Pesach: The Birth of the Jewish People [Five Towns Zoom Shiur]

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good evening everyone thank you for joining us tonight um it's been quite quite a time here quite as man but um we know the banished silence could bring us salvation um like in the blink of an eye the same way he took us out of mitzrayim and uh the yeshua came we were wallowing in the time we were languishing in mitsrayam but ultimately when the ivanisham took us out we couldn't believe it it was so sudden it was so quick so too because of hashem we're we're awaiting this salvation we're waiting this yeshua and uh when it comes we'll look back and we'll see that everything was the said hashem if i could just figure out how to open this up we will be good see okay perfect okay so i want to speak about a subject this evening uh related to the omp of pesach after all despite the fact that we're uh we're all languishing and wallowing in our homes and awaiting the day that we could uh come out and be part of society again but nevertheless the umptif of pesach is upon us it's already bay's nissan and uh today is the day that we begin to prepare the ashes of the duma we still have the opportunity for mashiach to come this year the said that when hazal tell us what that means is that although we await the every single day of the year and there's always the possibility of the coming of mashiach records that when the month of nisan comes it's like a safe hackle 50 50. so if there's ever a good time for mashiach i think we all agree it's certainly now but we're preparing for the umph of pesach and one of the sukkah that we're going to recite on pesach took us out of egypt what is this so the avodraham the great commentary of a re-shine which is primarily on the siddhar but it's also a peroxian says the word za 12. because of the 12 minute slice that we do the night of the say there the ivan took us out of egypt to perform these twelve myths what are they the abuja says they are charissas so these are the twelve mid-twice and the merit of these 12 minutes voice the ribbon asylum took us out of mitzrayim and then in his haggadah you know what i'm going to do something a little bit uh unconservative okay you see i'm moving my computer you see right over there in the right hand column second shelf those are all the swarm of i have all the swarm of but in the shelf beneath in the right side in the set it does not come with the haggadah of the regal so let me show you i'm going to bring to you don't go anywhere sorry for my uh brief disappearance in the haggadah of the khida my grandfather brought this over from europe there's a one on the storm that i'll tell you something interesting i'm the last year so if i go over you know nobody would even know but um the my grandfather after the holocaust he was after liberation he was appointed the head of the religious department of the joint distribution committee and in that capacity he was also given access to some of hitler's repositories of svaran hitler gathered together many many um ancient books and ancient documents and he collected it in a number of libraries one of them was called the offenburg library and my grandfather had access to these libraries and this is actually one of the safari my grandfather brought over the chidaz and asked the question on the avodaham says mitzvah that this passage is talking about and that is the highest level of superiority so that's a 13th minute so we do the night of the seder but in fact amazingly brethren [Music] who is the yidd who dedicated himself to the writings of the vilnigan he says he heard in the name of a god-fearing person named who used to be a rav in the city of mir who heard from rebecca who had a tradition from the vilna going that you know how many mitzvahs we performed the night of the say there the night of the say there we perform no less than 64 mid-slice amazing here it is not 12 like that is counting the mitzvos but he's not counting the missiles that are performed badibor so he doesn't count siberia smithsonian in addition you have the mitzvah of the super euthyrs mitzrayim but says the um the villenegoin and this again is the tradition that is recorded by rabravda that if you count all the diburam and all the amiroys and all the expanded lists of the missus we do the night to say there amazingly there are 64 mitzvots that are performed the night of the say there so can you imagine you can have a guy come in or a girl come in the night of the stay there and they're in the red and by the time the night is over they're in the green they've performed an additional 64 mid slice so we have to ask ourselves why is this night so different so special so unique that we perform so many so many mitzvahs there is no other night of the year that we come even close to the sheer number of midsoles that we perform the night of the seder well sukis so you sit on the sukkah that's one i don't know you want to count to spiesen uh you know you may have uh somebody who'll dispute whether you can even count that there's no other night of the year that we perform even five midfields certainly not ten midslice and the night of the cedar we have so many mitzvahs so i'm gonna bring to your attention a chuva written by the radhvas the advance was the rebbe of none other than the arizona himself the rabbaz was rabbi in cairo for 40 years he wrote more than 2 400 shiva's literally to the ends of the world and he addresses the following question asked there is no avairah in the torah there is no israel in the torah that has so many humorous like the israel of hamads first of all hametz is in israel's which is the highest level of spiritual punishment furthermore hameds you're not you have to search for it you don't have to search for other isurim for example let's say you buy a house and the guy who used to live in the house will call him tony and tony every tuesday night he ordered burger king every wednesday night he ordered kfc every thursday night he ordered and you know that his house is rampant with tarfa's when you move into this house do you have a here to search tony's couch to look for all the hummates in tony's couch or to search the radiators to look for all the uh excuse me the tarfus and the buster bacholov and all the uh uh treyfah that tony left over there's no here to check the house for a tarfus and let's say you find some burger king in the house do you have to burn it don't have to burn it just get rid of it there's no bedica you don't have to nevato it you don't have to do srifa you don't have to go to your rub and um knock on the rafter the roster new well let's go bus master you wouldn't believe it i bought a new house and my house is uh full of a burger king and i came to sell it to you rob so rob says what am i supposed to do with his burger king why would you sell it to me go sell it to someone else but yet we don't sell the raw of the tarfast in the house but we sell the rav the comments in the house so we have so many hummus when it comes to khames that we don't find by any isuram in the tairan the dika bittol sreifa ishahu i'll give you another example there used to be something in the olden days called airplanes let me explain to you what an airplane is you know it's like uh it's like a car and it drive cars everybody you know what i'm talking about when i say car car the thing that after 14 days you could go out of your house and into this little uh into this little box with the steering wheel and you drive it you know some of you don't even remember what i'm talking about but there used to be in the olden days something called an airplane before this whole corona thing you could read about it in the books they used to have airplanes now i'm going to tell you a lot about the airplane we should be zoeka to be on one soon headed toward yerushalayim if you're on a airplane and the guy next to you is eating are you allowed to eat your kosher sandwich right next to him avada nevada of course you could you could eat your kosher sandwich but what but what if uh while he's eating a little piece of his pig flies into your food no problem if his trade soup flicks up in the air and flies into your kosher soup in fact the banana salsa writes is an indian to eat it the the tarfus that became mutter is actually has a kedusha in it okay be it as it may you're allowed to eat your uh kosher food next to someone who's eating traif because the worst comes to worst some of the straight food food flies into your food it's important if you're sitting on a table and someone's eating pizza and you're eating a salami sandwich are you allowed to eat at the same table with him you're allowed to as long as you make a hacker on the table you have a separate placement a separate tablecloth this way this will remind you not to partake of his pizza while you're eating your salami sandwich because uh pizza is kosher it's just you can't eat it right now because you're a flake what's the halacha though so uh basar bachalav you could eat at the same table with a hacker what about if somebody's eating ham on the table and you're eating kosher food on the table you can eat it at the same time you don't even need a hacker we're not worried you're gonna take a piece of his ham and eat it so ham you could eat at the same time without a hacker bastard you need a distinction hermes what if you go to great adventures what's great adventures also you can read about it in the books when they used to have kalamay trips back in the day people used to go to a big amusement park and waste about hours of their life waiting online to be shaken up back and forth that's what great adventures is but anyway they have these big tables there can you eat a kosher sandwich when someone's eating treyf on the other end of the table you're allowed to you don't even need a hacker and that's because we're not worried you're gonna take a piece of the traif but what about you go to great adventures on pisa and someone's eating hummus on the other end of the table are you allowed to eat your matzah on the other end of the table not only you're not allowed to it doesn't help if you make a if you have a separate tablecloth if you have a separate placemat you cannot eat casual pasta food on a table that someone is eating hummus what if the table is a million miles long you still can't eat it you know why we're afraid the wind's gonna blow it's gonna blow a little crumb of his comments and it's gonna fly into your food and allah is on passage is not even bottom so why is that why is comets worse than milk amit why is comets worse than khazertrev why is it worse than ham why is that well what's wrong with it why is it so terrible we have so many hundreds of humans we don't have these hummus when it comes to any other prohibition in the torah and the radwaz is harveying and thinking trying to explain why is khamenei so much more humber than any other any issue in the torah and he doesn't know and the radhas therefore says there is no shot there is no clear and simple rationale why hamas is the most strict israel in the torah the only thing we could say is that because hamas is tells us there was an america by the name of alexandria and rob alexandria would conclude his prayers every day with a small twila he would say rebin master of the universe revealed before you [Music] know it is our will to do you your will and new so why don't we um so what's preventing us says the gemara issa the yeast and the dough the sheban and the subjugation of the nations of the world now sheban malphius we understand the persecution of the nations of the world the prevailing cultures of the name of the nations of the world pearl at us ideology and hashikafa that's and the very antithesis to the torah but what does the gemara mean that the yeast in the dough prevents us from serving hashem and rashi says the isa refers to the eight sahara the sahara is the yeast in the dome it is called the yeast and the dough here you have dough it's humble it's small it's not inflated here you have a guy he's a humble guy someone insults him someone steps on his toe no what am i i'm offering comes along the yeast and the dough and the yeast puffs up the dough the dough is not really bigger it's just expanded it's a bunch of hot air kanji zahara and he puffs us up he said do you know who you are you know what you need to eat you know what kind of pleasure you need to involve yourself in you know how angry you should be because he said this that and the other thing most of our averroes are because of the sahara what is our greatest enemy in this world who is our greatest enemy what's the answer to that question some people say their boss some people say a relative of theirs who i don't want to mention who is your biggest enemy is the biggest enemy we have in this world is the yetzer hara the yeast and the dough relates the story of warriors who are coming back from warfare and they met al-khasid and said you've now returned from the small war you're headed to the great battle and they said what are you talking about what's the great battle and the hostage said the battle against the sahara we all have a horrible enemy a terrible enemy worse than this virus we have a dangerous mortal enemy and that is the sahara who has devoted every ounce of his very existence to get us to sin and then to kill us therefore says get rid of him and destroy him you have to search for him and the cracks and the crevices you have to burn him you have to be mavata him it's not even there are no extremes that are too extreme this beautiful haggadah that i've calculated says searching the cracks and crevices these seven humans correspond to the seven names that the eight sahara has the gemara tells us that the israel has seven names ra mikshal rl evan the seven names of the itsahara represent the seven powers and the seven capabilities that the tsar has to entrap us and to get us to sin therefore we have seven homuras when it comes to comics was searching searching searching for a rationale for a logic why is humates so hamur and he could not come up with what is called shot and he had to resort to what is called the drush and ramez says when there is no shot and you need to say jerush the jerusha is then upgraded this is the shot the says search for him in the cracks and crevices we cannot tolerate even one crumb friends if that's the case we have a major problem on our hands because the comments is the most hammer issue in the torah because it represents the izahara then could someone tell us tell me why we spend the majority of our life in our days and our year consuming humid i mean we're saying is worse than hazard it's worse than halev it's worse than dam it's worse than nevaela because it's a hara yet we never eat navel we never eat rafa we never eat khazer and humates which is the worst of them all we spend the majority of our life going to bakeries eating pizza eating cookies we jews we love homemade we can't get enough of it if it's so hum or why do we devote the majority of our life eating it so to answer this question i want to share with you the approach of the peshlishi the third mouth none other than a talmud of the talmud of the going who offers us based on the arizal an incredible understanding of atheism and repsender you hear this geschmack right and based on the arizal but before i do that i want to give you a weather report a weather repo yeah we always start with the weather report it's 9 20. it's almost the eighths on the eighth i'm giving you a weather report the torah tells us as the introduction to the exodus of egypt the torah tells us today you're leaving in the springtime so before we hear anything about mitzvahs in the torah we have a weather report i need to know the weather who cares about the weather imagine god willing on the day that the this coronavirus ends are people going to be interested what the weather is like but apparently on the day that hashem took it it emphasizes the weather it was spring why do i need to know it's spring so pink s the torah is emphasizing that it was a beautiful season to teach us the jewish people were wallowing in egypt they were languishing in egypt they were on the 49th level of tomah they had a slave mentality they had low morale and god comes to them through mush and says isin i'm preparing you i'm taking you out of egypt and we're going to go to sinai and i'm going to give you the torah and you're going to be and the jewish people said what we're in the 49th level of tama we're making pyramids we're on a very low level we're like slaves we have no we have we don't have confidence we don't have the wherewithal to be the selected chosen nation we're just going to turn the page on our dark past so god says no realize it's springtime now the winter is over in the winter the world is in a state of death the world is all the animals are hibernating people are don't go out the trees have no leaves all the leaves have fallen off the tree the the world is like in a state of death and then the spring comes and the world turns alive and the animals come out and frolic and the trees bloom and blossom and the dark death of winter is over and the world is reborn likewise says review in the name of the arizal yetzis mitzrayim was the virtual birth of the jewish people now every pregnancy has three parts to it the there's three trimesters in the first trimester you could look at the lady you can't even tell she's pregnant even the mother-in-law doesn't know she's pregnant she thinks yeah you can't even tell so too in the first trimester of yetis mitsrayam now the first thing is you have to know the baby the embryo is developing in the womb of the mother the the womb is a very dark damn damp dank dirty place a grimy place so who is going to be the womb for the jewish people we need a dark place a dank place a dirty place mitzrayim there are a bunch of basar there's no dank dirty decrepit place in the world to be the womb for the jewish people then that's ryan and first is the first trimester first trimester you don't even know the woman is pregnant you could look at the jewish people in egypt you didn't even know we were in golos we were there with yaakov with the shepherd and we were successful we were financially independent no one even knew we were in the galas and then furthermore we come to the second trimester second trimester we uh things get a little different uh difficult the baby gets a little bit bigger the conditions get a little bit more cramped and uncomfortable and here we are we're in egypt they begin to subjugate us they begin to torture us they begin to make us work and labor and now is when the pain of the labor is felt most acutely and then we come to the third trimester the third trimester the mother can't breathe everything is difficult the mother can't bend over the mother can't do household chores the inexperienced mother thinks this is so painful this is so this is torturous and the inexperienced mother says the longer this is going on the more endless this will be this will never ever be over but the experienced mother knows the more painful the pregnancy gets the closer it is to the end the closer to labor and delivery so too in the final trimester in egypt the final trimester was the last 86 years from the birth of miriam 86 years gematria christ the last 86 years were a bitter bitter bitter and the jews thought it was so torturous so bitter we'll never get out of here but it was just the opposite the more torturous things got the faster hashem was redeeming them the closer they were to birth the course the closer they were to delivery and then finally it comes time for the delivery of the jewish people which began on the first day of pesach and concluded now this is oyama noira we know that the first symptom of childbirth is blood what was the first maka and mitsrayam damn why because the nation they're coming out the baby's about to be born it's almost time for the lay down there for the first makkah was damn [Music] why the emphasis on ss iii the music is a clever because what's happening now is the birth of the jewish people and we know there are three keys that god retains sole possession of that he doesn't give to any shleaf and one of those keys is what the key of childbirth so since utilization was the birth of the jewish people only god could do it via var tv casey hashem like sarah what was the reaction on the try in the night of marcus there was a great outcry a great gashrai why the focus on this outcry why the focus on this geshe who cries louder than anybody else a woman in labor now imagine if that woman was not having one baby was having twins imagine how loud she would scream you never heard such a a scream and imagine if she's having triplets or quadruplets imagine if the lady is having 600 000 babies what's such a loud cry in egypt nobody ever heard such a cry because this was the collective labor and delivery of the entirety of the jewish people i would like to suggest something remarkable we know that our result tells us pesach is a compound word pass off the mouth that speaks that uh through pesach our freedom of speech was liberated and therefore on pesach we sanctify our power of speech our faculty of speech by speaking about yetis mitzrayim by achilles our mouths were open why do you think our mouths were open with you see trying because what is inside of analogous to the birth of a child the ignorant tells us what is the state of a child in his mother's womb his mouth is closed piv saw some and what happens when the baby is born the mouth opens wide and therefore with the atheist mitzrayim our faculty of speech was liberated and our path became and therefore pesach is called pesach the mouth that speaks and i'll tell you something from yes it was worth down to come it was worth it to come to this world just to hear this and matzah they have the same letters mem they both have a men they both have sadie the difference let's try to do this uh hey you get the picture what's the difference between closed captioning not [Music] you know available it's so important to eat matsan pesach because the matzah is the opening of the ghast and that little opening of the fest of khames into the hay of matzah is the pesach is the opening of the womb that allowed us to be born but if you don't eat matsan pesach you are trapped in egypt forever and ever matsua is the liberation hummates is the trapdoor of egypt that's the critical importance of eating matzah on pesach you remain trapped in subjugation in torturous egypt when you eat matzah it's mata is says rav shrimp shin pinkas so beautiful you know we said why do we eat hamates all year we eat come it's all here because we all mediate sahara the world could not exist without the eight sahara my zeida zelda zone sign of shaman hirschfen he once told me that his masjid he wanted rjj in the thirties his epstein used to tell the boys you need to play ball every day you know why you need to play bowl every day you can't starve your yate sahara if you starve you ate sahara it's bad news everybody needs to have a little yatzah if you don't have yatsuhara you can't function you remember the gemara numa the ancientness of um sahara and uh the world couldn't function even the chickens stopped laying eggs we need sahara and therefore we eat chromates the whole year however once a year we can eat homemade and that's pesach time because that's when we were born i'll give you emotional you know so your wife serves you some dinner and let's say during normal times a piece of potato falls on the floor so you know nash and zikani is their homes are so clean you take the potato you pick it up you blow it off and you eat it what's the problem your house is pretty clean i don't know about today maybe today you'll pour some pureel on it but under normal conditions you pick it up it's not the end of the world but what if the baby's bottle falls on the floor oh no you're not blowing it off and giving it to the baby the baby's immune system is not developed the baby doesn't have the wherewithal to fight disease yet maybe an adult does maybe a grown child us but not a baby everything a baby consumes has to be perfectly sterile perfectly clean and hygienic yet zahara we could deal with the sahara we could tolerate the itsahara we eat hummus the whole year but pesach is when we were born pesach is the beginning of our life as the jewish people pesach is the leader of khali once a year we're like newborn babies our food has to be completely and perfectly sterile from the yetzer hara we cannot tolerate any aids sahara we cannot be so evil any asahara our immunity is not developed yet don't worry in eight days we'll have the wherewithal to fight the itsahara will even eat the eights of her daily but not pesach pesach is our birth pesach is our development is the beginning of the jewish people and therefore we have to be so careful with every ounce of food that it's completely sterile from the insane now why are there more mitzvos the night of the seder than any other night of the year you know the gemara chaba says that when a baby is born there are certain activities that you do for the baby you could even be michael shabas to do these activities you could warm up hot water you could swaddle the baby you inoculate the baby you could suction its lungs because the baby's immune system is not developed these are the activities that are performed for the child that will establish the health and the well-being for the child for the rest of the child's life so too the night of say there is the night of the birth of kali israel we're like newborn babies whatever we do this night will determine our spiritual well-being for the entirety of the year and therefore there are special activities that we do the night of the day there there's a whole regimen there are 64 mitzvahs the rest of the year we know we we have the we have this thing down we know what we need to do we know we have to be by uh jews who are alive and well but the night of the city there is the night of our birth and the activities we do the night of the cedar determine and establish our spiritual well-being for the entirety of the earth so i want to be the first to wish everybody mazel tov on your upcoming birth i'm going to be the first to wish everybody barack obama in your inauguration and initiation as day hashem and we should be zojka that by the enthusiasm the master should liberate us from our own shibudim everybody has their own sheba mitzrayim and certainly this year the situation that we're in the should from all the various tsaras that we all face and by through the achilles massa that shall liberate us from our shibudim from our holy from everything we need yeshua from and may the midsole give us the strength the endurance and the spiritual wherewithal to be able to navigate ourselves and our families as alive and valiant and courageous jews throughout the year the evangelism should send all of thank you so much for listening you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com