Preparing video...
0:00 / 0:00

This night...we are all reclining - POWERFUL message you MUST hear! - Rabbi Alon Anava

12,359 views
Rabbi Alon Anava avatar
Rabbi Alon Anava

Transcript

Auto-generated transcript. Not time-synced to the video.

in a few days is going to be pesach and every corner you look every direction you stare anything you focus on all you see is trouble and problems difficulties struggling here in israel terror attacks a lot of bad things are going on around all around the world you have to be some genius to figure that out and one might come to the question why why why we have to go through all this and more than that is what can be done to maybe change the situation so like i said bizarre shame in a few days we're going to celebrate pesach and we start the haggadah with a question and the question is what why is tonight a different night from all night that's how we start the haggadah so there's a story about a certain individual a jew who went through a very difficult year anything that can go wrong went wrong the business got burnt he suffered a tremendous loss financially his daughter got hurt he was worried all the time in and out of the hospital and doctors and anything that can go wrong in that year went wrong and this uh poor jew comes le cedel the night of pesach and instead of enjoying the seder and being in a state of happiness in zimcha he's bitter and upset and he's reflecting on the entire year and he and all he can do is complain and cry and whine the person is completely finished and some might we're able to relate that they go through so so much difficulties and trouble they're not feeling like celebrating a holiday they're not in the mood or their their their mind is completely occupied okay as he's uh celebrating the livestream and you know being an observant jew is looking through the commentary through the the explanations of nagada and he comes to the commentary on the question why is this night so different from all different nights and uh the commentary that he finds there is that when it's talking about manish this night it's not referring to the physical night it's not referring to the night when the sun goes down and it becomes dark the commentary says the word night halai la jose is referring to the exile the dark exile where you cannot see any godliness where you cannot see anything that seems they're good and the commentary says the word halal it's referring to the exile and of course the commentary is asking why is the exile so long and not only that why is the exile so long is why is it so hard at the end of the day even though there are good days and bad days the reality that most people suffer from all sorts of problems financially health mental anything you can think of so as why is the this exile is so long also why is it so difficult but more the commentary says why is it different from other exiles i mean we're commemorating the redemption from the exile of egypt and there are other exiles why is this exile different from all the other exiles if we go by the commentary that the the word night is referring to the galoot exile not to the actual physical night anyways that's the commentary that he sees it kind of puzzles him and he continue reading the the haggadah and as he's going you know he's really broke and upset he starts crying crying and weeping and at some point he puts his head down and he cries and he cries himself to sleep and as he falls asleep he has a dream an angel appears to him in the dream and tells him why you're crying it's time to be happy you know we're commemorating freedom we're commemorating a redemption why are you crying now so he tells them how do you want me to to be happy why what kind of a question why am i crying you see what's going on the last year everything turned against me everything is crumbling apart i'm suffering from hearing from there how do you don't want me to cry so then the angel tells him you know what you answered your own question tells him what what do you mean i answered my own question so the angel says you said you answered that tonight this night we all are reclining because in the questions of anishita one of the question is is that every night we sit regular straight upright and at the night of pesach we sit reclining this is called win so angel tells him you answered your own question and then he wakes up now he's even more puzzled he wakes up he looks around not knowing that he fell asleep who fails and falls asleep in the middle of a saddle and he asks his family his wife his kids the guests what did the angel try to tell me tell me angel what are you talking about for angel he's like there was an angel now he told me that i answered my own question there's no angels here i don't know what's going on with you he says i'm telling you i i an angel appeared and asked me my i'm crying and i told him how bad this situation is and he told me i answered my own question now he goes completely crazy and he says you know what i gotta go run to the rabbi ask him what's going on he runs to the rabbi's house knocks on the door rabbis opens the door he tells him listen i i fell asleep as i was crying he tells him the whole story he tells him and the angel tells me that i answered my own question the rabbi thanks a little bit says you know what if you wouldn't tell me that an angel told you that i i wouldn't even believe because this type of answer cannot even come from a human must be that was a really bemit an angel so he tells him okay so what do i need to do now with this and now the angel got me even more confused so the rabbit tells him calm down and he asks him how do you do matza you take flour right then you take water and then you mix them together you mix them and mix them and then you how do you say you you knead the dough you and then you kind of flatten it you make holes everywhere and then you slide it into the oven and when you take it out of the oven voila a beautiful hard together united matzah the water and the dough is now united and it's beautiful and stuff is stiff and hard and most of it it's united it says but you know if you take on the other hand you don't take flour you take bran and you mix the bran with water even if you do the exact same order of putting them together and mixing and kneading and sliding into the oven when you come out it's not going to come together it's all going to crumble in pieces you know why because bran doesn't have this glue power to put things together so it becomes all crumbled and he tells him when the angel told you that you answered your own question he says now if you translate the word mesubin it's reclined but if you read it in hebrew halaila me subbin we are all from bran and he says that's the problem we are crumbled we are separated we have conflicts between one another we love we happy when we see somebody else fail we we not like other people we don't like to see another person successful he says we are all mesobin we are all from bran and that's the real reason for the exile because we're not united we're not together we can't stand each other and he says to him that's the reason for the length of the exile that's why the exile is different from all other exile and that's the reason why the eggs are so difficult and that's why the angel told you alailah now in english it doesn't sound good in hebrew mesubin means that i'm reclined me subbin is from bran that's what the angel was telling him in his dream we are all separated from each other and he tells him only when we are going to unite and be considerate to each other's needs and be thoughtful and patient and sensitive and so forth towards each other then when we're going to be united then the exile is going to end and needless to say that the suffering of the egg cell will be reduced and reduced and reduced to a point that some people won't even feel the pains of the birth of mashiach but now it's up to us if we want to be made out of flour and water and united and become one piece or if we want to be mesubin this night you decide how you want to be this person do you want to be a mata united with everybody else with all the differences with different opinions different thoughts and i'm thinking this and he thinks like that you can choose if you want to be a united matzah then the suffering of the exile will diminish you won't be struggling so much with the suffering of the exile or if this night you want to be miso bean you want to be from bran don't complain the exile is so hard you