Pesach - Redemption Then and Now

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramachandran 57 82 2022. this week we don't have a parashat we do have the holiday of pesach and i'll show you some thoughts from marishashiva by pair about the holiday of pesach important introduction that he gives him speaking about pesach is that he was about to begin his three-part lecture on pesach and he he said that he was unsure if it was the right thing to speak about pesach why because if you look around there are so many haggadahs there's so much to say about pesach it's perhaps the most common safer that exists within literature within jewish literature is the haggadah and the many explanations many thoughts that people hatch throughout the generations through thousands of years the ideas that have to do with the with the haggadah with this telling over of the amazing story of akalush who's saving the jewish people etc all the different aspects the nuances of the haggadah of the of the seder of the details that we have and he felt perhaps the idea behind that is that each person has their way and their connection to the haggadah each person has their connection to pesach this is the foundation of the jewish people it's the exodus from egypt and so each person has to relate to it in their own personal way and as we'll see from what he says in his own haggadah by paris so we'll see that it relates to each one of us individually of course the redemption is something which happened to us nationally but it's also something that happens to each and every one of us this redemption happens individually so speaking about the haggadah sharing one's thoughts really it's our obligation or it's our experience that has to explain and define what the haggadah is what it means to us how it relates to us what our personal salvations are so it's not necessarily something that i can hear other people's ideas per se i need to think of it in my own way understand in my own way nevertheless rabbit pair did go on to speak at length and he also put out his own hagoda and of course i would explain that as you know we each of course have our own experience of but we need to be just like on an individual level we have our redemptions but it's really part of the broader redemption of the jewish people so too when it comes to our understandings of the haggadah you know we can have inspiration we can get some thoughts from elsewhere and we can try to be inspired by other people's thoughts and come to our own perhaps deeper thoughts of our own how it relates to us etc but it's a it's a personal experience that's the bottom line bottom line bottom up you know when it comes down to it it's a personal experience tagoda and we need to each have our own experience but let's let's hear what marisha shiva says the repair and we will perhaps play a little bit inspire perhaps extend it to ourselves you know try to create something new as well i'm going to share with you something that he writes here and i'm also going to share with you another thought which i heard on another lecture that he said over we say we begin to say we should look at the the matas the special matzah that it's bread that has no leavening in it it's flat it didn't rise and we say we say this is the bread of affliction that our forefathers ate in egypt but then at the end at the end of allah points out that we end off now we are here meaning in gullis in our in our exile and next year we should be back in israel right so right away we express our longing for gula we don't just talk about in the seder we don't just talk about the redemption that happened then but we speak about the future redemption we relate it to the redemption that we're waiting for which hopefully will be very soon coming back to the land of israel now we are slaves which means we are enslaved to the culture around us we are enslaved to the to the kings around us so to speak the the governments we have to pay taxes etc next year we will be free we will be rules of ourselves we will have our own country we will have our own king so really we speak about the the bread we speak about it in two ways we speak about it as the bread of affliction the bread of that we ate while we were in egypt but it's also the bread that we ate when we left egypt it's also the bread which denotes our redemption from egypt so let's see what maharashtra shiva says we explain at the beginning of the seder that the bread which represents the the difficult bread that we had to eat the poor man's bread that we ate without any leavening while we were enslaved but it also represents the freedom from egypt it's appropriate what do we say here we say and then in the middle of any we talk about the bread the matzah and then we say whoever wants please join us right if i'm inviting people to join me in my seder that represents the freedom um and this teaches us that as we go through the process of the seder the purpose of the seder is to get us to get us redeemed to go through a process of going from enslavement to redemption excuse me the idea here says marisha shiva is that included in the egypt is all of the future redemptions including the future redemption the all redemptions are really the same thing they're all intimately connected they're all at their root the same idea this year we're here next year we'll be in in the land of israel this year we are slaves next year will be free and again slaves doesn't necessarily mean literal slaves like in egypt it means we are under the boot we are under the power of the um of the nations of the world we say the blessing over one of the four cups we say we will thank you god and we will sing a new song for our redemption and for redeeming our souls because [Music] so all of the songs of redemption are are a language of nikeva or female language except for the final redemption when we speak about the song of the final redemption it's a male language well as idea there's a difference between the previous goulas between the guru of mitsrayam the goula of purim as opposed to the redemption that we will soon experience hashem with the coming of what's the difference it's and it's indicated in the language that's used is it female or male why climate change because a female she has pain when she gives birth to a child and of course the idea of giving birth is it corresponds to the idea of gaoula of redemption burning a new reality a new relationship with hashem the difference between all the other redemptions versus the final redemption is that the previous redemptions we were redeemed but we became enslaved again when it comes to the final redemption it will be once and for all okay so that's why it's used it uses a language which is male because there's no pain of birth for the male okay of course the husband is is uh in pain for his wife's pain but uh he doesn't have that same kind of pain and therefore it's going to be the same thing when it comes to the final redemption so from the fact that we use a male language even in reference to the ghoul of mitsuram why do we do that the smithsonian wasn't wasn't male so to speak it did it did have she would after it did have some kind of of enslavement afterwards we did end up backing ghosts back in exile samarashashi explains that the idea is because included in the original redemption is the final redemption as well so there is an aspect of that final redemption which doesn't have any exile ever again afterwards and that's why we also have this concept that the knight of pessah is a knight which is a special protection for all generations why we were protected then when we were protected in egypt because we brought a carbon pesach the the firstborn of all of the mitzrim of all of the egyptians they were killed we were protected so why are we protected even today on this night because this night the original day of redemption which we come back to every single year that night contains within at the root of all of the redemptions so this is a night when we have redemption we have redemption over and over again this is a new year a new redemption from outsiders from our difficulties from our challenges and ultimately it's going to be when she comes the gemara scissors [Music] we were redeemed in egypt we were redeemed from egypt in nissan in this month we're going to be redeemed as well in the future time we can explain also i'll just give you just without reading it inside but when it comes to democracy you also see it was it one each one had really five it really had ten etc however money there were in mid-strand there was also a certain amount of the yam at the splitting of the sea but you see this concept of one thing at the at its root contains many more things and it expands even further as time goes along with that we need to tell it over to our children it's not just that we tell over to them what happened then elisha marquez he says that at its root right at its root we had the marcus we had the redemption of egypt the redemption of the jewish people from egypt which took place through the marcus the plagues they were what brought us out of egypt they were the redemption because who used the plagues to bring about our redemption so those makos those plagues they expand and extend out into time into the future into our times as well into any time when we have a redemption anytime we have a redemption it's there's a maca there's a destruction that occurs to the enemies of the jewish people in order to bring about our redemption i was thinking actually about you know why did murder in the story of poor and why did he it's very strange the whole story why did he have to not bow down why did you know akadeshwar who could have saved us didn't have to be there esther didn't have to go into the palace if they wouldn't have gone there wouldn't have come out he wouldn't have not bowed and went to haman wouldn't have done all these things what was the necessity of this whole story and i was thinking that part of it could be connected to this idea that we need a destruction of our enemies we need to destroy our enemies haman represented amalek which is the ones who hold back the power from the jewish people who would try to thwart our effort to bring godliness into the world the enemies of the jewish people need to be destroyed in order for us to be who we are in order for us to be effective in the world as the leaders of mankind in spiritual terms those who block us within from within the era of the negative forces within the jewish people they also they need to be they need to be removed before the jewish people can properly fulfill our goal fulfill our purpose in the world so maharashtra shiva is saying that it's rooted in that time it's rooted in mitzrayim when we talk about mitsuram when we talk about what happened in the marcus we're describing something that's going to happen in the future time as well something that happened in each of the each of the redemptions that we experienced and it's something that's going to happen hopefully soon for the jewish people when mashiach and messiah arrives is going to be a full plagues that come upon our enemies it's very interesting later on we say suddenly shiva that over mice and the science this is the blood shakasa the prosthetic that's quoted is that i will place signs in the heavens and on earth blood fire and pillars of smoke something which is very interesting though that posit which speaks about the blood and the fire and the pillars of a of of smoke that's not opposite that it says in mr i'm in egypt why are we quoting it in reference to egypt it's it's very strange so he says like this it's speaking about really what's he talking about he's talking about he's talking about the war of armageddon the final war before mashiach before the messiah arrives right one of the things that we do is we pour out a little bit of of our grape juice or our wine onto our plate where we do it we dip it our finger put it on the plate the idea is he doesn't really say this here but the idea is there's constantly called a cup of retribution we we have these cups which are filled with wine we speak about shuffle and pour out your anger upon the upon the nations who try to thwart the jewish people's purpose that's the cup of retribution which we speak about we pour out a little bit when we talk about democrats when we talk about the plagues as they affect the egyptians as they affect the nations of the world so why do we do this with beer why do we pour it out when we say these three words blood fire and pillars of smoke the grass says he brings you xiaomi right the reason that we have these four cups is because indeed of the cups of retribution that god is going to force the nations of the world to drink so it represents the difficulties that they will endure the destruction that will be caused in this island in that time it represents if you want to understand i know this is a controversial statement but if you want to understand what's going on in the world when it comes to nations nations fighting against nations because uses people in his way of bringing about retribution and and justice uses a nation against another nation that's of course jews are caught in the in the crosshairs of course we need to be mindful and pray for them but this is part of what goes on this is this is what's going to happen in the future so um what we see is that all of the future difficulties all of the plays that are going to come upon the nations of the world they are rooted just like the gula for us the redemption for us is rooted in what happened in egypt so too the plagues that are going to come upon the nations of the world in the future time are also rooted in that which happened in mitzrayim in rochester this is just an expanded revelation of those very plagues that's why it says that the the the signs are a reference to the mata those the staff that moshe used i think about a staff a staff has branches coming out of it right you obviously you whittle down the staff in order to use it as a walking stick but that's what it represents shabbahan the mata had written on it his staff had written on it the letters which represent the the plagues of egypt and also the future plagues within the future as well it's going to come out of them okay so this is an awesome idea last point in when it came to the to the exodus from egypt so the jewish people entered into the world of redemption we are now in the world of redemption when it comes to the pesach we are stepping into the world of redemption and this is the night which is a night of protection till this very day tonight friday night we're not going to say the the special bracha which we usually ordinarily say mage on friday night we say every single friday night why because we need to protect the jewish people with that blessing we don't say it on friday night when it falls on picks up because we have already extra protection because we have all the redemptions that we need when we're stepping into this world called that's why we also mentioned the future as well i'd like to share with you just one last thought which i heard from arusha shiva nashir which was really pretty because it was a sheer from wasn't a piece of was a shirt from a parsha and he mentioned something about pesach in it and he says as follows he asked the question we say what is the pesach for because we brought a corp in pesach and hashem passed over a pesach passover passed over our houses so the jewish people survived the firstborns were not killed of the jewish people only of the egyptians mats al-shumah why do we mention the matzah why do we have the matzah do we eat tomato what's it for because when we left egypt says the says the haggadah when we left egypt so there wasn't enough time for their for their bread to rise they were running out so the question that membership asked is well why did it happen that way why did it have why you know you want a good bagel you want a good piece of challah as it running out why did it work out that they they ended up with crackers they ended up with a very thin bread there wasn't any time for their butts like to rise what's the what's the teaching what's the message of it and why did it happen that way in that moment so he said an amazing thing a powerful thing and it connects to what we read about in in his agoda because it's something that we need to know applied then but it applies to us now it applies to us now because our personal redemptions are all tied up in the original redemption from egypt and we need to know how we get to that redemption how are we to it how do we merit to have a redemption this is an amazing thing because what is the idea of the lechem ini what is it that this bread represents it teaches us something very powerful because as we said before the hamani was what they ate in egypt when they were poor when they were poor men when they were slaves but it's also the bread that they ate as they left egypt because the idea is to teach us that the the bread of affliction you want to know how you merit redemption you want to know how you merit to become something great a new nation a nation which is special to god it's through your difficulties that's the amazing important foundational idea and this is a foundation of what pesach is because we eat we eat the legend the entire seven days or eight days we eat this we eat the matzah every single day to remind ourselves of this very concept that how do we get redeemed how do we become a nation how do we merit redemption on a national level on a personal level it's through our difficulty it's through our challenge it's through our it's through that that which seems like hey i wish this wouldn't be going on in my life that very thing that you wish wasn't going on in your life is exactly why all the good things come it comes because of the challenge it comes because of the difficulty you got to stick out you got to stick it out through the challenge through the difficulty arts israel's nickname speech certainly say because i'll say the land of israel is acquired through challenges through difficulties people who move to israel they have they face challenges and difficulties it's not so easy to move here it's not the easiest thing it's not easy to live here per se but if you if you live here if you want to live here you got to know that that's a redemption living living in israel is a redemption this is where we belong every single we were saying next year in in israel the land of israel this is where we ought to be this is where we have to be this is where the jewish people belong but to get to that state of redemption you have to go through challenges oh it's hard in israel as people say of course it's hard that's how you get to redemption it's a message for us that every single every single moment you want a redemption you want to get something good you want to have a relationship with hashem you want to parnassa you have to pass through the hoops of fire that's the way that's the message at the beginning of the jewish people as we are being redeemed and as manager shiva added another important point hashem is doing these open miracles but at the same moment he's giving us a hint a quiet a quiet hint so we also know that there's sometimes open miracles and sometimes hidden miracles but how do we get those miracles those miracles come because of our challenge because of our difficulty as hashem promised avraham they're going to be strangers in a strange land they're going to be um they're going to have an enoi they're going to have very hard times afterwards they're going to leave with an incredible wealth physical wealth spiritual wealth i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should understand find the places where we have our personal redemptions find our own personal understandings of the haggadah find our own way of relating to that god and the seder and relating to the amazing redemption that hashem did for us then and see how we are also experiencing redemption today and we should know should help us to recognize that the challenges that we experience are truly there for our good i truly dare to bring about an awesome redemption on a personal level and hopefully soon on a national level thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shame this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ahri goldwag [Music]