Pre-Passover Inspiration - Rabbi Paysach Krohn

[Music] it's a great course to be able to be here tonight I want to begin by giving everybody a bra and this bra is something that I was able to experience I hope to continue experiencing it and I hope that you'll all be able to sit at a sane a table with children and grandchildren everybody should say Amen then you should be so eager to do that it's such a beautiful thing so a number of years ago I have a grandson today he's already 22 but at that time he was three years old his name was Abraham and of course he's named after my father I have a special love for him and he was three years old we were sitting at the Seder table and of course a three year old boy cannot follow the Seder he runs to the kitchen to the dining room living room in and out back and forth and finally we were at the point of the Seder which is a very very happy time and that is when you pick up the cup of wine and everybody sings together Alicia um though it's a very happy time and this little boy is running in and out at the dining room and just as we're about to sing he Shanda he comes over to me and he says to me he's 80 can I sit on your lap now everybody here whose is 80 or a Bobby you know that if your branch child wants to sit on your lap what's a question of course so the law is that if your right E is supposed to hold a cup with your right hand if you're a lefty hold it with your left hand I'm a righty I picked up the cup with my right hand I lifted up my little boy my grandson on my left lap and we started singing mahisha um dong and as we're singing vehicie um doh and I'm saying the words all of a sudden I started crying and everybody's looking at me why you crying and you know it's very embarrassing when you're not supposed to be crying they're not expecting you to cry and you want to stop crying but you can't and I just looked down and it was just awful I was holding my son my grandson and the only reason that I was crying was because I said these words shallow Oh Maude Elena lauhala say no not only one nation is trying to get rid of us eligible hold of a door in the Malay NOLA Kali say no every single generation they're trying to get rid of us and I was thinking rabona shillelagh we lost six million we lost so many Israeli soldiers so many people have killed us out in so many different countries in Lithuania and Poland and him all these places throughout Europe doesn't it stop what's the future for this child what's the future for all the kids his age and that's all I could think about that the ball of God is telling us it never ends and that's why I was crying and finally we finished fahisha I'm done people were asking me what's wrong I didn't want to say I didn't want to ruin the atmosphere at the Seder I just wiped away my tears and we went on with the whole Satyam after the Seder I took out every single Haggadah that I had and I wanted to see a commentary on these words and see maybe somebody will say something that would give me some consolation that would make me feel relaxed a little bit and finally I saw the Sephardic hakoda the dog she does arpaio a shift over dad's a lawyer and he has a very interesting question he says what is the Bamako they're talking about not every generation that they try to kill us take a look at for us today in 2018 just a couple of years ago we had a hundred thousand people at a SEMA shots in MetLife Stadium there Shiva simple shot goes and colos all over there were so many years in Poland where the Jews were able to flourish years in Lithuania look at Canada England energy soil not happy generation are they killing us what did the power go to talking about and if he does says a tremendous thing he says it doesn't mean only by the sword he says it means by the smile take a look at America today we can do anything right and yet there's more than 60% intermarriage how in the world could that happen every it could be a woman yet if you wanted to nobody's stopping us but because of the smile because everybody can work with the and we go to their colleges and we go to their workplaces and we're influenced by them by the technology by the radios the TVs everything so that smile takes over that's what the Paulo God is warning us be careful it's not they holding a gun to you be careful ship will hold over there in every generation you got to be careful that they're trying to influence us sometimes by the sword and sometimes by to smile so I felt a little bit more relieved I felt more relaxed two days later was hollom I didn't and all of you know that I am a mile so I had a bristling island of all places a place called Mount Sinai okay and in mount sinai which is in Suffolk County the father over there was not Jewish Italian guy named like Napolitano but the mother was Jewish and her parents wanted to have a bris Mila for her for their grandchild so I did the bris and after the bris I turned around I wish I would've had a camera I want to tell you what was on the table a blue box of Horowitz Margaret and Montez right next to the Montes was a bowl of bagels I'm paisa next to the bagels was a cheese platter and next to the cheese platter was a meat platter every a favor you could think of Komets matzo meal takes place shakes cautious rate it was all there how did that happen what is it Leon nobody say about a bris like this what does Hashem say about a purse like this how did that happen that didn't happen cause a resort that happen because of a smile because Jennifer can eat you know the palate on Oh any place and they can go help and it's accepted today in the world by the glacial world by the world that's not room and because of that that's what ends up with these mixed marriages and that's the first lesson that we have to learn when moisture a being who said July as a Maivia duty he just didn't say some he said let my people go you know they used to be an expression when people were revolting let my people go but that's not the end of the sentence it's not just freedom to do anything you want it's freedom to survive cutters burrow hole let my people go via Dooney and they will serve me they will serve Hashem that's what the freedom is I just spoke about two hours ago rabbi I'm enough in Hiroshima they gave us safer Torah somebody gave me sake returned I said that's the best week in the year to give us safe attire at right before pays off because the whole purpose of peso has to get this force that's why some people say that it's like a long column ID from Pesach all the way 49 days tissue is it's not just a question of freedom to do whatever you want it's cause we have a freedom that we could be religious we can have look at this what we could do here tonight with hazaki one of the greatest organizations in the world we have to thank ya Neve and his brother what they've done for Clouseau they deserve a big round of applause in less than 24 hours every single word that we say here tonight and what rabbi better said will be all over the world because of tour any time calm they also and now he that roots has gotten into the act and healed up with it's amazing with the technology that we have today we can spread Toyota all over the world that's why we're free we're free to be able to use their technology in the proper way we're free to inspire and free to make sure that every single person that we know is inspired in the proper way I want to tell you something amazing now I know that I've said this once before I recently hit that brute put this out but I think it's very important because everybody has to learn this lesson you know and how God or we say these words borrow hamako him borrow who omocha means the place but I'm okay Mira first on Shin Bora hammocking blessed is a chef now ref Schwab is a very interesting question every time that we use the word harm or claim it's always something said for example let's say that somebody goes through him and I hung up on someone what do we say hi Morgan you're not him right Hashem should console' and what happens if somebody lost money what do we say to them I'm mocking your male Kareena Hashem should fill your loss and what happens if somebody's stuck in a foreign country far away what do we say to them I'm not going me around Himalayan while we say okay no Hashem should have compassion so all these things why do we say how mocking because if somebody loses somebody very close or somebody loses a lot of money as somebody's stuck you might say Hashem where are you how could you do this thing so we say I'm walking God is all over the place he knows where you are don't worry just like he got your day he could get you out of there there's no such thing as a hopeless situation Hashem could save I'm walking my shame is all over that's the case so why at the Seder which is such a happy time do we say borrow ha mocking we sing it borrow ha walk I borrow ho what are we saying and the answer is a tremendous answer and the answer he says is like this and sometimes you're sitting around the table fathers children grandchildren mothers daughters granddaughters and you look around at the table they look at that child and the child is wearing an earring but it's not the girl the boys wearing the earring and a father feels sick how in the world did that happen how did this child how did this girl he knows where the girls win the last year how did this girl go off the debtor how did this happen and a person could be so despondent so we say to the father we say to the parents borrow Hamacher mash em every child is a blessing it says borrow four times borrow camel can borrow who borrows on us internal a mr. Alberto who every child is a blessing you don't give up on any child you never know hold on to that child you could bring back any child no matter how far they've gone half any boy any girl you could bring back the child that's what we say Baro homogamy Shem is they're all over and that's something that we should rejoice about because we know that there are thousands of kids off the Darren young men young women but we have organizations and we have people and we have ourselves to make sure to reach out to these people you don't give up on anybody that's what baraja Markham is all about and that's why it's one of the happiest times and I'll tell you something amazing you know all of us remember the story when Yaakov wanted to switch the hands and he wanted to put the right hand on a fry him at the left hand on Manasa and you'll say said to him what are you doing father but notches the big one but then you know what yong-chol said something that we should all remember the father said don't worry you don t Bini I know my son I know what I'm doing don't worry he's gonna be big Menasha will be big but all on but oh he bought cotton gin tell me man oh the little one he's gonna be greater and the clay yoga teaches us a very important lesson it doesn't mean only the small one he writes any child that has something inferior with them Hashem elevates that child and makes him into a leader of thousands I always say look back to your high school class all those that you thought were gonna be the most successful when they really the most successful most of the time it's not that way it's that kid that nobody thought was gonna be anything but he had a mother that loved him he had a Rebbe that inspired him he had a teacher a Rebbe amaura a father a mother somebody that said you know something you're special you could grow you could accomplish and made the child believe in themselves that's all about continent that's what we have to remember at the Seder every child is special every child has great great potential I want to tell you a great story it's an amazing story the blue jewel Rebbe was a very very great Sadiq and in the camps they were able to get some flour and they got some flour they were able to make some Montes very very few Montes and the question was as paisa was coming the holiday was coming the question was who do you give these monsters to so some people said you gotta give them to the adults because they have a heap of matzah and that's what the blue Shiva Reddy said after all the adults are the ones that have it even if we have matzah we should give it to them other people said give it to the children and the blue shovel-ready Baskin that we should give that you should give it to the adults but then there was a lady a lady who was a widow her husband had already been killed and she was then given fu Anna nice and she went over to the blue shiva Rebbe and she said Rebbe please let me explain something please listen to me please forgive me that I beg to differ with you and she said like this she said Rebbe none of us know who's gonna leave here who's gonna get out of here alive but if the adults are the ones that get out alive when they come to another holiday of besan they will remember what monsters are because they had it before but these children they never saw it if we give them the monsters it'll make such an impression on them they'll remember it forever give it to the children that's the right thing to do and you know something not oniy that the Rebbe gave the monsters to the children but after the war he married her that was his second wife her child told me that story is that amazing that's amazing he saw this is a lady this is a lady who understands what's clinicas all about I want to tell you something very interesting most people don't realize this but for me personally as you'll see in a second it's very meaningful what is the meaning of the word Pesach anybody know may sound one means to skip over right the past / but you know something if you look in the Rashi and Hamish and at the targum you'll see that place I has a different meaning you know what the project means the project tells us like this for all of our hashem lingo investments Ryan marshes Bush my sheep a sponsor called Kimmel and anybody was watching take out a homage look it up and mention it at the Seder cuz nobody will believe you take a look and says Hashem went to plague me trying and he saw the Dom on a mosh go if that was on the lintel Vasya mezuzahs or possum Hashem alavesa you know what Ron she says pasa means for her mouth he had compassion he cared and targum in another passage by Martin's mo bettah SheaMoisture based pasta comes and tells us the Targum carbon I share bosses ever pass up the fog is highest comes from the word hosts Avraham honest I would rather that people say my name Reza means complexion that means just to be best over you know when I used to play ball but the guy am a farce park they couldn't pronounce paisa so they used to call me Passover that's what the Graham called me right but but I would rather be known as you know somebody of compassion and I think that that's very very important as we get to the other professor we have to realize that what a Shem did was he had Ramona's unclogged Israel and that's really what we have to do if you haven't invited an unfortunate person yet not only to your Seder but to the other meals of young d'If then that's more important than anything else you know the Rambam tells us the Rambam tells us in Hillhouse Magilla in Perak basil all you desire more Tov Adam lahar boys Vimanas have join him when it comes to the sudha of poram it's more important to give money to poor people that have a fancy sudha and he writes because Shane simcha Tullahoma Ferrara there's no greater simcha - M L Allah Sameach flavor nyan when he sees that you have compassion for poor people and farm owners and garam in Kleiser all today we have so many singles young men young women some are married some more married some are not married these are the people to think about right now tonight before you go to sleep make a list of some of the people that you know and invite them invite them today it's Sunday we got a whole week yet don't invite them with Thursday night but Wednesday night they think that then the last minute now's the time to invite them that's what compassion is all about and I'll tell you a great story from zalman or ba one of the kids early hot darn he had a nephew named middle and he called him in a couple years ago he called him and he said I want you to come to my house right after you finished burning the hummus and he said but uncle it's such a busy time and you know don't forget there's only one day yontiff energies well can't I come the day before no I want you to come right after burning comments ok took our ladder Baskin that's his uncle he comes there and slamming Salman has ten envelopes on the table they're all addressed and he says I want you to take these diamond blocks and deliver them to these people usual I am now milling was a person who was involved in helping many many people he raised money and he gave out teacher he recognized these names he said uncle I know some of these people they're very poor they've all got money you're ready and if they don't need money right now they're not buying clothes right now everyone that they go god when are you ready said listen don't ask me any questions do what I tell you just deliver these packages these envelopes and I couldn't you under ok that's what he Pascal he goes and he's you know in the beginning at ten envelope so he was rushing by the fifth one he was slowing down a little bit and he waited till the guy opened the envelope guy was so excited to get to know from holman he opens it up what is it it's some cash and it's tickets to the Ghana high oath to the biblical Zoo and he's thinking why would my uncle give tickets at a biblical Zoo air of yontiff nobody's going to the biblical Zoo air of yontiff what was the rush then he goes to the next one the six-person he waits again to see what it is sure enough same thing some cash and tickets to the biblical Zoo can't believe it and that's what was in every single one well it was too busy even when he finished to go back to his uncle but a Holland white he went to his uncle and he said please you got to explain it to me what was so important to give out these tickets to the biblical Zoo to all these people right before you on to listen to what he said we're gonna learn a great lesson he said look I know the children of you shall I'm they're gonna come to shore lunch onion turf and everybody's gonna ask each other where you going were you gonna go hold on what you got any place where you going so those kids who could afford it they're gonna go to Ghana Yeshua they gotta go to some amusement park then you know some place right but other kids the parents can't afford anything they're gonna be so miserable not only is it gonna ruin their sympathy on them but it's gonna ruin the simplest yontiff of their parents when these kids come home to complain so I wanted these four families they'll tell their children you also have a place to go to and that's something to think about it's not only under what about Holloway we have a very big column right this year it's a lot of things to do maze and parks and I don't think the Yankees are playing in town don't call them white but whatever but the point is there are a lot of places that you're gonna take your kids make sure that the kid down the block who can't afford it that you're gonna take him along that's also part of the under professor that's us that's karma making sure that every place every person has a place and our show where I dive and I know they take kids to Adventureland or whatever and there's a fund that you could give money to for those kids who can't afford it rabbi Teitelbaum sure I'd rather have Rome and he's it Sadiq and it takes kids to Hershey Park every year takes some challah might and a lot of kids who can't or able to go that's part of paisa that's part of Hummel a feeling compassion for other people that's part of the idea of this holy uptick of paisa I want to tell you now one of the greatest stories that you'll ever hear and I heard it from the person himself many years ago after the second world war in 1945 this Scaletta Rebbe came to a place in Romania was called Bukovina and it was after the war and many many people felt a refuge to go there and the Rebbe sent the Yid I only want to mention his name so that he should have a horse oh isn't this jumbo should happen Thalia and what happened was that he asked this fell official careful he told him that he should go out and he should get some wheat buy wheat and they'll be able to mill it and make some flour out of it and they were able to make samantha's now the school Anna revi knew that there were many hush of a rebellion that had come to Bukovina after the war eventually they would leave but right now for base off that were going to be here so they made as many monsters as they could and he gave out three monsters to various rub on him he had them sent to various places now one day a little boy came I spoke to this point I smoked him of course when he was an adult he was eight years old at the time his name was moisture Hager he was the son of the Sarat vision Sorelli and he comes to the Rebbe comes to his kalenna revi and he says I just want to give you regards from My Father the cereth vision sir Rebbe and the school Emmett said Oh your father's such at Sadiq here let me give you the most beautiful monsters and it gave him three monsters and they didn't have any folds they didn't have any bends no bubbles not perfect so the little boy said Rebbe my father said I can't leave until you give me six months us he said six monsters I can't give it a six months us I only have to read for each other upon it I can't give you so many said well what should i do my father said I can't leave here until you give me six now this kalenna Rebbe was stuck here's this cute little kid he says he's not gonna leave until it cuz his father said he's got to get six and it gives him six he has no choice okay he says give your father my best regards he's a big Sadiq she have a wonderful young tough find the kid comes home Arif ASA the little boy told me he comes back to the school in a reverie with three monsters and the Rebbe said what's this he said my father said I should give her the monsters he said what are you making a joke out of me I told you I could see these monsters I gave you six and now you bring back three listen to what he said he said my father the Sarah's visions already said that you discover every ah such exotic that you were you was sure that you were gonna give away all the best monsters and either you wouldn't have any for yourself and if you had it wouldn't be the best ones say who you were gonna give me the best ones so he made me you yet take an extra three so that I could bring it back to you right before youngest so you'll use those for a seder and ask Elena see them told me there's collaterally is thinking about everybody else and the Sarah divisions the Rebbe is thinking about the celina Rebbe that's greatness that's what young the faceoff is all about compassion caring not only thinking about yourself thinking about others that's really what it's all about someone I'm taking an amazing story now this is very very precious to me and the reason that it's precious as you'll see in a second those of you who know me personally know that well Benny knows me for years right and Rabbi Rubin these people they know me well many long guys my father passed away when I was 21 and my mother was the quintessential our Mona she was a widow literally for forty years I was very very close to her the furthest that I ever lived from her was two blocks I have a wonderful wife from Hashem she had the greatest respect for my mother were very very close and there was nothing I thought then anybody could tell me about my mother that I didn't know but three years ago my nephew you heard of Goodman called me up and he said you know uncle face I want to tell you something about your mother that you don't know I said it's impossible I was by my mother all these years there's nothing we never spoke about it's impossible how could you tell me something that I don't know he says I want to tell you what happened the last day of her life I said the last day of her life now I know she passed away hallo my tuckus she passed away I'm Colin white and so what happened he said like this she was in Brawl Kimball Hospital which is in Lakewood and my nephew lives in Lakeville just gonna be with her he was it actually was it right after the second day of yontiff at night an hour 2 ft on turf that's when she passed away so he was there with her that day of Yount of the second day of yontiff of circus and he tells me like this you know I came into the room she wasn't talking anymore she wasn't responding and I said to her bubby would you want to shake the little Vanessa Regan will make the broth together and she didn't respond so I didn't know she understood what I meant or what I said so I put the love and the ezarik in her hand and I wrapped my hands around her hands my nephew says to me and I said there Bobby let's say the brought together he said I said the Braja I'm at a loss to love how he shook the lil up in the S ring in all four ways and then up and down all the way all the directions and then we finished and I wanted to take the lulav and ezarik from her and she held on very tight she wouldn't give it to me now I didn't know if she understood what was going on but her hands were very clutched tight around the little Vanessa Rick so I figured if she wants to hold it okay I'm not gonna take it away from her so I removed my hands and the second that she held it by herself she took the little aftermath and kissed it I took the s returned mouth against it and then gave it to me I couldn't believe it he said where did she get that I never saw anybody do it now I always did it because my mother always did it when I was a kid so I always kissed a little nicer because my mother did it but woody my nephew he never saw it so he said I never said to show anything about it he said but this year I was teaching Hill has afikomen now I know that many big tummies economy mr. klasky dr. Silverman and in the back over there become a Netsky a lot of people wonderful people here so I want to tell you take a look at it you won't believe it in the order hi I'm Bear hey Dave Simon tough irons ioan safe cotton olive listen to this you could go crazy from it and we're gonna start a new thing this year all over the world kostov slaw Cordish lakh others rights release e i saw me burn a aliyah the higher type people show human Ashkan hamas says they used to kiss the Motta's anybody here you ever kiss a matzo last year I started just a matzo and Amaro I can't say I kiss tomorrow but they kiss the masses and tomorrow but range soca and they're also the soca people kiss it bit me so sorry ooh be it CEO say when they go in and they go out retain Dollard meaning shiva lulav and also the four species of the lulav why coil Lahav wave a mitzvah to show how much you love the Mitzvah the ASHRAE we shall ever - embassy maja fortunate are those who serve our embassy maja imagine when you sit down to the Seder this year if you're not embarrassed before you put the car in and the lady and you surround you pick up the Monsen you give it a kiss and you say to your children and grandchildren you know why I kiss it because the schlocko they says that's how the holy people live because we love mitzvahs and just like you kissed a child because you love the child he kissed a mitzvah it gets to secretary he gives the filling I never heard of kissing monsters but now the mission bro also quotes this very day it's a different dimension when you're sitting around the Seder that the Mitzvah is so harsh if it's so precious and that's really what I think if we can show our children and grandchildren how precious mitzvahs are then it's gonna be precious to them because really deep down everybody wants to be like their parents they want to look up to them they want to be like them and act like them but we have to act in a way that's sincere cuz the kids can see right through it if you just kiss them on say you make a joke out of it okay it's tomorrow then don't do it it's better not to do it because cos Michelle McCann be embarrassing but when you do something like that and you show the love of mitzvos that's really what the yonder is all about and if said I could only speak thirty five minutes so I've spoken thirty five but I just want to give everybody a broker that as we come to this Heyliger unit of a paisa that we should know that peso has only the beginning the idea is to come every day to come higher and higher and higher and as it says in reputable high and others as we said before that all the days between paisa and truest are in a sense like a hollow might every day let's try to get higher and higher until we reach the level of Kabbalah cetera and we should be sorry for to see the go over as cross all sort missing we should see it this year thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause]