Laws (Halachot) of Nissan and Pesach - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] there's a a custom that 30 days before the holiday we start learning about the holiday and uh this custom was started in the time of the BET mikdash and it was never cancelled and it's extremely important the 30 days before the holiday we learn about the we learn about the how to prepare ourselves so we had already a few classes how to prepare ourselves mystically you can find them online they went already online very good classes to mystically know what you need to prepare for p so now we're going to learn a little bit about which is very important there's a lot work to learn it's the holiday that has I think the most to learn before just because all of the cering of all the utensils and preparing the house so we're not going to have much time if for p to go through everything but we'll go through the some important things and we'll see how much we'll be able to do I also asked in the previous classes if you to make a uh a vote till what day you want to go I mean I'm fine with going till the the Thursday before PES but I know a lot of people already left a lot of people are already busy for p so if you think you cannot make it the last week before P let me know then we're not going to schedule classes but anyways let's start that every conation and every they gather uh certain money they collect money and this is called and usually the rabbi will collect collected or the Gabby of the sh but they collect amount of money and this is called and this is given and this is given to the poor people of the city to buy we have a fun like that if you need if you know anyone who needs let me know cuz I have a fun from and if you want to participate then let me know also but we have a bunch a couple dozen families here inat that we're support So if you know anyone that needs bunny for matot or for wine or for food then you can let me know personally what happens if you have a fund and you gave it out before p and then after P you have some extras then you spread it throughout the PO people for the rest of the re for the things they need for the holiday now today ises so we start a few things today ones and one of them so I know for many people it's a very happy month because we don't have to say now we just saved oursel half an hour of prayers every day so for some people it's a very happy day when you tell them no I saved three minutes on my prayer today so the whole month of of Nissan we don't say we don't say this can be found in the some of the not all the do that and also we don't say on Mondays on Thursday for the ones who pray shakar if you notice that on Monday and Thursday when we take the seph out then we add another whole Edition for Monday and Thursday and that is a long part part of the so that we also don't say we also don't say on and if you pray we say after and during we say all these things usually we do during the week we say on the month of we don't say this is including also there's a part where we say we don't say that we do not fast at all during the month of Nissan whoever is a was a first born does fast on P this is for men not for women anyone who gets married during the month of Nissan does fast on the day of their of their what happens if they do get married today ones they still fast which is usually not customed to fast the only time you don't fast if your is on the day after P we have another Minh we talked about it last week and we talked about it during shabat some congregations they have the Minh the custom to read after shakar the paragraph the part from the weekly portion that is called Hani and we spoke about it last week but just to to remind that in was the inauguration of the mishkan and every day one of theim one of the presidents the leaders of each tribe they brought a sacrifice and they brought presents and there was a whole ceremony so we have the Minag that we read that portion from the Torah every day every KES then on on second day of of Nissan the third day of Nissan till the 13th day of Nissan we spoke about the the spiritual part of it because that was last class some of you were not here we spoke about how each one of us has a connection to a certain tribe and we're all interconnected in some way or another so every day they we read it we we affect a certain part of our n that is connected to one of the tribes so spiritually it's a very uplifting thing theal actually explains the connection how when you read it you you you elevate a piece of your Nish that is connected even if it's not from your tribe we're all connected to one of the tribes you're elevating a piece of your if you see there's a in some of the we say certain and we say so and so if I'm from this tribe we spoke about it on Sunday and we mentioned how the that we don't know from Which tribes we are so spiritually it's a very important thing to do if you don't have it in your sidur and you want to do it you can probably find many Sid that do have it so every day we read one portion of the the weekly part weekly portion from the Nim and on the 13th day we read a portion that is called and uh this is again from the time of the inauguration of the Tabernacle another thing this is another thing it's a custom you don't have to do it like I told you it's just good for it's spiritually it's a very special thing we read a certain and again you can find it in some of the if you don't have it then the of the of the he has it spiritually it's a very powerful thing for our we're going to learn today in the class about all sorts of special powers that the month of Nissan has and we're going to more understand the reason why we do that another thing we do in in the month of Nissan anyone who goes out to the fields and see a beautiful tree a tree that gives fruit that they start blooming in the month of Nan we have a certain that we say it's called and we say it's a special that we say I know it's a very simple thing and it sounds like a very mundane thing where there are congregations that that create a whole thing around it and they go to a to a a field or forest or to a MOS or they go out and they make a whole thing and they read T and they they they do a very special thing around it uh if you don't join such a congregation just find a tree that bears fruit that has new flowers and excuse me yeah and and uh you wna you want to make sure that it has already flowers now it's a a little bit cold not all the trees bring out flowers and it's a very special mitvah it's very important to make sure that you're making it you're making the on a tree that bears fruit that you can eat you cannot do it on a tree that doesn't have fruit that you don't eat not and not on trees they don't have any fruit at all the ones who are very particular they make sure that they say the on two trees exactly what you just said before after the fact if there's only one tree it's also fine but the ones who taking it an extra step that's why I said that some congregation they go to a field or to a mosab that there's a lot of lot of trees if you're stuck and the time ran out then you only found one tree that's also good that's but you want to find a place that has two trees that you want to see a little bit of the flowers blooming and it must be a tree that bears fruit and and we spoke about it last week I don't want to uh repeat again but in thean there's a certain power the power of what's called of rebirth and it affects the entire year that's something we're going to talk about in the class later on about Nissan we spoke about it two weeks ago in the class about ad howar is the last month of the year because the the Nissan biblically that's the r that's the first month of the of the year and mystically we explained that in the previous class also that there's a a contradiction there's a a fight an argument in thear what month the year was created and there's two opinions one opinion says that the year the world was created in and the other opinion says the world was created in Nissan comes theal and says no there's no there's no contradiction they're both right the physical part of the world was created in but the the soul of the world was created in Nissan so the month of Nissan is not only that it's it's the head of the year of for the months but it has the power in it we know that it's called not like today it's called it does it's not called should should have been called the beginning of the month the beginning of the year but it's called the head of the month the head of the year because everything is included in the head so Ines or any of thees the head of the month is including the entire month is included in that day so the first first day of Nissan it's the head of all the month of all the entire year hasn't it a very special power of rebirth that in the month of Nissan I can tap into and and and rejuvenate and take this power of growth from the power of the month that takes me through the through the entire year that's another reason one out a many why we do say this is I didn't I don't don't want to repeat it from the previous class but it's important that you know theal explains that every day that I read the par of the N it arouses it ignites a certain a spark in my that is connected to one of the tribes also because the month of Nissan is the first month the biblical calendar then every day that I read the Nasi I'm basically blessing and enlightening and giving giving power to every month of the year so Al will correspond to the month of Nissan bet Nissan will be already for G Nissan will be foran and so forth so the 14th days in the beginning of the month of Nissan are very very powerful that that you you we're going to talk about it in the next class but you want to make sure that the first 14 days of n Nissan you are focused on the right thing that you you're going to be able to to to benefit from each day of the of the month and and that will take you for the entire year so we don't have this minhag yet but uh maybe we should I know I have a friend who has a congregation and they takes everybody on a bus and they go to one of the yesim here in the north and they they go to What's called a mat a place where they have a lot of uh uh trees that they start bearing fruit and flowers in the sun they make a whole thing out of it so maybe we should also initiate something like that get a hop on a van and go but if we don't do that then just know that you should find yourself a excuse me yeah so maybe you'll invite us and we'll do a a whole thing out of it but you have a question there's a phenomenon that's happening right now the the STS are flying in thousands wow up there I right now in the sky you you can see it they're migrating now they're coming back beautiful there is a place here in Ula where they have all the all the bird the birds pass there it's beautiful they used to take us in field trips in school used to go there and see thousands for whatever reason that's where they pass so try not to miss this special next shabb next Shabbat is going to beab the shab before PES which will be not this coming Shabbat the following Shabbat it's called Shabbat the great Shabbat why because a very big miracle happened on that Shabbat in was it happened on the 10th day of Nissan and that day was Shabbat Shabbat we learned about it last class about the Corban P how they took they were commanded about theban p on the first day of Nissan and on the 10th day of Nissan that's when they took theban PES and tied it to the bed and that day was the Shabbat in that year the Egyptians asked them what are you doing why are you taking our gods and you're tying them to your beds the Jews answered this is a sacrifice now that we're going to sacrifice to our God and the plague is going to be that hem is going to kill all the firstborns of Egypt so the miracle was first of all they didn't kill them because the sheep and the goats were their well the Sheep was were their idols and they took the sheeps and they they they tied them to the bed and when the Egyptians came to ask them what are you doing they told them we're going to kill it in four days and we're going to sacrifice it to our god so the first miracle that they didn't kill them the second miracle was the firstborns went to their fathers and they all gathered together and they went to par leak they said hey we're first borns let them go if not we're going to we're going to die what happen when says go away I don't want to the first borns of the Egyptians they made a war against and they killed a lot of his soldiers and a lot of the Egyptians and that's why we read in the book of if you notice that we read it in in one of the chapters 126 we say that he hit the Egyptians with their own firstborns and after there was a big miracle first of all they didn't kill them second of all they themselves initiated a war and they fought amongst themselves so they made a miracle out of that this was on the Shabbat before they went out of for a memory for the rest generations and they call it shabb the great Shabbat there are other miracles in there if shabb is celebrated that Shabbat is already P then we read a different this year we don't have it we read the the the that we read at the same time at the usual time like I said we do read the regular of the week if it's that is preceding couple days before PES we we have the custom that usually the rabbi of the sh the congregation will teach a lot of for p to able to prepare a that after praying and this is good for women too is we read a big portion of the why because on this Shabbat started the G so wherever you are it's a good Min to do it this is not you're not obligated but it's a very good thing to start already reading the the the from the part where it says till the part that it says it's right before we wash for bread on this we do not say some congregations they have the custom of saying we don't say that if it's done like this year that shabb we're going to celebrate and then p is on on Monday night then you then you don't don't say that I mean you do say that if it's shabas is shabat that's when you don't say that excuse me no this year PES is on Monday what I was saying if PES is a is during the week then we do say that you do not say when when ISAT because we do have during the K of the S that's that's if it's p falls on shab this year it falls on Monday we don't have that [Music] issue [Music]