Ein Yaakov
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Oct 13, 2026
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
The Iyun Yaakov, I actually brought it on in the sheet.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
If you look at Dalet, Ein Yaakov is a commentary on Ein Yaakov.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
Ve'od Yei Shlomer, you could also say, Nadadu Elyonim V'tachtonim Kolomar Elyonim Zeh Haman Ubanav.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
Elyonim doesn't mean the Malachi.
Elimelech KohnHOST
One about the harp and also about this audience with the king.
Elimelech KohnHOST
So the Ein Yaakov says on that, that the Gemara is trying to teach us a lesson.
Elimelech KohnHOST
So he says like this.
Elimelech KohnHOST
Lomadum izet hayeles gadol.
Elimelech KohnHOST
Nevertheless, even though you still haven't achieved your perfection, it is still incumbent to try to help others.
Elimelech KohnHOST
Certainly that's the duty of a king, to try to help others.
Elimelech KohnHOST
But then it says the Ein Yaakov, zeh ahedul miyuchad shehoyo bein Noach v'Avram.
Elimelech KohnHOST
He says this is how one can see the difference between Noach and Avram.
Motti ZalkinGUEST
I mean, not so many, but quite, uh, many initiatives, uh, of how to save not the people, but the Jewish culture.
Motti ZalkinGUEST
And their idea was to publish, as you said, right, as, as you just read, right, , right, a series of, uh, all these basic books, because Gedolos and Mishnayos and, uh, Shas Bavli and Yerushalmi and Sifre and Ein Yaakov and Zohar and all, right, in the same format, right, of the Vilna Shas.
Motti ZalkinGUEST
Not huge books, but, uh, a little bit smaller.
Motti ZalkinGUEST
So let's, um, say metaphorically, when a Jew is traveling from Vilna to, uh, the Lower East Side, he can take the entire traditional Jewish library in his, uh, uh, uh, uh, backpack, right, backpack, or in his suitcase, go to America, go to, uh, South Africa, and continue his life as a traditional Jew.
Motti ZalkinGUEST
The Yerushalmi was only printed in Rome Press by Shafana Soifel l- ma- many years later.
Motti ZalkinGUEST
So, uh, the idea was great.
Motti ZalkinGUEST
They, uh, managed to print some, uh, I mean, the Zohar, the, uh, um, uh, um, Sulchan Aruch and the Shas Vilna and Ein Yaakov, and that's it.
Motti ZalkinGUEST
And, and, and Mishnahs, right? Which is, I said, just, it's not just, it's, uh, you know.
Naftali SilberbergHOST
And the Alter Rebbe tells us exactly what he wants them to study.
Naftali SilberbergHOST
He wants them to study Ein Yaakov.
Naftali SilberbergHOST
Ein Yaakov is a set of books wherein you have collected over there all the non-hallachic sections of the Talmud, the stories of the Talmud, the moral teachings of the Talmud.
Naftali SilberbergHOST
And the Alter Rebbe says, I want you to study that between Mincha and Meirev.
Naftali SilberbergHOST
The Alter Rebbe gives three reasons.
Naftali SilberbergHOST
Number one, he says, most of the secrets of the Torah are hidden within the Ein Yaakov, within the Agadah of the Talmud.
Naftali SilberbergHOST
Number two, the Arizal tells us that studying the Agadah causes the atonement of our sins.
Naftali SilberbergHOST
And number three, practically speaking, when we learn these stories, we learn these teachings, it teaches us how to live life in a just and wise way.
Avraham ZajacHOST
The Altarebi now... is speaking about what we should do to make sure that we, God forbid, don't render our gatherings in the shul, when you have a minyan, into, God forbid, a moshav leitzim that is doich ekrag liyashchina.
Avraham ZajacHOST
So the Altarebbe writes like this, that between minchan ma'irev during weekdays, the Altarebbe is suggesting that the group, everyone in the shul, should participate in learning the agadata part of the gemara, There is actually a Sefer called Ein Yaakov that gathered, that compiled the Agadata of all of the Shas all together.
Avraham ZajacHOST
And the reason why people should learn Agadata is because, number one, hidden in the Agadata is most of the concealed parts of the Torah.
Avraham ZajacHOST
In other words, the secrets of the Torah are hidden in the Agadata.
Avraham ZajacHOST
It becomes a lot easier.
Avraham ZajacHOST
Not to, God forbid, be those who are...
Avraham ZajacHOST
Now, says the Altareb, a Yachid in the group should not say to himself, okay, you have a group of Yidin learning Ein Yaakov, I want to learn something else.
Avraham ZajacHOST
Says the Altareb, another important rule, that when you are in an environment and there's a group of people learning a certain part of the Torah... don't remove yourself from that group.
Nechama DinaHOST
In the Gemara there are special parts where the Chachamim explain psukim and stories in the Torah.
Nechama DinaHOST
The Arizal writes that these parts of the Gemara called Ein Yaakov are very special.
Nechama DinaHOST
It is like the Neshama of the Torah, and the secrets of the Torah are hidden in these stories and explanations.
Nechama DinaHOST
Chsidus reveals to us and shows us the Torah secrets that are in many of these parts of Torah.
Sarit SwitzerHOST
This is often a reference to Kabbalah or Chassidus, like the more mystical dimensions of the Torah.
Sarit SwitzerHOST
But here, the Alter Rebbe specifies that actually what he's referring to is what's known as, as Ein Yaakov.
Sarit SwitzerHOST
This is the, um, the Eye of Yaakov, it's called.
Sarit SwitzerHOST
It's literally translated as, but this is the portion of the Gemara that deals with stories.
Sarit SwitzerHOST
There's like stories that are written in the Gemara, and these stories are known to contain really, really deep secrets in them.
Sarit SwitzerHOST
And the Alter Rebbe s-specifies this.
Sarit SwitzerHOST
He says that most of the secrets of Torah are actually hidden in this Ein Yaakov.
Sarit SwitzerHOST
And, and studying this Ein Yaakov is a way to atone for the sins of man, as it is written in the writings of the Arizal.
speaker_0HOST
This is an interesting letter.
speaker_0HOST
Rav Shner Zalman over here is encouraging the Jews, his chassidim, to devote the daily interval between Mincha and Ma'ariv to the study of Ein Yaakov.
speaker_0HOST
Let me explain what that means.
speaker_0HOST
In many shuls, you come and daven mincha, and then you wait about a half an hour until it's night, nightfall, and then you daven meirev.
speaker_0HOST
But ideally, you should be davening meirev Half an hour after mincha plus minus.
speaker_0HOST
Now the question is what you do in that half an hour.
speaker_0HOST
So Rav Shner Zalman encouraged him to learn Ein Yaakov.
speaker_0HOST
Ein Yaakov is basically a compilation of all the stories and agadah.
Darren PlatzkyHOST
I think that everybody should maybe read through these sorts of things.
Darren PlatzkyHOST
I see a note over here that in the Ein Yaakov, his gerse is not balu lehu ve'azu, but ve'chalu, as they were like finished, ve'azu, kelomar shehem achu ve'kalu ad sheavdu.
Darren PlatzkyHOST
I'm trying to get it in Russian also.
Darren PlatzkyHOST
Okay, I'm not sure.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
One is law, L-A-W, and one is lore, L-O-R-E, and they think, oh, they learn them separately.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
And in fact, if you look at the Rif is the commentary on the Talmud, it's just the Halakhic bits, and the, uh, Ein Yaakov is a collection of just the Aggadic bits of the Torah.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
So when I first learned this, I remember an equation, right? The equation is, um, Rif plus Ein Yaakov equals Talmud because, you know, the Aggadic and the Halakhic bits.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
But here's the thing.
Raphael ZarumGUEST
When you read the Talmud, it moves seamlessly from Halakha to Aggadah to Halakha to Aggadah.
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