Pesach: To Be Truly Free - Rabbi David Yosef

[Music] tonight we are entering the month of Nissan in two weeks we will celebrate PES the holiday of freedom we were slaves and now we became free Freedom I'm Israel got freedom of course you know that at the night of PES it's not enough to say we are free we have to show that we are free when we drink four cups we have to sit on the left side to lay on the left left side to show I am Benin I free man when we eat matah also we have to lay on the left side to show freedom freedom we are free a few years ago one day before PES I got a telephone call a Jew he is in prison he called me he said Rabbi I'm in prison I will get matah I will get everything tonight but I want to ask you should I sit to playay on my left side to show freedom I was very surprised from the question I told him why not he said why not I'm not free man I'm like a slave five times day I have to wake up to stand up they count us like like animals and they treat me very bad I'm and I'm I'm not free man it's not freedom I told him it's not a question for sure you have to have a to lay on your left side to show Freedom you are free man okay thank you Rabbi goodbye close the phone then I thought really this man is free man of course what I said what I told him the he has to make 100% but why he's not a free man then I read a book one man in Israel wrote a book big book about the Holocaust stories about Jewish people they were hero how they tried to keep mitzvot under osit all the places like that to keep mitv there how they put the F in how they prayed and I read a story there group of Jewish people in osit in osz they were sitting months of tet three months before PES and they thought mat how can we bring matot to aitz so they were thinking they bribed some Germans they bried them and they made connection connection and finally two days before P they got mat and the story the men that wrote that book described how they were sitting happy and eating matah the night of P when I read that story also I asked myself that people if they would ask me do we have to makea to lay on our left side Freedom they are not Free People the the Nazis next day could kill them burn them kill them in a minute they were like slaves do they have to make the answer is yes why I will tell you why over time what is freedom freedom in our generation people think if I can do anything I want and nobody tells me what to do I am owner of myself I am the boss this is freedom that's what people think but it's wrong this is not freedom this is not Freedom real freedom is before you try to control the others do you know to control yourself do you think you are boss of yourself everyone wants to be a boss wow strong man he's telling do do this do that I'm the boss I am powerful man he thinks you are powerful man about yourself two weeks ago we read the M veros was a king according to the gar he was a king of all the world all the world at that time was Nations and he was a king of all the world the M starts about what bish party drinking party when he finished that he did it 180 days party of drinking he finished he made another party seven days then he killed his wife he got married again with a stair he made big big party to drink for a stair then he was drinking with ham then a invited him for a party of drinking then next day again drinking drinking this man a was miserable man he used to go everywhere with big bottle of wine drinking drinking all the time so he was a king of the world but he was a slave of the wine he loved wine he was a slave po man he told people what to do kill ham do this do that but to himself he couldn't control himself he couldn't tell himself what to do just drinking drinking all the time drinking so this is free man this is a slave slave poor man soai people in aitz people in prison if they control themselves any Mitzvah they can do they do the Mitzvah they are the bosses of themselves they are free people this is a real freedomz said about naz Naz this is the one that accepted on himself not to drink quiet why doesn't drink wine this man the PUK said NE what is Crown he has a crown said why does he have crown this man because he knows to control himself he is a king he's a real king he said so abai we have to ask ourself now now we are going soon we will celebrate PES we show that we are free just show oh are we really Free People it means can we tell ourself what to do and what not to do this is not good I don't want to do that it's good question everyone has to ask himself RAB isi spoke about cell phone smartphone I grew up without that until now my son tried to teach me how to send a message and um it explained to me a few times I'm not so stupid but I didn't understand I didn't yeah changed the old in a way it's good I have a computer in my office I write my books I write very quickly and I have responses thousands of responses books I don't have to buy books anymore I have it in computer I I sit in my room every day 12 hours I'm the happiest Torah so that high technology to use it for Torah it's very good but some places some houses people use it to watch bad things computers can be the best but can be the worst cell phone can be the worst the rabbi explained it to you but everyone has to stop and to think did did he say right things the rabbis or is wrong everyone will ask himself every world he said he is right I know families that were destroyed because of that the religious people at least Shabbat they don't have it you know in Israel I go to give sh sometimes I see people sitting next to me making I I'm talking to you and you play what is this Shabbat they don't have it Shabbat everybody is listening it wasn't like that and it keeps the brain of people busy deep about that and they forget thems they forget the education of the children they forget the Shalom bite it destroy Shalom bite many times many times and of course it destroy the education of the children the child says my father is using that for him it is allowed for me not why if it is allowed it is allowed he wants cell phone he wants smartphone I want too so we have to think about that this is not Freedom we have to stop being a slave of the cell phone or the computer or the internet all of that things you can use it as I said if you know how to control it good but it's very difficult to control it for the children they are very smart somebody told me no don't worry Rabbi I have internet I have everything in my house but there is a code and my son cannot uh he cannot open it because he doesn't know the code okay I told him good luck to you next day he came very very nervous very angry he said his son begged him to tell him the code he told him no he strong father next day he came home he tried to open the computer he couldn't his son said I open it I knew it now I made a new code I'm not going to tell you the code yeah our children are very smart young they know to use the computer much better than we know so son was tell my son I need the computer he said no way he left yeah so code it's not enough code is not enough we have to control it to be sure and the children when they use it for for their studies sometimes we have to watch every time if they really use it for good things or not I know now it's too late to tell people don't put computer in your house but at least computer without internet that we can we can do no internet and when they want want want to watch something not Cal we have to watch to see what they are doing if someone leaves his children he goes to a wedding he's celebrating three four hours and his son using it terrible things this is not good education I came here in the summer here in this place yes it was here and uh believe me I was very very impressed I I was very excited after I left this place it's holy Community you are good people I love you you are good people and after I spoke about Jewish Education I heard from Rabbi Elan that over 250 children left public school and soai you are you all of you are our soldiers everyone is a soldier of our army to fight against the simulation all of you each one of you is a soldier we will fight for that I want to tell you a story I remember that story when it happened my father went once to a wedding he went to a wedding he was sitting next to him was a very very rich man sitting next to him and his face was very sad like T my father looked at him and told him Mister today it's a wedding happy place it's not why do you behave like he said for me why why the man said Rabbi you cannot help me anymore it's too late okay maybe it's too late but just tell me open your heart to me you will feel better after the man said okay RAB I will tell you he said he was married for almost 20 years he had money he had everything by the way this man was bukai in Jerusalem and he said he was praying to Hashem to have children no children praying praying he went to all the MIM all the raim and after all almost 20 years his wife got pregnant he said I was the happiest in the world I had a baby boy so that boy I loved him so much my wife and I gave him everything everything he wanted he didn't have to ask he gave him gave him everything he was like a King when he was 17 he told me Daddy I want to be a driver can you buy for me a car he said of course I bought to him immediately big big BMW and then he was a good boy every night he never came after 11:00 he knew his parents are waiting for him he never came late last week he said the man it was M Shabbat he went to a party with his friends 11 11:30 12 my wife and I couldn't sleep we were worried what happened to him he didn't come we decided if he doesn't come until 1:00 something happened to him we will call the police and we were saying toim and 5 minutes before one ringing on the bell I run to the door with my wife we opened the door we saw our son coming with two friends holding him and he used to make one step ahead and then three back and we started to see oh son what happened to you what happened his friends laughed they said don't worry nothing Happ but why you like like that he looks very bed no we had a party your son took drugs drugs don't worry he will sleep tomorrow morning he will be better and the man started to cry he told my father Abbi look I gave him everything I was the best father to him and he betrayed me like that what my father told him mister I want to ask you you you judge your son that he betrayed you but tell me please which school did you send your son the man said in Jerusalem soov soov it's Jewish school Jewish but behave like go no no religion not at all not at all nothing they don't know to say sh Isel nothing my father looked at him he said I have mercy on you but what do you think what do you think you sent your son to so of school you want him not to to take drugs what you pled you have now my father told him you remind me a man that was standing next to his field and come crying crying people ask him why are you crying he said look I worked very very hard and in my field I have onions I sold it I got for each pound 5050 Cent and my neighbor he has H roses and he export it to many countries and he became a millionaire and I am poor man people ask the man what did you plant in your field he said onions people told him stupid man if you plant onions you will have onions if you plant roses you will have roses so we are now we have to plant our children if we send them to Jewish school we will have roses we will have oh business people but no drugs but if someone sends his son to public school one day he will come to him with a Goya a girl not Jewish and he will tell his father or daughter will come is a yeah that's what you you taught me you taught me we are equal we have to to be with the go so why not why not now you wake up now sometimes it's too early too too late I'm sorry we have to wake up early not late so everyone has to be a soldier about that you know you live here and you know people everyone has friends Neighbors relatives that their children Shalom go to public school and two days ago two nights ago M Shabbat I was here also we gathered money for that to take children from public school to Jewish school he made it it was very very successful evening so if someone agrees to send his son to Jewish school it's not a question of money anymore but we have to do that we have to talk to them so everyone will get what I say now as a mission my mission everyone at least 10 children yes everyone 10 children thousands of children we can can save it's easy it's not difficult to convince Jewish men not to send his son to public school even even if he's not religious if we know how to talk how to explain it's not so difficult it's easy if we tell them about the problems of the drugs everybody knows that problems if we tell them you want a wedding you your son with a girl not Jew wish or the opposite no one will agree that no one want wants it if they say we don't have money don't worry about money so this is our Target first of all we have to control ourself as I said in the beginning and to take care of our children and to ourself also about cell phone computers like Raba Israeli said at the beginning and also everyone will go and will save children I promise you now anyone who save one child give me the name of the one that did it yes AB Elan make a list big list I will go to the cemetery to the grave of my father and I will read all the names name by name and I will ask my father to pray for them this is the biggest and now before I finish I want to bless you all as I said I love you I Know What You Did in the summer and I know that you want to continue men and women all of you you want to continue to make evolution in the bukari communities so I want to give you special from bottom of my heart amen [Applause]