Rabbi Glatstein Live on JMintheAm {The Nachum Segal Network} - Rav Daniel Glatstein on the Haggadah

it's America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored Digital radio around the world we at al.com on the aquam single Network and of course on the Beloved NSN app Rabbi Daniel gladin is with us live via telephone the art scroll release is entitled R Danel gladstein on the hagada Revolutionary insights into into the haa The Exodus and the Final Redemption go to artscroll.com you know the rule always use promo code radio24 go to artscroll.com and again the rule is pretty simple uh you use promo code radio4 again that's promo code radio 24 by Danielle gladin a pleasure to welcome you back to JM and the am good morning nak how are you how are your PES off preparations going uh fantastic I don't have much to do I just stay out of the way and uh well some some some might suggest that that's the most helpful thing you can do Rabbi yeah you know you know oh did we lose the rabbi all right hopefully he'll call us back um again go to artscroll.com the book the brand new hagada is entitled R Danel gladstein on the hagada Revolutionary insights into the hagada The Exodus and the Final Redemption go to artscroll.com make sure to use promo code radio artscroll.com make sure to use use promo code radio also take advantage of Arts SRS um box sale I guess we can call it that where they literally are putting in a box over $200 worth of books and selling them selling the box for $89.99 which means you can get an incredible array an entire case of great Arts girl books in sarim um which you know about in advance they give you the list of exactly what's uh what's available they they tell you exactly what's being offered and they send you a box that could very inspiring and educational overpay I think we by gladstein is back Rabbi are you there yeah I'm here I'm here you were saying go ahead you were saying about about yeah so you know yeah the guy he's trying to stay out of the way and after about three hours he can't uh he can't do it anymore so he comes back into the house and his wife said you know I didn't ask you to help all I asked you to do is stay out of the way and you're already back he's like the whole day I have to help you can't do it the whole day you know everybody's got their own perspective yeah I don't remember I don't remember last year exactly which topics we touched on but I did open up your hag as if we had never spoken before and I came up with the following that I wanted to bring up first of all you spend a good amount of time and Pages frankly on ER of pesak and and you know I I don't know maybe I'm wrong I think it's more I think it's more common in Israel frankly than here maybe I'm wrong maybe in the more yeshivish Community it is in fact a thing about the amiris carbon pesak after Min um but tell us about era of PES because I don't think people realize just how elevated a day ER of pesak is it is not a regular er of yum would you agree yeah absolutely and I'm glad you sp you picked up on this because we did not discuss the last time um you know it's interesting when people if you were to ask people what's the name of the upcoming holiday most people would say well it's pesak right and that's not true never does the tah refer to the upcoming as P there's but there is a day it does refer to as p in the is referred to as P so actually it's a completely distinct y it is the Y of p p is p the following seven days are and you know in our ha we bring a a letter which it's customary for many people to recite this letter it's a letter from one of the uh most eminent mikal his name was Ramin of ashra who was uh killed in 1648 in the massacres of tat and he left us an exposition uh explaining certain a certain cabalistic passage of that Aral which it is recommended to recite on ER of PES many do in fact recite at er pesak and there are many wondrous accounts of those who recited AR pesak in fact there are many reports that Jews who recited this during the times of the Holocaust were saved in various communities um anyone who had that opportunity was offered uh great protection some say it ER of PES some say it the night of the P wow and it's predicated on the idea that the power that is latent in the words of the Mak is still there and if you say those words you could tap into that spiritual energy and that spiritual power specifically on P now why P you know you brought up this very important question what's so significant about ER of P you remember in the purin story what was Esther doing at the time she was preparing ing to go into and save the Jewish people the med teaches us she was doing seems a little random that he was putting out the 10 pieces of bread and looking for them with her candle and feather as she was preparing to go in to but part of the explanation is that we started eradicating the forces of evil on pm and it comes to its full culmination 30 days later on ER of P so on P before we anticipate the G we need to eradicate the forces of evil in this world that are represented by Amal and of course we know in our times there is a force of evil that the Jewish people uh is Reckoning with and they come to their Oblivion so to speak at the time of of on ER p and as we take our 10 pieces or whatever we're able to collect and we put it in the fire that represents the culmination of the obliteration of the forces of evil in preparation for coming of G which is primed for the 15th of Nissan so Arab p is like the grand finale of the destruction of of evil in this world so it's a very significant day very powerful day R gladin I have hundreds of AAS I I've actually given away a lot of hagadas recently and I still have hundreds of Haas I don't think I've ever seen R Shaman's letter in another hagada have you seen it printed in another hag aside from yours you know I would like to say no but you know my hag is not the only ha that it's rare right isn't it rare yeah it's it's um it's rare perhaps for the art scr uh series and what's very rare is to have a an accompanying explanation and um an introduction explaining how it operates and when to say it and what the meaning of it is and um I think it's one of the nice features of this hag all right so the four-page English introduction to the letter is not an exact translation but it's a pretty comprehensive review of what people will experience and and and uh and discover when they read the letter AR of PES right that would be a way of putting it absolutely absolutely and you know if I may uh there is a critical addition in both Hebrew and English of this letter um that's available online and um the author actually uh gave me permission to site certain insights that he had and I recommend that if people want to explore um the letter of shamshan they get a hold of that uh commentary but this gives you a pretty solid introduction and um anybody who reads introduction will certainly be motivated to take the few minutes that it takes to say this uh this passage so so you've given us a lot of assignments for a week from Monday you got to say you got to say carbon pesak you got you got to read the letter based on the order in your you read the letter first right would that be would that make sense well you want to try to dive anyway before c PES right that's what we usually do when we're in Israel right wow boy this holiday is getting more and more complicated as I get older and older no no you keep it simple you keep it clear yeah and and when do we do Shir is that after the Seder we do that after the Seder yeah have to stay there after to stay there you know but people get very anxious this time of the year I know a lot of people they start to think about the overwhelming list of things they need to do and I think that's why it's important that the book that we use is called St there order because when you're organized and you have a program it keeps you it keeps you Cal and uh it keeps things in perspective hey no joke yeah I'm sorry very important to stay levelheaded and to stay calm the night or to stay there and of course every custom is important and we try to fulfill all of them but really the most important objective is not to lose your cool in fact uh you know the the ran tells us that one who gets angry the Rama makes a frightening statement call one who gets angry it's like serving idols and says that when it comes to the Y of P you know an idolor is not invited to partake of the carbon PES that's right and therefore of all the things that we have to be careful about um writes it's more important not to get angry on even they're not eating so if the so if the youngest refused uses to start mishana you got to stay calm yeah you move on when when you threaten the him or her by saying that you'll read Mish yourself go ahead and do that before you get angry yeah exactly and by the way you do include Sher shirim afterwards I didn't even realize you have it in your ha so it's it's really I have something really interesting on that yeah on on the shiram you know you know how many how many suim are in shum how many there in what are we gonna do with that actually the number of years that we were enslaved in bitter slavery in Egypt 117 years and that's one of the important connections between shiram and uh and the SAR that's that's a number I never heard associated with with shibud mitz yeah it's it's amazing you know you there's so many Haas and there's so many different numbers we know 430 and 400 and 210 right right so where's 117 come from unbelievable you know the wrote six different commentaries on the and I found in all of his commentaries he gives significance to this number 17 in fact this I never knew and I never saw in any SA and I saw in a very interesting saare artg produced a commentary to the of sh fromi I think it was compiled by Shai Sher yeah yeah and he he brings he wants to aski why is it that when we say we repeat the final right know say that twice right and said because he said said he heard it from an old man and I never heard that expression before you know usually would say he saw it in this sa on that page right but just said he heard from a elderly sadic that y has 112 words and in order to get to the special number7 we repeat just one more time why why is it so important mat shabas to get to 117 yeah because mat shabas were praying the souls go back to their place perhaps in the geham and we want to offer them protection and actually there's an idea that just like when we were in Egypt 117 years the souls spend 117 hours in geham a week where does that come from 24 hours a day days a week candle light exactly how but that's still uh 6 * 24 is 68 hours a week is 168 hours right and if you subtract 24 hours for shabas and then the 27 hours for the daily life three times a day it's 117 hours that's just an example of where we see this number that we usually don't hear about 117 heard it before at all and it's a reference to to to what the hardest the hardest slavery period for the Jewish people the hardest slavery oh it's precisely we know that the slavery began when the shtim passed away right so from the death of lazyy who lived the longest until we left was 117 117 years unbelievable Rob Danel gladin with us we uh highly recommend RAV Danel gladstein on the hagada revolutionary insights into haa The Exodus and the Final Redemption it's an Arts squirrel release go to arts.com make sure to use promo code radio 24 finally or by gladstein how could I possibly have a conversation with someone like yourself during this year of T Shin pay doid without asking you about the extra significance that we have felt everywhere and certainly in this country of the paragraph of visha every generation they want to destroy us and he of course he with a capital H comes through and makes sure that we survive and this is a very important message for the Seder to transmit to our children and grandchildren this year of course every year it's important but particularly now what are your thoughts especially compared to last year when situations and conditions were a bit different what are your thoughts about the whole theme of aishaa and the ultimate Redemption that you mentioned earlier that we are going to benefit from the ha could not address our feelings and our emotions more directly because when we think about how we ended up in Egypt in the first place when when yose was sold down to Egypt and we think well you know who who purchased him who sent him down there and we look at the him and we see he was sold byas a caravan of isan that's what precipitated the whole bondage in Egypt and in fact we start off by dipping the carpath and there many different explanations for why we dip the carpath but the most definitive and earliest commentary we have is we dipped the carpath to remember how we got to Egypt in the first place they took y's tunic they dipped it in Blood and they sold him to yes wow and then we look at the end of the and the and the eight personalities or figures in the khadya and you know Rob keski interprets that these eight figures represent the eight Exiles Babylon and the chadians Persia media Greece Macedonia edim and finally the angel of death is isma and that means the ends the same way we got here because we sold to the end that God will come and he will take care of business with the which says is and he will redeem us so the is bookended with what did to us that we should go down to Egypt and the Revenge that God will take when he'll redeem us against those I mean you can't possibly you can't possibly fit this into times better than the way you just described it yeah yeah exactly and and as you say the words of the hag has to Echo and resonate very profoundly with every Jew because we saw with our own eyes they stand up against us yep and you know we mourn the loss of uh so many so many innocent Jews but we also have to realize what they could have done what could have been Pur perpetrated if they were able to accomplish what they wanted what they were capable of doing what they wanted to do and how we s with our own eyes God really saved us I mean it's hard to look at it that way but that's that's what happened yeah because it could have been um of even greater proportions wow I love the I love thead gadya piece unbelievable you know how it is it's the time that is where things have turned into a little bit more levity and a little bit more fatigue but uh every every word of the Sor has got to be taken seriously including the beautiful songs that we sing toward the end absolutely uh re I take this opportunity you I know that your as it has in the past is going to enhance a lot of people's St and a big for that thank you for your kind words thank you for your time and keep up the wonderful work give to all your listeners and your audience and I wish you Danel gladin on the ha check it out artscroll.com use promo code radio24 and enjoy uh it's quite a work it's quite a work and you and I think you've gotten a good sample of why and if you're now wondering what to say ER of pesak now now you have your assignments folks ER of pesak is an elevated today and glad scene actually gives us opportunities to to um to actually manifest that um and then of course the Seder itself as well more coming up you're listening to a Thursday morning edition of JM and the am