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Sitting at Rav Kooks Seder | Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider
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to have everybody with us and learning
this morning uh it's
especially
appropriate as we uh as we are just over
two weeks away from PESA to uh to begin
to learn for PESA and what we're going
to do this morning is something very
special and that is to see the insights
of Riv cook I think the title of the
class is sitting at Riv cook seder what
would we hear if we were sitting at the
at the home of R cook on the night of
the Seder so that's what we're going to
look at we're going to highlight five
IDE is essentially from R cook from his
pish
ha but let me begin uh with the
following the following anecdote which I
like to share every year and that is an
ad the vision sevi who came to Eric Isel
right after the war right after the
Holocaust he settled in Tel Aviv and
there he opened a base medish a small
base medish survivors that were with him
and beginning again after the Holocaust
the vision s rebbi and he wants to learn
Hebrew and he begins to walk as streets
he goes into the Mak he says he's
beginning to you know to try to to learn
the
language he comes home to his wife and
he says this is such an amazing country
that everyone is saying that everything
is found in the Seder that everything
s so it's true everything there's a lot
to be found in the Seder and everybody
has their their St stories everybody has
their
perspectives and uh so what I'd like to
look at is a perspective of rev cook so
R Cook highlights the following idea and
I would say it in just a few words and
that is
g or the DF of
G which means that there was the great
gah the great Redemption of Egypt but
that's just the beginning of the story
that's the beginning of the story that
was the great night there was that great
event that momentous occasion of Hashem
taking us out of Egypt but we're on the
D we're B we're on our way to AR Israel
we're on our way to the Final Redemption
to the
Gul so I would say that that in in just
a few words that kind of captures one of
the major themes that Ru Cook highlights
in the Seder let's now look at five
ideas from Ruff cook the first idea is
related
Toba so we know that one of the mitzvot
of the night or one of the things that's
required of the night is to doba to lean
while we are drinking the wine while
we're eating the matah the talks about
if you fulfilled your obligation if you
did not do hasba by the way you should
be very careful about doing hasba when
you're drinking the wine when you're
eating the matah we don't do that for
the mar but we have the ASA why is it
that we lean so we generally say the
reason for that is because we are free
and that's a posture of Freedom Ru cook
adds the following the following
spiritual insight what does Hasa
represent what does that leaning
represent he says that the worst thing
in the world for a person is for a
person to feel uprooted for a person to
feel that they do not have a home that
they're not secure and I would just
share the following I made Aliah 13
years ago we have moved five times in 13
years we're renting one place and then
we have to move from that place we're
thrown out of this no we were never
thrown out of apartment but we the the
lease was up on that apartment we've
moved a lot and it's not it's not that
easy to to move time and time again that
feeling what R cook says of uprootedness
of not feeling that you have a home
people come to our home even now we're
still renting and and they see that we
have our pictures and they're just like
leaning on the shelf and they say that's
very artistic you know very nice how you
have all the pictures and we say no it's
not it's not artistic we just haven't
put up our pictures yet you know they're
not on the wall we're not sure if we're
we're staying here so it's not that easy
to be in that PR and that's R cook says
hasba is about hasba represents that we
feel a sense of security that we feel at
home now how do we do that look at the
words of R cook this is the First Source
on the sheet this comes from mamaya
there's actually an article that was
printed in a newspaper early 1900s that
Rook wrote for the for the honam for the
masses and he writes the following we'll
just read a few
words the person who feels uprooted
it's really the worst feeling it's a
feeling of anxiety for the Nish for the
soul of a
person a person needs to know that they
have a place that they have a place that
they're living that they have a home
that they have friends that they have a
community without that it's it's very
very difficult for a person
sh and you don't feel that you're always
on the run that you don't feel
that you have a rootedness gal what is
galut all
about what is the pain of galut
who we can answer in a
word Exile is the feeling that you do
not have a home that you do not feel
secure that you're not grounded that
you're not
rooted but then Ru cook says what has a
Jew how has a Jew responded to that
feeling of uprootedness so let's now go
to the last paragraph we'll just read a
couple of lines where it says
a aeru last paragraph in those three
paragraphs and number one
a even when we were in
Exile we never lost we were able to hold
on to a spiritual rootedness and how
were we able to do that he says because
we had the Torah because we had the
mitzvot because we had a way of life
unique way of life that gave us
rootedness even when we were running
from country to
Country and here we're going to hear R
and the love of R the land of
Israel how much more
so when we come back to the land of
Israel and we as a nation finally feel
that we are back where our roots are
where we feel that we are settled that
we feel that we are at
home that we become stronger and that
our value our position in the world
becomes much
more um
strengthened and that's happening right
now this time of time of Mercy that
Hashem is bringing the Jewish Jewish
people back to the land of
Israel this is the message
of it's the situation it's the feeling
it's the experience of being
free so that is what we are celebrating
we're celebrating on the night of the
Seder when we sit back we're sitting
back we're sitting back with a sense of
security we have the Torah and we also
have and today barem those that are
going to be making the S here in ER Isel
that we're sitting back that we're lying
in a position we're leaning back and we
say we are home that we feel that sense
of rootedness and that promise of gah of
redemption is a promise not only what
happened to the Jewish people when they
left Egypt but a promise that's being
fulfilled that is the way that Ru cook
very beautifully describes hasba let's
now go to a second idea which we're
going to see that also relates to the
galut and Gula and that is the Hala now
one of the interesting things about Hala
it's the only place in the Sedar that
we're not reading in Hebrew it's not in
the Hebrew language what language is it
in we all know it's an Aramaic we're
reading Aramaic now where did this
Aramaic paragraph come from and why is
it that we are still reading Aramaic at
the Seder and if we want to say what
we're going to say in why not just say
it in Hebrew why not
translated so ruk says that this is a
paragraph that comes from the galut it
comes from the Jewish people in Exile in
bavel and look at the words of ruk uh
you see the in Source number two right
below the text you have where he quotes
it and
then I'm going to explain to you this
why do we begin the with this
introduction clearly we see that it's
something that was written something
that was added to the Seder after when
the Jewish people went into Exile and
Rook says the following we'll look at
the words of rook in just a moment but
let me share with you the idea of R cook
he says why is it that we are reading in
Aramaic in another language he says
because the Jewish people for many many
generations and it's true today as well
will be sitting down to the Seder and
they're going to be speaking another
language they're going to be outside the
land of Israel it could be we're going
to be in the land of Israel and we're
still much more comfortable in our
mother tongue we're going to be speaking
other languages and we're going to be in
situations and barem there's a lot to
celebrate today but over the centuries
over time we've been sitting at the
Seder we've been talking about and
celebrating the galut but we find
ourselves in a situation that is a very
challenging situation and we can begin
to say here and ask the question well
why are we really celebrating the G why
are we celebrating Redemption when we're
going through so much suffering if you
can imagine our our grandparents or
great grandparents maybe some of us from
Eastern Europe sitting in their stle in
that difficult environment and sitting
down to their seder and they might have
looked at one another and said like what
are we really celebrating all the pums
right all the difficulty around us how
can we celebrate the Seder and celebrate
the uh the Gula the celebration of
Hashem saving the Jewish people and
we're in such a difficult circumstance
so R cook says we begin that way at the
Seder this is a hopeful paragraph and
the hagada or the Bal hagada is telling
us yet yes you might be speaking another
language you might be distant from the
land of Israel but know that the Jewish
people this is a night that you are to
have that faith that Hashem is going to
bring you back to the land of Israel and
it might be true for us today as well we
might sit at the Seder and think about
what has happened over the last year and
a half and all the pain and all the
suffering the loss of life and the
widows and the orphans and what are we
really celebrating we talk about G when
there's so much suffering around us and
we begin the S the hak right the first
words of the Seder and we hear that
these words are not in Hebrew right
they're words that come from in Exile
from another place but know that even in
that Exile the Jewish people are going
to come back that promise of the return
it's going to unfold it's going to
happen let's read the words of ruk the
beautiful words of
ruk he says the following this is right
the middle paragraph in number
two I want to explain the
following we should not be we should not
lose Faith or any
confidence we should not be sad in any
way
that we've come to such a low place in
the we might be sitting at the Seder
also and saying well look at what we
don't have we don't have the Corban p
and so many Jews that are assimilated
and so many Jews again this paragraph
has been read for a very long time with
Jews in very very difficult
circumstances right why talk about
that what do you mean why are we sitting
down and talking about of the past we're
a we're going through difficult
times why is it that we should be joyous
speaking about a
the where we ourselves are going through
such difficult days Al therefore we
begin the by the way this is the very
first thing that's said in before we get
to man if you look at the top of the
page you're a that says and this is
where it
begins this is the way that we begin
telling the story R cook sees this as a
way of lifting a person giving a person
a sense of Faith and Hope as we begin
the Sater
night we don't have a we're not bringing
theb only and we're eating bread that is
only
below interesting he says that we're
eating bread tonight the mat tonight and
we're not fulfilling all of the Mitzvah
related to the matah what Mitzvah is he
referring to what's that not only Cara
that he said Cara but we're not the only
is without mitz the
mitz without Meer without truma without
the all the
agricultural now he's referring to
people that are living outside the land
of Israel to some degree we can speak
about that as we're living in Israel
today that it's not we're not being the
C MIT in the fullest sense so we're
missing a lot at our seder especially
again if we put ourselves in the shoes
of those that sitting down to the Seder
was not an easy thing for so many
generations and so many circumstances
ukos they also ate that way in Egypt as
well
the and with all of that with all those
challenges we were
redeemed what are we to remember tonight
what are we are to instill in our hearts
and our souls and pass on to our
children that there's going to be a
just as there was G there's going to be
a Redemption the Jewish people are going
to return to the land of Israel we're
going to build a great country all Jews
will come from the four corners of the
world and we're going to have ER Israel
and am Israel as Hashem and
Visions it's a KN to have greater
belief so that's CES cook is how we
begin the S there it's a paragraph
that's in Aramaic to remind us yes we've
gone through hard times there are still
Jews that are that are in galut and we
who are in the land of Israel it
continues to be a challenging time but
we are to remember that just as there
was the great galut MIT it's going to
happen again we now move to the next
idea from of cook page two the third
idea that uh that I'll share with you
this
morning and that is that the ag even
before the a the gamar itself says the
way that you need to lay out the a the
structure of the aada and it's the very
first line
is that the way we are to go through the
a is that we begin with the G we begin
with the the terrible things that the
Jewish people went
through and we conclude with a great
praise to Hashem that's what thear says
is the structure of the a you have to go
to your past we have to think about and
remember what it was like in the old
days the difficult days and the Shabah
the praise of Hashem
so most understand is to mean that we
need to sort of compare or to contrast
those words we started as zadin how
difficult that was the burden and the
suffering of aadin and then the
celebration the sh that we need to give
to AEM ruk has a different take which I
think is a very important idea about
seder Knight and in general Jewish life
and he says the following he says and
let's go to the the text of ruk leot
what is this to teach us again we're at
number one and this is what comments
on we begin with the story of
being this is to teach us top of page
two in other words what do we think
about when we think about the
difficulties of the suffering that we
went through that that was really a
necessary step or there was what we
could learn from that experience and to
grow from that experience even the
suffering even the pain even the
challenges in life and he writes the
following we begin with the story ofu
and what is it that we can learn from
that even
though even though being an was
something that was very very difficult
there was a lot of Rah a lot of
difficulty a lot of pain a lot of evil
with
that and that was something that to go
through that experience was very very
difficult very lowly
right certainly that was something that
was difficult for those who went through
it
however but we learned something from
that slavery and that is we learned
what's called which means that we are
the humility or servitude in a positive
way that we learn from that experience
how to serve God how to be sub servant
to God
Leever s of cook says the following and
this is a very important idea in general
and that is in life the difficult things
that we go through from the Jewish
perspective what do we do with all of
those challenges of the past and the
sorrow of the past and the degradation
of the past the gut of the past we don't
just push them aside we find a way to
learn from them and to grow from them
interesting the Torah says one of the
ways that it describes the the
experience of of Egypt of being in MIT
this
a it
says it says that Hashem took you out of
an iron F furnace I don't have that on
the souret I'm just reading that to you
thek says this
isal
Mikel what does it mean mik barel that I
took you out this is mosu describing the
Jewish people being taken out of Egypt
from a COR barel for iron F
furnace Rashi
says what does that mean Rashi says it's
a CLE it's a kind of utensil where you
purify gold where you put gold inside
and now you have a more perfected gold
when you bring it to that heat inside of
the Furnace so what is that that we
learned from MIT what was that
experience MIT the PK itself says that
it was a way of purifying that you
became more Golden by the way my name is
gold shider my last name gold shider
what is gold shider mean anybody know
the word
Shide
Shide uh
German sh is to separate or to refine
gold so in our family we didn't have the
gold we were just the refiners right we
were the ones that were working with the
gold this is what the Torah says
mitzraim was it was a COR barzel where
we refine the Jewish people the Torah
says 36 times it's the most repeated PK
in the Torah the most repeated Mitzvah
in the Torah it says you are not to
cause any pain to an orphan to a widow
because you were also a stranger in MIT
and it says that again and again you
know what it's what it feels like you
should remember what it was like when
you were an outsider and you didn't have
a place and you didn't have the power
so what do we learn from the Torah the
Torah says to learn from that experience
to grow from that experience we don't
want that experience of slavery right
it's not something that we ask for it's
not something that we bargain for it's
not something that we ever want but when
we go through difficulties in life
suffering in life loss in life the
question from a Jewish perspective is
what do we learn from that how do we
grow from that how do we better
ourselves going through that that trauma
through that difficulty and this is what
Rook says what it means Sater night when
the the talm when the gar
says right we take that G and now we
bring it to our lives some talk about
this phrase to take per take pain and to
turn it into purpose pain into purpose
and that's a very very important idea
everything that we've gone through the
difficulties in life how do we use it in
a constructive way Ru cook says we need
to do that and that's what sight is
teaching us we now go to the next idea
and this actually is from a a student
of of ruk we said we're sitting at the
table of rev cook at the S of R cook so
we'll expand it a bit not only from rev
cook but from a student who I think is
very much uh sharing or conveying his
his re's teachings this is from
y one of the great sadik we mention
often his basement which is just a few
blocks from here and he's going to
comment on The Following part of the a
now the main part of the a is the Magid
that's where we that's what takes a few
hours to get through the Magid and the
main part of the Magid is a section that
we take from the Torah called the Bikur
section the mikra bikum what a Jew would
say when they would come to shal with
their first fruit and they would make a
declaration and they would say the
following this is in Source three this
is from the book of
this is what the farmer would say now
this by the way is what makes up this
the centerpiece of the hag there's a
whole discussion why that why did they
choose that of all sections of the Torah
but it's a short concise section of the
Torah that summarizes the Egyptian
experience and it
says they were evil to us they did
Terrible Things to
us and they forced us to do difficult
labor and we cried out to
heard our
voice saw our
pain andem saw saw our am now if you
remember the of the a is the night of
the S with the a we go through every
word here and we analyze every word and
the meaning of every word in this
paragraph that's the main part of the
mid I don't know if you ever took note
of it but that's what we're doing on the
night of the say there that's the main
part of the mid we have this paragraph
and we go through word for word
analyzing each word so what does the
word amenu mean according to the a we'll
see it right now but what's the
translation of the word we
say heard our
voice he saw our what's he saw our oh
you got the English okay don't look at
the English he saw our suffering and
what's amenu how do they translate hereu
I don't so
amenu right means toil means our ch ches
something a so this is the way the this
is the way the now go to Source number
four actually it's a very strange a
strange way that the interprets the word
amenu amenu now I'm looking by the way
this is Source number four this is the a
you see at the top it's Mayar that's the
name of the a May is Yakov Moshe that's
Yakov mosab just if you turn around the
letters so mayaram means the waters from
above Heavenly Waters but Mayar is also
an acronym as many where it's an initial
initials for his name so what does it
say in
the what's amenu these are the children
or these are our children but what is
that that's where the a says amenu
that's the interpretation of
Amen our children now what what what
have you ever noticed that in the a you
have good good usually people at that
point are just you know making their way
through getting getting to the matah but
this is the this is right in the middle
of the we
say so what is referring
to ah so what's what's the toil or this
great challenge or this difficulty the
fact that they were taking our children
away from
us and says the following that the night
of pasak is a night of family of
bringing families together the Egyptians
Harrow one of the intentions that he had
the strategy that he had was to break
down or break up the Jewish Family take
the boys away take the children away
take the girls leave them alive and
intermar with the girls with the women
break down the Jewish Family interesting
you're probably familiar with it's a
medish it's a gamar it's aamar in that
speak about the parents of Moshe rabenu
that they divorce one another you're
familiar with that that they divorce
they separate seate with one another
they separate they said we don't want to
bring children to the world we're going
to separate with one from one another
Miriam convinces them to get together
again they have a child they have Moshe
and then the gamar says that that that
that Miriam's father is very upset about
that because you convinced us to get
together now they're going to take away
our child Moshe so you see what's
happening here with the midrash is
alluding to as well that there was a
strategy of breaking up the Jewish
Family because the Jewish Family is Holy
the Jewish Family is is the key to what
it means to be to be a Jew and the
success of a Jew you know it's one of
the nights of the year that we we're so
mid we're so careful to be together with
family we kind of just know it's like
instinct that we know it's a night that
we have to be together with family PES
is family
soap says the following let's look at
the words of
of the MIT had evil intent here
they wanted to create divisiveness a
division to break up the
family to break up that special
relationship of parents to children
children to
parents that would affect our
relationship with God as
well but they were not successful in
creating that division
and we have the following mitvah by and
he
quotes can you think of any other
Mitzvah that the Mitzvah is on the
family you never have that in the Torah
there's a mitzvah for the family to get
together that was true of the carbon P
that's the in the
Torah is about it's about family being
together
and when they left
Egypt the P says that they also that
they were together as
family that it's the night that that
celebrates the special relationship of
parents and children parents and
children parents and grandchildren
parents and great-grandchildren and that
leads us into one of the very very
special Parts I would say it's one of
the most favorite of the sections of the
A and that is that we have the children
at the Seder that the that the Bal ha
describes to us a Seder table with all
the children around the table we know
the four different children and then we
also have the Russia at the table as
well everybody is invited everybody has
their place at the Seder and this is you
know we always have the question about
the Russia but I want to share this is
what Rabbi Kap
writes and we'll see how he ties this
into the importance of family so he says
this is Source number five k AR
that they four children that this that
the Torah speaks
about even the rash even one who is
rebellious I don't know the word the
mosta Godus has the word word Wicked The
Wicked Child that's not a great word but
some I don't to find the right word for
the rash we'll just say the rash the
rebellious
good although it appears that he's
asking although it appears this is the
last Source on page two although it
appears that he's asking in a in he's
clowning around and he's asking in kind
of a in in an evil
way but on the
inside he's waiting for the
answer he's waiting for the answer from
his
Elder that's why he is asking you know I
have a good friend
rosan he's uh he works in kiru he's he
oversees one of the largest kiru
organizations in the world called aami
they give $50 million a year to kiru all
across the world RAB not Rabbi Zev
wolson of blessed memory that he gives
his family gives a large part of that
money so he does a lot of kiru I just
was at a talk that he gave and he said
if somebody is asking a question even if
they're asking a question that it
appears that it's with a little bit of a
the truth is if you're asking it means
that you really want an answer and you
have to you have to hear what it is that
they're looking for and the Russia the
fact that he's asking means that he's
interested and that's what RAB says as
well RAB says if he's asking there
really is there's a question there and
he wants to feel that he has a place and
he wants to hear an
answer this is the night of the year
that is specific that is
particular a beautiful line he says the
night of p is a night where we reconnect
where families reconnect with one
another that we feel that special bond
of family parents grandparents children
grandchildren please God great
grandchildren sitting at the Seder that
connection of family it's a night of
family and of
bonding and he says what is it this is
very interesting why do we bring eliahu
to the Seder why is he invited to enter
our seder so we say he's the harbinger
of the Messiah well has a different
answer what does elah doah says
this is from it's the very last prophecy
that we have what is what's the job of
what is he what is he skilled at doing
bringing families
together he brings families parents and
children
together he says that's why El is being
invited to the S because he a KN of
family and he's the expert he's the
expert therapist in bringing in bringing
families together so if there's a little
bit of a falling out here or a little
bit of tension here Sater night is about
reconnecting it's about creating that
Bond once again between family and uh
yes we should all be Z to be to be with
family okay let's go now to um really
the last the last idea from R cook and
we'll just add one or two last uh last
thoughts so here this is the top of Page
Three and I would say this is Classic
this is one of one of the great ideas of
Riv cook and we'll see uh in just a few
lines what ruk has to say and something
that's really inspirational so I would
say this is one of the more well-known
passages in
the that in every generation top of Page
Three in every generation we need to see
ourselves as if we have left Egypt so
most interpret that to mean we have to
eat the matah we have the mar right some
people anybody here have the mug putting
the I don't have this Min putting the
matah on your shoulder walking around
the table right that we're supposed to
feel
it everyone is
obligated you should see yourself as if
you are leaving MIT okay but ruk has
another interpretation and let's read
the words of ruk here
behold this is right page three it's the
number two right below the the Bold
paragraph the words of
R there is a strength of the what's the
the outstretched arm of
God is how
Hashem brought the Jewish people out of
Egypt at that moment but Zan means the
long process of bringing the Jewish
people to the
final to
actualize this high to reach this Rong
little by
little here's the key you can underline
this every single person needs to see
themselves as part of the process of
what does it
mean that you need to see yourself as if
you left Egypt not just that you left
Egypt but you're part of this great
process great journey of Gua what are we
doing in our lives right now that's
helping the process of
Gua and everybody in this room is doing
something that is remarkable and that is
living here in the land of Israel that
we are part of that and R cook says
that's what we should think
about every single person needs to think
about in your life what is it that I'm
doing what contribution am I making
towards the G bringing the Final
Redemption again just to read
we need to feel it we need to grasp it
we need to see our
place this
great right what's appropriate for your
generation that started
with but extends all the way until the
final g there's a very moving story that
R mosan is a wonderful one of the
outstanding today writes for the Tor
tibits I recommend his his column um so
he was sitting in the home making a
Shiva call to KH henin reaban KH henin
who heads the uh The nishmat Institute
actually I it's one of my first jobs
when I came to Israel 13 years ago I
worked there had this clus of working
for
her and um she lost her son and
daughter-in-law in a terrorist attack a
a terrible terrible uh uh terrorist
attack the car car was pulled over to
the side of the road and they shot
mother and father or son daughter-in-law
with the children in the back seat and
um so he describes being at a being at
the Shiva house with khah henin and
there were a group of students that came
a group of there were young uh young
women that came from a midra and she
turned to them and asked the following
question said how many she asked how
many books are there in Tanana
there are 24 books in Tanakh she asked
how many books are there in Tanakh so
you know one or two of them who knew the
answer said 24 books of tanak so she
said there are not 24 books of tanak
there are 25 books of tanak she said
we're we're writing that 25th book right
now said my my son and my
daughter-in-law are written in that book
and we're writing that book that last
book of tan so this is what cook is
speaking about for all of us every Jew
needs to
see you need to see yourself that you're
part of this great G this great process
of
redemption um there is a uh there's a
custom does anybody here have the custom
of eating in we have the egg on the
Seder plate on the Cara but also eating
as we start the meal that's a custom
that I have to begin the meal with an
egg yeah you have that very interesting
right it's it's really out of the
ordinary we don't know exactly where
that's from it maybe based on the fact
that there's an egg on the Seder table
but we begin the meal with an egg so
what what good the but that's what's
sitting on the K that's what's sitting
on the Seder plate but they were eating
an egg to start the meal that's not so
clear again that were okay the tissue
above that's the egg that's correct
that's the egg that's sitting on the K
but that we're eating the egg okay so
there are different explanations of the
egg and why the egg is is so prominent
the the night of pesak one beautiful
explanation is and I heard the name of
Mayor Shapiro famous the Riva of the
yesin and the as well that the egg is
the only food that when you cook the egg
right all food it gets softer and softer
the longer you cook it the egg you put
in boiling water it gets harder gets
tougher and tougher and that's the
Jewish people right the more pain the
more fire you put to us we're going to
get tougher and tougher right that's
this process of gula right the last year
and a half we've become a stronger
nation that we're moving closer inching
closer and closer to the
Gula the very first word that we say the
night of the Seder what's the very first
word that
said Kadesh now most people I don't know
if everyone it was my custom at my seder
that we first stood up around the Seder
table and together that we sang the 15
Steps so the very first word of seder
night is
so what does Kadesh mean so Kadesh means
KES so Rook says well if it means KES so
just say KES why say Kadesh Kadesh has a
different meaning it doesn't only mean
KES now it definitely means KES as well
so he says the following ruk says the
following kades look at just one line
it's one sentence from
R every single person's perspective
persective that's in the soul of every
person it brings a greater
light and it brings an eternal
light to to uh to that moment and to
Generations to
come that it's in the hands of every
single
Jew everyone is to bring their own Kad
to the day
what does the word Kadesh mean according
to R you are to bring your kadus you are
to sanctify the night bring your ideas
bring your perspective bring your story
to the Seder bring a special hagada that
you have to the Seder and share that
with your family with your children
Kadesh means that it's up to each of us
to sanctify the night and we can kind of
just sit back and kind of enjoy the
night which we should but we also should
think about how we can cont tribute to
the night how we can make an every
single and Kadesh is in the singular
every single person is to bring kadha to
the night so I want to just close with
the following and that is I was thinking
about this year and it was true last
year as well it's it's true in to some
degree every year and that is when do we
when should we at our seder this year
Davin with everything that we have to
say but we want to take a moment or two
to Davin for our hostages please God
they should be home by that time but
they pray for those that are in
captivity in Gaza to pray for our
soldiers that are in Gaza that are in
the north to pray for the Jewish people
for all of us for the safety of am
Israel at a time that still is a
challenging time when during the Seder
night should you do that when should you
take a moment or two and everybody
around the Sor table to say okay let's
take a few moments now just to DAV in
again with so much that we need to do
with the and the and all the midst of
the night I think we do need to take a
moment for that so I came across the F
you can choose your moment and everyone
can find a beautiful moment to do that
but I came across the following this is
in a biography of Ritson kvki she was
considered to be one of the holiest
women of of this past generation she was
the daughter of Rael yashiv she was
married to rim Ki considered to be one
of the greatest K Torah beautiful
biography about her life and this is
what it says and I wanted just to share
it with you word for word from the uh
the art scr biography it says for the
Ritson this is Ritson kvki
was the highlight of the Seder right
before the opening of the door and
bringing in elvi for her that was the
highlight of the Seder she was always
the one to open the door of the house
for Lei which is interesting because
usually ask like one of the kids to go
and open the door this one to open the
door that was her what that was her
custom she was the one that opened the
door for Alvi and before the family was
up to sh before they would get to that
part of the Seder she would spend at
least 20 minutes davening fervently for
clausell she would go over to the door
and she began to Daven 20 minutes
davening for Amel she would open the
door and only after being repeatedly
called by the family members
SAA s we're waiting for you then she
would come back the revon would
frequently reminisce during PES about
her grandmother FHA opening the door and
the special she she used to Davin one
year the Ron was standing ad door
completely engrossed in her pre prayers
oblivious to the calls of her family so
this is one recommendation one
recommendation when to Davin it's a very
beautiful moment to Davin because what
are we daving for we're opening a door
for elwa Navi we're opening a door for
the Gula for the Gula to come for AIA to
come take a sip of the wine and tell us
that all the all the travails all the
difficulties are behind us and I'll just
end with the following line and that is
something that I love i' like to share
uh just a line from Le the bicher so in
his town so they would say each year
they would say a frin a frin porum and a
Kasher in PES that's how they said a
Kasher and PES but he would say they
really have that backwards that's not
the way to do it it should be just the
opposite we should say A kerin porum you
should have a kosher porum because
people drink a lot on porum don't always
act behave properly you have to remind
people have a kosher porum but we need
to remind people said the re to have a p
we have to remind people to have a very
very happy PES as well there's a rman
who's a well-known
magier uh BFA so he says why is it that
the Russia is so like angry at the Seder
he's so fbis like what what's that
where's that anger coming from so he
writes in his a because he heard the
last few weeks everybody complaining
about the price of things and schoras
has gone up and cleaning and after hire
somebody so he comes to the sedor and he
says like I'm not interested in this
like everybody's fetching for the last
few
weeks says noing it has to be a lot of
Joy has to be with a lot of has to be a
lot of joy in our cleaning in our
preparation and the night of PF and we
should have the joy that Ru cook speaks
about the joy of GMA amen