Chavurah

Hey, podcast people.

It is the day before Sukkot, and Susan and I are in charge of our Chavurah's holiday getaway to Nordea.

And not much is going on in the country anyway, maybe save for the prime minister speechifying tonight at the UN and the son of Israel's ambassador to the United States hanging between life and death after being rammed at a checkpoint he was manning as a reserve soldier and the central election committee banning from the elections some political parties ahead of the supreme court's certain overturning of the ban on the parties and china sending thousands of attack drones to iran and there being 33 days until elections and the polls showing that after the elections likely no side will be able to make a government and a Hebrew University study showing that your blood sugar levels are lower when you eat with someone you love.

Basically, just the same old, same old.

First thing is Meretz HaShem Tuesday night at about 9-10.

We're going to have a special Chaburah from Meretz Chaburah.

Devin Miller will be something about Yoni Sukkah for our Chaburah.

So anyone who's here at 9, 10 on Tuesday could enjoy that Mechabura.

And then there are going to be some people who are going to ask me, when do we get off for Sukkot? You can take off whenever you want for Sukkot.

So yes, from the beginning.

Yeah, so no, that's something that, uh, I, I, I shared with Rabbi, uh, Schulweis, whom I never met, but, uh, while I was in rabbinical school, and I was a member of the New York Havurah, the...

I was, uh, sort of active in the early independent Havurah movement, and-

Right

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Go ahead.

Isn't Rav Noson coming from Havura?

That he exchanged the names? Rav Noson is Lecha Era, yes.

Correct, correct.

So everybody's watching each other.

That's the B'nai Chaburah's reason.

And we pass that back, Amari, even though in Erevin we left off with a question, which some people called him offering some.

It's not an easy question to answer, but it's really not our subject.

Abai seems to say that we only say Kainim's reason, not Yisraelim, even though they could have Kainim and Chaburah's, but there is no such clown.

He preferred...

Sounds like he was saying that it's anxious for mikdash, even though it's out of the mikdash, because it's a carbon that started in the mikdash.

Sounds already very strange.

Like Chazal say, according to midrash we just learned, "Amar Rav Yeshua, amar Rav Nachman: Kol mi sheba lebeit haknesses ve'shomea devari Torah zocheh lehiye bein hachachamim le'atid lavo shene'emar ozen shoma'ah tochachat chayim ve'erev chachamim talin." So that means you should go to the beit kne- beit midrash after the beit knesset even if you don't understand, because there's already value in doing that.

So now nobody has an excuse, because the guy who's able to learn how the value should be kovea makom, and Birhei Halakha goes at length, by the way, talks about the importance of Chavurah, learning with other people, not just to sit by yourself.

But even the guy who doesn't understand what's going on, there's already value in that.

Just come sit.