Ein Yaakov 112a – Sanhedrin 31a – Yerusha Designated as Maaser Sheni – Dreams in Halakha – Keeping a Secret

Ein Yaakov 112a – Yerusha Designated as Maaser Sheni – Dreams in Halakha – Keeping a Secret – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. (Recorded in 1974.)

• 00:00 True account of a man whose father passed away and left him a yerusha – inheritance – but the son didn’t know where the money was, or how much of it was designated as Maaser Sheni – a specific type of charity.
• 02:47 Master of Dreams. There are 2 kinds of dreams: those received by means of an angel and those received by means of an impure spirit.
• 04:12 Both the Zohar HaKodesh and the Gemara say that no dream is completely true.
• 09:28 How food affects dreams.
• 13:17 If a person eats food in purity his dreams will be pure.
• 14:17 Why dreams are not reliable for determining halakha.
• 14:42 Rav Ami expelled a student from his yeshiva for revealing confidential information that was entrusted to him twenty-two years earlier (Sanhedrin 31a).
• 17:43 The mitzvah to respect bread.
• 22:18 The Gemara in Yuma includes discussion about the importance of keeping a secret, bringing an example from the life of Moshe Rabbeinu.
• 23:08 לאמור also implies לא אמר – “do not say”.
• 23:49 Anything said to a person is automatically a secret, unless the speaker verbally states that the listener may share what was said.
• 25:41 Bris Amar and Bris HaLoshon. אַחַת׀ דִּבֶּר אֱלֹהִים שְׁתַּיִם־זוּ שָׁמָעְתִּי כִּי עֹז לֵאלֹהִים – “HaShem spoke one thing, I heard two, for HaShem has strength” (Tehillim 62:12).
• 31:52 “Fence of Roses”.
• 34:37 The tiniest barrier can prevent a Jew from overstepping the bounds of Hilkhos Niddah.
• 37:32 Debate between the rabbis and Rabbi Zeira concerning restriction about whom may one mekarev.
• 37:57 Elisha HaNavi cursed a mob of disrespectful youths and 42 of them were killed.
• 39:54 Elisha was punished with a terminal illness for cursing the youths instead of seeking a way to bring them to teshuvah.
• 43:36 Summary and closing blessings.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.