{"id":1262,"date":"2018-02-25T18:31:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T18:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:04:52","slug":"1262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"Shiur 02\/20\/18 – Beitza 31a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beitza 31a<\/span><\/p>\n

1- <\/span>We continued the Mishna that discusses the collecting of firewood for Yom Tov cooking and or heating. Only wood that has been prepared prior to Yom Tov can be used. So loose branches in one’s yard or field may not be \u2018prepared\u2019 in the user\u2019s mind for Yom Tov and therefore unusable. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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2- As mentioned last week, some say that the reason for the limitations on where the wood may be collected from is due to the concept of \u05de\u05e2\u05de\u05e8, gathering. The problem is the <\/span>\u05de\u05dc\u05d0\u05db\u05d4<\/span> \u00a0of <\/span>\u05de\u05e2\u05de\u05e8 <\/span><\/a>– the prohibition to collect fruits, vegetables, grass, twigs, and the like and creating a pile.<\/span><\/p>\n

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See here in the Alter Rebbe\u2019s Shulchan Aruch. 340, 15<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

3- Now see <\/span>here<\/span><\/a> where the Alter Rebbe brings the Gemara about collecting fruits that are strewn about in a yard. 335, 5. The rule is that although they may be collected one should not put them into a basket. \u2018As one would do during a weekday\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

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4- We mentioned the ancient Minhag of entertaining children on Simchas Torah by throwing apples for them to catch. <\/span><\/p>\n

The text we learnt was from the \u00a0\u05e1\u05d9\u05de\u05df \u00a0in \u00a0the <\/span>Shulchan Aruch on Simchas Torah <\/span><\/a>\u00a0#669 that contains <\/span>\u2018one \u05e1\u05e2\u05d9\u05e3 only\u2019 !<\/span><\/i> [One guesses that day is not particular suitable to learn\u2026.with all the Chitas and \u05de\u05e2\u05d1\u05d9\u05e8 \u05e1\u05d3\u05e8\u05d4 and the partying\u2026..] \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In any case, the \u05d1\u05d0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d9\u05d8\u05d1 \u00a0quotes the \u00a0\u05e8\u05d1\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d1\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0who frowns upon this custom. But he continues to quote a Medrash from Megilas Esther that this Minhag was mentioned by \u05d4\u05de\u05df \u00a0to \u05d0\u05d7\u05e9\u05d5\u05d5\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9 as \u2018proof\u2019 of the Jews being quite different than the rest of the world! <\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand he suggests that perhaps this custom got a bit out of hand and therefore frowned upon by \u05e8\u05d1\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d1\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9. <\/span><\/p>\n

5- What does all this have to do with our Gemara? <\/span><\/p>\n

We mentioned the famed Rov from Bucharest Reb Yaakov Meir Spielman. His Sefer, <\/span>\u05d8\u05dc \u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\u05d5\u05ea<\/span><\/a>, is known as a good introduction to Kabbalah and vol 1 is based largely Chabad Chassidus. Interestingly, one of the <\/span>\u05d4\u05e1\u05db\u05de\u05d5\u05ea <\/span><\/a>on the \u05e1\u05e4\u05e8 is from a Lubavitcher, <\/span>Reb Yosef Tumarkin<\/span><\/a>, Rov of Kremenchuk. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Reb Yaakov Meir Spielman writes in another of his books that perhaps the reason the apple throwing was not very popular by some \u05e8\u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd was because of the apples that needed to be collected after<\/strong> <\/em>the throwing! As above, collecting them into a basket is problematic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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6- We then moved onto another topic that connects our Gemara with Purim. <\/span><\/p>\n

Very briefly, on Purim the Megillah is read twice on the 14th day of Adar. In city that has walls, or had walls going back to the time of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05d5\u05e2 \u05d1\u05df \u05e0\u05d5\u05df, \u00a0it is read on the 15th. <\/span><\/p>\n

The reason is explained in the Megillah itself and elaborated upon in Masechet Megillah.<\/span><\/p>\n

What about the towns adjacent to a walled city? Or a town that the walled city can be seen from it? <\/span><\/p>\n

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We learnt the \u05d1\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u05d7 \u00a0that writes [688] what the definition of \u2018adjacent\u2019 is ‘very close’.\u00a0 Based on a Rashi in our Mishna regarding the \u05e7\u05e8\u05e4\u05e3 \u00a0that is \u2018adjacent\u2019 to the city. As Rashi says. \u00a0\u05e1\u05de\u05d5\u05da – \u05de\u05de\u05e9. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Beitza 31a 1- We continued the Mishna that discusses the collecting of firewood for Yom Tov cooking and or heating. Only wood that has been prepared prior to Yom Tov can be used. So loose branches in one’s yard or field may not be \u2018prepared\u2019 in the user\u2019s mind for Yom Tov and therefore unusable. … Continue reading Shiur 02\/20\/18 – Beitza 31a<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiurpoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}