Young Israel of Westside Shiurim

The four types of learners

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The impact of tears

1. Someone who strikes hammer against metal while working (to ensure the surface of the hammer would remain smooth) is doing מכה בפשיש acc to r shimon ben gamliel bc it’s fixing the hammer. Tanna kamma says it’s not liable bc it’s done in the middle of work. 2. Plowing and sowing any amount is obligated in Shabbos. In the mishkan they would dig furrows for one stalk of herb needed for dye, and som...

How bikurim fixed the sin

1. To be liable for a Chatas, one must do a melocho בשוגג. The person must be mistaken not only in the beginning of the melocho but at the end of the molocho as well. For example, if someone throws an object in order to inflict a wound (forgetting it was Shabbos) if they remembered it was Shabbos before the wound was made they are exempt from a Korban. Similarly, if they threw an item in the stree...

Does techeles remind us of HaShem or vice versa

1. Small boats of Mishan- shaped like a “top” in the sense that the width of 4 tefachim does not reach the floor of the boat- Rav Huna says they aren’t considered a reshus hayachid since the walls are “hanging ” bc they aren’t considered “walls” where the width is no loner 4 tefachim. Bc the walls are hanging and don’t reach the bottom of the domain, one cannot carry more than 4 Amos in the boat....

Life is one big place

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1. There were two layers of curtains covering the mishkan. The first layer was made of colored wools and the second layer was made from goat hair. The second layer was made with great wisdom bc they somehow spun the hair into threads while the hair was still attached to the goats. 2. We learn the size of reshus harabim- 16 Amos wide- from the wagons used in the desert to transport the kerashim. Th...

Traveling by the word of HaShem

1. The amount of 4 Amos in the street for liability of transfers can be made from two separate domains. Practically then if someone threw from one public domain though a private domain and into another public domain and it traveled 4 Amos between the 2 public domain they would be liable. 2. A street that has a roof is not classified as reshus harabim for carrying on Shabbos bc it’s not like the pr...

Separation between punishments

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Value is in the demand 

1. Earthenware kli that has a leak is still a kli and can be used to sanctify the parah adumah waters. However, a broken shard that’s designated for usage around the home loses tumah when it starts leaking bc “no one brings a shard for a shard”- it’ll just be thrown away. 2. The size of a hole in flowerpot to make contents considered attached to the ground in regard to laws of hechser is a dispute...

Keeping the fire alive

1. R Eliezer holds eye paining is dying from the Torah while Rabban day its only assur rabbincally. Braiding and fixing hair is “building” from the Torah acc to r Eliezer (we find HaShem “built” Chava by braiding her hair) and rabanan say it’s forbidden only rabbinically. 2. Milking animal is מפרק- extracting, a toldah of דש. Straining coagulated milk is borer. And making cheese by pressing curds...

We tell HaShem to wait for us

1. If someone carries out less than dried fig size of food they are exempt. Even if the food was inside a container they are exempt bc the container is secondary to the food. But if they intend to use the container in the second domain, they are liable for the container. 2. If someone carries out fig size of food with a container and rhe intend to use the container in the second domain, they’re li...

1. If two people do melocho together, each doing one part, they are exempt. An example would be זה עוקר וזה מניח- one does an akira and the other does the hanacha. 2. If two people both carry together, R Meir says they are both liable. R shimon says they are both exempt. R Yehuda says it depends- if they are both capable of doing it themselves they are exempt. But if they’re Incapable of doing it...

1. We have a dispute if אגד כלי שמיה אגד- where an entire item is transferred but the utnensil that holds it is still somewhat in the other domain. There also a dispute about אגד גוף (item is completely transferred in hand to another domain the body of the person is till the original domain). But the case is only if the hand is within 3 tefachim of the ground. Otherwise one is certainly exempt. 2....

The nessiims unity

R akiva and r chananya ben tradyon