Make Bad Habits Old Habits - Rabbi Yisrael Feld

lael seder knight is all about asking questions back and forth and possibly the most famous of all questions is manish tana why is tonight different than all other nights we go to the lost and all nights we do this and today we do something different and i have a small question but i think it's a beautiful lesson that is why do we keep repeating the words which means on all nights just give me a headache why is tonight different than all other nights and lists the four differences but instead it says the heading which is one time and then four additional times it uses the phrase shiba hola allelos on all nights why doesn't keep repeating it and why manage time of all questions to have this minnow that the kids are the ones who get up on the chair so cutely and they ask the question why the kids specifically when it comes to manustana and so i think there's one beautiful answer that teaches us a valuable lesson about how to change on saturday night pesach is all about going from avdos to heroes slavery to freedom and it's not just retelling a story that happened 3 500 years ago but it's telling our own story how are we changing and i think the answer falls into the words through the whole holidays on all nights what holds us back sometimes from changing it's not the desire to want to make a change we all want to do better but it's our bad habits the shibahol halilos the things we've been doing for years and years so the whole eyes all nights i do this so therefore i can't make a change i want to get up and learn but i always go to the late minions so therefore i can't get up should because the things that hold us back in our life the bad habits is the prerequisite to the rest of the seder of making a change and i think that's the message and that's why kids ask this specifically because kids are the most malleable a kid one day may want to be a firefighter and the next day one may want to be a doctor those two things have nothing to do with each other but they're willing to change even though they wanted one thing one day they could change the next day was the last time you saw a 40 or 50 year old change two different jobs completely as you get older you often get stuck in your ways more unless you're able to uproot the shabbat just what you do the bad habits that we have i saw a beautiful idea that there's a brick of metal and the brick of metal it said sold as is is worth five dollars and if you were to melt it down to horseshoes it'd be worth fifteen dollars it'd take the same brick and now you melt it down to needles it'd be a thousand dollars you take the same needles and you melt it down to springs for watches it'll be a hundred thousand dollars it's the same metal but the more you refine it you change what it used to be into something better and better the value goes up and the same thing with us as we come to say tonight let's make sure that we are not just desiring to change for the future but making sure that we're uprooting maybe bad habits or things that we've just done and sometimes we let things that we've done since we're 12 13 years old dictate the way we live for the rest of our lives so let's look back look in the mirror and you're saying what are you doing every night can i root something change something in order to make sure that this pesach is the pace that i walk away different everyone have a fantastic yante [Music]