Pesach: The Birth of the Jewish People [For Women]

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com I want to thank Mrs Goldman for giving me the opportunity to join you this afternoon want to thank uh Mrs Rosenthal for helping me make this connection and I want to welcome my mother-in-law who's here [Applause] today um if I may I would like to dedicate uh this afternoon's learning for all of the okay l s there the night of the S there evokes very warm memories in everybody's heart there's something magical almost about the night of the SAR the kadus the Holiness is tangible the uh painters have tried to capture on canvas a little bit of the glory the Majesty of the Seder table you have yid who are so estranged from Judaism that they don't even know sh is but they do know you know the story of the English man living in London he's a great literary giant and one day he gets word from the minister of protocol that the Queen of England is going to place her royal scepter on his shoulder and he's going to be invited to a procession and she's going to put the scepter on his shoulder he's going to utter the Latin phrase and he's going to be kned and he's practicing this phrase so that he could recite it with confidence and he has this phrase down like nobody's business and the day comes and he's standing before the queen and she's about to put the Royal scepter on his shoulder and his mind freezes he forgets the Latin phrase so he figures he should probably try to say something in a different language something that sounds Latin so out of the deep recesses of his childhood memories he says the queen is perplexed she turns to the Minot of protocol why is this night different from all the other nights wow not a good audience not bad so what an excellent question why is pesak so different from all the other nights of the year that's a very important question let's ask ourselves in fact the night of the say there is very very different from all other nights of the year if we were to focus and pay attention to how many Mitzvah we perform the night of the so you have on your sheets we say many times the night of because of has a numerical value of 12 sayam one of the one of the great classic commentaries on the says because of 12 that we perform the night of the took us out of what are the 12 the that's four is five is six two times eight is n is 10 is 11 and is 12 12 say there it's an amazing thing there is no other time of the entire year that we perform and squeeze so many Mitzvah into one opportunity know even a man comes to sh Talis shabus even how many MIT do we ever do at one time there there are very rare opportunities that we perform three MIT at the same time maybe suus day you have Su you have the night of the S there there are 12 MIT that we per form an amazing thing why why do we squeeze so many into the night but actually asks it seems that forgot about the most important mitvah of all what's the most important mitvah of that's the beginning of the why did the omit the most obvious Mitzvah we perform the night of the the Mitzvah of and the explains that the is only enumerating that we perform with action but he's not counting MIT that involve deor speech but certainly would be another Mitzvah that we could add to the list in fact if we were to count up all all the MIT that we do the night of the all thez all the all the all the all the even with dbor how many MIT were there would there be so no extra charge if you look on your sheet look at number three the in his he says he heard from an isad formerly who was a rebi in who heard from that we have a tradition from the that the night of the S we perform 64 mitv half love 64 mitz and the question is why do we perform so many say any other time of the year 1 2 3 12 64 MIT imagine you could have somebody he walks into the night say he's in the red or she's in the red that means they have more a mitv imagine somebody came to the St there with a thousand AO and 950 mitz you know their fate doesn't look good and by the time L seder is over they're in the green 64 mitv why so many mitv the night other s there not suus not even cha not rash no other time of the year are there so many let's examine a little further let's talk a little bit about I want to speak at a few interesting important just to give us the proper context of the let's say for example you're in an office and the coworker who's a gentile takes out his trafe sandwich and he's eating kazer on one end of the table are you allowed to eat your kosher sandwich on the other end of the table on the same tablecloth at the same place mat with no interruption at all yeah m is it better not to no it's not better not to what if he's sitting right next to you he his food is like an inch away from yours is that motor absolutely there are no restrictions when it comes to tr there are no he you're allowed to eat ker food if somebody's eating TR food on the same table but but what if you're eating mil yeah and somebody's eating FL Next to You Are you allowed to eat mil somebody on the same table you're not allowed to you have to have either a separate tablecloth or a separate place mat or what you could do is you could put anything down on the table to serve as a Hecker to remind you now what's the difference why is MIL more than TR and the answer is very simple says the says that the difference is that when it comes to trafe what are we worried about you're going to take from the other person's food why would you take from the other person's food you don't eat it the whole year you you won't forget you won't be absent minded if someone's eating TR you know not to eat it so you could eat on the same table but if somebody's eating milk someone's eating an egg and cheese and you're eating a salami sandwich normally you would eat egg and cheese it's just now it happens to be your fles Shi so what we're afraid is we're afraid you might forget and take a little piece of their sandwich and take a bite since you're eating next to them and therefore we require a Hecker we require reminder so you don't partake of the other person's sandwich but what is the when it comes to for instance you're in great adventures and there's a table there and someone's eating KET on the table are you allowed to eat your matah on the table at the same time with the separate tablecloth and the Hecker and the separate plac mat you're not allowed to what if the table is 10 miles long and somebody's eating K on the other end of the table and you're eating matah on this end of the table you cannot eat anything if someone is eating at that table it's amazing amazing difference in is more than it's more than it is the most in the entire why is it so the answer is like this we're afraid that if someone's eating at the table the wind May blow and blow one crumb of into your food and the is on is not even which means if one crumb of KET falls into a chicken soup and the size of the vat it's 500 gallons the entire soup has to be thrown at what's the if a the wind comes and blows a little milk onto your sandwich of of salami what do you do with this with the sandwich it's a big schoa by the way it's writes it's better to eat F that a little milk accidentally got mixed into than even mat P what's wrong it's bot in fact they they could Market such a thing there's a whole Al Caba there's a big inion the thing is you can't intentionally do if you do it but if you could find if you could find um something that is fell in it's it's uh it's not even better not to eat it or what would happen if a little bit of kazer fat fell into your soup it's not is not even if one of falls on into your food on PES before PES by the way it's B it's on P is not even so what's the why is that it's not even I'll give you another example very interesting so you buy a house from a guy and you know that Tony who you bought the house from he loved Burger King are you required before you move into the house to get down on your hands and knees with a flashlight and search in the radiators for little pieces of leftover Burger King right there's no such Mitzvah I'll give you another let's say you move into your new house and Tony left you his couch and you're jumping on the couch nobody was looking and out comes tra out comes tra what do you do with the TR do you bring it to like a big bonfire and throw it in and burn it of course not you throw it in a garbage there's no there's no there's no that is not even there's no you have to be no And yet when it comes to there are seven that we have on P that do not applied any other is the the enumerates you should have on your sheet the enumerates in number 10 in the second paragraph seven that you have on that you do not have by any other in the and the question is you have an says you have to check for you have to search for it in the cracks and the crevices you have to you have to render it ownerless you have to burn the is also even which means it's not even B on a thousand you're now to see the you're not if somebody found in their house do they have to take a big pot and cover it over there's no there's no you just get rid of the is why is is so much more than any is in the entire Tyra so this is the question of the RAS who's the rvas the rvas was born in 1480 he was the rebi of none other the than the arizal so in 1492 the RAS is among the and the RAS wrote more than 2,400 to all over the world to as far as India it's very interesting you know in the times of the RAS there was a little bit of a problem that during not people were talking nobody would ever do that people were not listening carefully to Kazar so the r was and the r was the one who reinstated the is the rabbi in Cairo for over 40 years and the rvas is struggling with this question why is so much more than any isra in the so he tries various possibilities and he says well maybe we have to be very when it comes to what's the punishment for the consumption of that's the highest degree of severity of all the is so maybe because the iser entails such a severe punishment we need to have such strict safeguards says there many in the that are the Forbidden fats of an animal are also you don't have to search for them you don't have to burn it you're allowed to own it so it can't be because has an is then the r says well maybe it's because you're not allowed to get from and since you're not to get from it as opposed to other which you're get benefit from we have to be very strict in terms of the safeguards and to that says there many that are also let's say a an animal that violates a certain a the animals and nevertheless we don't have these safeguards maybe says theas the reason is because since we eatates the whole year and we're so used to it we're have to be extra careful on lest the person stumble and eat it so therefore we have all these safeguards say there many that are the rest of the year you have you have other and therefore the r sort of shrugs his shoulders throws up his arms and he says there is no straightforward explanation to explain why kit is so severe and therefore the RAS has no alternative than to offer the following cabalistic approach in other words say there is no straightforward simple way to explain why the is so this is the only explanation and the says as follows there's a very important gar the gar over there is talking about how various at the conclusion of they would add personal B to the conclusion of and thear tells us there was an individual by the name of R Alexandri who would conclude in the following way you have it on your sheet it's number six alexand Alexandri when he would finish doing he would say the following Master of the Universe you know full well that it is our will to fulfill your will you know we want to do the right thing so what's stopping us says the two things the yeast in the D and the subjugation of the nations of the world the latter we understand we live in a gentile environment all of the attitudes that we confront that enter our minds that bombard us are all antithetical to the T and no matter what type of Yesa education a person has they are constantly being exposed to ideas that are against the Tyra and that is one of the two main things that take us away from serving Hashem but what is number one the yeast in the dough what does the gamar mean that the yeast in the dough prevents us from serving Hashem so I get it you know Friday night you have a lot of Kal and you have such a sugar rush to your brain after eating so much kala you're in a semicom state by the time the meal is over you can't move and even though you know there are a lot of good things you could be doing you can't right or you eat a donut you shouldn't be allowed to drive right you you can't even think anymore the all that yeast all that sugar but obviously that's not what the gamarra means what does the gamarra mean the yeast in the D is a mus is an allegory to the if a person would just walk around Meek humble so they don't feel deserving they don't feel entitled they don't need they don't deserve if somebody says something to them so what who am I anyway it's I don't deserve it I don't need it but all of a sudden that Yahara Puffs you up to become you know the most important creature on Earth how dare you I have a right I'm entitled to me that is number one in [Music] so is a m to the Yar if I were to ask you who is and you don't have to answer this question who is your greatest enemy in this world your boss well leave it at that who is your greatest enemy in the world says there were a bunch of soldiers returning from war returning from Battle and they were carrying The Spoils of War in their hands and they encounter a and the says you have returned from the small War now you're ready for the Great War and they said and what's the Great War that is the says you should know your greatest enemy in this world see people don't understand people think the just wants you to do na no the wants the kill you he wants you dead he wants you to do NAA and then feel guilty about it and then get depressed and then not be able to do anything thear is not just a spiritual enemy he's your enemy the gar says the wicked are full of regret well that's a big MGA they they regret all their AAS no not that type of regret they're full of guilt guilt is thear more than the thear wants you to feel bad feel low feel Despicable feel guilty the biggest enemy that we have in this world is is the physical manifestation representation of the and therefore says does anybody know how many names the has seven names says says thear has seven names what are they ra t thear says Yar has many many names to EV how many are there when it comes to there seven searching in the cracks and crevices you can't see it you can't find it the seven ofes correspond to the seven names of theara what does that mean theara has seven names it means this Yar has seven different tactics to get a person to do a sometimes theara Puffs you up and makes you feel important how dear they I deserve I'm entitled and sometimes says you're going to do that Mitzvah you're nothing anyway who are you your you're a nobody and theara plays different cards he knows which card to pull out at which time there are seven different techniques and corresponding to that there are seven different ofes and therefore because which is is so poisonous and so harmful and so dangerous and so toxic we're not allowed to own the Kates we're not to look at the Kates we have to burn the Kates we're not to see it you have to get down on your hands and knees take out that feather and wooden spoon go into your radiator and make sure that there's not even a tiny little crumb because the smallest amount of Y har is toxic is poisonous could destroy a person there's nothing more terrible disgusting horrendous poisonous than thear so why why not the whole year we don't need ah so that's the million dollar question so if is so terrible and so poisonous and so toxic then what are we doing eating it 24 hours a day 358 days a year you know kazer you can't eat the whole year and you can't eat the whole year and B you can never eat and here we're saying that is you can't see it you can't look you can't own it you can't have I mean did anyone ever go into a r with a leash said what do you got there I have a pig you know I don't know how I got it but maybe you know a guy who wants to buy myaz nobody ever came to me fromaz even people will never say Bo to a rabbi all of a sudden M oh everyone's piling in it work it's good I'm happy you know but all of a sudden it comes to PES even the slightest degree right nobody ever came to a rub to buy it's only and as terrible as it is we consum it our entire lives except for PES so how do you explain this dichotomy on the one hand the worst thing in this world is the and on the other hand we're eating it the whole year okay you're sitting you ready for this one I came across an incredible ha name of this is of is called the the third mouth meaning he's a talid of a talid of the vag and he really is the one who um publicized and proliferated a lot of the cab and the teachings of the vun he was re and he takes an idea of theal and he embellishes it and he runs with it here's the idea that CL stay in and is analogous to the pregnancy and incubation and birth of CLA isra so let's explain what that means but this is the idea and this is what we're going to try to develop in how much time do we have hours between 10 minutes and 3 hours okay we always have to start with the weather report okay we always start with the weather so it's on the eights right it's right perfect timing the Torah tells us that when you're leaving today it's the springtime could someone tell me why the tah Begins the episode time with the weather report why do we need to know that we're leaving in the spring what's the spring comes right after the winter during the winter all the trees die all the leaves fall off of the tree all the animals go into hibernation the world is in a state of Misa and death and the spring is The Rebirth of the world the revitalization the birth of planet Earth so too CLA Isel were wallowing in mitan physically we were demoralized we had a slave mentality we have low morale spiritually we were on the 49th level of T had we remained a moment longer we would have fallen to the 50th level the point of no return and hasem comes to M and he says guess what go tell the people that I've decided that they are going to be the recipients of the Tyra that in 49 days they're going to be raised up to the 50th level of Kad and be say what imagine you go to the slums and you take the lowest of the low and you say in 50 days you're going to become Queen of England yeah I don't want to use the other countries but you're going to become the ruler of the world say what are you talking about you got the wrong guy how are we going to do it how are we going to lift ourselves up physically emotionally psychologically spiritually to carry out this great mission of the well say was considered like the embryo the uterus of the Jewish people the re the place where the selected that that clo should develop and ultimately be reborn in fact MIT is called the are compared to is considered the lowest land in the world it says say for a embryo to develop properly it develops in a dark cramped mest place and therefore there was no nation in the world no country in the world no location in the world that fit the bill to be the seat of the development of this embryo named CLA well say pregnancy has three trimesters so to there were three stages in the development of Cl in m so when we first came down Yobo came down the brothers came down it wasn't even noticeable that we were enslaved somebody who saw s would think we're just we're on vacation we're in G nobody would know that were an embryo that MIM the host mother was pregnant nobody could tell like a woman in the first trimester where it's not recognizable it's not noticeable that she's in this condition what happened next things began to get very difficult for Jewish people we became enslaved they tortured us they Afflicted us the second trimester it's noticeable already everybody knows Things become more difficult becomes harder to walk it becomes harder to do household activities the second trimester of was when Rose until the birth of Miram does anybody know from the birth of Miram until we left M how long was that 86 years very good 86 years G same thing right 86 right 86 by the way how long were we supposed to be in MIM 430 really we only were enslaved 86 years which is what 1 one series of 86 except instead of Five series of 86 so we drink the four kis each kis takes us out of another 86 years they were supposed to have been a Mah the final 86 years were torture they took our babies they threw in the Nile they built it into the river life was impossible so painful ream so to speak squeezed 430 years worth in the last 86 years but just like the third trimester the inexperienced mother thinks that the more painful it is the longer it will be it's going to last forever but the experienced mother knows the more pain and the more intense the labor pain the closer you are to the end so to him theam needed us to be there 430 years but he made it he squeezed 430 years worth in order to get us out early we know on the what's the what's the of 190 because of he took us at early and he pulled us out how long 190 years early so the more the pain the more intense the pain the sooner we were leaving the third trimester that was the third trimester of MIM the first Mak was says the that's the first that's the first symptom that the for labor and delivery listen to this look at number 18 there will be a great cry that never was there like that and never will there be like that who cares what's the tar trying to tell me that the scream was so loud and yeah and let's say one person one time screamed a little louder what's the message what is the T trying to convey that this was the loudest alltime scream who screams louder than anybody else now that's if you're having one kid imagine if you're having we have an 11 pounder right that's what if you're having twins what if you're having triplets what if you're having 10 what if you're having an entire nation says if you look in the Guinness Book of World Record what was the most amount of people ever born at one time 600,000 that is why the Torah emphasizes it's incredible you know in the emphasizes the fact remember this so in case you didn't know who did it tells us like 90 times it was me nobody else like who else was going to do it and the answer is very simple has many has millions of at their disposal and any good good boss knows the key to successful operation is you have to delegate and delegates there's Gabriel there's mik so why in the world is saying it was me it was me it was me why was it him why did he have to do it says because we know there are only three things in this world that maintains the soul possession of these keys that nobody else has any control of when these things happen for example the rain the gamar says in Tinus the rain that is a key that only run from nobody knows when it's going to rain everybody knows that if they report it's going to rain it's 5050 if you even need an umbrella right if they say there's going to be a storm 24 in if you get 6 in they're they hit it on the nail nobody knows when the rainfalls that's the key only in what's the other key one day when we wake up we're going to know it's the ream who brought us back but the third key that the ream maintains sole possession of that nobody could say no and nobody could say yes and nobody could say it is possible and nobody could say it's impossible only the and therefore says why have to be because this was the Le this was the birth of the of Cl and this is a key that the maintains sole possession of this is not a job that he delegates to anybody else comes the night of the and everybody knows that when a baby is born the first couple of hours are critical are crucial thear says on chabas there are seven activities that you're allowed to do for a baby even on chabas you're allowed to be shabas because if you don't take care of the baby in its first few hours and few first few days on this world it's very dangerous situation you're setting the tone you're preparing the child for its entire life these hours the first hours after birth are critical to the entire future of the child and therefore you're allowed to boil water on chabas and allow to swaddle the baby and everybody knows as soon as a baby's born there all kinds of activities they give you about 30 seconds and they whisk the baby off they they they vaccinate the child they drop they suction out the lungs there all kinds of things that are taking place and then the baby gets a little older you take it to the doctor once a month once a year and then nobody wants to go anymore what's so special about because that sets the tone for the rest of the life of the baby it's the first few moments of Life which are so critical the night of the say there is like the first hour after birth all of the mitv the 12 mitz the 64 expanded mitv are the critical activities that we have to perform which will give us the strength and endurance and protection and spiritual stamina to exist the entire lifespan of a that is why the l say has more MIT than any other time of the year the same way there are more activities done to the child when the child is born the night of the S is the Lila of the Le ofisa the rest of the year we don't have a problem with I remember my grandfather told me that he had Mas in the 1930s in the Bronx his name wasel Epstein yeah on east side also the east side giving away your age right but I went when I was in AR I went to I went to visit him 85 years after he told my grandfather so my grandfather used to say that the mash would tell the boys that a b in Yesa has to play ball say well why do we have to play B no cuz you can starve the Yahara the Yahara is a force to reckon with you can starve it if it if you starve it it will come out elsewhere yahar is very important the G says in that the when they the desire for they figured let's just get rid of theara entirely and the gamar said the world fell apart nothing worked anymore the gar said nobody had any initiative every everything was just sluggish everybody needs a little yahar the Yahara fuels the activities of a person and we're able to deal with the itahara we're able to balance it we're able to slide with the Yahara but that's the rest of the year because the rest of the year we're mature the rest of the year we've already developed however the night of the S there everybody knows you know if you have a kid and part of their dinner falls on the floor and nobody's looking you blow it you make believe you wash it and you put it back in the way you're not cooking another supper what if well the baby's a year old and the bottle has been out for 25 minutes it's okay but a newborn if anybody looks at that bottle it has to be burnt it has to be Tak an atomic bomb you destroy it and you go out and you buy a new one that nobody ever looked at nobody even thought about it because a baby is very vulnerable a baby is very susceptible everything has to be completely sterile everything has to be pure there can't be any chance of something entering the baby system that he's not doesn't have the resistance for yet the rest of the year we all need a little humit a little never hurt anybody but the night of the say there we have not developed yet the resistance the maturity the spiritual wherewithal to be able to cope with thear the night of the S there the moment of birth we cannot have even a crumb cannot have an Iota it's not even butf if you see it you have to burn it you have to you can't look at it you can't own it you have to search for it because the night of the sers the night of Lea every little crumb is toxic says you take a look at the two words they both have a me they both have aadi the only difference between between and mat is has a and mat has a matah has that little opening that's the P that represents how the gave birth to clal we were born through matah matah created clal allegorically that is the substance that is the source that is the root that is the of Cl every single year when we consume that mat is recreating each and every one of us for the entire year so let me be the first to wish you all mazeltov on your upcoming birth so just very briefly what does this mean what is the concept that CL is born on PES and very simply we have the man what exactly is this question why is this night different it's very different Andel identifies very clearly what is the question of the Manana we know when K left MIM we crossed the sea and we crossed the desert and we were sick and we got out of prison so we met all four requirements of someone who has to bring a carbon TOA and a carbon TOA has Loaves and mat loes and yet the night of the SAR the carbon PES only has matah why is this carbon different from any other carbon so what's the answer to the question says the answer to the question is carbon p is not a carbon there's only one carbon that has noes brought with it the carbon that we bring on the eth day of the milim that inaugurates the bikash it's called the carbon the carbon p is a carbon that inaugurates a in his yearlong when we say that P is the birth of Cl this is the beginning of our year of this is what ushers in our year of this is the inauguration of so we should take advantage of these ideas to try to integrate into our minds a little bit the concept of how careful we are from because this is really the beginning of our year and whatever was last year and whatever was in our past doesn't matter this is a new rebirth it's a new opportunity to rejuvenate ourselves to energize ourselves to focus on gives us new capabilities and new we have a tradition brings down from the that the third bik will be rebuilt on P but we have a little dilemma because we will not be able to be on because there's a rule luckily there are only seven free days in Nissan that are not occupied yet the last seven days of on are reserved for the of the third that as we have our personal to see you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com