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Shabbos, Lashon Harah, and Terumah

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Shabbos, Lashon Harah, and Terumah

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Almost Daily Jewish Wisdom at Beit Hamidrash of Woodland HillsShabbos, Lashon Harah, and Terumah. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

You start to stick around, we're going to have class after. This is the class with which we love to eat. This is called Learn Shabbos. Day 71, at what point is food a lot quickly considered cooked? Temperature, which cooking can happen. The prohibition of cooking only applies when the heat is capable of causing the food to become yad, so let us bow. That is the point which one hand will reflect reflexively, pull away from a hot item that it touches. This is a lachic term and not to be termed on one's own. On general basis, you assume that this is around 190 degrees. 90 degrees. This is about the temperature of a hot bath for an adult, probably slightly cooler than a cup of coffee or the water from a hot faucet. Okay, you shouldn't do cooling liquids, that's the bold. Those who do not undergo a chemical change when heated, the point at which something has colloquially changed from cold to hot is yad,

so let us, 190 degrees. This is unlike solids, which I'll discuss shortly. When heating up cold soup, bring it up to 190 degrees, and curse the Torah prohibition. So if you have at 90 degrees, will it be okay? 108 degrees. I've never heated up liquids on Shabbos. No, maybe there was. Well, probably there's other, it says here that there's other pages on this, maybe. Okay, so, cooking solids. We're going to move on to solids. I don't know. We explain that cooking means transforming something with heat. When it comes to solids, it takes longer for the food to get to the point of being edible, which is significant enough change to incur the Torah prohibition. At what point does something become melodically edible? The gmar terms it as mahal bandarousai when it's barely edible, but edible enough that a criminal on the run would eat it. Okay, it's edible. There's a spit as to what point this is.

The robon holds that something's edible enough for such a person when it's half cooked. Rashi holds, it's already edible when it's one third cooked. So here's two explanations on a general basis. We follow the stricter opinion when there's a dispute over Torah prohibition. So here's two examples. If one boils a potato, he incurs a Torah prohibition. When it's already one third of the way to being cooked, like the stricter opinion, second is we will learn this rabbinically prohibited to leave an uncooked food on an uncovered stove before Shabbos. Again, we follow the stricter opinion when the correct permitted procedures followed may still only put the food on the stove once it's half cooked. Okay, that was complicated. Okay, that's day 71. Okay, that's day 71. You get more questions than answers. And learning was shown in Iraq. Day 73 choosing the right community. Hey, it's forbidden to live in a neighborhood to be part of a community that habitually speaks to the shown in Iraq. This is true even if one plans not to speak or listen to the shown in Iraq.

The same applies to a friend. If rebuking them or otherwise trying to help them change is not or will not be effective, one must distance himself from the person. Similarly, in the same way, one should be particularly regarding one's choice of seat in the shuler, based in midrush. This is because the habits of one's neighbors will directly affect you. This pertains not just to the shown in Iraq, but also to the areas of Halakah, such as talking during the Qadish or during the Khazen's repetition, including the Torah reading. So it's also crucial to be particular. One learns Torah because interrupting Torah learning from meaningless and forbidden chatter is a severe sin. Last paragraph, short, the right students. If one knows that one of the students is a habitual speaker of the shown in Iraq, but he has not and will not heed rebuke, one must distance himself from that student. Still, such a teacher should still consider other methods or influences they could help the student. Words of wisdom.

Rebi Nehari said, exile yourself to a place of Torah. Okay. Just do the other one. Living each week? Yeah, that's the one on the right side. What is someone living in a community that everybody is a reporter or a newspaper? They've got to know everybody's business. What? This is part of Truma. This is called Living Each Week by Rabbi Torski. The juxtaposition of this portion of the Torah Truma contains this was a domain on the left. I'll go to the right. Okay. Okay. The Midr's states that when Moshek was given the commandments, the midst of a double sanctuary that would house the divine presence, he was bewildered. Quote, the entire universe cannot contain the infinite. How then can an enclosed structure house the divine presence? He asked. To this, Hashem responded, my concept of the rolling place is not like yours. The dwelling place is not like yours.

My presence shall dwell within the structure that consists of twenty planks on its north, twenty planks on its south, eight planks on its west. The sanctuary is not the according to my dimensions, but according to those of the Israelites, the toughest chiam, interprets this to mean that God does not expect the impossible from man, worship and service measured against the infinity of God would never suffice rather. Hashem expects man to do what's possible that is within human means. It's important, however, that man dedicate himself, important that man dedicate himself entirely doing Hashem's will. It may not be a derelict in doing that, which is in doing what is what in his means. This does not require retreat or nor withdrawing from reality and seclusion, where you can spend the entire day in meditation. Quite the contrary, man has expected the work, the interact with other people, the both time to his family, the socialized with friends. The rabbi of Kats interpreted the phrase, you shall be holy people under me, to mean that we're to be humanly holy.

God is the abundance of angels already, said the rabbi of Kats. He does not need man to be angelically holy, but humanly holy, people of the holiness. Got it? Okay. Yes.

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