Pesach: Top 10 Divrei Torah of Maran Rav Chaim Kanievsky on the Haggadah

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay this time for real welcome everyone this is our second to last year before the umph of pesach and we now begin safer vayikra even though tonight's share is not on vayikra it's going to be on the umph but the shirim on vayikra are again graciously sponsored by the zakheim family thank you very much again for sponsoring this series lulay nishmas their husband and father of elizabeth and tonight's year is sponsored by my good friends david and jacob mala in honor of rabbi gladstein thank you and rabbi duvi ben shushan for spreading rabbi gladstein's divreitara in brooklyn wow that's far away and as is i always think that and besides being the sarhatora you know rabhaim has a unique title the sarah torah the prince of the torah the story goes that when rimkaim was once giving shira on a particular kosher locust and he was having a difficult time explaining it and understanding it the locust flew in uh through the window and it's a rear breed and rokhan was able to see it first hand and avrik once came to rabhiyam who had a difficult time remembering shas so said learn it 613 times so they asked raphael is it shaykh to learn 613 times he said hazonis told him the shagasaria learned a thousand times and you could hazard in 30 minutes in your mind okay probably that means the main ideas or who knows but i always think besides being the sarah toyra he also has a good sense of humor because you know to be able to deal with so many people every single day the only way you could be soivo such a thing is uh you know he has a very healthy um appreciation for for the humorous uh aspects of life uh and perhaps some of that we'll see here as well but here are ten top reductions called from eight different swarm of reprieve kanewski and let us begin with number one this is actually a very short share uh so even though we start a little bit late but it's a it's a brief subject because i could tell you're just itching to go home to help your wives clean and actually the story goes that there was a guy who um his wife said look do me a favor i know you're not a big helper just get out of the house just get out of my hair so the guy uh fine here in the morning he says what am i gonna eat what am i gonna he said here take your danish take your coffee and just get out so the guy leaves the house in the morning he doesn't know what to do with himself he goes to the bakery he buys another cheese danish he goes into the basement he holds the safer upside down right side up after about 45 minutes he's sitting on shilkas he meanders back into the house and she says i i didn't want you to help i just asked you to get out of the house he said the whole day i need to help you you know so um so i could tell you want to be very helpful and you want to get back to the cleaning so i'm going to facilitate that it's a brief shirt tonight first let's talk about the simone hasseidar now who wrote this it is for sure from the rishonim either from rashi or one of the ballet hat is and what's very interesting that hayem observes is that the bore even though you could really use it by any of the symanum kadesh vikkarpas of uma we only use the vav one time why does the vav get to the orchards yeah why not vineyards so khaim says it's because we know that when you make kids you have to have kiddush bamakom suda right so what does kitishimakuma suda mean kirishimakum suda means that when you make kiddish on shah this morning you must have a suda afterwards otherwise simply you're not you'd say kira shimakum sudha and then you were in yo to kiddush and then you ate without kiddish you hear what happens if a guy let's say eats makes kiddush and then eats a lollipop number one he wasn't yet to kiss number two then his kiddush wasn't good number three he ate without kiddush now i'm going to say a few very unpopular halachas what can i do number one is when you make kiddush you need to have a case it cannot and it should not be disposable it should not be a plastic cup plastic cup is for sure not good number two you need wine not schnapps schnapps is not yayan so people say can i use kamar medina for sure if you live in biafra where wine is not available you definitely can make kiddushan schnapps but even though we're in kovid wine is readily available you have to make kirishan wine if you want to use schnapps you just you know you'll have to use a full review and drink most of it which is you know suitable for genuine alcoholics but the correct way to make hiddish is you have to use a kois which is permanent cup you have to use wine and you have to drink most of it furthermore if you make kiddush and you eat gefilte fish and then you go home and you wash you are not yotsey kiddish and therefore you ate without kiddush why you must eat mizonas the only way to be outside so pesach presents a very uh formidable challenge because either you could wash or you could have a zionist but many people don't eat gabrox dam pesach so what do you do so you don't make kiddush you just you make killers and then you wash or you eat gabrox well pinchas scheinberg has a khadosh that a piece of potato cocoa you could be you'd say kills it's considered a meal food okay now it's not unanimously uh accepted but back to the ranch you need to make kids so what do you do the night of the sather you make kiddush and you're not having now i'll tell you a leniency and that is kiddish malcolm souda instead of having mazanas you have a review of wine but that's besides the wine you need to drink for kiddush so first you have to drink majority of ravis for kiddush which is reviews is 3.3 ounces you drink 1.7 ounces and then you drink another 3.3 ounces so if you're if you're an anti-carb guy and you don't like to eat cake and you want to be i'd say kiddish then instead of having cake you could just drink five ounces of wine okay that's another alter or five ounces of grape juice which on pesach is uh sometimes what i would do if i'm not having the meal for a while okay so either you have missourinois so i happen to eat the rocks um and so if you if i have a good piece of gabrox that will do it so you could have for kidneys you only need roy vervius 1.7 ounces and then you have messianics if you don't want mizonos you can have five ounces of grape juice okay fine so what do you do the night of the seed there because you're making kiddush and then you're not by the way if you don't like the halacha i said well what could i tell you those are the but please still listen to the rest of the share um what do you do the night i said it's not kirish makamsuda because you're not having suited for about four hours so you made kiddush and you didn't have the sudha the answer is you started the sudah how did you start the sudah you had karapas that's the beginning of the sudah but that means you do need to do the charapas right away so therefore it says kadesh immediately you wash your hands right after kiddush that's not the time for you know for your seven-year-old daughter to take out her notebook and to read you like you know the declaration of independence with 73 clauses of de vey torah before you wash your hands that you know she could take it out during the cedar however at that point of time after you make kiddush or cots you need to wash your hands immediately says that's why it says above kadesh okay of um so it's like this it seems like the lumber says you do so right exactly you're not supposed to but at least it's the hasshola of the sudan so you're not you'd say what it does is it begins so you need to juxtapose the you need to juxtapose the killers that's what it sounds like either i mean the fact that you have a meal in three days from now though you can't say it's means doesn't mean the place means in the context of we're not going anywhere yeah but it sounds like that's not the context malcolm is not just space it sounds like it's time as well it's inclusive of the the context of the mail okay that's number one number two if you thought that was unpopular here we come to the next unpopular one now this one's going to be popular among this segment of the uh clientele namely among the men among the women i don't know if this can be so popular so the general rule of our shurim is not everything that you hear here needs to be repeated right you have to know hashem now we know that we live in times where there's almost nothing you could say that's acceptable so you might as well say the truth i always say you might as well say the truth because they'll be upset at you anyway wherever okay a woman says the mahabharata does not lean when she drinks the dalai koi size unless she's khashov she doesn't have to right a woman does not have to lean unless she's important [Laughter] so unless a woman is important she doesn't have to lean what says rama all of our women are considered important you better believe it right all of our notion are considered khashogg so kayam kenievsky very much likes to elicit discussion and learning and he do it in learning and sharp conversation and learning surabchan would ask riddles and one of the riddles with haim would ask is when exactly in history did women become that means originally women were not khashov and then they became khushov what happened in history to make women khashov you know when they when they were allowed to vote when exactly but here it's the time it's before the rama when they didn't give their jewelry to the eggo yeah but it sounds like in times of uh the rishonim they weren't khashov and in times of the early achro in him they became khashogg so rebhaim says an amazing thing there's a man by the name of rabino garcia until rabbi no gershom a man could marry many many wives he could have a wife for one day of the week for sunday monday he could have many wives at that point in time a woman wasn't so hush of she was one of many but then radina gershon said you can only marry one wife and at that point of time the woman's status was elevated to be uh ishakashuva because once you take her you can't take anybody else i would add not only that rabino bakayi also was masaken that that one wife you have you can't divorce her against her will in other words before abhinav if you could have many wives and even if you had one if you wanted to dismiss her you could say have a nice station no and you say yes and that's it rabbi gershon said that you can't divorce your wife against her will so that elevated her status as well and lo and behold i found in the hush of by art scroll that there it says that in fact said both for us of uh that we mentioned that a woman is considered you can't marry more than one wife and you can't divorce her against your will that is the second var torah which i don't necessarily recommend you say over at the seder table but uh it is what it is it's very interesting historically that ravino garcian elevated the status of nashem okay number three the rama says women don't lean because they're they're saying but um i think bisman has a they do okay next this comes from the haggadah rebecca wants to know about the placement and the real estate of the the rasha the tom and the shenanigans if you would have to arrange them at a table who would you put next to who i would have thought put the he's a he's a sadiq put him next to the simpleton anyway he's going to sit there like a goylum the whole time the shenanigal also you know just think of it whoever the father of these four kids are how much nachas does he have you know but la maisa why i would put the next to the tom and the shenanigans and put the russia off in the corner no that's not how they're arranged the russia are here the tom and cheney de la shall are there why does the russia get such good real estate i mean the russia if you look in all the picture haggadahs he's like he has a big club he's going to sack someone over the head he has a gun he has uh he's going to take i don't know drugs or something he's he's he's a member of the communist party so why is he associating with the tom and the shania delisha and the answer is a russia is much better than ataman shenaya de alesha because the tom and cheney de la shadranama arets will always be in hamarats he has no he has no real hope the russia at least he's smart he's smart he could turn around he could do chuva in fact says what's the raya by the way this might not be the most popular advaithara also you might want to save this one for uh acharanjo pesach you know at the shul but um welcome says the raya is ignoram sakhim says the worst thing in the world is to marry your daughter to an amaranth it's like you're you're giving her to a wild animal and even though you now to marry adoration yaakov avinu was punished for not marrying dino off to asav so you're punished for mangy to rama and you're punished if you're not marrying off your daughter to a big russia i mean how do you reconcile that yaakov was expected to marry off his daughter to asav and the imam sacram says marrying your door to namaras is like marrying her to a monster so it sounds like it's better to marry off your daughter to uh an asov than to marry him or marry her off to some uh amaras he says that's right because at least the russia could become he could become a sadiq in fact in a verdict they say the same thing you ever hear the story in the vadak it says that rifko was passing by a house of uh tyra and someone was kicking to get out and uh she was passing by house of azeroth someone was king to go out so she said oh yeah what's going to be so she goes to the yeshiva and shembe ever say don't worry you're going to have one kid who's going to be a god alhadar you know rebel yoshida and one kid is going to be a mass murderer like hitler oh she says hashem a basura taiva now she could rest easy i don't understand what how does this exactly calm her nerves what did she think that she was nervous about and how did this report calm her so nevada said like this before she knew what was happening she thought she was going to have one kid and that kid is what which she was she one day his friends say go he let's go learn he goes and learns the next day his friend said let's go to uh the pool hall he goes to the pool hall a kid like that there's no hope because the kid has no backbone but once she heard one's at saddik and the other is a mamisha russia so now there's hope for both of them because at least the kid has a backbone okay [Music] what the seal seal right to see y'all very good okay number four now we're getting to more um torah for general audiences that you could say over you know to your family and to your children i didn't promise you that these would all be appropriate for all audiences but uh they're all interesting arami mitsrayma the pa the haggadah says as follows love on be cash lacquer love wanted to destroy everything where in the torah does it say love unwanted to destroy everything you find in the torah lovan was making concentration camps to destroy the jewish people he gets into a little disagreement with yaakov so i like to say love and beakest lacquer s hakko avraham is kyle avraham is back is me coyle and yakov is coyle love on beakers lacquer as ha coil he wanted to kill yakov but literally love and wanted to destroy all of khloe so where do we find that also what does it mean love and wanted to destroy our father and mitsrayma what does one thing have to do with the other surrounding says the following there is a madrish in the safer hayasha that when lavan departed from yaakov lovan sent a telegram to asav he said kill yakov so asav was coming after yaakov and avsab's men said don't kill yaakov you know why if you kill yaakov if there's a starchev that one of the children of yitzhak have to go down to mitsrayam so if you kill yakov you're going to go down to egypt so asov backed off and asap decided that he's going to wait until uh claudio goes down to mitsrayam as soon as khalifa goes down to mizrahim and we leave then he's going to tell his grandson to kill us and that's why asap sent a message to i'm all like hey i'm alike my dear enoch do me a favor as soon as the jews leave egypt go kill them. why did he tell amalek tadavka kill us then because asap knew that if we go down before we go to egypt then he's going to have to go to egypt so therefore isav wanted to fulfill the the bidding of lavan and therefore he was going to kill us the only reason he didn't kill us is vayired mitsrayma because otherwise we he would have to go down to mitsurai so that's the meaning arami vedavi love unwanted to kill us when when he sent word to asav that is and why didn't they save naka so if it's only because vahrehvah because we had to go down to mitsrayam and if he were not go soft then he would have to go down to missouri yeah but it sounds like ultimately the reason why asa backed off maybe alifa's was only going to kill yaakov but not the children but why did asov ultimately back off of killing out the family because he was afraid of going down to mitsuran macas arrive my favorite makka [Music] it says by makkah a unique um phrase that doesn't say by any other makkah hinuni i'm going to incite against you alright i'm going to you know send a visitation upon you why doesn't it say hini mashley the tinus today's blot was as follows do you fast when wild animals are in the city so gemara says that you only fast if it's a visitation if the animals were sent against you meaning they're like heaven sense the animals are rabid they're like on a mission they have to be mashliyach and animals only consider lethal if the animal is sent against you so haim says since this mako is a mock of wild animals and wild animals are only lethal when they're sent against you so therefore the passage says okay that is number five here we go to number six rabbi yehuda a few years ago we had a we had a sheer why did you'd have to give this it doesn't seem to be rocket science we gave many different perushim but listen to rebecca it should say rabbi yehuda na san bohem siman ravi gave si manum what he would give simanam hayan muhammad simon should say he did he gave he provided simanem subham says that the lesson he would implies this in fact was rabbi who does practice and shas throughout shas rabi huda would make mnemonics to help him remember different things for example this is regarding how do you tell the difference between the lachem and the shte halacham and that is rabbi huda would say that the is zadad seventh fakhim long fourth wide with four horns and the lekhmapanam were yahaz 10th fachem long five two him wide and seven horns so we see rabbihood this was not something that did one time that was his general practice in shas he would uh consistently make simone in fact the stipler going writes that another example of this is in the ushamiya and the dharim that when you need to write in ashtar adarsheni the isrami says you should write adar tanyan says no you could write adar taft why because review the holds you can make a semen review they believed in well marvel sai one of the interesting things over here is we know reprimand himself is very into abbreviations that we're going to come to very soon but here we have in a safe part called the diyovda on page nun where it brings down that rashem rashid says the following loya dati i don't know yeah rashi says i don't know collects many many many examples where rashi and shas and in humish says the words i don't know so if was asked what in the world is rebecca igor doing rabbi ki vegas is trying to show how much rashford didn't know like what's what kind of collection is this by the way this is probably the longest comment of rebecca egger in the gilean hashas what's up with quebec you're trying to do trying to gather all the examples and shasta rashid didn't know oh look how much rashy didn't know and furthermore reprimand kanyevsky on the side of his gemara writes here are more examples that rebecca vegard didn't mention and he lists a dozens of more so what's subham kanyevsky doing so they asked him number one what was richie vegard doing and why didn't rebecca vager know all the examples that rashid didn't know so ibrahim said like this says that it is a beauty and a chavivos for the torah when you are messian and you make notes that this teaching is similar to other teachings elsewhere it's like a decoration for the torah it's like a design for the torah it's sitsimo prakham to the torah and whenever aeger was writing it rebecca baker didn't sit down and write every single example that he knew about ruby bager just wrote what came to mind and when he saw it he wrote some other examples that came to mind but that was uh just an example of rabbikim's bikiyas but i saw an interesting thing by the way humor you know is if you have a problem in in life you should learn the massage to that problem so for example if you if your foot hurts you should learn how sure regal if you have a eczema you should write if you uh well you know what if matt rushmore needs repair you should learn about a voice nazi or something like that okay that's my own addition okay so somebody once came to abraham and the guy said he has bed bugs he has kinim and rubric said to learn so the guy said well wait a second kinim the license with a huff cough and uh anyway anyone who's ever visited robrem knows that what does say to you huh so my brother has a purim torah yeah what's buha buu is rasheed voice my brother has a purim torah someone so the guy looks to reprimand and he says gua so reprimand says so the guy says amen [Laughter] anyway that's courtesy of rabbi ari glassing anyway why does him say buha why does ibrahim say buha why can't he say bracha so i was wondering this i finally found in the s based on the safer hasidim that every person in their lifetime he has a certain number of steps and a certain number of words and therefore him if he is 200 people a day probably more so if he says it's two words and if he says buha it's one word could you make words out of uh no tree coin or brought a right from shas that okay next how many makos amitsurayam that's a hard one no ten as real goldman shikayach very good maybe next week we'll discuss what they serve in the in the gold medal some pesach but that's beyond the scope of today's share yeah no but um 10 how many al-hayam now how many sukim in the torah describe the nisim al-hayam nowhere doesn't say it anywhere why the ten miracles in mitzrayim it talks about at length two full parasitois and the nissan malhayam it doesn't talk about at all so in the dar in the safer dark sicha the dark is a book it's actually like the first of a new genre of of svarim which are not swarmed that gudelam wrote but conversations people had with gaduila man this was like the beginning of a new era of safaram where people would write you know i asked i asked about the following 700 questions you know so one of the questions i asked for is why is there no mention in the hummish of the macos and said it happened al-hayam binet yusul didn't see it it happened to the the metroid midstream who were drowning well the matsuri drowned so there's nobody to tell anybody about it in other words it seems like a very mysterious answer but what seems to be saying is nobody saw the miracles alayam so if nobody saw them they can't be recorded well then how do we know they happened if we know they happened why aren't they recorded so in the reprimand it adds one little nakuda that adds a lot of insight into what required means we once said this over a very beautiful idea the most important concept in judaism is really that we're here in this world to prepare for oil how many parachutes in the torah speak about islam zero how many sukim and khumesh describe zero why not how could such an important concept be so to speak ignored in the hamesh so if iron cutler gave the following answer the torah is the blueprint of creation the torah's architectural plans and creation whatever's in architectural plans will be in the bria whatever is not in the architectural plan will not be visible in the bria because rivansham didn't want anybody to see oil mahabo with the naked eye therefore they ranged from omitted oil above from the open reveal text so it's something which is ayan loy ross says amazingly that the reason why the nisa malayam are not written in the homicides they were not openly seen by anyone the material drowned and the jews were on the other side of the sea so they were hidden so because they were hidden they could not be openly recorded but the nissim on the uh in mitzrayim they were they happened in the open everybody saw them and therefore they have to be in the open text he saw them you mean so how do we know we have a tradition from the tarshish about hashem let me say you would have to you would think that some of them are written i mean you think there is some description of them although they're not delineated like the other maccas next question ruvain takes a gun he shoots shemin and he ruins shimon's charles turwitt non-iron shirt so he goes to besden and ruvain was uh ruvain was uh warned so bezen says first of all and uh oh you bought it this week that charles hillard shirts are 39.99 just this week so you have to pay shiman 39.99 no not just because shimon said i could get it in yeshiva for 27.50 but because there's a rule of kimley badarabhamnae in right we have a rule that um eno de mesa meshalim person will not die and pay what do we call that kimlay the diramine so as for the parshastrachem which is the mishnah lamelax not only kill the mitsriyam but take away their money banaina da mesu mashalem what happened to kim labadarabhamine surabhyam in the safer darak sikha responded that hashem did not take away their money as a punishment hashem took away their money because we worked for them and they owed us the wages in other words reuven kill shimon and happens to be shemin does dry cleaning for ruvain so it doesn't mean reuben doesn't have to pay shim on his dry cleaning belt so robham kevsky is citing a gemara in sanhedrin it says over there that the name is came to contend with the jewish people and the arbiter was alexandria smoke done so the matsuri said i don't understand god took away all your um all of our money uh you borrowed the money give it back it's not right you guys are a bunch of robbers give us all the silver and gold you took from us so the champion were formulating a response meanwhile there was a guy by the name of of givia ben pasisa he was a hunchback and he tells the rabbis hey i'm going to deal i will fight with the mitzram if i win if i win you'll say the torah beat the muslim and if i lose you have nothing to lose you'll just say that you defeated the lowest among the jews so the materials say you know look you owe us so much money so gavia bempus says okay fine make a husband how much do we owe you they said two point three trillion dollars so giveaway says look you owe us money because six hundred thousand jews worked for 430 years so let's make a husband so the material got all their accountants together and they never came back so in other words the money that we took out of mitsrayam wasn't the punishment it was the wages that they owed us parenthetically the khida has an amazing question on this gemara that the math is off 430 years who worked for 430 years the jews at most were in egypt for 210 and how many years did we serve intensely so it's a it's erroneous counting says but on the other hand six hundred thousand is also erroneous because there were three million jews who worked in mitzrayim only what one fifth came out so actually the math the math is precise 430 600 000 is the same thing as 3 million 86 in other words it's just a fifth that's the union we were supposed to be trying 430 years but we only did 86 years how many years left do we have to make up we have to do four-fifths of the time who then took us out of mitsrayim maisha maisha's gamatria 345. we had to do another 344 years maisha is one more than three forty four maisha could be might see us from the three forty four why hashem says you have that one added numeral that could be might see us from three forty four because you're three forty five now one kedah writes in the name of one of the catmund of the torah i am that we drink four kaisers kaiser's gematria 86. each curse is matsuyas another series of 86 years that we had to do in mitsrayam now we really owe 344 yeah what do we call a time when the make very harsh decrees on the jewish people shemade shin memdal 344 that indicates this is just like a makeup for the 344 years that we still need it to be a messiah this is all the qidah okay now we move on to offering number nine and that is i'm going to tell you something i don't think anybody knew this i i am embarrassed to admit i didn't know this either we say this in elenu and we say this in ram gamly and i'm embarrassed to say that i always thought what does it mean the king of all kings so you have kings you have you have king charles and king henry and god is the king of all kings that's not what it means and it should say melech now this is a very important rule whenever you buy a modern safer that's quoting earlier sources never trust it look up the sources unless you don't really care what it says because they're very often misquotes but here's an example of a misquote but the the author is a big talmud so his misc quote i like better even than what it actually said originally what it said originally is the governor says the king of the wild animals is the lion the king of the animals is the ox the king of the birds is the eagle man is the king of o over all of them and god is the king even over man so the melech is the ari the nasher and the shar the melaka is adam and the melech the king over the king of kings that's what hamkevsky said the one who authored the rubric who was quoting what robhamhaski wrote he wrote an amazing shot the kumar magillah says that malachi malachipar three kings ruled over the whole globe who are they achashvirojs the ramez is ona hashem from these three kings twice just asks what about alexander he is another aleph now alexander the doesn't count he came later says the um kanyevsky supposedly god is the king of all kings these guys these khafra were the king of kings they weren't just regular kings they ruled over other kings they ruled over the globe and god is the king even over them okay marv rabosa the last offering for this evening is a stira in the haggadah that i don't think i was aware of this is as follows to the one who acted for our forefathers and for us so who's mentioned first first our forefathers and then us interesting because in the broadcast that god redeemed us and then he redeemed our forefathers so why in life do we first mention our forefathers and then us and in the bracha we mention us and then our forefathers this is the kasha of the nesiva islamist and the bound of siva says as follows when it comes to miracles the miracles happen to our forefathers so we mention forefathers and then we mention us when it comes to the redemption of god taking us as his people it's more important that he took me and you as his people than he took our forefathers as his people so therefore we first mention the forefathers and then we mention we first mention us and then we mention the forefathers however reprime kneevsky offers the following interpretation when it comes to remembering the miracles so it happened to the forefathers and therefore we mentioned in in lefika who did for our forefathers and to us because in terms of the miracles the nisim first comes but in the brach you know what we're talking about we're talking about the performance of the mitsvice we're saying because god redeemed us so we're going to eat pesach and mara well when it comes to the performance of limit so certainly what is incumbent upon us is primary and secondary is um the fact that hashem redeemed our forefathers has many hundreds and thousands of these are 10 interesting ones detain the yacht if you want more condition from all you have to do is buy the seahawks of seiseinu the minhas toydah rambhaim kanyevsky on zmiros and i believe there are more as well and you could see more diverter from rabhayam stay tuned for next week's schedule um if i don't see you next week but we'll try to uh figure out a way to get together lee neder wishing everyone a wonderful evening and please join us again 5 30 shout out this afternoon you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com