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Rabbi Eli Mansour

Torah Lecture

Siman: 97, Seif: 03-05

Lectured by Rabbi Eli Mansour

Published
February 21, 2006
Duration
7:36
Lecture code
REM-MB-302

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Halacha Gimel (Law 3). If you have a louse biting him in the middle of the Tefillah (prayer), take the beged (garment) and pull it off. But don't take it off with your hand, because if your hands get dirty, then you already have to wash them. So you take it off with the beged. Not during the Tefillah, you can take it with your hand and throw it in the Beit Knesset (synagogue). No, he threw it in the Beit Knesset. He doesn't even throw it in the Beit Knesset. If you touch the kinah (louse), then you have to wash your hands against the wall or against the beged. Someone said you have to actually wash your hands with water. It's a bad spirit. If you take it off with the beged, then you already have to wash your hands with water.

So that's that. Again, he writes: if you have a louse biting him in the middle of the Tefillah, take the beged and pull it off. That's talking about where it just fell partly off. So you want to fix it to make it straight. But if it falls, then it's all over. Take the beged and pull it off. If it falls, then it's all over. So the Shulchan Aruch says that even if the majority falls off, you can adjust it. Even if it falls, if you still have a beged in your hand, you have to stop. Even if you have it in your hand, for example. It doesn't matter. Putting the beged back on itself stops you. It can't be. And if it falls and gets wrapped here, if you put it on in the middle of the Amidah (standing prayer), you can't start the blessing. You don't have to start from the beginning of the blessing. You just finish the prayer and go. And when you finish the prayer, it's all over. You have to make another blessing. You have to make another blessing. When the tallit (prayer shawl) falls off, the beged has left you. So you have to make another blessing.

Okay, the old man who wears his glasses on his nose—Saba—is about to put a string on, so his glasses aren't going to fall off his nose when he bows. Like you said, if leaving the beged on the floor is going to affect you so much that you won't have the blessing, you can pick it up and put it back on. So, if leaving the beged on the floor is going to affect you during the blessing, that's okay. If you leave the elastic on top of the beged and do something with it in the middle of the prayer, the mistakes will just go on until the drawbacks are rid of. You can continue. But I invite you to stay with me and pray. The fire will burn all of them, because when they return, they will return with blessings.

Even though we say that there is a blessing, there is a doubt about the blessing. So, if it falls off you, you do put it back on. But there is a blessing. The topic is done, don't worry. And the time has come for you to pray.

Less than carrying a kavim (weight measure) that makes you pray. Carrying a kavim that makes you pray. You have a load on your back. There comes a time in the Amidah. If it's less than 4 kavim, that's the weight measure. You put it on your back and pray, like a knapsack. For 4 kavim or more, you have to put it down on the floor. More than 4 kavim in weight is going to take away from the guys...