Release from Bondage and the Decimation of Egypt by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz Parshat Bo

[Music] everybody for the stove and I hope the month should be a good good month month to be shot the months of fertility the beginning of a spring as it were and BS or such a man should also be the sorts of Google at the park yes of course we're reading the parties of ETS with Ryan and the bottommost are divided in a fairly asymmetrical pattern seven of the Makos occurred in last week's parsha and the last three that finally break para that's the Arve the locus the oceans the darkness and the plague of the firstborn they occur in precious Bo and thus far I'm like to say there's even a little remnants to that because the word bow el perro go to Paro the c'mon tree of bow is based out of three is it to say there are to me more Makos that that Trump now obviously a Shen did not need ten Makos to take the Jews out of a shrine he could have done it there right away without any Makos at all moreover it's very fact that a sham hardens pyro starts in the last five indicates that the purpose of the matos is not to force the Jews a for spyro to release the Jews that makers then it would make no sense that a Shem is making pyro impervious to the pressure but rather the MCOs are there are designed to demonstrate Hashem mastery over the universe and over human beings as if to make a mockery of pyro and to basically say you are nothing more than a puppet at the end of a string and don't think that you have the power to do anything at all again in some ways I want to be too overtly political but again I think I've mentioned a few times the idea of someone like Donald Trump being president of the United States and yet doing so many good things for Israel really is a demonstration of that God is really in control of this process because from a human perspective the process makes no sense at all even President Trump did not believe for a moment that he was going to win the election and he was Dennis that he was in it to improve his brand and make money from the defeat and then he got hit with a quite quite a big surprise as all of us all of us did and yet we see how I shed uses it for his purposes and that's really what the mattress themselves demonstrated now the haftorah of last week and October of this week essentially deal with the same theme except for the fact that last week's of Torah is from us Cal and this week's of Torah is from your me Yahoo and of course remember you'll remember that yes SQL and your Miho are contemporaries they lived during the same to Kufa and this is the to Kufa immediately preceding an immediately subsequent to the Corbin bias reach on the differences your mio is the Navi lives in Eretz Israel at the time of the Corbin Beit HaMikdash itself the festival was exiled to bevelle eleven years earlier remember in the book of Moluccan we read that eleven years before the Corbin there was an exile of what is called the kibosh and the mascara which literally means the carpenters and the locksmiths those people that were table of making weapons but because I understand that to mean that tell me they come him the great Torah scholars mortified for example was exiled to Bevelle eleven years early that's called the Gullah of King Jehoiakim that's why it says McGillis oestereich airhead hua Musial I am that mortified was exiled from Vishal 9 p.m. ago launched a table saw ami afonya MELAS you Buddha Mordecai was only the x-value cusco was my exile now both your mia when you fescue have a prophecy that the great powerful Egyptian Empire of their time is going to fall and be defeated by Nebuchadnezzar and you testicle talks about it your meal talked about the downfall the breaking of the great powerful Egyptian Empire now in some ways the connection to the parsha is very obvious right the party oats of the ten marcos and particularly this Bartra purchase bow talks about the final breaking of the power of egypt and that's going to happen again because the Egyptian Empire eventually became very powerful and in fact the Jewish people turned to it as at times when they wanted to get rid of Babylonia they went you know to the other direction etc and God is saying that mitzrayim is like a broken Reed you lean on it for support and all it does is give you splinters in your arm and that is all of the reliance on with Ryan turned out to be false and worthless now one chronological point because I do want to move into the parsha one chronological point that that it's interesting here is that the new vm give us you know after the Navara of the fall of myths ryan the narrative then goes on and actually describes the blue cut nets are conquering Egypt because these were the two rivals for a world empire that that's a time in the world and it mentions that this occurred in the 27th year of Nebuchadnezzar's reigned the 27th year of the crosnes reign and it's important to know that that basin mikdash was destroyed in the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar's rains so what that means to say is the destruction of myths ryan in year 27 was not much of a comfort to the jewish people because now the basin McNish was destroyed eight years earlier there in the middle of the goblets right this is before Cyrus before any Redemption there was no redemption on the horizon and yet the nabi says the day that egypt falls that's me i'm karin write this with the phrase we haven't dominating much mere Karen God causes the growth of the sprouting of the horn of salvation that somehow the fall of Egypt is linked to the redemption of the Jewish people and it's a very very strange correlation because it is true that at the time of the Exodus the fall of Egypt was linked with the redemption of the Jewish people but the fall of Egypt in the hands of the Brooklyn Nets are seems to have no particular redemptive aspect to us weird whelming in our gullet so the proportion in both your testicle and your mio have a lot of difficulty trying to make sense of in what way is the fall of Egypt redemptive Rashi offers an interesting explanation because the putco Simon Says after Egypt falls the land shall be desolate for forty years and then the Egyptians shall return but they will be a Maharashtra fala they will be a low and insignificant country so Raschi wants to suggest the following when it mentions there's a karen yeshua it is not referring to the year 27 when miss Ryan Falls it refers to 40 years later and Rashi makes a whole cache fun that that was towards the end of the reign of belt shot sir so here I you have to know a little bit of the book of the meal that is the bootcut nets are arranged for 45 years he was succeeded by his son a veal maroudo who reigned for 23 years and then his grandson bell shots are became King both shots - by the way was the father of Ashley of port important Fame or porn infamy and Bell shots are in the third year of his reign wanted to celebrate the vanquishing of the Jewish people and the final destruction of the temple because he had calculated 70 years had already passed since the korban and there was no redemption so he figured God had forsaken the Jewish people so what did both shots are - he took out all of the utensils of the base of maintenance and he made a great party a great celebration and what happened at that great celebration one of the most dramatic scenes in tonight a phrase that has entered the English language the handwriting on the wall big hands comes and it's ribes words on the wall that nobody reads and Daniel is able to decipher them because they are me the Hebrew script they can't talk about sure if they the script that's in the Torah script and it says in Aramaic not in Hebrew man a man a - cow Moo parson man a man a your deeds have been counted and recounted - cow they have been weighed and found wanting who farce in our scene is a bit of a pun parson you mean that the Persia will take over or person means your empire shall be broken so it's into both meanings are correct and that night indeed what happened was in a virtual bloodless school except for both shots or himself Bell shot sir was killed by his own servants and Darius the first of my daddy Persia my Paris my dad took over so what she says it's following Rashi says there's a lot of background you need to know Rashi says the reference that the downfall of mitzrayim shall be it's my shot Karen does not refer to the downfall refers to the 40 years after the downfall and that is around the time when Bell shots are died because remember that when Bell shot when the Babylonian Empire fell to the Persian Empire that is the beginning of schewe because it was Cyrus Kurush the king of Persia who allowed the Jews to go back and build the Bey thermic - although it was not built for a number of years afterwards so that's how Rafi understands the Matt's Mia care in Yeshua's the idea of because it corresponds to the fall of Belshazzar and the anointing of cyrus of courland sees arias only ruled for one year but their youngest eye region was only very very short and then chorus was right afterwards and Koresh made that great Proclamation you know that when Harry Truman recognized the State of Israel 1948 okay you know it's come to light the Truman had some of the anti-semitism that was typical of the time but even happens you know I don't really consider over that a Semite his closest friend was a Jewish guy his business partner and he Jacobson was a Jewish guy but Truman was told by a lot of rabbis that you are the Cyrus of our generation because you are the non-jewish emissary of God that has been chosen to invite the Jews to come back to the land I'm not sure why that was more than maybe Lord Walford but whatever it was so Truman who was a student of the Bible very much enjoying being Cyrus so for the rest of his life Oh whenever he was honored at a Jewish banquets which he often was so when they would talk about his role and recognize the whole native Israel if they didn't mention Cyrus he would pull up the jacket of the emcee say you forgot Cyrus I'm Cyrus coalition and the like okay okay so that's so rational but the alternative to learning is this the alternative was to learning advance that redemptive experiences take time in other words what God is teaching us is something about how we view the Messianic process in our own time and that is on one hand the fall of mature I am seemed to have no benefit to the Jewish people what's the this was after the Corbin basa make - were in the middle of garlis so I happened to read by himself well maybe I get some joy defer and get some pleasure out of that but nevertheless that has no impact on my situation but the Navi by linking the fall of miss Ryan to a cola that didn't take place until many many years later he's telling us that many actions and many events in the world which seemed to have no causal link to ultimate redemption are really part of a much longer process you know let's consider but you have the whole issue of Zionism you know one of the controversial issues even assert certainly in the Iranian world but even in the dirty Leone world is whether we regard her come out Tom Adina as a sculpted eagle right so halloumi would certainly regard most of us certainly regard the state of is in very positive ways we're very grateful for it we celebrate your monster modes in one way or the other but as how to the Google is a loaded term that's countered the Google is a term that says this is part of the Messianic process and that even has political repercussions because if you look at it as halted the gula you can't really consider territorial concessions or land for peace or any of those deals because you're contradicting a messianic process as opposed to a pragmatic view when you could look at it but doesn't work anyway but you can at least look at it in theory as part of a political bargaining process once you bring out the assault of the Guru la carte you cannot deal with that at all you just have to say this is it and we're not going to give up a single inch for anything now indeed feel a little Omar Medina the word that's counted the goal is Matthew because that's an Aramaic term but it uses a term that's roughly equivalent and that is race it's me chocolate I know it is the beginning of the flowering of our Redemption now do you know I don't know how it is in there as well but in truth florets there are but they can the sea oats that say the prayer of love Shalom I'm edema but they do not say the three words race shits me you Latino so they certainly support the State of Israel and they pray for its welfare but they don't want to take a position and is it part of the redemptive process or not now part of the arguments are well listen I thought the redemptive process is supposed to you know uh sure in peace and tranquility and the founding of the state resulted in a woman wars and the wars continue to this day either open wars or terrorists surreptitious Wars and the like how could that be part of the Gullah and other arguments are how can it be part of the Kahoolawe since so many of the Zionist leaders were not only non religious but to some degree even you know anti religious and the old famous arguments to how come in the Declaration of Independence of the state they have they use phrase surah al instead of directly using God when in the US Declaration of Independence you know basically says endowed by our Creator so people make that argument but dress cook well of course your cook was not talking about the State of Israel but real cook was he died before there was a state but roof cook was talking about the return of Jews to the land and the building of the land by the hands of people who were not necessarily faithful to Torah he basically said that the redemptive process can involve all sorts of different types of people because that is part of how we bring them back meaning some people come to the land because of their connection to God and some will come to God because of their connection to the land so even if somebody comes to Eretz Israel and in their conscious mind it's because of socialism coming Zionism whatever it is and they want nothing to do with God that's what they think in reality they're in a shaman wants to be connected to the holiness of the lands and their mind will come up with conscious rationalizations why that is so and therefore of kook considered anyone that was involved with minyan harlots on any level of kook considered that to be holy sacred work even if the very person who was doing that work did not define itself himself or herself in that category now as everyone knows Jeff Cook was and still is roundly criticized although I saw very very CUTE that heard a very cute story you know we lost a great gun or a very late Steinman the other weekend or Steinman of course came from a stonking from very different world than rough cookin and there are very different touch knuckles in some ways but the common denominator between them was a great great love of Jews and a great desire to minimize the hatred and the polarization and the synastry know so diamond as a result had had some enemies within the within the very religious world they didn't like the fact that he was too tolerant of people who were not so righteous so there was a graffiti in may assurance that said Steinman equals cook as if to say that was the ultimate that was the worst thing you could say about somebody diamond equal sign cook so they say well boy you sure this was this was around 10 years ago rebel yeah if he was still alive walked by and all the action didn't pay attention to wall signs you know he he got attacked myself sometimes and Russia shook his head and he says you know if Steinman is a great man but he his greatest cook sir surely I thought it was a compliment you got he thought it was an excessively good cut a great compliments in fact it was intended as a great sign of battalion now the reason why I am the dressing is I just want to point out there for that rough cook says the process of Gokula is not necessarily an instantaneous miraculous smooth process it involves many different types of people some of which really don't even share a commitment to tour at least and on one level and it involves the rewards and setbacks and defeats and you know you make one step formula two steps or one step back and sometimes one step forward and two steps back but that's not a contradiction to redemption and thus even though that's why the Navi is highlighting the downfall of Egypt that seemed to have nothing to do with your redemption is in fact hashim's first message to you that your redemption will be coming and it didn't come to many many years that was part of it so there is really an eternal message in the idea that the downfall of with trying occurred in the middle not even in the middle towards the beginning of our dark colors of 70 years so it was an event that seemingly gave no particular hope to i'm Israel and yet the Nervii says that's the first event of your Redemption so I think that's very very relevant on the whole issue of vision by the way I can't say I'm not totally sure of this but I believe that the see lavish Loma Medina which was commissioned commissioned by reference the first rod for a sea of the Medina was actually authored by shy ignore so AG now and of course eventually won the Nobel Prize so I've done certainly was a literary man and I would suggest maybe it's a little finish that the fact that octagon used the phrase race Sumeet at Google attainable instead of saying race shit's goal attainable is after all I sculpted to goal of the most literal translation would have been to feel at aegyo Allah or race huh : why did he stick in that extra word semi so I've known you know as they say with a writer of subtlety and I would suggest that he was comparing it to the cultivation of a plant now if you're a gardener you plant something so potentially it can flower and flourish into a wonderful thing but it's not automatic it all depends on the nutrients the sunlight the work the weeding so Eric Wendy notch Israel Eretz Israel is not an automatic heart Allah which creates a process that can't stop it is a potential like it's me Han and if we don't respond to it in a proper wedding it can turn into a dead end so it's been a bit of a sobering thought meaning people tend to be binary yes I come on somebody nah I've salted the gulag or is it simply an accommodation that God gave us or the chewy character which even the opposite feels but the short answer is it's not a yes or no meaning to say it is potentially in our counter Takuma depending on how we respond with our cheese rail with with connecting to each other otherwise it just turns into a dead end you know it may not have may not go anywhere and in fact part of what happens with cushy Qatif and all of that is Hashem is showing us again which had never never happen but Shem is showing us that the concept that arid Israel will always well is will always belong to the Jewish people that's not in dispute but the idea that we are guaranteed a state even before Messiah comes once we're here we're guaranteeing is not necessarily true Machamp shows us things can be taken away unless they're appreciated unless there are unless they are nurtured and a Shem is showing this brush I mean relatively little increments but you know big things you know big things unfortunately could happen in a negative way as well as a positive way right so I think that that is kind of the primary lesson of the October that that we get here both from you test you and you me oh and as they say the two halves ogress do overlap I see here and the homogeneous Michaelmas doesn't have the same with me afterwards but I whenever I take this commission I see it that the timonium have another prophecy about the downfall of mitzrayim from be a Shia so it turns out that all of the three big naveen have common prophecies about the downfall of its Ryan and of course that fits very well the Parsee oath of era and and and bow and once again the primary sin that is identified is arrogance and hubris the pyro declaring the pyro of the commission the pyro of later types declaring that he is the god of the Nile and Tasha basically shows that you are not and you can be destroyed in an instance now the basic idea of that Torah therefore is really an extension of the well-known thought that we see in hamish gracious that Massa others similar bunny that would happen to our forefathers is a sign of what will happen to us right that's why we say what happens to when Avram had great wealth when he left with Ryan parallels that we left miss Ryan with great wealth when you thought digs wells and the wells are filled up famous Rambam so you get stuck dug to Wells and they were filled up and then he dug a third well and that lasted and the Rambam connects it because he says the first well was called a sec a sec is quarrelsome Ness and that's refers to rejecting God quarreling with God and that refers to the destruction of the first base on McDuff which is primarily for the sin of idolatry and the second well that was filled up was called Sigma which is hatred and that corresponds to the second mixer that was destroyed because of sin Athena and the third well was called critical votes that same as the city expansiveness and that was not filled up and that's a that is based on the idea that the third base humming touch is never gonna be destroyed so that's masa about Simon Lebon him but the same way we say it from the Commish we also see it in this way that the exceeds mitzrayim and the downfall of miss Ryan that the Jews experienced at the time of ETS Mizrahim will be replicated in later in later generations so seem in this way I want to then connect this to the parsha maybe a bit of a tenuous connection that the masa of a Simon Lebon and we see generally in the whole phenomenon of ETS miss Ryman this point they've already made more than once but we'll have some new applications and that is the famous statements in the Agora which is taken from the Mishnah in our website that's high of Adam Lee Rises on smoke each person must regard himself King Liu Liu Yan sermon miss Ryan as if they were taken out of with Ryan meaning it's not enough to remember what a sham did for our ancestors I am how logically obligated Pesa I am how logically obligated to personally feel that Shem has taken me out of Egypt because that's what the Plus success before is that because of what a sham did I saw a sham Lee because of what God did for me they'd say see mitzrayim when I was taken out of Mitzrayim and therefore it is not just commemoration it is actually experiencing the Exodus and the question becomes what does that mean right I was not there what does it mean I am obligated to feel as if I was taken out of it's right so I mentioned again I'm just gonna quickly review it then then give me something new that there are two explanations one is from the Rambam and one is through the ballot Anya the Rambam says it is a form of use of imagination meaning the Rambam says we have to be grateful that God gave us forgave our forefathers freedom otherwise we wouldn't be here today but the point is this is so distant it happened so long ago then it's very difficult for me to feel grateful to God for what God did 3,000 years ago so how do I overcome that different that that problem so the ratham says you do so by make-belief meaning to say imagine what it is like but what it would be like to be a slave imagine the beatings imagine the torture imagined the babies being thrown into the Nile imagine the lack of dignity the lack of privacy the living conditions and then look at what a Shem has given you and then you feel grateful so according to the Rambam it doesn't mean I was in Mitzrayim I wasn't but I gotta make believe I got it's like method acting right with the Lee Strasberg method put yourself in this situation yeah I know that sounds trivial the truth of matters Orchestra levenshtein the great great that much tearful part of it once said that one of the requirements for being a good bouncer one who can give toka is you have to have a powerful imagination you have to feel these stories you have to feel creates the opposite you have to feel yet see estimates right so a chef gave us imagination so we can vicariously experience things that we did not directly experience so this is what the Rambam says but the bhava Tania offers an alternative explanation in which she says mitzrayim has an alternative meaning with Riya means Egypt but Mitzrayim also means limitations constrictions blockages as we find in Darwin MLS min huh mates are karate kata I call out to God from the narrow confining elements and he says to following every single person no matter how free you think you are every single person has a miss Ryan the miss Ryan is within my mitzrayim something that will ops me from realizing my potential and from connecting to us yet it may be my arrogance my divert it may be my laziness maybe my hedonism my materialism it may be my depression and lack of self esteem there may be a whole bunch of things it may be my timidity and it may be my pushiness whatever it is these are attributes that are blocking me they're paralyzing me they're stopping me from moving forward and achieving my spiritual goals in life like not only stop you from all goals might be enough but we're talking about Brittany is here now therefore every single person has a mitzrayim and every single person needs a it see us and when I shan't took the Jews out of slavery Hashem and put a co-op into the world that enables every single person to his Jean to latch on to the co-op of ETS with Ryan and achieve liberation of the mitzrayim that enslaves us you know in the 60s and 70s there were a lot of they probably still do it there were a lot of well trained if a goddess being put out but you know mainly not an Orthodox people the civil rights are guarded are the gay rights I got you know whatever we all sorts of Agatha's that used the Exodus story to push whatever agenda they wanted to push now on one hands obviously you're tampering with the halacha you're not following what we're supposed to talk about well Tessa so you know it's wrong on the other hand it is not a totally frivolous enterprise because the truth of the matter is UCS matram is both an event and a pivotal event a critical event in the formation of ami Israel for which every parent must lovingly tell their child every single year and that is the history of our people and God's providence over our people but there's also a private idiosyncratic aspect that is I have my slavery and yet see us Miriam is my liberator as well and the ballot Anya says the statement each person must regard themselves as if they were taken out of Miss ryeom should not be translated each person should regard themselves as if they left Egypt because that's not a true statement but that each person can leave that which blocks them that which constricts them TT Melek says I mean her mates are karate club I call out to God from the narrow confining places mates are same word as mitzrayim and this is a great insight we know that it's sacred time generally sacred time is not commemorative it is reinstating to say there are certain spiritual powers that come into the world at certain times and those very powers come back again you're not just commemorating something every Shavuot there is a martim Torah but we can't fully explain this every Sukkot there is the unknown a occult every Pesa there is he and see azmuth right but when we read these party of the chinois and others so i'm telling us we do experience even though it's not a Sofia we do experience CFCs mitzrayim and microcosm because these are the part feels of obviousness right so seen in this way I want to share a thought with you that the purchase bow of course in addition to narrative is a very very important a logic partial right though there are many many mitzvahs in purchase both at are connected to UCS with Trillium very directly NASA come out some are on and then indirectly such as wearing tefillin which is sorts of Esparza and redeeming the firstborn opinion I've been and the life so this is very logically very very significant parsha and we know that in particular the three Commandments that the Jews were given can in connection with the Pesach Seder was eating the carbon peso no chef thing and eating the carbon Pesa eating matzah and eating more water and we read in the Haggadah and this is of course taken from the Mishnah so really it's a mission Rabban Gamliel Ohio man from the meal used to say call me Shelly I'm Irish like to learn a little bit better anybody that doesn't explain three things during Tessa during the Seder low yachts are you they progressed up has not fulfilled his mitzvot and those three things are the carbon Pesa the matzah and the Maurer now let's focus on this for a moment anyone that doesn't explain these three things does not fulfill their mitzvot what Mitzvah do they not fulfill right so so all the reciting them say they do fulfill matzah in other words you fulfill the Mitzvah of matzah by eating it even without explaining it so you do fulfill pesum onsen modern you don't fulfill the Mitzvah of Haggadah how God that is a total requirement and not the Missa feliss which is not but but the Torah says you got a television truck so that has to include pesum on certain order now that's why by the way it's an interesting thing you know remembering a meal statement dispositions right before the second cup and right before people wash so the meal is coming up soon so what often happens is the women or the men are better whoever's getting the food I don't want to say it has to be the but whoever is going into the kitchen will often go into the kitchen precisely when the Reverend Graham leo paragraph is being read and the problem is if they skip that paragraph they are not the out say the Mitzvah I got it that's the most important paragraph that must be recited in the Haggadah so if a woman or a man whoever is going to get up and prepare the food during that juncture they have to be very sure that they either read it before they get up they go ahead or at least they come back and they read it before washing before the second cup and the like and because of this - because the issue is not just recitation but it's understanding so one must read it in whatever language they understand it so if one doesn't know Hebrew and one is an English reader then it actually should be read in English because that is the in other words if you only had time to recite only one paragraph in the Haggadah that would be the paragraph you would have to have your recital but the question is why is that so significant why is it so important to discuss passage of matzah more work so here the idea I want to share with you is that if you understand that you'd see at Smith's ryeom is a double process it is not only the historical event of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt but the capacity that Hashem gives me to be liberated for my own with Ryan this would suggest specimens Aymara itself have double meanings they are both connected to the Exodus and they are connected to the exodus of my own that's right how is that so so let me go let me go and reverse order out I'll explain why let me start with the borrower first the mitzvah of Mara is that we are obligated Pesach night to eat bitter herbs even though that doesn't have to be that bitter romaine lettuce is not particularly bitter but at least something that has a taste of bitterness in order to remember slavery and affliction so Marlo is a symbol of slavery affliction bitterness it is based of course on the fact that slavery itself was described as bitter by Amara rule yes I am so what would this mean regarding my own personal misery the lesson is a very important lesson the very first step to becoming liberated from that which enslaves you is to acknowledge your enslavement that if a person has something in their life they need to correct I have an anger problem I have a selfishness problem I have an ego problem be honest don't lie to yourself and Marva is a reminder that if I am enslaved to something I should remember and identity what it is because the first step to a slave gaining his freedom is for the slave to acknowledge that he's a slave because until the slave admits to himself that he's his life then he has no motivation to make any movements at all now I remember when I moved to Silver Spring Maryland and I was teaching in Baltimore so both Moore is north so those of you that know that part of the United States you have to go on a major highway 95 north but the problem is there's a turn-off to 95 south not careful if you let your mind wander you can find yourself going settled so one day I was not thinking and all of a sudden I noticed as I'm driving the Washington Monument to Jefferson mari on the Lincoln Memorial which you don't see on the way to Baltimore you only see it on the way to Virginia so I had this sinking feeling in my stomach hey I'm totally you know on the wrong road but I didn't I was resistant to admit it I didn't want to admit it because I really didn't know how to get back on 295 no I didn't know the road sentence so my mind started I can't even explain this logically yeah but my mind started coming up with exploration you know maybe you never know Nitin monument under way and ladies there yes you didn't notice it you know so maybe you're on the right Road and then I thought you know maybe if I just keep on going it'll correct itself well it does when you hit Florida you do a little u-turn but that would've been that would've been a long time but what was the point the point was I didn't want to acknowledge I was lost because somehow which would have been too complicated to fix it so what do I do I just keep on staying on the same road which is just getting me further and further and further from where I need to go but you know that's kind of a metaphor for life people just know it's like people often throw bad money after bad money right the concept is just keep on going but of course as Einstein famously said what insanity is doing the same thing over again and over again and expecting to get a different result you know that that's insanity and yet that's what we do so Morrow is the reminder that if you want to be liberated from your mitzrayim you got to be honest enough to admit to yourself that you haven't that's right because if you don't admit you sweep things under the rug eventually your rug gets eight feet eight feet high you know all of the stuff that you swept under the rug at some point you got a bite the bullet - that's a very hard thing they get very hard process but you gotta bite the bullet and acknowledge and ultimately that's very liberating acknowledging my servitudes is a very liberating event in a person's life but more worries not enough because what happens is the relationship of Marta matzah is similar to the relationship of psychoanalysis to behavioral therapy what do I mean by that there are people who go for therapy go for analysis and they understand every trauma every pressure every breaking point every single thing they've been subjected to in their entire life and they including birth dramas and pre-birth traumas and maybe preconception traumas you know everything that happens and they can do this for 50 years 60 years they can do it their whole life but at some point the person has to use this information as a catalyst for action and that's what matzah represents you know it's a well-known idea everyone has heard this that comments rep respond so comments represents arrogance and pride and matzah which is flats represents simplicity and modesty although I have to tell you what the co Sheila pace of roles that's some caterers makin but it's hard to tell the difference in these days but whatever it is in theory you know matzah is humility and car made his arrogance but the morale gives another point the morale gives a different point although it's not a contradiction the morale says car mates represents inertia why is that so because if water goes on to flower and you do nothing at all it will automatically become hummus you don't need yeast you don't need a starter if water remains an unbaked flour for 18 minutes or more it illogically is hummus the fermentation that occurred is sufficient to call its comments so chromates happens by itself once the water is there Mozza is the affirmative action that is needed to arrest the process and therefore the morale says comments represents the inertia of doing nothing matzah represents the imperative of seizing the moment and getting it done and my rival points out this is a very important point because insights mara represents the insight into my condition insight is a wonderful thing but if the insight doesn't lead to constructive action then it's just a matter of mental gymnastics it may give you a good feeling but it doesn't make you a better person it doesn't bring you closer to what channel you know inspiration comes and goes all of us have moments of spiritual inspiration different times maybe after Yom Kippur after Pesach later is maybe looking at our children or grandchildren there are moments of genuine beauty and feeling maybe walking in your shall I am looking at a sunset like many many things but if you don't concretize the inspiration in something good even if it's very small inspiration just passes now there was a famous academic Robert Hutchins became president at the University of Chicago at the age of 25 there were many graduate students who were older than him and somebody wants to comment that he wasn't taking care of himself physically so he said no bread dr. Hodgins don't you ever feel the urge to exercise and he said I surely do but I know if I lie down it'll pass in a few moments so I don't let it bother me you know you know it'll go away and in running and spirituality it's very much the same idea you got to concretize so Marlin is cognitive awareness honestly matzah is commitment to action even if it's smoked now you may ask me Akasha wait a second here so according to that that's symbolic commentary we are the eat more Lord before we eat matzah because the Margaret tells me what my problems are and the matzah reminds me of my power to change them in a good way and yet in the seder we first eat matzah then we eat more then we smacks at the end so here is the idea it is true that sequentially you got to know your problems before you can address them but psychologically dwelling on your problems first might be dangerous because you may get so depressed and so admired and that you may become paralyzed so essentially you need the awareness of their capacity to change which is matzah before you then dwell on your problem and after you dwell and your problem you then eat the matzah that says now I'm able to do it meaning you first have to have a commitment and an awareness of your capacity for positive growth before you identify the negatives that you need to work on because if one starts with the negatives that can often destroy them because in fact the whole process of true blood' works the same way you have to start chuva with an awareness of the fundamental goodness that you have as opposed to the fundamental evil no person has ever changed for the better until they recognize that they already have goodness within them because if somebody believes they are totally bad then where are they going to get the psychic strength and motivation to believe that change is even possible right so that's why in most sir--no true muster builds up a person it doesn't tell the person how lowly how lonely they are okay so that's Mara and that's not what is pestle so pestle of course represents many things peasant was the God of Egypt etc represents the destruction of avodah Zarah the commitment to God but one of the interesting huh buckles of the carbon passer is that the carbon vessel can only be brought in a group you cannot bring a carbon peso cologne even if you have a very big appetite and the lamb is a little tiny lamb AJ so you can bring a very young lamb for corporate that's on and you could finish the whole thing I can't do it Ange Oakton s epatha Ohio the carbon Pesa requires that I join with somebody else if it's my family it's with my family if it's not my family I join a family or I join other people who don't have a family and we create our family at least for that night why is that so important so creepy of us tells us a sailor Karev make for yourself a teacher who can naval soccer there and acquire by yourself a friend interesting washer by yourself why do I have to buy myself a friend am I supposed to pay for friendship the answer is young friendship has a cost but the cost is not money but the cost of getting yourself a friend is being willing to be a friend right I would like a friend that when I have problems when I have difficulties I want somebody to be there for me wonderful thing very important thing but there's a cost you have to be willing to be there for them you cannot expect unless you know your best friends are the toughest time for something but you cannot expect reasonably a person to be for you believe in effigy whenever they have a problem you don't have time for them so the Mishnah is very Madhu yuck Kinetico there you gotta buy a friend not with money but with the emotional investments of caring about another person now why is friendship so important so the Rambam gives three reasons why friendship is important and I'm gonna use modern terms for reason number one we will call utilitarian and that is a friend is like a life insurance policy sometimes I really need somebody I mean I lost my keys my car broke down in the middle of nowhere if I don't have a friend like my comma when I'm in trouble so therefore you need a friend like life insurance you hope you're not gonna need it doctor but it's good to have if if it's needed yeah for the ones whatever would be so so as a result a friend you got a friend it certainly be a sponsor there that can be a problem once again utilitarianism is I cultivate friends in case I really need them when it happens the second reason for friendship the Rambam says is social we are as Aristotle remark in the Rambam actually quotes Aristotle we are social beings by inclination we like to be able to interact with people again different levels there are introverts to directed words but even introverts right introverts don't like crowds but you know usually they still you know want to be connected to somebody that's kind of a human need to be connected on some on some level but the problem says those things are important but they are not the ultimate goal and purpose of friendships the ultimate goal and purpose of friendship is that we help each other become a better person and we would speeds it's what you would call spiritual fellowship or spiritual connection in which each person helps the other grow in their godliness and their holiness and their goodness now those types of friendships and of course I mean in the best type of marriage that's exactly what a marriage would be that's why marriage is called rare ma him beloved friends and that's an important thing to do I think friends isn't that demeaning it isn't marriage about romance and passion what is the constant why you call your friend yeses friend is a much higher an important term than you would assume because friends means I'm there to help the other become the best person they can become and they're there to help me become the best person that I can be now that type of friendship is sometimes a difficult and challenging friendship if I have a friend with to my justice no go out for a cup of coffee once now so if they do things aren't so great you know well I don't know I'm not necessarily gonna get gonna get involved but a friendship in which each one is committed to the other sometimes means we bring up difficult dishes and uncomfortable issues but of course we also have to be willing to have them brought up peaceably ourselves as well so how is that connected to pestle Matson more on so if Marla is the honesty to identify my own mitzrayim and matzah is the commitment to take action and not be a product of inertia pesos is a reminder that that journey cannot be taken alone we need to find people in our lives which will give us the strength and the operation that when we falter and when we are weak we have someone that will help us get back on our feet and when they falter and they are weak we will try to be the person that helps them get back on their feet slow marbella statements so via machine I am in no effort in coelus to are better than one fourth one falls who will pick him up but when you have two people if one Falls the other is there and this applies in this highest sense in marriage but it's not only in marriage meaning a person might say well I'm single I don't have a shoot you know where does that leave me okay you know again there's a chef everybody should get married in a good way but even before marriage you find in your life people that you help you can help and you can inspire and people that help and inspire you and in that way you are able to have pcs with Ryan because you can't we cannot really do it alone we need these supports of others and we need to be supporters of others so although everybody's mitzrayim is unique in a sense in a sense nyancy s with Ryan is a solitary journey because the mature I am that I'm grappling with is not the same with Ryan that somebody else is grappling with so everybody is going through their own journey but we go through our own separate journeys together and that's the only way we'll be able to so in a sense they're for my perhaps tenuous linkage to doctora is that just as the haftorah reminds us that the exodus of Egypt will reverberate in later times with the downfall of with ryeom under the principle masa of Oh Simon Lebon him so - with respect to our personal Exodus the exodus of Egypt reverberates and repeats itself over and over and over again in terms of the CS Messiah from our own limitations so Beatrice oh sure my hope but that's what will give us the insight to identify our myths ryeom's the KOA to do something about it which is the matzah and to find the people in life that we can take that journey journey winsome thank you [Music]