I Am a Thief - Why Do We Begin Our Seder With a Declaration That We Are Slaves?!

the yeshiva dotnet at many Saders people often ask the following question which is a very good question and that is we open up the Haggadah with the following statement after we make kiddush and we drink the first cup of wine and then we wash our hands and we eat the vegetable that's dipped in water which we call karpas and then we break a matzo we put away a piece of matzah for the afikomen or somebody steals it and then we come to the part of the Seder of the god that no one has magid and in many huh goddess you will have Kaddish or cots Karpis and then yeah cots and then maggot margot literally means to tell the story to relate the narrative via gadot olive Innoko the terrorist says you should tell this story to your child that's called Magan Magan means we tell the story we share the narrative of our past the narrative of our present and the narrative of our future and Magadh begins with the following declaration or statement that everybody says at this point people are still awake and you usually have the participation of the entire audience hey Lokmanya the hollow of a sauna by IRA Demetria this is the bread of poverty which our forefathers have eaten in the land of Egypt we also invite anybody who needs a meal called a fin yes a vehicle called it's really a severe song called the fin whoever wants could come and join us for the meal whoever needs could come and join us for the Passover festivities and festivities and then we say Hashanah Hakka this year we're still here but leshawna Jabara dice roll next year in the Land of Israel her shot arrived in this year we are slaves lashonna haben next year been a higher we are people of freedom people of Liberty of emancipation free women and men then we come to the Monash Donna the children or whoever asks the questions in your house asked the manager on a Lila's a McCullough Layla's and when they finished the four questions we begin the response a long response a long answer Avada Moreno the fire every mitzrayim we have been slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt what is that first opening paragraph doing there in the Haggadah hey Locke Mahan yo we all know that the story of its ears myths from the story of the exodus is supposed to be said as an answer to a question major focal focus of pace of his questions and answers children ask and the adults responds or think about the questions respond to the questions Silas or qu voice kealoha vinhai' your child will ask which is why the Seder table is structured around questions and answers which is why we don't just tell the story we first ask the question and then we respond to the questions and we could all understand the logic of that on two levels first of all whenever you're responding to a question to respond the response is heard in a different way when your child asks you a question throughout the entire year now is your opportunity to teach something very significant if I come into you and I say I want to tell you something you may not be interested but if you ask me a question means you're there's curiosity now I have an opportunity to give an answer and the answer will be internalized in a completely different way which is why whenever your child asks you a question take pause because this is the greatest moment for education education happens best not when we initiate a conversation but when the child initiates the conversation and now you have an opportunity actually to say something meaningful and significant which gives you an opportunity not only to answer the question technically but to actually give a lesson that could come about that can be communicated in a much profounder way as a result of the question that's value number one value number two is questions represents the fact that a child learns that the bedrock of freedom is to ask questions slaves don't ask questions free people ask questions the definition of a question is challenging the status quo on every level intellectually emotionally psychologically and practically that sort of question is a question is why why means that I don't just accept the reality I ask why what other reality may substitute this reality what other reality ought to take over the present reality slaves never ask questions they embrace the status quo I am a slave I will be a slave free people ask questions that's the sign of freedom you ask questions you're not stuck in any given paradigm or reality it can be challenged can be raised there's growth there's an opportunity for transformation so questions are a very deep component of Judaism because Judaism is based on free people serving a free god God a free God wanted free people serving him there was a famous Nobel Jewish Prize recipient his name was Isidor Rabi I think he won the Nobel Prize for Physics and they once asked him how he has risen to such great academic heights and successes and he said it was my mother's questions when I came home from school and he explained he said we all got over the bus and all the mothers would turn to their children and say what did you learn today in school and my mother would turn to me and say Isadora did you ask a good question today in school and that made all the difference so questions are really the very powerful to love education it means there's always room to grow to figure out to discover to explore the slave tells himself or herself this is just the way it is the free person says maybe it could be different maybe I could look at it differently I don't find myself in a situation I could put myself in a situation and then put myself in a new situation questions on a third level also represent confidence people whose convictions are based on blindness on blind submission are always terrified by questions because questions may create cracks in that delicately secure foundation but the people who have confidence in our secure are never afraid of questions when you have answers you're never terrified by questions so it's very interesting that the the holiday that celebrates the Jewish people emerging into people hood our sages based on the text of the Hamas understood should be done through questions and answers whenever you have answers you don't have to be afraid of questions a religion of faith a heritage that is based on falsehoods on myths traditions Heritage's religions that are based on myths are terrified by questions because if you ask too many questions what are you going to discover but anything that is based on truth absolute truth must never ever be afraid of questions on the contrary questions only give us an opportunity to crystallize to clarify to excavate to go deeper this doesn't mean that every question in life has an answer absolutely not there are many things in life that remain mysterious and unfathomable but it means that truth is never afraid of because it's never contradict in reality and it's never contradicting what is true and that's why we don't just tell the story we ask our children to stand up or sit down and ask questions and it's not just those four questions those four questions and the paradigm questions it's the freedom to be able to give children and the child within each and every one of us we're all children at heart we should discover the child inside of us to ask our own questions and these questions are usually not only intellectual questions there are deep emotional questions to ask those questions and the response always comes to those questions that makes a lot of sense but I would expect them to Haggadah to start right there the children ask and we tell the story and then we do the traditions the mitzvahs the mats and the morrow the Kyra the her Isis the egg the meal etc but there is this paragraph very strange paragraph that comes in right in the opening of the Haggadah before everything and and many hug others the word Margot says before that paragraph which means that's the beginning of the story and what do we do in that paragraph we put together we joined together themes and ideas that seem completely disjointed first of all we start talking about the matzo this is the bread of poverty which our forefathers have eaten in the land of Egypt how does that come in here are you gonna eat the matzah now no later you're gonna eat the matzo that's where you should talk about it in fact there's a section in the Haggadah towards the end when we say matzo zu this matzo that we eat why do we eat it because our forefathers didn't have time to allow the dough to ferment as the Egyptians were rushing them to leave powering woke up middle of the night screaming ku Matsumoto humming get out of here and throughout the entire time the Egyptians were pleading and beseeching and demanding that the Jewish people leave at once from Egypt and therefore they couldn't allow their dose to the ferment to inflate to become leaven they had to immediately take the dough and place it in the oven allow it to bake fast and thus it turned into matzah because they needed to leave immediately Kagura Mehmet sir I am they were expelled from Egypt so that we explained later in the Haggadah that's why we're eating this matzah and then we actually eat them out so we wash or we make abraha how might you make a broccoli less we eat the matzah but here there's a paragraph hey laughs come on you the hollow of a sauna Bardem it's Ryan this is the bread of poverty that our forefathers have eaten in the land of it and then we move on what's the message here what's the point here we're not there dealing with the matzah what is war strange and even more perplexing is how we identify this matzah and I would contradicts what we're going to say about the matzah later and they say there now we say this is the bread of poverty which our forefathers have eaten in the land of Egypt what do you mean they have eaten this matzah in the land of Egypt later we're going to say in the Haggadah that the reason we're eating this matzah is because they were leaving Egypt and they didn't have time to allow the dough to ferment lajas commits to become leaven and therefore they had to bake matzah in other words the matzah represents emancipation it represents their departure it represents their liberation why don't we say that in the beginning the beginning we tell a completely different story why are we talking about the matzah now and when we're talking about the matzah we talk about the matzah as the food that they ate in the land of Egypt not when not the matzah that where they ate when they were leaving Egypt and when they left Egypt that's the food they took with them into the desert even the suggestion the words this is the bread of poverty that they ate in the land of Egypt what do you mean was this this bread that they ate in the land of Egypt regularly they did eat matzah the night before they left Egypt as part of the liberation process the night of Pesach they had a seder they sacrificed a Pesach offering they ate mots and more but the next day they left already this was the night when they were celebrating their exodus from Egypt even though they were still there but it was the last moments of their stay who'd Rahab quotes rabbi yosef who quotes davon ezra that when he was taken he was abducted their van Ezra was abducted and he was taken he said for a time he was a slave in India he was abducted kidnapped and brought in the other Evan Azra that's where David Ronn brings and he says there he saw that they were feeding the slaves matzah and the reason they were feeding the slaves matt says because he said matzo takes longer to digest than regular bread and hummus and this was a way of feeding the slaves less food because it takes longer to digest so therefore could sustain them for a longer time so the avenues race as the Jews were slaves in Egypt they ate matzah throughout their slavery their masters fed them matzah that's what he says this says farno gives a whole different explanation he says when the Jews were in Egypt they were always any matzo because they didn't have time to let their dough ferment because their masters enslaved them and they whipped them back to work so you couldn't sit and allow your daughter ferment there's no time to prepare your meals they had to always eat mats as slaves so here we have two interpretations that even as you're in this afar know explain this novel idea that actually when the Jews were slaves in Egypt they were always eating mats because that's what slaves do slaves used to be fed with matzo from what either because it takes longer to digest so you give them less if you can give them less food and they weren't interested in feeding their slaves or number two they did not have the time to spend with their food they had to do it all fast and get back to work free people can eat hummus slaves FT tamasam this is how they explained the opening of that God that hey wash my onion the hollow of a Sun a bit when they were in Egypt as slaves they ate matzah and this is called the bread of poverty besides we yet besides the question that it's completely inconsistent with the matzah we're going to talk about later and we identify the matzah later in the Haggadah as the matzah freedom the matzah that we baked in this way cuz we were being rushed out from slavery why would we be so inconsistent it's we're talking about the same bread the st. Matt's a hey laughs man your whole Lokmanya whatever the version of your Haggadah is hey your ha it's dis bread this play matzah later in the Haggadah it assumes a different identity here it has this identity in addition as many commentators point on it's very difficult to assume that the Haggadah would somehow know that we are supposed to figure out on our own that the jews eight months of all their years in Egypt when the terror literally does not say there's no information for it nan and Hamish nan and Gomorrah not in Madras not in Mishnah that the Jews actually throughout their years of slavery and bondage in Egypt ate matzo davon Ezra learnt it in India the safar no is using a speculative speculating but apparently there's just complete is not there's no scriptural basis for it or Talmudic basis for it which is why it's a difficult interpretation that this is what the Haggadah meant and if the Haggadah really meant it throughout the Hagaddah he always references his statements with biblical sources throughout the Haggadah he'll say they did this and this commercial never like it says there's no there's no source for this that's the first part of the paragraph when you get to the second pattern of the paragraph it gets also strange we spoke about the bread for two seconds this is the bread they ate in Egypt okay we're not eating it but this is it next Olaf - all of a sudden Bardem it's Ryan what's next called the Phineas vehicle whoever warns should come and eat one second we're now inviting the guests everybody's sitting at the Seder table everybody has their seat and you know it took an hour and a half to make somewhat order in this house the kite is the matzah the Lebanon Fralick Yankee and uhreally got into a fight Sarlacc I got into another fight but they're finally sitting wait we're looking for guests this is when you invite guests I mean it's a little hypocrite this is how you do it myself and you're sitting at your table the doors are closed maybe even locked pens if you're in Brooklyn or Muncie and not lock the doors are open okay and you go to the door and you scream coldest vinyasa Viejo and I'm sure over the years nay I've heard your scream and they said oh I need a place and you have greeted them at the Seder if you want to invite guests write them a show invite them before Pesach invite them before the say there in fact it's even the wrong time to invite them because the guests are also obligated to drink four cups of wine and at this point you have already done the first cup of wine so what are they supposed to do so even if we're inviting guests standing at our windows and screaming hey come in come in come in we're looking for guests we're looking for entertainment we're looking for stimulation and we want to feed you do it in the beginning gonna say there do it before Myron do it before kids do in the middle of the day do it a week earlier as some of you do do it a month earlier two weeks earlier we're sitting already starting to say they're like by the way whoever and wants to face come now and eat and whoever needs to do pace accommodates why here then we have a third statement again very disjointed ha shot Oaxaca this year we're here next year in Israel and heritage so this year slaves next year we're free which seems mamas to contradict and undermine everything that we're supposed to be doing on this night later in the Haggadah were going to say but hold over there high of autumn liras kilowatts may add some instrument every generation one must experience and imagine UTSA miss rhyme happening in their life God took us out of Egypt much of the mitzvos of the Seder night are structured around this idea of reenacting an experience of liberty and freedom and people's life which is the reason we drink four cups of wine and the reason we recline and the reason we eat matzah and the reason we have crisis and the reason we have AK Iran the reason of many things we say in the Haggadah it's in order to reenact on some level emotionally spiritually physically psychologically symbolically the experience of ETS myths right it didn't only happen 3331 years ago that was an exact number by the way it's rather continues to happen on Pesach beholder butter hi I'm Adam lyricist that's my key Lulu yacht cinemates Ryan Earth lawyers have a say Newbill vodka we say them only we liberate our our ancestors after a sauna gone so how should you begin to say there shouldn't you begin to say that by saying tonight we want to prepare for such a moment instead our opening statement is by the way we're slaves next year hopefully it'll be better next year next year now let's face it we're often your whole st. that's right to undo this so you're opening again first of all the disjointed statements seem strange just like with the matzo we speak about a different matter than we're gonna speak later that we start inviting guests and then we say and by the way one more thing we're slaves we all know it hopefully next year things will change okay so let's go to sleep and then they know the whole night you have to be Noble and free there are favors you're a free person what's this tension going on and this is how you begin the story mainly you'll put it in somewhere at the end they say yeah we know that we're slave but we're trying to be free this is how you open the story over the Haggadah first of all we're gonna talk about the bread that they ate in Egypt nothing to do with Liberty then we're gonna invite guests to wear either supposed to be or are not coming anyway and then to give a summarization next year maybe things will be better this year we're still in a state of slavery okay time for the Monash Donna this is really the introduction the premise this is the opening statement of the seder which seems to contradict every major theme of the seder which seems to be disjointed which seems to be out of place there and which also seems to be lacking the theme of the seder and in many ways actually under mining it and what would be risking if we wouldn't say it you do car puffs break the matzoh Kendall laughs - Donna let's go tell the story you finished telling the story and then you do what you do and you move on similar to these questions you can ask on almost every single paragraph of the Seder they say there means order one of the texts that from an external point of view seem like the most disjointed text in the world is which texts nobody's gonna answer it's called say their order if you ever have the time with a mental space to analyze the order of the text of the Haggadah at first glance it seems very very disjointed go through paragraph by paragraph we start over that we were slaves okay now I would like to hear this story no no no we're gonna go to Bnei Brak now and Bnei Brak yeah they spent a whole night discussing it okay okay oh no neighbourly this kind it was Krishna okay now we go borrow hammock now let's bless Hashem for giving us tire by the way there are four children in our family it's mom as almost you'll forgive me like women having a conversation by lunch in a coffee shop you know what I mean and men go crazy our brains shut down could we finish one topic right you all know my martial waffle spaghetti you saw it on what's up I'm sure I'm not gonna do it again I also don't have what's up but they say it went over it went down it went viral okay tamam which would I go this sounds like we've been slaves in Egypt okay could you tell the story no and by the way if God wouldn't have taken us out we would have sinned oh there and by the way if you think you're smart you still have to tell the story why don't you say the story my cell let me type of Bnei Brak I'm rabbis have been Azaria by the way you have to mention you'd see the Smiths Ryan at night - really you just told me we were slaves can you tell the story bara imambara who parishioner santa this four children our family really Wow this an organized conversation now let me tell you bout my four kids okay let me go about my four kids okay we've already dealt with like 80 topics it's not a coffee lunch conversation I'm out I'm a Russian my way Matt Tom I wish any of their lists show okay we finished by the way y'all Camaro Swedish I don't even know why we're doing the seitan now we should have done an Irish Scottish mists and why we doing now okay fine we decided to do it now by the way baroque showing off the Hustle is awesome thank you for keeping your promises that was very nice and by the way in every generation they're trying to kill us did you know that it we stopped I'm a slave in Egypt what smells though I know they tried to kill us okay you know what let's talk about lovin for a moment we didn't speak about whatever why aren't we talking about lover is it tonight the night dedicated to love him so here we go around me or even though we do was this guy look we just love up coming to the picture I don't know what do you want from loved one they say it's the beginning of this talk we just reminded ourselves to go back to the beginning of the story you could do this with the home of God that look chapter after chapter paragraph after paragraph to paragraph there's a structure here that is very very difficult to decipher extremely difficult to decipher and one day we're gonna have to go through it piece by piece by piece and see really what to say there is because the funny thing is you call it Seder say there means order it's supposed to be the most orderly evening when usually nobody knows if they're coming or they're going which is why there's always somebody at the end of the table are we holding Diana yet of course died there's usually somebody after five minutes they're always up to Diana you know that character yeah there's people who start with day yeah I know Diana and as it moves on the chaos only gets stronger and it's a difficult difficult theme and it goes from one to the other then we start pouring the wine and then ten mockers and then they decided it's not ten Marcus it's fifty Marcus it's 250 Marcus it's 500 Marcus also an interesting argument like what's wrong if it was ten plagues no that's not good we want fifty we want a hundred one 250 we would like 400 500 much better five okay now that we know there were 500 plagues now it's time to do the e lose the DA knows then we do a lakas comma vakama you have done all these great things for us you've taken us out of ministry I mean you've done this in the desert and the man and har Sinai and the Torah and finally he finished son hilarity sure all you brought us entirety sure all you brought us in territory sorrow and as we go through all these steps what you did we understand it's all part of the exodus you took us out of Egypt but then you took us through the sea and the sea was drawing then he gave us the man and then he gave us water and then you drowned our enemies and you bros teresina he gave was the terror and he gave us the man we go through the 15 the 15 Dianna's and then finally you enter Eretz Israel and after that we would three we would seem it would stop because the exodus is complete but then he adds one last thing Ivana LA no as basic IRA he built for us the basic lira look happy Alka LaVon I say no to atone for all of our sins once you announce Easter all you there you don't mention anything else after but one thing he built the base our Mukesh and it's not called Bassam Victor shear it's called Bay Superior another interesting thing is all the other has autumn all the other grace acts of kindness are never given with a reason he took us out of Egypt he split to see why did he split to see figure it out he gave us the man why figure it out he gave us the Turner why figure it out he gave us that he gave us Shabbos why figure it out it's not the discussion here one exception he built the base on McNish and here there's a reason to atone for our sins which is also a very strange reason why don't you tell the reason it says unpublish why we build a base somebody did it for us Allah make dr. Chacon teba so I come to dwell among us it also atoned for sins but that's like the highlight and this is where the Haggadah ends that God that ends with this word with these words to atone for all of our sins after that we explain the matzah the martyr the Pesach why we eat matzah why we ate Mario why I make pacer we pick up the second cup of wine we thank God with hallo we make the broth who we drink but with us the story with this the Haggadah and those words Varna lana was base appeal of copper alcohol of an SI no he built the base a mcvish to atone for all of our sins the base--emitter term is not used base up here is used suddenly there's a reason what's the reason not the classic reason but a new reason to atone for the sins and that's the end of that God and how does that come in here to atone for our sins who's talking about sins suddenly wearing Yom Kippur maybe we start all hate who's talking about atoning for sins you're going through all the kindness that he did and this is the end that's the climax and again now you'll see the Haggadah shifts we explain Pesach matzah martyr and we bless God we drink the second cup of wine but the market ended right there which is why Shabbos our God though there's a minute by many to say the Haggadah before Pesach on Champa Salgado they will end right after the day a Nuzlocke hopper I'll call of an SI no don't wise no no new thing to stress out about it's fine your husband can do it I'm gonna show you here the first paragraph for the last paragraph and you'll see the tremendous deep and nuanced profound message that the God is trying to convey just in its opening paragraph on its last paragraph and since I'm basically make sandwiches that will be the sandwich the two sides of the sandwich so you can appreciate the rest of it that comes in the middle as well we won't be able to go through every paragraph and show the Seder but I did want to point out the opening and the end like a sandwich the opening hey Lokmanya and then la happened by alcohol of any say no and it's from the questions that we can gain insight into the depth of what's going on and in order to appreciate this I'm going to point out the fact that on the night of pacer there are four fever EES for acts of theft that happen we are accused of thievery on four levels and four times a night of pace on number one is a custom that some have rejected and some protest every year for good reason but nonetheless has been has become entrenched in many a Jewish home known as the tradition of stealing the afikomen yes there are the commentators who protested it there are those who have rejected it and some vehemently one of the commentators I think the arcus Khayyam quotes the Moyer who says that Gentiles have been circulating rumors that on the night of our freedom we teach our children to steal and that's why he says avoid discussed them he even says that they give a reason for it when we left Egypt we emptied out Egypt we stole their who their vessels their clothes their jewelry we're doing it again with the afikomen but nonetheless even though some have rejected it the fact is that in many Jewish homes this custom has become tradition the children still the afikomen and they even have a source for it the gomorrah says him some coffe tests on the night of Pesach - matzah but lately I saw him you grabbed the mats on the night of Pesach rabbi eliezer says you grabbed the mats and there's different interpretation what it means doesn't mean you eat fast does it means you move away the Kyra before you eat that Rashi says doesn't mean as the Rambam says you grab the matzah from each other to create fun that the children doesn't fall does don't fall asleep or doesn't mean like some say that the children grab the matzah they still they steal the matzah and then of course once they're ready stealing it they're not giving it back anymore right what's the point of stealing something of you giving it back so this morphed into the custom of wanting a prize or a handsome reward in order to get back laughing claim one when I was a child growing up the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds in the Achieva the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds who were in Eva they would get for the afikomen they would get a Parker Pen and all year they would walk around with the remember the Parker pens and they would show of the Parker Pen that they got for that for claiming those who were not multi billionaires or multi millionaires they would get a calculator for the afikomen you remember and they would walk around all year showing all of their calculator today probably if you give your child a calculator or a Parker Pen Madhavi Kleinman I don't know if he or she will be on speaking terms with you today the common price with Arthur Kleinman is a Lamborghini or at least a BMW or Toyota those who can afford a little more a private yacht would be satisfactory to some of your teenagers if not at least a private jet or a 747 or at least some very very high-end gadget but some of us got potato chips for the afikomen a bag of potato chips or a black and white or a bell remember the bells that they had were much like toxic yeah those bells yes so we would get a bell for their feet climbing I was pretty good it was not bad and we walk around with it till the next pacer home we had to eat it but those who got calculators were like mama SH it was like Tony the Rockefellers the Rothschilds right the calculators or what you have a calculator so that you could you could figure out how much is a nine plus nine without knowing the timetable so the rewards have developed and I guess gone through different transformations over the years but that's the first thievery that happens on the night of Pesach children steal the afikomen which is a difficult custom to understand there's another thievery that happened in a night of Pesach and that has to do with the fact that the Jews emptied out Egypt the posix says they borrowed from their neighbors clay casts of silver gold shirts tunics clothes beautiful vessels that they ever given them back they took them they never gave them back they took them in fact the Gomorrah says that the Egyptians can't Alexander the Great and demanded the Jews pay back the Egyptians for everything they took that night when they emptied out Egypt and via BEM seesaw represented the Jewish people and said we will after you compensate the Jews for their work as slaves over many years 600,000 people slaving away when you pay us for that work we will pay up everything that we took that night but there was this accusation the Jews have emptied out Egypt they left Egypt clean like agree like thieves do when they empty out a house they leave the house clean as they say there's a third theft that happens Pesach and that has to do with how they left the posix hasn't parshas mashaallah that pyro was told that the nation ran away the nation fled cavora harm the people ran escaped what does this mean what I don't mean that people fled didn't you say they should leave then in power I wake up a middle of the night and say leave my nation now party was frightened after the first born were struck down by matters paris padre welcomed the middle of the night and called Mauritian aaron and said Kumu tomotommy that's not called running away if I send you out of my country and I say you're free to leave please leave that's the exact antithesis of escape why does it say para I heard that the nation ran and he pursued them when he's the one who expelled them from the land anybody knows the answer to this mom no know the answer to this I'm just asking so Rashi tells us if you read through the story of Schmeisser era moysha always asked for one thing and one thing only to leave for how long for three days he never once said to pyro he want to leave for good he always said we just want to leave three days and pyro refused even that perry didn't only refuse a full departure he refused a three-day holiday holiday that condition and request never changed Moisture said we just want to leave for three days so when Perry said leave in his mind what did it mean do what you wanted to do go for three days and come back that's why were the first three days was with full permission but after three days Pyrrha they weren't coming back oh now they fled that's what the rash she explains but that only begs the question why would my should do that why would he deceive party why not tell the truth tell him pyro we're leaving and we ain't coming back to this place for good tell the truth my Mona Fisher any way you look at it it doesn't make sense if Perry would have not been brought to his knees with the ten plagues he wouldn't have agreed for three days either he has resisted even allowing him to leave for three days the only reason he agreed for three days is why because he was desperate he had no choice at that point he would have agreed to anything he would have agreed to unconditional surrender it's like Germany and Japan the only reason they agreed to stop the war was not because they were nice cuz they were graceful in 1945 it's cuz they were brought to their knees they had no choice the other alternative would have been complete destruction of Germany and then Japan so they agreed at that point they would have agreed to anything which they did unconditional surrender pairi would have never agreed this wasn't that he suddenly became nice and kind okay the man had literally no choice when you got no choice when your opponent there's no choice ask for anything what'd he have to lie to him tell him pyrite by the way we're not leaving for three days we're leaving for eternity bye bye my dears a step aside bye-bye and Pyrrha would have agreed in desperation Moshe did not do that my shirt till the end insisted we want to leave for three days in other words he deceived pariah we have an expression in Hebrew it's called Geneva's das deceiving somebody what Yaakov did to love on same thing ran away from lovin they ran away from Pyrrha why so we have to explain that Moshe understood the only way they leave Egypt is through theft through deceiving power but how can you deceive him he's the one who's giving permission the answer is we have to set up a mechanism of deception how tell him three days and then when you leave for more than three days you deceived him in other words it's not that he told Pyrrha three days and therefore he deceived him it's the other way around motion knew that we have to deceive Peres how do you deceive him by telling him we're leaving for three days the chicken came before the egg daddy didn't come before the chicken that's the third thievery there's one more act of subtle thievery that happened on Pesach night or pace act at the time of Pesach generations later something that was allele something that you're not supposed to do according to the law of the land which is what deception and thievery means I take something doesn't belong to me on the 14th of Nissen on the 13th of Nissen hummin issued forth the decree that all the jews should be exterminated Mordechai pleaded with Esther to go to her husband and ask him to destroy to obliterate the edict she said I can't he hasn't invited me to his palace to his chamber for 30 days and if you walk in without permission without consent and he does not stretch out his scepter you come out the head shorter and haven't been summoned for 30 days he's lost interest in me apparently and Mordechai then gives his famous message to Esther which inspires her to tell him gather the Jews for three days and fast so fast and then I will go into the King and she uses these words over Haines Ave Alamelu I sure LOI hadass I will enter into the King against the law Boyka das not according to the law for kasharev oddity of oddity and indeed on the third day she enters into the king he does stretch out her scepter and she remains alive and the rest is history or actually her story quite literally pun intended when was the third day when was the third day she entered into the King if the fast happened you'd gimel so this is your gimel is the first day of the fast you download is the second day of the fast and the third day of the fast is tests love first day of pace set by he by yuri marshall is she the third day she enters into the King without permission she makes her way in illegally ubertino via lamella kasia like a dose she was not invited she went into a place that she was not allowed to go into she went into a private domain which she was not welcomed she trespassed trespassing is a form of thievery trespassing is I now let her go into your domain of malodor go into your property and here it was at the stake at with a danger she may have been jeopardizing her very life pesach she walks in a shallow hadass four dimensions of thievery some still have a claim on the Jews emptied out Egypt never to return the jewelry and diamonds and pearls and gold and silver and clothes and vessels that they have taken her I was deceived by Marsha Marsha stole his mind and Esther trespassed into the private domain of the King where she was not welcomed or invited which usually could have translated into a death sentence there was another act of thievery that happened on Pesach anybody knows number five another act of thievery somebody significant stole something significant on the night of peso ah one more person very good Yaakov's the blessings designated to ace of rifka tells Yaakov go bring your father to goats Rashi says who eats two goats two goats with us Rashi answer carbon pacer and carbon hey Giga this was the day before paisa per kg rebellious their pyramid Bayes says that youths cook told ace of tonight the gates of the heavens are open I want to bless you tonight the night of Pesach and that's when rifki prepared the food and dressed up Yaakov like a sieve and told them go in and take the blessings and Yaakov took the blessings that were designated a Asaph in fact when Yakko Eve leaves an ace of comes in and a sob says here's the food bless me and yet success bossy huh be mere marvellous Bertha Sasha your brother came deceitfully and took the blessing been mere mom is made up of five letters BAE's member hmm hey numerical value of B Mira is bayes's to mem is 40 races 200 another mem is 40 and hey that's 287 the same numerical value as the word afikomen because what happened was a soft LZ it's eat my food too and then you'll bless me and yet success bah hija be mere ma your brother already brought me a fat coming we don't eat after the offical I man ain't Mufti and accurate passer coffee claimant I can't eat any more - bless you you'd suck a toffee clayman already and that's why I could brought him wine by your veil oh yeah I invited why did he bring the one never asked for wine the night of Pesach Jew drinks wine so he brought he brought it took one and not one cup of wine Lori I and is America fula a unique cantillation by your veil Oh oh he brought him numerous cups of wine why I invited the night of Pesach Yaakov Steel's who are ostensibly steals the blessings from his brother Asaph what is going on here on the night of pace everybody turned into gun oven everyone is stealing of course the children are stealing the Alpha Chi Minh they learned from everybody else Yaakov moisha asked everybody what do you want from the kids kids are just emulating what the parents do what is going on here except safer rights the midst of cypher right something interesting he says the Gemara says don't live in our city where dogs don't bark at night because the thieves will steal everything what protects our city from thieves is the dogs barking the night of your tears from Simon Says Laconia stralla Yakutsk a lovely night no dogs were barking so the thieves were free to roam around freely and steal everything why the dogs weren't barking the dogs were the dogs with an ancient alarm alarm sounding systems the burglars entered the homes and the alarms go off the dogs barked but that night the dogs are still so the gun often were everywhere so to commemorate that we're also stealing the dogs are quiet then they got all of them wake up in the middle of the night they love it no dogs you want to know where this class is heading right how am I supposed to get out of this whole mess this whole web but the truth is that all of this really captures the soul of the evening the soul of pace of the soul of the Seder because in the journey from enslavement to freedom in the journey from trauma to recovery in the journey from pain to joy in the knee from brokenness to wholesomeness in the journey from subjugation bondage enslavement to freedom liberty emancipation in the journey from ignorance to wisdom from cluelessness to awareness from detachment to attachment in the journey from alienation to alignment in that journey which is the essence of the Seder and the essence of pacer and the essence of ETS Mitzrayim the exodus of Egypt mitzrayim coming from the word mates are mates are means that which contains you confines you restrains you limits you that which holds you down it's the handcuffs that we have physically or emotionally or psychologically that tie us down they're the shackles the ropes that tie one down and keep them earthbound and not just earth bound but bound and limited and restricted and confined within a particular orbit of trauma or of deep sadness or of deep depression or of deep fear or insecurity anguish or jealousy or frustration or envy or alienation etc etc etc every person can apply the appropriate adjectives as they are suitable to my life for your life for our life that journey is an incredible journey but it contains one great challenge and the challenge is an inner voice and the inner voice is always brief concise and razor-sharp and the inner voice speaks and it speaks forwards if I had to say it in Yiddish and that is du bist aganetha you're a thief that's the voice that lurks in the left side of your heart as you attempt to leave Egypt and embark on a journey towards freedom a voice inside your head that says for words you are a thief or worse that would it be so bad the voice says I am a thief the voice speaks in first person the voice represents itself as you the voice sees itself and portrays itself as the very essence of who you are and the voice informs you at every step you're a thief this is the voice of power living in every person's heart or many people's hearts and when you're about to leave Egypt and you want to say goodbye to the trauma goodbye to the brokenness goodbye to a life that kept you hostage to your worst demons skeletons and ghosts power is there tapping you on your shoulder and saying you're running away you belong right here you're running away you're a thief you belong right here in my Egypt this is your home this is your womb this is where you feel safe this is where you ought to live breathe and die no I want to leave presence I know but this is your place you are a slave you belong in slavery you know that you're messed up you got too much toxicity you went through too much as a little girl don't compare yourself to free people you were destined to be a slave I will make the best out of it you can eat some sushi as a slave you can even have some Chinese food if you want you could binge on a rug a la casilla pacer macaroons and ladyfingers will give you as well smelling chocolate can also work for you that's fine but remember you were born to be a slave you left you ran away you fled you never got permission you never got permission you got permission for a three-day holiday you got permission you could breathe but you got to come back here this is your place this is we always were and this is where you will always be if the voice was coming from outside of you wouldn't be so bad the problem is Peri lives inside and it's this voice that obstructs and blocks the pathway of countless human beings towards a life of true wholesomeness of true celebration of true alignment of true inner contentment and meaning it's the fact that there is a brokenness in me that always craves to define my core and thus accused me of being a thief what does a thief do a thief takes things that don't belong to him or her and we look at the thief and say give it back on of you have taken the silver and gold from Egypt you have taken all the sparks all the all the pain that you had in Egypt also had sparks of opportunity you have taken it and Egypt says you're a thief bring it back you have left Egypt and Barry says you're a thief you have taken the afikomen the mats of Liberty and somebody says you're a gun of Liberty does not belong to you you have stolen it thief give it back ace of screams these blessings don't belong to you you know that your life was supposed to be cursed your life is supposed to be a perpetual fetch your life is supposed to be a life which you look at myself and say me I equal being messed up I am toxicity's best friend I am emptinesses best friend I am the devil's colleague I am depressions next-door neighbor or even living together that's who I am I represent the Spear sadness resignation if you would only know what lurks in my brain if you would only know my challenge as my struggles if you would only know my past yes I know I come to a Tuesday class and I smile I come to the bar mitzva nice smile I come to the wedding dressed up nicely I make the chevre breakfast and I seem full of grace but the voice always tells me you're just dressing up you're just that's what thieves do their camouflage they're not real what does dressing up mean doesn't belong to you it's not who you are you're decorating something to look a certain way but you know the truth the truth you're a slave who belongs an agent and it's that voice that keeps so many of us in our own Egypt we do not know how to celebrate our own poor wholesomeness even in the presence of somebody screaming I'm a thief because often our expectations of emancipation are what free at last free at last there's no perish screaming there's no Egypt screaming perhaps you can reach that one day in life we call it the Messianic era when yb3 pause oriental a who came with sugar vanagas you Shia says by the future goal the Jews won't rush they're gonna go very calmly but it's es Messiah but he poss-eye they had to run they had to rush why who were they running from were they running from they were running from the voice within themselves who said you don't belong to there you got to come back and if you don't have the courage to escape and tell Pyrrha yes I am escaping you you or I could remain forever in his shackles you can take the joy out of Gullah so you can't always take call us out of that Jew you could take it to do what achieve it's Egypt you can't always take Egypt out of the Jew you can take the Jew away from power you can't always take power out of the Dru and the power inside pursues them outside and the power inside tells them you're not really outside you're still inside so you may be communicating with yourself you may be communicating with God you make me communicating with your spouse you may be communicating with your child you may be communicating with a friend with a therapist with a colleague with a sibling with a loved one or with anybody and suddenly within that communication you feel so much Texas so much anger so much brokenness and what does that voice tell you you don't know how to be in a relationship you're a lonely person and you will be lonely for eternity all you can do is make a showed you're just too broken that is the voice of Perry telling you you're a thief you don't deserve better Who am I to be wholesome Who am I to be happy or am I to be gorgeous or am I to be successful who I might have be powerful who I might have an awesome life Who am I to have a free liberated emancipated life Who am I I'm a loser how much the comments how much dick Perry I'm a slave that's who I am and suddenly when your spouse or my spouse or my child or this person says something and it shre it's all that brokenness and suddenly you find yourself furious and angry and broken and mad and overwhelmed and all that toxicity comes up and you want to blurt it out and run away to New Zealand or better to Antarctica with the Penguins and the polar bears will understand you and the seals will look at you without judging you because nobody around here can look at you that way and you want to run for your life and Perry says yeah yeah yeah just come right back at them it's Ryan your bosom will you'll feel comfortable at that moment you have to make a choice am i free or am i a slave and that choice is the choice that will define the entire course of your destiny and the entire course of your future there's only one who could make that choice and it's you yourself not the circumstances around you and the tragedy is when you allow the power inside of you to make that choice rather than your divine inner core making that choice and that's the choice every person has to make on the night of freedom it's not a choice between enslavement and freedom that's the mistake we make that choice I will lose every pacer it's a choice between listening to the voice of slavery inside of me or listening to the voice of freedom inside of me even when both voices exist that sometimes the voice of slavery is louder because I've been listening to it for 35 years and whatever you've been listening to for 35 years is loud and the other voice is very very subtle but it's real it's authentic and it's really more powerful because it's truth it's your truth so comes the night of Pesach and you sit down at the Seder and in a very practical level and here we're gonna do a little exercise for this year peso huh okay I'm not gonna have you breathe or close your eyes don't worry you could do that in your own time the first rule is you're now going to come to the Seder like a schemata you know out oh it's forbidden the most important midst of of pace are his serenity and joy just like you now let her have it you say they're comets right and you'll do anything not to have comments that you say there you'll sit all night and rend wash and rub wonder the refrigerator even though dust is not comets and the children are not the carbon pacer there's something that's also forbidden to have to say the table and that is a mother or a wife who feels like a schemata you know Adam it's forbidden so you're telling me ya rabbi why were very nice of you to say you're a man you're clueless you're detached you don't know what's happening you know what's coming to my I got it where I didn't get it but just like all of you are miraculous people who know how to multitask 1.2 thousand jobs and ought to be there for every child and every grandchild and every asking and every situation and you're dealing with comets you're dealing with moths and you're making murder and some of you are squeezing oranges and your bacon taking your cooking sugar and you're sifting salt and preparing a seder for who knows how many people I'm gonna ask you to add one more thing on your list and that is and that is to be able to be in a state of serenity of relaxation of joy if it means taking a nap take a nap if it means taking a walk in the night before the day before the hour before take that walk if it means doing exercise and it means doing a certain treatment that certain therapy and aromas not every person knows what they need best you come to the Seder with our happy serene States that's the first Mitzvah my parents home there was a beautiful piano Grand Marquis piano so once like 10 minutes before lifts in an IRA phases I sat down at the piano and I started to play my neighbor was in Brooklyn so your neighbor like lives in your dining room our windows are open I'm playing the piano and he turned he opens his dining room window I'm running away like I'm running like a chicken Africa porters without a head you ever see the chickens run around nothing is gonna do loose with the piano he was playing the piano I don't understand you I smiled I said I don't understand you you know pacer his mom Clara say no it's the time of Liberty I'm the one who's doing the right thing I'm preparing of music I'm preparing with serenity and I want you to stop for a moment take a deep breath and remember this is about experiencing your freedom it's about experiencing your oneness with yourself with your loved ones with God you're allowing the details and the rituals to destroy you're not living in God's space you're living in some religious ritualistic institutionalize pressure some stressful indoctrinate experience which is devoid of common and meaning and truth you're not in the spirit of things he stopped he stopped he said you're right this is a window screaming at each other through the windows years lady he met me and he says every era of pacer in the afternoon I remember I remember the conversation and I start playing piano in my mind so I start playing piano on my mind and let me tell you sometimes we want everything to be perfect and you try so hard and everything is ready for pacer but the most important thing you don't bring and that is yourself your mood your presence your life your radiance your love your relationship you brought everything you brought every conceivable type of foods so your kids don't complain about how horrible pay stuff is but the most important thing that they need is the feminine presence of energy and life and love is not there I say cancel out some other things and focus on that here's step 2 in the exercise people say that I say they're and they have tremendous expectations what it's supposed to look like a guy told me he bought 40 huh goddess to prepare Tyra the next day I see him it looks like a dead man walking say Yankel Wasaga Shanna so they weren't interested I'm thinking to myself no kidding I also would not be he said I had 40 I got that unbelievable brilliant stuff they weren't interested it killed his pacer you know why he had an expectation of the Seder now let me tell you the rule of life God does not live in expectations God lives in reality you will always find happiness where reality is you will always find love where reality is you will always find depth where reality is the Mitzvah basically gathered olivenza speak to your child not to yourself speak to your child means I have to connect to my children exactly where they are a say that doesn't have to look a certain way say that doesn't have to be perfect perfect darlin run away from us say there needs to be a place where parents sit in their full presence connecting emotionally to their children sharing with them the story how do you share with somebody the story by tuning in to where they are right now the worst thing speakers do is don't learn who their audiences people get up to give speeches they don't know who their audiences the first thing I asked when I provided to speak somewhere tell me who my audience is who is the audience at the Seder table your child before you speak to your child find out who your audiences if you don't know your child how could you speak to your child know who your child is and whoever your child is that's who your child is that's where the Shema is that's where you connect people sit down I just say the table they're about to give all this beautiful trailer this one is saying Turner from the some say for this one from grips of it this one from the about something this was worried back in a year this one is saying I'm riskier and this one is saying I this I got that I got that there's hundreds of a goddess and then honey a Yankee got into a World War quarrel because he took her bath here so he pours out her wine so she breaks the matzo and your husband works on his Qaida for an hour and a half and everything was perfect and suddenly boom the morale flew here the crisis is in the fan the wine is on the cheer you new dress for Pesach and I was ruined because it was red wine of course and you're looking you're saying like who invented this religion just tell me who invented this version of Liberty we used to think Liberty means go to Beach sit there for a week and do nothing you could listen to my classes who invented this and it's like guy tells me he's like I want to tell you guys a fart boob the wine right on his thing there when his worth and they went is say there and I tell you don't let that happen to you that's exactly what the Seder happens the Seder happens in the reality of your family in the reality of your home and that's exactly where God is he's not anywhere else that's where freedom happens freedom doesn't happen on mountain peaks and you tokyo's on the top of the Himalayas yes there is a hobbit say there in Nepal for 3,000 Israelis and trust me this chaos vr-2 well my friend Robert Lipschutz and his wife do us a there for 3,000 people 3,000 people okay you're ready getting stressed out for them right missus Lipsius is the comest woman in the world 3,000 people are to say the big deal Nepal you can go now Paul yeah yes it's around the corner from Wesley culture and an 18 hour and an 18 hour flight [Laughter] God God is in your Seder the uniqueness of the say there is not that it's orderly there's nothing orderly about it if that that's where say there happens say there doesn't happen in a world that's perfectly orderly say there is what we create in a world that could be chaotic by identifying the core order that our soul has when it's aligned with the source of all so if my child is right here in this place this is weird see as much ryeom happens take a deep breath relax and be fully present to the person that this child is to the person that your daughter is your son is to your wife to your husband to your father to your mother to your brother to your sister to your guests and especially to children especially to children I got an email a few days ago from a woman who said that she's a grandmother they're going to have 20 grandchildren saying the man astana so why does she write to me she wants me also to say the man is done had her say that to be 21 the answers her husband is Mokpo to eat a fake lemon before cuts ice before midnight plus he has to be ensure early the next day and they have 20 people to say the man Astana and there's a whole Haggadah afterwards what is my advice no I don't know why I'm the address for this question what type of advice can I come up with so I thought about it I actually thought about it for two days I didn't only think about this for two days I've got another three hundred emails about Pesach but was one of the things I thought about and yesterday I answered I said I could just give you my humble suggestion for whatever it's worth each one of these 20 grandchildren when they say the man Astana you and your husband should be standing or sitting right near them they shouldn't just be in their place either you go to their place so they come to your place you hold their right hand and your husband should hold their left hand and when they say the man Astana be attentive fully to them look at them be present listen to them let them feel it by you're holding their hands and let them see it from your gaze and your presence because each one of these grandchildren are yours these are your gifts to God's world you're responsible for them you raised your children they're yours appreciate the moment they're part of a Jewish family they're continuing the story you have heard them on Astana one point hundred one point 1 million times but it's your grandchild saying them on standard this year pace that had never happened before your grandchild is continuing the story of the Jewish people from the Exodus which happened 3331 years ago when you finish all the twenty and each one should get exactly the same treat but even if it's difficult and a part of you will say this is boring this is monotonous that's fine I was talking for him more than for her grandmother's could smile 20 times for grandfathers after ten times they need out solo you know Amy it's like I'm plotting at this point for bubbles it's a little easier we're not gonna discuss the reasons at the moment okay I said and after that you can go through the Haggadah much faster so he could finish the afikomen before HUD sighs remember the focus is the child and each child feeling the nurturer feeling special feeling indispensable feeling unique and most importantly feeling the bond feeling the presence what does that look like in your house whatever that looks like in your house that's the perfect Seder there's no perfect model our Seder went for seven and a half hours you were talking to yourself into the walls there's no model Seder to say there is reality where God is is where reality is where your children are where you are it's hard to heart face to face soul to soul and this truth is also with yourself I sit down and I say I know how to do a say there I know how to be free I've been trying to do this say that your nominee is 30 years 40 years 50 or 60 years it's always the same slept stress stress stress stress stress put him as a day of joy and we're stressed with solar bonus and Pesach is a day of liberty and we're slaving away wonderful version of joy and Judaism pour him solace mothers to a hundred and thousand hundred eighty nine thousand people everyone who was a classmate of mine and a shock of 89 years ago and I can't send an orange and a hamantaschen cosmic solemn because it's not classy I need a feed you ever heard that I didn't know that that a shallowness has a theme I used to hear that you need food I didn't know but I guess food also needs a theme okay I used to think an orange and a hamantaschen bottle of wine not better what's fine so that's the and now freedom comes slaving away I'm slaving away you said had to say they come can stand on your two feet you ever see they sit down I they say everybody's sloughing used to be yet to wake up the kids now the kids are up the adults are sloughing at they say that everybody's overwhelmed and exhausted I tell you your hinder of basic this basic should be your hid or to be alert to be happy to be serene and presence so I told myself I don't know how to do a say do you think God is listening to my CDs interested in my 'god them my matzah my mother my journey to freedom there's the voice of pyro he says you're a gun if the matzah doesn't belong to you this ain't it doesn't belong to you freedom doesn't belong to you happiness doesn't belong to you confidence does not belong to you wholesomeness does not belong to you being in a relationship that is full with full presence and full life does not belong to you you have stolen it give it back you slave you loser we know the truth and that's where you have to make a choice that's when you have to make the choice who's gonna win tonight they're gonna be pie ROI or is it gonna be moisture a banal and in order to teach this to people for how God too opens up with this paragraph hey Lokmanya the are hollow of a sauna but I redeem it Syria this is the bread of poverty that our forefathers have eaten in the land of Egypt what an anti climactic opening to the night of freedom and contradictory to what it says later no you sit down to the Seder there are huge questions that come up and the question is as follows if God took us out why are we slaves if people do things people are limited their mortal their finite so their deeds have limits but a God is true if it's a night of liberation of God took a salad why are we slaves and if the juice came out with such great wealth why are there so many poor people physically or emotionally what happened we who went wrong who went through that why is it that had to say there do is slavery inside of me why is there a slave inside of me right now and then we read stories of said victim of how they did this ad ever read these stories they sat down their faces were a glow as they experienced you see as much Ryan and I know a lot of men they try to emulate these people and it's like such a Romanus on them because for them to emulate it you down to one of two things either complete denial of who they are or complete amputation and repression of who they are which is really the same thing you deny you repress your amputate or they become completely delusional about what spirituality is completely delusional and they think that those subdeacon were as miserable as they are and they think that that is what joy means you know when you're miserable and you feel that this is what it means to be joyous you never have a benchmark of what joy is and I'm Amish want to hug them and tell them the way you get inspiration from tsadikim is not by copying anybody you never get inspiration by copying anybody's life you gain inspiration by learning how to find God where your life is now we came out of Egypt but a part of us has Egypt inside of us keep our home parish says you're a gun off your economist comes the night of Pesach and Esther wants to come into the MLF to the cake and the Gemara the mega-rich says whenever it says I'm Melek on the Megillah who does it mean means a Shem and there's somebody by the door saying you're going into the king are you a joke the king is not interested in Esther thirty days he's not interested in you yes there used to be appealing you're not appealing anymore Esther what is s to say on the day of pacer o biscayne of oil amela I shall look at us I'm gonna come into the king illegally illegally why does she say this because the legal authorities in your heart say you don't belong by the king you're an outcast that's fine that's fine oh boy LM L like I said like uh does I do things that are illegal on Pesach pairi says I'm a thief Asaph says I'm a thief they're screaming the African minute of theft the jewelry of material goods available Eliza those turn to pairi and say you want to call me a thief Pasha Alastair LaBrie Oates suga's ons and he say that in English be my guests but you may be my guest don't be my master be my guest not my master this is the bread of poverty that they ate in the land of Egypt in other words even though they left Egypt and they ate matzah it's still called the bread that they ate in the land of Egypt because even as they left there's a piece of Egypt that we have within us and it's not here to discourage us it's here to work encouraged us to explain to us freedom does not mean that you don't have mitts right freedom means that you identify them it's ryeom and you choose who you really are you understood what I just said and that's why we say that's why kinder laughs I had to invite guests yesterday and before yesterday you're not inviting them now you're explaining why this poverty in the world why other needy in the world God took us out bearers whose gondol with it the poverty come from if our sum is eternal he's not mortal and the answer is that that freedom was the beginning at the end ha shotta Ogden really were slaves this year that's why we're doing to say there that's what to say there means to say there doesn't mean that there's no part of me that's enslaved if you're waiting for that seder you will never experience or say there which is why so many people feel frustrated and disappointed and they finish their Satan and they're like you another one bites the dust liberation doesn't mean that there's a part of me that's not enslaved I shot the avidin there's a part of me that's a slave the part of me that's broken the part of me that's a slave to addiction to fear to insecurity to sadness to brokenness to frustration to resignation to the spear to use to melancholy to sadness to bad habits to mishegoss and to trauma to idiosyncrasies to narcissism to hedonism to all types of crazy and sanity that lives in me I'm talking about me not about you don't worry don't take it personal but if you have to take it personal then take it personal a shot then we're on a journey but somehow by this other son my BOB and they higher in you go through the whole Haggadah and we finish this is very deep but I'll say it briefly Ivana one of us base up here the word is Pierre and I base a mikdash to atone for our sins it's exactly how the Haggadah finishes what a beautiful ending what a beautiful ending pace up here with a pearl on oh I'll call over and sno what's this para choice is the key word choice spirit choice you know when you have to make a choice if somebody offers me two jobs one job pays $600 a week and one job next door same hours and it pays not $600 a week but six thousand dollars a week and both great job same hours great bosses do you really have a choice unless you're tight with sugar do you really have a choice you can buy a house for a Tundra Grande three bedrooms they've got the same house seven bedroom and five bathrooms and a basement do you have a choice same black same neighbors same friends same neighborhood that's not choice what's a choice what do you have to choose could anybody answer come let's hear from the French the Americans don't like to answer the English the Brits can answer choice exists only when two things are similar identical then I make a choice if I want to eat if I want to eat the particular food I want to eat an orange and you bring to the food and you bring to the table other foods with the orange I want to eat an orange and you need an orange if I want to eat a piece of fish I want to eat a piece of chicken and that's what's available that's what I eat I'm not choosing a choice happens between two things that are similar or even identical and I have to make a choice why is the base I make this called base up here the house of choice it represents God's choice represents our choice choice only happens when there's two things that are identical are almost identical you can choose this so you can choose this and now you have to choose and you have to choose based on who you really are that's the summation of the whole Haggadah with capilano Alcala very nice eh no we choose and the reason we choose is because things are so close to each other the voice of Perry the voice of Mercia could sound so eerily similar the voice of Perak it sounds so holy so sacred so true so just it's very easy to go this way and this way it's a choice you have to make you only make choices when things can get confused if slavery and Liberty were not coexisting in a big shoal and you would never have to make a choice the only reason you have to have a base up here are choices like a prolonged oil kolavari no say no because there is so much imperfection there is brokenness I have made so many mistakes that's why there's a base up here God says I don't choose you because you're in a heavenly realm that I don't have to choose what's needed choose he's not choosing your soul over things that are completely unholy there's nothing to choose it's a completely different realm like somebody says I have a choice for you a house I could give you a house or you could live in a shelter what's the choice it's a different realm Pyrrha means two things are similar where does God's choice happen God's choice doesn't happen in a realm where you're completely heavenly and free and transcendental and only then he doesn't have what to choose it is what it is choice happens when this mixture when things that are impure could seem pure when things that are pure can seem impure when a person is mixed in their life you don't know what's broken and what's whole when your brokenness suddenly becomes your King and my broken is suddenly rules over me and now this base up here now there's the concept of choice why do you have to choose because they seem so identical they could be replaced with each other because I'm so used to something because I'm into something and now I have to make a choice the very word choice means it's not taken for granted it's not simple it's two things there's a deliberation I can go here I can go away I can go there I can go there choose one of the two ways I can go that's where base up here comes in it doesn't say for the Shiina to come in to me that would be great here there's something even deeper will happen I'll call them when they say no all types of sin all types of distortions all types of mistakes all types of trauma there was always his choice in you that no matter what you're involved in and what a matter where you have fallen I have chosen you and it was a choice this was a choice and the reason it was a choice is because you're so much connection there's so much entanglement and I have to choose consciously and actively as entangled as you were and you looked similar to pyro sometimes I can't even recognize you you look like a like a slave I have still chosen you over that and therefore you can choose yourself over that and even if you say my mistakes were too big I'll call over in a say no that's the summation of the Haggadah the beginning of the Haggadah the summation of the god are saying exactly the same thing freedom happens right now right here in your home with your family in your marriage in your relationships with your children in your reality that's we're true freedom happens have a wonderful week and a wonderful young turf this class is brought to you by the achieve Annette please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at triple w dot play you Shiva net slash donate