Preparations for Passover - Part 1 - Rabbi Reuven Lauffer

every face okay you know what can we do it's like it's like a roller coater we go from poor in and the house is now piled up full of comments all the noster gets given from ish rothman are and then we gotta start worrying about pizza so the images like this i think i think we'll we'll start with arif pesach if we have time maybe it will look at cleaning for pesach a little bit but that's er it's complicated the very you know the various her lockers of caching caching utensils in any time will deal with the easy stuff right arab pacer so this year arab Pacers gonna be on a friday is anybody here your firstborn yes yes you're not you are okay here we go we are your only child so you're also the youngest and the middle child entered the first floor look at that okay I keep telling my Barrett brothers that I'm an only child but they don't believe me for some reason I don't know I don't know why anyway so you must be familiar with the idea that Arab pay sucks is tinus for Horace like that the becau of all of the firstborn have to fast right so who the firstborn so we're talking about firstborn nails so Airy Arab pacer so what's it worth it there is a minute which is prevalent a custom which is prevalent among all the all communities that I know of that instead of the firstborn fasting somebody makes a CEO of a tractate of the Talmud in shul in the morning and the cart the first poems can participate in the serum and once they've been part of the serum then they don't have to work they don't have to fast anymore so just in general what what is a first-ball firstborn male so what is the first board there's a McCoy dias as a disagreement among see poison Ruxin really about amongst the elastic authorities about whether or not somebody who was born by caesarean section is considered to be a firstborn or not there's all kinds of my lucky ramifications the the verse that talks about firstborn is talking about a first one that's born naturally and as a c-section is not considered to be a natural birth anymore and the halacha gratifications are actually quite far reaching whether the first board has a double a double inheritance whether he's considered to be a first one with regards to the fasting suppose it it's an only job that was delivered by caesarean section so that's how about that for its porn it's a foot it's a firstborn and suck the egg everyone it's it he owned a child but it's not a natural birth so the question over here is whether that whether a firstborn child or even an only child was born via c-section whether they would be obligated to fast and the faster the firstborn where they've considered to be a rebel firstborn or not that the truth is the ugly the argument is a technicality more than anything else ladies got no no one's disputing the fact that the child is the firstborn that's an indisputable fact and for some people it's their only child that's also indisputable right there's no no where there's nothing to talk about but it's just a technical issue over here about whether someone who's born with the c-section whether that's considered to be a natural birth on a natural birth because the her lockers that revolve around the first boy enjoy talking about a child is born naturally okay anyway he was a chat that the truth is like this you're really supposed to hear the see him right in order to be able to partake of the food but buddy ever even if you didn't hear to see him and you just happen to be heard it's okay you don't have to wear you don't have to do so interesting I locker over here if somebody a firstborn is under the age of when you become obligated to fast but you become a bitter right if you've got a firstborn son under the age of our metal is that there's a custom that the father fasts for his child okay in all events after also faster the first but what we will air of pesach right so what is our still to do there is a mitzvah to burn at least a keziah stuck on it how much of the cause is a sort of like a volume of not very much maybe about this much worth of hundreds it needs to be it needs to be burnt on error pace i had to be so that's why people are careful to leave over enough comments to be able to do that there is a year is if somebody through is all of his hobbits away we still sometimes happen you know sometimes with all that with all the various banks of rubbish that have been set aside so sometimes a bag with a cognitive gets thrown away as well so really to be able to fulfill the mr. that the mr bruce says you should go and find more comets it needs to be gone by some comments or something in order be able to burn it the there is a meter on air of air of pesach at night there's a mitzvah of what's called bird decal on it and the midst is actually there's a there's a custom which is very very prevalent to leave out ten pieces of bread they should be wrapped up very well because at that point the house is now completely ready for pacer and you have to go around looking for them now it's interesting there are two different approaches to bedico's comets one of them is that you should you know very carefully and thoroughly check the entire house in order to make sure there's no hobbits and find these ten pieces of comets on the way the other open the other opinion is that the house has been cleaned for pace us which is you don't really have to check very thoroughly just have to look for these ten pieces of luggage whatever you do it's going to be okay there's a bracha which is recited before you begin bedico's comment you know there's accustomed to go around with some with a torch or with a candle and with a spoon and a feather to brush up all the comments just make sure that whoever put out the hit make sure they write down where they put it we've had a few years with a person who put out the clubheads all me it's one of my daughter's puts out the honda to us we go up to daven meyer and then we come back and like one of these pieces we can't we find nine and she can't remember where the tenth one was i think it can get a little nerve-racking alright so it's a good idea just to write them write down where these pieces were put in order to be able to know that even if they're not found you'll be able to get the back afterwards and get rid of them before p sucks those are normally the bits of comments that people have in order to make sure that they've got at least a cause is worth of comments to burn and that's all being done the next day if you can't find one of you who you're bitter comments or more even so at the end of having looked for the Comets you make a declaration which nullifies all of your comments anyway call kar mera night everything that I have is no long it's all considered to be like the dust and that is considered to be okay which means if you don't fight you never find this piece of comments again oh well you say call chimera that's it you you're done in theory you don't have to sell your comments at all because in theory you know if you know if you have any comments left then you just nullified it all however there's a problem what's the problem we all of us know that a lot of comments that people keep it's important to them there's a very famous story they tell me akela eager one of the great rabbis from a few generations ago he was considered to be the Haluk you know the halacha Authority the generation and there was a fellow who owned whiskey barrels and barrels of whiskey that's how he made his paw no sir that's homemade his livelihood selling whiskey and he asked his friend to sell his whiskey for him go to the rabbi and sell the whiskey before pacer and his friend forgot and on the first intermediate day of pacer holla Boyd he met his friend and his friend told him oh my gosh she says I forgot to tell your whiskey so he got so upset this fellow he slapped him around the face and then he got upset whatever the case came to rebbi akiva eiger what are you spotted with all this whiskey now this whiskey is now you know it's comments what he's supposed to domination so there are it's interesting there are there are some a minority opinion which says that whiskey even though even though whiskey is made from comments there's no doubt about that whatsoever right barley till it's all it's all a problem there are opinions who say that once it gets into the bottle it's like it's so far removed from the original process that that even though you can't use it on Pesach but nevertheless it's not something which should be regarded as comments away for example a packet of pasta would be considered but nevertheless people have tend to be stringent on Pesach so they sell their whiskey together with the rest of the this fellow didn't sell it for you have some shoes so that the Kazekage rub akiva eiger what is supposed to do now so the owner of the whiskey told rebuke either eager that look lahori would seem that he's okay he has nothing one I think because when on aerospace art when he did his buddy cos come with you he said Cole Sameera he nullified his comment so its up its not lying right so Rebecca Vega said no he says it's a problem because when you snapped your friend around her face it showed that you were extremely concerned about the state of your whiskey and in the end he ruled that the whiskey had to be he said the whiskey could be used anymore it was comments to shovel other pace up and it had to be got had to be got rid of a lot up we took a great a great financial loss for the person then I was a whole deal over there who's responsible exactly whether the person who was supposed to solve a comment has a responsibility for the loss or whether the owner of the whiskey has a responsibility the last that's not for now you mentioned slid on it I had oh yeah I always tell over this story it makes me laugh every every year it makes me laugh my mother their extended family when she was a kid there was used to go away for pesach face to go to a hotel on the coast of England and the whole family would be their arms and uncles and cousins and everybody and she had an uncle my mother had an uncle who used to start his day every morning used to start his day with a with a glass of whiskey and that was a way to start your day so it was a problem that not a little shot glass a a tumbler of whiskey and he always used to suffer on pace off because you can't drink whiskey on pays off so my uncle went away to yeshiva in Montreux in Switzerland and he came back that first place I he came back with a bottle of slivovitz slivovitz his plum brandy slivovitz is like 5,000 proof it has to come in reinforced glass bottles it's so strong this stuff you can run your car on it and and he gave it to you gave it to his uncle as a gift the pace up here you know hopefully this will take care of the problem anyway mother said that the first morning of pay stuff the whole hotel was woken up by this fella screaming he's trying to kill me I'm great having taken a account full of slivovitz and just damned it the way that he downed is whiskey this stuff is like bite is twice as powerful and answer yeah there are all kind bahasham if anybody is worried there are all kinds of things that you could drink on under all kinds of alcoholic things you could drink on Pesach that are going to take care of the problem you just can't drink whiskey anyway with regards to burning your comments you should you should you should really be there to watch the comments being burnt you had to be there you really should yeah well if this weekend if you can't be there you can't be there but really the best way to put the best way that friday morning i'm making the one of the costume former Lou yeah ah that's okay a Joe sheliak he's gonna burn your comments for you right but hopefully he's gonna stand there and watch it being burnt right because a nullification has to come right once the once it's all been burnt up okay let's have a look at bedico's comments let's see what we've got over here but dick has commented search searching for the bread so somebody here really should have asked a question if if you're making a bit all right if you're nullifying or your comments so why are we searching for comments you're the problem right which means that if you want to search for the farmers then don't know if I your comments and if you want to nullify your comments what are you searching for comments for double knowledge to make sure that you know how many comets and in case you have farmers remember that good right so which was sup chat upstairs like this that the Nullification its else acres out the sages of non officiating the notification itself is not it's not really sufficient for two reasons it's not going to be good enough for two reasons the first one is like the one that we just spoke about you may own a lot of comments which visit if you own a lot of comments your notification is not going to be really heartfelt thank you if your own barrels of whiskey or you want you know sometimes people owned they had they had storage you know storage wheat and barley that they would have stored away and they've got a lot of the stuff it's going to be very difficult for them to give up on this like wholeheartedly would you can sell it so here that's it that's it that's where that's where this is all going to come from right this whole idea of making sure that the i'm doing i'm doing i'm going to do several things in order to make sure that between them all I've got rid of the ownership of the comments for overpay sir I will get to that as well invitation the second reason is that we you know if you've got comments in your house then you know a person eats comments all year round so on Pesach it could be that he'll forget and maybe Helene comments as well the probably do you comments on paid something's and it's got its got a rather nasty repercussion to it the et comments on Pesach has a has a watchamacallit of current its punishment is current which is excision which again is got different descriptions of what that is exactly the visor it's something which we don't really want to have happen to ourselves right there are basically that the rabbi said there are basically three different kinds of correct one of the drawing children what is not having any children the second one is dying early and the early age age of 60 before the age of 60 or the worst kind of chorus of all which is spiritual excision what does that mean that the soul is not connected to anything after the body per person can live to be 120 and have lots of children and have a very fulfilled and satisfied life over here and gets upstairs in the age of 120 and the soul is in a state of limbo limbo I guess just a state of nothingness it doesn't go to Gehenna which began it was actually a good place to go to because it means is some kind of rectification taking place it does not go to the world of souls which is where a soul that's been through its tickin ends up in and it's just left in a state of nothingness and apparently according to the Kabbalist that's the the word the worst possible situation for the Sultan me it's not suffering it's not in any pain what was his own use Wow very there are all kinds of different things that that can cause chorus I don't know again I don't know I don't know I don't know at which point I could each poha what he what he does this when he does that what he does the other i'm not i really don't know i don't know i'm not even sure if there's a there's a rule if there are rules that we are aware of down here in the physical world I don't know good okay so why we understand now that cold Chimaera the Nullification is not enough but if it's not enough so how about if we just do let's just search for the hobbits and get rid of the colors and then we don't have to say call of chimæra rights and the answer for that is very obvious because what happens if you miss something out you've lost one of your bits of you want one of your 10 pieces of hubbard's now you don't know what to do with it right so now I'm taking care of everything this way round I'm going to take care of everything when do you start searching for the hobbits so you should start when it becomes night the accepted custom is that you go off an air of pesach right so this year a pesar feel to be on thursday night we're going to go off we're going to daven my earth and then we're going to come back from shoulder to W Marvin we're going to start looking for the Comets a personnel like no lights on as much light as possible it stretches of course yeah as much as much light as possible and like I said you know we we owe that the custom is to take a channel right and to get into those little nooks and crannies and was so easy to do this every year we still do it but we're a little bit more careful than we used to be because one of my daughters when she was very young she was like wait we're looking for the comments and all of a sudden there's this horrible smell and she's like she was she was like a little spaced out she's like holding a candlelight was against their here and her hair was beginning to singe and it was at the snout the snow was awful actually so you know beat you got to be careful be careful of things like curtains right setting curtains on fire be careful of children don't set them on fire the the some people have the custom nowadays not user can take a flashlight that's okay right just to be able to get into the places where it's difficult to see right because the the light bar Hashem we have lots of lots of light in the house nowadays but it doesn't get absolutely everywhere you should you should but one of the things that you should not do before you begin batik is Hamid says you shouldn't start a meal don't start eating right because when we start eating so as Jews we tend to start eating and we don't necessarily stop which is you know something it's going to be a problem so we have to we have the first we have to take care of the midst of bedico's comments if you daven like i said before if you'd ever married normally at the beginning the first opportunities that mattered then you should definitely done right before you do because comets otherwise if you want you can do it afterwards what are you looking for when you come to the video sauna so you're not just necessarily looking for the comments that has been put away those ten little pieces but you're looking for any comments that is suitable the human consumption that's a very subjective term I think right human consumption human consumption so pressed arena get you know it's interesting play doh plastilina i think is made out of it's made differently that plato was made with flour right and and there was a hole that was a whole cache or about play-doh what you're supposed to be played on place off now the episodes you can t even know children do their best to do it you can't reap later children children try having those different colors you would imagine that you know we have blueberry flavor and raspberry flavor and so play though has a Dean of what's called comets mushka comets Anushka is comets that even a dog wouldn't eat which was it still comments but it's inedible so the best thing to do with play-doh if you have any plate of emotion you have any played on your house you know you don't use paid anymore you look like a leg on them to be Play Doh man to me but the if you've got play-doh in the house the best thing to do is just to put it away in one of the cupboards and not to take it out of it over pesach because of the concern of the the the the comments it's inside of it well what about what about crumbs and crumbs of comets things that we need to be concerned about so crunk crumbs that are slightly dirty you'd have to be worried about they're not going to eat it right oh you wouldn't need them but other crumbs yeah you need to you need to be concerned about crumbs especially if you have enough crumbs it together they're going to make up because is worth of things you should check check your pockets right because you know we tend to put food in our pockets from time to time sometimes we do forget about them why don't we why don't we put a backside 10 different pieces of bread so of course it's to do with the ten plagues write that number ten is very central to the whole concept of say tonight and the whole concept of pacer and so what that's what we're going to do we're going to put on ten pieces because it's just you know the overseas like this you want to put out five pieces put out five you want to put out fifteen point out 15 Tennessee the you know just a standard number that's used by everybody that they're actually much incredible the most incredible Kabbalistic concepts that revolve around the number ten and Counting in blocks of 10 you know get maitreya so we go from Aleph to tech is 129 those are the single digits and you move into you'd which is double digit and then 10 up to 90 and then you've got 19 then it becomes a hundred that's cool so the slag cottage one of the great ashkenazic campbell is from a couple hundred years ago he says like this he says all of this would be very nice he says but the minds of what happens we get to a hundred and then we get coof shin ray a cuff rationed tough and we get to four hundred and that's the end of the elephants that's it we're done right really we should be getting up to 900 right everything should be going around in cycles so he says for you there were five the five final letters final cloth final men final noon final pay and final Sonny and he says that they add on so you get to 400 and toughest 400 final coffees 500 final is 600 final 9700 final pays 800 final noon is 900 and then you get to a thousand how do you say a thousand in Hebrew Elif Elif is an Aleph your back to the beginning all over again come round all over the cycles that are going round and round