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welcome everybody my name is Aaron post
my wife Dina over there she left yeah
you can't see
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her so first of all I'm going to thank
all of you first of all I actually wrote
thank first of all but I'm a little
nervous so thank AEM first of all and
then secondly you and really the
greatest um thanks is also to briw for
coming
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and and then going back back to my wife
who really prepared everything almost
everything she didn't prepare it she
bought
it I'm getting to that I'm getting to
the volunteers so regarding the
volunteers we um I don't know if you
know this we have a very uh a special
place our hearts for the convicts and so
by the way there are the RCA is renting
our play six hours a week for their
conversion program and we have a very
close connection with panim or and we
have many many many
volunteers working many many hours in
preparation for this
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evening and um I just want to mention
tonight's seder is partially sponsored
by and Jonathan Bloom for the ofth
Abraham keep that in mind now I just
want to mention before I turn everything
over to the rabbi we have at the end of
the evening actually need say the end
it's really uh what do they call that
thing the Super Bowl and it's called
half half time half timee so the rabbi
is going to do the full first first week
first part first half first half okay
and then um we have simp sh
who will be I don't know what the word
is he'll be um sh
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off is having a spiritual musical
experience and it's going to be special
and it's going to be uplifting and it's
going to involve each and every one of
you and you know it's all about
being all right so we're going to be
grounded in this difficult time and
we're going to reach up to sh to have
joy and everybody's invited
to and he said exactly what I was about
to say thank
you I just want to mention that last
year last year at our tubish seder I
mentioned that it's a special time to
have prayer to think not just about your
future estro but about your future
Mitzvah anything to do with the future
anything to do with the future and I
mentioned that we were going to buy a
safe for Torah and then find the place
this is a chap M that's SM uh we're
going to find a place to put that safer
Torah and then start a chakras minion
that goes a little bit slow for us B
Chua converts people just want to have a
little bit more kavana and as of we
started it got off to a little bit of a
rocky start but you're all invited
anybody who lives in the neighborhood to
join us uh to make it a more solid
experience um for those who are not on
our on our ma list please sign up on the
website
g.com and you'll be informed about
upcoming
events and just a real short thing about
pesak right which will be leading our
seder it won't be the 70 people we have
here tonight it will only be a select 30
35 as you can see it's a very small
place so look for the U the advert and
register as early as
possible
um so we 30 days before pora right like
there's like redemption in the air a
renewal in the air and then once we get
to por which we probably have right Mina
Auda here she's on the idea so hopefully
we'll have a suda here and that'll be
preparation for the big uh Redemption so
the seeds of redemption begin tonight 30
days before Forum forum is a preparation
for the preparation of redemption and I
think that I have exhausted myself even
though I have a lot more words to say
but I don't want to take too much away
from our special time room let excuse me
the word on the street that is very warm
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hot just give me a second
here I just mentioned it's a lot of
background it's okay okay I'll stay here
yeah we'll
deal okay hi everybody Shalom
and it's very much a pleasure to uh be
with you an honor to be with you
especially in uh Ian's new
facility um I have to admit I walked
into the room that had a bed in it and I
actually felt like going to sleep
because I'm a little exhausted but once
again the energy uh revives us and um I
want to talk a little bit before we
start the actual eating about the
historical background and significance
of a tu bishvat seder everybody
understands at least in general terms
what the p s is about but what is this
thing about aish now I don't remember
having that growing up Etc so in truth
the idea that tuat the 15th ofat is
RO is said to be the new year for the
trees is the new year for
people the 15th of shat is the new year
for trees now it's actually a in the
mishna according
to is the new year for trees B says the
15th ofat is the new year of trees so
you start looking around for the
significance of Tu bishvat and you you
will naturally go to the mishna that
says 15th of shat is the new year for
trees unfortunately however there may be
less to that reference than you might
think the actual mishnaic reference is a
highly technical problem of the laws of
truma and Maser and that is we know in
ER Israel we have to take off tithing
from the produce and the normal rule is
that you cannot take off the fruits and
vegetables or grains of one year to
cover another year every year has to
have its own
distinct and for grain and vegetables
the demarcation point is the Rosana Tish
for trees for reasons I'll get to it's
so the only significance in the talmud
of tubish as being the r trees is simply
that produce of last year can be
combined with produce of this year trees
fruits as long as it's before tubish
that's all it means meaning I can use
5784 fruit together with 5785 fruit if
it's if it budded prior to
tubish that's a little disappointing in
the sense that we're looking for some
spiritual depth to tubish the Tet itself
does not give it to us it uses tub
bishvat as a marker for the laws of
truma and Maser as it applies to fruit
now why was tub bishvat chosen as the
demarcation point so here we're the
doeses mention an idea that's going to
eventually become very important
mystically it mentions because although
tubish vad is in the middle of the
winter still we're in the
winter but this is when the sap of the
tree has gone all the way up to where
the branches are and from that sap you
will eventually get your fruits so
although the fruit is not yet visible
it's the winter after all but the sap is
there now once again the TMA does not
run with this as a spiritual idea it is
simply giving you a halic reason why Tu
bishvat is important in the agricultural
cycle so when you walk away from the
talud the mishna and the gumar you don't
necessarily see any idea that tubish is
a is celebrated in any way it's just a
demarcation point it's a date that's
important in the laws of
Agriculture but already in the time of
the gonan
this is after the talud but before Rashi
in the time of the G say from the years
700 to
1,000 we already find some scattered
hints that tub bishvat has a festive
Aura uh the first is simply the idea
that you don't
say on
tubish and although that may sound like
a relatively minor thing but that
normally signifies there's something
festive you also find that there was a
custom not a full-blown Sader that
didn't come yet but that one should eat
the of is and to give gratitude to God
so there was the beginnings what you
might say of a little bit of a semi
celebration and in truth for most of CLA
Isel that's kind of where it stopped
meaning to say in most parts of the
religious World Tu bishvat we don't say
Tak this year there's a little bit of a
benefit it's a Thursday the long t
shouldn't say that but you know one gets
out of the long t Okay uh and you eat uh
I remember when I was growing up we ate
this thing that was called buckser
bucker is just dried dried carab and I
don't know the bucker that we had when I
was growing up literally literally
tasted like wood it was like chewing a a
stick and I just did not understand what
on Earth was important about this now I
think you can get carab tasted a little
a little better than it would normally
be and that was about it no there was no
Sader I mean I I never had a tubish
growing up and most of the Torah world
to this very day does not have a tubish
Vater so where does it come from it's
become very popular in past years if you
go to safaria for example you'll see
probably
20ish you know some from natural
non-orthodox but all sorts of everybody
makes tubish saders so it really comes
uh from the generation after the ARA it
really has its origin in cabala but
which is in the 1500s but really not
from the Aral himself but from the
generation after the Aral and the
primary source for the
TU is from a sa
called is a cabalistic safer that has
records many many interesting customs
and among them is a full-fledged
Sader for I'll discuss why that
developed now if you're a
bibliographical person who likes
bibliography is actually an
extraordinarily uh controversial safer
there were those who said it was a
product of a follower of shopit V he
came a little later and therefore TR
pule
user among spum however they had a
different M that it was a very holy book
it was a sacred book and that which is
contained as worthy of emulation so
that's why you might find sometimes
occasionally opposition even to a tu
because of its origin in the saadian
book but I would say that I think there
are two reasons why that should not be a
criticism reason number one is as I say
many many people say is a holy book but
number two there's a more basic argument
here and that is even if you assume a
worst case scenario that it came from a
tainted origin but if it was adopted and
adapted by sikim and and G that it self
sanctifies it and in many many ways
Origins are less important than the
practices that were adopted by holy and
righteous people I'll make a calv from
yoga right yoga you know starts off with
Far Eastern practices right some of them
connected to idolatry so how can I take
a yoga class our answer is well it's
became it became a medium of relaxation
and exercise it's no longer connected at
least if you have the right yoga
instructure it's not connected to
Eastern modalities of worship it gets
cous so the is very much the same it
makes no difference where it started it
is considered to be a holy significant
ritual now what's the basis of the idea
so the basis of the conceit is a verse
that reld alluded
to the Torah itself describes a human
being as a
tree we are a tree in the image of Calis
we are an upside down tree maybe that's
why we're always confused an Earthly
tree has its roots on the ground and the
tree grows towards the heaven we have
our roots in the heaven and we grow
towards the Earth but we are a tree and
therefore they saw in the notion
of a message to The Human Condition but
what exactly is that message it
certainly doesn't mean we're judged Bish
we know that God judges us who will live
and who will die in health and sickness
anash so you can't just say oh I'm a man
is trees and therefore this is my
Rashana this is not my rashash my
rashishana is
Rashana so the answer is there's
something else at stake here and that is
there are
lessons from the trees and the fruit
that we incorporate in our spiritual
life lesson number one is recognize
hidden
potential I look at a tree now it's the
winter now of course I understand if
you're if you'd be in the Northeast us
you'd actually see the snow right now we
don't see the snow but still trees are
not producing fruit there are no leaves
on the trees I see dorcy I see what
looks like stagnation what looks like
nothing's happening but in reality
beneath the surface there's pulsating
life the sap has come up that's why the
tamic idea becomes very important in the
mystical tradition and that reminds us
that even though in our own lives we
have ups and downs and sometimes we feel
we're not being productive we have to be
cognizant of the Hidden potential for
goodness and greatness that exists
within us within our children within you
know all that we interact with and
therefore that is one of the important
lessons of
tubish recognize the great potential in
the soul of a Jew that is hidden beneath
the
surface the other idea is
that trees produce fruit commensurate to
the
cultivation in other words you got to
work you got to prune you have to uh do
all the different things and that
reminds us that goodness requires work
and it requires efforts it requires
commitments you don't become righteous
by inertia you don't become righteous
because it just happens like the tree
the tree has beautiful potential indeed
but that potential has to be
cultivated and look at how the tree
works it takes nutrients from the dirt
from the soil and it turns them into
something that gives life and joy not
just fruits but also shade and the like
and it reminds us therefore that even
our animalistic earthy
Tendencies can be transformed into
something holy and Noble so when we look
at the Journey of the tree we're also
looking at
ourselves our potential now
theim the first
gbi says a very interesting thought
there's a passage in the TMA ji it's not
in the Babylonian tment that says that
any fruit that budded prior to tubish
got its nurturance based on last year's
reign
if it buds after Tu bishvat it's got its
nurturance from this year's Reign that's
the Tet statement the explains that the
word gem rain is not just rain
precipitation but it refers to all of
the
blessings that God makes available
whether it's Health knowledge of Torah
shim parasa children so he says the
following this is very amazing all the
on
rosashana God determines your allotments
for the year but you don't start drawing
on those allotments till Tu Bish which
means until
today we were living off what God
allocated to us in
5784 starting today we're living off
what God allocated to us in
5785 we hope it'll be better but it
might not be better but it's different
either way way and the actually said a
spiritually sensitive person should be
able to determine that their life after
Tu bishvat is slightly different in some
ways than it was before Tu bishvat
because it's a new judgment meaning
we're not judged on tubish but we're
drawing the allocation of the Judgment
of
5785 starting from tuat and that's what
the Yi means that before tubish you're
living off last year's
after you're living off this year's rain
in fact he even
says that this is why B shami made the
rashash the first of shatti the TMA
tells us that shamai had a more
Discerning intelligence than Hill so
shamai was so subtle that they saw the
beginnings of the new has already two
weeks earlier from
R they so much better so this is some of
the lessons
that we need to think about uh there's a
whole other set set of lessons um and
again I have to I guess give credit or
credit is Du I I think the reform
movement perhaps popularized this aspect
more than the Orthodox but it's a
legitimate aspect and that is it's a
time to focus a little bit on our
relationship to the
environment uh right tuer some look at
this as a celebration of
environmentalism as I say the cabalist
did not emphasize the environmental
aspect the cabal emphasize the spiritual
internal aspect of human transformation
and that's indeed what I'm considering
the main idea but this is not to ignore
the notion of looking at our environment
and the truth of the matter is the Tyra
presupposes a very very close
relationship with nature that most of us
including me don't really have today the
torist society was an Agricultural
Society uh the three pilgrimage
festivals although obviously we look at
PES as commemorating Liberation and Shu
commemorating Matan Torah and sukot
commemorating the Clouds Of Glory of
course but in the Torah itself the
agricultural aspect is very much
emphasized p is the aiv the ripening of
The Barley shot is the harvesting of the
wheat sukot was the in gathering of the
produce that was drying in the field
there was a celebration of the
Agricultural Bounty that God has given
us many of us have become a new talk we
become severed from that environment
like you know we don't even just no milk
doesn't come from cows milk comes from
cartons and chocolate milk must come
from you know brown cows or or whatever
it is um even the concept of night and
day there was such an Exquisite sense
sensitivity of daving Shak when the Sun
rises and as the Sun is setting and our
vit when it's dark electricity destroyed
that in fact there's interesting books
about how electricity redefined the
nature of night there used to be a
concept of night a certain
mysteriousness of the nights that we no
longer have because everything is kind
of the same and the Jew was so attuned
to this
the Stars the changing of the seasons
the agricultural cycles and we saw in
that the Grandeur of Hashem and the
beauty of God's creation and we've
become severed from that uh the Jew has
largely become urbanized part of that
was because for hundreds and hundreds of
years in the galut we were not even
allowed to own lands
now now that we have been Z many of us
have been Z to return to AR Israel so
you know we have Jews who are you know
farmers and and the like and we're much
more connected but still most of us to
this day we're still Urban we're not
really connected so much I remember once
uh you know Hashem promis as abam your
seed will be as numerous as the stars of
the heaven right so I remember as a kid
all right I go outside I look up at the
sky how many stars do I see in the sky
you know big dip you know I I see like
10 stars like what's the big deal ah but
then around 20 years ago uh I went to
amuka amuka is a very deep valley near
spat yonasan benuel is buried there
that's a schooler to get married that
what often happens is uh a young man or
a young woman mistakenly leaves their
sitter and amuka with their name address
phone number and email uh and uh young
man finds the sitter or vice versa and
wants to fulfill the Mitzvah of Hasa
returning a lost object that's how shim
were made but be it may amuka is a place
to go for shim because yon apparently
never married and he was the greatest
disciple of Hill and he prays for people
who need a but the thing about amuka in
those days now now they made it a little
more fancy they have lights but in those
days there was literally I mean the only
light you had with the lights of your
car or bus it was totally dark and you
know if you look up at the sky there is
a million stars up there but we wouldn't
know it we have light pollution whatever
it is so we're Manu from nature and when
you're manak from nature there's
something lacking in your relationship
to God so tuat is at least a microcosmic
time when we look at the Bounty of
Hashem and the different colors and
textures and tastes and
diversities then we contemplate the fact
that God made with all of the tragedies
and of course we in Israel know very
very well the tragedies that exist in
life and should bring home everybody I
know Trump says by Saturday at 12: noon
you know who knows I God you know from
from his lips to God's God's ears uh but
we know what suffering is but we also
side by side have to appreciate the
beauty of and the diversity
ofes KES time to kind of connect to
Nature uh not as an end in and of itself
but to understand that uh God's
greatness is Manifest through this
nature and of course interestingly
enough we find an interesting idea in
the makos that there is hakarat
even to the
inanimate remember Moshe was not allowed
to be the one who hit the Nile to turn
it into blood and Moshe could not hit
the Nile so the frogs to come out it had
to be done by Aon and Rashi brings the
gamorra because since the Nile had
protected Moshe when he was floating in
the Nile you he owes a certain gratitude
to the N Not to cause it to turn into
blood
now you might say gratitude to the Nal I
mean the N is uh is inanimate there's no
consciousness there but the answer is
you owe something so we kind of owe the
earth a
certain for yielding its
riches fact we see this by Mish right we
know that on chabas we cover up
the and one of the reasons that's given
is we don't want to embarrass the bread
because normally you begin a meal with
amot but on chabas you begin the meal
with wine so the bread gets embarrassed
so we cover it up so the bread doesn't
see I'm honoring the wine till after I
uh you know drink the wine now again
this doesn't mean literally bread is
embarrassed I mean bread has been a lot
I mean it's been harvested it's been
threshed it's been beaten it's been
ground it's been kneaded it's been baked
at whatever number of degrees it's been
through the ringer quite literally so
you know at that point the bread is not
feeling anything but this is a
sensitivity exercise so to speak that
that those things that have taken care
of us we owe a certain debt of gratitude
so that's kind of what tuat is like in
terms of the environmental angle so we
talked about the spiritual idea of the
tree we talked about appreciating the
EnV environment that Hashem has given us
let me mention another idea that the
mualim bring in and they talk about the
sin of the atadas the Primeval sin that
brought the fall of Man the expulsion
from the Garden of Eden and that was a
involving eating God said not to eat
something we ate it and many many evils
befell us as a result of that
eating the makalum saw in the eating of
pishat the shame Shay for the sake of
Heaven A
rectification of the Primeval sin of the
AAS and in that way there's kind of a
cosmic repair that's going on we take
the very act that was sinful and we now
elevate it we redeem it we elevated and
that too is why there's a deep
significance to the
kavanot that one has as they eat these
particular fruits so let me just mention
uh the following following idea there
are two
components to the tub bishvat seder uh
component number one is the eating of
different types of fruits now how many
fruits are you supposed to eat so there
are three versions there's a seven and a
12 and a
30 uh the seven emphasizes of course the
seven
species
ofel which
is is wheat Sora is barley geen are
grapes TAA is fig remon is pomegranate
Zen is olives and Das is honey but it's
not be honey it's tarim it's it dates so
that's the we'll call that like income
tax that's the short form so the short
form is
shim that ER is praised the long form
all of the hug have the seven but they
add there's one that goes from seven and
adds five other things which is
12 and the 12 is based on a cabalistic
formulation that if you take hashem's
four-letter name
yud and hey and V and hey we pronounce
it YK V that's the tetr grittin that we
don't pronounce so two of the letters
are the same it's a y and a he and a V
and a he so if you go through every
possible way you could rearrange the
letters you get 12
combinations um anyone who is a
mathematician they they could show this
by probability uh and statistics so the
concept is in the mualim's Lexicon which
is largely very foreign to us each
arrangement of the four letters brings
down a different spiritual influence
into the world that's why Roes there are
12 months of the year each month has a
different arrangement of the four
letters of the Sham Hava the makalum
linked the 12
fruits to theim the combinations of the
shame that's how you get 12 go seven are
the seven meim 12 are
theim the combinations of the
sh where do you get 30 so here the says
a very very interesting idea and he says
the following the 30 fruits should be
divided into three
categories 10 of the fruits are totally
edible there's no pit and there's no r
an example would be an apple although
Apple has tiny little seeds but you know
you can eat no virtually the entire
apple apple pears these are complete
completely edible so 10 of them should
be completely edible
fruits a second category should be an
edible fruit with an
inedible pits like
apricots
peaches cherries
and I'll talk about the symbol and the
third group are those that are edible on
the inside but they have an inedible
peel like a
pomegranate and orange and the like so
it's 10 10 10 what's the significance of
these three types of fruits so again
it's very very mystical cabala
teaches there are four worlds that
emanate from God that emanate from the
most spiritual to the most physical
world that we live in the highest
spiritual world that is the world of
pure spirit is called the world of
aut the world of
emanation and then it gets more
physicalized more concretized and it
goes
from to Bri to the world of
creation and then it gets more
physicalized and it gets into the world
of
Y
formation then finally we get into this
world which is the world of
a action aot
Bria AIA they actually correspond to the
four letters of the shame havaya in and
of itself often there there are many
different ways of characterizing this
Aus is the world of thought and Bria is
the world of emotion is the world of
speech is the world of action there are
different ways of characterizing it but
here is the I'm sorry there also an idea
of fruit I didn't hear you
there growing up we were we always
taught that the humans have 15 fruits
have which fruits 15 15 okay 15 is
another you're correct that's another
yet had another custom based on y God
name is 15 now I want to say the M say
the following
say that in the ultimate world
of there is no physicality at all
physicality begins to appear only in
Bria but the physicality is
spiritualized so that represents a fruit
that's totally edible there is no pet
there is no material that is going to be
discarded so when you eat the 10 fruits
that have no kipa and no pits that's
connected to the world of Bria has no no
tangibility at all and then the next
group is edible but it has something
internally that's not edible that
represents the world of Y and then that
which is encased in physicality that you
got to break through is the world of AIA
and in this progression you're trying to
take the kadosa from the higher worlds
and lower them into the lower worlds and
that's why the longer SATA which we're
not actually going to do we don't have
all of the mean here is you start in a
way it seems the opposite because
intuitively we always go up in kadua but
here we actually go down into because
what you're doing is you're taking
Holiness from the most elevated Realms
and you're trying to bring it down into
this world so these are uh the AAS peros
that's component number one of the Seder
eating pyos as I say 7 12 as you said 15
and 30 all of them have symbolic
meanings now a second component is that
at various points we drink four cups of
wine now obviously the four cups of wine
is very familiar to us from pesak the
four terms of redemption but what's the
connection to TU Bish so here the
makalum say the following when we drink
the four cups of wine
by the way um unlike the Seder we only
make B prian on the first cup because
that covers everything else and I have
to correct what's stated here it says
here drink the wine reclining on your
left side uh that is a mistake that is
the law of PES there is no requirement
of reclining on fact there's not even a
custom of reclining Onish but here's
what the M say about the four cups of
wine cup number one
should be totally
white cup number two should be white
with a few drops of
red cup number three should be half and
half meaning a lot of red but there's
still a a white A light color cup number
four should be you still have you still
have white in there but it should be
mainly red it should look red you're
going mention about the size as well
about the what about the size as well we
have the smaller cups so okay yeah and
again there is no minimum amount you
have to drink you can just take a tiny
little sip don't worry about Shor at all
because this is just a custom this is
not
a but you go from Pure
White to Pure red with gradations in
between what is the significance of this
so we know that white in cabala
represents
Mercy read in
cabala represents strictness of
judgment and this too is a progression
from the higher worlds down to the lower
worlds in the ultimate highest World
emanating from God there is only mercy
and
compassion but as it descends into lower
levels of
concealment we sometimes perceive
harshness and severity it but the
message is that even in the severity
there is that white wine there is the
hiddenness of God's kindness so the
journey through the worlds is not only
in the fruit the journey through the
worlds is in the drinking of the wine in
which I take the pure mercies of
aut and I bring them down into the
largely
redness of
a
recognizing that there is still
compassion now there is also an
environmental
interpretation and that is this might be
an easier interpretation to grasp and
that is the wines represent the change
of the
seasons the Pure White is the winter
where there is no growth and then comes
the spring where the redness well
there's hidden growth as I mentioned in
the the St white repres reminds you of
snow oh snow yeah that's right that's
right and then there is the spring where
the redness appears and then the summer
and then the Autumn which is the
fullness of the Harvest and therefore
we're going through the spiritual
journeys of
to and the physical Journeys from the
dorcy of the winter to the richness of
the Fall so there are many many
different themes here now okay so we
mentioned eating the fruit we mentioned
the four cups
and the third component which I've
largely done but we'll continue with it
is that the makalum developed teachings
to be read upon the eating of each of
the fruits passages from the mishna
passages from the gamorra passages from
The Zo especially now most of these have
not been translated so we're not really
able to go over them in great great
depth and that would take a two Bish I
mean to actually learn all of the
passages that are appended to the eating
of the fruits uh would take around 5 or
6 hours so we're going to be very
selective uh in that but those are the
three
components and the m and The Zo in
particular that talk about those
particular fruits okay so um I guess we
can I hope I didn't well B people
managed to eat a little bit before uh
before the Sater
uh so we can begin the eating of the p
in
Earnest and uh we will start with the
shiv tamim now interestingly enough the
first of the shiv tamim you may already
have had if you had a
cracker or if you had even macaroni or
pasta you already had it but we're going
to eat it as part of the symbolic eating
uh we are not going to make a br on this
because unless you didn't have any Theo
but if you already had anything here uh
then you don't make a braa
but that's the barley yeah that's the
next one yeah yeah but we'll start with
eating the
without uh I'm sorry uh and I didn't
hear
you then you make a just make AO just
make on it
sry
a a
now a lot of
ters they don't provide barley but Reon
Poston um was so complete in her
preparations that we actually have
barley as well that is the second of the
seven
species so
um we eat the barley once CE again there
is
no that you make on The Barley
unless well barley is Mos barley is also
a
great are
bothos but if you already made the maos
you don't make it
again umus on pearl barley but but um
we let me point out
something on
PES the sacrifice that was brought
theare offering on the second day of PES
was a barley
offering on
shos the sacrifice that was brought was
wheat
bread and the T makes a very interesting
observation barley in those days was
primarily given to animal
F wheat was always reserved for human
consumption PES is freedom but we
haven't yet gotten the
Torah freedom without Torah you're just
a wild animal
barley with
Torah you've taken freedom and turned it
into human
dignity so represents the human
potential barley represents the animal
within us but the animal can be
elevated uh through through
Torah
now the next thing is going to be a
little bit of a
surprise not yet y y and that is
normally when you eat the seven species
you eat them in the order that they are
in the
verse now the third one would be geen
which would either be wine or
grapes and yet that's not the order the
next one we eat is actually an
olive why is that so Olive is to Olive
is number
six the answer is this in the
enumeration of of the seven
species the word eret is repeated twice
ER
[Applause]
Geon so the order of the verse is the
order of eating is based on proximity to
erots so is number one to the first
so ra is number two to the
firsts so that's why they're the one and
two but three will be the one that's
closest to the next ER why is that two
huh why isn't that two no the reason
it's because the following because um
one and
two because because there's a one and
two to the first ER and a one and two to
the second ER so the one and two of the
first erets always beats out
uh the one and two for the second ARS
but by the time you get to number three
in the first erots we give preference to
one and two so that's why the order
is then you're going to do Olive Z and
then you're going to do date and then
you'll go back
to right so the next thing that we eat
uh is the Olive now the olive of course
is a fruit is a fruit and therefore we
are going to make a Bor
pre8 on the olive where's the Olive I
have yeah
yeah yeah
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the lesson of olive is very
important we know that the manura was
lit of course with pure olive
oil and we know the
idea that the most important part of the
olive comes only when it's
squeezed only when it's
pressed and that reminds us that the
Jewish
soul flourishes
under oppression which indeed we do B re
used to say that it was easier to be
Jewish in Siberia than
Suburbia that somehow oppression does
bring out strengths in us but it also
refers to the oppression so to speak of
working in Torah and struggling to serve
God that it brings out the best and the
strongest in us that is the Olive the
next one is the honey
of the
date uh we do not make a br on this
because this is also a fruit and it was
covered by the
pre um one should always open the date
and inspect it for any insects a visual
quick visual
inspection is normally good
H you're okay yeah
but don't the to the
spirit most of my dates have had
[Laughter]
bugs no it was interesting
what a few years ago I don't have the
exact dates in my
mind they
found some dates or at least some date
pits from Mada time of
Mada and uh they were able to um plant
them and they
discovered a sugar
content that was double that of the
standard California date most of the
dates that were growing in Israel are
California the Romans we don't realize
the Roman
Devastation of the countryside of the
Galil was so vast that they they
destroyed hundreds of
thousands right of
Tamar uh and the dates that came in the
modern state of Israel were Californian
dat but they now discover there's a name
called Tamar it's called yeah it was
International
export
sweetness and um so now you understand
why it's called Das it
was because of that that
sweetness okay so we did
we did
zash so we did One two from the
firsts one two from the second DS now we
do three four five from the first ER so
now we do geen which is not wine we'll
do it on on grapes do the wine not yet
not yet we'll do a grape just a
grape again no no braa
grape and
olives have a very similar symbolism
because in both cases the beautiful
product comes from squeezing whether
it's the gra the wine of the grape or
whether it's the oil of the of the Shem
and so kazal use a very similar
symbolism but we know of course that the
fruit of the vine also
brings the olive brings
light and the gra brings
Joy light and
Joy says wine brings Joy to the heart of
man it's a great gift obviously it can
be abused I'm not going to give you a
shmoo about drinking on porin this is
not the the time
but within appropriate
limits God gave us a gift that can bring
joy and that is why wine is very much
associated with Kish with a bris with
a okay so um what says U yeah so now
this is the point where we drink the
first cup now we have a cup of wine
after we eating the grapes um this wine
once again pure whites because it
represents the purity of Mercy as it
emerges from God's world of aut it also
represents the coldness and dorcy of the
winter okay and we do make even though
we just ate a grape but there's a
special
bre you do not have to recline you can
drink as little as you want or finish
your cup as you
choose
Nothing by the way what's in the
pictures uh U dark grape juice and and
white grape juice that doesn't look
white but that's the white grape juice
we have so if you want grape juice it's
in the it's in the
pictur I say I
say what is what is that what fig what
yeah fig I haven't had had had
okay okay so we're now doing F uh four
and
five
uh fig again I have to warn you to look
at the Fig I to be sure there are no uh
unpleasant creatures that you don't want
to eat that you're not allowed to eat
those who don't want to eat
that is
the uh
the in biblical
imagery is often a symbol for the Torah
itself there's a verse in
Proverbs that
says he who guards the
Fig will eat the fruit take care of it
you guard the Torah you don't let the
Torah down you will Merit the joy of the
Torah okay so this is our our
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well Z means olives that contain oil
they should be dried
up okay the last of the shim so we are
completing the short part of the theater
uh is the remon the remon is of course
familiar to everybody from
rosashana the remon has very very
beautiful symbols kazal recorded
tradition and sometimes kids actually
want to count it I don't know that there
are
613 seeds in the pomegranate ConEd to
mitzvot uh but the gumar has a beautiful
draa about Shir
where it says a
is even the Sinners of Israel the
Sinners the Unworthy of
Israel they are as filled with
Mitzvah as a pomegranate is filled with
seeds the most unworthy jur you know
things that we might think with our
superficial uh thought unworthy no
Goods is filled with goodness like the
remot who said that statement
interesting reab shim Ben
Lish said that
statement and it's very beautiful
because it's really a
reflection of his own life RAB shim Lish
we know him as rash Lish didn't start
off as a rabbi he was a highway robber
he was a thief he was a robber he you we
we don't know if he was a murderer but
he seems close he attacked rokan he was
going to murder him a RAB him and R made
a deal he said you know if you come and
learn you get to marry because was very
beautiful andish commented on who knows
what he even meant by that statement
maybe something sinister and R said ah
if you sit on your learn Torah you'll
marry my sister who's even more
beautiful than I am
now I know you're going to ask me a
question was the sister consulted about
this okay that's a this is a good this
is a good question I don't knowes they
don't they didn't ask they didn't ask
him those days but rakish came and he
studied Torah and he became a great
great sage and in fact he became what's
called he was a student of but he became
kind of
a and throughout the throughout the T
there's R Andes like every every has
a so when is reflecting on his
life he sees you know I was a bum I was
a criminal I was a bad guy but in me
there was potential even the PO
isayan as I said at the very beginning
part of the lesson of tuat is seeing
hidden potential
in a tree that is
Barren but the sap is pulsating inside
so when we eat the remon we should think
about number one judging people
favorably seeing their good
understanding the Holiness of the Jewish
soul and recognizing within ourselves as
well there is a great great hidden
potential yeah I was going to say that
they say saw a potential in asov which
is why he left him yep that's exactly
correct it's saw something in as and
used to say that was fundamentally
correct meaning there was something
there that could have been developed
that's the real tragedy you know um
there's so much potential within people
that if it's not recognized if it's not
nurtured if it's not developed either
fails to materialize or can turn into
negativity and destruction but the
potential was there
call it the pin the little spark of the
Jew so we should have again no braa
recited RAB you have it on oh I'm sorry
okay thank you
thank remember pomegranates are also
very high in antioxidants so it's a very
healthy food to eat
just for your information what we're
about to pass around here are actually
pears they look like apples but the
apples are already out this is
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Paar um okay in my in my book here I
have esrog next but again the the order
is not uh in in my book here in our book
I have estrog next but it's not the
order is not so important but um you
want to do estrog glater is that you no
I mean I'm just following the order of
the
book
huh we we won't we won't make well yeah
we ate we ate Tamar we won't we won't
make you
eat okay so the next is esrog esrog in
the
Torah is called by the beautiful term
prear and although in modern Hebrew
Hadar are citrus fruits but that's only
an adaptation the word Hadar is beauty
preat Hadar either means the fruit of a
beautiful tree or a beautiful fruit from
a tree actually doesn't tell you what it
is the gar actually discusses different
things that might be but eventually we
we come down to the idea that it's the
esro and everyone knows the famous
midash that the srog well there are a
few things one is srog is the
heart uh the lulav is the
spine uh the Tamar I'm sorry the hadash
are the eyes and the aravot are the lips
human body but then there's another
teaching that I'm sure you know that it
represents four types of
personalities the esrog has a beautiful
smell and a beautiful taste the smell
represents the Good Deeds that I do for
people The Taste is my internal Torah
learning so the esro Jew has both Torah
and masim toim the lul which is a date
palm dates have good taste but no smell
that's
the who is not necessarily involved with
others the um hadasim have a very good
smell but no edible fruit although they
do have berries but it's not edible that
represents the one who does good but
does not study Torah so much then we
have the lonely ARA the
willow doesn't have taste doesn't have
smells the weeping willow that
represents the regular Jew but or the
Jew that has seemingly nothing and yet
on sukot we take all of them together
because all are
worthy if you had Lula
and you didn't have the
AR you would not fulfill your Mitzvah
you got to bring the Arava in the ARA
has to join up and at the end of sukot
I'm not going to give a whole drush on
that the last
survivor that we use for the Mitzvah is
none other than the lowly ARA he kind of
gets yeah um did I did I lose the mic
here yeah uh the lowly araba is the last
survivor
um so we're going to eat the srug and
the srug again correspond what are you
gonna do with them the r has something
say about having in mind the estro
you're going to have this yes yes very
thanks for my hand is not big enough
okay yeah so we do uh weightlifting
exercises all sorts of health related
things here
um it is brought down in the
CRA that on
tuat you should pray
to have the Merit to have a beautiful
esrog this coming
sukot now I think this is a little less
powerful for us today because you know I
mean rogam you'll get but you have to
know for hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of years among the European
communities in Poland Russia the fact
that you would get an esrog at all was
not a done deal there were many
situations where a whole communities
didn't have es
Rogan and sometimes only one ESR came
like the rav had an ESR and you had to
have hundreds of people so the idea that
you desperately yearned and prayed to
have you know we're spoiled today
because most of us will get an ESR if
you're willing you get it through me i i
s arit yeah yeah yeah yeah you so so the
the power of the prayer may be lost on
us today because we've been spoiled by
the abundance that Hashem has given us
but in truth a person has to know that
you need Hashem all the time meaning
don't think just because plenty of esrog
farms plenty of
esrog say probably nobody ate this yeah
yeah but but if you said it yeah yeah
yeah so so the thing is the need to pray
is still here fact there's a v from the
kusar rbbi very sharp V KB was always
very sharp the gamar says if a person
has food for
today and he's worried what will I eat
tomorrow the gamorra says he's a man who
lacks Faith so most people understand
because why is he in doubt about
tomorrow he should have trust in God you
know what the karbi says he says the
reason he lacks faith is he thinks he
only needs God for tomorrow and doesn't
need God for today he thinks he's all
set
you're never set we need Hashem every
single second so as a result all of us
should
be that we should be to a beautiful
es and I will also add that we should be
to
aik where we can fulfill the Mitzvah of
es for all seven days again I don't want
to get into the details but Hally
Thea commandment in the bet mikdash is
seven
days but outside of the bet mikdash is
only one day and the fact that we do it
seven days everywhere except from chabas
is only a Rabin decree
butash we will be Merit we will Merit to
do the Mitzvah of
es all seven days right and by the way
even on chabas by the way but once the
Mitzvah becomes a Torah command
it will even override the the shabas as
as well so this is what we think about
with the esrog and um if you haven't had
an esrog to eat you actually you don't
make of course but you can make a
Shu let me see what it says
um all right all right so it's really
it's really okay it really depends how
you're how you are presenting it if the
srog was made into Jam you actually do
not make uh if it was processed if it
was cooked if it was pickled if however
it's a raw piece of esrog I think this
is cooked okay so cooked esrog you don't
you don't make a which is the this is
this is it this is yeah yeah we don't
make a you're
correct just imagine one suck sorry
didn't hear you I'm just imagining
throwing one of these bad boys the co
yeah
well the gar
mentions that RAB aka's esrog was so big
he had to hold it with two hands I don't
know how he manipulated the the the the
lul love but he had told it with two
hands and he also understand something
the recounts that one time the Coen God
was a sasy was a
stooki and when you're supposed to pour
the water on sukot on the M he didn't
believe in that ritual because that's
part of the oral law so he poured it on
his feet thinking nobody would see but
it mentions people saw him and they
stoned him with their
estres so you know I think with this
esrog we have a little bit of a a better
understanding of what this was you know
a regular small esrog although even then
a lot of estrogen would get him but you
know just a few of these uh would would
certainly do the job so now you go back
to the gamarra you understand what might
have happened uh under those uh
circumstances okay so that's the es so
now
um we we can have the second cup of
wine uh the second cup of wine oh I'm
sorry pass anybody want to
see thank you
again as much or as little as you want
this is a little bit of this is white
with a little bit of red connoting the
CH the change of season from Winter to
Spring and also the bringing down of the
braa from the spiritual world of ail to
the more physicalized to the more
physicalized world of Bia
creation you need it yeah thank
you can we go ahead and eat the almonds
now and everything it's coming it's
coming it's
coming okay we now start sequence number
three I'm I'm deviating a tiny bit from
the book uh sequence number three now
begins with the Apple the tap
again
the is actually a very beloved
symbol I'll tell you a little bit of
information that's not widely
known although un almost everybody
translates
tap as an apple which of course is what
it means in modern Hebrew and most
assume in shirim and other places tap
means Apple but there are some that
actually say that
is a is
apricot mishes not Apple in at least in
tanak but we're going with with apple
and in
shirim is are described remember shirim
is written as a love song between a man
and a woman in some very passionate
language and there were rabbis who
didn't want sh in tanak they said it's
love love poetry what are you putting it
in but the great protector of shirashi
or the great defender of shirashi was
none other than rabi
AKA and RAB AKA taught if all the songs
are
holy shirim is holy of
holies because it is a metaphor it is a
mush for the love that God has for the
Jewish people and the Jewish people have
for God the woman is CL
is and the lover the shepherd
ises and the shepherd
declares about his beloved or I'm I'm
sorry the uh the Beloved woman declares
about her
Shepherd like an apple tree in the
middle of a forest
was my
beloved an apple tree imagine you have a
forest of trees that don't produce any
fruit someone is starving they're in a
forest full of pine trees trees that
don't have anything you can eat although
all pine trees are pine us whatever
trees that don't have anything to eat
and then you see an apple
tree what Joy it
brings so CLA Israel says in a world
that is filled with emptiness
God is the apple tree who gives
fragrance taste life to a lifeless what
would otherwise be a lifeless
existence now similarly there are other
verses in
shirim in which the woman is
described as
the and when yob
when remember when yob impersonates
ASA and comes to y
and Y says the fragrance the smell of my
son is like the aroma of the
field that Hashem has
blessed so Rashi says it was the smell
of a field of apples which is said to be
the r
of Hab the apple orchard in cabala
there's a whole
symbolism the wrote many of the poems of
the
shabas it is the field of the Holy
apples that's an expression in cabala
referring to the spiritual realm of
ganen so we're connecting to that idea
when we eat the
apple so
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good can just take a bite of this one
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this is what this is a
walnut this is
almond oh yes it's
um wine
we now are going to eat two tree
nuts can eat at the same time one is the
Walnut one is the
almond and there are two different
symbols here the Walnut which is just
representative of tree
nuts kazal mentioned that the Jewish
people are compared to a nut not because
we're
nutty but we're compared to a nut
because a nut which has a very hard
shell even if you throw it in the mud
the inner contents don't get
spoiled so too whatever Jews go through
their innermost Essence remains good
similar to the pomegranate but in a
different way that is the general symbol
of the nuts on a
tree the Almond has an
additional besides that an additional
Gras the
amond is the very very first
tree that ripens in other words the
first tree that will ripen after
tubish that's the famous I'm sure we'll
play that one of the famous uh Israeli
tubish
songs and in fact the reason why almond
are called Shak or sh sh is through
hurry up it gets here first before
everyone everyone else so that
represents the quality thatal call
ZR when it's time to do a Mitzvah you
don't waste time you try to do the
Mitzvah as soon as you can so these are
the two symbols of the nuts we can eat
both of them together again because
they're tree nuts there's no no bra
recited
how many we going
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think that's mango that's mango
okay you just finish
this got you
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we
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I think I was informed that we do not
have carab is that that
correct okay so I will honor the Carib
by just saying a few words about the
carab even though we're not so to have
the bucker the bucker of course many
people have negative associations but uh
carab can taste quite
good
and is a symbol in the talmud
theable what
I didn't hear you the table is
what something oh
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okay the gamarra talks about a very
great
Rabbi rabina B
DOA who was a miracle worker he was on a
madrea where he was able to do many many
miracles uh it mentions one time for
example that he was so poor that his
wife did not have oil to light the
shabas
candles and he told his wife light the
vinegar and she says vinegar does not
ignite and he said the same God who can
make oil burn can make vinegar
burn the vinegar Burns and the gar says
about said
it the whole world gets
parasa in the Merit ofina Ben
DOA
but only eats a small measure
of from Arab Shabbat to Arab
Shabbat his wife even asked him hey you
do Miracles why can't you make us you
know give us a better
living and he showed her that if we have
more reward in this world our is going
to be be a little less better to have it
there than to have it here so when we
think
about yeah okay I guess I have
to paralyze myself here okay when we
talk
about we talk about something I spoke
about last night here about Simplicity
about not being overly involved in
materialism trying to live a life that's
more balanced less focused on
acquisition is the sign
of a person who is
satisfied with relatively little and as
P says
a who is a wealthy
person one who rejoices in whatever his
portion
is huh that's right
you correct for 12 years in the cave
lived
off you know I remember years ago before
I made
alah I when I was in ER Israel in
1999 I remember seeing four children
walking on
shimi and they were sharing one popsicle
between them and they were having such a
wonderful time they were laughing and
smiling and playing and it was so
wonderful they had a
popsicle then I think about kids who may
have a
more fortunate background in some ways
in which you know everybody has their
own iPhone and their own
TV and people complain if they have to
share a
bedroom and it really hit me then in a
graphic way
that is the true Joy of life that a
person can have so
little but enjoy
it tells the story about a guy who had
nothing but he said I have everything I
walk outside I look I look at this whole
thing as my estate I can walk you know
throughout jerus the whole city is open
to me it's of looking at things which
everything is mine in that in that sense
you know so it's interesting perspective
okay so that's the carab which we
weren't so good to have Thea
uh the next is the pear
aasim uh that's Apple we have a piece of
pear
here we
have looks like it looks like
app oh yeah this red skin this was a
pear I'm not sure that's an apple or
pear tast find the pears look like app
anybody's likeing we have a lot
which one this is a pair yes thank you
thank you oh wow anybody else pair take
I bring
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up I'm just passing out
thank you
Chinese yeah I am a little stuck here uh
the only
thing
okay watch
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here even
the you push the button
on okay thank you thank you even the M
are little are a little bit at a
loss for direct references to
pairs the reference they came up
with is simply a
mishna in m you know one of theas in the
Torah is you're not allowed to
crossbreed different types of
fruits you're allowed to eat the product
of it but you can't actually crossbreed
it and the mishna discusses that
sometimes fruits might be of the same
family even if they look a little
different for example red pears can be
crossed with green pears so the mishna
basically says that so there's a
reference to paars in the
T in terms of the laws of injur breeding
and tree grafting but in terms of a a a
spiritual message I'm not sure but I I
do think that kazal viewed pears and
apples in much of the same way created
everybody in Paris in
Paris very good that Paris app could
also be inter uh it seems that that
might be the case because uh The Taste
is very similar the texture is very
similar it calls that an a um uh what's
the language here I have the Hebrew here
um I don't think it says the word I
don't have the Hebrew but I don't
believe AAS is a more modern term but I
think it says cralin or something which
is translated as as
pears the fourth
sequence is bringing down the
holiness from the most ethereal
spiritual world of
aut to our tangible physical world of
AIA we're bringing it down through our
eating through our drinking through our
cavanos to
beak the ofish
and with
the and here there's a bit of a
miscellane we don't fully understand the
significance so we do come up a little
bit short but the next one on our
list is the
mango and we have dried mango
well um
this anybody want
mango know I don't see that
thank you thank you Rabbi okay I'm G to
split it with
you let me remind you in the imagery of
the
mualim since the mango has although not
in this stried mango the mango has a
huge gigantic inedible pit but it's
surrounded by delicious
fruit uh and the peel on the other hand
is also kind of inedible most people do
not eat the peel so the mango BFA
represents the fruits of the lowest
world because there's kipa there's
inedible portions both inside and
outside so although you might think
superficially we're going down in kadha
it's the other way around we're bringing
it from the holiest levels to the lowest
levels and that's actually a greater
accomplishment uh the balat has a very
famous statement that is quoted in his
name but the truth is he got it from a
medish God's desire is to
have his residence in the lowest of the
worlds when we bring Hashem to the
lowest of the worlds that is God's
greatest joy so mango I don't want to
denigrate the mango but mango represents
in this cabalistic hierarchy the lower
one of the lowest of the fruits but that
is what where God wants to reside low
higher that's that's correct that's
correct that's correct um okay uh the
next is well the Quint which we do not
have but
apparently uh cabalistic I don't know
exactly the connection here the filbert
nut or a chestnut could uh take the
place of the Quin that's a tree nut um
I'm not so what is is this is this a
have no
idea oh that's Haz okay I apologize for
not uh do you have a chestnut or a
filbert not
sorry I'm very my my nut vocabulary is
very limited but
um this is pine nut what is that no yeah
pine nuts are not not not yet not yet I
think this chest that's a chestnut right
that's not
a oh okay so we need a we need a Quin
filbert or chest or Chestnut or
filbert did I say oh you oh you that's
what you asked me okay Hazel yeah
hazelnuts are good also yeah yeah
hazelnuts what's a hazelnut that's a
hazelnut yeah okay
hazelnuts that equals uh cabalistic fil
BS Quint or Chestnut hazelnut is your
Yi
hazelnut thank you thank you very
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much oh they are good
now one of the gifts of
erel is we do get a chance to be more
connected to the seasons you know you
live in New York or whatever all fruits
are available all year from different
countries so you don't have a sense of
changes in arus Ro we still largely live
in a situation where fruits are very
seasonal they're not available different
types of
years and that's why there's a Sim when
they
appear but that does mean
that we weren't able to get rabits and
Poston was not able to get certain
fruits so the Cherry was not available
although it is one of the you've done
the o one of the fruits that would be uh
eaten but uh if you don't have you don't
have so um I'm going to have to skip the
uh the
Cherry uh the Cherry has inedible big
seed but the whole outside is edible
including the the skin and that
represents the
P that are in the world of above the
world of AIA that's the world of um y
the world of formation in which there is
a kipa but the the goodness bursts out
of the kipa and is not constrained in
that
way uh the next
is either red crab apple or apricot I
assume we have apricot mishmish
there's aut somewhere aut
okay where's the you have one I don't
have one
enough thank you thank
you APR anybody
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I tell the boys in
or that this is their allotment of fruit
for the year you know guys don't eat a
lot of don't eat a lot of fruit they
tied up you know this will cover them
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again I apologize for the U paity of
comments as I say the problem is
that the references that are given for
this last list are largely just mentions
in the mishna about various about the
you make on something about K about
inbreeding there's no particular a
thought that is given about the
significance for sure there is inner
meanings but some of them are not going
to be very very clear uh to us our next
one is the pist the pistachio very
beloved in
Israel um
pistachio where is pistachio we didn't
get any of I'm sorry oh you didn't get
apricot oh that's apricot yeah yeah we
did apricot so yummy yeah yeah we didn't
get the no that's that's the coming up
oh it'sing oh you didn't say that yet I
didn't say that yet I just said that's
the next one
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thank you thank
you thank you
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up I did yeah thank you thank
you Pine she let me just say one thought
about Pine
seed all of you know
toim sadic b m shabas a special song for
chabas so it ends
s May the sadic flower or flourish like
the Tamar like the
day like a Cedar in Lebanon Lebanon May
It Grow strong so the sadic is compared
to two
trees the Tamar the DAT P which we had
earlier and the Aras the cedar kind of a
pie Cedar is a type of pine that we're
going to have something from the pine
right now and the gamarra says each of
these
trees has a certain Mila that the other
does not have the Tamar produces sweet
fruit but it's very low it's a low tree
more more or less it doesn't grow very
majestically the cedar can grow very
very
tall although we're going to have some
pine nuts but there's not that much
that's edible generally did not really
produce fruits that you
eat so the ideally that sadic should be
strong and learned like the
cedar but giving and
sharing like the Tamar It's a
combination of the idea of focusing on
your own growth and
alah but also giving and sharing with
others no sometimes a person may share
so much with others that they get
depleted a person has to be concerned
about their own
growth you get burnt
out other times you're so preoccupied
with your own growth that you're not
thinking about the others who need you
the BR of thead is he's committed to his
own spiritual alah like the
AR but he shares and gives like the
Tamar so even though the gamar does say
the Aras does not have P it does indeed
even the Aras that's something that is
edible and usable that we can enjoy uh
this would be the pine nut
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they have P nuts yes yes yeah yeah thank
you thank you
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now we have
um says Hackberry or prune these are two
different things but none of us knows
what a Hackberry is or at least you
can't find it so the alternative was was
prune which is a dried dried plum
doesn't look too dry to
me and uh one should enjoy the uh the
prun
thank you all
right in Florida it's the most it's very
popular especially yeah about our our
age
yeah anybody
want
down any
pine y
yeah but did you want to pour red for
yourself um yeah I don't want it to go
away
so more wi anybody needs anything have
whatever I can't what you so up do you
have any wine left because we should add
a drop of white wine white grape juice
white wine yeah grape juice is white gra
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juice the
stick just a little bit
yeah that's fine thank you have to hold
on to some okay our very last food in
our
list again for reasons that are frankly
mysterious to me so I don't have
headbear uh is the pan we at yeah we did
we did yeah pan yeah pan is our last one
and once again like all tree nuts the
symbol is shell covers nuts and that
shows as the medra says that even when
the Jewish people are rolling in the mud
of persecution Fon their Inner Essence
remains pure that's a message for all of
the tree nuts with shells uh that we are
eating um pan pan
pan
y anyone peek on anyone peek on
P
here Chate any Chate any chocolate right
we are to honor the cocoa bean for
sure very
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good M the FR dude
wow
good we now drink the fourth and Final
Cup there is no ay comment here um and
uh the fourth cup is overwhelmingly red
but there's still a drop of white we
live in the world of AIA in the world of
AIA God's presence is concealed we live
in a world which looks like Den
judgment things happen but we have to
have
amuna that concealed within even the
tragedies of life is the hidden love of
God
that is ready to emerge at any
second may all of us be to see that love
emerge
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amen hallelujah praise the
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Lord okay that is the uh official to
Bish seder um I wouldn't call it the
short form but we did we didn't do the
long form so we'll call it the
intermediate
form and I guess in the course of the
year I I will try myself to try to
unearth the symbolism of things I was
not able to explore tonight and maybe B
and you can do it yourself too see if
you can research the
significance of some of these various
items to be homework
assignments next
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year lead us in for people
okay we're I'll recite for people but I
want to get a I want to get a sitter
just um behind someone pass behind
the right
there this a
please thank you so much really enjoyed
it thank you for coming thank you one
yeah that's good thank thank you very
much Rush
After no reason to
leave a lot of fruits and nuts to eat
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one second one second one
second you want
to uh yeah I have I
have you
me
amen that was AOW what
went on such a journey to inspire
us so you know the organization's name
is
Yan and uh if somebody just has a glass
of water in a clean cup I'd really
appreciate
it uh
mikash but we all know you know from a
certain perspective and I have the Ra's
permission to speak a little bit of
Torah that uh it wasn't really the plan
to have a Bash
it wasn't a plan
original and
um the real mikdash is inside of us that
every Jew is a
mikdash and that's one of the things
that you do R Brier would you really
help us to build the mcashan side and I
love you and I appreciate you
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one second close your eyes
everybody I don't know if you know this
it's not an ad because I'm probably
closing my practice this year after 43
years but I'm a clinical psychologist
and a
hypnotherapist and you can all close
your eyes and you could imagine whatever
that means to B
mikdash and you could imagine the oral
God's holy light inside of you and to
know that everything we're doing tonight
sh mitzvah and all the beautiful Tores
that R Bri which taught us that it's all
about getting rid of our kipa getting
rid of our shells and finding the
Holiness
within and everybody in this room is
everybody is so holy here and we
shouldn't miss out that opportunity to
see it to experience it and to share it
and to say thank you to a kades because
you know the fact that we're in Israel
and the ra asked me to sing a which I
will I did last year
also is you know if not everything is
from AES and if not for the and the mad
and the people in the submarines and the
people in the snow and the
hermone we wouldn't be sitting here in
jush and so you know I'm going to start
with and to ask the Kadesh baru to watch
over each and every person who is
fighting for us protecting us and every
hostage is a it's
a and that we should always
know you
know it's all what we need
is that's that's the name of
it and uh I just want to say I my
brother passed away a couple of months
ago per chimon
bener and I want to dedicate what I'm
doing tonight for his
Al also for my ra May Freedman may have
been
shash and for everybody who needs a Ru
and everybody should be open tonight
from such tremendous inspiration that we
experience from her
btz to be a CLE to receive
sh ah
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is
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again everybody open your hearts
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I by
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come on open up Sing It
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Loud May
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is H
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may
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may
may may
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again everybody
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everybody of be no my care
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I
say man
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the she
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sh
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great sh
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I don't hear you back here let's go
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come on
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everybody
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come on get up a
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dance up
show God you're happy let's
go come on get up let's
go hey
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la la la
la la
la yeaw
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hey
hey we're waiting for you
come
come you're a young guy come on and
dance
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go