Rabbi Avrohom Walkin | CHAMETZ: Why All The Hate!!! | CHAZAQ

[Music] um good evening everyone um thank you for coming I'd like to give a Yash kak to Rabbi rubinov assistant Rabbi associate Rabbi is that the right word from share amuna a very special place I know it's a beautiful building outside that I know and I know a lot of Torah takes place here and I always pass by and I always see shm here and upstairs and downstairs it's a beautiful thing and I'd like to thank kazak and Tor anytime for posting and for always spreading the word of Torah which obviously is our Lifeline thank you um I want to discuss a very important topic today obviously because p is upon us okay p is upon us and we do know the rabis teach us 30 days before a yov a person should start preparing for that yov why not just physically because let's be honest sh and Yumer I don't know if you need 30 days to prepare for the physical yam 30 days for yum you don't eat you don't really have anybody coming over so what do you so obviously kazal is telling us you prepare emotionally spiritually R you prepare 30 days before now it's interesting to note that PES is called a time of Freedom okay time of Freedom what does time of freedom mean that we're supposed to feel free we're supposed to feel free the tah wants us on PES to feel free but if you really think about it P you would think on a physical level p is the most hardest y to prepare the hardest y to actually go through in a way and yet it's called now what do I mean how many mothers I know my mother this is the truth my mother kanah time kanah time would tell me no bringing food upstairs after Kana there's no bringing food no no bringing kets upstairs you know you know what I'm talking about some people say it all year round they don't even have kala all year round because they don't bring into the house before a year before PES even though it's PES but I will tell you that people prepare for PES and they Mish work very very hard very very hard to prepare for the Yum so mothers are working hard fathers usually work harder I'll be honest even though they might not do as much in the house but when it comes to preparing for pesak there's always errs to do okay financially p is a very expensive Y where people pay more usually it costs more everything costs more things cost the Matas the mo everything cost yet it's called freedom and this is an interesting thing if p is called a yump of Freedom why do we put so much work where you would think you would think not free right but when you ask people what's called Freedom going on a vacation doing nothing relaxing I mean some people might think that I'm not saying they're wrong but some people might think that what is freedom freedom means relaxation I'm free I'm a free guy yet here we're we're expected to have freedom we're expected to work weeks and weeks in advance and yet you come to the PES s and what do we have a whole night now again if you're prepared for PES and you're spiritually Rus wise prepared then yes it's easier to get through a PES seder but if you come in unprepared four five six seven hours at a PES s could seem long could seem very long and where's the freedom in that that's not Freedom that's freedom spending first of you're exhausted usually usually you're pretty exhausted when it comes to the PES from all the Avid and all the preparations and last minut preparations PES s maybe should have been done maybe in the daytime have in the daytime you have a good sleep at night you sleep well and the next day you wake up refreshed and you have a beautiful seder so where's the freedom here that's one thing okay where is the freedom in PES when it's the hardest young in a way you would think to prepare physically monetarily it's one of the hardest y to spending wise right all the things you got to buy for PES and we come to a PES s at night and it's five six seven8 call the more you can talk about it the more you get involved wow Freedom I want to get some sleep at 2:3 in the morning no Freedom that's first of all second of all there's a question that always bothered me and it bothers a lot of people that that let's say don't delve into understanding what it is why does hasem hate humat so much what is it about humates that you can't have a little breadcrumb anything in your house well I'm not going to be from if I have a little piece of humet in my house that's first of all second of all you're not allowed to see you're not let to own it you're not let to see it obviously you can't eat it and that's why sometimes you're worri you'll see it and you might want it you might come to eat it what is this it's what what shabas we have Kal and we're from and we're Stark and everything's beautiful what is it about Kates that Hashem says the Torah tells us not even to have a drop of kites in your house so I want to explain something to you I will tell you this also Rabbi gifter r gifter z was a big Riva and he actually brings down actually from this past week's para par that the carbon he says cannot have it can't have any any flour It could only be oil and salt oil and salt what is it about the from the carbon that he says you cannot T does not want you to have any some of theas is all right carbon T you bring this carbon cannot have any any any yeast products in it so he explains like this and this is going to get into the answer of of the on P the the does not tell a person and this is very important to know something that's not there and he makes it appear the Y will take something and he'll camouflage he'll fluff it up he'll make it look bigger than it is he'll make it look oh you need it but not the Y can't take a chicken and make it look like a pig or a pig let's say a pig and make it look like a chicken and then you eat it cuz that's that's not fair you have no opportunity to think differently if it looks like a certain thing the a will take a reality and it'll change it he'll make your heart want it he'll make your heart think differently not correctly and therefore you'll fall into a trap because everything hasem puts in this world at a certain point of your life is permitted very interesting anger if it's the right anger you see Mo was angry but he had the right to be angry Pinas was angry he had a right to be angry at his time so anger is a good trait too if it's used correctly eating shabas wine P KES everything's permitted at the right time and that's the greatness of giving us the Torah and the world that he created things and he lets us use it he lets it use it at the right time when he says it it can't be used and then it becomes not only Not a Bad Thing becomes a good thing becomes a r he becomes holy so he says by the car he says like this he says that the car is brought from a person's own personal giving this guy gives this this guy gives that but when you give it you got to be who you are you can't be fluffed up you don't give it and be who you're not if you can't afford it don't give something you can't afford if you could afford it bring something something you could afford be who you are but be the best who you are and what does salt do why does it say you should put salt cuz salt takes a a food doesn't change it it just adds flavor it takes the flavor that's sorry it doesn't add flavor it takes the flavor that's there and he brings it out therefore the whole inion of this Kate is when a person's cleaning for PES he shouldn't be thinking I'm working on I'm cleaning I'm cleaning I don't want to do what I need if you don't understand what the says yeah it seems like a big a but if you look at the like the that it's the evil inclination that fluffs up the whole idea of is it takes something that's a certain weight and measurement and size and it makes blows it out of proportion that's really the is because we have we have matah right the answer is it's not fluffed up it didn't rise the Yar you know what he does he fluffs things up in you and you think therefore when you're working on PES you know your aod is when you're cleaning that you're cleaning yourself you're cleaning your kets from your own self you're taking the K and therefore what does hasm want you every crack that there may be KET every drawer every pocket even jackets you're not going to wear or books you won't open or maybe you might open if it's in your house I want it out I want if it's in your possession got to go because when you're doing the avod of cleaning you're also you should think about if you're cleaning the car for pesak or you're doing anything for pesak you should think about you know what I'm doing I'm cleaning myself myself from the in myself in my heart and therefore you know what hasem says I'm going to give you weeks of work of getting rid of this of impurity of from yourself that when you come to the P you're truly free that's what freedom is freedom is when you come to the pesak Seder you come into pesak and you're free from your desires from all the things that bog you down from getting close to Hashem that's true freedom and you know what Hashem does then he says now you're a k you're a vessel to be Mel my Torah and Mitzvah to be to understand me therefore now that you're clean T hasem says I'm going to give you a night filled with Torah and Mitzvah because now that you're cleansed hopefully and you're spiritually cleansed too you understood the concept of the cleaning of that Kates you're now ready to enjoy the benefits of Torah mitzah T we have a night filled the Torah mitzvos and I want to tell you something I'm sure you might not have heard it this way but I'm telling you I'm not telling you I do it all myself but I work on myself every year I get hopefully a little stronger a little better and I focus on it more when I do a now for PES even now I started I honestly say it to myself almost every time when I spend I actually bought from a certain organization uh the Davis Memorial they gave to rabam and to people that they give they they much cheaper when I P push the button when I'm saying when I push the button that my order is in I think it was like two weeks ago I said that I'm preparing myself even with the buying of the products so I can celebrate PES the way wants me to celebrate it and work on myself work on myself when you buy products for PES you're you're you're not even realizing it but you're buying products that are not ktic so you're buying products almosta you're buying products with a certain mindset with a certain mindset now how does that what does have to do with you boys what does it have to do with you boys let me explain something each one of us have something maybe I think you do maybe that you could work on whether it's maybe looking at things whatever it is I'm not here to judge people I'm not here to bring to give a list of things or to to tell you things that you don't do and now you'll do them because I mentioned that no I'm here everybody has something he could work on and you know what make it your job your goal the next three weeks left only 3 weeks left but the next three weeks I'm going to work on myself on this particular thing that when I come into PES I'll feel truly free in a way free from desires is a very big thing to feel free from addiction and you're young but adults you know people I had to deal today with a story seriously today with a B that got involved a little bit with gambling and and how do we stop it and once he started already yeah there are addictions out there playing cards playing cards it was about playing cards but he played started to play for money and his parents called me up and asked me about it they asked me about it but I said I hear you I I agree I never gambled in my life not because I'm such a good guy never gambled in my life you know even when I was 17 18 I wasn't always the best B in the world not that I'm the best now never gambled even I understood then even when I was not what I want to be or I should be I understood stay away from this because there's no good thing to come out of it playing cards for money and then it leads to this and then it leads to beding not a good thing besides radf he's holding he can't even buy spatel games am I right yeah yeah yeah and there's different reasons why not so much on the addiction aspect of the of the stealing aspect right yeah so it's not the point the point is we all could take the next 3 weeks keep it out aim keep it out a aim if you don't speak to your parents or even treat them the way they should be treated now the way they should be treated doesn't make a decision then you make the decision how they should be treated you know my father's tough on me he deserves this my mother doesn't talk to me nicely I'm just mentioning things you have a requirement to respect your parents so if you feel you're not giving them the proper cavod work on it for the next three weeks work on it that you can come with something on your level to feel that freedom and then you'll enjoy you'll enjoy pace you'll feel good about yourself me what there's no Freedom like someone that's connected to his life force to his life force and I'm going to leave you with a little story and that's it and then we'll end there was a man that was walking through Central Park and he saw a bunch of leaves that were flying in the air and and the wind was taking it and the wind was taking it and he as no this is not a True Story by the way so don't ask me oh he was talking to the leaves yes he was talking to the leaves it's a Mas it's a parable and he he saw a bunch of leaves that were FL you know very excited W in the wind and he asked the leaves why are you so excited and the Lea said don't you understand we're free now we're free we used to be attached to that old tree over there we used to be attached to now look we could see the world we can go wherever we want we're free we're free why shouldn't we be excited okay you can say anything few days later the same man is walking through Central Park again and he sees the leaves that he sore all dead on the ground but there was one leaf that had a little green in it a little life into it so we asked that leaf what happened to all of you what happened to all of you you were free you were going to see the world so the one leaf said that we thought we were free but we didn't realize that we were cut off from our our sustenance from our life force we're cut off what Freedom we we thought we can go but you can't go anywhere without oxygen can't go anywhere without your nourishment therefore we died we say Torah is a tree of life of of sustenance of nurturing people think if I stay away from I'm not so close to Torah I'll have a better life I'll be happier I'll be free I can do what I want no one says anything to me nobody knows I do things you don't realize that you're the more you leave your sustenance if you detach yourself from that tree we wither away we wither away eventually and emotionally we wither away and and happiness we wither away and and spiritually and then some people die actually so to those that stay attached to that tree are considered alive they eight times the tree of life so I give you all a give you all a that you have a very special Rabbi R by rubinov here very special man very special man and he he wants to be he came into this sh and he wants to be he wants to be and you should all have a wonderful p and this you'll bring more B to the situation here and you and you'll be be Marb Tora more Marb Tor more and thank you so much for the opportunity