Motzei Shabbos Parshas Noach is leil zayin Marcheshvan, the night Eretz Yisroel starts saying V'sein Tal U'matar Livrocha, while Chutz La'aretz waits until sixty days after the tekufah. That raises the question of where Eretz Yisroel ends: the Golan, the Arava down to Eilat, soldiers stationed in Sinai, and the kehillos Down Under whose seasons run the other way. And once the night comes, which words are me'akeiv, and where does a person put them in if he forgot. In this episode: - Whether the Golan, Eilat and soldiers in Sinai start on zayin Cheshvan, and the Ramban on yishuv Eretz Yisroel in kivush Olei Mitzrayim - The Ritva, the Ra'ah and the Orchos Chaim on starting right after Sukkos, and Rav Chaim Shabsai and the Halichos Shlomo on one who already did - Tal, matar, livrocha and al pnei ha'adama: which words are me'akeiv, and why leil zayin is different from Ya'aleh V'yavo at night - The hachraza and the clap before Shmoneh Esrei, and where it goes if forgotten: Bareich Aleinu, between the brachos, Shma Koleinu, or back after R'tzei - U'lemikveh hamayim kara yamim: the Ramban on the name Yam, the galei hayam in Bava Basra, and what happened to the gvul of the yam in the Mabul Sources: Shulchan Aruch and Rema OC 117:1, Rambam, Teshuvos HaRosh, Rav Chaim Shabsai (quoted by Rabbi Akiva Eiger), Ramban (Gittin), Mishnah Berurah, Ritva (Ta'anis 10), Chiddushei HaRa'ah (Ta'anis), Orchos Chaim, Halichos Shlomo (Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach), Pri Megadim, Shulchan Shlomo, Aruch HaShulchan OC 117, Mishnah Berurah 117:6, Halachos Ketanos, Shulchan Aruch, Rema and Magen Avraham OC 236, Kaf HaChaim, Chazon Ish, Igros Moshe OC 4, Ravya (OC 114), Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Teshuvos VeHanhagos 2:58 (Rav Moshe Sternbuch), Da'as Noteh and Ishei Yisroel (Rav Chaim Kanievsky), Yerushalmi. Machshavah section: Ramban and Rabbeinu Bachya (Bereishis 1:9-10), Gemara Bava Basra 73a, Yirmiyahu, Gemara Chagigah 12, Nefesh HaChaim (Sha'ar Aleph and Sha'ar Daled), Ramban (Toras Hashem Temimah), Medrash in Rabbeinu Bachya, Maharal (Gur Aryeh).

You board in New York, look out the window at the Atlantic, and make "she'asah es hayam hagadol." The next day the plane comes in over the Yam Hatichon — do you make a bracha again, or did the first one already cover it? The mechaber says the "yam hagadol" of the mishna is the Mediterranean, the one you cross from Eretz Yisroel to Mitzrayim; most acharonim say it's davka the ukyanos. That machlokes turns into a safek on both ends, and it changes what you say on the Atlantic, on the Mediterranean, on the Kinneret you drive to the same afternoon, and on the Har Chermon you see on the way. Part two turns to Elul, and the Shem Mishmuel's remez in this week's parsha: "atem kreivim hayom lamilchama." In this episode: - If the mechaber and the acharonim are in a safek on both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, why does the Biur Halacha say "oseh ma'aseh vereishis" is potur — and what does yayin and "ha'etz" have to do with it? - Gibraltar: if you can see the Mediterranean and the Atlantic at once, where is the gevul — and does it only work from an airplane? - You already made "she'asah es hayam hagadol" on the Atlantic; you land in Eretz Yisroel and see the Mediterranean. One connected yam or a new bracha? And what if you made "oseh ma'aseh vereishis" first, going the other direction? - Why is the minhag to bench on the Kinneret but not on the Yam Hamelach — min klalah, or because it wasn't there from ma'aseh vereishis? - Which harim are "meshunim" enough — Alps, Carpathians, Ararat, and Har Chermon as meyuchad b'mino in Eretz Yisroel? And a mapal like Niagara, which Chazal never listed? - Why does the Mishna Berura come out that we have no midbaros left to bench on? - If Moshe Rabbeinu's last arbaim yom were spent on tachanunim and not primarily on kabalas haTorah, what was he actually being mispallel for — and why does that make Elul yemei tachanunim? Sources: OC 228 (mechaber, Mishna Berura with seif katan hey, Biur Halacha, Pri Megadim), Aruch Hashulchan 228, sefer Vezos Habracha perek 17 (Rav Alexander Mandelbaum) b'shem Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and Rav Moshe Sternbuch, Rav Yaakov Emden, Ohr Letziyon (Rav Ben Tzion Abba Shaul), Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Eishel Avraham (Butchatch), Rav Shmuel Wosner. Machshavah section: Shem Mishmuel (Shoftim), Zohar, Medrash Rabba (Emor), Tur OC 581 citing Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer, Vilna Gaon — Aderes Eliyahu perek 34 and his pirush l'Agados, Ohr HaTorah on sefer Ma'alos HaTorah (Rav Yitzchak Isaac Chaver).

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