Sunday, December 03, 2006

Daf Yomi - Beitza 37 - What Time is the Party?

The Gemora cites a braisa that rules regarding two people that borrowed a garment in partnership. One intended to wear it in the morning to go the Beis Medrash and the other intended to wear it in the evening to go to a party.

The Mishna Berura (397:22) asks that from the simple reading of the braisa, it would seem that the second fellow intended to wear the garment on the second night of Yom Tov. If so, each person should be able to wear the garment and go anywhere in his own complete boundary since the two days of Yom Tov are regarded as two distinct sanctities?

He is compelled to answer that the correct meaning of the braisa is that the second fellow intended to go to a party which was on the first night of Yom Tov.

Reb Menachem Kohn Zt”l in his sefer Ateres Avi answers that perhaps the meaning of the braisa is that the second fellow intended to go a party which was to take place in the afternoon of the first day. The word ‘arvis’ can connote afternoon as well as the evening.

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