Gathering on Shabbat / מעמר

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1. 0:01Okay, so we're beginning today a new
2. 0:04melacha. Until now, we spoke about three
3. 0:06melachot. We'll always kind of review very quickly, just by name:
4. 0:09melacha of zorea, planting; melacha of plowing; and then we're up to kotzer.
5. 0:17We finished kotzer now, which is harvesting, picking off from living plants.
6. 0:21The next melacha is the melacha of
7. 0:25me'amer. Me'amer translates as piling or gathering.
8. 0:28Let's tell you first what they did in the Mishkan.
9. 0:32Remember, the first eleven steps, the first eleven melachot, the eleven categories, are really steps to making the bread.
10. 0:38So they set up the ground, they put the seeds, they planted, and then after they planted, they
11. 0:45harvested. What did they do next?
12. 0:45And the answer is, they piled all the wheat together to be collected.
13. 0:50So that piling, that gathering, is called
14. 0:53me'amer, and that is really what the melacha is.
15. 0:56Now, it's not so common to find it.
16. 0:58There's only one practical halacha I can think about me'amer nowadays,
17. 1:01but the first definition, and the definition is that piling together plantations that have been picked off from their place where they grew,
18. 1:12putting it all together in one place, that is a melacha of
19. 1:15me'amer. Two conditions to be
20. 1:18me'amer. Number one is they all have to be the same type.
21. 1:20In order to break the melacha of me'amer, the issur is, they all have to be the same type,
22. 1:26which means the guy piles together oranges, apples, whatever it is, all these things together on Shabbat,
23. 1:33that's not a problem of
24. 1:35melacha me'amer. The other condition in order to be a problem of me'amer is that it has to be from the place where they grew,
25. 1:42which means we said yesterday that if on Shabbat fruits fall off, you can't touch them even.
26. 1:48Forget about you can't eat them, you can't take them. We're not talking
27. 1:51about—you can't even touch them. Why? They're
28. 1:53muktzeh. They came on Shabbat on the tree.
29. 1:55Now, before Shabbat, you have this windstorm, you're looking in your backyard and you have your apple tree,
30. 1:59and you saw, boom, boom, boom, apples are just falling down,
31. 2:03right?
32. 2:04You counted 25 apples. They're all already before Shabbat,
33. 2:08so for sure they're not
34. 2:10muktzeh. But you don't want to go out in the windstorm because you also don't want to fly.
35. 2:13You want to, you know—now you have in mind you're going to eat from those apples tomorrow.
36. 2:17Next day you come, the apples are all over the place.
37. 2:19You decide, for whatever reason, I'm not ready to eat, or maybe I can take one which you're allowed to,
38. 2:23but then you put them all together.
39. 2:25You piled it together,
40. 2:26or you took a basket and you put them all in the same basket.
41. 2:30That is the issur of
42. 2:32me'amer. That
43. 2:33we call me'amer. The following case is not
44. 2:36me'amer. Your kids open up the fridge, they pull out the drawer where has the fruits in it,
45. 2:41and all the apples fall out.
46. 2:43And you come back and you pile back the
47. 2:46apples. It's not
48. 2:47me'amer. Why?
49. 2:48It's not where they grow.
50. 2:50Now, although your kids think that's where the apples grow, that's not where they grow.
51. 2:53And not only that, even if you took a basket of apples to your backyard and you don't have an apple tree,
52. 3:00and the apples fell, right? Technically, but that's not where they grow.
53. 3:04So therefore, me'amer, again, like we said, two conditions
54. 3:06has to be the same type,
55. 3:07and number two is where they grow.
56. 3:10If you pile them together, that's the issur d'oraita of me'amer.