KLM Amaze the Angels at the Passover Seder with Haggadah and Hallel by Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] tonight um again we want now we want to approach the haggadah and hal el the other parts of the seder we want to do this in a way that as we said amazes the angels and stimulates them to send back a glowing report to akaddish foruhu now for those of you who didn't hear about this last week the zohar talks about what's happening particularly when we were reciting the haggadah on lal seder and it has to do with malachi with angels now i want to get i want to give us a little perspective about that you know this is such a um beautiful zohar for klm because one of the things we need to do and we're trying to do is to recognize the incredible things that are taking place when you do mitzvahs especially with kavanagh right so that's super important and we just yata as we said he doesn't want us to be conscious of what's going on because he knows that'll be bad for him now let's get an idea of this we're about to talk about malachi rashi brings this down that we have to realize something that manoa was the father of shimshin right now if he was zoho to have shimshin uh as a son he must have been a pretty developed spiritual person and it said that when manoa had an encounter with one mala with one angel he thought he was going to die the intensity of it was so great he thought he was going to die that's one mallah one angel now think about this especially on saturday night when you're reciting the agatha and with lil satyr hakkadish are if you will from this other spiritual realm they're looking down on our seder and they're listening and they're seeking to report back to hashem what a people they're amazing right and as we said if we do the uh seder properly with proper kavana and investment of self can you imagine the glowing report that they will deliver now i have a little bit of a mysterious question for you i it's really a rhetorical question i'm going to ask it now and i'm only going to resolve it at the end of our talk and that's this is it possible to do the seder with tremendous kavanagh lots of kavanah and still create displeasure with the angels interesting stay tuned that'll be at the end okay but now let's shift in and understand what we need to do to succeed so there's a very popular expression now and it's called mindset right everyone knows what a mindset is so the first thing we need to establish is the mindset for mageed for telling over the story relating the story of mitzius menstruating of the haggadah what's the mindset and for that you know since we have a lot of people in london i think you might uh find this interesting something uh ravi green told uh brought up many times um there was a uh a historian a british historian named paul johnson may probably many of you have heard about him he wrote a book called the history of the jews he is not jewish and i do not think he's religious either okay a non-jewish historian and the book was called the history of the jews and really he speaks very favorably about us to the degree that in cure of seminars they they quote some of his observations about the greatness of the jews okay now what's interesting in the forward or the introduction of the book mr johnson uh says one thing he says you know i've studied these people for a great deal of time and i've gone through their whole history and i feel that i really kind of understand this group of people except one thing there's just one thing about these jews that i just don't get what was that he says i just don't get all their focus on leaving egypt why was that such a big deal you know i just i i don't understand their emphasis on this so my review would just chuckle he's like he says he only forgot he only doesn't understand the most important of all he just he didn't get the whole important thing so uh i have to be honest with you for many years i was with paul johnson like why is it such a focus i was with him you know i was like oh yeah review morning and every evening exactly it's a smiths ryan right every kid-ish you make on shabbos zachary smith ryan all the hogging zecharians ryan 30 days before the holiday uh cleaning beer hummus halachas of pesach right lael seder hours and hours of the adsense man's rhyme it really does seem a bit extreme no so i heard his question for a long time i heard his question and then another hush of rob of the old city era kodish viktor nevinsol shlita i think he gives a very good answer to this why are we so constantly focused on leaving egypt you'd see a smiths ryan and what he said which was about i don't know 10 15 years ago at least it is even more relevant today and he says like this he says 24 7 365 121 120 uh we are bombarded with the opposite of the reality of hashem controlling the world running the world directing the world we are bombarded with the opposite the the you know the this election in this politician and and this vaccine and this uh pandemic and on and on and on but but now just to add to that you know there's a famous uh uh uh dr mary came now called the social dilemma you know and i just can't fathom how many people are dealing with the dilemma of the internet and the media and the you know the conspiracy theories the the the facts the fake facts that this and that were bombarded with everything but a cottage for who runs the world he created the world he manages it he does it for good etcetera the message the messages of you are blunted all the time and therefore it is so important we need to be reminded constantly day and night and a month and every shabbos and every holiday you'd see as destroying the messages are critical right we need to we need to combat this now i want to discuss kind of the brilliance of the fact that we have a later which is an intense focus you know really the whole week et cetera but leo ceda's is intense and then we know we have moz kieran yetzis mitzrayim morning and evening so to to give you a kind of understanding of the brilliance of the torah and hazal there's a say for a great safer uh called heshbonnenefish that was written in the time of revision cilantro several hundred years ago and in this book he um presents a path to master your character traits and get rid of poor poor character traits etc right and his his method i'm simplifying it his method is this let's say you want to work on removing anger so what you do first of all is you immerse in studying the torah's understanding of anger and you get into all sorts of hazal and listens and you you mummish learn it deeply and then if you will you make a book report right you make a summary of it okay and that immersion is step one and then you try to boil it down to like just a sentence or two in other words you after you now want to track yourself you want to eliminate the anger so after you did your immersion you need to trigger and arouse your consciousness on a daily basis but you have to do that with just like a one line or a simple point right so you immer but now how effective is the trigger if you haven't done the immersion i doubt it's very effective okay and it's interesting you know uh i tell my friends i i try my best to study um self-development personal development and i listen to it the non-jewish uh thinkers and and coaches and etc etc in the field so there's one uh person who's one of those personal development coaches extraordinarily successful extraordinary and he said that um he heard he works with like top top you know billionaire ceos and xyz so you know he said that one of the suggestions that he said had the most impact was giving uh is teaching them to use triggers you know they have phones or they have alarms or rabbi michael has a palm pilot you know and you put a little reminder right and it says you know don't snap at the kids today and it pops up at 11 p.m and 12 30 and what et cetera right but those are tre he says the trigger concept and by the way this is very important as we we move into phase two of klm of living kavana the work on triggers but the point is this look at hazal you immerse in lael seder and then every morning and every evening every day of your life you get triggered but the trigger will be wonderful if we approach the seder in a powerful way okay that's our goal and that's that's that's what we have to do so now let's discuss in terms of the immersion where do we really need to focus in the haggadah okay now what i by the way you know it's funny when i say that where do you focus in the gutter if you study the haggadah of the malden you realize that you you have to be very uh how do i put it strategic very strategic when you go through the haggadah and he points out that the whole first ch section from uh you know even from a vadim hyena and manuscript all of that is just describing how to do the mitzvot who does the mitzvah it's basically preparation for the gutter but not the gut itself and you know it was funny i was in a shul and these two guys these two fellows you know they didn't have a lot of time i guess with pesticide preparations but they decided they would learn for five minutes about the haggadah and i listened to them and they were doing like this like deep analysis in manishtana about the language and this and i was like oh no they are so far from the the main part of the gutter i decided not to butt in but but anyhow so let me just tell you this point uh just practically speaking for everybody okay according to the melbourne it's really the place to start focusing your your in your immersion and your study and your preparation for the kids and i'll tell you i give my kids assignments but anyhow it's from in the beginning our fathers were over de avoda zara and then that's the start of the actual uh the story okay and all those verses about uh lavon and being and being uh persecuted and crying out hashem the mirror very central very central focus additionally the uh robin the the the esser makko we're going to talk about miracles in one second the the ten ma makos very central understanding the media connected meter right the measure for measure of the midstream did this and they got a a maca that did that back to them because they did okay very central and finally red uh ramen gum lilz uh anyone who doesn't appreciate the reason for the three eating mitzvahs right of corbin pesach matzah and maru says they didn't fulfill their obligation et cetera those are those the central parts i repeat from the in the beginning they were overdone voters are through all the verses from parshas picorin the ten makos and robin gamlin that's the body of the haggadah put your efforts there and a trick you know because if you have children what you want to do and if you don't you need children some should give you a big brother to have children but anyhow if you have kids if you what we try to do is to if necessary bribe them whatever but to get them to come up with questions in those sections if you can there's many ways to do the skin the cat but that's one way i do and then i try to prepare the questions respond okay that's practical but let's go back to the mindset for the haggadah and here's a big thing you know we're going to talk about halal tour hallel um it's very interesting holly is beautiful uh beautiful to hillam but the gemara amsakham says if anyone says hallel on a daily basis they're if you will they're they're just denigrating and cursing a shim shocking right so what that means is this um yeah yeah it does it what it means is what we call halal hamitzeri right and there's this special hollow we say on rosh kodesh and all the yom tovs uh with your bitsaysis real menstrualiam and all those that is and then that that section of hollow is for open miracles okay and the proper time for that is in a time where open miracles occurred but if you're like just talking about hashem's open miracles in times where it's not on a daily basis you're denigrating the beauty and miracles in nature okay but i bring this up pause but you do focus on open miracles now and we are lucky we are allowed to focus on open miracles what do i mean rabbi victor miller is a talent and many of you i i know subscribe to him so you might know this what a way to put it he says hashem hates miracles hashem hates open miracles what does that mean you know he says if a person gives their word and they're a man of their word or woman of their word if they have to go back on the word that's not comfortable right so hashem roshamar of ahilam hashem's word was i'm going to run the world through nature right that's how i do things that's how i want to do things because i want to give all of you a chance to play uh seek seek me and discover me and and use your free will that's the plan nature is the plan so if you will when hashem breaks the laws of major he's like breaking his world if you will he doesn't normally do this but when he does it when he makes open miracles we have to scramble and take hold of it and integrate it hashem's doing it so of course we'll relate to all life differently as it says okay you know there's so many places if you saw that mitchells of wilson there's so many places it talks about um doing the haggadah telling over the story but in parsha's bow it opens up there and says i go to parole because i hearted in his heart right because i want to and i'm going to say i want you to be able to relate to your children and your children's children that i am hashem i want them to hear about the open miracles so you'll know so you'll know that i am hashem right so hashem says and rabbi moore points out he's saying i'm doing this now in egypt so you can tell your children and grandchildren which implies i'm not doing it again it's this story it's these miracles these incredible openings and revelations that will make you know for sure that i'm hashem right so now's the time now's the time to immerse in the miracles the open miracles he did it now and he did it so we can cement and then again this is the immersion and then when we have the triggers of the itsy smith ryan will keep us going and it'll help us fight against the media and the politics and the uh science and the medicine and all these things that conceal the hand of hashem that is guiding nature and guiding history we so desperately need to remind ourselves a bit so what's my message obviously we have to be in an open miracle mindset and we have to look at the mid-rushing look at that there's incredible things and incredible descriptions and we need to drink the mim on lel seder now uh i'm just gonna just do a little bit of that but i'm really putting it in your camp uh to find that and we know there's so much on online that you can do this but it's very interesting okay where uh in this thing where it says i'm doing this so to go into the ears of your children and grandchildren so you know i'm hashem there's a particular stress um on telling over one of the ten makos in particular now of course the the the firstborn play was super important you might think it's blood and and the dom is amazing we spoke about last time after the maca of dom right they st it was so heavy they stopped uh subjugating us but no re guess what's the uh where hashem says make sure you tell this over arbeit the locusts right so the locusts believe me every single maca is so amazing when you look at the midrussian but about arba there's just some very interesting things okay here's one that many people might not know and take write it down as they say take this down this is a good one is all the makos lasted seven days in a row right a full week right except arba it said it says the um arbor via nach and they have a gazer sheva they didn't fall in shabbos meaning the the the maka was going boom boom boom boom and on shabbos there was not a locust to be uh to be found so that's one of the miracles is that the locusts rested on shabbos to show you the kedusha of shabbos right that's one miracle the other thing is they were able to they were able to actually determine the borders of egypt with all the neighboring countries because the locusts didn't spill over a single nanometer but everything they did they defined the borders of ryan this is i'm just doing one maca here just and bits of one maca right but you know in the mid screen here's another one the midstream said okay let's see what do you do when you're given lemon everyone knows you make lemonade so we say they used to eat these locusts right so all these locusts they salted them right and they prepare them they fill them in their barrels and guess what hashem said you with every miracle by the way the the quantity the timing was already open open miracle but these creatures did things that they don't normally do so before i get to this thing about the salting do you know that they didn't just eat all the produce they ate their jewelry and clothing okay so they were miraculous orbit but not only that that when it came time for them to at least you know make lemonade every single locust just vanished into thin air okay these are the things that we have to get really really in our kishkas and get excited about and by the way as i mentioned the first time my review's really tough if you you have a mitzvah with your children right you want your children and uh your adults your teenage kids you want them excited so how do you get how do you help them have a religious experience have a religious experience in their presence you have to become so filled with excitement that they see it it's intoxicating you want to get them drunk not just on the arbicosas but on the open miracles okay so that's the mindset and that's the focus focus on the open miracles another step in the haggadah is we have to draw lessons from the haggadah if we we want to strengthen our muna we want to strengthen our children's ammuna that's where our goal is right so how do you do that you try to extrapolate use beena and you try to extrapolate from what happened to them and what happened now so boy i have one for you okay what happens uh the uh as we know in the last 86 years in mitzrayim it was like nazi germany yamaksha mam on both of them okay and it was getting so brutal and we have to also realize that you know we know that tremendous challenges people's amuna in the holocaust the holocaust was five six years and it was horrific and maybe incomparable but still 86 years of just brutal subjugation and a feeling like shem's not there so towards the end of this 86th year they are so broken so assimilated so steeped in the studio the avodah zara that it's just they're basically gone and they're in tremendous agony and pain and then they cry out to hashem they knit sakuya shim they directed their pain and suffering to the right address they cry out to boom hashem pays attention which means he begins and kicks off the [Music] the maca that would stop everything the first market and then onwards it came because they just reached that plate of desperation but they still pointed their hearts towards a shem listen to this event that happened a couple weeks ago in edgeware okay i even i can tell you the name of the man although i i don't have it written down this was comes from rely reliable source who heard it from the father okay there's a man in in edgeware who is uh um he's a big supporter of torah and he's a big bald sadaka he's a very generous man and his daughter was pregnant and rahmanislan the daughter had corona and they did a c-section and they saved the baby and the daughter went into just a horrible case of corona and the case kept advancing to the degree that they put her on this ver i'm sure dr setzer knows on us on a certain ventilator that basically this ventilator is the next step is is the grave shemirakhan there's only 40 there's only 40 of these ventilators they have it in england okay she was put on one of these ventilators and so the father um he walks to some park over there and he he just looks up at hashem he raises his hands and he says hashem we we said all the tehem we said everything uh he starts crying and he says please please what can we do what can i do what can we do in a few hours uh her situation started to improve and it continued to improve in another few hours they took her off the ventilator another few hours she's okay and speaking she was on the death ventilator she's okay in speaking and her father comes to see her and she says you know abba i died and i saw what was happening and he looked at her you know you you just had a tremendous crisis you know he's like brushing it off she goes no abba i know you went to the park to pray for me and here's what you said and she told him everything every single thing that he said and not only that a week or so later and somebody from an independent report knew this there had been somebody who died of corona not so long ago and you know the wife was feeling terrible ones that but the woman said you know ex-person had passed away and he's in a very good place in the heaven and the truth is the wife was hoping that was one thing she was trying to hold on to is maybe my husband's in a good place so you see here what happened this man reached the 86th year of of despair and he called out to hashem he cried out to hashem and then hashem made miracles you hear this so this is what we have to do we have to take these these message in the gut the gut is besides the miracles there's a story of hashem in us and it's an intimate story and it it just tells us what we need to do to feel a lot to feel a muna living a muna right now you hear this so that's uh give me a second yeah uh part one okay so i want to next move to the we let's say let's imagine we just finished the haggadah and now we say two chapters apollo just two to hilum of hollow and i want us to realize we're shifting gears a little bit and we're going to understand cavanaugh for the mitzvas of hollow okay and i have a nice surprise for you okay so i'm going to share a screen and let's take a look okay uh my parrots yeah it's coming up okay great all right come on here we go okay look at this according to many halal on yomtov okay and we could give a whole sheer cloly on this that we're not but halal on yomtov is believe it or not a torah commandment a derisive commandment toward many rashi is mash mitzvah naveem the rambam says holla's general but look at this the smock says like this this is a pasig not in the navi it's in davarian and it says like this you should be your praise and tihila means enthusiastic it's the same word for halal to heal us he's your source of intense praise [Music] he did with he did these marvelous and awesome deeds that your eyes saw what's that talking about open miracles right so when you're enthusiastically praising hashem for open miracles have in mind according to smach a mitzvah daraisa of halal right him and then so the ron the ron bond doesn't focus it that way he says hallel is deraisa on yomtov it's under the category of visa vecha it's a branch of that so it's not only wine and beautiful jewelry and dresses and and just being happy on yomtov this now that's the thing who doesn't love arousing singing uh maybe rabbi salad uh of hallel and hallow gets you excited enjoy if you're enjoying harlow and singing right have in mind it's an expression of simple on the hog okay so that's in general when you recite hello on lil seder well we say it twice in in the morning in the usual i am at night but also in the seder have in mind the mitzvah darisa according to the smok and then visa mata vegeta okay but now i'm going to take one to hillam that we say even on rosh chodesh this is the essence of halal misery that says israel nimitz ryan and i want to show you that there's four mitzvahs embedded in this one to helen so let me show you that okay okay here's the i'm just showing you first of all the tahlem again a nod to my wife for the graphics okay we all know the spectators real me miss ryan basically right uh notice the uh um at the third verse talks about uh the yara day the and then we have this the fourth verse talks about mountains and hills skipping and jumping up sound like anything you're familiar with okay get ready here we go four open miracle mitzvahs the remawh says in his commentary on tehelem that you know the idea that uh uh on lil seder we're supposed to see ourselves leaving egypt he says whenever hashem does open miracles you should picture yourself there says the rama okay so take a look at this little easy to remember the four mitzvahs klm sound familiar no it's not in the order of the verses but you see why it did this you know i did this k squared lm klm kris yamsuf and chris yardin we'll talk about this in a minute you'd see a smiths ryan so now let's look at the talent but says israel meanwhile yetis mitzrayim we have to realize it's not just morning and night it's not all else here it's one of those misses like shabbos every time you think about it you have a mitzvah darisa so whenever you think about the uh it's the estimates ryan you're fulfilling so have in mind the mitzvah yetis miss ryan number one okay that's leaving the triumph okay but then it says this the see-saw and fled right the yard and went step backwards right so kris yamsuf is was a separate miracle that we're supposed to zechar we're supposed to remember the miracles hashem did right and also creates a yarding and you know what's very interesting in the sheer show young when you say adjavor hashem right that's in the cheryl of the splitting of the sea so it's very repetitive language so rashi says you should take a look at uncles uncles says the first crossing is yesis ryan and the second is the yarding crossing the yarding and did you know ref hammer points out that after the sweet split in the ordain hashem said i want you to make 12 stones here so because later on your children should be triggered to ask you hey what happened here and you have a mitzvah to tell your kids about korea the splitting of the of the jordan of the yard right so you hear this these are miss so every time you say this to hillam have in mind the mitzvah of remembering izzia smith's rhyme kris yamsu and the yard and the arden was an incredible miracle that terrified the surrounding nations next the rams skipping and the the mountains skipping like rams that's harsinai says the run bond the har cena says it's one of those mitzvahs every time you think about mom and her senior you should think about it on a daily basis to get that mitza so those are four open miracle mitzvahs okay so i'm now gonna stop sharing and we're gonna go to the last half of this class okay my pictures back yeah we're good okay great what we discussed okay just to to review we uh the first year we had the cavanatation the jewels and my wife made a beautiful crown uh of the ju the convention that we did last week that we'll be posting for those interested that's number one we talked about that the four cups of of yai and the are are connected the four stages of redemption and you should place yourself there on each stage right throughout the seder we just completed our discussion of the haggadah the open miracle mindset right we have to search for those open miracles to be turned on so our kids will be turned on we have to see links between what happened to them and what happened to that man in the edge where nurse we have to make connect the gutta to current day amuna issues okay and we just described the hollow that it completes this section of the seder right these two things called hollow misery but then there's part two of the seder okay and i want to explain this um by sharing a discussion i had with a a very good friend of mine and klm uh barry goldstein a friend also of shahool um we uh we were talking about uh um you know whatever the the suffering difficulties that happens the jews isn't that so he shared with me that he was reading a book by rabbi sax called morality and rabbi saxon described that when he was uh he studied philosophy uh and he had a professor was a non-jew and he was talking about morality and he said that um there was one issue with the professor he says the man was a pessimist and uh rabbi sack says you know he says i'm a jew i'm an optimist right so our good friend barry with this great sincerity says rabbi why are we optimistic you look at jewish history and what we've gone through and what we're going through he's in why are we optimistic right so first of all i mean we can talk about your survival okay but worth it we're you know i don't really like comparing the torah with other religions because this this is really reality not a religion but we're the we're the group of people that are about the future right you know the other thing present now the universe all faith this and that we're about the future we believe in the future right and that belief is amidst the doris according to the smock and this get ready for this what i'm trying to say is the second section of the seder is all about the final redemption and that's a big mitzvah as the smok explains like this when we go up to the shema admiral besides asking did you set time to learn torah and were you honest in business we're going to be asked so peacefully yeshua did you yearn expectantly for the gaula now the the stock says like this if that's one of the first questions we're going to have to answer how could that not be a torah commandment it must be a torah commandment and he says you know what the torah commandment is anoki the first of the ten commandments rhyme the base of money i'm god who took you out of egypt and from the house of slaves now says this smug do you think hashem's goal was just to get us out of egypt even even at the snack he said i'm going to be with you in all those exiles i know they're going to be exits but what what am i going to do i'm going to take you to eric's israel i'm going to build an eternal base of mig dash and there's going to be a goola shleima that's of course hashem's purpose right so the whole idea of the first commandment is you i believe and know that i took you out of egypt and i'm gonna take you out of all these exiles and bring you to the final redemption right so according to this every time it's all of your prayers it's over you're benching and all of michigan you're always bri you're in the basement and redemption him have in mind enoki that mitzvah but now with that frame with that frame i want just realize we open the door and say you know the kosovo navi and the halal second section is all about the gula lolano hashem [Music] it's all about the final redemption so you hear that the seder takes a turn at that point and we're yearning for the goola that's what we're doing so have in mind have the mitzvah of enoki so i to close i want to try to answer that original question okay i said let's say you uh don't treat let's say you really integrate everything we said and by the way i know you have a lot of homework remember we have all those mixes of the seder and we have the conventions and we have the cabanas for the four things and we the open miracle i know there's a lot but you know this is big right don't you want those angels to be saying i'm blown away by these people they have so much kibana so is it possible that we can and yet they're going to be displeased listen to this story i think it's a true story okay it's brilliant you're not going to believe this this is for those who have two days of young two two seders okay there was a couple uh that um really took preparing for the seder super seriously and they studied it and immersed in it and it was they they really did it beautifully and they're saying they went on talking about mitts ryan which was supposed to go on all night they went on until three or four in the morning and it was a beautiful seder right momish beautiful and uh so you know obviously they're a little exhausted and um they wake up you know uh you know they study obviously the chakras and the masuda on yomtov richon they wake up and they can't believe the time it's let's say hatsos lila is 12 40. it's 10 minutes to midnight they slept through all that they had 40 minutes 40 50 minutes to do the whole seder they're frantic and panicked and they rushed with they did everything they could and they got the seder done after that i don't know if it was next day something like this one of them had a dream and there were where they got admit there was a thing from the shamayim they had a dream they said you know thank god for your second seder did you hear that they got a message saying boy you saved yourself with that second seder why they said you know when you did that first seder you were just like really filled with arrogance you were so arrogant and you know the second say you were just really you had a kind of a broken heart you did with humility and simcha and that saved you so i think you understand one of the biggest challenges as we grow spiritually and we grow in kevana is to forget that it's not my my brilliant mind my spiritual efforts my this and that you know there's a mistake we have to have in mind and very important to seder it's um to remember that hashem did it and not uh that it's not the strength and power of my hands that made this heil in other words you know the whole thing is in mitzrayim is we cried out recognition that we need you hashem desperately and that's the message to know that really we're just going through the motions you know around ramsay says an incredible idea hashtagless is only a weak form of prayer right prayer is the main establishment right so if you factor in all the blessings thank god you know hashem gave you a certain amount of intelligence he exposed you to good torah teachers he gave you a good family and friends if you factor in on hashem did you're humbled and you say wow wow it's really all you so please do everything in your power to make those angels stunned by your kavana and connection but don't forget that it's really all just we're being propped up and supported and guided by our divine parent who is loving us and infusing us and just let's remain maintain humility uh and that'll really really connect us to the yadashim okay kosher some [Music] mayonnaise [Music] oh