Pesach: The Worst Seder in the World - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

you've just finished putting the last touches to the Seder table the house has been scrubbed from top to toe no mercy has been shown to the smallest piece of kets in this war there are no prisoners your husband has spent the last month reviewing all the hakas the laws of pesak and he's bought one of those new crop of hagad that appear at this time of year looking for inspiring words of Torah to be devoured along with the matah on the night of the Seda you gather around the table and begin the Seda Jews have done this for nearly 3 and a half thousand years you remember your buba and your Zeda they no doubt remembered theirs and your children shining in their YT of best gaze up at your parents memories being made chains of Love stretching across Millennia here it is the moment we've all waited for and yet what is it something's lacking the children don't want to listen to the hagada they want to eat the matah now they've absolutely no interest whatsoever in why Rebel OAB and aaria said he was like a man of 70 years old you'd love to listen to the hagada but at this crucial moment the light has gone out under the chicken soup and panic stations have been declared why is it that every peser seem somehow I don't know you start off with such high hopes this year it's going to be different this year we're really going to experience what it means to come out of Egypt this year if it can't be this year in Jerusalem at least it could be this year with a real PES feeling the great sadik rabm Cora a talmid of the SE of Lublin was a poor man he lived constantly on the bread line and was always in need of help PES was rapidly approaching and in rew's house there was nothing no matah no wine no kosis no food no money no nothing and in spite of these dire circumstances reul was convinced that Hashem wouldn't desert him everything would be fine the sear of Lublin heard of re's plight and was worried about him he dispatched one of his wealthy REO to quietly provide for re and his needs there of pesak a wagon Laden with food and Crockery wine and mzas arrived at rib's door he was overjoyed here in the twinkling of an eye was hashem's Deliverance that night reul sat down and conduct his in Seda with a joy and a feeling of the coming out of Egypt which was unparalleled in all his holy life he imagined himself ascending to the upper worlds born on a tremendous joy that Hashem had provided for him without having to ask for charity his unbridled happiness made him feel that no one had ever experienced such a Seder as this in at all this was it you couldn't go any higher now on the second night of the Seder reul was tired from all the elevation of the previous night and he decided to rest a little before beginning the second seder he lay down on his bed for a couple of minutes and he was thinking that he really ought to get up when he drifted off to sleep several hours later he awoke with a start what's the time he glanced at the clock and was horrified to see that it was nearly midnight in just a short while the last time to eat the afom would pass repell was broken in tears he rushed to fulfill the Mitzvah of the Seda kdes reciting the hag the four cups eating the muts of the bitter herbs the koses the festive meal and finally seconds before midnight eating the afikoman repm fell into a deep depression it seemed to him that never in the entire history of the Jewish people had there been such a miserable seder it had been a shambles after pesak reul traveled to visit his teacher the seir of Lublin and immediately after he had greeted him the seir said to re come let us examine the two sedor of rebm now the first night was below par considering who rmo ISM imagined himself to be hovering in the worlds above you thought there' never been a Seder like this before no that wasn't a great seder but the second seder now there was a Seder few have flown to the heights that REO reached on his second seder broken and spirited and humble wanting no more than to fulfill the will of the master of the world as it says the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit so when you're sitting down at your s table and the kids are screaming when you have to get up from the table for the nth time and when you manage to finish the last of the matah just before the soup boils over and you start to feel frustrated and saddened and a long way from pesak remember REO [Music] [Applause]