Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

That's an opinion, but there are different opinions on the matter.

Okay, it's 11.45.

Good morning, everybody.

Let's continue learning a little bit of Hilchos Pesach together.

Today, we're going to learn a little bit about Ma'o Schitim and hopefully, time permitting, some of the Dinim of Chodesh Nisan, some of the Halachos of Chodesh Nisan.

So let's start with Ma'os Chitim.

This is a minnag that Ramar records to collect wheat.

So it's not really a minnag of Ma'os Chitim, it's a minnag of Chitim.

It's to collect wheat and to give it to poor people for whatever they need for Pesach.

And the Mishpura writes that if a poor person can't afford to grind it and turn it into flour himself or to bake it, so you should do that for him as well.

And that's where it became important.

sort of ma'oz chitim or really matzahs that a person is supposed to give.

So the question is what exactly is the nature of this minhag of giving wheat or giving matzahs or giving flour to poor people leading up to the Yom Tov of Pesach.

So the basis for this minhag is Yerushalmi in the first parakh of Maseches B'Basra of all places.

First Perek of Masechas B'Basra deals with issues of tzedakah.

It also deals with issues of taxation.

And since this is something that we're requiring the community to take care of the poor people with, this belongs in a certain sense in the First Perek of Masechas B'Basra.

But the basis again in Hilchas Pesach is that the Ramah quotes this in Hilchas Pesach.

Then the Ramah says that you're only chayif to do this if you've been living in the community for 12 months.

If you haven't been living in the community for 12 months, then you're pater from this minag of ma'oz chitim.