Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Holiday of Passover 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week we are celebrating the holiday of passover and the question of the week is what are the two most important lessons and experiences we need to learn from passover so when it comes to passover in the prayers we say that passover is called sman every holiday has its theme and the theme of pesach is passover is senu the time for our freedom it's a personalized freedom not a freedom just of the past but literally it's our freedom so that's one important point the second idea when it comes to pasta we know all the holidays are called moya dimle they're holidays of joy of celebration and the talmud says that what is the first the lead holiday the lead holiday is passover so you see there's two components when it comes to the holiday of passover one's manchester it's the time of our freedom and it's also the holidays to experience happiness how do we do so so we have to experience freedom and happiness in our thought speech and action so how do we experience that's when it comes to the seder so we read about the about going out of egypt and we have to realize that if god forbid god didn't take us out of egypt we would have been slaves so it's our freedom we have to think about and we say it in the haggadah we actually eat the monster why do we eat that matzah because we relive the experience of free people when you're free and you're running you don't have time for the for the dough to rise and the process of making bread so the man says to allow us to experience what free people are like we're on the run we're on the go we're being freed so we experienced simcha by drinking the four cups of wine because wine makes a person happy if you're not able to drink wine for whatever reason you drink grape juice but the goal is to experience happiness in a tangible way and the freedom and the joy that we experience on pasa on passover is a freedom and joy that's supposed to continue with us throughout the whole year so the answer the question what are the most two most important lessons and experiences of passover the experience of being free and being happy and the freedom and the happiness should last us a whole year thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of borac lipa may their souls be elevated by the torah with studying in their memory for more information please see our website chabadswf.org have a great and blessed week and a happy passover a free passover and a joyous passover