Pesach Perspectives Part 1 Beware of the Smile Rabbi Paysach Krohn

[Music] so I would like to begin tonight to talk about one of the holiest and the most powerful months that we have which is the month of Nisan as we approach the hunt of a face on the night of Pesach to me is three things the first thing that we'll talk about of course when we come to the Seder is freedom now I just want to give you an example of something that we could tell our children this year that perhaps we couldn't have explained to them in previous years I do not want to get involved at all in the politics of president Trump's attitude towards immigrants or not but if you would take a look at the pictures of those people on the borders with their children frightened out of their minds hoping to have been able to leave a country and then they're turned away they can't get into the country there was just a picture of a group of children it broke my heart from Syria it's true Syrian three kids that were in Toronto and they're going to be sent back and you have to see the fear on their faces and if you look in the airports and the pictures in the airports and at the borders that's what claudius row was all about we looked like that we were trying to get out of a triumph we were frightened out of our minds we were being beaten we had slave labor and we were filled we'll never get out of there and that's exactly what we have to explain to our children again not getting involved in any politics what the situation is today around the world but just look at those faces those faces show you the desperation and the fear of people who want to be free and that's what Claudia Stroh was like before they got out of its Ryan so we have a lot to be grateful for that we live in the greatest country in the world and that we can have a hundred thousand people at MetLife Stadium for a CMS Shas and for Hashem outside this show tonight here and young Israel s them said they no cops there there's no barbed wire you go to many countries in Europe I was in France just last year it happened to be a few weeks after that terrible incident on that Friday afternoon there were more cops with guns than they were kids in school it's frightening we live in a great country and we have to appreciate freedom and we have to explain to our children how fortunate we are that we can do everything that we're able to do in America and that's part of the freedom the second thing is to talk about the festivity the happiness the sympathy yontiff and the third thing of course is family perhaps there's no other young turf that we get together with family than any other youngsters throughout the year hey Sokka is a time when people children grandchildren great-grandchildren we all get together and that's the first story that I want to tell you tonight first of all I give every single one of you abraha everyone you should be ziko to sit at a seder with children and grandchildren there is no greater feeling in the world when you're sitting at the head of the table and all the children sometimes you can't get all the kids their families on programs I'm growing but to sit with children and grandchildren at a Seder table there's nothing like it in the universe so this story happened a number of years ago when my grandson who is now learning an artiste role but at that time he was 3 4 years old I'm from zelich a friend of many workmen son they played ball together so Arum's ellic was 3 years old at the time and you know that a three-year-old cannot follow the Seder so he's running from the dining room to the kitchen to the living room with his toys coming in back and forth and back and forth and then we're at this point in the Seder which is one of the happiest moments when we all pick up the cup of wine and we're going to sing the he Shalonda together and just as we're about to start the he Shanda and I was about to pick up the case my grandson Avram comes over to him he says ad can I sit on your lap well logician anybody who will be a Xavier is as a D or a Bobby when your grandson wants to sit on your lap what's the question I said I've run come right here of course so now if you're writing you're supposed to hold the case right hand if you're a lefty you hold it in your left hand I'm a righty so I picked up the case am i right end and I lift it up of Ramallah on my left knee and we're about to start singing roshanda and we start singing roshanda and as I said the words I just became so choked up and I just I couldn't look at everyone I started crying and everybody's worried what are you crying about it's such a happy time and I can't look at everyone and I'm just looking down at these words and these words are so painful to me Shailaja bhagavad Ahmad Elena lauhala say no not only one nation is trying to get rid of us russia beholder verdure i'm them elena la jolla say no in every generation it doesn't stop there trying to get rid of us and I was seeking revenge to live up with what six million we're losing so many soldiers energy style we would sit on that of Poland that is Portugal out of Spain out of Morocco Lithuania doesn't it end we're gonna stop what's gonna be with my grandson what's gonna be with all the kids here's a Jamaa mother telling us it never stops and I just could not I couldn't think with everyone everybody was singing I was looking down I was so embarrassed because it's happening and i what am i crying i have to go explain to everyone I didn't want to explain at that point because it would just change the whole attitude than the atmosphere of the Seder and I just caught myself and I we just continue to finish singing and I decided that when the Seder is over I'm going to take out every single Haggadah I've got to get some solace from these words I've got to find somebody who said something about these words say they went on well Hashem we finished and then I started taking out every hunk other that I had looking up just on these words Shailaja husband Omar Elena lauhala say no and finally I came to how God of the he door if he does many of you know is rough I'm rates of dovid as alloy a great spot a girdle who wrote dozens and dozens of swaram who travelled all over and he asks a question he says what is the pollak God are talking about this is not true it's not in every generation that they're trying to get rid of us and the truth is when you think about it in America look like we said have a hundred thousand at a mid-life stadium seeing my shots we have this yonkos we have koelz we have Young's Israel's we have jewels all over the country and there were many generations when you describe flourished you didn't were in Poland 700 years before the Nazis started so there were many generations where you describe polish one is the Ballad of talking about and it gives a brilliant answer and he says it's not only the sword it's a smile and of course he's right because the smile in America means that Jennifer can get a job in any bank and any you can get involved with any great Country Club and that's why because of the smile in America assimilation and intermarriage is over 65 percent how could that be we're free we can do everything we want we can teach Terre we can tell people tell our children about mistress and yet we're losing more than we ever lost before how does that happen that's what the ball of god is telling us sometimes it's the sword sometimes it's a smile the Bronner growth is warning you you got to keep your guard up that's what he's saying Shailaja Corrado model a no Collison was not always like Hamas Hamas Imam or the Nazis but it's the kindness of the secular nations that just sucks us in so all of you know that I'm a mile column I'd the first day column I'd I had a bris in Long Island many of you are familiar with the community of all places it's called Mount Sinai and right it's a mixed marriage the father's napolitano and the mother is a Jew so obviously her parents wanted that there should be a bris right so it's a mixed marriage but there's going to be a brisk follow my payza I tell you I wish I would have had a camera to show you what was on the table after the brisk a blue box of Horowitz Margaret mattis right next to the Motta's was a platter of bagels right next to the bagels was a meat platter right next to the meat platter was a cheese platter every unveil you could think of krumitz matzo brought up a Hall of how did that happen what does God say about a bris like this what nobody say about a bris like this how did that happen that didn't happen cause of the sort that happened because there's a smile because Jennifer could meet you know Tony and any Golf Club and it could meet them any place at any bar because it you can go anyplace so because of a smile that's how the intermarriage happens and that's what we have to tell our children for Hashem we live in America for Hashem we live in a great country but we have to keep our guard up that's what the beloved is telling us shaloha bravado Madalena wahala say no