Passover: Leaving Egypt Behind - Rebbetzin Avigial Gersht

[Music] last class we spoke about please who remembers what holiday pour in okay what are we kissed celebrating on pouring alcohol please tell me that it's not the only thing you walked out of this class but what are we celebrating on perms you're not look in your notes what is this - miracle that the Jews were saved what did the miracle look like natural not natural was God names mention is it not mentioned not mentioned what do you think there is - God's name not being mentioned it looks natural but really guys are the whole time what does that to do with us in our personal life [Music] yes so right God's name isn't mentioned and we're speaking about the power of being able to see God during the hard times so what a month comes after I died thank you nice on what happens in the Sun the holiday called pass off thank you this sign of Passover the sign of a Nissan I should say is a lamb right lambs always they go in a pack and and they represent unity right the heads of one that the tails of another this is a month of unity and after and oneness and togetherness for the Jewish nation okay fragments and disputes and for lack of better words and using a bad word stupidities are what separate us and that is the reason why the temple still not rebuilt and we are waiting for all of us to get our acts together what is the story of Passover who can tell us wait starting it in here slaves slaves yes we are slaves and then we escaped prison break stole the idea from the Jews and then we escaped and we had this we had this bread but didn't have time to rise so we put it on our backs and now we have crackers and they call it the poor man's bread even that you know how much months are cost a lot of money it is not the poor man's bread okay the reason you pay so much money is because I do all the work that goes into it because it can only be an oven for 18 minutes okay so Pesa is a seven-day holiday eight days outside of Israel right okay why do we stay it's another day outside of Israel who remembers what do we say about how it's actually a custom why we still keep it during the time when we did not have a set calendar the way they would let inside Jerusalem everyone else nobody row shoulders just today or the holiday is today they would set a fire okay and just in case the nations outside of Jerusalem Tommy following me didn't see the fire and time to make sure they got the proper date they would keep two days right they saw the fire on Sunday wit but could it be that it's meant for yesterday was meant for take let's keep two days just in case so can they keep two day holidays now that we have a Sikh calendar its week same min honggi Cyril coda shame which means the customs the laws of the Jewish nation they're sacred even though we don't need that anymore we still do it for the sake of custom however speak to local Orthodox rabbi okay if you're in I personally missed two satyrs right you do two satyrs outside of Israel in Israel you do only one and I missed it you drilled all this hectic work not that I do my mom did all this work before Passover like you get there and like at it it's done right and but depends with the Seder you only one Seder yeah except for exactly except for ash and all the holidays exactly Shavuos all these holidays are one day Sukkot Sukkot the first night also is just one day here I miss the two-day thing people don't because then you can't shower and then I visit but if you are someone living you don't live in Israel but you're here for the year speak to your local Orthodox rabbi or Rebbetzin okay we were slaves for 210 years in Egypt and after 210 years we left in middle of the night right we had the ten plagues come down power few right you've seen let my people go okay so so we had we let my people go and the Jewish nation they escaped and they end they left Egypt and they had this bread on their back in a tries maternity matzah and they traveled for forty years in the debt they wandered 40 years in the desert okay now why were the Jews sent to Egypt in the first place let me ask you what famine why did they deserve 210 years of Egypt exile why [Music] the golden calf happened after the whole that's usually the answer because we didn't do reserves to do it why did you go to wine I said showroom cuz you didn't do that thing when I wrong okay it's very different I can get so into it what does that mean for 210 years we were sent to Egypt for justice one thing but when God promised of Rama V knew I run your children are going to be your children are going to receive this great land called arity straw which were in now it's amazing we just called Israel right what was Abraham's response so yeah kinda like no way like what do you say yes yeah no he said bomani job he said boom Ida how will I know kinda like no way like how am I gonna know that right what was the original reason we got sent down to Egypt you're right there was a famine in the land but God we wouldn't just happen that we got 210 years of slavery right but my age I are almost saying yeah how am I supposed to trust you have I know the hope point of being sent down to Egypt was to reinstall this in Munna Munna is faith based on knowledge to reinstall this and Munna within ourselves but not a dad how will I know why do we have challenges widely of struggles mitzrayim always represents right night garlic darkness not making sense to reinstall our Munna trim it says that we each need to feel that was the we personally left me trying okay you've heard that before we are told that when you are sitting there say tonight I need to feel as though I personally left miss Ryan what does that mean as I personally left my time I never went to Egypt and I never experienced the Holocaust Baruch Hashem what could that mean something that you supposed to do for you not like kind of like [Music] what enos thing is correct any other ideas what does it means I personally left Egypt when sitting at the stator table I have to say I person left my time okay we living history yes [Music] we have to feel the pain to in order to feel the joy no okay yeah here so without pain right like for example the sourness the bitterness for work we're eating them are in order to remember what our ancestors or what we may be under the shoulders with it too because it's all the truth the whole truth nation was a game that's right right so our souls are neshama experienced it even though we are bodies ourselves to try and like relive that experience from what our ancestors actually experienced through eating the bitter herbs right if we had time we'd speak about the state of play there's a lot of things to discuss here that's true and when Anna said is true what do you reach I think was just you who was here for me but Union also how do you how do you um what does mister I mean what word remember make sure what word does where does miss Ryan come from mates are mates I you know the song called how long cool okay share eternal what does that mean the whole wide world suggests that that levels called Gesher bridge sir means narrow my oldest very right the home I was a very narrow bridge makes her means narrow constricted confined yum means water this see you go to be young you go to the ocean what does mitzrayim mean what does it mean that I need to personally see myself as I went through mitzrayim we all have mates are young what is a young what is an ocean have you been to Tel Aviv or Herzl via or these beaches I don't hear not been okay good okay so you go you go to the beach you go to the ocean and you you're by the shore very funny story out there with my daughter for this ago and we're sitting there as an adult the waves are like fun as an inch I'll door terrifying we're staying at each wave that came we're sitting at the seashore I like lifted her up one huge wave came and just like dragged her away she's the water took me she's traumatized from the beach anyways you're there at the seashore and you're looking at this huge wide open vast ocean where's the end notice I do see it I like that answer that we resent it's the other side right do you see it you don't see it what's a yum-yummy infinite potential openness expansiveness what was miss Ryan miss Ryan was meet I am totally constricting and confining that infinite potential within ourselves right it's it's it's limiting and giving us tunnel vision narrow vision of what I can be like and what I can experience in this world what does it mean that I need to see myself as though I personally left mitts Ryan at the Seder table on Passover I need to see that I personally left my own confinements my own constrictions and restrictions that I put upon myself right Paro who was who is Paro Pharaoh right the Pharaoh oh okay Tarot is the Pharaoh it comes from the word ma Fria what is my free I mean yeah I'm afraid to bother right para who was the slave master comes from the word mafia I bother right the young which means the ocean comes with the same way it's the same letters as me which is I me who I write the young is who I really am the infinite potential the mates are that makes Ryan the Egypt the exile this slavery is when I cannot express my true self by what usually we have who's our pyro so who's my slave master all the math Korea all the father's all the disturbances all the distractions that we have in this world that's what takes me away from being me I didn't realize thirty hours went by him on Facebook or I didn't realize I didn't mean to I was so distracted and how do I get to be 80 years old and this is what my life is all those distractions are what take us away from being able to express who we really are is that part clear that's what it means that I need to let go of my of my mic's Ryan I want to read a few minutes we have left a direct quote you know Viktor Frankl okay here a book man's search for meaning okay I'm gonna read direct quote from his book Franco was a determinist raised in the tradition of Freudian psychology which postulates that whatever happens right what Freud whatever happens to as a child shapes your character and personality and basically governs your whole life right it's because your mother neglected you and you're two years old and that's why now you're insecure the limits and parameters of your life are set and basically you can't do much about it Frankel was also psychiatrist and a Jew he was imprisoned in the death camps of Nazi Germany where he experienced things that were so repugnant to our sense of decency that we shudder to even repeat them his parents brother and wife all died in the camps were sent to the gas ovens except for his sister his entire family perished Frankel himself suffered torture and innumerable indignities never knowing from one moment to the next if his path would lead to the ovens or if he would be among the saved who removed the bodies or shovel out the ashes of those so fated one day naked and alone in a small room he began to become aware of what later call the last of human freedoms the freedom has Nazi captors could not take away they could control his entire environment they could even do what they wanted to his body but Viktor Frankl himself was a self-aware being who could look out as an observer and is very involvement I can see myself in this world his basic identity was intact he could decide within himself how all of this was going to affect him between what happened to him which is a stimulus and his response to it was his freedom and power to truth one more paragraph bear with me in the midst of his experiences Frankel would project himself into different circumstances okay he's in the middle of being tortured but he would imagine himself such as lecturing to his students after his release from the death camps he would describe himself in the classroom in his mind's eye and give his students the lessons he was learning during his very torture through a series of such disciplines mental emotional and moral principle using in memory and imagination he exercises his small embryonic freedom until it grew larger and larger until he had more freedom than his Nazi captors they had more Liberty more options to choose from in their environment but he had more freedom more internal power to exercise his options he became an inspiration to those around him even to some of the guards he helped others find meaning in their suffering and dignity in their prison existence in the midst of the most degrading circumstance of the management Bowl Frankel used a human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man between stimulus and response man has the freedom to choose what does that to do with Pesa pass over between stimulus stimulus means something happened to us okay stimulus is I'm driving in the car and someone honks really loud that's called stimulus my response is I get out of the car that doesn't happen in this country my response is I get out of the car and start yelling in in that's my response right he's saying there's something called stimulus something happens okay and then it's my response to it how I react he's saying in between stimulus and response there's a tiny little window I live in make it with curtains okay there's a tiny little window called freedom that he's saying is the last of the human freedoms that's what he experienced with who was in Nazi Germany right the last of humans was good make a real community example you're married and your mother-in-law has complete with yours it's rounders driving you nuts you can react husband or me really when your friends about it or you could think like wow this is so amazing that you know my husband not only his mother alive and well they have a relationship which is actually going going to be with us immediately we don't get along paradigm a different perspective and if we doesn't we can never complain Rand will finish with this next class will continue the pest off just to finish it up but if and when we just respond automatically I eat just react okay I get cut off so I sparked my car and get out right or if my mom yells at me so I naturally yelled back well if the cakes in front of me even though I'm stuck I'll eat the cake or if I'm you know in I'm in you know recovery but all sudden his drinks place in for a minute take the drink that's me being a slave what does it mean any see myself as I personally went through Egypt Ruby torski who was a doctor and was an addictions counselor and therapist for over well over 50 years he said he was a patient of his told him he was by the Passover Seder and his father his patient mean he was a recovered alcoholic and his father was thinking i-i'm hanging in you know how I was a sleeveless I was a slave to Paro and the son said dad were you actually ever a slave cuz I know what it means to be a slave right but I just take this drink without thinking when I that's extreme but choose whatever example you want eat the cake the office person do that thing with that guy that's me being a slave because what does it mean to be free it means between stimulus and response I chose I rose above my instincts I rose above not my my impulses and I chose how I want my response to be what does it mean I need to see myself I will finish here as I personally left MIT's Ryan I need to see myself as not a slave a slave means I have no choice a slave means what does it say the Talmud says what a slave owns the owner owned right a slave is literally an extension of the owner you're a stick in someone's hand that's what it means to be a slave a slave me even though I really want to go to culture I don't really want to get this job but my parents say if you do I'll cut you off from finances well they say something a slave means I have zero choice in this that's also called a cop-out in life I have no choice they gave me all responsibility what does it mean be free I'm an adult I can choose I choose to do this I may have to deal with the consequences but I'm responsible I'm responsible that's what it means so Ezra Hashem will continue next class have a great about everyone [Music] you