Preparations for Passover - Part 2 - Rabbi Reuven Lauffer

okay let's have a look and see which what we're talking about airplay so we're talking about the idea of the bedico's comets and a first song is looking for the looking for the bread and burning it so on the on-air up later in the day from the fourth hour onwards it's forbidden to eat any comments I what's a fourth hour so we talked about how lucky cow is how lucky cow is taking all the daylight and then splitting it up into 12 right right oh right now the days are pretty the hours are pretty standard give or take there around 60 minutes long but as we get into the summer and the days get longer and longer so the hours are going to get longer each now how it could be up to 70 or 72 minutes long right when we get to the the height of the summer after so after the fourth hour of the day you can't eat any comments the clot the hotness has to be burnt and it's got to be nullified before the end of the fifth hour the idea is like this that the fourth hour is simple that they flit up the 12 hours into three different watches right they did it at night as well right so 32 watches of the night we try to score hours long right the extra so you've got this like buffer period from the the first four hours is the time that you're supposed to stop eating comments within and then you've got this extra hour within which to get rid of it to nullify it to to make sure to be taking yo that is there any sort of is there any sort of like I don't know symbolic or specific reason why it's the end of the fifth down I don't think so i think it's just trying to make sure that not going to get to the six out of six hour after the six now we're moving into that's already got a dinner of being like yontiff we'll talk about it into chef right but it's it so it's just to make sure that there's no ha notes left half of the day yeah six six six six hours that's cut sort that's not a yawn that's what they all had a liar actually the same time each each day so once you get past cuts out on air pays off you're moving into a whole new that's like a whole new situation and everything is our place I've taken we've nullified the comets and all the comments has to have been sold by then the whole it's a hole yeah a whole new thing and I can mention yesterday was that with yes or the day before I can't remember it's got a little dinner being like a yomtov which means that like this year when the showers motzi shabbos before is a whole week before pesach begins but we still don't say bean I am and you should be seasick on a valid see on and watch each other's because that half a day's worth of friday is considered to be likely yontiff and that's why we don't say that it's considered to be as if young has begun already so what's up now what was the big what's the big deal over here with the comments 0 comments interesting enough that the the rabbi's a ballet i'm also they explained that hunnit leavened is like the yates ahora what's the heads are so they charge your evil inclination what's the idea you take flour and water and yeast and then it puffs up and it becomes something delicious right everybody knows it there's very little which is better than fresh bread when it's come out of the oven fresh bread is delicious but if you leave fresh bread for a couple of days it becomes inedible goes stale matter on the other hand which it never never puffs up and it's not 11 so it doesn't go stale some people say because it's stale from the moment he comes out of the oven but whatever it doesn't it doesn't change it doesn't change its status which means that the the idea of there's a very symbolic idea over here of destroying the comment is the idea of destroying the the gava the pride the arrogance sort of person has inside of him saying that puffs him up and turns him into something more important in his own eyes more important than what he really is and so the idea of searching out the comments and nullify mohammed is that now now we're ready to leave Egypt and to become part of our college ball calls nation there's a beautiful idea that sent us that one of the great our cities are abusing is a second the second ready from gore so he says like this he said on the Seder night there's one thing which doesn't change from the beginning to the end and that's is that the Jewish people are avoiding with slaves what does that mean we start off with stage 2 peril and then we become slaves of di xem we become slaves to God so the this awesome is a very beautiful idea he says there's nothing wrong with being a slave the question is what are you a slave to right and that's really the idea over here we try to we try to get rid of the things that are enslaving ourselves to ourselves lamesa pride and arrogance and all those things and we and we we destroy them and now we're ready to start pace up we're ready now to begin this journey into becoming one with a college borough hall rabbi Kaplan said over very nice idea actually said that when you when you take it take a piece of bread fresh piece of bread and you push it down right you heard that we do here that when he said that greatly you can push it down and you can turn it into like a disk of dough right and it's you know it's pretty good but what what have you done lamai so all you've done is you've just you've taken it analysis a piece of matzo what are we done you're taking out all the air right you push it all down and you take out the ear and then you've got something which is flat and more solid and really the thing the thing that's puffing it all up is the thing that's puffing us up as well a nice idea of this connection between the idea of being arrogant and death there are all kinds of all kinds of stories that are told about people who you know who had very very very great ideas of who they were and they weren't true but one of my favorites is that my father used to work for somebody who was a very very successful very wealthy businessman and there was a period when his business was growing the whole time and they were forever moving into different offices and it was becoming bigger and more opulent and on the board of directors he says his story goes back and I was going back decades but in on the board of directors there was somebody over there who kept badgering for a raise he wanted he wanted you know more money and so one day my father said he was sitting in his boss's office they were going over some things and the secretary buzzed through to say that this fellow was waiting to come in one of the directors so where he my father got up to leave in order that he can have a private conversation with him and his boss Terry says Isis go sit at the back of the office it was like a couch he says goes it over there on the on the couch I want you to watch this and so this director came in any other the director of a big successful business and he sits down and he tells him he says look I you know I've been here for X amount of years and I'm working very hard and the business is growing and I feel that it's time to raise my salary and so he says that my father said that his boss looks at him with his great great big eyes and he says you know he said love to give him a raise in salary but he would but you know it's you know things a little difficult night now things are very tight because the you know with the expansion and everything there's a lot less there's a lot less cash lying around it's a lot more complicated he says his he says you know what you know what we can do though he says we could maybe we could put down some wall-to-wall carpet in your office instead so the fellow things for a bit then he says okay so my father said that his boss immediately says yes he says but not gonna sleep with different grades of carpets there's not grade one grade to carpet and a fellow says okay so the boss rights had a little thing that he gives though they should take it down to you know what the way house that they should take care of this and and he walks out of there and and once he walked out the door closed my father's boss turned to my father he says there goes a fool I don't what had happened he gave up apparently in those in the you know the corporate culture over that in those days having carpet in your office was considered to be a big status symbol and this fellow had given up a rise in salary in order to have this ridiculous piece of carpet put down in his office so that people would come in and they would see that he's got carpet on the floor and they would say where this guy must be he must be very close sure if he must be very important so where he said that my father said that he not like a big lesson from this fellow but like it's ridiculous people people sell themselves in order to live but yeah yeah you know what in oh yeah it's a to imagine to imagine that they are on a something which they're not it's a serta do it's forbidden to do molaro it's forbidden to do work on from error from had sought from midday on erev pesach onwards what does that mean it's not like shabbos and it's not like you on turf anything that needs to be done in order for preparations in order to be able to eat right so all those things are absolutely ok to do it's ok to put on the lights and it's ok to its ok let to know to warm up water in order to be able to have boards and things out that for sure is ok but one should avoid take it one should avoid having haircuts one should avoid doing you know sewing work all that kind of stuff because it's considered to be like a part of its already a part of yomtov it's already a part of placer so it's something to keep an eye on the Mishnah bora actually goes as far as writing that a person who does forbidden Malacca from midday on air of piece of home woods won't see any semen bracha he won't see any kind of a positive dimension to whatever it is and he's doing all right which means that you know for example should it should have person gotta work from from consult on words on erev pesach should have personally going to work it would be better not to go to work right mr. bruce says that that kind of thing you're not going to see any brothel from but of course sometimes it's not so easy to do that somebody's working you know for a for somebody and it's going to be difficult to be taking of time so for sure they should carry on working until they're able to come home for yom tov anything anything that's allowed to be done on column ID is allowed to be done after cut SOT so again you know cooking cleaning all that kind of stuff there seems to be in writing writing it's interesting thing some people are some people have mocked me some people are stringent and they don't write on a column ID at all and if that's the case and it would be forbidden to write from Kansas from from mid day onwards on air pays off as well some people are a little bit more make or they say that some some things which can be written down it important things can be written down and so concept in a locker called d'ivoire vid it's something which is going to be lost so something which is important so like seven you have a great you have a great a great tourist thought the middle of solenoid you just wow you know it's fantastic and if you don't write it down then you're not gonna remember it so for sure you can write that down yeah for sure for sure if on the other hand you know you I don't know you met somebody and they gave you their phone number and if you don't you know but i don't know maybe i could also be considerably devout of it because you're gonna forget the number if you don't write it down so i guess something like that would also be okay what would not be okay no help me out what would not be okay writing down on pesach just I don't know somebody anyway what in all events so writing things down so it really does depend what it is at your writing down right so if you're writing that something which is very important if you're going to forget it then it's it's going to be lost and for sure you can write it then you be able to write it on native Pei settles well if it's something which is not important then you should avoid avoid trying to write it down I had a friend talking like this he said he woke up he had that he dreamt the most incredible kiddush his incredible tour of thought like a novel Torresani dreamt in the middle of his sleep he woke up and he tried it eat the minute he woke up he couldn't remember it properly but he said that he realized that he was I don't know why he thought he was gonna dream it again so he left a pad and a pen next to his bed and he went back to sleep he says one next time going to wake up and I'm gonna write it down immediately and I'm gonna get it so he says that sure enough it happened he went back to sleep and he dropped this dream again with this kiddish and he woke up and he immediately just wrote it down well as quickly as he could and then he went back to sleep again and he said in the morning he woke up and he read through it and he said you know what it was it was pretty good this is like a pretty good finish so he went to his rebbe it didn't tell his rugby how he got to it he just says you know ready I had this idea and he tells him about the idea and the rebbe says to him that's not bad now for this particular person that's like a that's a very high level of praise to say something it's not bad right that's not bad so then he told him how he got to this finish right then he went to sleep and he dreamt and he forgot it he went back to seafood rented again we wrote it down this really looks at him he says you know what he says you're sure he said you should sleep more often he says 80 he said its true sense condition I don't come up with what I've awake that that would be okay to write down a holla void right that skeeters would be okay to write down a hollow void that's for sure ironing could you should you I on a narrow face off not really simple ironing you could do so like you just want to sort out your shirt or something or put a crease back in your trousers that's okay but if it's something a little bit more complicated device for you so low carbon yomtov so the ever since I've is if you're doing it like Harvard Young Turk then it would be okay to do it but it would still would still would be better to make sure that it's done before cutters rather than to run into the problem of doing something like this over car toys what you can do is you can give it to somebody who's not Jewish to do all right so let's say you know if you've got some kind of complicated bit of ironing to do you have something done to a piece of clothing and have it's not ironed it's not going to be wearable property but you can't you kill you probably could do it yourself anyway but it requires a little bit of it what's called a my sickness it requires a you know some kind of expertise over here so then at that point then you can you can take the somebody's not Jewish and they can they could take care of it for you if you're not sure about any case you know you're sure something is work you're not sure something isn't work so get you have to get in touch with a COR what is the cor know what is a cor what's this URL a great question as cor is a competent Orthodox rabbi all right so you have a phone up say look you know rabbis it's okay i want to iron this is it ok or i need to do this is it ok find out whether he says ok if it's okay then it's ok if it's not that it's not you shouldn't get a haircut and you shouldn't shave on air of Pisa which means I'm from Carlos onwards from from the day onwards which was our you're gonna shave then you should shave before midday anyway they say yeah there's an anyways fear of not shaving anyway so for some people you know it's not such a big deal it's just an extra day of not having shaved nails as well their best to cut your nails before cut this as well of you can if you've got time to do it because the lots of things that need to be done on a narrow face like it's a rather busy time to do it laundry right laundry should be done up until hot sauce on on the air of Pesach the laundry should not be done normally doing a column ID unless there's an overwhelming reason why it has to be done so people that have small children at home you know small children tend to get themselves very dirty very quickly it's supposed to adults who get themselves dirty a little slower and either you know even for an adult if you don't you know the person runs out of clothing for whatever the reason then it would be okay to do laundry on column ID but it's best to try to avoid doing it so the Embassy's like this that really really it shouldn't be done but there's no there's no necessity to tell her not to do it so she wants to do it herself otherwise what's going to be she's gonna have a huge amount a huge part of laundry to do after pesach is finished and it's going to be easier for to do it during then that's how it's her business that's what she's chosen to do you know why her his or hers right it's probably a good idea to try to get an app on every play stuff as well let us say that is going to start late and it's going to go on late as well there is a there is a halacha that hasn't met many people many people that are not they're not able to do it but you should really have eaten the afikomen which is the last piece of months of the team before cut salt now cut sort I don't know what it's going to be exactly right but it's probably going to be around one o'clock i would imagine one o'clock in the morning i think there is a interesting approach of the egg late owl who says that he may you have to make it tonight you make a condition that the first lot of month or that you're going to eat you're going to your first lot of months has to be before Qatada sure alright so the first sign of matza is going to be eaten before had sought and you tonight the is that if this is supposed to the African when you're eating the alpha carbon and if it's not then it's okay whatever it's complicated it really is the agri-tower evony Nezzer whatever it's the same person I think it's actually it's called the tonight that have me nazar to difference for him that he wrote but me here so some people do that which means that so long as they eat the first cause eyes of matter before cutters then they can carry on at the regular space and they eat there sooner afterwards and they either happy coming afterwards and everything is being done now after you've eaten your to cause a scene of matter at the beginning and your cuz i said mara and then your and then your your York you know because I said the coax of the mats from the morrow together and your hard-boiled egg right and then you're going to starting in the suitor at that point I don't know it's like it so it could be hard work air of pesach the Dominic is going to be governing is a little bit strange on pesach night so we go to shul and we daven the regular Davenham for Yonder which is fine right and inside of the Amidah for the yomtov Davenham we say yellow the other because it's now pays off but after the a leader has been finished and Kaddish has been recited then everybody resides hallo it's only the only time of the year where hallo is recited at night and we we recited with that broker is made and halel is recited and then after halloween label and everyone that goes home as quickly as they can in order to begin the Seder you