Sarah mother Haggah Mishum Shane
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  Amar Tamim tiya IM Hasham Alokaka and that's in Istvik's
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  parsa. We have to follow God and
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  believe in a kaddishpark who trust in Him and have a simple.
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  Amuna is often the best. Of course there's what to study,
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  but sometimes the simple is even better.
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  Depends. OK, now, So what you see over
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  here is there is a mitzvah assay of Tamim Tia, right?
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  Whether it's one of the 613 or not.
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  I did not look up. But that's not the point.
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  It's still is on the level of dereissa mitzvah sauce, miko
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  chicane de asur lisho mikosumim umenashim umekashifim to to
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  consult or to act based on sticks, some kind of stick
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  divination. Then there's a couple of
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  different explanations. And the mafarshim, what exactly
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  was done? I'm not quite.
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  I don't know if anyone really knows Umanashkim is right, some
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  kind of divination acting based on what's going to be or what
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  happened. We'll see.
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  Oh, and and using witchcraft, usually with words or potions or
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  acts, whatever. So anyways, but these are
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  lobbying in the in the Tara with the.
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  I'm not sure what you mean by that.
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  He'll explain to me later if you don't mind, or you can post it.
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  So, but the general rule is in order to be to be to to violate
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  a love, you have to in general for most things.
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  Again, it depends. We're going to see each case in
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  durational meeting each case and it's on its own right there show
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  up OB and Doni. But in general, if you're going
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  to be act, if you're going to consult and act, then then
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  that's going to be a love. If you're going to act based on
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  these signs or omens or whatever it is, then you violate the
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  love. If you're just asking the
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  question, consulting what's going to be in the future.
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  So then generally it's not a love in general.
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  It is only going to be a bittel of Tamim Tia, imasham Alokhra.
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  And the Shah kind of says that if you look at that, yeah,
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  that's that's just for consulting verbal.
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  But if you're going to act on it.
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  So then again, it really depends on you have to sit down and work
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  out each specific case and does it follow, you know, fall under
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  OV you don't need does it fall under my own name, Menachesh and
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  you act on someone else's masks or if you perform a masks and
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  you act on it is the OR either one?
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  It depends what you're doing. Generally it means you're acting
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  based on what was done. But again, it's depends on how
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  you explain the pasuk. What a what a what actual a Co
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  Same is in the in the pasuk. So really a little bit of a Gray
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  area among the different opinions in the post game.
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  What else do we need to add? So the shock points out though,
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  to ask asur lakhola leashold bekosmi makashifim to ask and
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  not you're not acting on it, you're asking so what's going to
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  be or for a fua, if you're doing it through impure means, Rua
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  khatuma. So then for a Khola, he says,
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  then he quotes a Mahoga, but he says bottom line, it is Asur,
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  the Mahershal, the Basio SE, the Zor.
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  They all say it's an Isrgardo for Ecola, even for Sakanas AVR.
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  But as we're going to see, I'll tell you now, we're going to see
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  it again anytime. It's a case of Pikua nefesh for
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  Ecola. Everything is mutter except for
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  the big three that we we know. But otherwise doing any kind of
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  any kind of Nicholas whatsoever is going to be mutter 100%.
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  You can use the words lekhadhila if it's a khol epico Akhenafish,
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  in other words, OK, Anyways, the general you know, sewed over
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  here again is that we should always follow Hashem and ruach
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  tehara, ruach kodesh navua. All that is OK.
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  We're gonna see that that's makes a big difference and not
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  to follow what's called ruach hatuma, the sitra akhara.
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  Evil spirits or some know it as the dark side.
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  OK, let's can. Let's continue with bass.
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  See if bass OK Nagu Shane Machilin, Boscheni, Veravi.
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  There's a minhag out there that we don't start anything.
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  Don't start a business, don't start something on Mondays and
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  Wednesdays. Venos in Nashim Alabama Miloi
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  Halavana and you only get married, you strive to get
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  married is really what the Minogue is.
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  You have a preference, right? All these things we're going to
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  see a little bit more inside. We will see a little bit more
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  inside that using something. It's a little bit of a minor
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  different, a subtle difference distinction that doing something
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  as a semen as a sign is a mutter.
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  But when you're doing something with absolute confidence or
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  determination, you're acting this way or not acting in a
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  certain way because you believe in the thing that can very well
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  be an Ester Dereisa. Certainly to say it than to do
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  it. That would for sure be an Ester
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  Dereisa, in general, if you're doing something because of
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  something and you believe in it and and but if you're just doing
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  it as it's a, it's likely to work out better.
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  It's a it's a good sign and then you act on it.
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  So that is mutter better to not say it verbally.
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  It makes it even cleaner. OK, but but that that is
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  permitted. And Taz points out on what's so
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  bad about Mondays and Wednesdays because stars are created on
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  those days. But the stars that in astrology
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  give it to you, what's it called?
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  It's, it's, it's, it's not a good time.
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  And the more difficult stars denium, and it's more more
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  likely for your business not to succeed.
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  So it's fine. You're allowed to choose, you
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  know, the season or the day that's likely to be more
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  successful than the other day. In fact, keep reading.
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  The Haggar writes. It's good to Start learning on
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  rush Kodesh start something new and learning Ki alpha piche
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  nikhush yes, Simon. It's not nikhush you can learn
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  anytime, but it's a Simon. It's it's more, it's more
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  misugal to have more Hazlaka. Again, you're not relying on it
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  and you're not saying you're not.
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  You're for sure not going to learn, but you'd rather start
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  and aim. Schedule it accordingly.
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  Bimash right. And if you can't have the
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  Hassana on the 15th of the month, say you'll do it any
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  other time. But if you're, if you make such
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  a big deal about it that it could only be at that time and
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  you say so verbally, that may be in a certain direction.
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  Bimasha de Mudesh, you know that there's a certain day or a time
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  where it's actually the Mazel's very bad the law you smoke
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  holiday. So then don't start it then
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  because you don't want to rely on a miracle that the business
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  will be successful for you. Ella Shaheen lakhor al zemi shum
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  Tamim Tia but don't overly rely on it.
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  Don't overly talk about it. Don't overly and look for all
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  these different. You should not look for all the
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  different days that are better and worse because that violates
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  bital Tamim tihia, whether it's literal or it's just the spirit
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  of the law. OK, fine, now let's read gimel.
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  This is important continuation save gimel PT nafla MIP.
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  If a person's eating and a piece of bread falls out of his mouth
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  to the floor, and then he says, look, it fell to the floor from
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  my mouth. Oh, makhli miyadi or he says,
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  and all this is you noticed, it's Omer.
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  It's all he says, the stick came fell from my hand.
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  Oh, beni kareli, miya karai, my son's calling me from behind me.
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  Or here it's the deer. Some of us are more familiar
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  with the black cat, but here or a cat here it's a deer that
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  passes in front of me or stops me.
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  But in the road, OSHA avr nakash MI mino or on the side on the
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  right side the snake passes by you or a fox from your left
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  side. If a person says look, because
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  of one of these, he verbalizes because of one of these things
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  happen. Then again, it's a question if
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  it's you have to verbalize it or not.
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  But we'll see. We'll see in a moment.
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  So you verbalize that look because of this thing happened,
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  therefore I'm going to act upon it.
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  Nikhush. That's what Nikhush is.
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  Shalo, let's say la dera. OK, this happened.
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  So I'm not going on the road today.
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  I'm going to stay home. I'll go to another day.
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  Oh, Shalo, I'm not starting a business because of these things
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  happened to me or whatever. Some kind of an animal, a bird,
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  stars, whatever. You saw a star shooting star.
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  This one is here right now, right?
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  That's part of my own name. The stars in the Sky's
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  astrology. You or if someone wants to pay
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  you and he wants to collect or you owe somebody money or
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  whatever it is he you want to be.
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  So he says fine, but don't come to me in the morning.
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  Don't come to me Mozi Shabbos. Don't come to me Mozi
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  Rashkhodesh, come to me any other time.
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  So all these cases, all these cases are going to be aser.
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  I'll just tell you. Or you hear a rooster.
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  What's the word? Crowing, Crowing.
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  Whatever the crowing, whatever the root, whoever the
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  appropriate word is, he starts making a noise like a Raven.
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  He's not. It doesn't sound like a rooster.
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  He sounds like a Raven. Very unusual.
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  Very unusual. Return.
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  A Golitz, oshakara, katar, a gol, or a female makes the sound
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  of a male of a rooster, which is very unusual.
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  Any of these things a little scary for you?
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  It's unusual to see a change in Teva Usser.
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  It's Usser to act on any of these things because not to go,
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  not to go somewhere, not to start something or to to act or
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  to shat this chicken to do any of these things.
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  You said it and then you did it. All of these things are in the
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  violation haggah yesh omrim no haggah, writes in Ana Omer Hatam
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  Lama. He tells someone here go shack
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  the chicken, but he doesn't tell him why.
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  He doesn't leave out because he was Karachi orevor, because he
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  was Karachi eternago. He didn't specify the reason.
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  So then El Omer Stam, he just says, Stam, go shack it shaktu.
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  I turn the golit zo muta and that's the MENA writes.
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  As long as you don't specify the reason and cold chicane, there's
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  more opinionists. As long as you don't, you don't
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  say it, you just do it. Doing it for sure is probably
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  not a problem, at least according to Mani Ricchoni, and
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  but saying it, but don't saying the reason for it.
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  Well, the Pranagulla is really not saying the reason.
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  What you can't say PTNFLMEP, that's already the reason, but
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  but you can say OK, you know, today I'm not going to go to
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  work and you know, it's in your mind why it happened.
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  So then certainly that that's what the Rahman says.
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  It's monter. Now not everyone agrees the taz
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  is a little is more machmer. This is the reason why it's OK.
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  Normally, even if you don't you you can't say it at all.
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  Even if you leave out the reason he believes it's still a
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  problem, the reason why the case of the bird is OK or the the
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  rooster is because there's a Chinoy in Teva and therefore
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  he's more nervous and more scared.
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  It's more different than than normal, right?
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  The piece Que Chuva points out in Gilmo.
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  As long as you don't say anything, then for sure it's
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  going to be mutter, right? And if everyone is nervous, you
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  know, you're allowed to listen. You know, if everyone thinks
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  it's a bad idea, you can take everyone's advice.
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  Just don't talk about it and then that'll for sure be OK.
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  Let's see, should we mention it right now?
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  Really interesting. I think we can just mention the
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  case of Yonatan and Eliezer. So they both in the Sukim in
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  Tanakh or in Tanakh, right? They both use a case of well, if
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  this is going to happen, then I'm going to act accordingly.
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  So the Gemara says it's us, Sir, right.
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  So the Rambam quotes the Gemara and says that's, that's exactly
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  what they mamash violated the Issa de reisa Voltanachesh.
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  So the rivet over there, this is Novartisara Yidalov, very good
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  out. So the Ryvid says, so according
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  to the Rambam, Eliezer and Yonatan deserved Malchus because
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  they did love to Nakhesh. And the the Ryvid says how dare
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  he say that these Sadiqim did and Isidar Isa.
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  And it's one of the interesting places where the Ryvid uses very
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  strong language against the Rambam.
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  If anyone wants to send me a list of them, that'd be
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  interesting. But every so often, so he says
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  either Rambam deserves to have, I don't know, balls of fire or
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  just a Makos of fire on his face for saying such horrible things
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  and getting the the shot of the Gemara wrong.
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  Really the the Gemara was saying it's not a good idea, but it
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  wasn't us. What may have been mutters
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  because either they didn't rely on it at 100%.
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  It was just as a Simon, you know, using good nature, you
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  know, does she have behave accordingly or there's also
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  upshot. If you set up, we're going to
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  see this. If you set up the Simon ahead of
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  time, not afterwards, but you say ahead of time that this is
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  what I'm going to do. There's an opinion that says
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  that's 100% much right. And does anybody defend the
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  Rambo? Oh, I don't know.
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  I mean, I mean, no, I didn't see that.
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  So that's so that's about Eliezer in in Natan.
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  Was that mutter or not? Yeah, we're going to have also,
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  I think we're going to get there and then we're going to finish
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  the beer Hagrah. Very interesting Beer Hagrah in
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  yer Allah. Yeah, see it inside.
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  It's interesting. It's another place where the he
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  goes against the Rambam and he says because of his philosophy,
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  everybody had disagreed with disagrees with the Rambam.
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  And the Rambam went off to Derek a little bit in his shot in
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  halacha and shot in in, in in Tyra because he got badly
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  influenced from the philosophers.
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  So here, this is one of the interesting pieces if you want
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  to read where the grad goes against the Rambam.
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  But just it's just very interesting how even though many
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  Vishoni Macroni here and there have tremendous criticism of the
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  Rambam, the Rambam still stays as the basically number one in
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  halafa #1 in learning. And anyways, with the, what's it
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  called, the grasses, you should follow the Bali Emis or Bali
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  Kabala, the things that are not so understood 'cause we're about
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  to see there's. Loch, I was having incantations.
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  Is there anything to it or not? Yudhalov.
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  Sifkaten. Yudhalov.
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  It's actually we're about to get there.
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  It's in Siftalid. That's where it is.
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  OK, let's read Siftalid and then finish up.
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  Buy it. Buy it.
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  Tinok V Isha. Those three things, right?
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  Person builds a house. A person has a baby born to his
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  wife or he gets married. Any one of these alpha piche E
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  nakash. Yeesh, Simon.
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  So there's no nikhush to say anyone.
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  Anytime one of these things happen, it's supposed to be a
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  good. I don't know.
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  Good luck. Good, Simon, that things are
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  going to go well for him especially.
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  Yeah, it is. Exactly.
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  It's his Monto. So it's a hopefully it's his
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  Mazzalto, the Haggad continues. Imetzliah, Hakarze, shalosh,
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  Pami Malo really depends. And it's from the DeMar.
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  It really depends if you're Matsliah Hirashi, I think if
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  you're Matsliah or not. And then if you are Matsliah,
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  continue. If you're not Matsliah, don't.
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  But anyways, there's three types of Matsla.
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  I have to yeah, I believe so. Yeah.
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  Or yeah, anyways, but whatever it is, you see it's going well
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  for you, but and if you see it's going bad for you, then you
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  should stop The talis points out.
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  OK, Vichen vichen mutter lomar Latino pesocli pzukek.
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  And so the Rama continues. You're allowed to ask a child
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  tell me what you're learning and based on that, you're going to
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  follow what it says. All right, we also know of the
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  ghoral Hagrah, you know, you open up the your tanah and you
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  see where it lands out. All right, not so questioned how
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  to do it, but OK, the point is the so it's different things
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  like this. Some say is mutter you've seen
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  the Gemara Soglib Sukkah many times.
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  So the question is how far do you take Soglib Sukkah?
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  Do you rely on it 100% or do you rely on it just as a seaman?
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  If it's just this Simon that OK, maybe I'll listen to what he
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  said, maybe not. If it's convenient, I will.
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  If it seems crazy, I won't. So if you take it as a Simon, so
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  then everyone says it's mutter. If you interpret it the Gemara
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  that's saying even it could be that you rely 100% on it, it
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  could still be mutter and not nikhush because you're using
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  ruah tahara as as ties in the shaft, right?
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  It's cayenne novua. I think it's in the in the
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  shaft. But anyways, it's cayenne novua
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  when you are using suklipsukev, yeh omrim de Adam, yeh omrim de
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  Adam motar Las sotlas simandevar shevolati commotion ASA eliezer.
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  So the Rama says, some say it's Smutter if you do it in advance,
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  Viesh Ostrein, and some say it's Usser if you do it even if you
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  do it in advance. The holy, the tomb, the Vitea
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  Bashem Hassid is so Vive anyway. But really, the ideal thing is
• 23:36
  to believe in Ruach Tahara, to believe in a Kurish sparkle.
• 23:41
  Let's see. Anything else I want to say real
• 23:42
  quick before we forget. So we basically said the GRAS
• 23:49
  has a nice distinction between the two opinions over here, the
• 23:52
  round bum versus most opinions this Maharashi that it depends
• 23:59
  how much you rely on it, if it makes it us or not.
• 24:05
  Yeah, I think we basically said it fine.
• 24:07
  We're going to continue with hey, fine.
• 24:09
  We'll continue with Hey tomorrow.