Shabbat Hagadol 5785 Once in Twenty Years! Practical Timely Thoughts on A Rare Shabbat Erev Pesach

Heat. Heat. a once in 20 year experience. Welcome everybody to our Shabbas Dasha around the world. This Shabbat the rabbis will give their Shabbat dashas. It's one of the two times a year that customary throughout Kla Israel. No matter what circumstances and what type of congregation it was, people would gather to learn with their rabbi. One being of course Shabashua the week before uh the weekend before Kipper and one before and the week before the seder. But because the seder is mishabas this year meaning is falling on shabas. So it's backed up until this shabas throughout the world uh because it's too late to share the pes and thoughts of pes and shas about give you the laws about what to do. So what I want to do is just point out um several three different things that are really really needed for this pes above all others. So you could say that the is called. Why is this PES different than all other PES? It's not going to happen again. Breathe a sigh of relief for 20 years. Now, what's interesting about this is that the last time that happened where there was a full 20-year break um was in a very critical time period in Israeli history, in world history for the Jewish people, 1954 to 1974. We know what happened in those 20 years. You had three major major wars of expansion, you know, contraction and expansion of Eric Israel. Eric Israel was front and center in those 20 years. And the question was who will who will will will Israel be able to expand themselves on their on their land, defend themselves and survive basically. So who knows what these next 20 years are going to bring. First I want to start with the braha. The braha to you is and for all those in need of so many Yeshua. And our heart goes out to the entire Brooklyn Jewish community and the terrible terrible tragedy that took place this week where where a a young mother on her way to shul with children. It's it's not something fathomable that a human mind can grasp. how they were killed uh in a tragic car accident and a negligent driver with a terrible uh driving history which is I call this a lack of law enforcement know are that you have to enforce denim and when there's dangers to a community Jew or non-Jew these people should not be allowed to uh operate freely we have adnauseium promoted individual rights over the rule of law and over the welfare of society. This is a major correction if anything at all underscores this horrible avla that's gone on in our in our time and particularly I would say in the last decade or two decades the failure of law rule of law is one of the essential seven mitzvah of Noah of Noahides meaning for all humankind and here it failed and the cost was unfathomable. This woman had whoever was the driver, Nebach, she had a record that indicated that she was a lifethreatening hazard on the road many many many times over and she she had $10,000 worth of fines against her driving and no one took away her license. And what that means is that there was a failure to um provide protection and uh and there were there were innocent victims. And this has been the story of Kalisrael in this in this uh remarkable remarkable last couple of years and throughout our history really. Pes is called Le Shimoreim, a night of watching. And we therefore send out our consolations to the community where they suffered this terrible tragedy in Ocean Parkway and uh not far from the Tarvadas where I learned and got smika from my holy rabbi of a palaka who was an ish and a man of law of respect and utter dignity. for human life and this was a breach of the dignity of life due to law enforcement. Hashem and may that give strength to everybody in the world not only for the Jewish people but for everybody to clamp down on the various violations of law and terror. Terror has run a muk in our time and it has gone largely unchecked. Now, thank God we have a president in the United States who's giving strength really almost forcing the hand of the prime minister of Israel to demand an end to the terror terror terrorization of uh terrorizing of the population of Israel at the hands of our vicious and uh uh you know uh enemies will stop nothing at death you know they'll go till the death and that's what we're up against very very strange very unusual and we need protection. So this pes should be leurim le shimuram the last time it was 20-year gap between erra of shabas pes to ar shabas pes three Israeli wars 56 673 those were times of great divine intervention and we needed great protection and we saw great yeshuos mitem this period should also do it so we have to grab this opportunity of this unique pesak to give us the I would call it the perspective the energy the message that's going to gird our loins for the year ahead and for the years ahead and who knows where we will be. So the brah I want to give to everybody is that we should all be alive and well in 20 years. How about that? All your children all your grandchildren if you're up to 100 years old I give you a braha that you will be at the next seder that falls out on m shabas where we're going to do the strange thing of yak nahaz. We're going to make Abdullah in the in the first cup. It's strange. Kdesh abdullah and all right. Everybody should be there. I don't care if you're 100 years old. My dad had just missed the cut. He would have been 101 this pes and he passed away in his hundth year. And I would have said to him, "Dad, you're going to be here for the next seder and we're all going to be in the next seder and you shall kesh." And that's what we're hoping for. So stay let's stay alert and alive. Let's get geared up now to be ready and tell everybody about what we did 20 years ago when Arab kalio and I don't say this lightly because even in the garra itself in the sakim itself says that there were the great rabbis in there were periods in which there were transition between the anesola the great rabbis of the second temple era of the early second temple era and the ones in the later second pesh era including hil and shama and so on as outlined in Perios. But the Benerra family came to Argusel from Bavl. They came from the original diaspora and they were very knowledgeable and they were the teachers and later Hill came and supplanted them. But in the meantime, Benabra did not know what to do, how to conduct and pasin for the Jewish people who were going to bring carbon pes and shabas. This rare 20-year thing, they're going to actually have to seemingly violate Shabas to Sheff the carbon pes. It's outrageous. We touched upon this in last year, but I want to frame this more carefully and more fully and and more meaningfully. It's outrageous the idea that shabas should be violated for a personal carbon like carbon pes. There are no personal cabonas allowed on any shabas ever in the bdash except one. Carbon pes is essentially a carbon schlumin a personalized carbon that you eat. The coine is not eating it or not even eating part of it. It's all yours to eat and you must eat it. The brisker rav and all the raani brisk point out that who specialize in kim you know why because was so wanting to be the cohain of the future he wanted to see the bish built he wanted to see Israel developed to the to the pla to the place of survival that he predicted coming in in in the dire dark moments of the early 30s and he said we've got to start preparing really tless Therefore, he set up the col the famous which everybody knows that the brisk specialize in kachum and all theum of the brisk and others uh and the yeshivas themselves regularly learn the etc all the all the sections of kajim why so that they be able to sit in the b mikdash and pask in shilus about the carbon bonos themselves. There's so much detail. There's so much to know. There's so many things that can go wrong. But one of the clear details is that no individual carbonos will ever be offered ever in the B mikdash. Okay? I'm not talking about by the the the Messiah himself. We had in this past week's ha Torah about the Nasi meaning the Messiah, how he's going to bring carbonos and so on, but he's not his own person. He's like a collective person of theore. here is simply pes is like a schlamim in fact so much so that you can they're almost indispensable if you don't use something for a pes it doesn't work out you can use it for a schlamim and uh so how could it be how could it be that that this in the villicious carbon the briskers pointed out that the mitzvah of most carbonos if there's a portion that must be eaten by the kohanim is that it be eaten in other words they don't have a specific mitzvah for this coane that cohane. It doesn't really matter which cohane as long as a qualified cohane eats it because the subject is the carbon itself. The carbon uh must be eaten. It's just the focus is on the carbon not on you not on the individual cohes is the one carbon in which the mitzvah is that we eat it. You follow the mitzvah is not on the item on the carbon pes on on the car on the carbon pes it's on me I have a to eat right unbelievable so you see how personalized a carbon it is me it's mine this no carbon belongs to any coane it belongs to a coane whichever coin it is but carbon pesak is totally mine I better eat my kazayas and if I can't eat my kazayas I can't bring a carbon pesa why do you care just say listen I don't feel good you eat What is does that work? No, it doesn't work. You can't say I I'll wave. I'll pass on this. No, you you can't if you you cannot pass on it. You have to eat your kazayas in order to fill the m. Okay. Two kaz. So now so then we have to understand what actually happened was that this occasion is very is very rare rare and mystifying in many ways. So the Gmorrah says listen to this the leaders of the Jewish people right before hill on this rare occasion again for us it could be once in 20 years for them it could have been once in 20 years or maybe more they didn't even know the prime should pace overrule shabas again because I what I just said it's essentially a personal carbon how could it how could it over and we're going to you have to deal with the more basic question itself how could any carbon be shabas the carbonos were brought in the b mikdash we we sing them and we read them every shabas and every how as we proved last week parasel mohea outlines all of all the 39 Mahos and it's impossible to even comprehend how anything related to the Mishkun should override Chabas. We learn the 39 laws of of Chabas from the building of the Mishkun and we suppress them. We don't we say don't do it. We learn for example that is one of the 39. How could you bring a carp on this poor Cohen you know Cohen I just feel I feel for the Cohen. He's he's the leader. He's the teacher. He's the Reba. He's the role model. He's trying to be so big sadic and d for everybody and help everybody and and encourage them to keep shabas. And then he goes for his twoe job in the B mikdash or yontiff and they say to him so what did you do there rabbi? Uh shabas what did you do on shabas? There was nothing to do right. Well actually I was kind of busy. What do you mean rabbi? Didn't you keep shabas? He goes yeah I I definitely kept shabas. In fact, of course, I catch Shabas in the BA mdash. We some dabons are not necessary because we're not worried that the kohanim will will make a mistake and come to a bigger violation. So some of that their abundance are relaxed and the Mishna at the end of Shabas gives examples of this excuse me not gives examples of this like for example repairing a string of of the it's in um it's repairing a strings of the instruments you can't do that in outside the bas mikdash it's less less less strict we're not go we're not trying to avoid uh these sort of uh mistakes by issuing gazer to we're more relaxed about that because we trust the so rabbi what did you do there? Oh well actually I was honored to bring the carbon tummy carbon rabbi what do you mean carbon? What kind of carbon? He was it something that was prepared before Shabas? Uh no actually I had to do it on Shabas morning. What did you do? Well I slaughtered it. I I received the blood and I sprinkled it on the misbeak and you know I burnt the parts that were supposed to be burnt. You know Ola, that's what we do on Chavez. Rabbi, how could you? In my entire life, I would never ever violate Chabas by picking up a knife and slaughtering an animal. You taught me that, didn't you, Rabbi? Yes, of course. But what do you mean but? I You tell me to even be strict. I come to you every time with the biggest the biggest shilas of of of muka and and hana and everything to just honor the shabas rabbi we've studied for 20 years together how could you do this do you understand the dilemma here it's a dilemma when every Jew in the entire Israel is asked to come to the bas case I make and himself slaughtered animal so didn't know what to do now what their suffic was is a good question because everybody knows that you have to bring a carbon pes on chabas so what were they worried about what was their concern were did they really wonder whether maybe they were wondering whether they should make a zera just like you don't blow chauffeur on chabas maybe they didn't want they want to make a not to bring karpes on chabas because of shemayeno you're going to bring a knife you're going to carry the animal whatever it is maybe it was just what like that type of consideration same reason why don't we migill on chabas we don't take a lull on chabas even though it's the risa because we want to protect chabas chabas needs needs protection so maybe we should just cancel carbon pes we'll do you know or something else or whatever we might do so they came and and they didn't know Is there anybody out there? Listen to this. They're talking to the common folk. Does anybody remember like 20 years before, you know, you were young people, younger, you know, we weren't we weren't necessarily here and what did they used to do? Soalian. Oh wait, I have to make a correction here. Hill preceded them coming up from Bavl, right? And then came before the rebies of of of Hill and Shamai as it's as of course it's structured in the first perk of Perkyavos Schmai uh were prior to Hill and Shami and they ruled that back in those days this is now later after Hill and Shami but but still in the time of the Ba Mdash right and Uh that's what they pasined. Now everybody asks how can they forget here's a a simple thing in the second year the second pes that is ever did came out on shabas according to z second p ever done by the Jewish people. It says like this. Mishkan and the and the on this says based on says the kahuna the Rashi quotes the seven crowns of that unique roesh where the Mishk was was put up was also shabas and comes out that on the 14th day would also be shab you do the calendar so we know it's going to be the same day 714. So it had to be that in that year Pes the carbon pes was brought by the entire Jewish people on the 14th. It says it in the Torah. You can just deduce it from the from the numbers. If so therefore how could they have forgotten such a thing? It's like an open p. So they say various answers. The meshma said something interesting. I I don't want to go into it too much here. I don't think it's the um um the place, but they had a quite a lengthy discussion. Maybe we don't need everybody to do the pesak. Maybe we can just have one person do a do a kind of pesak for everybody. Kind of like a carbon seabore of sorts. And uh and that was the thing. In addition, they didn't even know how you're going to get the knife to the bases mikdash. How you going to get the knife to the basa mdash? They say, he says, go look what the people did. There's definitely old-timers here who maybe experienced one or two pes or five pesos. And how did they get their knife there? Well, the little lamb, they could lead. They could You're not supposed to even lead it, but you could uh you could walk it there, you know, push it. Not supposed to push it, but you walk walk it there a little bit. And I could that's not a problem, but how you going to get the knife there? So, they looked out and they saw the old folks putting the knife and the head of the animal between in the hair that grows on its head and the wool on its head. See the Jewish people knew indigenously that pesaf there was a way to bring the carbon pes and to get around all the shabas problems minimizing the shabas damage but what about the effectual carbon itself okay so so there's two levels of problems one problem which is practical for us even in our days and then there's problems that were relevant in the bas mikdash comes and then there's the philosophical question of why would hashem allow this. Why didn't Hashem design design the mitzvah this way? I thought Shabas is more important than everything. Okay. All right. That's a setup question. So the So look what happens this year. I call it when Pes and Shabas collide. It's a collision. It's a head-on collision unfortunately. And we got to move stuff. We move back the tinusim from Shabas. You can't fast on Shabas to when it can be Friday. It's not great time. So we do it Thursday. Okay, we move it back. Search for KT can't be done Friday night. So we push it back to Thursday night. Beer, we're going to burn it on Friday, a complete day early. It doesn't make any sense. We was going to be eating a ton of a ton of we do that every year when we do the search for KTS the night before and in the morning we'll have KT take a breakfast that's not such a big deal but two days that's a lot and how do you get rid of the KT on chabas you can't burn anything on chabas how you supposed to get rid of it which is why they say you should buy only tiny little shabas rolls which don't make crumbs they have these like tmani breads that are very doughy it's like a piece of dough and it won't make any crumbs and you could just eat it, you know, still a hate. So there are two basic options for how you could do your Shabas meals. The Shabas meals get squished. Everything gets squished, squzen, pushed. You squeeze the Shabas day down into the little morning hours, we morning hours until, you know, like 10:30 when you have to stop eating. I'm not going to give you the exact time because I don't know where you are, where you're going to be. Check it out with your local rabbi. But we got to do two Shabas meals. Shabas morning and Sha should all before 10:30 in the morning. How are you going to do that? So you got to dive in really early so that you can have one meal then have a significant break 15 20 minutes half an hour and then wash again for shalas and complete everything and get rid of everything by 10:30. That's an early morning. Remember Shabas learning shabas morning domining is is like two hours minimum. So when are you going to dab in? You're going to dates. When is Nates? Nates is uh is basically around um 6:30. So that means you got to be in shul 5:30 5 you know uh what I'm saying 5 you have to be in shul not 5 5:45 5:45 Arab you know that's a tough shabas 5:45 in the morning finishing at 7 10 7:15 wash make kdish take a break learn something and then have a second suda with your there's other there's other uh options by the um psalm and this was actually done by me when I was a rabbi devotion side and we wanted to make life easy for everybody so we made a communal shabas meal of pesalio pashabas on that early morning and we served eggmat and that's perfectly acceptable according to ashkinazin we just have to finish eating it's not in other words you don't have to bring any kits or rolls don't bother just use a box of egg matzah on chabas this morning which is not you know you're not supposed to eat egg mats on chabas on pes because we don't know the exact time it takes when once you add a fluid other than water we know water and flour is 18 minutes we don't know exactly water and other when when it's other ingredients fruit juices which is what usually use or egg egg yolk uh which is what egg matza really represents or it may have some apple juice in it or whatever it might be we don't really know if that goes for a full 18 minutes or hot. So maybe less maybe it's maybe it's mitz in a minute. We don't know. So don't eat it on pes except if you're not well and you can't eat regular matzah but otherwise but pes get a box of egg matzah and solve your problem that way. It all depends on your temperament. If you can handle without freaking out and having a heart attack that there's actual hums in your home that's fine. Then you can use the egg matzah. If you can tolerate hummets, okay, little rolls, whatever. You're not going to be like Ice Mench then. Okay. And what are you going to do with the little bit of crumbs? Where are you going to put them? Where are you going to put them? You have to flush them down the toilet. There's no other way. And that's perfectly acceptable. And the Shabas got Russia is a week early, which is why I'm not giving it next Monday. I'm giving it today. Everything is pushed back. So you might say that Shabaso gets bullied by Pes all these things push back but Shabas also pushes forward in what way does Shabas push against Pesak you can't prepare on Shabas for after after Shabas so that means a lot of things you might want to do for the seder such as simple tasks setting a table cooking preparing you could even start the multi shabas And this is counterintuitive because Pesak we want the children to be awake. What are you going to first start setting a table for a half an hour an hour? You know how long it takes to set a seder table with all the accuchants and everything beautiful. You know you normally we set that in the in in the day early in the day. I guess a solution might be to have a two rooms you know like a separate room in which you have your pesak uh table laid out you know already before you just go over there but most people don't. You're going to be delaying the start of the sedar plus the habda that you've got to make in the kdish till you're going to get to the is going to be who knows what time that's really not ideal in the spirit of that now on top of everything they changed the clock in Israel they used to wait to change the clock till after till after pes no more no more I don't know if that's part of the protests uh you know recent years unfortunately pes was under the gun in Israel in terms of individual rights you can you should be able to have peska things in your hospital room in your hotel room in your army base notice it's very interesting that above of all the things that they were strict on it was the army base that they were strictest hospitals they were fighting but when they came to the supreme court of Israel and they asked them what on army basis people don't want there are Jerusalem there there are there are Christians there there are Muslims there and there are Jews who be so careful although I like to think they all are but let them no not a crumb of on the army bases to their credit and that's because they say in the army you're anyway nish mench and we talk about individual rights. If you're in the army, if you can forget about your indo individual rights, they got to be able to tell you to go do things that you probably would never dream of doing, endangering your life and so on. And I put this out as a prayer for all the soldiers that they should be protected. And all the boys that want to learn yeshiva should be allowed to learn yeshiva and do their mitzvah that way, including my own children. And that's a a difficult and and and and and confusing topic for all of us who so dearly love this country and so have Hakaratov for all the things that the soldiers do and yet do we want to sacrifice our sons on the altar of uh you know uh IDF uh principles which may not be consistent with Torah principles. If a Posek were consulted with every Shiloh in the army might be a little different. I know they're trying to build a halid brigade brigade that uh that you know I mean of course we have Hezer and they have postkim they do their thing and and then they're now going to be I so it's a work in progress but bottom line is these are heart- rendering decisions they're very very difficult as a parent as a child as a Jew should help us so this year this year with this unique year we have to solve these problems problem. So again basically the things that can be pushed back the fast of the bas um shabas preparations for the seder have to be made all before shabas shabas itself is going to push the seder forward and make us not be able to do anything on it and you're going to have to make as part of part of the kdish and that's the practical considerations and you'll decide how you're going to do the two pseudo shabas everybody should be aware of these because you're not going to confront them again for 20 But now let's go into deeper question about the and about the significance of why this was like this. So there is a let me share with you Aron from Dinsk uh wrote a beautiful um terrace explanation of why carbonas and chabas let me share with you we offered a couple of ideas. I'm going to share with you a couple of ideas. One that's very interesting and very simple. Okay, let me give you the simplest answer. Why are carbonos seabore brought on chabas? Why is the carbon pes brought on chabas? And for that matter, what else do we do on chabas that violates chabas obviously and openly and we celebrate it openly and that is brisma. Brisma is shabas is how come? I mean, we could wait. Well, let's wait a day. You know, usually we don't want to violate Chabas. Why did it come out that way? So, we all know that there's one basic premise of why something would be why Shabas would be overruled, so to speak, or pushed aside temporarily or for the moment or partially, which is called doabas. What's the one thing that we all know is doabas? Help me out here. What's the one thing that we all know is right to save a life you got to callah you get on the phone you callah if you're a hard solo guy you get in your car and you drive and you take him to the hospital no question so you could say you could take that approach and say very simply there are certain things about the Jewish people that are considered nephesh klali two of Those are the mitzvah of brisma and carbon. We say in part of the seder we quote and we speak about the two mitzvah when we're reading about the the 10 plagues and and um the what hashem did on the original pit. Hashem said to us you have two great that will empower you to go out of even if you have no other mitzvah to your name. And that was the brisk meal that they performed, right? And the dam pesaf that they put on their on their portals and that they carbon pes that they ate. When a Jew has no merits, those two merits even supersede shabas because they're nephesh so to speak. I'm putting this in quotes and I don't mean it. Just understand I'm using it only as a metaphor as a metaphor that Hashem decided that they were neph that these overrode chabas. Why? Why? So now I'm going to tell you something you might not realize and and it it's a little bit shocking. It's something that's commonly known but maybe never think about it. I have to make a excuse me why are we allowed to save a life on chabas? So you might say well a life a life the most important thing is life right it's not the reason that is given by then say the following thing if you think about it it's a shocker he says har is far better that this individual live and survive this shabas and be alive to keep so many mother shabasim for the rest of his life. If the person perishes on shabas there will be lack of observance of shabas for all the years that they might have been able to survive. So what's the real reason we're we're we're shabas for nephesh for shabas's sake not for the Jews sake for the shabas's sake so that they should have the power to keep many many many more shabases you follow me to increase shabas it's not that shabas is sacrificed if we don't have this we won't have any shabas this is to facilitate we got in other words it's a it's what do they call that a costbenefit analysis let's do the math we'll we'll lose one chabas but we'll gain hund you know hundreds of others right that's the sou one can understand that if a Jew doesn't have a brisma and if a Jew doesn't do the carbon pes and identify as a Jew and part of Israel accept Hashem as his god renounce of zara the basic basic basics of a Jew then he won't be around to keep a seder if you don't have a brisma. Can you eat from the carbon pesa? No, you can't. You can't even eat from the carbon pes if you don't have a bris. That's even your servants, your your uh cananani servants. So, there are certain basic things that will say, okay, the situation is dire. We have to do this. It's very very temporary. It's like a once in 20 year experience. It doesn't happen very much but it's necessary for the survival of the nation and that's what the name of Sarah were trying to weigh they said is it worth are we in such a state listen we have a ba mdash we have a sanhedrin we haveen we have to we're not in golos we're not do should we still override do we still need to bring the kesh on shave and they said of course we Even though the the Jews who did it right out of Mit were in the they were in a terribly low state and you know the second PES was after after the just getting the Mishkan back. They were just getting back on their feet. They were just it really was a spiritual piku nephesh that pes that nissan. We we we we had to save Cla Israel from utter being lost which is what the what the uh represents but maybe were saying but we're not in a dire position like that anymore. Maybe we could make and just make everybody do pes and sham is no it was ruled not that way. Pil ruled abalon ruled and said there's no such thing without Mila and Pesak there is no claw Israel there's nobody to keep shabas that's how you look at it there's no there's no shabas what shabas are he talking about there's no Jews to keep shabas who's going to keep shabas they're not allowed to keep shabas you need Jews we need Jews now this is not the argument I will point out that was used by those who were reforming and so on well-intentioned people. They said, you know, one of the first uh responsive movement in America was well, you know, we don't live in athletes lives in Scarsdale and you know, Marin and all these places and um and uh their houses are far away from the synagogue. How are they going to get to Shouan Shab? So, let them drive because it's Pikuh. Now, you understand the fallacy of that logic. Because the purpose of is to keep Shabas, not to violate Shabas. In other words, if they have to drive to take someone to the hospital on Chabas, God bless them. But you cannot decree that every single Shabas you should violate Shabas and consider it a positive thing. That's it. That's the logic. We cannot sacrifice Shabas for Shabas. Doesn't make any sense. Okay. Now there are that's one approach I I like that approach because it's the least how shall I say it's the I like simple black and white you know something that everybody already knows it's in our kishkas it's in our bones it's a kind of easy answer there are other more sophisticated approaches I would say and offers something here let's listen to the mish This is the words of the mayor Mcdinsk, the great or the rabbi from uh Lithuania in era immediately before the Holocaust who was a uh a great scholar in and and also wrote not only haluffic works on the Rambam and classic litfish form but also wrote a profound found safer called the which he has said was more essential that his works to deal with difficult questions profound questions from the this being one of them. It says in we put as prim primary uh we broadcast shabas. Okay. Now mishkos below shabas. So I would have thought maybe you can build a mishk on shabas right maybe that's the maybe it's like neesh build it build it build it so that we'll have a shabas to keep a place for the to reside excuse me. All right. So, Shabas, he says, is the witness that Hashem created the world and renews the world constantly from absolute nothingness. The aoddish is to prove the constant supervision and recreation of the world minute to minute by Hashem. and the entire world. What does this mean? Keeps the world alive. If the if Hashem would so to speak not bring his life force energy, his or the or by he or the the basis of creation which is light, time and space, then everything would cease to exist instantaneously. there would be no world as we would say like there's no Jews there's no anything there would be no no world so suggesting another which I occurred to me but he is the one who developed it so beautifully that the mdash represents the mishkan un some level represents the world itself so there's two basic ideas about the mishkan one is that it's a kapor for the sin of the golden camp right keep hashm I'm here. We mentioned something even profoundly that we don't don't allow the divine chariot images uh to uh which are included in the kuruima of the mishkan face of a lion face of an eagle face of a human being inside the koshim. But we don't allow ashore because it's like too painful and we don't allow the coingle to wear his golden garments into the kotashim. It's just too painful because that reminds us how you going to appear for Hashem. The Auron represents itself, Hashem's presence with gold garments when you just sin so grievously with gold. That's one theme of the Ba Md, but the other theme is that it's the creation of the world. We know there's a famous where the world was created or this actually reflects both concepts. When the world was created in tish, it means that Hashem is evaluating us and and looking for us to cor to repent and correct our ways and to repair the world. But when it's when we look at the world from the perspective of the first of Nissan, right, then we're saying that Hashem is the creator of the world with compassion, right? And it has two elements. It's through constant recreation of the world. And if I don't, if I extinguish the carbonos, then essentially I extinguish the world. And if I extinguish the carbon pesa willy-nilly and if I extinguish the brisma, I prevent I I I cause the Jewish people to elu lose their connection to the sustaining force of what the Jewish people are all about. A Jew may not be sham shabas but he's if he's not circumcised right then it's like he's not uh considered you know even in the secular world their first organization they made in America was Benet Brrith you know Ben Brit completely secular but Ben Brris they taught the bris everybody knows there's got to be a covenant between Hashem and Jewish people without the covenant between Jewish people doesn't exist Shabas is kept by Jews the Jews that do brisa that are obligated to It all goes together. Carbon pes is only done by Jews. A non-Jew is not allowed to eat from the carbon pes. There's a famous story in the about a wise guy who wanted a a good meal and he he dressed himself up as a Jew and he would go eat carbon pes and he boasted about I've had tons of carbon pes you have no right to eat this. So they caught him. How did they catch him? They set a trap. They said they suspected him. says, "Um, uh, yeah, well, what part would you would you like? Would you like the tail, the alia?" And he said, "Oh, that's juicy. Why not?" He didn't realize that that's not part of the garbess. So anyway, they caught him. They outed him. They got rid of him. Pretty severe punishment. And and uh so if you look at from the perspective that Hashem is this sustainer of the world, the fire of the universe is Hashem's or which can never go out ever even for a half a quarter of a millisecond. And that's why we have to sustain the Jewish people. It's our spiritual connection to Hashem and Hashem's connection to the world that keeps us alive moment to moment. And that's why it's we say it to say night. You're going to live because these two mitzvah because through these two mitzvah your brisk with me will be expressed at all times. Okay? And if occasionally it falls out on chabas so be it because if there are no Jews there's no shabas. The idea is keep the Jews alive so they can keep shabas. If I don't allow you to do brisma carbon pasa carbonos, then it's the same idea, the same concept, the same idea. That's just not the rationality of what it's all about. Okay. So, um I truly believe those are two excellent approaches to solve a very very painful question, a difficult question. But you see the wisdom inherent in the Jewish people. Hill came from Babel and Bubbl were the Jews who remember oh from the original Gulus saying we have um we have an awareness that sometimes we need to save Cla Israel as a whole when you're saving Cla Israel as a whole so that they can keep Torah mitzvos not so that they can continuously violate them but that they should continue they should keep Torah mitzvos that is our protection I don't have to go into all the stories about how shabas became such a theme for many of the survivors of this horrible, horrible events of Gaza war and they reconnected to their Judaism through that mitzvah. Not surprising no matter how far you are. But these show the connection and they ultimately help us and if we have to violate one shabas to stay connected we'll do that because shabas is the imperative. Shabas is the long-term plan. one shabas new for for a lifetime of shabosen. Okay, the more that I could say but I won't. Uh my fervent prayer to each and everyone is to we should acknowledge to hashem how his light of supervision has not gone out from the Jewish people in this year and particularly at this time. We've reached a point where it seems that Hashem has taken up through his various unusual in this world to say enough is enough. The days of Amik are numbered. Um we want the Assurim those Jews that are held in captivity, the parro captivity should be should be left. And to that end, I'll just say this last thought. The four cups that we drink on the seder night and particularly in this year actually according to the zor kadosh and and the teachings of a breastlo he says interesting thing based on based on the zor of course he says the three servants of parro one who gave the cup the wine one who baked the bread and of course uh potif the head butcher slash murderer whatever it might have been security chief All are represented in the four cups of Pes. So my brother said to me, "Yeah, there are four mentions of the word coast in the episode of Yoseph and the slaves of parro." And that's what they say. Well, four times the word coast appears and therefore that's a remorse. Like what could possibly be the connection there? Aman says there's there's various tas various low cravings that we have. We have the craving for um what Potifar craved which was sexual immorality. We have what s of sar mashkim is the basic feeding and that includes also various animal drives. That's our that's our parro that keeps us enslaved. We need to move past pes is the bread on. It's a simple bread. It's not fancy. It's not elevated. It's not gyic represents gya ga right I'm so important. But the lesson of humility is the lesson of mostu is the lesson of the matzos flat simple no additives no fanciness no rising up. So theor first comes to us and says you're very important and therefore you deserve this. It's imperative that you have it. It's life and death. Well, no, it's not because we should just realize there's what we want and there's what we need. And what we need is much, much less than what we want. And we don't need honor. We don't need people's praises. We don't need to count how many hits you get on yubon.com. We don't need to decide whether you're based on other people's opinion, whether you're good, bad, medium, or anything else. Just do your thing with utmost humility. The problem that our cousins, the Arabs, have based on the recent communications with Kamas in this cru crucial moment where they're basically being told, "Give up the hostages, lay down your arms, and leave." Incredible. something that nobody in the world would ever say except for this Udus president that was sent by Hashem giving Gav giving power to the to the leadership in Israel to stand strong against these murderers. But what did they reply? They said we can't for us it's a matter of life and death. In other words, we're we're we are prepared fully prepared and want to die rather than stop our our goal of destroying the Jewish people. They're they're married to it life or death. And what's their problem? So, you didn't get the land. First of all, you can go to Alaka anytime you want and you got 22 countries filled with riches that you can go anywhere anytime you want. Why you got to hold on to this lousy little little place which you've turned into a a hell on earth. Why do you want to hold on to it? Like go to Doha. Go to Qatar. You know, they got lots of money. They'll pay for university. They'll do anything to you. In Libya, Mama Gaddaf, who was probably Jewish, used to give his people free houses, free cars, free education, $3,000 for every baby that you had. I think that's because he was basically from Jewish roots to his cousins who were Jews. Anyway, he gave away everything. You had a good life in these Arab countries. You could have a good life. Now, you have to stay here and die. Why? Because you can't admit the fact that Hashem told the Jewish people that this is your land. And even in your Quran says so. And you can't the Jew to live in and to build a B mikdash to Hashem. That is not that is a house of prayer to all people. No, we have to build there. We have to have it there. We have to it's their inherent lack of humility. That's right. Basically, I think is is a lack of self-esteem essentially because anybody with self-esteem wouldn't want to destroy their their lives and their children to such an extent. again mixed in with all the ideologies but those are willing to be a little bit humble and say the Jews have a place in this world the Jews have a place in this world the Jews should be left alone let them prosper let them shine let them grow let them contribute everything that they have to contribute today said that wherever a Jew goes he's he's he's pointed to the top why because we're capable because we have merit it's it's the anti DEI. Jews don't get the job because they're of a certain sc uh color, ethnicity or or or or oppressed group. If they get a job at all, it's a miracle in any society. They get it because they bring greatness and blessing to everybody. That's humility that we want to we want to understand in ourselves. We're here to offer our best to the world and to our own people and not to fight with each other, not to denounce each other, to respect each other, to respect the holy Torah. This is where we are. It's a critical time. Hashem should bless us. And this next 20 years, we're going to see. We're all going to be there in your mira 20 years from today. Yeah, we're going to be there. I don't care how old you are. If you're if you're 100, you're still going to be there. I'll give you the braha to be there in good health. You know it's going to be a ready TSA and medical breakthroughs. You're going to take a little drink of stem cells and you're going to regenerate to 30 years old. You don't know what's going to be in the next 20 years. Stick around. Glad to stick around continuous for Israel should have a beautiful humble grateful thankful miraculous pes and enjoy. We'll speak to you then. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat.