Good afternoon.

I just wanted to share a thought that I saw from Rabbi David Fohrman over Yontif, and I'll try to put a little bit of my own words because of time constraints, and I hope I get the message across.

The last few psukim of the Torah tell us, it's talking about Moshe Rabbeinu's death, and the Gemara tells us that Moshe Rabbeinu wrote them with tears.

So of course, we can understand that someone writing, or anyone writing about their own death, that it would be filled with tears.

But if you look at the last few psukim, it's not only about his death.

Only one of the psukim is about his death.

This year there is a lot of rain in the forecast for the first night of Sukkot, so it presents a unique halachic problem, and I'm sure that everybody's Rav is talking about it.

I simply am here to share what my Rebbe, Rabbi Zucker, said about this a few years ago in a similar forecast episode.

appeared before Sukkos.

So there is a unique halacha on the first night of Sukkos that does not apply during the rest of Yontif.

During the rest of Sukkos, if a person doesn't want to eat an achilas keva, a regular meal, there's no obligation to eat in the Sukkah.

A person can choose to eat only foods that don't require Sukkah and avoid the obligation altogether.

Good afternoon.

I hope everyone had an uplifting and meaningful Yom Kippur.

And now that Yom Kippur is over, we spent Yom Kippur fasting, davening, doing tshuva, hopefully... getting closer to Hashem.

So now what? Now it's the day after Yom Kippur.

So what now? So there's a minug to refer to the day after Yom Kippur as Gots Nomen, which means Hashem's name.

I was first introduced to this concept when I was in Yeshiva Nertz Yisrael, by my Rosh Yeshiva, B'Cheskel.

Good afternoon.

I wanted to discuss a topic that seems to be a hot topic this year, and that is that when Rosh Hashanah falls out the way it does this year, where the first day Rosh Hashanah is on Shabbos, it seems to be that it's a bad omen for the Jewish people, and there is a historical timeline to back this up.

I'll give a short, not complete timeline.

Years that Rosh Hashanah fell out like this year, where it was Shabbos Rosh Hashanah, was Horban Bayez Rishon, Horban Bayez Shani, 1290 when the Jews were expelled from England, forced conversions and massacres of the Jews in Spain in 1391, Russian pogroms in 1881-82 and also 1905, Ukrainian pogroms in 1918-1919, The Holocaust at its peak in 1942, when there were the most deaths, was also a year that fell like this.

And more recently in our lifetime, we had the Second Intifada, followed by September 11th, was a year that fell out like this.

And of course, most famously, or most fresh in our minds, is October 7th was also a year that fell out.

Good afternoon.

I wanted to discuss another interesting thing that comes up twice a year, and that is when we lean from the Torah, when we lean the [Hebrew] in the Torah, um, you will find in most shuls, I, I think, you will find that the [Hebrew] leans it very soft and very low, in a lower tone and in a faster tone oftentimes.

[lips smack] What is the source of this minhag? I wanted to try to figure it out.

I, I looked around, I did not see any source for this.

It's certainly not in any of the major, um, halakhic sources, not in the Shulchan Arukh, in the Shulchan Arukh, Ketzah Shulchan Arukh, it's not in any of those, and it's not even in the Tanya Haman Hagim, where he lists-- Tanya Haman Hagim doesn't necessarily list only halakha, he lists things that are s- that are minhag or lower level than halakha, and he does not list this either.

Um, I did ask around, I did not-- uh, people did not seem to know.

Good afternoon, I wanted to discuss a shayla that is a little personal for me, and that is the halacha of learning during Chazar HaShatz.

So we know that the original purpose of Chazar HaShatz was from a time when people, not everybody knew how to daven, so the concept was that people who knew how to daven would daven, and then the chazen would repeat Shemayna Esrei for the people who did not know, and it would be Yitza with the chazen's repetition.

So even though logically that... might seem to say that since today, everybody knows how to daven, so you don't have to have chazar ha'shatz at all, but we don't pasken that way, we pasken that way, so even if the reason doesn't seem to apply, we have to have it.

In brisk, Rav Solveitchik used to say this, that in brisk, they had a further lamda, so they said that chazar ha'shatz is necessary even for people who are yeti shman esri ready, because They say that when I daven my private Shemana Esrei with a minion, that's called Tefillah Bitzibor.

And when the Chazan repeats Shemana Esrei, that's the Tefillah's Hatzibor.

So it's a different type of davening.

Good afternoon.

I wanted to discuss the topic of how loud someone should be when they learn.

Tyra, let's get right into it.

This is all based on an email I got from a McGill student, but I'm going to add my own sources and thoughts as well.

So we know that when you walk into a base measure, it's loud.

It's exciting.

Good afternoon, I want to discuss a shayla that people may not think about, and that is when you go visit the Kotel, what is the halachic status of the area that you are going to visit? We know the Rambam, the Shulchan Aruch, they talk extensively about the halachas of the Beis HaKnesses.

It's a place that you can't eat, you can't drink, you can't sleep, you can't make a kapandria, you can't use it as a shortcut to get somewhere else.

You can't speak Sikhas Cholan.

So the question is, when you're standing at the Kotel, what is the halachic status of that place that you are standing? So we start from the Mishnah in Megillah.

The Mishnah in Megillah tells us that if the people of a city sell the Rechoy V'shel Ir, then the money can be used to buy a Beis Knesset, and if they sell a Beis Knesset, the money can be used to buy an Aroin.

Because we say, You never go down in Kiddush, you only go up.

afternoon i wanted to discuss another halacha and that is uh every wedding that we go to when the chasen and the kala walk down and generally everybody stands up for the chasen and for the kala so why are we standing up for the let's talk about the chasen specifically why are we standing up for the chasen so if we take a look The Tashbatz is the one, he's a Rishan, and he is the one who first mentions the thing that most people are probably thinking of right now, which is that we stand up for Chassan because Chassan is compared to a king and we have to stand up.

The problem is that we don't do anything else for Chassan that we would do for a king.

The only thing that we decide to do is stand up.

Sounds a little bit strange.

And the Tashbatz actually, when he says the Halacha that Chassan is Daimu L'melech, What he says is, it's in regards to a chassan, like a king, is not chayiv to stand up in front of a Talmud Chacham.

So if a Talmud Chacham were walking to a room, a chassan would not have to stand up for him.

All right, good afternoon.

I wanted to discuss something which is something that is proper that should be done that maybe people are not aware of.

And I will discuss where this comes from.

So this one really goes to the heart of what it means to be creative at selling all they can and to go in the ways So the Mishnah Masech Lestamid describes the morning routine of the Memunah.

That was the administrator of the Beis Hamikdash.

And he had a key to every room in the Beis Hamikdash.