How to prepare for Pesach (Passover) the right way - Part 2 - Rabbi Alon Anava

100% did everybody understand what you said okay the thing is again not to Sidetrack again too much the point is that every good thing that a person does goes into into account and he doesn't lose it ever a person doesn't have to have a long beard and aaka and to pray three times a day that his good acts are going to be counted a person can be completely not observant and give charity and have is and be an amazing husband and be an amazing father an amazing employer etc etc etc The Good Deeds that that person does is his forever not only that that a lot of people think that if I now did a lot of mitv and then I did something bad that my mitv are being taken away no if I did if I elevated a certain spark that's it it's done it goes to my spiritual bank it's never going to be taken away that's why that a lot of times I tell people you know a lot of people tell me you know I'll give you a story there was once a young man that came to one of my lectures and he got very inspired and then one day he started coming to more classes and then finally started coming every morning to pray with us and one morning he didn't show up and I called him I told him what happened are you sick so tell me no I had enough with this whole thing him what he's like that's it I'm I'm done with this I feel like a hypocrite told him I don't understand what you're saying he's like you know what I did last night I told him I don't care what you did last night so he tell me I'll tell you what I did last night I went to a party said okay fine he said you know what I did yesterday I told him I don't care what you did he said I'll tell you what I did I met a girl and I did this and I did that and I told me I did all the sins in the book and you think I have the today in the morning to wake up and show up in the Sho and to put feeling on me I feel like a hypocrite told him what what was what does one have to do with the other so what if yesterday you did a bad Sin who gives you a discount not to show up this morning and Sh and pray who gives you the exemption not to put F in on today the fact that you did yesterday a sin who cares what's the connection you know when you show up in the morning to pray you know how many positive mitv you do you put F on that these are two positive mitv one for the head one for the hand then you put on that's another mitvah these are all mitv from the Tor then you say that's a Mitzvah from the Torah then you pray another Mitzvah you give charity another Mitzvah you learn a little bit of Torah another mitzvah you willing to give all this up because yesterday you did a bad act what's the connection so wake up in the morning do CH will forgive you go to the mik and move on you willing to lose out here because yesterday you did something bad here there's no connection exactly like you said the fact that that yesterday you were separated from Hashem you did the opposite of hashem's will doesn't let you go from today doing a a Mitzvah there's no connection to each other and I told him imagine Shalom today is the day that you have to go up to Sham so you're going to come up to Sham with a bucket full of sins right so at least be smart and come with a barrel full of MIT that you that you have much more mitv we're all human nobody's here sadik we're all going to come up to sh we're all have with us a lot of bad things each one has bad things in their department but it at least the point is is at least to concentrate on how much good I have not how much bad I have the bad is going to be removed they'll do Chua the good is mine it's an investment and it's the worst attitude because a lot of people say oh yesterday I did this bad thing so today I don't want to do that that's what happened to most people oh yesterday I don't do this so today I don't want to pray or last week I did this so today I don't want to come to je what's the connection even the point is that one needs to concentrate only on the good but going back to what we were saying that there are many times throughout the year that there's a Godly Revelation this is called a g we said the most common one is Shabbat Shabbat is a very powerful Godly Revelation then we have roses the end of the the end the beginning of the month then we have our festivals we have Pur we have kanuka there's a lot of times that there are a g now in in general we know of three levels of Godly Revelation the first level corresponds to the Nish to the level of Nish it corresponds to the SPH of Bina and it's called in the of cabala IMA this is the first type of Godly Revelation and this is considered the lowest type of Godly Revelation a higher level of Godly Revelation corresponds to the of which in the ofab is called Aba and this corresponds to the level of that's the CM that I was talking about this or the surrounding light of our n the highest level of Godly Revelation corresponds to the of ker is a crown something that surrounds a Mak in the ofal is called saah and this corresponds to the level of What's called the highest level of our soul K but this Godly Revelation so a l Godly Revelation for example Shabbat is what's called IM corresponds to our this is Shabbat so we know that Shabbat in yov is a very high level of Godly Revelation and one of that's one of the reasons why we don't work because we have to to not to have any aod any work and many things but this is considered a lower Godly Revelation the highest Godly Revelation that corresponds to the of that affects the the level of happens only once a year and it happens on on this is the night the only night this happens in the level of that's that's a whole different thing if it's the highest I'll tell you I'll tell you why I'll tell you why and maybe we can keep the questions to the end so that way we go we Zoom through she's asking why the at the time of the G the festivals will be will be cancelled so to say it's because that this G that is revealed on the is what's called comes in the descending chain the the light The Godly light when hasem created the world and when hasm recreates the world every second recreates the world which means that constantly God is shining this Godly light this is called what's called a shine but in order to create the world it's go through what's called a descending chain at the time of the G The Godly revelation will be so anything that goes in the descending chain is going to be so to say an old it's not going to be old it's just not going to have more because the is going to be this is the concept of we're now learning in this because is in the the number of seven seven days of Creations Etc so these holidays are going to be they're not going to be completely cancelled rather they're going to be diminished because the The Godly Revelation we're going to have a time of it's not a higher Revelation it is because you just said that said is the highest Revelation no I said in the three levels that I said before comes from the the Revelation is that's why we don't have to work that's why we don't have to not work but these three levels that I'm talking about are in is above is the descending chain so is above what I'm talking out is the ones that are and we're looking at the three we count the but when you really count the we start in and then so when we going in the in the descending chain so the higher so since we're still not at the time of the G this will already be in the time of the G but since we're not at the time of the G the The Godly Revelation that we experience is in the which the highest one is in the and the only day that we actually get it is on now you see you know when it comes down sometimes when we analyze the of things the oral law we see where it comes from and you see that according to for example the only night where we don't say is on we only say this is what's called we leave the and we see that our acts according to the correspond to something in a much higher level so in the time of L this is the highest Godly Revelation and we want to tap into that level we want to tap into that light and the entire month to PES from puim is my time to slowly slowly work on myself so I be able to tap into that Godly Revelation I'm not going to see see it with my eyes some people in the L actually feel it even they they're they're wiped out is something special if you really tap into the power of PES it's not just a meal it's not about the food you see that the actual food is nonsense it's not about the food it's the only time that we don't really sit and enjoy the food the point is that most people don't feel it but the fact is that if you just sit around the table and you do what you're supposed to do that's it you tapped into this Godly Revelation now what is this Godly Revelation what is this gu it's a power that allows me once a year to break out of my MIT to break this Kip this is when it actually happened in the morning of p is when they slaughtered theban in the 15 is when they ate it but in the 16 in the morning in the that's when they went out and the reason why they went out and they had this unbelievable power to leave because they this Godly Revelation came down and shined into the world so they didn't think oh what am I going to eat now for 40 years what am I going to do with my my stuff how am I going to go out of my comfort zone but even because even though they were slaves they still were in their comfort zone that's why 80% didn't want to leave because they're like what are we going to do in the desert where are we going to go where am I going to leave what what am I going to do you know you go now to the Jews in America they tell you yes Israel is the best why don't you do alah what am I going to do there where am I going to work how am I going to make parasa the same way you make parasa in America you make here what I said before that we we are trapped in this kipa that we can't break out of our comfort zone this is this Hamman Haman is a descendant of Amal it's a different type of of a kipa it all corresponds to the same type of the kipa in the time of MIT they call the kipa K KV means K live it just was hard there wasn't any any intellect nothing that came from the M was able to penetrate into the midot into the hearts our attributes are in our hearts but we're fighting with the same kipa today that I can't go out of my comfort zone and every day I fight it and every day I have the struggle and each one has a struggle in their own way one person has a struggle with waking up in the morning to pray and one has a struggle to accepting Shabbat not in the 18 minutes and one has a struggle that the the crows are not modest and each one has a different struggle I'm talking about struggles inem not struggles in our daytoday life this is basic things that that can be worked on too but right now I want to concentrate on on our serving God because ultimately we all want to get to the same point whether we know it or not whether we acknowledge it or not we all yearning to reach to the point of the complete Redemption and even if I don't know it in the front part of my brain What's called the the the the conscious sorry my English is exactly my English is good but not that good in our subconscious we all want the gura to happen the point is that in our conscious we don't really realize it very few people really want the gah to come very few people wake up in the morning and they open the window to see if mashiah is here or they check their phone to see if they got the tweet that mashiah came most people are trapped in their own life and they really don't bring it out the K the desire that I want the Redemption to happen the rabi says that the is already here you just need to to open your eyes exactly we are already living in the time of the G we're already passed all this stages we already went through Masia we're done with that we're in a very Advanced time already of the G the G already started the fact that we don't have mashia action that's a wonder nobody understands why but the reality is that Mas started in the Holocaust that's when it started we over that already we finished with mashia what we're going now is just the the the dirt this is a totally different topic but what I'm saying is that we all trapped in this Kiper that I can't go out of my comfort zone I can break through and the power to break through is to leave this MIT happens on and this is the time that I can tap into it to carry this power throughout the year this is the day now what do I have to do to actually be prepared for that so what do we do in nature we scrub and we clean and we take everything out of the closet like as if somebody eats in the closet and all sorts of weird thing you know people go fanatic on the cleaning of PES which really when you think of it how much is in the toilet or in the garage or in in my last compartment in my in my closet okay so it's a time of year that you want to make a general cleaning but the reality is that what how do we prepare for PES we clean represents my ego my yes my me the ultimate opposite of is matah matah we see that physical in the physical world bread it inflates it grows and matah doesn't matter what you're going to do to it it stays flat it's tasteless and it's nothing this is the ultimate opposite of is my yes my my my ego the easiest way to say it is I have an ego we all have an ego our ego is our biggest problem a person that doesn't have an ego is in a very high level he's already ready to receive this Godly Revelation the moment that I want to get closer to God I have to diminish myself I have to make myself smaller and smaller and smaller the more I diminish myself the more I become a worthy vessel to accept this Godly light that has wants to give to me no has nothing to do with it even though that the women are the one who clean first of all I know many men that clean and and I can tell you that I can tell you that in my house in many other houses maybe the scrubbing of the floor the women do but the real cleaning the cering of the oven and cering the the tabletops and that this does the men do the real scrubbing we're not going to go now into who's cleaning more the point is the point is I don't know who has more egos some men have huge OS some women that's not the point the point is that we all have egos and my ego is my biggest stumbling block and the more I want to get closer to Hashem the more I have to diminish myself and Hashem tells us in the physical world you want to get this Godly Revelation and start cleaning but cleaning is not scrubbing the floors cleaning is going inside of me and starting to getting the kets out of me starting to getting out of this ego out of me now the ego is not about necessarily that oh I'm so great that's one ego problem of the ego the main cleaning of the is the dirt that's inside of me and it's all these midot that are inside of me that I bring all this negative attributes anger and jealousy and animosity and holding Grudge and hate and all these things that I have inside of me and in order for me to really come to the point that on P I'm being that I burned my kets that's it I didn't leave anything yes we do physical things the physical things are just to cause us to reflect and do the spiritual things so while I'm scrubbing the floor what's has to go in my mind is wait a minute let me scrub right now the maida the attribute of jealousy why do I have to be jealous because they have a bigger house they have a bigger car who cares jealousy is one of the worst things a person can carry inside of him jealousy is basically but a lot of people interpret it that jealousy is also lot in af to commit adultery why you want to take something that doesn't belong to you why you looking at something that somebody else owns it and you want it jealousy is one of the worst things that one can carry inside of himself and then comes anger why should I be angry at anything and why should I have hate and why should I judge another person because he did like this and like that all these things are these are theet that's in me and where does it come from only from ego because if I don't have an ego any person in my eyes are going to be a perfect human being there's a great question hold on there's a great question what's a real sadik what's a real sadik the one who does mitv all day long and learns Torah no the real sadik is a person an individual that everybody in his eyes are the same level he loves the wicked person the same way that he loves the righteous person excuse me can a real sadik can see the most wicked person that does the worst things and look at be like wow what an amazing n he has you know the famous story with Le from bich who's considered the the synagog the the defense attorney of am Isel one time he walks on Shabbat and he sees a Jew smoking and he tells him dear Jew you know it's Shabbat today he's like yeah and he's like you know you're not allowed to light fire on Shabbat he's like I know so you know you can't smoke on Shabbat he's like I know he's like but but you're smoking you are desecrating Shabbat he's like I know so he looks up to says look at this Jew a he can't even lie he can't even Sayer even look what an amazing person so the point is that a real sadic that's what he sees he sees only good he doesn't see something bad if I see something bad in something in somebody means that I have this bad in me that's how it works so a real sadik he sees a person doesn't matter what he does he sees only good in him so the point is that my my problem is that I I have a problem if I'm jealous at somebody I have a problem if I'm angry at somebody I have a problem and my problem that stops me from connecting to Hashem to ascending to a high level is because I'm trapped in this klia and I have to break out of this kipa and it's only going to be done on the night of ofed and it can only be done if I really clean my this entire month now why da from pu to PES what's the connection so we know we're talking a lot about the G we know that there's supposed to be a war before the G the war is called go Magog the zor says that there's going to be three go Magog not one sh shal the first one was World War I that's why when World War I started the at the time said this is go this is the first go Magog and then at the time said in 25 years it will be the second go Magog and he said then the second one is going to make the first one look like a joke sure enough the second goog is World War II exactly 25 years later and then he said that 72 years after will come the third go Magog and that's going to be a worse War than the second and the third and the first is that what year make the calculation now the point is that hold on the point is that a lot of people think that go Magog is nuclear bombs and airplanes and wars and that's not the goog that not the zor is talking about and not the talking about not most of the sources are talking about yeah there is a physical War because anything that happens in the spirit spiritual manifests into the physical so the first goog it manifests into a World War but if you're looking at the spiritual level that's when the Jews the nation of the Jews started really letting go from Hashem then the second go came yeah it manifests into the world in a physical War but that's when was 80% of the Jews were not connected to Hashem so even in our generation you see that the war is actually happening just open the news you see that goo MOG is not a war against Israel go Magog is Wars of the Nations the nations are fighting with each other Israel is standing in the middle like this and the the nations are fighting amongst each other this is the world the physical War but the goog that we are going through the calls is the war of thoughts this is the war the goo that we are battling now we have problems in our thoughts and this why the said then that the last one is going to be the most hardest war and we see that in our generation the war is everything in is our our thoughts what we see in our phones in the TV everywhere is penetrating into our minds constantly we're programmed everything is in our minds now what's the most amazing thing that milog is the war of thoughts this is what we're going on now because we see that every person can be the most Rel person they still have wars in their mind constantly we have wars in our mind and it can manifest to our we lose faith we Lo we lose trust we we constantly we're battling in our mind but what's amazing is that calls it before I told you that when we read in the M every time that we say h we don't do nothing when do we make the noise when we say h that's when we start making noise the of is the manifestation of this war this is the war of thoughts this is where it penetrates into our mind and I want to do a Mitzvah and this H this Kip is going to completely distorted I'm going to want to do something it's constantly going to control in my mind and this is this and that's why when we say that's when we make noise to to shake you to wake you up because we constantly have these thoughts but if somebody would come and hit you oh sorry you you you go back to conscious so every time we mention ham if it's just Aman okay it's the person but when we mention am that's when we need to wake up and this is the Clipper and this is the connection between puim and PES because the war is in my thoughts and if I want to reach to the level that I'm exposed and I'm getting this Godly Revelation on ledel and I need I have a whole month to start refining myself so I did the first action in puim if a person did all four mitv in amazingly all these four mitv start with the letter me me represents if you're looking at the me there's two types of mems but the me that it represents is what's called mea mea is a closed me a me S feet doesn't have any holes that can't penetrate this is is the me you know it says the world was created but the one wall of the bet is open this is what's called the that's where the comes in from so the me represents that my walls are completely closed that's it nothing penetrates into my domain into my mishkan but the form that we do on Pim the first one is mikra the second one is and then and then the last one is for that we have to do on puim and if you did these four MIT then you actually fulfilled what you're supposed to do in puim and each mitvah corresponds to a different level in the spiritual worlds corresponding to the four worlds of when I do each one of them I Elevate myself I start with mik i Elevate myself to one level then I do I Elevate myself to the next level you see that the main mitv that I do here they have to do to to do with one major thing and all these charity and and it's all boils down to one act and this act is called now before I was talking about The Godly Revelations that we have we're about to finish sorry that's okay the before we talked about the the three levels of the G there are three loves that our sages teach us the first one is called this corresponds to the lowest level of Godly Revelation that some type of person you know you see that a person can be not so connected to to Torah Shabbat will come suddenly he will enjoy to hear the rabbi saying some something you know my father you know he's in his oldest old older years so it's very hard for him my mom is in in the program but my father is very slow till he gets you know every little thing for him is a big struggle and every time I tell him you know maybe take on yourself another Mitzvah so he has a very good excuse he keeps telling me I I have you I'll go up to Sham I have prote I'll tell them you're my son it's okay he's right he's right that's what I tell him you're right to a certain point the point why why am I saying my father because comes Shabbat he loves he tunes into some station that he hears a certain Rabbi saying a he's like oh that's the that's the highlight of my day a person is not immersed in Torah the whole week suddenly on sh he wants to hear about the Torah so the G that comes on Shabbat arouses in us the love that you see many people they're not religious they're not observant you pull them from the street on Shabbat to they they they enjoy it the second Godly Revelation corresponds to a different type of La that is called This Is The Godly Revelation that I said comes from the corresponds to the level of the that suddenly a person gets love to hem we don't really meditate all day long how much we love hem when we get the million dollar check then I remember how much I love my God so but in in a day-to-day base I don't really think how much I love my God but when certain supicious times and these usually happens on the festivals if it's then I wow I I get aroused with this that I want to do more but the highest level of The Godly Revelation that I said that comes from corresponds to that arouses in me a certain love that is called is the only way for me to Reach This level is to to get this Godly Revelation our only way to get the G faster than what we want is only by the only reason why we don't have the G is because we don't have the first bet mikdash was destroyed because of idol worship Bloodshed and forbidden relations since the sin was revealed then the time of the Exile was revealed so we went out to Exile for 70 years the second that we left yush there was a prophecy that they're going to be out in galut for 70 years 67 years later happened the story with puim 3 years later they were back in that's it the second bet mikdash was destroyed because of one sin now since the sin was not revealed because I can smile at you all day long but in my heart I can hate you since the sin is not revealed at the length of the ex is not revealed once we're going to correct this problem of on the spot mashia can come because we're already completed everything we're ready for the Gul the G is ready everything is set we have enough MIT the quot of mitv that we had to do we have enough of it we have enough Jews that are keeping T to receive mashia we don't need the entire nation of the Jews to keep even though we want to theor says we only need a one group of people that keep it's going to be enough to to fulfill for everybody but we're lacking one thing we're lacking this is and this is the main problem that we have to that stops from having the new life now hypothetically he would take all the Jews together and tell them let's love each other for one day that's it the go is here so tying the knot all together then we see that in less than a month we have an opportunity to win the Mega Million jackpot to tap in to a Godly Revelation that comes once a year that allows me to break out of my MIT out of my limitation that I can carry this power for the rest of the year and all I need to do is one month I just have to meditate on how am I cleaning yeah I want to clean my house but I also have to clean my my inner domain and if you want to reach to the point that you come to that night and you receive this Godly Revelation that you will carry with you for the rest of the night the day year and to have the power to Enlighten in me the power of is is if I prepare the right way for the time of and every day now in this month I have to work on myself and every day I'll choose okay today I'm going to choose on really reflecting on why am I getting upset all the time and tomorrow I'm going to get I'm going to work on myself why do I lose my patience and every day I can work on something and the more than I refine myself first of all what's called in this world then my entire surrounding gets benefit if I'm a much better person then my wife enjoys it and my kids enjoy it and my neighbors enjoy it and everybody's enjoying it and I enjoy it more than that I get to get connected more to my source but the point is that ultimately we want to bring the Gula because we don't even know what we're missing and only way to bring it is to climb to a level that I have an unconditional love to every other person doesn't matter who they are doesn't matter where they're Affiliated the religious they're nonreligious they're breast they're kabad it doesn't matter the problem is that we hate each other because one goes with a hat like this and one goes with a hat like that and one has the past like that who cares it's nonsense Hashem doesn't care what I wear sh cares what's inside of me and the problem is that one of our main problem is this yes this that every person that I look at I have a problem with them why is she saying this why is she dressed like that why is she said like it doesn't matter the problem is in me is my yes it's my ego and it's my that I have to clear and I'll tell you one story and then we can finish and then we can do some questions and answers there's a story that a a Jew sent a letter once to the laich reab and in the letter he wrote to the rebi I need the Reb's help and the letter went I am depressed I can't wake up in the morning I don't have to do anything I am upset at the world I am this I am that I need the rabb's help so the reab sentence I I I I I the rabi took a red pen and circled the eyes not the eyes the letter ey and sent the letter back and told him if you concentrate constantly on the eye then you're going to be depressed and you're going to be upset and you're not going to want to do anything and the world is going to look like this and like that the point is that we should not concentrate on me the basam teaches a very basic things that the more I look to how to satisfy myself the more I distance myself from my source the more I look to do good to somebody else then I get myself closer to the source I need to constantly run after how am I getting making another person's life better not how I'm making my life better how am I helping another person how am I affecting another person this is this this yes this eye and we see that in our generation this cliy is so powerful that everything is the iPhone iPad iacc everything is eye just give it to me this is the concept of PES is to an knowing this eye that's what I said in the beginning that ham was the to oppose m m was the ultimate Bel the ultimate nothing he was the sadik of the generation hamon was the complete opposite he didn't want to he didn't understand why m is not bowing to him M was able to en know am man you know a man wanted to hang M on a on a on a tree that was 50 amot High you know it's 50 Amo it's like a 17 M building it's like a 7 eight floor building why so high C you is hanging on a regular pole ham knew that if he will bring m to the Shon to this 50th gate of impurity who will be able to control the power of gusha that is totally battel to hasem for the rest of the generations that's why he wanted to hang him on the on on a on a pole 50 amot high he a man wanted to hang M on on a poleish why why why could he do it on a 12 there are 50 Gates of impurity in MIT the Jews were in 49 Gates of impurity if they would go into the 50th Gates of impurity they would not be able to leave ham wanted to take morai and bring him to the 50th gate of impurity therefore he takes the ultimate B to and he puts him in the most highest level of Tuma and for the rest of the generations he will be able to the the Jews it's not only killing the bodies hamon was more sophisticated than Hitler marim Hitler was he wanted just to kill the bodies hamon wanted to kill the root so the point is that he wanted to hang M on that level to completely approa from the world the point is I'll get you in a second the point is what we have to take from this short sh the point is not to just sit and enjoy the beautiful food and to learn a little bit of Tor is what am I applying it to my day today so my day today what I need to apply for the next 30 days is that every day that I'm scrubbing the floor where what am I scrubbing in my heart what am I scrubbing in my mind what am I scrubbing inside me to clean my own KET that when it comes to the morning of P I already did my that's it I'm done with it I don't have any in me I don't have any ISO I don't have any ego now I'm ready to receive this Godly Revelation that will allow me to reach to the highest level of what's called is that I can Unconditionally Love any person accept any person and with this action bring the G so the actual action what I need to do is to meditate how am I completely ening this Kip of ham that's in this war in my mind so have to CLA thoughts your thoughts this is the because ultimately the ego comes from your intellect and this kipa separates what I said it goes to the neck it separates what's going on from here to here because you can wake up in the morning and say you know what today today I'm going to pray in the morning and I'm going to do this I'm going to be very particular with my kosher dieting today and today and today and then you find it it's 4:00 in the afternoon and today didn't happen nothing because you didn't the Clipper didn't allow you to bring it down from your intellect into your body and the one of the ways to do it is if you really work on yourself and when a person really cleans the yes from themselves they actually able to bring down this from your thought because you know exactly what's good when you see another person you want to do the Mitzvah a person is in need you want to help them but then comes ah no it's going to be expensive it's going to take time it's going to be this it's not so comfortable yeah your thought is start telling you why not to do the Mitzvah so you should all have the the power to take from this sh besides a lot of calories you should take k for the rest of the month calories is also good you can Elevate The Godly Sparks that in it to Hashem but you should take K in this month to really clean yourself out not only scrubbing the floor I mentioned before the Lich rabich RAB said dust is not humet you don't have to go crazy you have to the real the real cleaning is in the body that's the body the mind that's the real and we all want to reach to the level that we completely cleaning the kets out of us completely annoying this eye this yes the ego and completely having the power to break out of my daily limitations and I have an asici time in less than a month to tap into this K that allows me for the rest of the year to have the power to struggle every day to to fight my limitations and only by that we'll be able to to to to see with our own eyes the complete and Final Redemption it says with the merits of the righteous women we ran out of MIT and with the merits of the righteous women we're going to go out of this MIT it should happen very Speedy in our days thank you very much for the beautiful hospitality and I think we can take some questions and answers [Music] [Applause] [Music]