Washing Hands and Malacha

Okay, guys, let's start. We're middle. Oh, here we are. Oh, let's see. Okay. Okay. I'll let you know in a minute. Yes, Kim. We're 230, I think, no? Let me see. We're up to actually 230. Just a regular one. 230. Zion, Sif Zion, okay? All right. Incidentally, we talk about what makes the Mayim from the Teotit Dayim Pasol. When you wash your hands, some Mayim is Pasol, see? Many different Bechinot. Let's say he used a kli that has wine or whiskey in it, right, or also Mayim, and he uses it to make the liquid inside cool. Does he put it in warm water? He put it to make it cool. All right. Mayim Mayim Sumitir Yedayim. No, it says like this. Let me explain. He has the iron and put it in a kli. Then he takes the kli and puts it into another kli with Mayim in it. So the Mayim is used to cool off whatever's in the kli. You understand? So that Mayim, which remains in the kli, is Pasol for Yedayim because you did Malacha with it. That's what he says, okay? If the wine or the sheikha was already cold, and puts it into the cold water so it shouldn't get warm, Why? Because it's not using it to improve. It's just using it for the status quo, the same status. They say they take from the basement, they bring up the wine or the sheikha. It's cool in the bottom because it's underground, the basement. They only put it in the clay with water in it, just to keep it cool, because it used to be hot there and that's the climate. That water again is mutare, why? Because it's not doing a malacha, it's just preserving the status. Okay, got it? Interesting shot. That is a malacha. No, preserving status is not a malacha, you're not doing anything, you're not improving it. If you put roses in the water, if you put roses in the water, It has measurements on it, you know, so you can see how much it weighs. It weighs with the meat inside. The water reaches the level of where the measurements are. By seeing that, he knows how much the busser weighs. You can't use that water because it's iffy. Got it? Oh yeah, you didn't do that. No, because it's clean water. The fact is, once you use it for a different malakha, it loses that begin of kedushah. It cannot be mikadish your head anymore. It doesn't say why though, but why? Because it lessens... Because everything else you say in malakha, that's like kind of dirty. No, you want me to tell you the real pshat? Or you want to say your own pshat? I'm going to say my own pshat. But it's always real. Mine is real, right? Mine is real. Mayim is chesed. The purpose of using the water to wash your hands is your hands are the bechin of gevurah because they touch things. And when you wash it with mayim, chesed is mevatzeh l'gevurah. You take the water and use it for another purpose, it loses the chesed aspect of it because it's used for something else. So it's no longer perfect chesed. Do you understand? Do you understand Russian? Yiddish? English? French? Okay. Should I say it again? It's a nice pshat. The mayim has the power of being neutralizing gevurot. Your hands are called gevurot. You know why? Because you have five fingers connected to the mantzafah. There's two sets of mantzafah. One is pshutim and one is yomim. So your five fingers are connected to the mantzafah. Both hands. So it's gevurah. You take the mayim, which is chesed, you pour it on the gevurah, you mount the gedidim. If the water was used for a purpose, it takes away the chesed. You understand? That's pshat. Zion, I think you finally got it. You too. Mr. Buzki. Okay. I invite them. Yeah. You forgot something? My question is if Arizal was Sephardi or Ashkenazi? His name was Ashkenazi. His name was Ashkenazi. Yeah. But his father was Sephardi, his mother was Ashkenazi. No, actually, the other way around. His father was Ashkenazi, his mother was Sephardi. He prayed in Ashkenazi. Believe it or not. He is Ashkenazi. Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting, huh? The Rosh Hash was a Yemenite. The Chaim HaTal was a real Sephardi. He came from Greece. Any Ashkenazim here? I don't see any Ashkenazim. You're Ashkenazi? Partial Ashkenazi, maybe, no? I don't see. Every single Jew is Ashkenazi Sephardi. What was Moshe Rabbeinu? Moshe Rabbeinu was both. I said that's why it's true. The Parshah Peshad is two Moshiach and Ben David and Ben Yosef, right? One is Ashkenaz and one is Sefarit. Okay. He makes a difference. Eh, it's awesome. Well, there is a difference. The Ramchal talks about it. Moshe Rabbeinu also says that a Sefarit is Bechinas Chesed, and Ashkenaz is Bechinas Churach. If you take a look at the way they learn Torah, Ashkenazim always pilpul, argument back and forth. Sefarit is easygoing, you know? Easygoing. Because one is Chesed and one is Churach. That's why it is like that, okay? Now, Ramchal said that since he was a Sefarit living in an Ashkenazi country, it was Italy, right? He's Teferet. Chesed is going Teferet. Okay. That's what he said. He's a hybrid. Yeah, he's a hybrid. Well, that's good because Teferet is not the kinu. Okay. Anyway, I think most, almost all Jews are mixed background because we come from all the way back, back, who knows when, right? Originally, they're all Sefarit. Yeah. There was no such thing as Sefarit originally. No such thing. But they came from the Middle East. But they weren't Sefarit. Later on, we had the Nusach Sefarit, Nusach Ashkenaz. That was a differentiation between the two. But even the way of learning is a different way of learning. Even the songs of Ashkenazim are very, very complicated, complex. The songs of Sefarit are very simple. It would be interesting to know how Moshe Rabbeinu read it. Did he say Baruch Atah? Did he say Baruch Astah? I'll ask him next time I see him. Okay. But anyway, so we have this concept. In order to make rose water or whiskey, you know, something which has alcohol in it, they would put water on a fire. And in the water, they had either dates for Arak, you know, dates, or they have flowers. They put a clean, a kosher, a copper vessel in the Mayim. They take two kanim, like sticks, and they like bows, he said. They put one on the top of the cover. And one on the kli of the choshet. This is how they make whiskey. You know, it's a steam, from steam. The steam goes through the kanim. It goes into the kapa keili. So, the water The order in which the Kli of the Choshen is staying in is called making Melechah. They use it to make whiskey. So again, when you use something for a Pu'ula, it takes away the meat of chesed. Because it's restricting. You restricted the use of the Kli. And chesed is no restrictions. If you put water in a Kli, in order for the Kli to absorb the water. They used to do that in barrels, wooden barrels, because wood absorbs. And they wanted to put, let's say, wine inside. But if they put the wine inside the barrel, it'll be absorbed by the wood. What they did first was they put water in the barrel, and let it stay there. And the wood absorbed the water, and then they put the wine in. Got it? I used to be a winemaker, so I know how to do it. That was years ago. I was making wine in 1964. I actually made wine. There was a factory, a wine factory, near the yeshiva, Ramoshe's yeshiva, on East Broadway in Manhattan. And they needed the yeshiva guys to help. I used to go. I used to take the grapes, put it in the press, press out the wine, take the wine, put it in the barrels, and then we put some of them, a little bit of sugar, just for it to ferment. And then we had a measurement to see how much alcohol was in there. And then we filled up the bottles with the iron. Now, we used to also, some people wanted it to be mevushao, because wine mevushao is for the goish, so we took all the bottles that we had, and we opened up the caps. We had a huge pot full of hot, hot water, and we put the bottles with the wine in the hot water until they got a certain temperature. We measured it, and then we took them out and closed it, and we sold it. Good old days. It wasn't my factory. I drank a little bit too much. The wine is great. The olden days, it was amazing how we used to do it. Just amazing. Both kinds, all kinds. Yeah. Depends on your taste. I'll tell you something else, just because it's related to the same yeshiva, and it's an amazing thing which happened. I may have told some of you that in the 60s, they had a strike of the cemetery workers. They were on strike. Someone had passed away, and met B'Tzva. They came to the yeshiva to look for Bachram to dig the grave because they had the plot, but they couldn't get any workers. Anyway, they asked me to go, but I'm very scared of cemeteries. I said, I'm not going to go, but my chavruta, he went, plus another few guys. And they went. They buried him, they came back. What happened was, one of the gentlemen who buried him lost his wallet. He thought the wallet fell into the grave. So he went to Rabbi Feinstein, Moshe Feinstein, and said, what should he do? Rabbi Feinstein said, go back and dig it up and get your wallet. He went back, he dug it up, comes back, he found his wallet, but he saw the neftar, and he had a snake around his forehead and a snake around his arm. We found out later that this neftar never put on film. True story. Imagine that. These days, it happened. It's amazing. He brings it down, if a person is not put on film, the worm wraps around his head and around his arm. Wow. Okay, anyway. So, gentlemen, make sure you put on film. So anyway, if you put water into a cleat to absorb the water, the water is absorbed by the wood, it will no longer absorb the wine or the sheikha. That water cannot be used for washing hands. If you want to put water into a cleat to see if there's a hole in it or not, to test it, use it for a test. Those are water tanks. They used to put water in them to drink, small water bottles, but they used to make it out of leather. And... It's not working properly, I don't know why. What? It's too close to the phone, maybe. Okay, that's better? I don't know. All right, anyway. Whatever. So before they used it, they used to soak it in water inside for many days. And then they would spill out the water because that would finish the leather to be able to accept water and then put it in water. They used to fill it up with water every single day and spill it out to take away the bitterness of the skin, of the leather. That mind is also possible. A person who doesn't stay on his own, anything similar to this, that's possible. If a dog, a cat, or a pig, or any animal, ate, drank from the water, you can only use it. Because it's like sewer water. But if you do it with water, you can do it with water. Because it had no other water. The kosher animal drank from it, fine. Only a non-kosher animal drank from it. Some say if chickens drank, no, can't use it. Any type of bird which drank the water except for a yonah, but a yonah doves. A person should be careful about this. Warn your household. Always cover the water where you have to place it for the tefillah. So no one should drink from it. What if an animal drinks from it? A cat or something? You lose your memory. Can't do it. I'm saying you lose your memory, you know? Well, that's something else. If it's a stream, since it flows back and forth, or a mikveh, the water cannot be made pasul. So it's not about the birds now. If they drank from the water in the mikveh, it's very interesting, right? What birds need a mikveh? I don't know. King of the world, king of the world. All right, gentlemen.