Hello chevra and welcome back to our pre-Pesach mishnayos series where we are learning mishnayos related to the period of time between Purim and Pesach. We had just finished our series on the yud date of Yud Nissan, the 10th of Nissan, and we now make our way to the yud gimmel Nissan, the 13th day of Nissan. This will be one standalone mishna, the mishna can be found in perek masechta Shekalim, perek chet, mishna gimmel. Now the mishna here is discussing you are now in you've finally made it to Yerushalayim. Remember, you left they started fixing the roads around Shushan Purim, you started traveling around chaf tes Adar, you're making your way you finally get to Yerushalayim, maybe you're there a couple of days early and you're starting to prep and part of your preparation for Pesach is to make sure everything is tahar. As we said in an or when we discussing zayin Nissan, the last day to sprinkle something with the mei parah, the second time. Remember if something is tamei meis, it needs to be sprinkled with the parah adumah water on the third and seventh day after it became tamei. So assuming the last time some something became tamei was on zayin Nissan, yud gimmel Nissan would also be the day that you are metaher it and not only that but you were metaher all the keilim that you would use, the knives and and the cleavers, cleavers are like big knives, like clunky knives that are used for breaking bones more than like shechting an animal and all the other keilim you were getting ready to prepare so that you were ready to have your korban Pesach be'kedusha and with tahara and purity. So our mishna is going to talk about what happens if you find a knife or a cleaver one of the called a kofitz in the mishna, if you find them around Yerushalayim. Can you assume that they are tahar and can be used for the korban Pesach to shecht it and to otherwise use on yom tov? The prior mishna which we are not discussing had mentioned that generally speaking if you find keilim in Yerushalayim, under certain circumstances you can assume that they are pure, that they are tahar. Our mishna is focused specifically on the knife and the kofitz because those were the types of utensils that people kept very close watch on and they would toivel them just before the yom tov to make sure that they were completely tahar. It is true that our mishna has some technical rules in it but we will make our way through the mishna and try to understand it as best as we can. There are some disputes amongst the meforshim, the meforshim understand our mishna in different ways but we will go with a particular way of understanding our mishna that that I think makes sense and is easiest for us to understand. So the mishna begins again Shekalim perek chet mishna gimmel. סכין שנמצאת בארבעה עשר you find a knife on the 14th day of Nissan which is erev Pesach, the day that you are supposed to shecht the korban Pesach. shocheit bah miyad. So you don't have to assume, you can assume that it is tahar, you can take it with you to the Beis HaMikdash and you can shecht your korban Pesach with it. We assume that everybody toiveled their knife the day before and therefore today it is tahar. However, bi'shlosha asar, what happens if you find it on the 13th day of Nissan? shoneh u'matbil. So then what you need to do is you actually have to toivel it. We don't assume that when you found it it was already put in the mikvah. So rather you should go and repeat shoneh repeat u'matbil and toivel it in the mikvah so that the next day it will be completely tahar. Now others understand shoneh here, the word shoneh, not to mean that you should go and repeat the tvila, but shoneh here means that it that you should go and sprinkle it with the parah adumah water like we mentioned in the introduction that because it is the 13th of Nissan it was common for that to be the last day on which you sprinkled the parah adumah water and therefore you should go and do that and then go and put it in the mikvah so you know for sure that it is tahar just in case the real owner did not have a chance to sprinkle the parah adumah water on it earlier that day. So that relates to the knife. What about the kofitz? What about the cleaver? And like I said the cleaver was very rarely used for shechita itself, it was a little clunky and more it was used for breaking the bones of animals let's say when you after you shechted it and you were preparing your korban. Now we know that the korban Pesach unlike any other korban you're not allowed to break any of the bones. So unless you were using it for shechita this kofitz, there was no reason to really use a kofitz for the korban Pesach. Therefore the mishna says like this וקופיץ בין בזה ובין בזה whether you find it on the 13th or the 14th, you cannot assume that it is tahar because there really would have been no purpose for it as it relates to the korban Pesach and therefore shoneh u'matbil you should repeat and toivel it or sprinkle it with the parah adumah water and put it into the mikvah. I'll just point out that there's an interesting discussion as it relates to this halacha because in addition to To the Korban Pesach on Erev Pesach, very often you would also bring a Korban Chagiga alongside of the Korban Pesach. We have, we have, we remember that currently on our ka'ara, on our Seder plates, we have the egg which commemorates the Korban Chagiga that came along with the Korban Pesach, so that you would eat the Korban Chagiga first, so that you were not starving when you ate the Korban Pesach, so this way you wouldn't come to break any of the bones because you were so hungry. And so the question is, why would you not be able to use this kofitz for that Korban Chagiga? And the mefarshim explain whether or not the Korban Chagiga that comes along with the Korban Pesach followed the same rules as the Korban Pesach. But be it as it may, again, if you find the kofitz on the 13th or the 14th, you should toivel it. However, chal Arba'asor, if the 14th Erev Pesach lehious beshabbos happens to be Shabbos, shocheit bo miyad, and if you need to use it, you can use the kofitz even for shechita that day because the rule is is that you do not toivel kelim on Shabbos and Yomtov. That's just a, it's a shvus, it's a issur D'Rabbanan of toiveling on Yomtov and Shabbos, and therefore you have to assume that people complied with that and toivelled it on the 13th, so that even on the 14th you can use it. Bachamisha Asor, and if you find it on the 15th day, the kofitz, shocheit bo miyad, again, of course you can use it because even if you didn't use it on the 14th for the Korban Pesach, you toivelled it before Yomtov to use on the 15th, that's not a problem. The mishna concludes with an interesting case of nimtzeis keshurah lesakin, if you find the kofitz tied to your knife, harei zu kesakin, then we will assume that it has the exact same status as your knife. So if your knife is tahor, let's say you find the knife on the 14th, we said it's tahor, then the kofitz found on the 14th tied to it will also be tahor as well. So the kofitz will follow the status of the sakin. And with that, we conclude our mishna, and I wish you continuing hatzlacha.