Pesach: Praying for Dew - The Great Inspiration of R Meir Shapiro

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay sh welcome everyone want to welcome all of our jro listeners and T time viewers and here in kugar Hills New York and I want to speak a bit a little bit guess about guess what I want to speak about today p and the more obvious something is the less we think about it so what is the name of this p and let's say in English we call it Passover usually a name is supposed to capture the essence of something not knowing anything if you were an alien who landed from a different planet and you saw what Jews were doing every year at the S there commemorating what would you name the name of the Y you would not name it uh PES what what do I mean by that mean PES seems to have been seems to be a very very minor minor element and aspect of the miracle what happened the night of Mak God killed the Egyptian firstborn and he passed over our houses I mean he really did that every time he brought a Mak we weren't Afflicted okay you know it was more serious Mak so our firstborn didn't die but would you say that's the essence of the that that the one night of of is God skipped over our homes really it should be called or God taking us as his people or Redemption G I mean PES seems to be like a minor detail in thousands of various Miracles that transpired over the course of time why are we honing in on that he skipped over you could say uh you could callam we would have all died if he didn't split the sea not just the I mean isn't Chris yamu a bigger Miracle is Mak the fact that he didn't kill us is that the biggest Miracle is that the best terminology to describe P so that's a question that I would like address and you're probably scratching scratching your head saying hey how come I never thought about that you know why call that P also another question and this question we've discussed in the past and that is the night of the say there we pride oursel that everything we do is with a sar in fact we even list the order of operations before we begin right we sing or whatever nigon you use but we recite the order of with which we do things that probably means that we have a very specific order and we like to be very organized when we come into the Suka we don't say kilter fish um soup with mat BS you know chicken and then dessert we don't order we don't list the say there and yet the night of PES we say clearly what we're about to do the problem is that the order with which we do things seems a little bit out of order because we know conceptually if I were to ask if you have a dirty wall first you clean it and then you paint it if you have a dirty pair of shoes first you clean them and then you shine them first you wash something and then you polish it and the same thing in Ras first you stop sinning and then you do and kades and then kades means sanctify yourself or means wash yourself you would think it should be flip it should be first you wash yourself first you cleanse yourself and then you sanctify like it says in R you will clean yourself and then you'll anoint yourself okay let's talk about everyone's favorite topic the do T so you say t I never thought about t my entire life well when you wake up in the morning do you you know check out the dwall of the previous night you did you ever do that no nobody cares about the do why not cuz do is a constant we care about the rain it doesn't always rain let's see what the G says about this so too um Kess Israel um um made an improper request that again and God responded correctly so we made an improper request and God responded correctly how is that so listen to this we ask God we will know to run to pursue knowledge ofm like the morning that his whose coming is certain we say oh please God be like the rain to us so we ask please be like the rain that was considered an improper request so God says my daughter you're asking for something sometimes you want it sometimes you don't want it sometimes you want it to rain when there's drought when it's when it's very humid you want the rain to give you moisture you want the rain to break the cycle I want to give you something which is always wanted I will be like the dude to the Jewish people you hear what's going on over here is says to God be like the rain to us and God says I'll do better I'll beat you I'll be like the D to you so the question is what's the shack of ataria here that Kess is says to God please be like the rain and God says back I'll do better I will be like the do so there's a famous P of none other than yes it's not it's but it's okay we could still learn says in the very first page of the I would venture to say this is the most famous piece in like responds my daughter you're looking for you want something which is not always I'm going to be something which is always well say what is the difference between rain and [Applause] do it's known what all the scientists tell us rain is the moisture of the earth that rises up it's the pure Waters that arise meaning what's rain rain is precipitation you have you have moisture in the air the moisture Rises up and it gathers in the clouds it gathers in the clouds because the heat of the sun sort of spells the moisture upward together because the heat does not carry them up um he says the heat carries it up but then it can't stay up in the air anymore and then it descends down to it descends down to the Earth when the earth is very dry there won't be rain meaning like this where does rain come from it's the moisture down here that gathers up goes to the clouds and then when it's heavy enough it falls but when the air is very dry it will never rain ever ever ever ever ever ever ever you need precipitation for the rain to form but do so so if I were ask you where does rain originate downstairs the rain originates in the moisture down here but the do does not come from the moisture on Earth the D comes from the moisture in the atmosphere and there is always moisture in the atmosphere and therefore there is always do every single morning you will wake up you'll feel your grass it will always be wet doesn't matter where you live doesn't matter what the climate is the ear um the do is a constant and it stands always cold and moist and from there the beads of moisture drip down to the ground and therefore on a daily basis whether when it heats up a little bit there'll be some do therefore do is never withheld so you hear the fundamental difference between the rain and the do the the uh ecosystem the way that it works is that the moisture of the earth when there is moisture on the earth it rises up it forms the clouds and then it rains the do on the other hand is a constant why is the do a constant the do is a constant because it comes from the atmospheric moisture and that's why there is do every day well the mash of rain and de is allegorical to chuva typically in order to do chuva you got to do like the rain meaning you do your part down here you take your best you put your foot your best foot forward and and then after you added your moisture downstairs God kicks in from sham and he helps you out that's typically the way Chua works like rain you need is you need inspiration down here and then God kicks in with his is with his inspiration from you can't expect God to say wake up I it doesn't matter we're friends so I could do it to him but in other words you can't expect God to sort of jolt you if you don't do your part right yeah but there's God doesn't interfere with your free will typically so he says and then helps you like because a person has to open up with says open for me like a needle hole I will open for you like the gates of the okay but but at the very least you need to do something downstairs what are we going to do if we just sit around tling our thumbs for next 500 years and nobody and we don't Inspire ourselves to do Chua well Hashem is going to say look I can't wait around for the rain to come I can't wait around for you to take your inspiration and then I'm going to kick in hashem's is just going to come and you know like you said is going to jolt us up even if we don't do anything why God will wake us up and be on us even without any inspiration down here why will say like when Hashem created the world when Hashem created the world nobody had to be create the world the creation of world was even though so comes and thinks probably look we for sure need your help but but we have to do something and therefore we ask of you be like the rain to us therefore only has the audacity to ask God God be like the rain what does that mean be like the rain when we do our part then what then you do your part but K would never tell God God just wake us up and do everything because it doesn't work that way even a little bit like the rain which comes from when the rain Rises up and says no you want me to be like the rain I'm going to be much better I'm going to give you something that's always wanted meaning what does that mean always wanted do is always wanted cuz maybe so therefore I'm going to do to you like I'm going to allow you to have in other words the back and forth between is that CL says God just be like the rain when we do our little precipitation downstairs then take us the rest of the way the and says no I will do much better for you I could be like the do to you that without any I will give you well I saw this year in a new of in the says according to it comes out very beautiful by the first day of P where missal for do T why because even though typically we have to do a little inspiration downstairs for God to inspire us from Shay but we we all know that P was different P was the one time that even though we're on and even were naked and and we did no we have no said it's time to get my kids out of there and without God had to give it to us but he had nothing he sold we were empty and be he had to said okay here so do but we didn't there's no coming from us we weren't M at all but came he said it's okay forget your well we'll do without it this time so says says you know what you owe me I'll do it on credit I'm taking you out of M on credit Hashem said you'll pay me back later normally you got to take the first step but I'm going to give you on credit by the way what do you call when you a storekeeper gives someone credit H by the way far right says in the of we call the month of month that salvation envelops us like but it's also the says of all the Salvation that God gave to us on P is on credit cuz normally we have to earn something Hashem said this time I'll give it to you but you got to pay me back that's why right after PES begins we start we start paying the loan butm was kind you know we we make minimum payments every day is minimum payments until until says what does it mean he revealed us with the with with a calculation that we're going to afterwards by the way also writes this is a common idea in that the the stanza in refers to the fact that the Yeshua of of was given to us on credit we didn't put in God just came in like what like the do so therefore back too this time of the year is designated is specifically inclined toward that every year the of T is is awakened like we say we know a time in in Judaism is a living entity that every year when we come back to a certain time that time has in it the qualities of what transpired in it in years past so therefore the same way on the first PES God inspired us analogous to the do we for do every year on P but it's a m it's a time to D that could Inspire us even though we don't put in our part though on the other hand what are we D in for we D for rain because is we took the first step remember the vill says that we were the ones who did for the we inspired ourselves and then returned in kind by giving us back the so suus is a time to D in for after for that God should Inspire us after we do our part but P God says forget forget your part I'll skip it you owe it to me you'll pay me back later that's why it's called P half of a fella normally what's the procedure God says what you open like a needle you open the door like a needle and then I'll open up like a so what did Hashem jump over by the he said I'll jump over your door meaning I'll jump over the need that you typically have to open the door first you got to open the door a little bit and I'll open it the rest of the way God jumped over our doors he was he jumped over the need for us to open up the door very good very good says the meaning of the is typically Hashem requests of a person that he that we should try with all of our ability and then God will send out his Lifeboat that andus could enter but at this time in history CL was in the and we were floundering Kat completely disappeared so what did do Hashem hastened to redeem us and he did not wait for us to open the door because maybe we wouldn't so what does it mean Hashem jumped over the door Hashem was on our need to open the door Hashem and the entire was all from Hashem half the meaning of the P what does mean God jumped over the door so he jumped over the door and if he didn't jump over he skipped over the door he over the door the deeper meaning is Hashem said you know what typically the procedure the say there is you open door a little bit and then I'll open up Hashem jumped over our necessity to open the door so I saw an incredible thing in the you know the is the says that we say and we open the door what's the symbolism of opening the door the night of PES the symbolism is that the night of P all the doors are open all the doors are open that's uh he says look at number seven whatever God asks of us he fulfills first so the if God asks us to open the door that means all the doors of the night of all the doors of Shay are open the night of the S there and that means even though typically there may be things holding a person back from entering the doorway the night of PES all the entrance ways of shamay are wide open Hashem says I obviate the need for you to be so beautiful the sh quotes his Hal father the the are right that even though normally the order of operations are that you can come close to if you're solid if you're filthy with sin the night of PES it's very different the night of pesak you know what we tell you to do just jump in kades you worry about the orats later you worry about cleaning yourself later typically if a guy's a murderer an adulter he's filthy with sin we say hey pal get your act together and then you'll climb up to hos that's the rest of the year the night of PES you could skip a step you could jump you could jump the this that's says that's why that's a special s the night of the of the of the S it's a different seder it's a Seder where we could jump the same way God jumped over the need for us to open the door we could jump over the concept of well I think then the appropriate and accurate name for the of p is p because the concept and the theme of the Y of p is an opportunity so to speak to skip a step the rest of the year we're sort of bogged down you know we have a lot of baggage before a person comes close to hasem there's a lot of s to do we once said over that you know the night of Rashana the bigger the worst thing you could do M it's mishos is to give nuts to eat nuts right it's terrible thing to eat nuts the say there is and here it is the ra says you give out nuts so what in the world is going on over here if you people have shus my wife made a cake and there's a little nut in it and what I do people should be n a the way they n from you know little knots that might come into their cake you know should be a new to have the way we're we're worried about nuts and yet the night of the everyone's throwing nuts everywhere right that's the main the main gift that you should be giving and distributing say the answer is the rest of the Year may you got to watch out you can't have even assemblance of when you come before you have to really worry about that the night say there we don't care about baggage we don't care about it's a time where you could forget the don't worry about it we'll pay back later it's all the gifts that God gave us are on credit we could pay back laterem jumped you know he jumped over our need to take our to put our best foot forward there's a beautiful M says we have three we have we have and we have number 11 P means god revealing himself and being from his end but we didn't deserve it we were going we were and the only thing ISM gave us a few but we didn't have any preparation now you have both clo approached God by separating for three days revealed himself to he was so in other words it was a Mutual relationship but we did all the work we did for and we brought our and we prepared and then Hashem sort of took advantage of our cha so we find a med a wondrous Med in that asked um that the says in so the Mas given is a king who has a daughter and he loved her so much he called her my daughter and not only that he called her my sister and not only that he called her my mother so too Hashem loves clo he says clo you're my be and then Hashem says CL so you're my and then CL so you're my mother says the ofin says that these three compliments gives represent the three the of p is when hasem came down and he revealed himself even though we didn't deserve it by the way there's an amazing typically we say that had hasem not taken us out a moment sooner we would have fallen to the 50th level of t to the point of no return so had to get us out before we sunk says no just the opposite there were such powerful that had not taken us out we would reach the M the 50th level of Kad mashia would have come right away Hashem says it's such a big gift get out of here you can't even handle it right now so the of our relationship to God was one way we're his daughter he's Mas everything on us we did nothing we owe it it's the of it's mutual we came close to hasm came close to us so hasm says you're my sister sisters two-way street but ultimately we reach MGA that hasem called us his mother because on the what happened was we did all the chuva and hasem accepted it the Y of suus is the Y of that we reach madga to be the mother so to speak to well now we understand says shapo on the person not only for but for inspir a person could say I may be on such a l that I can't pull myself out of it we could say and then you return us even if we don't do anything the this is where we do our part and then you respond in kind but whatever gifts gives us on P we owe him and we immediately start paying back with the 49 days of until the The Big Payback day on I want to take this opportunity to wish everybody we have a that the third B will be built on the of P and we're going to have a little dilemma cuz when are we going to do the because so conveniently there are only seven days in the whole month of Nissan that don't really have any specific reason not to say and that is from the time Nissan is over until the end of the month those seven days from from the time p is over until the end of the month those seven days are reserved for theuk of the third bikash we should to see it you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com