Don't Throw Kugel Out the Window | Pele Yoetz | Hachzek Day 87
Alright, Khavra, I hope you're doing fantastic. I hope you had an amazing Shabbos. We continued this week, Paleoites. Today we're learning the topic of chashu, the topic of suspicion. We spoke at the end of last week how a person has to be careful where he dines, where he eats, right? Because who knows, not everyone's as careful as maybe they should be in terms of checking food and isar and shabbas or or what have you. So better to dine at home. But let's say you have to go out. Says the Paleoids. Let's say you have to go out and eat somewhere, and the status of the food is in doubt. I'll call Bonam Ya Ansehatzala porta. Save yourself a little bit, do some ishtabbas, what should you do? says the Paleoids. Shayish oli mim nizar lovdukhar to lam. Ask the person in charge if they were careful to check, if they examine the food, the lettuce, or whatever it might be, if they they checked it for insects, for worms. And may ask them if they um to make sure they didn't do any issir of warming things up on Shabbos. Let's say you can't ask the host these questions. So don't eat from these particular foods. And a person has to use chachmah, be creative in a way, but if in shlloyagishubo do it in a way where the host will not notice. When I remember from Yeshiva, I remember he said I think he was a baker, and they were eating um at a host at a someone's house. This wasn't a shaila of food from Issa, they just posha didn't like the potato kugel. So when the host was in the bala the balabasta was in the kitchen, um, he said they they took the potato kugel and threw it out the window, which was right behind them. Little did they know that there was actually a screen. I don't want to know what happened after that, but that's the mice. Vihu Rachum, Yechhaper, yeah. Hopefully she had mercy on that. Okay. It could be good in a way. Meaning Hashem's forgiving. You try, try to do what you can. Remember, a person should try to have a self-imposed blanket prohibition for himself that he enacts for his home and his family. Where I'm I don't we don't eat out, right? There I know there's certain rabbin in the community where I live, where that that's their their sheeta, because people want to invite them, but who knows people's standards? So they have a blanket sheeta, they don't go out for meals, and there's something nice about that. Um, he's gonna do a tremendous toyba for himself. Many bad things come about uh potentially. Evils come about from eating outside of one's home, um, in the presence of others. Usha sakhila sha'as mucha masha sakana. Eating is not like a it's nishta pasha zag, it's not a pasha thing. Um I don't actually speak Yiddish. Nishta posha zag is something I can handle. Okay, hopefully you can handle that too. If not, but I don't know. Send me an angry email. No, please don't. Okay. Usha's sha's muchamasha sakana. Meal times are oftentimes, it's the battleground of the Yetzahara. It's uh where the he tries to tempt us to sin. How great is it for people who don't go to eat outside of their homes. Especially regarding voluntary gatherings, their absence, meaning not doing them, is better than the evil that they perpetuate by existing. Even some people who have to go out for meals, like we had mentioned, um, on Pesach, this should be the enacted in every single person's home because it's a time of tremendous stringency. A person, a family, should be extra vigilant not to partake of food outside his homes. Um, there is no suspicion here in terms of haughtiness. No one's gonna take issue with his behavior, in fact, he's gonna be held commendable. Shekvar Maabla Pumeud Inshe Lomar Pesa K ish eatel achiven ochel, as people say on Pesach will often not even eat in the house of his brother. Not everybody's equal and careful in terms of the level of vigilance, and some people won't even eat with their own family, and therefore better to be at home and fascinating. But it just um, you know, this concludes the section of of Khosh of Suspicion. But we see, we see the the food is often the the place, the battleground of the itzahara, and it it teaches us something about food. There's something tremendously holy, spiritual about food. Right? I was thinking about it. Like if you want to talk about I happen to like pizza, right? So if you want to describe to uh a Martian, uh someone that comes from space, right? Um you know, describe what pizza tastes like. How would you describe it, right? Take any food for that matter. It's hard to describe. Taste is something that's beyond teva. It's like um it's like a spiritual component. And uh food, what I'm bringing out from this is that food has a spiritual component to it, and the Atar knows there's a tremendous amount of caduce of holiness that can be um found in food, and therefore he makes it his business. This is his battleground, the food. So let's be careful. Um, you know, maybe better than going to a restaurant is getting Doordash and bringing it home. I uh I'm just bringing that out. Try to think of practical ideas that comes out from this Palaeoites. Um the one practical thing not to do is if you're served potato google at a meal and you don't like it, don't try throwing it out the window behind you because you never know. There might be a screen there, and then it'll be very, very uncomfortable. And certainly the host will realize, and you're not gonna live to like what you're not gonna ful fulfill what the Palayoit said of do it in a way, Shaluya Gisha, do it in a way where the host will not notice. So don't do that. Okay, wishing you all the best, have a fantastic rest of your day, and our Mr. Shem will pick up tomorrow with a new topic, the topic of Khasan.
