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Pesach Sheini: A Yid Refuses To Miss Out - Wednesday Night Women’s Shiur
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Rabbi Sonnenschein
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Tomorrow night Pesach Sheini begins.
Pesach Sheini is on
Friday.
Pesach Sheini is the day
when the Beis Hamikdash was standing
that someone who was tamei or too far
away and couldn't make it to the Beis
Hamikdash in time
to
Excuse me, to [clears throat] bring the
Korban Pesach.
>> [cough]
>> was able to There was a second chance.
They were able to bring the Korban
Pesach a month later.
And it's fascinating that
there's another halacha about Korban
Pesach
that [snorts]
has nothing to do with Pesach Sheini.
It's just a halacha of Korban Pesach.
And it's written here in Parshas
Beha'aloscha where it describes the
halacha of Pesach Sheini.
It's interesting. You would expect that
when the Torah told me the halachos of
the Korban Pesach it would say all the
halachos. And then when it says the
story that there were some people that
couldn't they couldn't bring the Korban.
Then it just says that halacha. It was
It's a little bit interesting that
there's a halacha that waits until the
story of Pesach Sheini. And that's the
halacha
that a ger
also brings a Korban Pesach.
For whatever reason the Torah felt that
a ger might think
that either he's exempt from the Korban
Pesach because his ancestors did not
come out of Mitzrayim.
Or perhaps as Rashi brings in Parshas
Beha'aloscha, perhaps the moment he
becomes a ger he should bring a Korban
Pesach just like his just like our
ancestors did the moment the Jewish
nation was born.
>> [cough]
>> Either way the Torah tells us
in Parshas Beha'aloscha a A doesn't
bring a Korban Pesach.
I I'm sorry. A ger doesn't bring a
carbon Pesach when he becomes a ger, but
the ger is treated like one of the, you
know, any one of the Yidden. We treat a
ger fully like our brother and a giyores
like our sister. And when it's time for
all of us to bring the carbon Pesach,
the ger or giyores brings one as well.
Okay?
Does that have anything to do with
Pesach Sheini?
That's a halacha about the carbon
Pesach. Even if someone is never tamei
before Pesach and never too far away,
still it's important to know that a ger
has to bring a carbon Pesach.
But obviously it does have something to
do with carbon Pesach because that's
where it is. "V'chi yagur itchem ger" in
Parshas Balak is coming in the parsha of
Pesach Sheini. And I'd like to explain
I'd like to explain what it has to do
with a ger.
Another question. Interesting,
interesting question. So what happened?
Klal Yisrael came out of Mitzrayim.
Okay, just let's just follow the
calendar here. It's important to have
some sense.
So 49 days later
they stood by Har Sinai
and they received the Torah on Vav
Sivan.
And [snorts]
Moshe Rabbeinu went back up to get the
the Luchos.
He came down on
the 17th day of Tammuz
and discovered a golden calf prancing
around.
He broke the Luchos.
Klal Yisrael did a major [clears throat]
teshuvah for that terrible, terrible
mistake.
Moshe Rabbeinu went back up to ask
Hashem to be mochel us.
He came down right before Rosh Chodesh
Elul. So that's already through the
summer.
He came down right before Rosh Chodesh
Elul and told Klal Yisrael Hashem was
mochel us. Now it's time to get the next
set of Luchos.
He went up again for the third time on
Rosh Chodesh Elul, stayed up in Shamayim
through the entire Elul, Rosh Hashanah
until Yom Kippur
and came down on Yom Kippur with the
second Luhos. On the day after Yom
Kippur, gathered together the whole
class of Israel and told them that we
have to build a Mishkan.
Gathered the materials the 11th
12th that was on the right the 11th 12th
13th and 14th day of
of Tishrei and then started building the
Mishkan on the 15th day of Tishrei which
is the first day of Sukkot.
Um [snorts] the Ananei Hakavod returned
cuz they were building the Mishkan.
That's why we have Sukkot on the 15th
day of Tishrei.
And
and they finished building the Mishkan
on the 25th day of Kislev.
And they were told not to do anything
with that Mishkan that they finished on
the 25th day of Kislev. And the 25th day
of Kislev was owed a Chanukas Hamishkan
for several hundred years.
But the 25th day of Kislev nothing
happened. The Mishkan was put into
storage
until
Nisan time. So for it's a pretty
incredible. The entire Mishkan was built
and ready for use.
And Hashem was like, "No, we're waiting
for Nisan."
Okay?
In the beginning of Nisan
I'll tell you exactly when in a minute.
In the beginning of Nisan they
erected the Mishkan.
First Moshe Rabbeinu served as Kohen
Gadol and he wore a white robe
and took apart put together and took
apart the Mishkan by himself, which is
impossible to physically do.
He put together and took apart the
Mishkan by himself for seven days and
brought korbanos in the Mishkan for
seven days. That's known as the Shiv'as
Yemei Hamilu'im. And then on the eighth
day Vayhi Bayom Hashmini he inaugurated
the Mishkan. It was an unbelievable day.
A fire came down from Shamayim. There
was a sad thing that day that Dassan and
Avihu were killed
because
they saw
and
a few days later
was time to do Pesach Pesach for the
second time. Right? What a year, no?
What an eventful year.
But a few days later after the Mishkan
was finally standing. After going
through
Mount
the breaking of the
the
the the building the Mishkan and so on
finally it was time to
it was time to
um
to have Pesach again.
And God said
God
speaks to Moses in the desert of Sinai
in the
second year let's say some time
and he says
the children of Israel do Pesach in
their time
Time to bring the carbon Pesach just
like you did in Egypt it's time to do it
now in the desert.
And then the reports to us that there
were men that were
men that were men
that were men
they were men men What an interesting
that we have on Friday Pesach for those
who were men men and we have this week
men men which is all the men men men men
men men men men men
But in any event
in any event you had people that were
men men and they couldn't do the carbon
Pesach. Now why couldn't why were they
men?
Why were they men men?
What men were they
being men men with were they were they
were they touching?
So there are different
in the Torah
Some say
that they were the ones
that took
the men men the deceased Nadav and Avihu
out of the holy of holies and buried
them
because although Nadav than a view were
burned alive for bringing that strange
fire into the Kodesh Hakodashim but
their bodies were untouched. Hazal say
that two strands of fire
came out from the Kodesh Hakodashim,
went into their noses, and burned them
from the inside. These Kedoshim, they
were very tremendous Kedoshim, very very
high madrega, and they they made a
mistake in bringing this asha zara, but
they were very very very very halo to
people and their bodies remained
completely intact.
And they were carried out. When a body
is brought out, of course, the person
that's carrying it becomes tamei. mace
And because they were tamei mace, they
couldn't bring the carbon Pesach. Now,
if you make a cheshbon, how many days
does it take to purify oneself when
someone comes in contact with a mace?
>> [snorts]
>> Anybody know?
>> Just until that evening.
>> No, there is such a thing. There is such
a thing. Other tumahs, other impurities,
it's still that evening. Yes. The person
goes to the mikvah, but for tumahs mace,
it's 7 days. 7 days, there is the
spraying of the parah adumah. It was in
addition to the mikvah, there's also the
waters of the parah adumah are sprinkled
on the person on day three and day
seven.
And the person becomes tohor after the
seventh
Okay, so what day in Nissan
is the carbon Pesach brought?
Pesach falls on the first day of Pesach.
The carbon Pesach is brought the day
before that.
Right?
So it's Yud Dalet, so it's the 14th day
of
Nissan, right?
So why couldn't Now, when was the
Mishkan put up?
>> On the first.
>> So many people say on the first day of
Nissan.
Over 14 days, they couldn't become
tohor?
So it must be It must be that those
people that say that the people that
were tummy were the ones who carried the
bodies of Nadav and Avihu out. It must
be that they hold that when Parshat
Shmini begins with the words Vayhi Bayom
Hashmini, and Rashi says it was Rosh
Chodesh Nissan, they hold Vayhi Bayom
Hashmini means it was Shmini B'Nissan.
And with the seven days that Moshe
This is very interesting in a lot of
different ways that I'm not going to get
into. That means that Moshe started to
put together and take apart the Mishkan
every day starting Rosh Chodesh Nissan.
He did that for seven days. On the
eighth day was the inauguration of the
Mishkan. And then if you became tamei
that day
on the 14th day of Nissan, you would
still be tamei seven days later.
So, you'd be stuck.
But
most people hold that the Mishkan was
actually inaugurated on the first day of
Nissan. So, who were these people that
were tamei? So, the Gemara says, nosei
aronai shel Yosef. It was those that
were carrying the body of Yosef
HaTzaddik, which includes all the
shvatim. They were those that were
carrying the shvatim's aronais
to bury in Eretz Yisrael. They were
taken from Egypt as we know. Vayikach
Moshe es atzmos Yosef, right? Moshe took
the bones of Yosef with him. And those
that were carrying them were tamei meis.
And
and they didn't have seven days
to to purify themselves.
That's the That's the discussion.
Anyway, they came to discuss with Moshe
They came to discuss with Moshe this
problem that they couldn't bring the
korban Pesach.
Okay? Now, I want to share with you one
more thing. I'm going to get to the
point here. Trust me, it is worth the
wait. Okay? Trust me.
It says here that they came in front of
Moshe
and in front of Aaron.
So now they came in front of Moisha and
in front of it doesn't say in front of
Moisha and Aaron. It says in front of
Moisha, lifnei Moisha, vilifnei Aaron.
So Rashi says, so how did that happen?
What happened exactly? Oh, so maybe it
means that they came in front of Moisha
and he didn't know what to do, so they
went to Aaron.
You're laughing. Rashi says that's
ridiculous. If If If Moisha lo yada,
Aaron heichan yada yada. If Moisha
didn't know, how was Aaron supposed
Moisha was Aaron's rebbe.
Okay?
So el amai it must mean they came while
Moisha and Aaron were both sitting in
the beit midrash, they came in front of
Moisha and in front of Aaron and my
question to you is, and trust me this is
worth the wait.
My question to you is why is it
important that Aaron was sitting there?
They are asking a question to Moisha
Rabbeinu.
Why is it important to stress it was in
front of Moisha? It doesn't Maybe
someone else was there also, it's not
relevant. Moisha was the teacher, right?
Aaron's opinion that wasn't they were
going to get from Moisha Rabbeinu. So
why is it important that it was in front
of Moisha and in front of Aaron? So the
Now let me pull this all together. This
is something that's absolutely
absolutely not only is this delicious,
like really really delicious divrei
Torah, but it's something that really
could propel us and motivate us and
excite us and our rabbi the sasha.
There was something so unique with
Pesach Sheini. To me Pesach Sheini is
one of the holiest days of the year.
It's just such an incredible day
because
you know, we live in a culture and a
society and it's not just our society,
you know, humanity has been this way
that we try to
uh uh expend as little energy as
possible. If we have a choice of moving
or not moving, we'd rather sit still,
you know? We're not interested in doing
things. And if we have a choice of being
potter from something,
we'll take the patur,
you know?
Um
you know, and and
the these men,
whether it was because of the bodies of
Nadav Vaveyu,
or it was because they were carrying the
urn of Joseph, they were not bad guys.
They were sadikim. They were holding the
bodies of sadikim. And that's how they
became tummy.
They could have said, you know,
a carbon Pesach, that's a sheep.
That's expensive.
Okay, that's an expensive That's an
investment. If you had a large family,
it was a big investment.
And they were potter from eating a
carbon Pesach.
Shoo.
You guys enjoy. I'm going to stay home.
They were potter.
Moshe Rabbeinu announces, "We're going
to be doing the carbon Pesach." They're
like, "One second, I'm tummy.
Okay, I'm potter.
I don't have to do it."
But that was not their attitude. They
came in front of Moshe
and they s-
It doesn't say that they screamed.
But if you listen to the words, you know
that they were pleading with Moshe. They
s- They didn't just say, "What should we
do? We're tummy."
They said, "Lama nigora?
Why should we lose out?
Clau Yisrael's bringing a carbon Pesach.
Clau Yisrael is becoming closer to
Hashem.
Clau Yisrael is serving Hashem together.
Why? Lama? Why nigora should we lose
out? Should we be less? We also want to
do. We also want to give. We also want
to serve.
Not I'm relieved that I'm potter. I'm
devastated that I'm potter. I want the
action here. I want to be involved. I
want to do. I want to give.
That's what That's what these people
said. And there's something that echoes,
reverberates through the generations,
Yidden that looked at the service of
Hashem not as something that
>> [sighs and gasps]
>> All right, I guess I have to do it, but
as something that we're so honored to
have been chosen to do.
That's why
it has the parsha of ger here.
Because a ger does that with all the
mitzvahs.
A guy is born,
he's patter from all the mitzvahs
besides for seven.
When a someone decides to join Klal
Yisrael, especially it's we're getting
going close to Shavuot where
we're thinking about the story of Ruth,
for example,
who
Ruth could have said, Naomi told her,
"You did good. Thank you for your
service. You took very good care of my
son. Time for you to go home now."
And Naomi said in a certain sense, "Lo
amani gora. I don't want to lose out. I
want what you have. I want to live the
way you live." And and very poignantly,
"I want to die the way you die. And I
want to be buried where you're buried. I
want I don't want to live the life of
patter from everything. I want to live
the life where I'm obligated, where I
can do, where I can give, where I can
serve. I want that." That's what a ger
says. So, the Torah You realize how I
told you it was worth the wait. The
Torah waits
to tell me the halacha that a ger should
bring the carbon Pesach until Pesach
Sheni cuz Pesach Sheni is the spirit of
the ger.
Pesach Sheni is the Yid saying, "I don't
want to be patter." Just like the ger
said about his whole life, "I don't want
to be patter." But, he's mechayev
himself in mitzvahs. Real chiyuvim like
he's punished if he doesn't do it
because he doesn't want to be patter.
Just unbelievable.
And that, I believe, is why Aaron is so
important here.
Because Moshe, this is a rule that's
important to know. You can understand
many things in the Torah if you
understand this. Moshe Rabbenu is the
first rebbe.
Aaron HaCohen
is the first student. He's the first
talmid. He was also a rebbe,
but he's the first talmid. He's not the
first rebbe, Moshe Rabbenu is. He's the
first talmid.
Moshe is the first giver.
Aaron is the first receiver.
Here was a mitzvah of Pesach Sheni. Who
created that mitzvah? The giver or the
receiver?
This was a unique mitzvah. Most mitzvahs
Hashem says,
Vayedaber Hashem el Moshe lemor, here's
what you're going to do. Comes from the
giver.
Here you had a mitzvah of Pesach Sheni,
where there was no mitzvah.
And the receivers said, "We want
something here. Lamah nigara? Why should
I lose out? There's something here that
I need. There's something
I want." Hakadosh Baruch Hu's hashgacha
was Aaron is sitting there, because this
is the power of the talmid. This is the
power of the receiver.
It's unbelievable.
So, so, so important for us to remember
this. And we've discussed this at
various times. I usually talk about this
um this concept um
of how fortunate we are to be mekayem
mitzvahs. We talk about this during Elul
and Rosh Hashanah time, but it's it's
something that we
we have so much to gain from focusing
on,
you know,
sometimes people mistakenly
think about their relationship with
Hashem
that there's some kind of transactional
relationship, where we do what Hashem
wants us to do, and then Hashem will do
what we want him to do.
You know, it's a transaction. Hashem, I
lit Shabbos candles, so you
clear up my kids' ear infection.
I to Allah Allah
so you
make sure I don't get a flat tire.
You know? And then sometimes if
something goes wrong, people like Allah,
you're not keeping up your end of the
deal.
And it's a big mistake on many levels,
but part of the mistake is you lit
Shabbos candles. Is that something you
gave or is that something you received?
No, the way to look at
it is
how incredible you are. Not only do I
get to light Shabbos candles, but also
you're going to clear up my kids' ear
infection.
It's not like Hashem, I did something
for you. Hashem doesn't need us.
Hashem gave us this khas
the the the the majesty
the the the the aristocracy that we can
serve him.
We're so grateful to Hashem for the
opportunity to Hashem could have chose
someone else. He chose us. We get to
serve him. Lamani gara, if we don't get
that chance to serve, we don't say,
"Shoo, I don't have to do it."
We want to be serving the king of kings.
We want to have that title, that crown,
that majesty, that we're the ones that
serve Hashem.
We look at both of that as a
as a pride. In the end parshas Nitzavim,
it says
um there's two pesukim there. One of
them starts with es Hashem he'emarta and
one of them starts with Hashem
he'emirkha. And they're two pesukim that
stand opposite each other. Es Hashem
he'emarta is what we do for Hashem.
He'emarta means to make great. You made
Hashem great. Va'Hashem he'emirkha is
how Hashem makes us great.
Okay?
So, one example brought in the Gemara is
that we wear tefillin that talk about
the greatness of Hashem. Shema Yisrael
Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad.
Hashem wears tefillin. You know what it
says in in tefillin? It doesn't say
Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem
Echad. In Hashem's tefillin, it says Mi
k'amcha Yisrael echad ba'aretz. So,
the echad in our tefillin is praising
Hashem. We make Hashem great. We talk
about the one Hashem. The echad in
Hashem's tefillin is he talks about his
his his one nation. Mi k'amcha Yisrael.
So, that's how we make Hashem great, and
now Hashem makes us great. But, there's
a list in the Torah. So, it says that we
make Hashem great by doing his mitzvos,
I'm listening to his chukim and his
mishpatim and serving him and so on and
so forth. And Hashem makes us great by
placing us above all the nations and by
and by all these other um um um
descriptions of the greatness and the
majesty of Klal Yisrael. But, what's
amazing is that to keep Hashem's laws
is on both lists.
It's unbelievable. It's on both lists.
Because we make Hashem great by keeping
his laws, and Hashem makes us great by
letting us keep his laws.
That's the greatness that we receive.
It's not just oh, Hashem, I did
something for you, now you do something
for me. Even what I do for you,
you're doing for me.
We say before we start Shemoneh Esrei,
we say Hashem safatai tiftach, ufi yagid
tehilasecha. Hashem, please open my lips
so that I can say your tefillah.
We're about to daven. What are we trying
to say?
I I I always ask this question by saying
maybe I should say Hashem safatai
tiftach before the tefillah of Hashem
safatai tiftach.
Like
it's ein od milvado.
Daven.
I'm going to daven, but let me give an
introduction. Hashem, please help me
daven. But, that was also a tefillah.
You see where I'm going with that?
The point No, the point is to
acknowledge that it's not like "Oh,
Hashem, look at me davening."
Who gave me a voice? Who gave me a mind?
Who gave me a spine that could stand
straight in front of Hashem?
I'm davening? No, Hashem is holding me
up to daven.
So, we recognize that by saying Hashem,
allow us to daven. In other words,
that's our starting Shemoneh Esrei,
recognizing even the davening that we
do, we're so grateful to Hashem for
giving us the ability to do that. We
don't finish and go like, "Okay, Hashem,
I davened. Now it's your turn."
No, we say Hashem, I davened. I should
daven all over again just to thank you
for the fact that I davened. Cuz I got
You know, not everyone [clears throat]
gets to approach Hashem like we do. We
could just talk to the Hakadosh Baruch
Hu on the throne anytime we want. And we
daven Shemoneh Esrei, we take literally
three steps forward and stand in front
of the Kisei Hakavod.
It's unbelievable. There are malachim
that in their entire existence, they get
to do that one time.
And we just
whenever we want,
stand in front of the throne. It's
unbelievable.
That's what That's what we get to do.
Something else here
besides for
besides for the unbelievable
enthusiasm,
the gift that we have to be able to
serve Hashem, to try to do the things
that we do with a sense of being
fortunate to have to do them, even when
sometimes they're difficult.
You know, when when uh
the King of England was here this week.
Are you aware of that?
I know that you're aware. Okay, thank
you.
Anybody else?
The King of England It's so funny for so
many years we used to say the Queen of
England.
>> Right.
>> Still getting used to saying the King of
England.
The King of England was here this week.
Maybe still here, I don't know. And
there was a lot of ceremonies, a lot of
ceremonies.
And the whole thing is kind of funny. He
came as part of the celebration of the
250th
um year since we revolted against
England.
The whole thing is just funny.
And
and and there's been talk about it like
like when he supposedly when he showed
up to the White House he was like, "Boy,
this is a lot better than the Boston Tea
Party."
You know.
But one thing that I appreciate and
that's why I'm aware of it. One thing
that I appreciate about it cuz in some
some some small tiny way
there's a certain sense of what Malchus
is.
In our country it's a little bit hard
to see Malchus and the truth is even
there it's hard because we know too much
about these people.
But
in the external
presentation
of the Messiah of the Malchus that they
have, you see some sense of Malchus and
as Yidden
that's something important to us cuz
Malchus is very much part of who we are.
There was a
there was a picture
of King Charles sitting in a chair in
the Oval Office.
And there was another picture of him
sitting in the Oval Office 57 years ago
when Richard Nixon was president.
Okay?
He's quite a young man. Okay? What was
amazing was I could not
you know, to me these things are like
fascinating.
He's not a young man, King Charles. He
was sitting there and you could go back
you
if you're missugah you could find those
pictures.
He was sitting
in that chair a certain way with his
hands crossed like this.
And if you look at the picture that was
taken 57 years earlier, he was sitting
exactly the same way. You could have put
the two pictures on top of each other.
Cuz there's a way that royalty sits.
It's amazing.
And
in the
there was a whole reviewing the troops
and and and um
American soldiers, British soldiers, a
whole ceremony, trumpets, this I
couldn't listen to that cuz it's sphere,
you know, but but but but trumpets and a
whole
ceremony of malchus.
So, I was just thinking to myself
you have this um
this guy
who
is
what is it called? The conductor
of the orchestra
that's playing the pompous music
as the king and queen come out of their
car.
And he's dressed in his in his military
uniform with a hat
in the very humid and it was a humid day
anyway, but the very humid Washington
D.C. weather if you're familiar.
And he's waving his stick.
You know, and and he's sweating in there
for sure.
Okay?
If someone would tell him
you know, you look hot.
Take off your jacket.
>> [laughter]
>> So, he wouldn't take off his jacket.
But, that's not my point.
My point is
he wouldn't want to take off his jacket.
Cuz he represents the malchus right now.
He wants to display his medals and his
uniform and his royal cap. He wants
that.
It's not like a burden on him at that
minute. Even though as soon as he got
home, you could be sure he threw that
thing on the couch so fast.
But, when he Unless he walked around the
house with that half the night cuz he
was so proud. That also could be. You
know? But,
he is carrying the malchus. The entire
world is watching him.
It There There are videos made of that
event that will be shown for 100 years
from now. This guy that he's etched into
history. He's representing the meeting
of two powerful governments and a
250-year friendship after they hated
each other
more than
human beings could hate each other.
>> [clears throat]
>> We carries 250 years? Are you kidding
me? For us, it's a joke. We did that
before breakfast.
Okay?
We carry all of that malchus of those of
you that saw it. All of that malchus
is a game.
It's a joke compared to the malchus I
watch sometimes. And you could go on to
the Agudah website and you could watch
Agudah conventions from 50 years ago, 60
years ago, 70 years ago. They just put
together a whole archive. It's
unbelievable.
Okay? And you watch
Reb Hutner, Reb Meisner, Reb Yaakov, Reb
Rodamin. You watch Reb Pam. You watch
different generations, you know, Reb
different generations of of Sadiq and
sitting and discussing the issues of
dressed in their royal
clothing.
That's not celebrating.
That's not some external
show of celebration of 250 years of
history.
That is a
authentic
expression
of the pride
of over 3,000 years of
that's what we participate in.
And it's not something that we be like
don't tell me too much about the people,
it will just ruin it for me. No, find
out about those people. Get to know
them. The more you know, the more
you'll see.
It's something that we have to be proud
of in our lives. We do things I'm not
just talking about the things that are
easy. I'm talking about the things that
are sometimes hard for us.
The things that we have to work hard
for.
To have a sense that guy that won't take
off his jacket, you know, he's not
taking off his jacket. This is his
pride. This is his This is his
everything.
He's not taking it off.
And that's the the attitude towards
that we need. There's one other thing.
And that is
what happens
if someone
didn't bring the carbon when came
not because he was dummy.
Not because he was far away.
But because he wasn't interested in
doing the so.
That's for sure.
Does he get to bring the carbon on
chain?
You would say, I don't think so.
It says if he couldn't do it.
It doesn't say if he didn't do it.
But that's not the so.
You look at the
verses so.
You look at the
verses Pesachim, it says clearly
that if someone didn't bring the carbon
on the first Pesach,
he too gets to bring the carbon on
Pesach Sheni.
When I learned that halacha,
I felt a little upset.
This Yom Tov of Pesach Sheni was created
for people that screamed lama nigara, I
don't want to lose out, and you didn't
care.
You just skipped it cuz you were tired
that day.
You should have the opportunity to bring
the carbon on the Pesach Sheni? I don't
think so.
But that's not the halacha. The halacha
is that that person has the opportunity.
And you know what that tells me?
That tells me that even when a Yid
seems on the outside
that he's not willing
or not interested in fulfilling a
mitzvah,
the Torah is telling us that on the
inside, he's crying, lama nigara, I also
want to do that mitzvah.
And maybe on the surface, maybe his
yetzer hara got the better of him.
And on the surface, he looked
disinterested, and sometimes Yidden do.
He looked angry or or like he's
rejecting Yiddishkeit. But the Torah
says, no, listen carefully. Look deeper.
Look deeper in his heart, and you will
hear a Yid saying, why did my yetzer
hara control me like that? How did I
fall victim to the yetzer hara? Lama
nigara, I'm also
I'm also I'm also sad that I lost out.
And I think that that's a big chizuk for
us
because of course, we have to be machzik
ourselves
to have pride
and excitement in fulfilling the
mitzvahs.
But sometimes, we have a hard time
mustering up that excitement.
And we feel
like it's a burden.
And it's important to know
that we too can cry to Akaddishbaruchu
to open our hearts
and to be heard by Hashem because a Yid
never stops saying Lamani Gara.
A Yid always wants to serve Hashem.
And sometimes we feel that on the
outside
and sometimes we know people, if not
ourselves, we know people
we interact with people, we try to be
mechanech people sometimes
that don't seem interested.
The worst possible thing that we could
do as parents and as educators
is to believe that lie.
That when a child says
whether I what I have a old that child
is
but when a child says
I'm not interested
don't believe it.
Maybe the surface is not interested, but
the Torah teaches us that even a Yid
that says I'm not interested is always
saying Lamani Gara. So whether it's
ourselves to believe in ourselves that
we are always saying Lamani Gara
or whether it's the people that we
interact with to believe in them and to
know that when push comes to shove this
is what they want. Sometimes they
position themselves in a position of
anti.
So interesting sometimes how people
continue to come to the table to cause
trouble.
You ask yourself sometimes, why don't
they just stay home?
You know why? Cuz they're crying Lamani
Gara.
Okay, they're protecting themselves with
whatever they're protecting themselves.
So whoever you interact with with
starting with yourself
and extending out to all the different
types of Yidden that you interact with,
never believe I'm not interested. Just
don't believe it.
It is a lie. Maybe this person doesn't
realize they're lying, but it is a lie.
The reality is Yidden want to serve
Hashem. That's what they want. Peel away
enough layers and you will find that
you're saying
I want to serve Hashem.
And that's what we have to believe. We
have to hear the cry of
even from those people
even from those people that we don't
that don't know how to cry the
with their mouths. We have to know that
they're crying it with their hearts.
Hashem should give us all
us and the people that we interact with
the ability to feel our
and to know that
always responds. You see it here. Always
responds when a says I don't want to
lose that.
Thank you.