Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger Special Pesach Shiur - Maharal on the Haggadah and more

I want to just thank Shiners for organizing this shir. Also want to thank Torah anytime for making Tyra available for everybody at any time anywhere in the world at any time. We are just a few days away from Leha. We're just a little bit a little bit more to go. We ask ourselves what is the seder mean to us? What do you want to accomplish at that seder? What do you want to what madrego what level should a person try to get? Where is the of we know a person has to be a person has to see who like a person himself has left mit every single personal teach us that could have taken us out of mit he could do things much more efficiently than he actually does it in an for example the says there were 10 utterances the world was created 10 utterances you're the says you could do it in one mime you could do it in one creation let there be a b and the world would be created and the gishna answers the fifth per to give who sustain the world. The world was created in a way that it's it allows and a world that would be created in one utterance wouldn't allow sadikim and rishim. The fact that the aishar created the world piece by piece by piece which is ungodly was to allow people to make a difference in the world. The maral says that the 10 makis were because or represented and paralleled the 10. the exact same mam that the aster created the world with that mimemer came back to punish the Egyptians and as we'll soon see to educate Claus that mimemer turned into the mimemer of light became darkness which means that the aishar took every single mimemer, every single expression of creation and turned that into another maka. Boracious says Nami. The word berious when started the world and the dvarashem began and there was boracious there was kga that was the racial of mitz and so on and so forth every single m wasn't says the mor just a m it was a mime one of the 10 mis one of the 10 each of them And for the people who wouldn't listen for the sadikim and the rishim that the world was created now those makos those makos became exactly what the mamm were meant to be. You know what they were? They were a source as kazal say of rifua to clalis and a maka to mitime. What happened with the Esser Makis? What happened with the Esser Makis was that the Aisher decided to show parro the world and of course Clausro for me? Who's the person who's the that created the world? So when we kazer over the mak, we want to do it in a way that we're thinking about not just what happened in mitim, but we want to think about how what happened in mitim connects us back to bacious, how it connects us back to the bria, which of course takes us back to who created it. Maral explains a fascinating idea. I wrote about it over here in the mares in a few different places at the introduction and on page 137 called upper world and lower world. You want me to show the safer knows what it looks like already by now. The maral inashem. Thank you mayor. The maral and gurus hashem explains the abisher created two worlds and we say it in our ding with the name yud, the letter yud and the letter hey. He created two worlds. Yud forum and created us for a purpose. In this world, you're here to work and in the next world you're you you will receive the of this world. The letter Yud is the letter of the future. The letter Y is the letter form and the letter hey is the letter for this world. And there's reasons we talk about it over here. It's beyond the scope of tonight's draw. We don't have the time. But the moral explains very clearly why each letter was chosen. But the point is as follows. We live in this world. You live here so that we should be able to get to the next world. Do we ever have a chance to see or feel the next world? Yes. Every Shabas Shabas is known as Shabas is known as where a person doesn't at whatever you've done in this world you have an opportunity to enjoy slightly a little bit. You get an and you have a chance to enjoy and and to have the created an and created a higher reality says the Maharal. The theme of Pesak was to fuse together the upper world with the lower world. to create a understanding that whatever you see in this lower world, whatever is down here has a tas in a higher world. that everything that exists in this world was created for a reason and that was so you should get this is the praised this is the passageway that's the palace that's the tracklin every one of the makis and everything that the aish did what happened in mitenu showed up and he said it's time to it's time to take the Jewish people out who said so says parare me hashem I don't know who the aishta is I'm not sending you out. And then for the next year, Clalus the Mitsum and the entire world witnessed how Mosha would show up to Mitsay. Moa would make a prediction. He would tell the parro and tell Claus exactly what was going to happen and then to the T vid exactly what he said. That's what happened. And it happened for a week. Each Makkah was seven days. Then there was warnings and then another Makkah. Then there was warnings and another mark. And all of a sudden the world saw that there's more to this world than they could ever believe. And even though they were balish and they could create their own type of magic but as as kazal teach us by the third even the mitim said this is a power beyond all of a sudden the animals for example and makus who were dangerous to every human being. But for yeed, the animals were the like the big tigers, just a little pussycat. The yeden weren't scared of that. How is that happening? The same that said now in Makus or by the wild animals you were able to see exactly who created the animals and who they listened to. So this became a Gilui of not just the Bria but the bay of the Bria who created the Bri who created the Bria and who runs the Bria and since the world was created by Morris and since the world is a world that was has it's a complicated world in a sense it's put together piece by piece piece by piece. The Egyptians who believed that there's a different god for every single power, the god of fire and the god of water and the god and there's a different kayak for every single power in the world. So the aish showed whatever power there is I'm the boss of them all. There's every kayak of bria each maka was another mimer of creation another mimer that turned into a maka for what purpose to show the world says the marel to show the world the mis showed where the mimemer was once you knew who the mimemer is the person speaking king. Then you listen to his asseres had then when you finish this whole process those 10 mice which created the world turned into macos so you know who's talking. So then when he wants to give the asser the aseras had says the maral coincides with the eser makis which coincide with theeras had if you learn the maral inside you'll see in our safer over here we talk about and connect how all the makos connect to all the mamores but we didn't connect them that's in the next book how they connect to all of But they all connect to each other. So what's the teaching us? What's the lesson? Of course the alf it's a lesson of amuna. It's a lesson of belief. It's a lesson of understanding that when you see a gashimistic world, you know that there's a higher reality to the world that you're living in. Even though we live in a mundane world where it's hester panim the abisha took the opportunity inas mitzim to educate the world and especially clalisro as to who is the one who created the world in other words what we're understanding what we're saying and be very very clear is that contrary to popular opinion that the purpose of esser makas's to punish the Egyptians the contrary to what people think it's to take out of course that's part of the agenda and that's of course ultimately what the aishar said he would do and he did but the could have done that with one big makas start right away bomb away clap and then par would get rid of clausol I excuse me parry would get them out would have being redeemed But that wouldn't have accomplished the agenda because Clalusro would have not been able to be the nation mim would not be able to be a nation of Ben until they themselves had learned or were able to understand the capacity of and let's move on and explain that Clausro was asked or told by Mitsim that they had to do something beyond what made sense in the in the realm of normality. They had to leave Mitsim. Everybody, men, women, children means to say in a place that doesn't sustain life. Anybody think about it, put yourself in a position. You want to go into a desert with a group of friends and you plan on sleeping there. A desert's hot. A desert doesn't sustain life. How you going to be there for a day? Five people, 10 people, a hundred people, 600,000 men, and that's just men and 600,000 women and family and kind. How much food do you need to go into a desert of so many people and not for one day? How much water do you need? And they don't know how long they're going to be there for. And Claus followed. And followed. All they took with them was what? Paper thin matzah. That's all they did. Says the I remember the which means that it's considered like we're doing with Hashem. If you could understand that has everything there's one thing you could do you can trust him you can follow him not complain not being just go out and follow me how do we expect how does expect to just pick up and go and say I'm going how the ter says they had to be secure pure in their faith. Well, how's that going to happen? This is another understanding or really the basic understand of what the 10 makis are all about. The makas are there to instill a firm foundation that cla understands that every single there is in the bria. Whatever power there is out from Hashem, everything comes from the again and again every month. Every single part of the brio is ti and immal explains that the world is divided into three different parts. There's heaven, there's earth and there's what's in between heaven and earth. There's shmayim or the orets is everything in the ground. There's shmay which is the heaven. And then there's ben in between the earth and the ground. The maral writes that the adash those three makos those three groups of makos dams are what do they have in common? They're all makos of the ground. The damned is the water. The kinm the sard came out of the water. The kinm was this lice of the came out of the dirt. Every time the aishar gave a of the ground again and again again three of them like you own you show ownership three of them the common denominator is they're the ground is wild animals they roam the ground the animals died the Egyptian animals died that's it's adash or dein those three what's the common denominator they're not in ground anymore. That they're not in the ground. They're what roam the earth. It's not heaven. It's animals and people is the earth. The aster showed I am the creator of the earth. Then the abers showed that I am the one who controls and I'm the one who created all those that roam the earth. That's the middle group. And then what comes next? borrowed. Where does that come from? Shayim, it's coming down from heaven. Shayim, I control. I'm the master of the universe. You see, the Egyptians could say, "Yeah, you own the ground, but what about the animals? I'll show you that." What about people? I'll make boils. What about the heavens? All of a sudden, it's coming down. Fire and water. That means both the fire and the water in my control. They're coming down from heaven. or the or the which are the grasshoppers that fly like birds, right? The the Arab, excuse me, the Arab that fly or the sun and the moon stop working is in everything in between. And that's why says, you know what a simmon is? When you have a lost object, you don't know who it belongs to. So you give a simmon says the marau the simmon was who does this bria belong to this bri I'll give you sim look who's controlling everything so what are we accomplishing by lea seder we're accomplishing when we tell over the story we're also internalizing again and again and being mazic our own amuna our own belief because Let's face it, there's always times that the abashers testing us. There are always questions in our lives. Why did you do this? Why did you do that? Are you really in control? Do you know what's happening? The story of Mitim and the story of Leila is there to reestablish and to make sure that that foundation is and clear that we know and we are confident that the aisha runs the world. The zerosimshin the zerosimshin says a beautifulhat on the Indian of makazdam. This says what was the purpose? Makazdam wasn't a very dangerous Maka. Makazdam bisak was one big annoyance. Nobody needed to die from Makazdam. It wasn't like the frogs that came to attack. If you wanted water, what do you do? You buy it. So was a good day you just buy water. So what did it accomplish? Zuck mayor from the he quotes the medish. the whole slave attitude that we own nothing and we're slaves and we're just the word in Hebrew is dafuk we're just so we're a bunch of losers well thanks to makas dam we're rich you know I don't know if there was any government control in mit about price gouging If the Jews wanted to charge an Egyptian whatever it was five bucks for a cup of water and the Egyptian didn't want to pay for it, he said, "Fine, you could drink blood. When you'll be thirsty enough, you'll come to me and then I'll give you." And if the Egyptian tried grabbing the cup away, what happened? Turned back to blood. If he didn't pay for it and the Jew didn't give it to him, it stayed blood. The the is the medish says, how do I know that? Because it says because all the fish died. So says this this vart he says how come we learned out this message that they became rich from the fact that the fish died says the zerosim like this a cute little vert says like this why would the aish allow that all the fish should die didn't the Jews also need the fish doesn't it say in the gor brings things down the or the tyra says that when they complained to me said we used to have the fish for free now did that mean they really had the fish so says what it meant is say wumpshot maybe they did or means we didn't have we didn't they didn't give us nothing for free but the point was that there were mitzvah they didn't have to do any mitzvah but the point was that used to eat the fish now all of a sudden the aish went and punished the Jews says the zerosion. You could have thought that maybe anami the fish stayed in the water. The water remained water. But any time an Egyptian drew water out of the Nile, it became blood. You could have thought that. Maybe. Maybe you could have thought that. And then what? And then Okay. So every time he pour So what would he do? He pou it back in and then it would become water again. Right. Right. No. So he's saying that it was blood. But what themes is say as the there was no more water left in Mitzim. Nothing. The water changed into blood and therefore all the fish died. That means that the abusher showed like we started off with a higher reality. You see this is water. Not anymore. I decreed I was the one who made water and now I'm making blood. And you know what happens? All the fish are going to die. So the aster showed the shabria that no longer is there any water in mit. And then as a Jew drew w blood out of the Nile then it became water. It became life in the hands of a Jew. It went from dam and death to becoming life in the hands of a Jew. So they saw with their own eyes. Not only did the Jews become rich, but the Jews became the source of life to any Egyptian. The show in your hands dam becomes in your hands. The Egyptians you now I heard from my rebies the power of wealth airus is that when a person has money a person is powerful. You'll notice people who are wealthy they it gives them a platform that they have a tremendous amount of of kayak people listen it's not just the money it's the power that licked behind the guilt once makazdam came to Egypt the Jews stopped working once makazdam came to mitim the Jews stopped being identified they were still on vodim but they were no longer being pushed around. Now they had their own money because the emmesis couldn't take out a bunch of slaves. He had to take out a bunch of people. This transition from being aim and being bullied stopped in Makistdam. The energy changed the the the Egypt had overloo. Now they were the source of they had the power and they went in and got money as well too. This is what changed and I'll finish with one last point. We talked about tonight the theme of that the whole seder is all about taking Clausro from a world of a gashmistic world fusing the with the upper world with the lower world the symbol of this world this world is a world of gashmas it's a physical world. It's a world that's bound by time. It's a world of val etc. in a revel in a higher world a world which is above that's that's the time that's eternity that's had to be created say kazal not what's the ingredient that makes what's the difference between the flour and water that's kosher to eat on pes and the flour and water that's ple to eat on pes time time. They waited too long and now it became by the way just is somebody just just mame as an aside. I had a a gank somebody said he has goisha workers that come to work and he said I want to how do I explain to them what is? I said, I have a very simple motion. You know, some kids are allergic to peanuts. They have to walk around with an epig, right? They have to epipen, right? Eping, right? They have to have one of these things because if not, they what happens when they eat a peanut to a ye is like a peanut that you're allergic to. to the is like a peanut to somebody who's allergic. It's what it means. It's a personal it's for us is like a peanut. You're allergic to it for these seven days. You can't have it. So you you want to bring it in. I can't see it. I mean it's not for me to see his right. But it's I'm allergic to yours. I'm allergic to whether it belongs. I can't eat it. I don't want to be around it. I a thought that I had that hit me for this year. You could say it's a nutt. How do you describe to them? Maybe that's why kit is also I don't know where the macar is but I want to just finish with this. So the Gmorra says you have to watch the matis say just like mats you have to watch to make sure that they don't become do it right away. Right? You can't when you have an opportunity to do a mitzvah, you're supposed to do it right away. It says in Zy the Zy says that matzah is the mar of all mitzvah. And here's the t of ver and we'll finish with this clip. Run out as fast as you can. You got to get you have your stick. You have your shoes. You're running off. You're running out of which means you're running into a higher world into a worldman. Every mitzvah that a person does, you put on your hand. What does your body have from? What does your body have from? Nothing. But your your body in the world to come. That's your What do you have from this? What do you have? All the actions that we do whether we have pis when we say that a ye does everything that we do in this world puts us into a situation that these days these mitzvah these actions are their days what does mean they're days that will never end. When a person's this is the moral says in his to the safer when a person is given a doesn't mean you'll live a long time. That's not that means means you're doing things now that will go on for eternity forever and ever and ever means how can I live forever if you're doing mitzvah then you're doing things that are not you're not limited by time you're doing something which is above and beyond the physical world you're connecting yourself to a higher reality when did the become fused with the that was and took us to a madrega a reality where you're leaving the physical world. You're leaving natural society. You're leaving a world that sustains humans. And now you're going to a world that sustains people with what am I going to take matzah matzah is not a food that's matzah is a spiritual food and all the mitzvah and everything you're doing from that time on on is because you've left the physical world you fused yourself with a higher reality that's the mitz Every mitzvah that we do brings us to the higher maj that's what we're trying to accomplish in to fuse ourselves to fuse our gashmistic life of this world to a higher majga that's what the did for us when he took us out of mitz he took us into an impossible situation and sustained us there with the with the anan with the water how do you live that way. How do you live that way? I'm not in this world. I'm in this world. I'm connected to a higher reality. And it's evident and everybody can see it. Even when you're living in this world and even when you walk and you get into your car and you drive from point A to point B and when you get out and you do whatever you need to do, you're living in this world, but you're living a higher reality in this world. That happens. So we should all be everyone to be to fuse is there for us. His Iris is there and we should be able to accept it and we should be the Amen. our test.