Pesach: The Seder of Rebbi Akiva in Bnei Brak - The Chida's Revelation Why the Tanaim All Went There

Okay, good morning everyone. Again almost we're going to speak a little bit about let's begin with a very important question. Today's learning is dedicated by our dear friend and neighbor Dr. in honor of the yard of his mother. She whole family. Okay. There is a famous account of a sedar that took place with five of the greatest Tanoim. They were Rabelzar, Rabbi Yeshua, Rabbazaria, Rabi Ka, and Rabbi Tarfine. Off the bat, what's very interesting to note is the first Tana mentioned in the Hagada. Who's the first Tana mentioned in the Hagada? Rebelar. Interesting. Can we ask why is the first Tana mentioned in the Hagada? Rebelar. If we maintain and have the amuna that the hagada is written purposefully and every single word is important and the placement of certain names are of significance then of course we're entitled to ask why is the first name mentioned by the way which is the first name mentioned in revelar revel is the first mentioned Shass. So in the new Hagada of the pinas, he brings the mass Hagada formulated the Hagada patterned after shas patterned after Mishna. Just like Rebel is the first Hana mentioned in the Mishna. He's the first Hannah mentioned in the Hagada. Now there are reasons why Rebar is the first Hannah mentioned in the Hagada. You know Kazal say Rebelar says nobody ever beat me to the shul. He was always the first one in the shul. So therefore we give him the honor. He's the first one mentioned in the Hagada and that's why he's the first Tana mentioned in Shas. By the way, he's also he said nobody ever left after him. So he's the last Tana mentioned in Shas. Okay, we have these five Tano. And what were they doing? They were discussing the events of Mim the whole night until the students came and said, "Our rabbis shakas, let's ask one simple question. What would you call a guy that's shaking a lulv on some food? He's he's out of his mind. You know, there's no mitzvah to shake on on some it's maybe maybe it's maybe not. But it's not the right time. In other words, mitzvah are not just inherently good deeds. You have to do them at the right time. If you do them the wrong time, know some people they they wake up, they say. Very nice. But if you don't say it bismano then you miss the boat. You don't get credit for the creation. You have to make sure you do mitzvah at the right time. When is the right time to discuss the events of the night of the 15th? All night or until you know it's the mitzvah of is linked to which mitzvah matzah. The mitzvah of matzah is linked to which mitzvah. When until when do you have to bring the carbon pesary and Rabi Rabi says you have the whole night to be m of the car accordingly you have the whole night to eat matzah you have the whole night to discuss the events of m so you understand why raka was discussing the events of the whole night but razar holds carbon pak is only accordingly matzah is only according accordingly is only so could somebody tell me why Rebel Bazar was discussing the events of the whole night. I have two problems with it. Number one, it's a meaningless act. So you say it's not meaningless. You're talking about Hashem's miracles. Once you're not being you might as well either learn or asel asks, better to go to sleep. Why is it better to go to sleep? because there's a mitzvah of and I don't know about you but I could tell you personally that I get sleeping and I could use some. So why was staying up the whole night speaking about that says he should have gone to sleep. You can't use the if you hold like you have the whole night. If you hold like you have to can't bring in. Yeah. So that's the question on rebel. Okay. You hear the kash who asked this question. It's a famous question that what was her bless doing speaking about when is over the way asks it is so you want to hear the stipler's answer says the stipler there's a rule that follows the now where is the sedar taking place this sedar is taking place in Benabra who is the mardasra in Ben. The Gomorrah says in Sanhedrin was a rabbi. So if there's a follows him and everybody defers to his view. Therefore since and in his view is the whole night is the whole night. So is the whole night. So Rebel Aaria in deference to Rabaka spoke about the events of the whole night. That's the answer of the stipler. Okay. But we could ask one simple question on that and that is why in the world would rebelar subject himself to Rabbi Kea's view and go to Benabra for Yamiff he should have stayed home where he could follow his own view or you could ask that on Rebel Nazaria why is Rebel Nazar in Benra what's Rishua doing in Benra what's doing inbra they don't live there why did the greatest tanom of the era dapka go to rebaka and now they have to defer to the view of Rabi Aka. Is that a good question? The correct response is yes. Okay. So, the wrote, if I'm not mistaken, five different Hagadis. He wrote five perushim on the Hagada. One of the perushim the wrote is saf. And in the says like this, the intent of these was they were an undercover mission. It was undercover. What was undercover? They were doing mystical um effectuations. They were doing mystical stuff, but they had to do it undercover. So they hid it under the guise of they wanted to go to Benabra. you know, everybody likes to go to Benbra. People go to Israel, they go to Benbra and the sometimes and that's it. So, they figured, let's just say we're going to Ben, but says the I'll read to you his words. They agreed to go each person from their place and each one to go to Ben to do a awesome rectification. by joining together. They were careful not to reveal what their intent was. This is what they said when they were going. Let's go recline in as if they wanted to enjoy themselves there. Has good air in Ben. They have such good air in Ben. And when they got there, they spent the whole night speaking about the knowledge meaning with desired secrets. And this is what the balag is telling us that as they were traveling, as they were reclining, they were enjoying the yumptip. Listen to this. They were discussing in the secrets of wisdom and great rectifications. So the in his new hagada wants to know okay what does that mean? What were they doing? You have to know the daram says rabaka learned tora from rabar and rabbi Yeshua for 12 years. So now they're going to him. Why were they going to him? Okay, just fasten your seat belts. I have to summarize for you the Wednesday night share in just a couple minutes and we're going to take it to the next level. And that is number one, who wrote the sha pak msora publications. No, even though art scroll has more than 60 Hagadis, they were not the ones who wrote the hagada. while we're on the topic, but make sure you do have the art scroll English, Spanish, and French Hagada. Make sure you have all three. Uh, but they were not the ones who composed the Hagada. Who composed the Hagada? I want to share with you the view of Rabim Falagi. Faji writes in his commentary on the Hagad Sha Pesak that Rabaka was none other than the author of the Hagada Sha Pesak. Rabbi Aka wrote the Hagada. Rabi wrote the Hagada. Now that's very interesting. So one thing is for sure. If Rabaka if we accept what says wrote the Hagada. So he's so to speak the master on matraim. We could understand why all the tanom wanted to go to rabbi. I mean this is his specialty. You know different raonim have different specialties. Rav was expert inveter was was expert in da mise and accordingly rake was a master of agadada which fagi interprets to mean the hagada. The actually the kazal say is the author of now it's not most do not understand that to mean the understand but if this was his expertise we could understand why they went to him okay and let's let's let's start there next step the next step is an amazing discovery okay but before that I want to share with you An important yad about the is the says in rashim the 50 gates of wisdom they were all given to except for one that was missing just one level from god so there are 50 levels of wisdom had 49 he didn't have the 50th he didn't have the 50th by the way that was the rush to get us out of mim Because we had fallen to the 49th level of tumah. Moshau had the 49th level of wisdom to yank us out. But had we fallen to the point of no return, the 50th level, Mosha would not have had the capacity to get us out cuz he only had the 49th level of kaduca. He didn't have the 50th. If he would have had the 50th, we could have fallen to the 50th and then Mosha could have yanked us out. However, there's one person in history who had the 50th level of bina of kadusha. That's Rabi. How do we know that? The medish says like this. The medish says it's a medish in parake. His eye saw all preciousness. Who's that? says vital on this medish at the end of Shabasiml is 50on okay what what do you call the shaunon kal yakar yakar you ready for this I don't know maybe your great-g grandandmother when she lit candles she davined very well that you should be zak to hear Do you know that the Mala Muk says this week's parish of Aayikra? There's a small alif. You know what the Gamachia Yehuda knows this? I want to welcome my friend Rabuda Manell. He drove in all the way from Brooklyn. And also Rab Ai Burk was driven all the way from West Hamstead. And also my brother came all the way from but he's not here anymore. Anyway, you know the malamuk says the gamatria of alfer is 399 rebaka. So, so you have the alfra is rabaka and what's the rest of the word yaker vayak var who had yakar small alfaka this week's para the small alf is gamach 399 rabbi what was he anyway anyway it says the when the says that they were discussing the secrets of wisdom. You could be sure that these Raban made it their business on PES to go to Abaka to learn a little bit of the Shaun. Now, why were they so interested in the Shaun on Pes? Okay, so here's something amazing. How did Hashem take us out of Mim with the 50th gate of wisdom? Actually, I want to share with you another you know the says on the Hashem comes to Mosha says Moshe take them out right now says no not mel send somebody else who's somebody else says brings a medish was saying send explains in his that was I'm under a lot of stress over here you know people say stop stop you're causing me stress You know, everyone's afraid of stress. Nothing will have stress is good for you a little bit. You overcome it, it makes you makes you stronger. Anyway, says, "You're stressing me out. You're you're you're rushing me to take them out of Mitsim that if I don't take them out now, they're going to fall to the point no return. We could do this much more relaxed. Just send Rabi Aka. He has a 50th level of kaduca. So, it's no rush. Cuz even if they fall to the 50th level of tuma, he could yank them out. Stop pressuring me. Ask Rabbi Kea to do it. If I do it, I got to do it now. Let Rabbi Kea do it. He could do it in a much more relaxed way. He could yank them out even if they fall to the point of no return. Lisa the Zak says Hashem pulled the Jewish people out of with the shun of Kadusha. Now could only bring in 49 of the levels, but Hashem took us out with 50. How do I know? How many times does it say in the 50 times you know that 50 times it says in the now the in his commentary to tune tries to identify what are the 50 times so does the ramach so I'm gonna tell you a little secret the pinas quotes the raises that you know, do you know that the main body of the ising the four you ever wonder why would the go to the to elaborate and explicate them how to and it'll it explains it based on can you imagine It jumps to and it uses to explain the just use theim in to explain that's the story. Why would we go to like a reference to the story and use the story to explain the reference? Just bring down the story says Wolfen because Hashem took us out of Mitsim with the 50 gates of wisdom. The 50th gate of wisdom corresponds to the 50th time YSI Mitsim is mentioned in the Kesh. The 50th time is mentioned in the are the says this explains why the we quote we cut them we start in the middle of the p we start why don't we start from the beginning of the p why do we start the p in middle of the p if you count the number of words that we bring from we bring exactly 50 words. Now who wrote the according to what did he base the on the what are the of the 50th time is mentioned in the how many words did revaka bring he brought 50 words has another astounding uh discovery if you count the number of in the starting with until you have 50 chapters. So think about it. Reva is the only one who mastered 50. Therefore, he wrote the because it's the story of Hashem taking us out of the 50th gate of wisdom. He composed 50 chapters. He brought down 50 words. He brought down the 50th time is mentioned in the do we now understand. Okay, so that was us just like weaving together a lot of different sources that the Hagada is based on the Shaun which is symbolized by how the pattern of the Hagada is based on number 50 and explaining how it comes out very beautiful if you maintain that wrote the Hagada says the pinas do we understand now why these Tanoim especially went out of their way to go to Rebaka Sedar Now I want to share with you something interesting. There's a safer alfin. You know who wrote Alf Hamin? It was written by Rebel Alazar Papay. Anybody know who Rabbi Elazar Papay is? Very good. The author of the Paley. The author of Palat. He wrote a safer onesh and in his I found he wrote a parish on the Hagada. You ready for this? You ready? What you want to hear what he writes about this story? You want to hear what he writes about this story? Page Rafe. It's going to blow your mind. It says they were messim. What does the word misappre mean? Anybody know there's a language called um anybody familiar with that language? What does the word miss mean? Tell me just translate the word. It's not a trick question. Number what? Number number. Counting. They were counting. What does it mean? They were counting. How do you count? It says what they what were they counting says they were counting the number of times it says because the gr asks it doesn't say it 50 times it says 90 times and the gr has a whole tora how do you identify which times count and which times don't count the says the ones Hashem told Moshe specifically 25 the one that Moshe told Israel 25 the other 40 they don't meet the bill the ramach says we only count the times that are mentioned in a way that Hashem wanted us to remember the event, not if it just says that Hashem took his in passing. In any event, um I want to read to you what he says. He says, "Okay, you ready?" And they couldn't count. They didn't they didn't understand. So, who do you think they went to? They knew there's one man who's a expert in how many times it said Rabbi. Now we know the med says what was not revealed to Moshe was revealed to Rabaka and his students. Okay. Which student? Who is a student to Rabika? Who is the most eminent student to Rabika? No. Who? Don't be ashamed. Who? The raji says the ham among them is he's the one who taught in the z that there 50 times it says where did he get it from? He had to get from his rabbi raika. So these tano made sure to go to rabbi sedar. They knew that the would be there among them the rashi and they would finally understand how hashem took us out of because if there's anyone in history who understood better than anyone else it was obviously therefore you ready for this call. Call is 50. That's what they were doing. Those were the secrets that they were engaged in. Now, do you remember we have a whole explanation how the hagod is patterned after the famous account of Ram Gaml and Rabishu and Brais? how it's patterned after how they deposed rabbiel and they brought Rabbi Lazabar to be the Nasi and do you remember who the host the student who instigated that whole story was the garra doesn't say his name in the beginning but at the end of the story it says his name was so here also in the you know which talid came you know who the were who said he the raji now here's the clincher here's a clincher the Pin says one thing I'm going to say it a little differently based on something that we learned from the gr okay what's the shon think carefully the the shas begins may be arvin what's arvin where's that nun where's that nun the nun is a shun what does creation have to do with the shardon How many letters in the I've got all day because you know I already did so I'm much more relaxed now it's you know when shabagal is like third is like two days before pes it's very stressful you know because you can't breathe until 48 hours before pes but when I have a whole week after shab it's much more relaxing it It was pressure until now. It was like but now I'm up to now how many letters in the first of you should know this 25 how many letters in who remembers 24ish are the mema Now what does have to do with truma true? What is the shear of truma? 50th 50th meaning we have 49 in the first but we need to get to the shun. The shaun is the kavana of when you say sh your that if ever put to the ultimate challenge I would give up my life that's the shaun did moa have that he didn't give up his who did that raika had the shaun because he had 25 letters 24 letters and so the tanoim went to go Rebaka who specialized in the shaun and they were counting the whole night. How many times does it say mapprim? They were mappim they were counting one two. Now if you want to get to the shaunon what do you have to master to get the shardon you have to master the secret of keshma. By the end of the night the raj saidma shak you cracked it. We got the shan. How do we see that in the words? If you're properly taught that's the shan that's the secret of the story of rabbi. So now we they went to the master is the author of they're trying to get the shaun. Hashem took us out with the shunon. They were misappren that's a that's a gem. No map. They were counting. How many times it says and they were endeavored to understand that the whole night until the rashi came and he said it was worth it for drive all the way in from Brooklyn just for this one. By the way, the says toe teach me is I want to know the Hashem said no while you're alive you can't really master the shonika got it. Okay, have a wonderful day and we're going to try for today. Anybody who ran for Mina today, you want to have a minion