Erev Pesach In Berditchev- Rabbi Yosef Weinberger

we have the uh the mitzvah challenging mitzvah but a beautiful mitzvah uh coming up and uh the story is sold of the vardichiva rabbi of laviati of that one year in arab pesach he uh gathered some of his most trusted hasidim and he told them i need you to go around the different jewish homes in bardichev i need you to collect any turkish tobacco that you find as well as any comments that you find they're very confused stamina was a little bit of a random request but anyways i said not going to find either those turkish tobaccos outlawed russia was at war with turkey so it says it's illegal and uh it's a terror pesach who's gonna have hamilton in their house but the rabbi persisted he said please you know go and do this for me see what you find all right so when and a couple hours later they come back and he said new what'd you find and sure enough they haul in a few boxes worth of this uh the contraband turkish tobacco and he said okay good good what about the claw mates they said we didn't find any comments it's our pasta nobody else comments on them and our believer in the the classic by ditching versailles turns out when he says look at your children you know here we have the the edict of the czar who's got his boots on the ground and hundreds of thousands of soldiers patrolling the streets here and if anybody is uh caught going against her who knows what the punishment would be and still some people you know they they managed to sneak it in it was worth the risk and commits though you know shiva's young to not have any comments in your house and the the mitzvah of the torah nobody went against that and like mika ahmed as the bardichova would say and uh and i think you know if we could suggest that when it comes to the as kai basically said about the cantonese and those who are forced to uh give in to the czar's demands and requests okay so people are going to push back and people are going to rebel in whatever opportunity they have and that's why people would sneak in that tobacco but when it comes to the the mitzvas hamela if we view even something as challenging as badika's committing as tedious as cleaning our houses and getting rid of the khmers but if we view it and uh as an opportunity that it is so people aren't going to look to get around that and then to you know sneak out of it and squish it's it's a mitzvah it's a beautiful opportunity a beautiful kagapesa and uh who would want to go against it sonar biederman's haggadah he has a beautiful insight he says why is that the russia is so bitter and so angry on pesach you know meilan yom kippur tisha belveda there's some hard holidays the fasting whatever pesach it's a wonderful hottie what's he so upset about like you know it's a nice time family or vacation get to eat a lot so he said maybe this russia he saw what was going on in the home and there's a lot of tension and costs and you know revolving around the badika and the cleaning for pesach and cautioning everything shouldn't be that way it shouldn't be like an edict of the czar get rid of the tobacco it should be to recognize the the the depth of the whole passage and the and we mitsubishi do it uh with simcha and hopefully bizoka to an unbelievable and incredible hagasa