Ep1378 Shoftim 14:11-12

0:00So we're holding by you say for sure if Tim were in Perik Yidaled, Posse Kiraalif, the sheer was started as a scussi, Lannishmasi, a cheskal shrakab, and after a mihuda, she also be a scuss for an eel in Nishama, for Masha Bandaniyal and Khaymaloz, and Bensham Shana'arye as well as a scuss for Furshleimah, Khaym doy bamin, a rochle and Khaymalz, and Khaymalz, and a rochle and a scuss for all those in Arts Israel. So far we've learned in the Perik that Shamshain discovers a plushty girl that he wants to marry. He insists to his parents, he persists, that he wants to marry her and not a Jewish girl. And finally his parents relent, and they agree to go through with the shirakh, they accompany him down to Timnos, we saw that he was approached by a lion, he kills the lion, he revisits the place of the lion, sees the bees with the honey, and takes some of that honey and gives it to his parents. And last time we saw that Shamshain makes a mishta, K'aykainyasu abakhurim, he makes this mishta that the bakhurim used to make, which again the Maalbim learns was not shever a chis, but rather it was a seven day feast that occurred before the wedding.

1:00So Pasekir alif now, he goes down to Timnos, he goes down to where the plushty are living, to facilitate the marriage there, to conduct the marriage in that place, and ultimately he's going to settle and live amongst the plushty. Now he didn't have friends that came with him from Arts Israel, so he needs a wedding party, needs some groomsmen. So Pasekir alif, ayikir isa my say, it happened that when they saw him, meaning the woman and her father saw him, so ayikhushlaysha mayrayim, ayi'u'etay, so they took 30 companions and they assigned them to be Shamshain's groomsmen, Zakt Rashid wants the purpose, Rashid says, Khaveir and Lushashbina's, that they were going to be the friends that provided the Shashbina's the presence for the Khasa that we learned about in the Gomara, and that's why he needed Shlaysha, mayrayim, and that was going to be their role. So Pasekir bays, ayi'u'etay, so Shamshain says to them, akhuda nalachemchida, let me pose a riddle to you, im hagite hagidu ayi'sali shivas kimayyam ishte, if you tell me the answer

2:06during the seven days of feasting umatsasa and you solve it, vena sati lachem shlayshams steenem. Then I'm going to give you 30 steenem, steenem is like sheets, changes of bed linen, basically sheets that you sleep on. So I'm going to give you 30 sheets, umshlaysha mchalifas bighadim, and 30 changes of clothing. So Shamshain basically presents to them that if they're up for it, he'll give them a riddle, allow them seven days to figure out what the answer to the riddle is, and if within the seven days they can come back with a solution, so then they are going to win 30 sets of sheets and 30 changes of clothing, let's just do Posse Kiyagimmo, we'll come back to it next time, but quickly just to finish off the the offering, vena lach sukhul hagidu ayi', but if you can't tell me the answer, if you can't answer the riddle for me, on is sati matem li shlayshastinem ishlayshams chalifas bighadim, then you have to give me the

3:09same um the same price, the same bounty, if you get it then you're getting the shlayshastinem ishlayshams chalifas bighadim, but if you don't get it, then I win, and I get the shlayshams dhenem ishlayshams chalifas bighadim, so vayay moulay, so they answer them chudachidas khavanishma anna, so ask us your riddle and let's hear it. Now this is going to set up an opportunity or pretext for shamshain to fight with them, because there's no way for them to know the solution to the riddle, because we'll see that the solution to the riddle is the bees that are making honey in a hive inside the carcass of a lion. Now no one knew of the existence of that miracle, so there was no one that could possibly have known the answer to this riddle, he didn't even tell his parents, so basically shamshain is setting up that the plishdom are going to be ticked off of him, they're probably going to take some sort of action against him, whether it's Nekamma against him or his family,

4:10they're going to do something and in that way that's going to give him the peseach that he needs to really strike a blow to the plishdom. However if you look at it from the perspective of the Meireyim, it's hard to understand why they would accept such a riddle, the financial stakes are high, this wasn't cheap stuff that they were betting on, and how could they possibly agree without hearing the riddle first, shamshain can ask anything, shamshain can ask what was I thinking of last night to eat fissupper, there are things that shamshain can ask that would be impossible for them to solve. So the art scroll suggests that it could be that all along they planned on using shamshain's wife to get the answer out of him, and that was why they agreed to it, Lichatheela, that was sort of their plan, they likely wouldn't guess it on their own, but they figured they could press your shamshain's wife into getting them the answer. The problem understands that because they were 30 of them and one of him, they figured they have 30 times the odds to find the answer, in other words there's one person posing the

5:14riddle, but there's 30 people thinking of an answer, it's more likely that they'll be able to win the bet because they're assigning a lot more resources to find the answer than shamshain is to coming up with the riddle. Now again in terms of the timeline most of the Meifar Shamshain learned that this is happening at the day of the wedding, so basically Shamshain's giving them a week to come up with the answer, but again the Malbim who learns that this took place during the pre-party, so he halts that they actually had 14 days to come up with the answer, he posed it at the initial Yume Mishda, but he gave them not only the initial Yume Mishda to figure out the answer, but even the Shava Brauchers to come back with an answer, so again it makes more sense if they have 14 days to figure out an answer to a riddle, they have a good chance that somewhere in those 14 days they'll discover the answer. And in fact the Chimicinach says that his Lashinem Haggai Tagidu Umitsa Sam that you can find it meaning that Shamshain saying I'm not going to trick you, it's something that you can

6:15figure out, if you put your mind to it you can come up with the answer, I'm not going to come up with some convoluted riddle that will be impossible for you to solve, for example I'm not going to ask you what I thought of eating last night for supper which is impossible for you to figure out, but rather I'm going to give you clues that it is possible if you use your mind you can figure it out. The Mishra Katana explains Shamshain's words in Haggai Tagidu Isolate, that Shamshain is saying Lee, it's got to be the answer I'm thinking of, there might be other solutions to the riddle, but it's Lee, you got to tell me the answer that I have decided upon, and it's not only going to be an answer to me, but you when you hear it you'll agree that it's Takah the correct answer, so Imhagai Tagidu Isolate, if you tell me the answer that I'm thinking of, and if you don't get it and I tell it to you you're going to be maskeh that it is Takah a good answer to the riddle. Mabum says with the word Mishra Sam, he actually gave them a hint, he says Umitsra Sam, it's something

7:16that if you look for you'll find it, meaning if you go outside the city and you look around you'll find the answer to the problem, because outside the city near the vineyards there is a lion carcass with bees and honey inside the carcass, so the answer is there for you to find if you go out and search for it, and just to endow off and pick it through a leather samperic tezayan, Rebi says that we learn from these psookim the whole concept of Shava brochus, the fact that Shamshain is celebrating Shivas Yameya Mishra for seven days of feasting, which Pasha Pshamin seven days after the wedding, Zakt Rebi, we learn from here that there's seven days of fast of feasting rather, not fasting, feasting that occur after a wedding.