Pesach Perspectives - Part 2: Every Child Counts - Rabbi Paysach Krohn

[Music] and I want to share with you something so brilliant for I'm Jimmy Schwab now Jimmy Schwab picks up on something a one word that we say before we introduce the four sons borough hammocking boroka mocha means blessed is Hashem homonka means the place he's all over the place so Rob Schwab it's a very interesting question every time we use her mocking either in a Fela or when we express it to someone it's something said for example class first show him somebody has to go to be Menachem oval what do we say to the of oh I'm welcome Menachem s them that Hashem should comfort if somebody loses money it says in show her off what are you supposed to say to the person I'm mark I'm your male hasanah Hashem should fill your loss when we dive in a faint oh right when we dive in Athena what do we say how Malcolm you rock in Malaya those Jews that are stuck so far away and we have no way of getting them out Hashem should have Rock'em on us so why do we use how mark I'm you know why because somebody who's lost a dear one well somebody who's lost money or somebody who's stuck in a foreign country he's thinking God where are you how give me that taking care of me how could I lose this what happened here where are you so we reassure them and we say how mark I'm Hashem is all over don't worry he'll take care of you don't give up a year shouldn't be broken we go through difficult times but I'm welcome you nothing I'm mocking me male I'm looking you're out Himalayan that's what we say sir I've Schwab says if that's the case so what are we saying Brougham walk I'm at the Haggadah and he says something amazing he says there are many families where the parents or the grandparents are sitting around the Seder and they took a look at child they take a look at their child or a grandchild they say oh my gosh what happened to this kid how did he fall off the way what happened I thought I was gonna raise Heyliger children wonderful kids that are you Raymond slam him a look at this kid how did that happen so we say to the parents borrow four times borrow hamako him borrow ho borrow Shauna's internal armor Israel borrow ho every child is a blessing you don't give up on anyone no matter what level a child has stooped down to a boy or a girl no matter who they're with you can bring him back every child is a potential blessing that's what the burro hamakom is it may be painful and we have to be reassured that I someone's gonna help us but you can't give up you can't give up on any child and I'll tell you an amazing statement that the point of it you love once said the point of vision off once said an orphan child is a child who has no parents an orphan nation is a nation that has no children again an orphan child is one that has no parents an orphan nation is one that has no children our children are our greatest investment the greatest investment my dear friend the great basketball player at least it used to be mr. list right Vinnie Merrill is his father-in-law right so we're always talking about this that today we're getting to be known by our children you know you know this is who they are that's why we're luscious that's right that that's exactly what we want we want that our children and grandchildren should be so wonderful that people will introduce us with their father we're their father or mother or mother-in-law that's really what it's all about that's what children are that's why we can't give up on these kids and I'll tell you an amazing thing every time I go to Prague and I've gone many many times with many many people on these trips when you stand outside the morale shul there's so much to talk about the morale but there were other rabbis who were reveille him in the morale shul one of them was the clay yakar that famous commentary that we have on the Hamish and all democracy delays commotion and he says something every year when I am in that show I quote the caca he's buried right around that area together with the morale and gravesite and he says something we should never ever forget he says it on the plastic the plastic first is voracious members you test but he says it on plastic design we all know the story well Yakko if switched the hands by a framer Menasha and yes have said to his father Tata what are you doing you got to put your right hand on Menasha because he's the big one and he's the older one and a frying as the younger ones you have to put your left hand on him so what does Yaakov say for you my novice the father he refused why Yama he said don't worry your Dottie bonier Dottie don't worry my son I know what I'm doing Dom who yellow him on the gum who you kill don't worry Menasha will be great wah-wah cotton but the younger one the smaller one Yagami man he's gonna be greater now listen to what the cloaker says about this the he says the words that Yakov Aveeno said oh if a cotton gigged a memento the little one will be greater he says it doesn't just mean the one who was younger he says there's a deep lesson Kia cottage bar oh ho boy therapy yes epic famine Hashem picks out those children or those individuals who have something inferior about them the call Adam Shh both sob kapnos any person any child has something that you might think is inferior OSBI sir how cut his vertical my bi something's gonna lift this child Liz she say life ever bother to make him a leader of thousands all of us think for a moment of your graduating class think of those guys and those girls that were in that class will forget about the hairdos and forget about the you know the clothes that they wore but are the ones that are most successful now that we look back those kids that we thought were gonna be successful never it's those kids that was sitting in the back those kids who we thought would be nothing somehow they became leaders somehow they became great people how did that happen that's the llama cotton and so many parents say the same thing so many of us have children we thought of this child Wow he's gonna be the greatest and then it turns out that kid that you thought was gonna be not so special he's greater than all of them how did that happen because Hashem is showing us what Jakob said okay if I caught on gig down me man oh don't give up on any child all of us know this and our own families our children extended families and we know it in communities that child that you thought was not gonna be special turns out to be very special you know why because there was a mother who loved that kid and gave encouragement because it was a father or Rebbe or a friend who made that child feel special and that's what we come at the Seder table there's four kids four types of kids everyone is a blessing don't give up on anyone and I'll tell you one story and then we'll close this part of the talk the blue shoe irreparably Sphero was in the concentration camp within the 1940s and they tried to get some flour they were able to bribe some guards and they got some flour and they were able to make some matzo and the question was who should get the montes so they went to the Rebbe the schuyler was should the adults get it or should the children get it so the Rebbe said of course the adults should get it because after all they're mauve in the mitzvot and if we're able to get a few matzo at least let's give it to those who have the obligation to do the mitzvot so there was a widow there a widowed neighbor her husband had been killed she was taking care of a nephew and a niece in the barracks and she came over to the blue shiva Rebbe and she said Rebbe please i hope you don't mind please I beg to differ with you and he said what do you mean she said look none of us know who's gonna get out of here one thing I do know that if it's the adults that get out of here alive next year they're gonna know what to do about matzah at the Seder because after all they've gone through many many Sudan where they know what Matt says but these kids are so vulnerable these kids are so impressionable if we don't give them the matzah how they're gonna know what it means to eat Matt's on Pesach let's give them the Mozza let's show them the mysterious nefesh that we have because we want them to remember what matzah is all about and you know something two things happened one the rebus said to her you are so right and that's what they did they gave the children the matzah and the second thing is after the war he married her imagine that that was his second wife he said this is a woman this is a woman who understands what children are all about so then incredible I get the chills when I tell you this story that's what children are all about we can't give up on anyone and just remember all I'm all about cuttin it doesn't mean just that the younger one it's gonna be the greater one it's not about age it's about those two sroa it's those talents those characteristics that you thought we're not going to be so special it became very special