The Nine Days

In other words, if you're doing this during the week, right? The meaning is not to do this for Tisha B'Av, the shooting by Avelos.

Because at the state, during the nine days, we're in the state of Avelos, morning.

And we want Mikael Lavanah in the state of Simcha.

Now, according to the G-d, the G-d says to do it right away.

like the Gra, says the Yaskal Avdi that they could sing.

They could sing.

Shlomo Zalman says that it's better not to sing if you're going to Kairos Lavanot during the nine days.

Okay.

But if it's a smaller amount, or it's easier, and therefore it's not something that you should, that you're going to have any real joy about having completed, because it's no big deal, then there's no real sudas mitzvah there.

And he also points out the bear hate day that if you didn't finish up, if you weren't up to a Siam when, let's say, the nine days comes along, and I happen to be taping this during the nine days, so it's a perfect example of this.

The bear hate day says you can't rush a Siam because the whole point of a Siam is you finish something that you're working hard at and you're this.

So theoretically you could say, well, I'm going to work hard and finish the list.

Now that one's a little more complicated for Halberstam because Halberstam had thought that If it didn't happen in the day, you could have maybe even up to a year.

But here's the issue.

It could be that if you didn't have the nine days issue coming along, you wouldn't really make a Siyam.

I used to say this years ago, and I once, you know, somebody once told me he was making a Siyam with meat because of what I had said, because it's fairly clear.

Ma'aseh today, this minig doesn't exist anymore, right? The only thing we do past is the here, but about the showers we take right after Sheva.

So in Meilah, even during the nine days, there's no more minig, even if it's complete tanig, you go swimming during the nine days.

If you want to be Machmer, you can be Machmer from after Tisha B'Av, after Erev Tisha B'Av.

after Chatzis, not to take a shower, and not to go swimming, that's what he says, that's not the Menegah Elam, we'll get a lot further, we'll for sure need tomorrow, to go through the Beirutikotayus of the Rav Yah.

Um, another thing I got a lot of feedback about was women making a siyum.

So I had quoted, um, Rabbi Warman that, uh, he held that if a woman makes a siyum, then you're allowed to, uh, eat meat at such a siyum during the nine days.

Now, who should be invited to the siyum? Then it should be only family, others.

Okay, those are technicalities that need to be worked through.

But one of the things I may have mentioned was that nobody else really writes a teshuvah about this.

So Rabbi Abramson from Lakewood, New Jersey, uh, sent me that Rav Harfonus, uh, who I quoted in the mikvah, uh, sheilah, Rav Harfonus actually wrote a teshuvah about it, and he holds that, uh, one cannot eat meat at a siyum made by a woman during the nine days.

Rav Harfonus, of course, is a Satmar posek, so, uh, it makes a lot of sense that that's how he would come out.

When I was mentioning this to a friend of mine in shul, uh, he said that he once asked Rav Chaim Kanievsky if he could teach Gemara to his daughters.

Our Gemara also spoke about a person who didn't-- the what's the best person to serve this to? To serve it to a Kohen Kat-Katan.

And the question that I saw that the Chashukei Chemed discusses, what would be the Halakha if a Katan makes a Siyum during the nine days? A Katan makes a Siyum Erev Pesach.

Would that be considered a valid Siyum to which people who participate during the nine days will be allowed to eat meat during-- on Erev Pesach, they'll be allowed to eat? The-- So the initial reaction It's based on the Gemara Masechet Shabbat stuff, Kuf Yod Tes Amudei where the Gemara says, "Amor Ish Lag Shma Shma Rabbi Yehuda Nasiya, Ein HaOlam Meskayim El Veshvil Hevel Tinokish SheBeis Rabim." That the world stands because of the Torah that the Tinokish SheBeis Rabim learn.

Amor LeRapap LaBaya, Didach V'Didach Mai.

What about our Torah? Amor LeToach SheRespandid, Ein HaDoime Hevel SheYesh Bechet, the Torah that's learned by these young, poor children is a much greater level, LeHevel SheEin Bechet.

It's just not the same as a Gadol.

On the others that suggest that the Halakha is that on, on the other hand, that those suggest that the Chiyuv of a Kotan to learn, not an independent Chiyuv for a Kotan to learn, his father has to teach him Torah.

So at the end, he says that when-- that a Kotan Sium both on Erev Pesach or a Kotan Sium during the nine days is not considered a, a Sium that could be valid, that they shouldn't have-- that you shouldn't have to fast on Erev Pesach or could eat meat during the nine days.

It's the right cheshbon, that he, he probably should wash, uh, uh, uh, every meal." Pretty amazing that, uh, you know, a fourteen-year-old, uh, didn't grow up frum at all, uh, thought of that.

Another sheala that comes up that's similar and not exactly the same, but there's a teshuvah sefer called Migdal Chaskiyahu, uh, where he was asked about- Um, the, uh, the minhag of not eating fleishig during the nine days.

What if a person, uh, saw a piece of meat and he said a bracha on it, and after he said the bracha, he realized that, uh, that it's fleishigs and that it's the nine days? So he says, uh, initially that since according to many Poskim, the Issur of Birkas HaMazon is only mid'Rabbanan, so don't, uh, don't eat it.

Even though the, the bracha is going to be Birkas HaMazon, um, the, uh, I, the, the, the, the not eating meat during the nine days is not even mid'Rabbanan, it's only a minhag to not eat, uh, uh, dur-- meat during the nine days.

Except but maybe it's taken on a status of greater than a minhag because it's become like a neder not to eat meat during the nine days.

So, uh, the same, same might be similar if a person makes a bracha ad oftentimes that, uh, that maybe you shouldn't eat at all.

Maybe better to, uh, to take the loss.

Okay, question number five.

Where are the halachas of women making siyumim? If someone is asking people to sign up to learn for a yard site, should I as a woman sign up? If I make a siyum during the nine days, can we eat meat from it? So I remember years ago, I was in the OU offices on a Friday.

Rav Shachzai used to go in on Fridays to answer all the shaylas.

And a few of us used to go to sit with him and watch him answer all the shaylas, talk over some of the shaylas with him.

And someone asked this question about a woman making a seiyum and being able to meet during the nine days.

And he said, Rav Warman has a tshuva about it, where he's making one.

He says, it's okay.

So we can't measure how much Simcha she has.