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Young Israel of Westside Shiurim

Brachos 62

  1. Stories in the gemara about talmidim following their teachers to the bathroom to study their conduct, as everything is Torah that needs to be learned.

  2. One shouldn’t expose themselves until they are sitting down. One shouldn’t wipe with their right hand. There are five reasons- 1. Torah was given with Hashems right hand 2. Right hand used for eating 3. One ties Tefillin with right hand 4. One shows the cantillation notes with it 5. One writes holy things with right hand

  3. Modestly/silence protects one in the bathroom from all sorts of dangerous things. Abaye had a 🐑 that went into the bathroom with him. Raves wife’s would make noise to scare away dangerous things when he was in the bathroom.

  4. When defecating in public there are two opinions. The lenient opinion that if one is behind a fence, it is ok even if he can be heard. And if one can’t be heard, it’s ok even if he is exposed. The strict opinion is that one must not be heard or seen.

  5. One should not over exaggerate at a eulogy.

  6. At night one does not have to go out so far to defecate, but it stilll should be in a corner and one still shouldn’t expose themselves too much.

  7. It is inappropriate to speak inside a bathroom.

  8. Shaul was extremely modest in his conduct in the bathroom and it was that merit that Dovid didn’t kill him even though he was a “rodef.”

  9. Dovid cut off corner of Shaul’s cloak. He was punished for disrespecting clothing bc later in his life clothing no longer warmed him.

  10. In another encounter between Shaul and Dovid, Dovid said HaShem incites Shaul against him. Dovid was punished for saying this and he forgot the law that Jews should not be counted directly. He counted them directly and there was a plague. Hashems kindness was that is lasted very short. It stopped when HaShem “saw” the angels form yaakov, the ashes from akeidas Yitzchak, the coins the Jews once counted with, the beis Hamikdash.

  11. One can’t make the Temple into a shortcut. This law applies to a Shul as well, unless 1. One entered for a mitzvah 2. The shortcut predated rhe Shul 3. One already davened in the Shul

  12. In beis Hamikdash, one can’t wear shoes or spit. Both of these things are permissible in ones home.

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05 Mar 2020