Haggadah Shel Pesach: Top Ten Insights of the Ben Ish Chai on the Haggadah

recording in progress okay good evening everyone we're continuing our sh in sa the are graciously sponsored by Dr Zak Dr Z's mother and for their whole family tonight's year is dedicated by my dear friend sisma his father whose yard side is coming up sh Shi has been coming to my sh for very many years I think since I started about 15 years ago so uh on this occasion his father family i' okay if you didn't get it yet you want to get this before PES you could get it after PES I don't mind you could get it for you could get it for sh you could learn it the whole night in sh it's going to work better if you have it for PES so this is available in better bookstores near you if you want to inesh it's a little it's different Ines there's more stuff Ines there's there's uh different material in each that is now available now we're going to talk about publishing but uh the next one in the queue the fire in the soul it was submitted to Art scroll and this morning I got a call from art scroll it says the fire in the soul they want to change the name so why don't you want to change the name we have a series already you know the mystery and the Majesty the light and the Splendor no we're changing the name I got a call you know you want to be open-minded you need to be uh flexible I was like what are we what are we going to call this they said we have to have the word L the words l in the title otherwise people are going to come to the bookstore they're going to say I want a book on they're going to see the fire in the soul and they're not going to put two and two together the name of the book is lag I said yeah but it has to fit into the series so the new name of the book the fire in the soul okay that's the new name of the book if you want to participate in this there are many sources said make many books the end is not here theel and many others learn that until the requisite number ofum come out mhia can come that the number one thing writes others write the number one thing holding up M we need more books you think books there are enough books already many interpret the P that we need more which obviously works out when you're trying to fund the next book you know that that works out conveniently that shot but it is a legitimate P says make many books inates okay tonight we're going to talk about the commentary of the Ben on the now the Ben was one of the all-time great prolific writers and in fact he writes very powerful words about the importance of uh participating for and writing for and he says that anyone who has the capability to try to put it out in your lifetime but then they found and then rak's official biography on the Benes Kai he found in a bibliography in Paris that the Benes Kai was in very Dire Straits and he wrote a letter to some one saying that he has no money but as painful as it is that he cannot support his family even more painful is that he's not able to put out all the that he wants he says the pain of not being able to put out his far is worse than not being able to support his family and it's not like the Ben the Ben had already put it out many many and therefore benai had an ancient saer and he was willing he writes in this letter I'm willing the is so small the CL is as thin as the shell of an egg it's handwritten it's five um it took five years to write it's hundreds of years old and he's willing to sell it to procure funds to publish his far so one of the that the published is a is the commentary tonight I want to share with you 10 amazing insights from the Ben from ofhd on we all know we say in the even if we're all wise we're all uh intelligent we all know the tvah there's aah to relate the events of the more we speak so the Ben says the following remes even though you know you go to yes you say well why did hasem take us out of Cu we were being enslaved and why do we have to go down there because questioned the ways of hasem but there's a cabalistic idea and we spoke about this at length once that we had to go and gather Sparks of kadus we spoke about this in many different uh angles how many Sparks of kadha were lost in MIM Isaac 202 28 288 we got to get ra P right and then 202 are lost over there we got to we had to collect Sparks of kadus okay where did these Sparks come from so there's a cabalistic idea that when Adam Harish separated from his wife he was Zer and to a certain extent he wasted seed and that was somehow dispersed in the land of MIM fine so when the PK says that we went out with great wealth it means we took out these Sparks this is what it means we emptied out now you ready for this how many names does God have there's an idea that s two different names there are three consecutive in that have 72 letters each these three consecutive suim of 72 letters each are created with the following formula when when MH was about to split the yam it says three consecutive sukim of 72 letters each which is you know the the likelihood of having three consecutive sukim with 72 letters each is impossible you know you have a document for to have three consecutive suum of 72 letters each so Rashi brings if you take the first letter of the first pk the last letter of the second PK the first letter of the third PK you get one name by the way that name is V that's one name of God V another name of God is the 30 now the 37th name of God is Al an so the 37th letter of the first ptic the 37th to last of the second the 37th of the third is an okay you could get 72 different names this way we once gave a sheer on the significance of these 72 different names one of them is one of them is obviously the greatest one is n Dan which is my name which is my parents didn't realize that but the holiest three letters are dalid n you know that's the 50th name of AES there's 72 different names of Hashem what is name 68 s 68 you ready for this b v it comes from [Music] the the letter the three letters is the name of God that extracts kadus that's trapped in the dark side in case you need to go on one of these missions of extracting lost souls fallen into the abyss you never know you never know what you have where you have to go in life if you need to extract lost souls that fall into the abyss you need the name b v that come from it is the 68th name of God the 68th Name by the way the 72nd name of God the last one is me and that's significant maybe one one day we'll talk about that I remember many years ago I met the Pinas pedman and he told me he was going to write a safer on the significance of all 72 names of God he was going to call it AV in B is 72 so uh I would love to see something like that anyway the 68th name of God is what what does it do now what's the gamachi of 16 you ever hear there's an expression sweet 16 nobody knows where it comes from it's one of the great mysteries of life people think it has something to do with college sports certain age no sweet 16 is the power of the 68th name of Hashem b v now now we know where the word p comes from here here's where we used the 68th name of God here is where we used the 68th you could go right now I challenge you take a open up aak go to the three consecutive suim that have 72 letters you take the 68th letter of the first the 68th to last of the second the 68th of the third and you get b b by the way the gar asks that one of the ingredients used on the is thear says why do we use God had mercy on us so we just take it for granted Mercy is what's the numerical value of 68 because God used his 68th name to yank us out of MIT what what is the name you know what it stands [Applause] for Vina vas where is that that's in the mind where is the Zera of a person created cabalistic a person's Zera is created in the mind and biologically they finally discovered that the pituitary Grand controls the creation of the Zarah so cabalistic the Z is rooted in that's why this name is able to the Z therefore we say that's the V that's the emphasis on what are you if you're is the letters shame now it's not like you're going to come up you would have come up with this you don't need to be kicking yourself hey why did I think of this now if you're telling you know I almost had that one no no if you almost had that one I that that would be amazing but the says he's uncovered the significance of the name p here is where we find the 68th name of God what is it which is that's the secret of if you're that's a good one no that's good on next why is it called P cuz God jumped over our house so you just decided to give it a name what what what's the name the Torah gives it every single time the Torah refers to it doesn't refer one time it calls it P it says it says everywhere else is so why do we refer to it as why is the called why do referred in the in the as should be called so the Ben says as follows you know we have a we have uh we have many mitz that we do on P we eat mat how much mat Kaz the says the Kaz shrunk so we eat two Kaz and then we eat again for but four more than four Kaz nobody says you should eat how about four cups of wine you drink four cups of wine it doesn't have to contain more than a Ras so you take the biggest sh go like The KES what's The KES Ras 86 86 o that's pretty big 4.3 4.3 5.4 I don't remember I go like ra Raa by 3.3 o bya I believe 4.42 so this if it's kiddish Friday night you need a little bit of a bigger K if it's regular PES only 3.3 this year I went to Kesh Lakewood I got myself I'm not sure if I'm going to use it yet because it's not it's not I got a perfect Co a stainless now here's another thing people go to a KES right and generally they're observant Jews they keep chabas they keep T they eat kosher also when it comes to a KES they forgot that they had a bris and you don't have to keep anymore you can make KES on schnaps kishan schnaps but you're Jewish you have to make Kish on wine when God gave the he said you make Kish on wine all of a sudden you do all the mitah you do you eat good filter fish you eat mat balls you do all the important things so why when it comes to KES don't you want to do a Kal a you can't make KES on schnaps B it has to be on at least 3.3 ounces and see you can't use a plastic cup and the guy's a multi-millionaire he drives a car a new car every week he can't afford a a cup for $3 all of a sudden he has to use a plastic cup get yourself in normal cup now you have to eat at the K so take buy a cup and put it in your in your pocket to get a belt and strap yourself to it this way you can make Kish on chabas you do everything what leave in your Talis back anyway I got a stainless steel cup that's 3.8 O So now people say I can't drink wine all of a sudden the rest of the year every shabus C there they drink you know mamish like light and it comes it comes say there and they can't take Rashi wine which is basically like grape soda and they can't drink 3.3 Brave of the 3.3 ounces they have they have allergies and they're they're allergic and they have they're going to have hay fever every other kiddish I don't know how they even fit that amount of Beverage into them so it's better you you should try to drink wine for the say there you should get a cup at least 3.3 o and drink most most of it anyway that was just like a side point but what I'm getting at is that when it comes to all the MIT of P they have a they have a set amount the set amount is a is a is a but when it comes to there's no there's no Max you could you could pull an old nighter so there the name of the p p is a compound word p the mouth that speaks because of all the MIT that we do the there and over P this Mitzvah is expansive it's endless there's no set amount okay here's the third idea is very is a unique language the words have genders it's amazing thing the words have genders there's masculine and feminine words L is feminine in Hebrew any word that ends in AAS and then a he is feminine okay okay so I have one simple question remember the rabbis how does it Goa they werein and they pulling an all nighter but why does it say is that it should say you ever bothered by that question or you skip that paragraph you say that it's in the art SC I don't see why you it's it's in the art let me check the artart scroll has that it says so why does it say it should say this is the question of the benai says the Benes when it says they were talking about that night it wasn't talking about that night 1500 years ago it was talking about that night 3,300 years ago the night they left Egypt now we have a tradition from the zes the night they left Egypt the night was illuminated like the day the day is masculine because it's light but if you had a knight that was illuminated it would also be masculine so therefore it says they were M excuse me that night his night referring to the very night that they left Egypt it was referring to that very night that and they were speaking about the very sh and SP that were utilized on that night to bring about all the Miracles okay now here's a Whopper you ready for a Whopper I thought so re aarya he was appointed in the highest position of the Jewish people what position was that the Nasi how old was he 18 he's 18 years old on that day he got his driver's license on the same the trivia question which Tana which Tana became the Nasi and got his driver's license the same day I'm as if I'm 70 years old why as if he was really 18 and his hair grew grew white it's very interesting the gar says that on that day that was appointed the Nasi they changed the policy in the Bas M until he was the Nasi by the way who is the Nasi before had a policy policy was any student who is not on the inside like he is on the outside is uh it can't enter any Hypocrites had to stay outside so basically nobody was allowed in who who could pass that test right everybody's better on the outside than the inside everyone acts better on the outside than the inside right everybody in public they have this like fake persona and then behind closed doors you know there's somebody else that's human nature everybody's like that so Reb gam Leo basically had x-ray vision he would look at you and he would say no no you know pal stay outside he would only let in a select few the day that he was demoted and became the Nasi thear says that they added either 400 benches or 700 benches that means thousands of new telli you know like the entire there hundreds of students not hundreds thousands bench 400 benches how many could fit on a bench in the Young Israel how many what five on the at least a thousand Tam them were entered allowed in and aaria was allowed entrance was appointed the Nasi and all of a sudden the doors were open wide by the way in past years we said that it's very important to to start the say there with the demotion of Ramel and the promotion ofar because the night say there we got to bring in a lot of kids to the table we got to bring inam we got to bring in the rasia we got to bring in a we got to bring in a sh if from standing at the door how many of those kids are are getting into the house one out of four so the first thing we got to do to start the say there is we got to demote ra bring in now everybody could come into the house okay but why is it that Reb aar's appointment signaled this open door policy so Ben quotes I've been trying to figure this out the whole night quotes a med and a gar there is no I I don't think there's a gamarra I don't think it's in the gamara and I can't find in the medish if anyone out there knows where this is please let me know I did a search every time you search this medish the only that comes up are all the additions of meaning I don't know maybe he saw a medish that we don't have anymore but basically there's a PK in Daniel that says the hair of his head was like Woolf and there are two different perim in that just like wool on the inside is like the outside so to a student on the inside has to be like the outside another shot is like wool just like wool is nice when it's white it's nice to have a rashash Shiva with white hair when someone has white hair then all of a sudden people have respect for them but if you have black black hair no nobody takes you seriously what's the guy talking about it's black hair it's a young guy but if you have white hair what what happens when the hair turns white who knows but when you have white hair then people listen to you so basically they're two perim in the P Danel white here on the head white like wool either it means you have to be you have to be be on the inside like the outside or it means you have to have white hair now originally Ram was the Nasi and wheni they held you have to be on the inside like the outside and if you have to be on the inside like the outside then you don't have to have white hair so when they appointed Reb aarya they figured look the main thing is to be on the inside like the outside but when his hair turned white the day he became the Nasi so they now learned that the true shot in this DHA is that it's good for rash to have white hair and it's not important to be on the inside like the outside says oh it's not important to be on the inside like the outside now we could open up the doors to everyone you see there are two possible interpretations of white here like wool either be on the inside like the outside or literally have white hair so first they thought here if we bring in a young guy that means you don't need to have white hair you must be you must need to be on the inside like the outside but when his hair turned white that must mean that shamayim interprets that the correct way to look at it is it's good to have white hair and it's not relevant to be on the inside like the outside okay now this is the this is the king This Is the Whopper I this is the real Whopper we'll call it the Double Whopper okay you ready for this fast in your seat belts how many kids are there four kids four kids wise kid Wicked kid T and I always wondered there's there's a conspicuously absent kid where's the where's the kid who's a tadic where's the righteous kid and the answer is exactly there's no such thing as a righteous kid a righteous kid you could have a smart kid you could have a bad kid you could have a simple kid you could have a kid who can't formulate qu but righteous righteous is a lifetime's work you know it takes a whole lifetime to become righteous anyway the Ben quotes the Bal hasem now I think we brought up theem last week now if you want to join us for this coming we're going to CAU for the yard side of the Rama and when we're there we're going to visit Malala and the and the B and the B the M wasar ashkanazi he reveals that these four kids are actually four characters in the in the Kish who's the what did ask he said dad I have a question I see the fire I see the wood where's the SE pretty sharp question y was the wise kid who's the wicked kid asov asov is like he sees that yakob scared to death of him scared stiff he's sending him gifts and he's like who are all these gifts for ASA knew who they were for he knew that yob was bribing him that's the question of the wicked kid he knew it's a rhetorical question he knew the answer to that question he was like rubbing in like you see what you have to do to flatter me who's the is what is the T say in the ha remember his question he can't formulate he says ma did you know yob said ma in the next morning when he says ra and Leia says name's name's Leia to you what yob goes to love and he says the is the is and who's never asked any questions in the the Ben says that he cannot make heads or taals on this approach because what are we saying blessed is Hashem that he gave the is why are we talking about why we talking about he quotes who gives a deeper interpretation of the above but I thought it was very interesting that there's an approach to the ha that these four Bim correspond to four notable Personalities in seeras okay next question of Ben benai says you know we how many Danos are there I think 15 right 15as and we say if God had not brought us to is now do we say anything about the B mikdash that's very interesting now I understand why I never understood the Ben's question because we don't have his G the he asks why do we say and then when we say why is it first called theik and then called the I was like scratching my head really where does it say bikash we don't have it the art scroll doesn't have it but the didn't have this it wasn't out yet so in the's G of the first it said bikash and then it said so he says as follows there two mikdash one is the one that is created by Flesh and Blood by man that's called B mikdash the second one is that's called anybody know why the B is called stands for right God selected that's the now it's dependent on our bikash if we're to build a proper bikash then will bring down so first we say if God would have only brought us en is and he didn't build the and by building theik we're grateful but not only did God B buil the bik he even built bik fine next you know there's a a famous brisar I don't want you to go home without hearing uh a piece of T from the brisar because you go home and your wife's going to say no what do you learn you going say I learned this that did you learn brisker Tyra I sent you out you want you to come back you know with something substantial did you learn brisk orra so this way you say of course you know that it's interesting the brisar has a famous that the by learning even without narrative by learning you know there two famous accounts of sadar you have the account of rebar and RAB zah and in Ben and what were they doing they were telling the story and there's a TOA that spent the whole night learning and that seems to indicate that even learning is also a way to fulfill the so Ben says take the word p p let's split it in half pay is what 80 80 so what's pay becomes two Ms and S becomes two lams 60 becomes 230s and becomes two laade there two learnings on PES one is um speaking about the Miracles and one is learning the T now it's interesting you know the vehemently argues on the he says it's nice thing to learn you are not in the mid of by learning but it could be we see according to the significance of the g p it's Lade twice there are two things you need to do you need to learn the and you need to tell the story okay the next one is out of this world I love this one there are many things that people do for other people in their a hasem but they don't do it fors in other words question don't answer this question but just laugh when you hear it okay do you D in better when you D in at home without a minion or do you D better when you learn with a minion just curious where do you D better do you that when do you bench better if someone's sitting next to you watching you or when nobody's watching you don't answer the question just chuckle because you know exactly what I mean okay rev Miller once was sit was benching and he was sitting next to somebody after he finished benching he said to the other guy thank you for the benching so the guy said what do you mean I didn't bench you benched mother said but I benched better because you were next to me so he had the honesty to admit what hopefully we would all admit that a lot of things we do solely for other people but for our we're not so that means we're doing it for someone else we're not doing it for oursel says this explains in every generation you need to show yourself like you left Egypt don't do it to show your wife don't do it to show your kids don't do it to show your husband you don't do it only as a show for someone else you know who you need to show it to yourself that's how you read [Applause] it the r says but even in that the emphasis on the purpose is not to show it to others you got to show yourself next okay maybe the only intelligent thing that the UN ever said is that they said that since World War II the most difficult thing the world ever had to face was covid-19 could think about that whether that is true or not but there was one thing that was easier about covid-19 and that everyone had to everyone was facing the same thing it's not like oh he had it or she had it the whole world had it there's a there's a psychology and a phenomenon it's called the pain that the community goes through is half a consolation meaning when I have a difficulty and I think you I'm the only guy in the world that has this difficulty then it's very painful but if I know that's why they have support groups what are support groups yeah yeah yeah pal you're not the only person who who has this issue you're not the only out of the six billion people in the world you're not the only one who has this this issue a lot of people have this issue there's a there's a phenomenon called the pain of the community is half a consolation now the night of the say there if you're going to think oh yeah 3 million people were in Egypt it's going to be hard to fully Rejoice cuz you're going to think okay it was bad but I was together with you know another three million Jews that's why the says who why does it say as if who the word who is extra it should say as if he left Egypt what's the emphasis who as if he left Egypt imagine yourself therefore say like you are the only one there cuz imagine yourself you're the only one there you don't have the support system that the other people were with you and then you could Rejoice more intensely that hasem took you out so the word who is not extra it's don't just imagine that that you were in Egypt imagine you're the only one who was in Egypt this way you know if everyone's suffering then it's good to be free but it wasn't it's not as good as if you would have been the only only one fine we go on two more little things we say um before the second now apparently the Ben didn't use the art because he's bothered why are there seven he says there that's nine is shorter the night of the S is shorter I don't know about that yeah that would be a new one anyway the says why are there seven we're thanking hasem for is is the land of the sh the land of the Seven Nations but I don't know what his geara was I should have brought the then I would have seen what his G say one more thing we pick up the second K and we say we say oh sorry this is still in he took us from servitude to freedom from sorrow to Joy from to why do we have five Expressions says the he doesn't quote the but this comes from it's a gratitude ConEd the five of the what are the five of the it's called says lived in three in five worlds and he sang Shir in all of them he lived in the world of in his mother's womb when he was born when he nursed when he saw the downfall of the r and the day of death the Yeshua says these five worlds correspond to the five levels of the Soul when a person is created soon he has a neish a Living spirit in his mother's womb how do you kick you have a Living spirit when you're born you have R can breathe when you nurse you get a bar mitzvah that's the downfall of the on the day of death you get the highest level that's and this is a reference to um by the way says five times says the gria of is every morning when you wake up and you say the five words you get these five back what do you do if you didn't hear those words well make sure you get to shakas tomorrow because you want to get all five back so that's uh why we have five expressions of and so on and so forth these are 10 of the but there 11 so only say 10 of them then okay get down at least 10 of them and uh these are some beautiful ideas from the Ben I wish everybody and of course this year the sh is 6:00 p.m. at 5:30 Peninsula Boulevard you don't want to miss it so let's say you say I have to go to a different SHO try to get like a statue that looks like you you park it in your Shool make your way to 5:30 Peninsula at 6: p.m and hope to see everybody there wish everybody m