PREPARING FOR PESACH 5782

[Music] we are here today and special sh preparing for p uh with you know typically we have our Series today but with PES being only a week and a half away and uh so many questions coming in of of people that uh you know asking about how to prepare for PES uh still despite the fact that we've had shim discussing things regarding PES in the past there's uh a lot a lot to add uh that uh we we'll do today uh things that uh mostly going to be Al as far as things to do what not to do how to prepare uh we uh we'll go over that uh tonight's Shu will be for a for AOS and also for for a David and also for a for sha Ben faran Amir Ben shahin Mara juliea Mara Samuel bin Mara Seas B Marsha Alexander B Mara Lewis B Mara and all of am and all of the righteous noahides and they uh always say thank you for all of the supporters that continue to help us do all the things that we doing uh the side note quickly cuz there's an enormous amount of material to cover uh please uh grab a pen uh and uh and uh paper try to uh take some notes of course already make it a point to go over this because it's impossible to remember everything uh there's going to be a lot of new insights a lot of new things that perhaps you haven't heard before that are uh I'm going to talk to you about things that are Customs versus things that are uh uh obligations also so despite the main source uh being from the yutf uh we will note anytime there is a dis a difference between the ashkanazi custom versus uh the Safari custom uh of course a uh you know a person that uh is has a custom already has been a you know asazi his whole life cannot just decide to adopt into Safari uh Customs uh and the same thing vice versa uh but there are certain things where uh there is room so a person needs to uh uh know that these everything that I'm talking about is generalities that apply to everybody I'll specify things that apply to specific people but nonetheless there's a lot of material all of us need to do all of us need to apply into our lives uh one of the things uh that uh I always want to remind you guys is the opportunity to do the to fulfill the Mitzvah of doing to the poor the orphans uh the widows uh you know before the is uh is a special time to do it at this time it's called Kim uh throughout all of the generations uh it's been a custom that uh you know you you gather money together or or food and and distribute it to the poor we have a campaign uh on uh on our site be.org I'm sorry b.org you could get there or you could just go directly to the campaign which is bh.org or bhp.net if you want to see it in Spanish uh so uh this is a campaign that we have that we're uh you're able to uh partner up with us to give money to the poor uh to have so they have the ability to have a respectable PES um and this is again this is a uh uh something that uh is important and uh remember anyone one that wants Hashem to uh continue blessing him has to show Hashem that there's there's a good reason to do so uh if the only stomach that we're feeding is our own stomach then uh Hashem will give us only enough for our stomach but when we uh uh when Hashem is giving us a certain amount that's more than enough for us and we want him to continue doing so then surely we have to uh you know take charge and you know give as much as we possibly can to uh give ourselves the uh you know a a position in the world where we're needed by people we're used as a vessel by hem where these people can uh you know can use us as the uh place that hem is blessing them through and this is also aul for a long life uh there's a reason why the sages say that will save a person's life uh you know and many times people that had a terrible decree on them where they were diagnosed with something difficult or uh they were in a some type of accident or some kind and they uh there was a uh big uh amount of takaka out of the ordinary given uh many miracles have been recorded throughout history of am so uh a person that makes them wants miracles on a regular basis makes it their business to give a lot OFA on a regular basis and uh remember when it comes to uh giving 10% or if somebody has a lot of amuna giving 20% of your income uh this is the uh a scha for for protection of wealth for 10% and wealth itself if a person gives 20% but these are these numbers are for the average person if a person is extremely wealthy or if a person is giving for the sake of Torah there is no limitation uh they they could give 100% if they want and if they could handle it but again always consult with your Rabbi because your Rabbi will know if you could handle it many times people have come to me have asked me if they should give more than the 10 or the 20% and many times most times more times than not I've told people not to do it uh just because you know the person you know that uh they uh perhaps are excited but not necessarily at the level the where they could handle the test of giving more than that but either way uh the opportunity to give is always but now there's a special auspicious time to give which is right before PES a time that uh really there's uh enormous amount of needs for cl is with inflation skyrocketing everywhere uh needless to say in is okay with that being said we're going to start our we're going to start what uh we need to say uh you know one of the things that uh people uh spend a lot of time on is the uh the different Customs the you know the things that the traditions of am is are ancient are beautiful uh each custom has its own value but always remember the custom has to have a source many times people add Customs add different things and there are certain occasions where people add uh certain things that actually not only don't have a source uh in the Torah or in or by the sages but are actually the opposite of Al and can get to a very very serious problem and I'll show you even an example today of how there's a certain custom among Jews today that actually is meaning this custom is when anyone that fulfills it it's like they just violated Shabbat to that extent and they think you ask those people they think it's a Mitzvah it's great their grandparents did it they uh they've done it and it's it's it's a Mitzvah and it's not only not a MIT it's actually so it's to that extent so you have to know everything has to have a source we don't just say that uh as a mantra we say it because we know that uh there are certain things that are extremely valuable there precious diamonds we have to protect them we have to fulfill them we have to Value them we have to learn them and there are certain things that are just simply from the yet himself and typically it comes from ignorance ignorance of people uh that is uh uh unfortunately not a good enough excuse for a person to absolve themselves from sins so one of the things that you'll notice is that many times there are certain Traditions that uh you know if you're Safari your brother the ashkanazi if you're asazi your brother the the Safari uh you know are different are different uh but more more than ever there are differences in PES I'm going to try to note some of those differences but uh remember that you know these differences don't make us different people don't make us different nations uh rather they're uh they're actually one of the things that unite us because when a person understands how the differences in the world of Torah work they actually see the beauty of Torah through it rather than uh a a confusion of such and I'll explain to you one thing that applies to all of our sh many times people come to me and they uh you know they're not necessarily very learned in Tor and they're coming to me from uh the side of Defending some of the Heretics that we've exposed uh and they say oh listen maybe they have a different opinion than yours why don't you just uh admit that there there could be other opinions not just just yours and there are differences the sages have always had disagreements why is this such a big deal and it's important to know that yes you are 100% right when it comes to sages having different uh uh uh conclusions at different times the most famous is the the is full of over 300 Ms 300 M between bet the students of sh versus but yet page 14b says despite all of these differences bet Shi would marry off to uh their children to BET's daughters or they themselves would marry their uh their daughters and vice versa they uh would have their daughters marry off the BET to show that despite the there was love between them so how could it be that you have two different conclusions sometimes the conclusions are slightly different sometimes the conclusions are Polar Opposites like we showed you the other day uh the M between uh riger and his dear friend and fellow gor Rissa where one rer says that when you sell your you could simply conclude all of the in this closet or in this room without specifying everything all of that I'm selling and that's sufficient to fulfill the Mitzvah of selling the which will allow you to use this after P where on the other Handa says if you sold the that way without specifying the details of what you sold not only did you not fulfill the Mitzvah of selling but you've actually made a sin of owning on P and you made all of the that you have forbidden after PES you're not allowed to eat it after P you're not allowed to use it you're to sell it do anything with it I mean this is a enormous M between the two we're talking about Worlds Apart Worlds Apart but yet the stories that we know about and how much they loved each other uh and how much they respected each other shows despite these differences they still cared for each other just like bet and but yet there are like korak versus mosenu where there is a hatred there where the korak went against Mosher raenu not because he actually was using the laws of the Torah but rather he was using the laws of his own logic and his own ego and he personally attacked mosenu accusing him of all types of crimes he never committed saying he's an adulterer he's a thief he's this he's that and and simply uh uh wanting his position and wanting his ideas to be the ones that everybody listens to so what's the difference between the M of bet and all of the versus the M of the Heretics versus the righteous people like mosenu versus kak or some of the things that we've mentioned in name of the rambam versus Manis fredman and and all and all of the other we've mentioned what's the difference between the two the difference is that if the opinions the the conclusions that both sides came to bet Shi and bet side a and side B okay if both side used the laws of the Torah the laws of the Torah to arrive at their conclusions then even if one of them is wrong and they miscalculated or it's just simply not that way for whatever reason or another then still the other side appreciates what their answer is even if they completely disagree with it loves them for it because they're both using the kosher laws the laws that are uh were given to us at Mount saai in order to arrive at the right concl conclusion in order to arrive at what the truth is and hasem although he gave us the Torah in Mount sa he gave a certain parts of the Torah where were certain rules there were certain rules of how we could interpret certain things these are harmonical rules of how to interpret certain uh uh verses in order to arrive at certain conclusions uh you know that didn't happen and didn't transpire yet because again the world changed uh circumstances changed opportunities change so again if Hashem would have given us every single rule that would ever be Not only would this Torah be endless as far as the size of it but also it would not make us partners in a tah so when he gave us the T part of that oral tradition was that he gave us these rules that use to tell us what the bottom line is in this particular circumstance so when two use uh you know they they actually are reviewing an they're reviewing something they are using the very same rules some of them will use you know five tools and the other one will use eight tools and that may be the difference between why one is right and the other one is not or perhaps they're both using the very same eight tools but one of them is understanding one of the tools or using one of the tools slightly differently and therefore arriving at a different conclusion still the the uh the difference between between them the M between them is for the sake of heaven and therefore they still love and value and appreciate each other even more now than before the difference on the other hand when the difference between two sides when the difference between a and b is that one side is using the laws of the Torah and the other side is simply using human logic whether it be their own human logic or Sun's logic or Aristotle and Plato's logic or some other uh Idol worshippers logic doesn't really make much of a difference they're using their human logic whereas Here There are rules of the Torah when you have that type of difference then of course this is a m that's not for the sake of Heaven meaning that you're not fighting with this other person because you're trying to arrive to the truth you're fighting with this person to expose their lie and thereby showed the actual truth that always existed and did not change due to their heretical new opinion that they're bringing to the Torah so here is a that is a aggressive no less aggressive than the other one but it has to have a different conclusion and therefore it does not create the love in the unity but rather the point of the M from the good versus the bad is actually to expose the difference to expose the uh the the lack of unity to expose that this is not us this is this these people are not part of us these people are our enemies so long as they hold on to these heral opinions that are against our holy Torah because we're here to protect our tah as in the honor of hem they're here to distort the Tor and in essence make their opinion seem as if it's the Torah itself so that is again a very very very important the difference that a person needs to know now one of the main things that a person uh has to understand when it comes to PES is that you cannot prepare for PES a couple of days before PES PES really requires a very long preparation a spiritual preparation a a material preparation there's a lot of things that need to happen of course as the years go by you you you get better at it if you have kids you you learn how to adjust what to do how to do your kids learn more and so on but there are certain things that a person needs to know that are important but they're not priority meaning a lot of people the way that they think of PES is they think of the food uh you know they think of the food they think of what am I going to cook you know the the uh the aside from the matah who's going to eat this who's going to sit where and in reality the meal uh of PES although it's important it's it's good for it to be delicious it's good for it to be uh to have all different types of varieties and so on but it's not the number one priority in P the priority in P is not the food okay the priority in P is actually quite different uh in fact the um page 115b says that if somebody swallowed matah he fulfilled the obligation meaning he just swallowed it without chewing it he still fulfilled the obligation but if if he swallowed the the bitter herbs he did not fulfill the obligation he did not fulfill the obligation now this actually was the r in uh in in Chapter 2 second that if somebody swallowed the mat without chewing he still fulfilled fulfilled the Mitzvah but if he uh did not chew the the bitter herbs he did not fulfill the mitvah did not fulfill the Mitzvah and elaborates and also and he uh says why is this the case because the whole point of the uh of the the mat in the is to signify specific things where the uh Matas of course to remind us of the difficulties that uh we endured when we were uh in uh in uh in Egypt is one of the things we have to remember that's one of the main things that highlighted is actually the mar the bitter herbs the the uh and that's uh one of the most uh critical parts to discuss to think about uh during PES during AEL is actually the the bitterness of our suffering the bitterness of our suffering you know is you know we have to think about that the fact that the Egyptians took children little babies and and put put them instead of the cinder blocks uh if their parents you know did not meet a quot of making a certain amount of stones how many children they killed every single day just to uh uh heal the wicked par where the uh the say that would uh was told by his necromancers that in order for him to heal from tarat that he had all over his body he had to bathe in uh Jewish blood so they would Slaughter 150 Jewish babies in the morning take their blood and make it into a bath for pero and then another 150 at night each day he would Slaughter these amount of kids okay aside from that you know the they when they made when par made things even more difficult for as if it wasn't difficult enough you know they uh if they didn't meet the quota of uh of having a uh making a certain amount of stones the Egyptians would take the Jewish children and put it instead of the cinder blocks uh there was an endless amount of suffering where they uh took the Jewish people and uh did everything they could to break their morale uh whereby they made the men do the uh jobs of women and the women they gave him jobs of men uh this broke the morale of the people and worst of all is that par wasn't really looking to really rebuild Egypt and make it as magnificent uh as he really told am is initially when initially promised them to pay them a lot of money and be due to their patriotism only to fool them into slavery uh after they've abandoned their businesses and uh you know and had nothing else to uh to do the he turned everybody into slaves but aside from that one of the uh one of the horrible things that par did to break the morale of am was to give them work that is never ending because because whatever they built would collapse he would specifically have his people Target a place where he knew there was either quick sand there or just an unstable Foundation or whatever he could where he knew that once they uh built this building the whole thing would collapse so even though they're slaves there's still a certain amount of joy in achieving something even though it's due to slavery and Agony and pain at least when you see that you build something there's a certain uh you know pleasure that you get from doing something today people get a pleasure out of I don't know sending uh sending a a message on the internet and getting a certain amount of likes uh you know of course am is was not looking for likes there simply just to see that whatever they've been building whatever they were sweating Blood and Tears uh uh uh for at least build something even that pleasure did not want to give them so that bitterness is uh symbolized by the uh uh and for over uh 116 years of Agony and slavery out of the 210 years that Amel was in Egypt 116 years we were slaves and it got worse and worse day after day making uh uh uh something that's dramatically bigger than what the most recent Holocaust uh that we saw by the Nazis seem insignificant that's how much death and disaster we had in the uh in Egypt uh and this Agony is supposed to be symbol symbolized by the mar now the matah on the other hand is supposed to symbolize how fast the Salvation comes where when a Salvation eventually came after a whole round of Miracles and so on that Hashem gave us all of the different plagues all of the different Miracles that happened uh this uh eventual salvation this eventual salvation was was really culminated in such a quick second that am was not even given enough time to uh to uh uh make their bread uh uh you know so they were they were left with matah so here this is something that is of significant value for and R says that the reason why somebody that eats the the matah uh without chewing it fulfills the Mitzvah but somebody that does not chew the mar the bitter herbs and simply swallows it does not F the fulfill the Mitzvah is because even if you swallowed the matah without chewing it you still feel a certain amount of satiation that can give you a connection to that salvation that we got it's still something different about that matah than the rest of the year of what you eat on the other hand if you don't chew the bitter herbs you don't taste the bitterness and therefore you're missing you're missing the key part of the mitvah which is to actually see yourself as if as if you are in living through the difficulty right now many people can perhaps uh feel the the freedom to a certain extent but very few realize that one of the priorities uh that you have during the SED is actually to uh feel the agony that uh we were in in order to truly feel the uh the Salvation so that's why the certain like the r and others that pin that it's not just to uh to feel uh and see yourself as a someone that went through this Agony uh and and now has the salvation but actually to appear as if you've just gone through this Agony and now you're going through salvation and this is the reason why there are Customs uh that and his family does and other sikim do which they actually do like a play they do like a play and you know the kids when they ask oh who are you and he says oh I am uh you know I uh I'm uh I'm going where are you going I'm going to yush oh where did you come from I came from Egypt what did you do in Egypt and he starts telling the story of oh we were in Egypt we were enslaves we uh you know they uh they uh tortured us they enslaved us they did this to us and then you know uh uh after all of this torture the Salvation came but this whole place sometimes with a costume sometimes without but the point is is to make the whole thing as alive as possible as as as real as possible to truly feel feel the transition and not just focus on when do we eat okay the when do we eat is not as important as the story itself of what why are we here in the first place and this is one of the things that the uh talk about when it comes to this particular that starts already in the and then and then the and by the ra and the uh the uh um says yes when it comes to swallowing the matah without chewing you still fulfill the Mitzvah whereas when you just swallow the you don't fulfill the Mitzvah but what happens if somebody swallows the entire what if somebody swallows the entire meaning they're in such a hurry to get to the end or to the meal that they just Breeze through the whole thing just quickly quickly reading just to get through it what's they uh The Good Son the bad son the bad son they're all good every loves everybody and skipping everything or just reading so fast nobody understands anything and forgetting the whole purpose of everything because the most important part most important part is to fulfill the biblical verse the biblical verse uh which is in Exodus chapter 13 in verse number eight where says that says and you shall tell your son on that day he referring to P you should tell your son on that day saying it's because of this that hasem acted on my behalf when I left Egypt what is this comes the comes the and tell us what's this you show them the matah it's because of this matah it's because of this Mar it's because of this this mitvah that hasem took me out of Egypt not because he wanted me to uh givea or to wear a stal or because he wanted me to uh do any because of this mitvah all of those other things are great but this is the reason this mitvah the Mitzvah that I still connect to 3,333 years later so when a person understands that there's no way that a person can truly feel needless to say look like they are living it and getting feeling that self salvation going from that Agony to the Salvation if they Breeze through the whole thing and just focusing on what's going to be the you know what's what's the what's for dinner a person needs to know that there is a certain amount of time that you already have to take into account that you have to invest not only in having the SED and telling the whole story of what happened to us of our history of what we went through telling it to the children do not concern yourself with the guests as priority because the most important people in the S are the children are the children you have the the biblical mitvah is to tell your child what happened in Egypt that's the most important mitvah of the entire tell your kids what happened in Egypt so if you have guests in your house perfectly fine tell them okay they can listen too but if you have one of these guests that are talkative and they want to know what is this what's that you have to stop them and say okay hold on a second I got to tell my kids what happened in Egypt oh yeah but I have questions too you have questions that's fine your questions will come secondary to my kids why that's my obligation that's my obligation now of course when you're teaching toah everybody benefits but you have to understand it's a very very big deal to teach the children what happened now of course taking taking a half hour uh uh before the meal another half hour after the meal or an hour after the meal or whatever it is but putting a significant amount of time to actually tell the story not only is it something that's going to make your sedel more significant but also requires you to prepare to study to study for this you can't just like oh let's see what the book says and you just start reading to you have to prepare a little bit yeah of course it's okay to read here and there but you have to come prepared you have to come prepared don't make people bored you have to have certain things to say and one of the great things is to learn learn the the learn the learn learn the uh the the different uh uh uh that discuss or the mid that discuss the makot we have uh quite a few videos both short clips and long ones about each one of the makot but again don't make just the makot the priority also talk about the difficulty and Agony that we went through before the Salvation came because if all you talk about is the Salvation it's very hard to feel like this is salvation because when you don't know where you came from you don't really truly appreciate where you're at you know and this is the one of the main things that is important for a person to know we need to always know where we came from in order to truly appreciate the blessing that we have today now of course a person that has children has to make it a priority to tell the children the story of p uh like I just said if he does not have children then he has to tell to his wife tell your wife the uh the the story and uh and and go into it no different no less passion if he doesn't have a wife if he doesn't have kids he has to tell himself he has to tell himself and of course exchange with each other different that are sitting if they're there's no kids there the go on all night just like we have in itself it talks about how the went through the uh the stories of what happened in P the same way that we're supposed to all throughout the entire night until it was time for so this such is the obligation such is the importance of discussing D but of course a lot of this stuff perhaps you already knew some of it is just a refresher one of the things that people have trouble with is before we get to the meal before we get to the meal where we're at in the first place and one of the things that uh you you know anyone that has unfortunately been tainted by the uh the media of the world today whether it be television uh movies uh internet whatever whatever form of media that's out there where a person does not realize it but the damage the damage to their Nish the damage to their to their uh uh ideology is not uh does not end there from all the movies and the shows that are out there but rather there is a certain scar that each of us that spend any amount of time watching movies and especially the movies that are so-called Biblical movies the movies of Moses and Noah even though they're full of uh Corruption of the text and and distortions still many of us don't realize that even the things that people that are not involved that are not connected to the to the Torah uh things that have to do with what happens under the ocean what happens in the heavens aliens whatever it is all of that stuff has a certain amount of effect and many times that effect is damaging damaging to the person's uh imagin uh imagination damaging to the person's perspective and most critical is damaging to the person's understanding of the Miracles that took place 3,333 years ago why because most of us that have spent any amount of time seeing visual visuals of the you know Jewish people of course as as as as personified by Hollywood uh whether the Hollywood of 50 years ago or modern day Hollywood not much of a difference as as as has happened throughout the years uh the the damage is significant and many people don't realize how significant it is until they take things and think about them deeply one of the reasons why people don't necessarily have a natural excitement when it comes to discussing the Miracles of The Exodus is because quite frankly after you're told the story the first time it's no longer a big deal why because once you have told a story and you're you told a story through something visual you're seeing a Hollywood film of some kind showing you all of these people leaving Egypt all of these people crossing the ocean that even if it is excitement for a second it loses its value very quickly especially when it's repeated second third fourth time on a daily basis needless to say on PES it most people are not so excited about the Exodus why they're not so excited because it's something that their mind can fathom they can put that in a box and see when you tell me Exodus when you tell me I could already imagine what it looks like and it fits in a certain box and anything that I know what it looks looks like and I could put it in a certain box I get used to it and if I get used to it by theault that means I'm not excited about it if a person could have the same woman every day little by little that beautiful woman that's beautiful to everybody in the world becomes ugly to him if a person has the same delicious food every single day within a short period of time that delicious food that's delicious to everybody else in the world becomes the disgusting to him why because he has too much this is what says that a person that finds something delicious finds honey don't eat too much of it because eventually you'll vomit it so when we have too much of a certain good thing it's not to our benefit needless to say when we get used to something when we get used to something so when somebody has the same image of what the Exodus was that image loses its value very quickly and how does a person eliminate that first and foremost know that all of the visuals that you have ever seen about the Exodus about the aot about theim uh whether of of sikim of of the previous generation the generation of the bov ab andov all of it is wrong all of it why because the way we picture the a whether it's is just simple lowly people you know perhaps they look more like the afghanistanis today that you know each one of them walks around with some type of goat maybe if they're rich they have a cow they go into the market maybe they'll get a a melon perhaps a cucumber cuz that's all they could afford and they live in some tent or some hole in the wall and that's their life everybody's just this simple person yeah they're righteous they're holy but yeah it's not something anyone really aspires to be NE needless to say okay everybody's is is is damaged everybody's a doesn't feel so good everybody has some blood on their on their face some wounds some scars but it's not that many people perhaps it's I don't know 30,000 people 40,000 people something that I kid quantify cuz I've seen it before in a sports event like a football arena or or or or a soccer or some type of show I've seen that amount of people enter and exit a uh a building before and that's really what they show you in the movies it's a quantifiable number of people there lies the big mistake see a human mind can quantify and visualize 30 40 50,000 people because you've seen it it's possible to see you go to a football arena you go to a stadium of some kind you you see a lot of people and you say okay this is you know 50,000 100,000 people you could quantify it but the reality is is that one of the extraordinary things about the Exodus is that it was so extraordinary it is impossible for the human mind to quantify to visualize it because of the massive scale that it was where even if someone is going on the most conservative estimate most conservative estimate of the number of people that left Egypt which we're talking about several million of course some of the less conservative estimates are in the tens and hundreds of millions but the point being is even if you want to say okay it was only five six 10 million people that number of people is not possible for a human mind to visualize and quantify in their mind and actually see the correct image of it's simply too big you won't be able to see the beginning or the end of it so when you visualize the Exodus you're visualizing something that's quite frankly possible it's just your neighborhood leaving it's just your community leaving it's just a you know a game of baseball leaving like it's not it loses its value very quickly so it's very important for us to know that the only way to undo that damage that spiritual scar we all have in our mind is through delving through the torat and knowing that whatever image we have that's not coming from the Torah is wrong it's wrong and it's important for us to arrive at the S with that type of mindset that's what makes it easier for us to understand the significance of the sages how beautiful they were how great they were how simply different they were than anything we could ever imagine and now it makes it easier for us to understand why says that the Torah is what makes us free not the freedom from slavery made us free but rather the Torah is what made us free now most people you tell them oh Torah that's what makes us free if the person is secular he has no idea what you're talking about if the person is religious but doesn't learn Torah every day he also has no idea what you're talking about and even if the person learns every day in Yeshiva but doesn't truly connect to the Torah he's just doing it like a robot because he's a Yeshiva because he's he just needs to do it because someone told him to do it but he doesn't truly connect to the Torah he also has no idea what you're talking about what freedom I even have uh somebody made a comment on one of my videos as a response to somebody else that had questions and this guy uh you know this guy said oh I think that uh the Jews made up the Torah and this guy's response says no we didn't but sometimes some of us wish we made the Torah clearly showing clearly showing that the second guy that responded is actually more problematic than the first the first one is completely ignorant he just doesn't know anything the second one knows a few things but doesn't know enough and doesn't connect his n enough enough to truly grasp what he actually has in his possession so when we say that the Torah is what gave us freedom we have to understand that what does that actually mean what does that mean one of the great things that we see in our day-to-day life is that the world around us that's you know that's not connected to Torah is addicted to something Addicted to Money addicted to physicality uh whether it be uh the opposite sex the same sex a certain amount of Honor respect uh you know in in their job on the internet people feel like they should be admired just because they have a uh YouTube channel needless to say if they run a Facebook group some people think oh listen I'm not going to let you in my Facebook group if you make so many posts because I founded this Facebook group or this WhatsApp group like people think this stuff is really really important and it is important to them it's sad that it's this is how they behave but nonetheless people always connected to something physical something that's tangible you know they're they they're they feel that they're better because they have a certain car or they live in a certain neighborhood or they wear a certain type of jewelry and unfortunately the world around us that is uh the less T it has the more it connects to something that's tangible that's physical and unfortunately that's limited and is something that's deteriorating over time everything that's physical IAL deteriorates over time whereas the Torah that is not physical that's that's that's spiritual only improves over time where the more you have of it the better it becomes the better it feels the the more freedom you have and what is really this Freedom where the more Torah you have the more free you are from all of these physical addictions to money to to to to to sex to honor to all of these things that actually many times are bad for you but other times even when they're good they're only good temporarily so the Torah is the freedom from all of these negative things or uh uh things that are deteriorating because the Torah is something that is constantly improving if you continue to invest in it so when am is left Egypt they weren't truly free yet they weren't truly free because if they did not accept the Tor assuming that hm would have let them live which is not the case according to theat that even if he would have let them live without the Torah would have still had the mentality of slaves even without the Egyptians being on top of them and till this day would have that mentality and unfortunately there are certain people in the world that have this mentality where they're uh they feel that they are just here to be slaves they may not look at themselves as slaves and use that word but in essence that's what they are why because they wake up in the morning and they work and work and work and work in order to pay the bills for what for stuff that they have why because they want to have the stuff because it allows them to work and why do they need to work so they could buy the stuff for what for stuff that allows them to work and work and get stuff and the stuff for you know for work and if they realize listen I just got this stuff but I don't really need for work then I don't really need it anymore so I just wasted the work to get something I don't need for work and in reality they end up working and say yo maybe I need a vacation oh okay great so how do you get to a vacation by working extra by you know getting less of what you want in order to get what you want later on in essence it all is based about this this this this cycle this never ending cycle just to continuously feed this monster feed this physicality feed this body so the freedom that a person can get by learning T by living T is something unimaginable it's something that you could s only experience it to know what I mean if you experience it you know what I mean if you haven't experienced it this is simply a fantasy to you so that's the first uh that's the the first thing that we have to understand when we're talking about the we're not just talking about the uh Exodus in a sense where we physically left Egypt but rather because we left a place of slavery and started our journey towards Freedom uh which uh culminates at Matan now to get to that point to get to that point we all start at the month of Nissan okay the month of Nissan which just began a few days ago the sages said that uh in the page 11a the just just as we were delivered from the bondage during the month of Nissan so to our nation will be delivered from its current Exile during the month of Nissan hence the reason of why many sages say that mashiah would come during this time of the year where it's not guaranteed that he would come during Nissan per se but this is one of the auspicious times of the year where the Messiah can arrive okay it's like for example you have a palace and you have many doors but there are let's say four really big doors and you know that if a king is going to enter the palace it's more likely that he will enter one of these big doors rather than one of these side doors that's makes them more supicious that these are the more likely doors he can enter a different door it can be a different time but it's more likely that if he's coming with his glory and so on it's going to be through one of the big Gates most likely the front one uh the uh the kab says that uh that this this is a uh uh uh this whole verse this whole uh thing in regards to uh uh to uh giving us to us the the Salvation uh is also if you change the uh change the words change the letters of the word it's me me which means king which signifies the mashia now one of the uh things that uh it's important to know about the month of Nissan is that uh we do not we do not say do not say V on uh during our prayer during the entire month of Nissan okay so typically for you know for for everyone who doesn't know we don't say V uh the prayer during Roes or during y or or or Shabbat but the the month of Nissan is a month of Miracles and therefore the whole month uh from the beginning of the month until the end of the month until actually the second day of the next uh month uh uh we don't say V we don't say V during that time uh now one of the things that we have during this month is the blessing over the tree in he said that there's an extraordinary importance to this Mitzvah where we recite the annual blessing over the blossoming of fruit trees and he explained that we recite this blessing because it frees the souls that have been entrapped and reincarnated in the soil and the plants of the field enabling them to finally reach their resting place and the source for this concept is in the in the third volume page 196b also said in is that uh and so did in that uh there's an extraordinary importance to this blessing of uh uh of uh of blessing the uh the um the fruit trees during this time and it's important to do it with great concentration so that it'll have a maximum effect now not everybody will Merit to free an actual soul from a uh that's reincarnated into uh some fruit but nonetheless uh every one of us can Merit the actual mitvah itself to uh to do this blessing and a person should actually add a prayer asking hasem to have mercy on these Souls uh at this time now both men and women are obligated to recite this this uh blessing over the blossoming of fruit trees during the month of Nan and the uh in K says that uh the blessing may be recited over trees that are still attached to uh to the to the ground but not over branches that have been severed from the tree even if they are full of blossoms also says that uh a person may say this blessing only if there are at least two blossoming fruit trees in view whether they're the same species or not but some say that even one tree including in his most recent uh that was printed says that even one tree is enough either way there is plenty of material out there on the net uh that talks about this that is a the only the time to do it is the month of Nissan also as a side note the uh rabenu miv also ruled that if the tree was used for anything that's connected to idolatry like an AER tree then you're not allowed to make a blessing over it because we're Al we're not allowed to uh benefit from idolatry in any way next Shabbat Shabbat is the Shabbat that is right before p and this Shabbat is typically where if you're in a community is where the uh Rabbi will give the biggest lecture of the year uh discussing things pertaining to PES The Exodus it's really supposed to be a time where you uh help people do chuva in order to uplift themselves uh spiritually and why why is Shabbat called Shabbat because this this time is where the Egyptians asked am Isel what they were planning to do with the Lambs that they purchased right before they Hashem allowed them to leave Egypt because uh after the uh the plagues Hashem commanded am Isel to get these uh uh these Lambs TI them to the beds and then then slaughter them after a few days and make sure that they make enough noise for the Egyptians to come now of course when mosenu heard this he said that am is is going to be too scared because the Egyptians will kill them because these goats are the Egyptian gods and Hashem vowed on his own name and said that if they don't do it they will stay in Egypt forever they will never be they'll never come out why because it is important for a Jew to destroy idolatry now what ended up happening is that am Isel did it and merited an extraordinary Miracle an extraordinary Miracle where the Egyptians were incapable of reacting in the way they would typically react for the last couple of hundred years when they saw these goats tied to the beds making all the noise they asked them what do you what is this for said this is for p feast in the honor of God who's going to put all of the firstborn of Egypt to death he commanded us to slaughter these lambs and smear their blood on a doorpost and lentil of our homes and thereby protecting our homes from the rampaging murderous spirits that are going to kill your sons all of the firstborn Egyptians were too scared to uh uh to go against am Israel and they started protesting against their uh fathers and against Paro himself causing a Civil War and demanding that let is go so they get spared and and they don't end up dying because they believe that this is going to happen of course the leaders of Egypt par especially did not uh did not care about this and eventually this became a violent protest and a civil war where a huge amount of Egyptians died were killed as a result of it and this is what it says in t in in Psalm 136:1 to he who smote the Egyptians with their firstborn meaning at the hand of their firstborn the firstborn before killed them used those firstborn Egyptians to kill their brothers to kill their uh uh you know their fellow uh Egyptians and after the Egyptians realize what happened they armed themselves to attack the people of is and avenge their their death but protected and uh made all of these uh Egyptians sick with horrible pain and horrible uh uh uh stomach issues to the point where they were literally grinding their teeth to nothing and this is one of the great reasons of why it's called shab where a person can see that when we had big big a lot of faith in hem we ended up getting a greater salvation this is one of the great lessons you have in P where it's a uh it's the uh the the mat is symbolic of the the faith that we have in hem where the greater the faith the greater the Salvation those that did not have faith in hasem did not leave Egypt did not leave Egypt they died in the uh in a Darkness plague now after that you have searching for Kitz the Mitzvah of searching for is of course before the it's a critical mitvah and there's a few things we need to know about it the Torah forbids us from keeping in our possession during PES The Exodus 12: 19 says that for seven days leavening may not be found in your houses and then later on in chapter 13: 7 it says neither leaven food nor leaving shall be seen in your possession anywhere within your borders so not found and not seen so now a person has to take two steps on the evening of the 14th of Nissan to rid themselves of all first step is to search throughout their house business car wherever they are they they are anyit if you own the business you have to check it if somebody else owns the business either way you're not going to be working during so you don't need to worry about there uh if it's owned by somebody else but any that you own you have to search it and destroy it or if it's new it's sellable you can sell it for the uh time of uh P now you have to search for your anything that uh you can find that you're not aware of especially if you have kids you have to do bigger searches because of course kids are known to put uh you know little cookies and bread and different things in the strangers places and uh it's important for a parents to know that there's really no limitations when it comes to uh when it comes to the you know there was always a uh one of the UHS of theim that you know you have to check the uh the rice you have to check the beans you have to check all these different things and you know technically if you know if there's certain there certain uh uh uh things that you grow that don't grow next to so why do I have to check all these things until K himself said I saw a little kid a little kid literally take a piece of bread and throw it into the sack of of beans and throw it into the or or rice or whatever it was I think it was beans showing me what the why they told us you have to check everywhere you have to check so first step is to search throughout our home to find anyit that we're not aware of and the second thing is to declare all theit that it's in our possession to be of no value where the uh you have to renounce the ownership and declare it he or some say to declare it as if it's dust anything that uh now if a person says this but he doesn't really mean it then he should know that it doesn't count meaning this is one of the places where if you don't have kavana you don't have meaning when you say these things then in shim it counts like you did nothing so when you say all the that I have that I you know in the beginning you say the that uh I saw is uh you know that and you haven't sold it this is uh you know this is uh F it's not it's it's null and void the next day you change the blessing it's the stuff that you saw and the stuff that you didn't see right before you burn the that you saw you have to there's a secondary blessing which we'll discuss in a moment but the point is when you say these blessings if you either don't understand what you're saying or you understand what you're saying but you don't actually mean it you just think it's a joke then you should know that it doesn't count it's as if you have said nothing you just said a bunch of words and it counts as if you still are owning during P which is a violation of the Tor multiple violations of the Tor so this is important for people that idolize they're very very into certain foods uh they uh they think of uh certain foods or they're so connected to certain things that their whole life is revolved around this food their whole life is revolved around uh these things it's a very problem why because it's impossible for them to fulfill this Mitzvah uh without a lot of extra effort because they love this so how could they truly mean that it's null and void that it's that it's dust that it's meaningless when in reality the rest of the year they're they're running after it as if it's God so a person needs to know that you have to have C when it comes to nullifying thez now cleaning for p is important but it does not have to turn you into Islam SL remember this holiday is commemoration of our slavery and thereby the freedom not just the slavery sometimes certain people take this holiday in order to justify winter cleaning and they end up cleaning their walls cleaning their garage cleaning their uh attic cleaning uh their uh their windows on the inside on the outside last I recall does not stay on Windows and if it does then it's typically that is you know has lost its taste that even a dog wouldn't eat it uh your walls typically don't eat bread and if they do you should probably move uh the uh the floor does not need to uh to be uh bleached multiple times and turn your house into a hazard uh you know KET does not grow in the cinder blocks and even if it does it's not considered anything thing so it's important to clean the house but you don't make it into something that is so burdensome that literally by the time you arrived at PES you are so tired you're so beat up you can't even you know you can't even look at the words and understand what they're saying it's important to have a clean house but no one told you that you have to uh go above and beyond to the point where you've turned yourself into uh some uh some uh machine cleaning walls and and roofs and uh and all types of things that in reality are just simply not necessary you know in many cases you could really clean for PES couple of days you're finished I know that there are some traditions even in my own dear family that my my my uh amazing mother she cleans for PES for a month and a half two months and I've had this conversation with her multiple times over the years but she says this is uh this is what I do I this what I clean this is that fine you know if you want to do it this gives you Good Feeling by all means if you're actually enjoying this cleaning and it's a it's it's part of the way that uh you're uh you're celebrating the holiday by all means you can but many times people clean and they overdo it to the point where by the time they arrive at the Holiday they're so beat up they can't even see straight so if you've got to that point then you're doing too much it should not be too should not be that that difficult it should not be that difficult if your house requires more than a couple of days cleaning then you usually you could afford a cleaning person that could help you for a third and a fourth and a fifth day but the point is is that don't make it into a uh the priority of PES is just to clean clean clean and you forget to learn you forget to fulfill the rest of the mitv you forget that it's even a holiday now the time to to to search for the Kitz uh is on the evening of the 14th of Nissan which is the night before yum so if the L is Friday on Thursday night is when you search for the Kitz this includes the yard all of the rooms in the house uh even ones that he sure have no in them he has to look there he also has to inspect the uh you know uh different if he has kid uh kids the pockets of the kids uh uh that uh you know if they especially if the clothes haven't been laundered briefcases drawers you know all types of things everywhere they possibly uh can um searching for Ked should start at the evening of the 14th of Nissan it should be done with a flashlight you don't necessarily need to make the uh the house pitch dark but the house should be darkened uh using a uh flashlight is okay there's no problem with it especially since uh many people have kids and to have kids with a uh uh a candle is a fire hazard it's a danger and especially since the houses today much bigger than the houses of yester year so uh it's a uh going up and down the stairs in different rooms and and and things being a lot more flammable it's better to use a flashlight of course don't wait to know whether you have a flashlight on the 14th of Nissan after this you check that your flashlight works check that you have batteries don't wait for the day of the uh the 14th of Nissan to check if your flashlight works already be prepared with these things no now person has to know that once the time for uh prayer has come if it's a uh if he hasn't recited arit before dusk then you should say AR the the prayer of and then start the uh the uh the searching of the Kitz but uh after he uh after he prayed and he has time for him to search for he can't go and start studying t or eating or anything like that he has to go look for before beginning the search for you have to say a blessing uh bless you hasem the king over the world um that uh Sanctified us with his a with his mitv and commanded us to uh uncover theit I'm sorry to perform the destruction of the is destruction ofit we don't recite this blessing specifically because we're searching forit since the act of searching is only a step leading to the goal of getting rid of theit now during the time that you're searching for K it's forbidden to speak after you made the blessing and you have to stay focused looking for you shouldn't have mundane conversations go outside smoke a couple cigarettes none of that stuff you have to focus on finding why because having on P is a sin and it's not a small one but if let's say for example you happen to be let's say you looking for and somebody says kadish you're allowed to say am in that's not considered talking if you started the uh looking for without saying a blessing you can start uh you could say the blessing at any given moment so long as you did not complete your search we don't say theu uh uh blessing on uh on the looking for either way the uh the the blessing of for like I just said it and you'll find it in every s uh for searching for the Kitz now if you have to search for multiple places let's say you have to go search your house and then you have to go look in your car even if you just got your car washed you have to go look anyway you don't need a Second Blessing so long as you do it within the same uh time frame after you finish the house you go to the car you don't need to make a Second Blessing now there is a custom a custom to take small pieces of bread that are smaller than a kazite smaller than 27 grams and really say it should be even no more than 18 grams and this you should not estimate you should actually weigh them take these small pieces of bread put them in a Ziploc bag and have your spouse hide them in different places in the house now whoever hides them should write down somewhere where they hid them in case the person doesn't find them and you don't want to forget it so there's a custom of hi in 10 pieces of in the house this is not only a nice custom that makes it enjoyable for the kids when they find these uh but also it's good because it forces the person to truly look forces the person to truly look CU you have to find his now uh if you have more than one kid and uh your kids are Lively and you know they like it and and they enjoy the mitzvah prepare that you're gonna have to hide the same two or three maybe even four or five times story know ahead of time one time is not enough 10 pieces is not enough it may end up being the same 10 pieces 47 times right they like it fine make them enjoy the Mitzvah make them enjoy the Mitzvah it's it's important for them to enjoy the mitzvah now as far as uh inspecting you have to inspect everywhere but you don't need to inspect your books because even if let's say for example somebody ate a cookie while they were reading and learning and a little crumb went in there uh the uh the crumb is not uh significant enough to be considered Kitz it's not big enough so even if there is one you don't have to be concerned of and you could still throughout the entire holiday study from all of your books and not be concerned about uh if there's going to be a little crumb that you found or could be there don't worry about that stuff now of course there are like that were more stringent and said that you should uh uh you have to inspect all of your books for crumbs even though the crumbs are certainly less than a Kaz in volume but in his says that many many of the sages of 8 900 years ago 500 years ago as well as in the last couple hundred years were against this stringency and concluded that there's no Al basis for it the same was said by that there's no reason for this treny of looking for inside books after completing the search for everyone has to declare that theet is null and void any that is remaining in their possession that they're not aware of now of course the there isit that you're still going to eat that night or the early morning the next day before becomes forbidden but the uh so that's obviously not Nolan void because it's substantial enough for you to eat it but you're talking about the that you're not aware of stuff that you didn't find you're not going to burn tomorrow because you don't even know it exists so whatever you're not aware of that's null and void it's it's dust it's not considered anything and our sages instituted a rule that it's necessary to declare this this cancellation of the twice one immediately after the search and one in the morning after burning the final kit that you have in your possession they didn't want to rely on the uh morning uh uh blessing morning Declaration of uh cancellation of because in case somebody would forget to make this uh declaration in the morning at the right time then it will be too late to declare it null and void after the search and a person says to the uh the just the blessing so you know in case for whatever reason you don't know it uh and it's not your it's saying you have to say it in words that you understand which is any leavened food any or leavening in my possession that I have not seen and have not destroyed is hereby considered null and like dust on the ground and it's important that you say it in a language that you understand if you understand it in Hebrew say it in Hebrew if you don't understand Hebrew say it in English say it in Russian say it in Spanish whatever language you speak say it in the language you speak because it's critical that you actually understand the words not say the words because if you read it in words in Aramaic or in Hebrew but you don't understand it then uh unfortunately you haven't fulfilled the Mitzvah some have the custom of saying it three times like seeing the same seeing the same uh thing text I just said three times one after another not an obligation it's a custom but nonetheless it's a uh something that has uh many Torah sources now the Declaration of in the daytime the text is slightly different it says that any leavened food or leavening in my possession whether or not I have seen it and whether or not I have destroyed it should be considered null and like the dust of the ground now that um this is said only after the last bit of that you have has been burned up because that's when you fulfill the officially fulfill the mitvah of destroying the if you say this blessing before the KET has been burned then you did not fulfill the mitvah both men and women are equally obligated fulfilling the Mitzvah destroying the and if the uh uh uh you're you're married the husband can do it for on behalf of the wife if uh if if she wants she could just say am in and just listen to him uh because he's in essence it's his property but if let's say the husband is traveling then the wife can say it on his behalf if someone did not conduct the search on the night of the 14th he has to do so as soon as he remembers and says the blessing if he didn't do it during the day either then he has to do it whenever he remembers Z remembers even if it's during p now if someone plans a trip away from their house for the entire holiday of PES and they sign a contract that should be reviewed by a rabbi that is competent in this issue and has the time to do it uh to sell his entire house and all the that's in it to a non-jew the Pim says that he has to still conduct the search for excuse me for on the evening of the 14th and that's because the sale of the uh of of the house and the only becomes effective on the 14th uh on on the day of the 14th so it's a in essence that you still have the the obligation that night that night but if you're going to uh travel beforehand meaning you leave your house let's say on the 10th or the ninth or something like that uh if you can make a search you should if you can't there there's room to be U lenient now if you're renting a place during the holiday there are many people that are traveling away from their houses on on P you have to know that if you renting this house from another Jew and you're beginning your uh stay on the 14th of Nissan then you are required you as the tenant you're required to search the house for but if he doesn't give you the keys until after the fact then he's the one that's required to search for Kitz so you have to already know this as part of your agreement who's the one that's going to be cleaning and searching for Kitz if the owner says no I search for k you can believe him you don't have to uh worry about it even if he's uh you know it's a uh it's one of the workers of the uh says that he searched for it on his behalf that's fine now what happens if your kid brings Kitz into the house during the holiday he went next door there's a living next door gives him I don't know cake and your three-year-old 2-year-old comes home with a cake first you have to search wherever he went you know in the house to see if there's anything else you have to obviously get rid of it but you don't have to make a big thing out of it yelling screaming hitting none of that stuff he's two remember now during pesak it's forbidden to eat at the same table as non-jews that are eating Kitz even if the two people are eating on separate tablecloths or placemats and if there are two Jews who wish to eat on one table and and one is eating meat and the other one is eating dairy let's say during the rest of the year although some have the custom of not eating meat and dairy on the same table technically if if if they uh have different plates different plac mats they're not sitting right next to each other it's allowed but as far as when it comes to a person has to be more stringent and cannot eat on the same table as somebody eating Kitz whether they're Jew or Gentile but if you have let's say for example during you have some type of uh work that needs to happen in the house the lights are out I don't know something needs to be fixing and it could only be done during and you have a non-jew enters your house and he works through the day and he brought lunch with him of course don't make a stink about it and force the guy no get out of my house with don't start going don't go crazy because even though it's you see it it doesn't belong to you and therefore it's permissible he's allowed to eat it but of course uh it's better if he uh eats it outside of the house but if he uh if it's going to make him problem then you know you can let him me in the house and again so long as he cleans after himself and so on ideally don't have anybody come to your house unless it's absolutely a must now there are certain things that containit but they're not considered Kitz like a uh shoe polish certain uh medicine tablets and so on now these things although they have different types of uh ingredients you know the uh the certain uh glues to to stiffen a hat uh that's uh comes from D there's certain uh shoe polish and so on that you don't have to worry about because that's not you know nobody eats that nobody eats it it's not edible so you don't have to worry about that type of Kitz also for those of you that are smokers if you smoke cigarettes cigarettes even though it's uh they're glued with a paste that uh is typically made from since that is no longer edible or recognizable it's allowed to smoke cigarettes during uh the uh of course don't smoke on Shabbat but uh you're allowed to smoke cigarettes during as far as is concerned for those of you that smoke the um the pipes the um what I think call Vape Vape uh uh that as I told you the other day there uhb is stringent and says that since they do have a taste even though you technically don't consume them uh they do have a taste you should have a Kosher for p Vape juice butat since you don't really consume it you don't have to have a kosher Vape juice or oil but when it comes to things that you actually do put in your mou like tobacco uh where there this is in essence is being consumed that does have to have Kut now the Torah makes forbidden from midday of the 14th of Nissan and to know the exact time it's the exact middle between Dawn and dust according to the Jewish calendar but uh the best thing for most people download one of the applications whether it's calj orim or other ones that tell you the exact time of when you're no longer allowed to eat uh or possess it uh it'll tell you the exact time uh that's that's the time that you go by wherever your location is according to your zip code and so on as far as destroying it should be either uh burned or thrown into uh a lake or you could throw it in the garbage but uh if the garbage is not going to be taken out some are a little stringent and they say it's better that you burn it than leave it in the garbage if it's possible for you to burn it once the time to burn has come it's not allowed for you to engage in any other type of activity until you complete burning the Kitz now if somebody finds Kitz in his house during meaning it's already you finished the S now you're and you found in your house remove it from your house of course obviously don't eat it and if you found it on yum then cover it so nobody else sees it and uh then you have to destroy it you have to throw in the garbage or down flush it down the toilet but if it's on yum itself you're not allowed to uh pick it up and throw it in the garbage because it's considered M during Y is considered M during y say that if you found it on the second day of yum then you're allowed to carry it and throw in the garbage or in the uh better in the toilet uh on the second day of yum now when it comes to food that has Kitz you have to make sure to know exactly all the ingredients that you're eating and not uh and make sure that what you're eating is Kos uh if it's fruits vegetables obviously does not need Kut uh everything else should have Kash for p even though there are certain things that do not need for p it's better to be stringent uh than rely on the lenient opinion for example uh if you have a sugar uh is a or oil technically does not really need k for p uh but it is possible that uh there are certain uh uh uh manufacturers that rely on the uh government permission to add certain uh amount certain percentage of other chemicals or other things uh whether intentional or unintentional if let's they're in the same Factory or it's just simply something that adds flavoring whatever it is without actually disclosing it on the label so they could be a certain percentage of uh in this oil or in the sugar or other things that technically do not need Kut uh so technically there is a uh it's a uh there are many leniencies that would not make it forbidden for you to consume that sugar and that oil that oil that olive oil let's say still if you can get Kosher for p sugar and uh oil and things of that nature then it's better for you to get that Kut on that and not rely on the leniencies uh according to and many other now the uh when it comes to uh food I mean it's extremely extensive all the different details uh if you find something if it comes into the food in you know accidentally uh how much cancels out how much not there's no way we can go over all of it but I'll give you some things that stand out now if becomes mixed with other food during PES whether it's the same type of substance or something else it makes the entire food forbidden if it's during PES but if it's before p and the amount of that went into the food is less than a 60th meaning the amount of non is at least 60 times greater in quantity than the food then it's allowed to eat but only if it happened before p also as a side note uh uh just so you know citric acid any food that has citric acid comes from wheat and there is a uh a leniency there for those that consume those products it's a uh if it was added to a food now if somebody cooked rice know that ashaz asazi Jews have the custom to refrain from eating rice uh on PES but also other types of food so if you are a uh Safari don't go to a ashkanazi house expecting them to give you a FES of uh rice uh and uh and all types of uh food that uh you eat it's say they have slightly different Customs when it comes to that um salted cheese uh or salted fish where the salt was not uh inspected to make sure that it's free of crumbs ofet and uh there's no uh checking of whether it has whether it was mixed in it and something like that can still be eaten on P it's not necessary to soak it uh soak the salt uh soak the fish or the the cheese to to rinse off the salt or anything like that because say that uh um salt is you know salt it's not a it's not one of those things that uh uh you have to be concerned about but don't eat don't eat these things on P unless they have were produced with Kos Kos so more stringent when it comes to uh even to Salt now if a person cooked rice or chicken during PES and discovered that there's a kernel of wheat in the food you have to analyze the kernel if it's cracked or split then it became the entire food is forbidden all the contents in the in the pot are forbidden because the mixture took place during PES and according to cannot be nullified in any amount even a thousand to one during P but if the konel oh and after that the konel has to be burned up immediately because it's if it's then it's a if to burn up the now the the pot that was cooked in can no longer be used during P but if you want to an Essence clean it to reuse it on P you'll have to purge it again but it has to be done on but at least 24 hours later um but if the kernel of wheat is not cracked not split at all then it has the status of which is doubtful Kitz that it may or may not beitz that you still have to burn the uh the kernel but the rest of the food is allowed to be eaten you're allowed to eat it as long as the amount of food is at least 60 times greater than the size of the kernel ashim on the other hand are more stringent in all of these cases and regardless of whether it's cracked or not they do not allow you to eat it now if somebody comes to a rabbi on the seventh day of PES to tell them that they discovered a kernel of meat in a pot of food and they want to know what should be done if you a rabbi or if you are or if you're simply somebody that uh people come to for questions if it's on the seventh day don't answer them tell them that uh you'll have to get back to them and in essence wait until the is over and then find out whether it it was or not but that's only if it's on the seventh day Jam that uh was uh the jam Jam in J does not need Kut there are certain ingredients we have a list and I'm sure some of the kosher websites Kut websites have a list of food that does not need Kut all year round and there are certain food that cannot be kosher on PES no matter who makes it so review some of those lists we have the previous year's list I haven't seen one uh uh yet this year but I'm sure one of the uh OU or uh CRC or one of these kosher uh organizations has uh has a uh list of food that uh does not need and some food that is uh cannot be Kos p no matter what so you can review that as well Jam is one of those foods that uh is does not need Kut for Safari juice though okay Safari juice are more stringent and they only eat things that have Kos p on it tap water obviously does not need Kut if you are in is uh even though you should know that even though the water comes from the which of course some people put their in there you're still allowed to drink tap water from the kit um this is reviewed by several Pim and um one of the reasons is the fact that the uh the water that you get is typically not the water that has that's you know that's in the that is being dropped into it because by the time you get the water it's already been filtered but there are other reasons also point being is you're allowed to drink tap water interestingly cumin spice uh is forbidden on P even if it has on it spice forbidden of even if it has this according Toom so this is a very common spice uh for some people and it's forbidden on P now there is a uh our sages taught us that if there's a non- kosher ingredient is added to a kosher food but it detracts from the quality of the food it does not render the food non kosher even if the mixture contains less than 60 times the volume of the non kosher ingredient uh this is called n so now the uh regardless of how old the non-osa substance may be if it enhances the flavor of the mixture it makes it forbidden but if it detracts from the Flavor then it's not forbidden so some of the uh uh examples of this is like I said before where you have a uh um certain non- kosher food is cooked in a utensil more than 24 hours of past let's you live in a house with some of your uh um housemates use your pots and pens okay and they cooked uh non kosher food 24 hours ago that non koser flavor that uh that the uential has absorbed has become stale by the time that you put food in it so if you've already cooked in it you're allowed to eat it so in essence the uh this is important to know for the the following if you have Cosmetics some of these Cosmetics use ingredients that are you don't have to worry about it cuz typically normal people do not eat cosmetics if you're eating Cosmetics please seek psychological help if someone becomes sick and their entire body is in pain it's permissible for them to take pain relievers and all types of medicine on PES even if they contain a wheat starch that's because this sweet starch is not giving a positive flavor to the tablet but if it's flavored in a site or something like that then it has to be K but if somebody's at life risk they could do whatever you know they could do whatever the doctor says even if that means eating pig allowed if somebody's life's at risk but if somebody's just ill uh then uh they're allowed to have things that are uh like these uh uh pills or whatever medicine they have that does not have a good taste now if the only option is let's say to give the uh you have a uh somebody sick uh and the only option you have is uh some uh medicine that does have good flavor in it that's the only option then it's recommended for a person to put something to make it taste bad now if you kept over P you have to know that you have uh if you did not sell the that is forbidden but aside from the being forbidden during the holidays forbidden after the holiday but during the holiday there was a couple of sins the person was not allowed was supposed to destroy the and was not supposed to have in their possessions so there was two sins already just by owning the Kitz now if you're going to sell theet which most people do only do it through a rabbi don't do it through yourself meaning don't just find one of your friends that's not Jewish or your neighbor whoever it is Hey listen I'm gonna sell you my sign over here okay it's sold and in reality I'm just gonna nothing's gonna happen don't do it that way go through a rabbi that has a set agreement because there's a lot of intricacies that can get very complicated and unless you're an extraordinary and that knows this these issues you can make a very big mistake and put yourself in both alic and legal problems so there are plenty of uh every community's Rabbi typically has sells theet for the community if you go and uh fill out the form uh usually you have to give a little takaka and you should give takaka uh to the rabbi that's uh that's conducting this uh if you don't have somebody in your community that is uh doing it then there is online there is the bedan in Lakewood uh that I've suggested to people in previous years and there's plenty of other uh organizations that are willing to sell the KET for you uh and uh again it's a uh something that you must do you must do uh you have to look for the K destroy whatever uh you uh you have that's you you don't sell and if you uh haven't destroyed it then you have to sell it if you didn't sell it and you end up finding out that you owned it throughout the holiday then you have have to get rid of it after the how you can't use it oh two hours try to speed up a little bit now if you're in business with a non-jew uh and you own a uh business you have to have a agreement with this non-jew that if he's going to continue working uh during the holiday and you're let's say you're dealing withit in your business uh that all of the money that he makes during the holiday is his and you will have a week at some other point during the year that you have to obviously agree on that you'll make the money from that because you're not allowed to benefit from either on P now if it comes to owning let's say a shares in a publicly traded company or a private company that is really not in your control you just own a stake in it and it conducts its business in you don't have to worry about it because you don't have control of it it's not really your company you just get the uh right to attend their annual meeting you get the right to ask questions during their conference calls but you don't actually control the company so you don't have to worry about owning let's say stock in cocacola or uh or I don't know whatever other food company you own uh stock in but if it's actually a business that you own uh then you have to e shut it down you can't sell uh or buy K during PES but if you have a partner that's not Jewish uh then to eliminate the uh uh the problem which is you benefiting from K during PES you have to uh uh in essence sell your stake to your partner for that week where they get of the profit even if it's a zillion dollars and you're going to get profit uh after the holiday some other week it can't be uh you know delayed payment for that week you simply can't benefit from that week now the uh pots and pens that you use during the year and you want to use for PES have to be purged either through aala or libun now in Western world in America and in many other places where uh people generally speaking are doing well financially and there's the products such as pots and pant are relatively cheap it's recommended for people to Simply have a set of pots and pans utensils just for PES just for PES take him to the mikve and use him just for PES but if you can't afford that then you and you want to you need to use your pots and pants from the rest of the year they have to go through either what's called a or aala which is typically most Jewish communities have somebody doing that uh during one uh one day uh you know before uh a few days before PES uh where it all depends on how this uh pot pan whatever it is actually absorb theit if it's let's say uh something that you uh Grill uh then you have it goes through lion uh if it's something that you uh let's say uh bake or you're you're cooking in uh then uh like let's say uh your uh you know you cook your um a pan you make your omelets in that is aala which is putting it in boiling water you can't do this yourself unless you have a huge bowl that can fit the whole thing in it at once it can't be just pouring some hot water on it and uh absolving yourself from uh going to this uh thing you have to actually uh put it into boiling water not just hot water has to be boiling water and all at once which is typically most people do not have a pot that's that big so you have to go to the community center that has uh somebody doing uh this Li aala uh for the uh for the public there are certain things that you can't fix because the uh they need a libon uh and a libon would typically destroy them such as pots that have Teflon pots that have Teflon you can't do lion which is uh burning them until their Sparks come out so this libon would simply destroy any pot that has Teflon on it so uh that means you can't use it uh so you have to Simply get a different partt now those parts and pans that you don't use that you don't use on P because you use them during the rest of the year you do not sell them with the Kitz you again I repeat the pots and pans that you don't use during PES because you have you used them forz and you did not uh uh purge them those pots and pants you simply put in some closet along with let's say theet that you've sold uh and uh you lock that closet tie it up so nobody goes in there and makes a mistake and that's it you don't sell that those pots and pans though uh you could put them in a different closet but the point is don't use them and don't sell them because if you sell them then as soon as the holiday is over you'll have to take all of them to the mik because once something is owned by a non-jew it has to go to a mik before the Jews allowed to use it microwave if you have a uh microwave oven SOS scheme ruled that standard microwave oven not the combination convection microwave oven but the microwave oven that's used all year round but it's generally is used to warm Foods cook uh warm cooked foods but not necessarily to cook them does not need any purging other than thoroughly cleaning the surface but other Pim disagreed and said that you have it has to be purged to a certain extent by taking a cup of water or a bowl filling up with uh um water and then uh uh cleaning fluid like soap of some kind not something that's poisonous though like you know dish soap or something like that and then turning on the uh the the microwave until the water boils depends on the power of your microwave some say minutes some say less depending on the power of the microwave but the water has to boil and create uh uh Mist Vapors that would uh absorbed by the surface of the ovens now a convection uh uh microwave that has a standard uh heating elements like a oven then it's uh just turning it on at the Max uh maxed highest heat for at least an hour sometimes more and that makes it Kos P dishwasher just run it one time without any any uh uh any um food in there any plates any pens with soap and it's ready for PES pressure cooker has to go through aala kitchen knives can be purged by putting them into a full pot of water that's been boiled over the fire that's the water has to be scolding hot like yat this is something you could technically do at home you don't need to go take them anywhere but uh you have to have pots that are big enough to you know to have the whole knife in it have obviously gloves or something to grab these things on don't hurt yourself if you could afford it it's just simply better and easier to just have have a separate set of knives and utensils uh to use for PES PL the the warming plate just have to clean it remove any visible kets pour you could pour uh boiling water over it it's clean for p obviously don't pour the boiling water on it while it's on disconnected from the electricity frying pans have to be purged through the process of aala which like I said is the uh uh the the boiling water now Earth and wear which is which are uh typically the uh the things the machines that you make the chulen in uh or any type of uh clay or the like uh type of uh plate or pot that cannot be purged that cannot be purged so if it was used before PES you cannot use it for PES we learned that from the Tora in 6 verse 21 that Earth andwar vessel where there was aan uh cannot uh cannot be purified it has to be broken so things that are similar to it also can be uh uh thing I'll give you some examples now if you had this uh Earth and wear vessel that was used to cook KET you can't use it on PES even if uh you only use it for cold food even though technically you cannot absorb the food when it's cold still P the time where everybody's obligated to be more stringent and specifically with something like this even if you used it for one time it cannot be purified for to be Kosh P so these types of tools you know these uh Earth and wear clay and so on have to be put in uh some storage room like the other pots and pants you're not using to use them after PES for the specific type of Earth and wear that has to do with beer like barrels Earth and wear barrels has a unique uh uh process so if anybody deals with that uh you could uh send a question I'll give you the exact ala there for the purging process but uh porcelain have the status of Earth and wear utensils same thing with China wear same thing uh glass if you this is one of the big differen between as glass does not absorb flavors and even scientifically they found that even if there's a minimal amount some say it's so minimal that it's not considered anything according to Al so if you have glass cups glass plates Pure Glass you can use them all year round you can use them from PES you can use them even for milk and then you know whenever you want to eat it another time after you clean it you can use it for for for meat uh so uh glass you'll find is very common you know in a Jewish homes um that uh are not using the uh you know the uh disposable stuff you'll see them often use glass because it doesn't absorb any flavor even if uh the food is boiled in them so that's why they don't need any type of purging process for PES or for any other time Earth sorry I have to fix this for a [Music] second uh okay uh refrigerators refrigerators freezers just need to be cleaned you don't need to do any purging soda machines just need to be cleaned Dentures if you have Dentures just need to be cleaned doesn't uh you don't need to purge or anything okay so I see I missed something here the uh the Earth andwar utensils that cannot be purged no matter what uh even if it's cold food is only if you use non- kosher food in it but if all you ate is kosher food if it was hot then it cannot be perched but if it was cold only then it can be purged then it can be purged through aala so correction over there when it comes to the porcelain and the Earth and wear is that if you eat non kosher food in it even one time it cannot be kosher for PES or Kosher for anything but if it is only kosher food that was simply Kitz during the year if it was only cold food then you can Purge it because uh it's not possible for the uh the clay or the Earth and wear to um to absorb the the food if it's just cold so if you only ate cold food then it's a uh you're allowed to purge it with aala but if you eat hot food on it then it's not uh then it's different story so that correction over there uh plastic does not need any purging correction the uh plastic uh depends actually how it was used depends how it's used you could actually uh it can be purged can be purged with aala plastic it's the glass that's right next to it that doesn't need any purging yeah okay uh dining tables just pour a uh um boiling water on it and uh you're uh done obviously after you clean it boiling water on it you're done or you could just put a place mat on it that you're going to leave for the whole holiday and you know I'm assuming you may put another one on top of it but uh that's fine too almost done almost done okay so when it comes to customs when it comes to customs like I said the uh the biggest difference between and ashim as far as Customs as ashkanazi Jews refrain from eating rice and legumes during PES and they're not allowed to change their custom but if you are a BAL Chua if you're a BAL chuva and meaning you've already have multiple Generations where your parents grandparents and so on haven't uh kept anything you're the first one that has become religious and you happened to be aeni and you uh you're one of the people that decided that you want to adopt into the Safari Customs this is something you can do it's not ideal you start it on PES but if you've already done it during the year that you keep the Safar now what about converts all converts that uh converted in Israel are obligated to follow the and keep the saf even if their ancestors even if their ancestors were born in ashkanazi countries all converts are supposed to go with the Safar not just during PES during the entire year dur entire year another thing is the mitvah mat's and then there's the for the we eat the mat which is the big round handmade matah that's what you eat for the Le for the days of P now the rest of the days of P you could eat that or you could eat the uh the square matah but as far as L you eat the round matah or if you have access and interest in getting what's called fot which is the yemenite matzas that are you know more similar to P that are soft matzas you can get those as well uh if you're Ai and you want to eat you're allowed uh because theot even though they're a minhag of the of the yemenites the ashim did not forbid the it's not that they forbid him it just didn't have access to it but if you want to eat the the S mat on P you're allowed to uh even if you're ASI um I would recommend that you learn how to use the before you actually get them and uh don't make the mistake that I've made in the past when I've bought them which is to learn how to heat them and uh in sobody to eat them and heat them uh you know on on PES it's a it's not as simple as fita put it that way um also when it comes to the uh L S make sure to cut the exact portions that you need before the Sidle during the day this perhaps we'll have to do at another sh or maybe we have this in the other Sho the Quant ities that you need uh for each person in your SED CU you have to eat uh matah four times and then you have to eat the mar twice so you have to weigh you have to have get yourself a scale and make each person Ziploc bags of their servings for the S this I believe I discussed in the previous video I did last year on the PES there's no point of repeating it now you guys should watch that video as well but the point is is that for the which we may actually have a second video to go over uh the actual SED itself uh you have to prepare ahead of time but one of the things you have to prepare already before PES is getting yourself the mat do not wait until next week to buy mat buy it as soon as you possibly can buy it as soon as you possibly can I remember last year several of my students uh literally were saved by the uh the the mercy of God that they waited last minute you know the week of PES a few days before PES to go do their shopping for mat and found out that all of the stores were out everybody was out they have mat now if you're in such a circumstance and you only have the square matah then that will suffice but ideally you should have the mat have and last year we actually had one of our students that was dealing with matah so we bought a bunch and we ended up Distributing most of what we had to different students that didn't have uh so even doing K with matah this year we don't have that uh the student is not dealing with it anymore but the point being is is that uh it is very common that the stores run out of stuff so by yourself mat uh you know it's a uh it's important uh for anybody that is uh usually you know if if you're in religious communities there's somebody that's usually making matah uh as a side note if you could get yourself a uh for the guys if you can get yourself a job to go make matah do it because it's good for tunit okay it's good for tunit you didn't think I was going to forget about tunit did you it's good for say that when you exert yourself for me to the point where you're sweating it's good for and in fact the the mentioned it uh and also the in his sh wrote that when a person sweats making matah uh it's the equivalent of 84 fasts meaning to go work in your uh local matah place to make mat for the community could be the equivalent of not only the few that they're going to give you but the equivalent of T of a of a bit of of a single time that person wasted seed which is has to fast 84 times so uh or you know uh donate a certain amount of money equivalent to 42 fests uh we calculate as $420 some people calculate it to be much more some a little less but the point is is that working in one of these matah places is the uh equivalent of t for each uh each time that you do it so very valuable uh job um I was two half hours ready lot of information 27 okay we'll try to get a little bit more um okay in regards to mat also eat during P becauseit it mat is uh matah flour that's with liquids uh like wine and milk or honey it's like the egg matah that you buy in a box uh that's matah uh but the custom of ashkenazim is not to eat it not to eat matachi during the S it's permissible for to also eat after they already ate the mat for the Mitzvah of eating matah so there's the mitvah of eating mat on the so you have to eat your portion in after you've ate that portion you want to eat more matah then you could eat either more of the or the up to you now also in regards to the uh the yeah I guess I'll skip to uh the uh the night of PES that afternoon you have to be uh uh careful not to eat matah on the uh that's mat during the day of P before the so much so that uh in uh the 10th per number one says that a person that eats matah during a day before PES is like someone who sleeps with his fiance in his future father-in-law's house because a person that commits an immoral act like this receives lashes by the hand of the court and really this should be the punishment for somebody that eats matah uh you know on the uh on the eve of P before the uh now as a side note even if he ate it he should still say but the point being is is that he shouldn't eat it why there are multiple multiple reasons bring the sh it says that the reason why it's compared to uh being with a woman that will in the future be permitted to you it's your fiance but being with her before she's allowed to you so it's uh it's the equivalent of an immoral act because uh just like the woman is going to that he's engaged to is H still forbidden to him at this point and will be uh allowed to him after the so therefore it's immoral at this point Point same thing with matah until the said it's immoral why is it immoral because just like to make the uh your fiance into someone that your wife that's permitted to you you have to do seven blessings the same thing with mat you have to do seven blessings the first blessing of then the blessing of the Y then theu then the the then the uh blessing that we uh he took us out of the Exile took us out of egyp then and then so you have to do seven blessings says before you make the mat permissible to you just like you have to do seven blessings before you make your fiance allowed to you and doing anything otherwise is considered immoral so what do you eat during the day uh some say you're allowed to eat the mat the matah like the egg matah and things like that mat egg mat you could eat that uh no problem but don't eat too much you have to stay hungry and ideally you shouldn't eat matah at all uh of any of any kind during the day before PES so the matah is brand new feel to you on the uh um now as far as the mat that you buy make sure you keep it away from kids before L uh so number one they don't break them and number two uh they don't put uh I know that this sounds unreasonable to some of you but it does happen don't buy your food for PES from uh uh secular Jews that uh that sell non kosher food in their markets also if they sell non- kosher food in their markets don't buy anything from them it's different than buying uh from a uh you know General supermarket in America like a Walmart or or a I don't know Publix or whatever that has both kosher and non- kosher food CU those supermarkets are not owned by Jews but a a supermarket or store that's owned by a Jew and he sells non food don't buy anything from him don't buy anything from him because he has uh he has a much he has a problem with God whereas the the non-jew that owns uh the uh the Walmart or the uh uh Publix or whatever shop right or or other Supermarket that's offering kosher products that are sealed that's perfectly fine uh to buy from them um now in regards to wedding the matah it's permissible to soak the matah in water and eat it on PES even on S night especially if a person is older and has sensitive teeth some people have this of the custom from not eating matah that's been dipped in water because they're afraid that maybe the this will cause it to become many were uh very voer us against this it's uh uh actually uh ping this way but uh most disagreed with him because there's simply no way for the uh the mat to become just because you wet it but if you go to a kabad house don't wet your matah but if uh if you've uh forbid yourself from waiting the matah until now and you uh simply uh did it because you thought that the says so then you can stop it and you don't need to do canceling of a vow because it was simply a mistake but if you understood that it's really allowed to eat wet matah but you adopted this custom anyway this as a personal string and now you want to eat a a wet matah then you will need in order to stop it now the uh the yavitz writes that there is uh noic basis whatsoever for this practice of forbidding people from weding their matah and making it into also the says that anyone that uh uh has the practice of uh refraining from matah that was soaked in water is immediately allowed to stop this custom at any moment that doesn't uh doesn't need to uh be concerned about it and he says that even 800 years ago uh at his time many of the disregard the stringency altogether saying that it has no bases whatsoever especially today when most matah is very thin like a cracker also wrote about this that uh especially today where uh it's very common to eat machine made matah so uh there's no basis for this custom of not being allowed to wet your matah again this is not a personal attack on any particular organization or or or Community this is simply what the majority of say and uh today uh it's become a custom that's viewed almost like an ala by certain people uh that you're not allowed to wet your matah which again istically incorrect according to the vast majority of Pim I mean I've only found one p that says uh otherwise I'm sure there's others but it's only one that I've seen by the way the G VNA also uh permitted uh matah balls and wet matah with no problem now as far as working working on the 14th of Nissan should not be done some say that it shouldn't be done once you're uh supposed to burn yourit uh from that moment on it shouldn't be done so if you work early hours like six o'clock in the morning 7:00 8:00 in the morning that's fine but after the time of burning the then you have to stop working also uh the exception is for people that are poor or people that would have a major monetary loss but nonetheless still the eve of PES uh you have to uh the uh the the all of the exceptions in the world still did not allow you to work uh during the last two and a half hours before the meaning you have to already be home 2 and a half hours before the holiday starts haircuts haircuts uh don't cut your hair on the 14th of Nissan the eve of the holiday don't cut your hair you have to cut your hair before the hug before the hug now if you forgot to cut your hair and it's already afternoon of Nissan I mean it's technically not the holiday yet but it's you're not really supposed to be cutting your hair on that on that night if you forgot then you can have uh you can cut your own hair or you can use a njw to cut your hair if you could have somebody with you and not be there alone because there's a specific a uh warning from getting your haircut by a non-jew uh oneon-one without having other people but nonetheless if you uh are going to cut your hair you should cut your hair before the eve of the holiday now there are some P that say that if it's a uh um if uh the uh holiday falls on Shabbat itself then you're allowed to cut your hair anytime on that Friday there are there are some leniencies there but uh again like I said ideally is to cut it before that time now the couple of things that I mentioned earlier today there are certain Customs Customs that are dangerous the most dangerous that I know of is the custom of the Z Z is a where you have the lamb shank and it's a common custom in among Safari Jews uh that I know of where they get an actual lamb shank and they call this the Z and even some of them go to the extent of saying this is the uh uh this meet is for PES or this is aan PES saying that is you should understand that we are not allowed to have any sacrifice or designate anything as a sacrifice without the bet mikdash so to say that this piece of meat is for p and not for y this is p designates it as aan p which number one is not allowed to make anything into a Corban because we don't have bet mikdash number two if you eat it you're now eating a quban which is forbidden altogether you're making multiple sins one of which is K one of which is K like violating Shabbat like driving on Shabbat so if you have the custom of uh eating a big piece of meat a lamb shank or whatever you want to eat on P you have to eat it for what you can't hold yourself do not call it call it just simply don't say anything ideally you shouldn't eat it on the eve of p and really eat it the next day warns against people that eat it that night that they could literally be making a eating that lamb shank on the eve of p is not a good custom it's not a custom that's based on T it's against the tah and it could lead to violating shabat eating on eating on uh you know being with a is a problem so this custom that I've seen with my own eyes is a problem and a half and it's very common among people especially today I'm not really sure where this came from but surely comes from ignorance so the uh the brings it out it says that it's forbidden to declare whether about a live animal a slaughtered animal or even a piece of meat that this is for this meat is for PES since it might give the impression that one has a Corban a consecrated the animal while it's still alive to be used as a Corban p and one is now eating the which is eating something that's holy outside of the mikash and prohibits Anyan to be offered to hem outside of the BET mikdash and it prohibits the consumption of any Corban outside of the BET mikdash and if someone would partake in such aan he would be liable to receive a severe punishment of K and in order to avoid giving the impression that a person should say this meat is for yum not p and likewise he should not instruct his family to roast the shank bone but rather uh for you should not you should not uh declare the family to roast the shank for PES but rather do it for yum but if if you're dealing with a chicken then the chicken is not a problem you still should not say the chicken is for p but your uh chicken is less problematic as far as other things because chickens are never used as a sacrifice uh next in regards to the fast of the for first born uh this is this the source for this fast isi uh that it's forbidden to fast during the month of Nissan except for the firstborn fast on the day before PES and uh the interesting thing is is I mean this is a very lenient fast if you um are first born if you listen to a uh which is a celebratory uh event that uh we have every year we have uh each year completes several M and we uh uh video it sometimes also others in our organization complete a and if you listen to it and then after listen to it you take part in a meal where you eat some type of MOT and fruit uh during that uh time then you are allowed to uh not you know you break your fast with that but the point being is is that the um if you are first born you're supposed to fast you're supposed to fast uh so you start your fast during the day when you wake up until either the holiday starts or until you are uh you know you're part of a festive meal festive meal such as a meal from a Mitzvah that's a real Mitzvah that's really his day that he's actually B Mitzvah and not just delayed it to that day or AIT or a and some say even uh you know it's also good uh but if you're going to rely on somebody else's you have to attend the event uh and eat at the event meaning break your fast at the Sho or wherever it is that they doing the uh you break your fast there and then you go home and you can eat other food too but you can't go there and only eat at home because it has you have to your meal has to be part of that SU okay it has to be part of that uh now if you don't have a place to go for whatever reason or another either because you're a woman and you're cooking and you're preparing for the day and you can't go to Sho uh or because you don't have uh somebody doing it in your community we're going to have a maybe a few uh shown live uh that uh that that THS that well technically in in America it'll be Thursday night and then Friday morning uh in in US time so it'll be both applicable to both uh Israel time and US time uh that uh people can watch if they don't have any other option and watch and then after the you um eat something at obviously at your house and uh that then you could uh continue eating for the rest of the day now why do we even do this uh fast why do the firstborns fast the uh the couple of reasons that brought uh one is to remember the Miracles that Hashem performed for all of the firstborn Jews uh that uh he didn't kill them in Egypt with the firstborn Egyptians now greenworld rauda greenw world says in says that really it's that uh it's not that he didn't kill them but rather that they all did chuva why do they all do Chu all the firstborns do chuva on this day because when mosenu told them that Hashem is going to kill all of the firstborns in Egypt they understood that that's including also am because they figured that they're you know some of them were Idol worshippers and they have bad Deeds themselves so surely they're firstborn surely they're going to die with the Egyptians so during that entire day that they were supposed to uh all the firstborn Egyptians are were dying uh they were all praying all day and doing Chua so as a celebration of the elevation of all of their because of their chuva we're celebrating today by elevating our if we're first born uh by also fasting just like they fasted and elevated their the first borns today as opposed to uh fast and Elevate their n unless like I said they are part of a something else uh that elevates the without fasting which is uh the and so on uh if a person is sick uh even if they're firstborn they do not need to fast it's a very lenient fast it's still recommended that they listen to a uh if you are uh nursing uh then surely do not fast if you gave birth uh within the last 24 months you don't need to fast uh even if you're not nursing uh for this particular fast still again everybody should listen to it's so easy to get one today especially when you have the online ability when it's live though not when it's recorded but nonetheless it's a uh an important uh uh custom that has legs and also for those rabbis that are doing Su and many other had the custom of doing the with a teachings of M strong M that's short and to the point meaning pick a track in to do Theon that has some type of a at the end that is going to teach a lot of M to inspire other people to learn T get closer to hm and do CH in a you know in a uh uh and fewer words than a full lecture for an hour but short simple but very strong it's a specific a time to teach and entice people to learn at the this is the responsibility of whoever is doing also if you are at a level of learning Z if you finish one of the of the that's also considered a that you can use to uh not have to fast uh let's see so that's the uh that yeah we're already at three hours we 3 hours uh I think we did everything yeah we did everything until the SED we did everything and even some parts of the SED we did tonight I think we did some parts of the S tonight in regards to the matah we did and also in regards to talking about the there's still some other details we need to go over regarding the K cups and so on which we'll go over later on uh but you have between this Sho and the other P Sho we did last year you pretty much have everything you need to know there are going to be a few other things perhaps we'll add before the holiday whether it's going to be tomorrow or next week I'm not sure yet but most likely tomorrow uh but either way you have between the two sh go over everything we discussed tonight uh write down notes what's applicable to you of course if you have yuch one of the other great wrote in regards to the you should have already been learning it but if you are tight for time hard to uh for you to study and the only way you could learn is through the we have the Merit to learn with you but again you need to know that there's a lot more a lot more that we didn't discuss because obviously you're talking about you know six 700 Pages uh we went over briefly uh 300 Okay so just you have a basic understanding uh there's a lot more material than what I covered I'm just covering a few things titbits that I uh uh didn't cover in previous years I think so and there's but there's still a whole lot more so again this sh the other P Shield that's going to be recommended on this video uh when it's uh online tomorrow or you can just go on it on my uh uh site now that's called PES uh review those things know what you're doing before you get to P don't wait till the last minute because again P when you look at they're the most extensive in all of the biggest section of is p uh the the the amount of information that's involved is is a big big deal so you don't want to arrive at PES completely ignoramus and taking on a custom like we learned tonight that's that's forbidden sin and it's a custom so remember not all Customs are necessarily uh kosher and not all uh uh things that are Kosher are always allowed because like we learned there's kumin it's a very common ingredient in food and it's not even allowed for p but you'll find certain organization put k p on it there's not that many things like that out there that are can get a k p but are forbidden but the point being is is that you have to know these things there's no way for you to know them without learning them without learning them in the books okay thank you very much for learning with me with a fantastic [Music] and the is Among Us of course everyone understands the dire situation in the world but from our perspective the most uh tragic situation right now is that we have tens and tens of millions of dollars going to foreign countries to help uh some people that may or may not be uh uh our friends and our brothers may or may not be Jewish while our own brothers that are you know verified our brothers in our backyard in in in Isel in the FR communities in B in telion in y in Nat and and and literally every part of er isra are struggling uh to Meek en meet with the skyrocketing inflation in is uh with the uh abuse by the government and uh more than anything else by the lack of concern of uh some of the uh donors that are out there where a lot of money is going to help Ukraine and help uh a lot of other causes while the uh world of tah and the world of uh poverty continue to get worse so we had to take uh desperate measures in these desperate times and uh anyone that saw my sh saw that we uh we did it uh just in the last 24 hours we uh you know we don't have millions of dollars we had a few hundred, on the account and we simply took almost all of it and $250,000 uh we sent it to Rami Levy uh supermarkets to buy the gift cards uh this is the contract with Ramy Levy this is the uh wire transfer we have to do two wires to save some money from the banks but uh the point is is that uh this is enough to uh feed uh I don't know probably uh 8,000 people 10,000 people give or take uh and uh we Haven we haven't started a campaign we haven't raised a single dollar we don't even know if anybody's going to help all we know is that our brothers don't have money to eat matah to buy matah uh to to to to buy the the basic needs for PES um and some of them work some of them work and learn uh literally the struggling is coming from everywhere so we figured that in order to show Hashem that we love him and uh you know that to show him that we love his children too we have to do something that uh was necessary as as part of our love of asem as part of our love of his people if you want to be partners with us you're more than welcome to the campaign is on bh.org as I said I already sent the money uh if you want to be part of it you're more than welcome to if we get more than what we uh already uh uh sent surely we'll send that too uh if we don't get anything then at least we know that uh close to 10,000 Jews are going to be able to eat either way you never lose out by doing a Mitzvah and at the very least uh we're able to have the Merit to do so uh we'd love to see you as our partners as some of you have in the past and will continue to help is both spiritually and physically in any way that we can amen [Music] amen for for for in [Music]