Slave or Free Man? - Haggadah Insights - Rabbi Yehonasan Gefen (05:09)

why do we eat if I asked you before this why do you why because it was U we left Egypt in a haste and we didn't have time rise so that became a tradition which became Mitzvah mitvah so they explain that means that when the Jews were slaves they used to give the mat to eat because mat fills you up and it's an easy keep thing to do but what's going on what I thought we have M because it was in the haste and it symbolizes Freedom yeah I thought M symbolizes freedom but here it symbolizes poverty yeah you hear the question is what so that's the the big the big question here so we'll talk about that bit we get to the other things a bit more minor there an idea I heard fromi why does m represent Freedom we're in okay what does mul represent Freedom what is freedom so freedom in a western sense is you're not in prison you can do what you want plenty of people that are free do what they want are not free meaning free is in free in yourself so not addicted to something not you know not addicted to who work money food drugs alcohol who know lots and lots of things right true Jewish toorah sense of freedom is being internally internally free and we say that real freedom is connected to my soul it connected to my Essence a body and a soul and a lot of a lot of lack of freedom is when I'm I'm attached to my body I need to eat I need to do this and we should look after our body but freedom is going back to my pure Essence which is really my soul okay what's m versus was between M and K nothing really just a bit of time and K gets bigger it fills up so in this way the the the you say represents person Soul as its Essence as at its base without any additions whereas is yeast it's risen it's extra stuff and that's also why you're not allowed on S night and most never but some you can but you can never have on S night you can't be to the Mitzvah with matah Rich matah which has juice or honey or things like that right why on this idea because it's additions right it's adding something it's it's not the pure self right the P the the freedom of M is just the pure Essence so on site what we're really doing is getting back to our beginning satanite PES is the birth of the nation so in a sense what we're trying to do as we know holidays is not just remembering something is reliving it is getting back to our Pure essence of our Pure Souls right that's the freedom of M now that really isn't a contradiction to the poverty of mar so we ask there a chws it says here that's the poor man's bread what do you mean I thought it's the bread of freedom is both that the poor man's bread not that you have to be poor but the poor man's bread when a person doesn't have anything else he only has himself and he has his soul and the Jews in Egypt had so nothing they they got they they got to base zero like without anything and then they could have Hashem could fill them up with the and so on right just to flesh out this idea of lansi said in Germany before the when the Nazis were already there before they knew it be a holocaust people realized it was bad and people left the people that found it hardest to live were the wealthiest people why because they had their house they had their things that held them back they became saved to their things a person who looks at his car or his house as part of him how or his money how much what are you worth right what say what are you worth £500,000 that then then he's it's not just him he's become the he's become attached if someone's car gets damaged and he feels like he lost the limb he's attached to it you can use it it's a good thing there nothing wrong with it but not to be attached to it and nowadays very obviously with technology and iPhones and people you know they can't I read in England my dad sent me a thing in England there was a woman who got made her iPhone waterproof so she could take it to the shower and she actually got disease from like her back being bent you know be laugh but look around not that I off for shabas Tred to make a shabus app um yeah so p is freedom again you know they have to be poor but the idea of poverty is it enables you to like but you don't have anything enables you to get back to your essence