Pesach Perspectives Part 2 Every Child Counts Rabbi Paysach Krohn

[Music] and I want to share with you something so brilliant from shimmy Schwab Roshan Schwab picks up on something a one word that we say before we introduce the four sons Beryl hon makka pakka makka moons blessed is hashem her maken means the place he's all over the place so ash lobby is a very interesting question every time we use her maken either in a trailer only express it to someone it's something said for example classic sharm somebody has to go to the menachem level what do we say to the of oh I'm not in monogamous come that Hashem should comfort if somebody loses money it says ensure her notice what are you supposed to say to the person I'm mark I'm your male hasanah Hashem should fill your loss when we dive in I say no right when we dive in Athena what do we say how mark on your rock in Malaya those Jews that are stuck so far away and we have no way of getting them out hashem should have rock among us so why do we use her Markheim you know why because somebody who's lost a dear one well somebody who's lost money or somebody who's stuck in a foreign country he's thinking God where are you huh give me that taken care of me how could I lose this what happened here where are you so we reassure them and we say how Markheim I said this all over don't worry he'll take care of you don't give up a year shouldn't be broken we go through difficult times but I'm looking you nothing I'm looking in my leg I'm looking you're out Himalayan that's what we say sir our swamp says if that's the case so what are we saying borrow hemlock I'm at the Haggadah and he says something amazing he says there are many families where the parents or the grandparents are sitting around the theta and they took a look at child they take a look at their child or a grandchild they say oh my gosh what happened to this kid how did he fall off the way what happened I thought I was going to raise Heyliger children wonderful kids that are you Ramos lame I'm a look at this kid how did that happen so we say to the parents for all four times Borja maka Umberto who borrows Shahnaz antara llama Israel Berto who every child is a blessing you don't give up on anyone no matter what level a child has stooped down to a boy or a girl no matter who they're with you can bring him back every child is a potential blessing that's what the Baroque are mahkum is it may be painful and we have to be reassured that ourselves going to help us but you can't give up you can't give up on any child and I'll tell you an amazing statement that the point of is your loved one says the point of is your rose once said an orphan child is a child who has no parents an orphaned nation is a nation that has no children again an orphan child is one that has no parents an orphan nation is one that has no children our children are our greatest investment the greatest investment my dear friend the great basketball player at least it used to be mr. lists right bene Merrill is his father-in-law right so we're always talking about this that today we're getting to be known by our children you know this is who they are that's why we're hushes that's right that that's exactly what we want we want that our children and grandchildren should be so wonderful that people will introduce us with their father with their father or mother or mother-in-law that's really what it's all about that's what children are that's why we can't give up on these kids and I'll tell you an amazing thing every time I go to Prague and I've gone many many times with many many people on these trips when you stand outside the morale shul there's so much to talk about the morale but there were other rabbis who were reveille him in the morale shul one of them was the clay ogre that famous commentary that we have on the Commission all the macro scandalous commotion and he says something every year when I am an actual I quote the cloaca he's buried right around that area together with the morale in that grave site and he says something we should never ever forget he says it on the plastic the politic first is veracious of FSU test but he says it on perfect design we all know the story where Yakko you've switched two hands by a framer Menasha and Yates have said to his father taught that what are you doing you got to put your right hand on Menasha because he's the big one and he's all the wonder and a frame is the younger ones you have to put your left hand on him so what does Yakko say for your minor obvious the father he refused why MA said don't worry about even your daddy don't worry myself I know what I'm doing Dom who yell ahem arms Ogawa giggle don't worry Menasha will be great Akiva cotton but the younger one the smaller one yeeah gamma man he's going to be greater now listen to what the cloaker says about this the he says the words that Yakov Aveeno said oh he's a cotton gigged ah momento the little one will be greater he says it doesn't just mean the one who was younger he says there's a deep lesson Kia cottage borrow who boy sir be a Sedwick Timon Hashem picks out those children all those individuals who have something inferior about them because Adam Charisse folks are totnes any person any child as something that you might think is inferior OSBI sir I'll cut this vertical my reactions gonna lift this child Liz she say welfare of other to make them a leader of thousands all of us think for a moment of your graduating class think of those guys and those girls that were in that class will forget about the hedges and forget about the their you know the clothes that they wore but are the ones that are most successful now that we look back those kids that we thought we're going to be successful never it's those kids that were sitting in the back those kids who we thought would be nothing somehow they became leaders somehow they became great people how did that happen that's the or give our cotton and so many parents say the same thing so many of us have children and we thought oh this child wow he's going to be the greatest and then it turns out that kid that you saw what could it be not so special he is greater than all them how does that happen because Hashem is showing us what Jakob said Activa caught on Yagami Meno don't give up on any child whenever's notice in our own families our children extended families and we know it in communities that child that you thought was not going to be special turns out to be very special you know why because there was a mother who loved that kid and gave encouragement because there was a father or Rebbe or a friend who made that child feel special and that's what we come at the Seder table there's four kids four types of kids everyone is a blessing don't give up on anyone and I'll tell you one story and then we'll close this part of the talk the blue shoe irreparably Shirelles pharaoh was in the concentration camp within the 1940s and they tried to get some flour they were able to bribe some guards and they got some flour and they were able to make some mattes and the question was who should get the mattes so they went to the Rebbe the shiloh was should the adults get it or should the children get it so the Rebbe said of course the adults should get it because after all they must live in the midst Rock and if we're able to get a few Montes at least let's give it to those who have the obligation to do the mitzvot so there was a widow there we don't never her husband had been killed she was taking care of a nephew and a niece in the barracks and she came over to the blue shovel revving and she said Rebbe please I hope you don't mind please I beg to differ with you and he said what do you mean she said look none of us know who's going to get out of here one thing I do know that if it's the adults that get out of here alive next year they're going to know what to do about matzah at the Seder because after all they've gone through many many Sidora where they know what matters but these kids are so vulnerable these kids are so impression about if we don't give them the matzah housing know what it means to eat much on paisa let's give them the matzah let's show them the mysterious nefesh that we have because we want them to remember what matzah is all about and you know something two things happened one the river said to her you are so right and that's what they did they gave the children the matzah and the second thing is after the war he married her imagine that that was his second wife he said this is a woman this is a woman who understands what children are all about so then incredible I get the chills when I tell you this story that's what children are all about we can't give up on anyone and just remember all the octave are cotton it doesn't mean just that the younger one it's going to be the greater one it's not about age it's about those two schrödinger's those talents those characteristics that you thought we're not going to be so special it became very special