Young Israel of Westside Shiurim

1. Beis Shammai says you must say shema st night lying down and in the morning standing bc the lanaguage of the pasuk is “as your lie down and stand up.” 2. Beis Hillel says you say shema in any position bc the pasuk says “when you walk on the road.” 3. Beis Shammai says “walking on the road” is necessary to teach that one is exempt from saying Shema if they’re involved in another mitzvah, even wi...

1. Bruria advises r Meir to daven for sinners to repent, not for them to perish. 2. Avshaloms rebellion is next to war of Gog Umagog to help us see that anything is possible and if avshalom (a son) could rebel, so too gog (slave) could attempt to rebel 3. Dovid sings in 5 separate dimensions of life- 1. For life in the womb 2. Recognition of the celestial spheres 3. Nursing 4. Seeing wicked fall 5...

1. If time of דחק, night Shema can be said until sunrise, but the bracha of השכיבנו should be ommited.  2. The Rabanan agree that krias shema is really the whole night;they were just placing safeguard but encouraging chatzos  3. The mishna did not use eating Korban Pesach as example of full-night mitzvah. That is like ר אלעזר בן עזריה- the meat must be eaten by midnight. R akiva disagrees and hold...

1. Anyone who 1.studies Torah 2.performs kind acts 3. davens with the tzibur is like they redeemed Hashem and His children from the exile.  2. One is called a bad neighbor if they don't daven in the local shul 3. Although longevity is reserved for Israel, the people of Bavel merited long life bc they came early and stayed late in Shul  4. "The pious man davens to find"- either 1.wife 2. succeed in...

1. Hashem davens and asks that his mercy overcome strict justice, and once the Kohen Gadol r yishmael gave Hashem this exact bracha.  2. We learn from Moshe and Hashem’s dialogue after the Egel that one should not appease someone while they are angry.  3. Hashem has a 1,888th an hour when he is upset every day. This occurs during the first few hours of the day when Kings take off crowns to bow to...

1. We are surrounded by thousands of demons that cramp us and bother our bodies  2. One can theoretically verify the existence of these demons and even see them but it is dangerous  3. Our tefillos are better heard in Shul bc it is place of song  4. Hashems presence is felt in Shul, wherever 10 people gather to daven Hashem comes first, when 3 people sit to judge Hashem comes, 2 people learning Ha...

Today’s daf was very large with so many disparate points of aggada, but I’ll do my best. 1. Krias Shema by the bed is a powerful tool to fighting the Evil inclination and likened to a double edged sword.  2. There is evidence from Scripture itself that Moshe received תורה שבעל פה from Sinai  3. Krias Shema/learning Torah has the ability to cure יסורים  4. When יסורים come, they can be punishment f...

1. Moshe said כ חצות bc he didn’t want to leave room for Egyptian mistakes and mockery if they would miscalculate the time.  Or the כ was bc Moshe spoke exactly 24 hrs before.  2. Dovid refers to himself as a חסיד bc he woke up earlier than most Kings or bc he was humble enough to deal with blood of Niddah to permit women to their husbands and would even check his rulings with מפיבשת.  Dovid was a...

1. R Eliezer holds the latest time for Shema is 4 hours into the night.  2. The night is divided into 3 watches in his opinion, and he says to say shema by the end of the first watch to emphasize that watches are a reality in our world.  3. At each watch, Hashem cries for his children who have caused the destruction of the beis handikadh.   4. Sign for 1st mishmar-donkeys braying 2nd mishmar- dogs...

1. Earliest time for shema is when Kohen eats his terumah (nightfall)  2. Latest time is end of 1st watch, (r Eliezer) or midnight (rabbis) or dawn (r gamliel)  3. R gamliel emphasizes his opinion in a story to his children that really one can read shema until dawn and it’s jsut preferable to take care of it by midnight  4. We start learning about night shema bc either the pasuk starts with the ni...