MYSTICAL INSIGHTS for your Pesach Seder

so for many of you this is an excuse to get away from pesacher cleaning or a brief respite from pesach cleaning but this is equally important as far as the space of preparations what we're going to do tonight with hashem's help is prepped for the Seder prep for the Seder um seder means order and there's a reason why we have an order why do we have to have an order I thought we're free I thought we can do whatever we want um we were set free from the limitations of serving pharaoh and we were brought into the service of Hashem so we didn't stop serving but what we did is we switched from a service which was a a waste of our potential to a service that is the really only way to truly fulfill our potential so we don't stop serving we we just now when we serve we serve in a way that actually allows us to be who we truly are which is really what freedom is all about the ability to be true to yourself and to express your your deepest potential um so we have a lot of Mitzvahs tonight tonight but I'm like putting myself into that mood of the sailor on the night of the Seder we have we have a lot of Mitzvahs because we're we're serving Hashem and when you're serving so uh there's a lot to do there's a lot to be of service about and in order that we don't mess anything up or forget something or um get distracted by by one obligation and we forget about another obligation so that's why we have a Seder we have an order because there's so much stuff there's so much to do on this night so we have to organize it in order to make sure it gets done so we're going to do is go through the say there and uh try to give you some interesting tidbits to share whether you're hosting your own say there or you are a guest it's somebody else's say they're and I'm gonna go out of seder I'm gonna go out of order to begin with no just to begin with because I wanted to share a a teaching on the Haggadah it's not from the beginning it's from the very middle of the hagoda but it sets the tone for what I'm going to try to accomplish tonight there's a place in the Seder where we during Magid when we're telling the story of the servitude and the Redemption and we talk about the ten plagues and uh after we say the 10 plagues one at a time dumps and so on and so forth then it says gave them Simona means abbreviated uh shorthand he he made an acronym out of the ten plagues he took the first letter of each of the ten plagues and uh made a like a shorthand a mnemonic to remind you of what the 10 plagues are so here's here's the vort I want to share with you there's a gamada in Shabbos daflamic gimmel uh I think it's Ahmad alif that says that in every case in every situation at least during his lifetime he was the rosham the head speaker there's a whole story about that it was actually a political thing the Romans who were in control of the holy land at that time the Romans actually dictated that should be the head speaker whenever the Jews would gather they were supposed to allowed to be the the Keynote but at any rate so here's the varth I want to share with you why was the keynote speaker on every occasion you know why because knew how to take a long list and make it concise shorten it and say it short and sweet so when you want a speaker who do you want to get the guy who's going to stretch things out or the guy's going to be concise like George Burns said a uh A good sermon needs to have three things one has to have a great opening that's the first thing two has to have a great closing and three those two should be as close together as possible so all right so in the spirit of I told you I'm going out of the Seder to set the tone here in the spirit of that vort about uh being concise I want to try to share with you some short diverito that you can share with uh with your guests or your hosts or friends or family or wherever it is that you're making your seder we're going to try to share thoughts that can be conveyed quickly that's the challenge okay so let's begin with uh the very beginning the very beginning is actually Simon say there we have that word Simmon again like it said gave the template simonim here also we have simonem but here it's not letters it's it's words but I guess shortened a list of words into a bunch of letters this list is taking a whole say there and shortening it into a few words and what are those few words okay so those are you know there's a little song and it's an ancient song actually but I'll save you from my voice okay it sounds better when the whole family's singing then it sounds okay then it's this tolerable um so the first thing I'll tell you like this how many tsuman do we have here one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven has two words but it's one step 12 13 14 15 15 Steps okay 15 is important 15 is an important number 15. is the first two letters of the four-letter name of Hashem hashem's ineffable name yod and hey and then evolve and another hey we don't say those letters consecutively because it's even not only do we not pronounce the name we don't even say those letters consecutively and those four letters correspond to different worlds and different sphere ice kabbalistically speaking the top if you imagine hashem's name written vertically and it's a map of what we call Cedric stausless the the Worlds the the chain-like evolution of different planes of reality which bring reality as we know it into being so the top letter is yud and that represents and then the next letter is hey and that represents BINA and then you have the lower two letters the vov is uh the mid dice the emotional faculties and the lower hay is malchus which is the the final faculty of Hashem which is involved in actual uh World building and making something outside of himself as it were so 15 is the first two letters Yoda is 10 and hey is five so ten plus five is fifteen so 15 is yod and hay which are which are the faculties of the intellect what does that mean that means that the entire Seder is to use the kabbalistic term it is a process of refining our minds our own and Bina in other words the process of going through the say there is supposed to rewire our brains so that we perceive more godliness in our lives okay I don't know there was uh I'm trying I'm going for brevity you know it's a kabbalistic concept I could have unpacked it a little bit more could have explained it more but I'm trying to be uh try we're going we're going for speed over here speed chess okay anyways let's keep moving um let's go to uh to yahats okay so uh yeah break the middle mat so very good so here here's a here's a cute one this is this is I can do this one quickly it's a story who doesn't like a story um Yachats you know that you break the middle matzah and uh you know the the story about the Israeli Air Force was flying a new fighter jet and whenever they would bring it up close to the speed of sound this particular new jet they spent billions of dollars on it and for some reason they bring it up the speed of sound and um the wings would fall off Wings would just fall right off so they went to the different engineers and ask them to troubleshoot it and none of the smartest Jewish engineers in the Israeli Air Force could figure out the problem finally they said you know what we're Jewish we should ask a rabbi you know even though it's really not typical Rabbi question but you know we're Jews let's ask a rabbi so the Israeli Air Force they asked the rabbi what should we do so Rabbi said what's the problem the wings are falling off he said take a drill and perforate the wings make a big holes in the fuselage next to the where the wings uh are connected and they said well that's going to weaken it that's not going to make it better he says just trust me just do it just do it so they went they followed with the rabbi said and they poked holes they perforated along the wing and they took it up to speed of sound things flew beautiful it landed everything held into place nothing broke and they came back to the rabbi and they said it worked but how did you know he says I know from pesach because the Mata breaks everywhere except along the holes so that's how I knew okay um but the story is like this that wasn't the story I wasn't wanting to tell you the story I want to tell you is that one time that's the third rabbit of Chabad that's the grandson of the balatanya yeah at his Seder somebody one of the people who was in attendance uh broke his middle matzah and you know what you're supposed to do you're supposed to take uh the bigger half I know how could you have a bigger half half means half but we use the term half Loosely over here um so you take the bigger half and you put it aside as the afikoyman which is the dessert the final matzah that you'll eat at the end of the meal and then the smaller half you leave on your seder plate so he was he broke it and apparently it broke pretty evenly and he was kind of perplexed which one was the bigger half so he was holding them up this guest at the time seder was holding up the two halves of the matzas and sort of comparing them side by side trying to figure out which one is the bigger half which one should be put aside as the Alfie coymen and um noticed that he noticed his side by side comparing and he said a big one who has to be compared to a small one in order to be determined that he's big is not big at all and it's little grandson that ebitdashab was in attendance and he heard that he said from that day from that moment I developed a keen disdain for any type of self-aggrandizement at the at the cost at the expense of somebody else you just have to be your best self never try to establish greatness by way of comparison to someone else okay so that's that's all right Manish tanas now we come to the famous manistana all right so uh there's a famous story about the shpolazada the schmoleazada was one of the talmudum of the balshemtov and he is famous for uh pigeon William for redeeming captives and for other mitzers he was involved in there's a famous story about dancing in the bear suit that but I'm going quickly so I'm not going to do the dancing and the bear suit um and you know the story of the story uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah okay maybe another time um but here's the story about the scholar said one time at the same he had kids she follows they had kids he uh I actually met one of his descendants not one of his kids because they lived like 200 years ago but I actually met somebody who's last it was mother's last name it was Descendants on his mother's side that his last name was zyde which means silk in Yiddish but he said it's actually not silk inside it's zyde like the Polish pronunciation of Zeta because they're descended from the scholazade at any rate so um had kids that's how you get descendants well that's how you start that's the how you start the process and then the kids have kids and then before you know it you have descendants all right yeah the biology free biology lesson I won't even charge extra okay so um seder his little kids they said Kade sure that's the first of the Simon from Yiddish Singh song that is customary to sing along with each of the uh Simon and each of the little mnemonic words and that's all they said you just said that which in Yiddish means when when the father comes home for sure he immediately makes Kiddush well customarily it's there's more to the sentence in order that the children don't fall asleep they're able to stay awake and say the Manchester so um asked his kids well say the rest they said there is no rest that's all we know he says why is that all you know so the malamud the teacher of the city's children were in attendance at the Seder so he asked the melamine he's like why don't the kids know the rest of the sentence he's like well I decided not to burden them with it I didn't teach that to them because the main thing they should know is when the when the father comes home for surely you immediately makes Kiddush they don't need to know that the reason is in order the children don't fall asleep because the reason it's not even important because the truth is you're supposed to make Kiddush immediately when you come home by the way did you know that so hello yeah a lot of people Kratz they waste a lot of time they come home for sure and then they start standing around and schmoozing you know actually if you come home you don't have you don't have to come straight home from sure that's a little yeah expert uh Pro tip for you you don't have to come home immediately from sure after Dominic but if you do come home once you come home you're not supposed to delay okay this afternoon straight away and anyway so the teacher says to the as well as anything he's like well I didn't really think it was important to say the reason why the father makes a kid is right away because the truth is you must make kitties right away anytime that you make kid-ish and this is why did you do that why did you change these words don't you understand that there are kabbalistic secrets in these words no he didn't know he just thought it's a little cute little thing that kids say he says there are double meanings there are double meanings that are hidden in these words and then he explained to him he said that the Jewish people they all make their preparations for pesach and they clean and they cook and it's very tiring and then at the end of it all comes the night of pesach and they they go to shul and it's that's a big deal like after everything they were doing for the past days and weeks some people even start months in advance uh and then and they go to school and they dive in and they say hallel we say the the verses of hollow of Praise on the night of uh pesach and Hashem is just blown away by this fact that the the Jewish people after all that that they're they're dominating and show and when he returns when Hashem returns to his Heavenly Abode from having visited the shoals of the Jewish people as detected as the father when the father avinashimaim our heavenly father when he returns from visiting the shuls of the Earthly shuls of the Jewish people and he returns to his Heavenly Abode she immediately sanctifies kid this should really mean sanctification he sanctifies the Jewish people he proclaims their unique uh Holiness uh today why does he do why does he do it immediately as the Kindle look the children meaning Israel the Jewish people are called hashem's children they shouldn't fall asleep what does it mean they shouldn't fall asleep they shouldn't fall asleep and not ask my nishita halilah why is this night this gullus this Exile that we've been in for 2 000 years why is this nishtana why is it different you know when we're in Exile uh the Babylonian exit was 70 years between the first and second temple what is this 2000 years why is it so different why is it so long and uh that's what the double meaning is that Hashem sees everything we're doing for pesach and he says we got to bring mashiach quickly because uh if we don't then the Jewish people may become numb to the conditions of Exile and they won't even ask anymore why is this Exile so different than every other Exile that we've been in and uh next time don't mess with the words okay so that's that's manishtana um Let's uh let's continue here okay a story myself I'm not gonna do every paragraph I'm just giving you some of the remember the the goal here is to be very tired that we could tell quickly yes there's a story about these sages the ones that I just read they were having their status together in benebra in the city of benebrack they were telling the story of The Exodus all night until their students came and said to them say no Masters he gives my Krishna chakras the time of the morning Shema has arrived okay it's a very interesting story why were they telling the story of The Exodus all night uh you know when did they think they were going to finish they were just going to keep going it seemed like they were going and going and going on the other hand why were the students if indeed that was the plan just to keep going why were the students interrupting I mean why students telling the teachers oh it's coming it's coming down first of all if I want to know it's Dawn I know what to do I can look out the window I see the the light is coming up so I don't need you to tell me that but also it's not the Quorum that the students should tell the teachers got to wrap it up the dawn has come so the story is a little bit unusual here so what what's what's Happening Here What's Happening Here is that we read just in the previous paragraph that a philos even if we would all be wise and understanding and knowing the entire Toyota Mitzvah eleno it would still be a commandment for us to tell the story of The Exodus that's what we said in the previous paragraph another way to read that is lisape not to tell a Seaport to tell a story but lisaper like sapiros which means shining like a sapphire we become luminescent how through telling the story and then the result is we go out of our mitsaram whatever limitations we presently have and we graduate to a whole new level new Vistas New Frontiers New Horizons okay so even if we are coming even if we're on this really super high level we still have an obligation as high of a level as we're on to tell the story of The Exodus in a way where our souls shine and we we hit a whole new spiritual level all right so the next paragraph We read about these sages who were on a tremendously high level the problem was they were on such and and even though they were on such a high level like it says even if we're on such a high level we still have to go even higher but you know it's tough when you're that high to get even higher it's it's not so simple so they were struggling with that and they were trying to inspire each other and you know can you imagine trying to tell rabi Akiva avort that he never heard before and you know blow him away like it was it wasn't easy right so they were trying to inspire each other these sages and trying to have that experience where oh it's a whole new level and and it wasn't happening and that's why they were going they're going going and now Dawn is is approaching they're going all night trying to get each other inspired and finally what happened is the students couldn't take it anymore they're listening to all of this and they're getting blown away we're going to say hold on a second who cares if the students are blown away mitzvaleno it's the it's incumbent upon all of us even the great sages to inspire ourselves who cares that the students are inspired the teachers still are not at their at their Threshold at their maximum capacity aha but this is the teaching this is the teaching it's sometimes the way to have a completely new experience for yourself is to inspire the newcomer to help out somebody who's on a lower level who's earlier in the process of spiritual growth and when you can Inspire them effectively it has the same result for you so the students weren't interrupting they were actually letting the teachers know you did it Masters you did it you gave us this out of Body Experience we're blown away we've completely left our limitations behind we're on a totally new level because of listening to what you're saying and therefore effectively it's as if the teachers had accomplished the same thing for themselves as well and that's why they describe it as the time for the morning Shema has arrived not that they're saying that it's morning because for that you look out the window but what they were saying is that it's light out now spiritually you've caused there to be a spiritual light the light of Shema which is proclaiming Hashem that God is one in other words we're listening to you guys talking and the Oneness of God is shining you did it wonderful you did it for us it's as if you did it for yourselves and that's an important lesson that sometimes you've been to us either and another Seder in another seder it's like how am I going to get excited how am I going to get inspired I I know all of my uh my go-to uh vertoloch ah so you invite somebody who's a little bit less experienced maybe somebody who uh is not the first person you would expect to even be interested in the Seder maybe you really reach out and find somebody who is an unlikely guest and anything they hear is novel to them anything that they hear is new to them and so they're getting excited just by so you're like that's exciting to you come on everybody knows that ah but when you can Inspire another Jew even with something that to you is old hat but you inspire them then then effectively it has the same results for you and you go out of your limitations as well okay how am I doing on the premise of saying things that I can do quickly is this quickly is this considered quickly no this is not quickly okay so all right I'm gonna step it up I'm gonna step it Up all right double speed no but it's not the trick is not to speak faster the speak the trick is to speak less to say less words I'm going to try to do it in less words all right all right so let's try to figure out one that takes less words um so let's go to the four Sons let's go to the four cents Connecticut see if I can do this one in very few words corresponding to four sons does the Toyota speak one who is a wise son one who is a wicked son one who is a simple Son and one who does not even know how to ask why does it say one before each one of them I know how to count he told me there's four and just say Tom why does it says the answer is that when you are raising children even if you have four children or more every one of them is you have to treat each one like an only child somebody once complained to the Bible I gave all of my children the same Clinic I don't know why I got different results I don't know why Samuel was more successful some of it was less successful I gave them all the same education that ever said but that's the problem you can't give them all the same education each one is an only child okay was it that was okay all right we're trying to keep it in that range of brevity brevity is the soul of wit who said that was that Shakespeare Shakespeare said that is that could somebody Google that who said gravity is a soul of what I think it's Shakespeare ah you're getting free biology free Shakespeare they don't charge extra for all this uh extra uh education Hamlet oh so it wasn't Shakespeare with some guy named Hamlet are you like that lavdil I'll tell you a joke that I made up once okay I actually wrote this joke so if you appreciate it I'll take credit for it all right if it bombs I'll take the play um I was one time I was saying you know in Yeshiva we learned gamada all the time we're learning talmud we don't learn Tanakh we don't want to knock it's like a thing then Yeshiva you don't learn and I feel like I'm really ignorant in tanah like for instance mishley I would love to learn Michelle I'd like to know more know more about initially like when did he live what did he do get it it wasn't funny okay you got to do you understood the joke you just it wasn't funny okay Michelin means proverbs so I'm saying oh I wish I knew more about Tanakh and then I'm like being super ignorant by saying I wish I knew like who was this guy initially there's no guy Michelle it means Proverbs okay all right that's the joke okay um you want another four children fourth I'll give you another one okay same thing for we'll get two for the price of one so the same idea so here's the vote that in every single Jew of every single type whether they're wise or Wicked or everything in between the Oneness of Hashem is present by virtue of their nishama so don't be fooled by the way somebody presents themselves at the Seder or anywhere else you have to know that there's an ashama there which is godliness which is is it good quick okay very good yeah that's right I'm going to talk about actually remind me to come back to when we speak about the makais because that's actually my favorite pesach of Art okay um and I'll tell you one more on the same part of the hagara and that is um you may have heard lab should ever spoke about the idea of the fifth son who's the fifth Sun so the lab explained like this the Russia he's called the Russia the wicked son but at the end of the day how bad is he he's at the Sailor right he's he's asking questions yeah he's a little bit uh standoffish but at the end of the day he actually came to the Seder and he's asking questions so it's a lot better than the alternative that there are Jews who aren't even at a Seder either because they don't know they're oblivious they're clueless they don't even know it's Passover in the world or maybe out of rejection they don't they they're refusing they're boycotting they won't come to the Seder so that's the fifth Sun that's the there's four sons who are all at the Seder including even the so-called Wicked son um but then there's the fifth son who's not even there and uh where do we get this it sounds like homiletics it sounds very inspiring cute but is there a basis to say such a thing ah so the Reba actually got this from his father who was a makubal and uh he used to explain kabbalistically a lot of things through the system of Gematria of numerical values so he says like this when it talks about when it introduces the four Sons so it says like we said before one one one one the word one is so aleph is one has is eight dollars four so one eight four one plus eight plus four thirteen okay and but it says that four times because it says before each of the Suns so you have 13 four times which is 52 and 52 is bigamatria Ben Ben means Sun bass is two known as 50 52. so the achad before each of the four Sons hints to The Hidden fifth Sun the Ben hakamishi the fifth son who's not even there at the Seder and our job is to bring him to the Seder and then hearkening back to our other vote about uh when you can Inspire somebody else it's even better than inspiring yourself I don't think I said it's better than but I said it's it's as good as inspiring yourself so then yeah if you can find a fifth son and inspire a fifth son or daughter um you can't get better than that okay let's keep moving um let's move on from this part and uh let's move to well remember I said remind me of the yakida when we come to the makers okay maybe maybe we'll do that one because that one's a little bit that one's a little bit long but let me see if I can try to do it quickly so I mentioned before there's ten plagues dumps for their Kingdom skin buttered which is uh blood and frogs and lice and mixed animals and blight I don't even know what blight is but an Endeavor that was polite um boils and uh hail and locusts and darkness and the slaying of the first born okay so something interesting here rabies says how do you know that the mitzvim were struck by ten plagues in mitzrayim the Egyptians were struck with 10 plagues in Egypt and 50 plagues at the sea the splitting of the sea because so he interprets a couple of verses here that in Egypt the khartoumim the sorcerers Pharaoh's Court magicians referred to one of the plagues as etz the Finger of God that's belly came the Finger of God and then by the Sea it says that the Jewish people saw the great hand that the Lord wrought upon the Egyptians well hold on a second in Egypt you're talking about a finger at the sea you're talking about a hand uh so a finger and a hand that's like a what's the value there the conversion rate about five to one right generally speaking don't ask an AI I heard they're very bad at that you know that by the way that the AIS that's the one thing they can't do they can't do the right amount of fingers do you know that yeah you heard about that like have Simpsons syndrome a lot of times with the the day of the week oh they can't do the day of the week I didn't hear about that I heard about the fingers they can't get the fingers right they either have too many too little but at any rate so five so yesia aglily says that if there were 10 plagues in Egypt famous ten plagues then there were 50 50 plagues five times ten at the C okay fine but then it continues and it says Emilia says that it was actually um four every plague was four-fold and he he um what he called the the darshans that he uh he blocking on the English word for this how do you say he what what word let's see the the uh the exegetical the hermeneutics the what's the verb here he pulls it out he uh deduces it I don't know he figures it out from a verse until he figures out that there's four terms of Destruction in that verse so really every plague is fourfold and therefore what did he come up with follow the math 40 plagues in Egypt and 200 at the sea following because if there were five times as many plagues at the sea as there were in Egypt which the standard way of counting it which is how yasia gleeley counts it is 10 and 50. but Ruby oliezer says every plague was really fourfold so now we get 40 and 200 but then it says they were five-fold so now he's gonna get 50 plagues in Egypt because the 10 are really 50 and then at the C he's going to get 250 because 10 times 5 times 5 250. you guys following this following the math okay all right all right so what's going on here what are the four-fold plagues and five-fold plagues and all that stuff so here's what's explained the purpose of the plagues was to dislodge the spiritual impurity from Egypt the question is how deeply had the spiritual impurity penetrated and taken hold one way of looking at it is Only The Superficial form of things was was defiled but on an elemental level which we described as the dollars the four elements you know what the four elements are fires the highest one then you have air then you have water then you have Earth which it always bothered me Earth Wind and Fire where was where was uh what you call it where was water that was there a guy who was water and he he threw him out of the band was he like the who was the the the the drummer that got thrown out of the Beatles Pete best was there a guy in Earth Wind and Fire who was water and he was like the Pete Best of Earth Wind and Fire I don't know but maybe you could ask chat GPT to write one essay about that okay at any rate so these these are the things that I think about ah the four elements perhaps the spiritual impurity had penetrated even to the elemental level and the plagues had to had to strike with such force that they actually uh disrupted the things in Egypt on an elemental level so for instance the first plague was blood when the blood when the when the water was turned into blood was it just the superficial form of water that was turned into blood that's what rebeccia Aguila would say or was it even the elemental components of the water so the water of the water and the air of the water and the and the in the earth of the water and the fire of the water and all of it was turned into blood on an elemental level in order to dislodge the impurity and in fact this same maklaikus corresponds to the difference in opinion regarding what is required as far as destruction of comets because comets and pesach represents the spiritual impurity of Egypt yeah so that's why gleeley who says that the plagues were only singular plagues they were not multifaceted he says you can destroy hummus just by tearing it up and destroying its form however liazer holds um like Rabbi Yehuda who says that you have to burn it why do you have to burn it because that's the only way to break it apart on its Elemental level not just its external form okay so that's one versus four what's the five why is there going to be a Kiva say that every plague was five-fold what's the five fifth level is the quintessence you ever wonder what quintessence means a fancy word we like to use rabbis like to use the word quintessence we say this is the epitome in the quintessential and the whatever but quintessence actually uh has has a very specific meaning you know it's like quintuplets you know quintopolis you know how many that is five um quintessence means the fifth level it's called Huli it is primordial matter if all of physical reality is made of the four elements the four elements in turn are made of this Huli um in in in Greek well in Greek to have different letters anyways but in the general way of English spelling or transliteration of ancient Greek I think it's spelled h-y-l-e but in uh but in rabbinic Hebrew it's it's uh pronounced Huli so the human then the hey is not a hey it's not a definite article it is Huli huli's part of the hay is part of the name at any rate so that quintessence that's the primordial matter the stuff that all stuff is made of rabi Akiva says that the impurity had taken hold even on that level and therefore the plagues had to penetrate to that level now here's I'm wrapping up here here's the Here's the the the personal takeaway we know that everything that happens on pesos happening internally Egypt is within and The Exodus is within this is all happening within up within ourselves so when the 10 plagues happen within ourselves and they dislodge the impurity within ourselves How Deeply do they have to penetrate there are levels of the Soul you could say Well it has to dislodge the impurity on my soul just one level I'll be like who says the plagues were only one dimensional or you could say no hold on a second the soul has nothing it even has a Transcendent level called Kaya and therefore I need to dislodge the impurity on all four of those levels and to be rid of it then there's a fifth level which is the quintessence of the Soul because it is it is together at one with Hashem at all times it is never tainted by sin because it is one with Hashem that's how atonement works on Yom Kippur we pray five prayers in order to reach that fifth level where sin was never effective and uh that's what we call the essence of the Soul now normally we would say there's no way to be exposed to impurity on that level but Ruby Akiva says it's possible that even that the deepest core of the Soul could also require a little shake up and then the question is well why did rebecciva perceive that if Rabbi iliazer didn't like how could we Akiva perceive such a thing as the depth of the Soul could require being freed from impurity so it's explained because there'll be Akiva was unique it was unique in that he came from a non-jewish lineage his father was a convert and therefore he understood that a Jewish Soul could be in a situation where it is divorced from its from itself and and even on the level of it could require uh freedom some type of Liberation the other sages didn't perceive that the lowest level that they could perceive would be that the four levels of the Soul could require Liberation they couldn't perceive that a yeh should be trapped in a situation that would need being freed from but Ruby Akiva was sensitive to that okay at any rate that was not short okay all right let's let's try to do let's try to do a short-ish one how you like that um yeah let's look at the yeah Everyone likes dieno right everyone like diagonal classic song okay um what's this that we say dieno it would have been enough would have been enough would have been enough are you joking like you say it would have been off but then there's like another thing so you don't really mean it would have been enough because then there's the next thing the next thing and if you would have brought us to the Sea and he wouldn't have split it Diana like really but then he'd be standing there oh okay fine if you want to split it but then he wouldn't have made all the treasures wash up onto it it would have been enough yeah but then each line you're coming to another thing so why why do you why do you say Diana sounds disingenuous okay so here's the thing doesn't mean it would have been enough means it would have been enough for us that Yang knew it would have been enough for us we were ready to settle at that point if it were up to us we would have said this is as good as it gets doesn't get any better than this and uh maybe for us it was enough but for Hashem it was not enough for Hashem he was not finished with us until he got us into our land and he built the Holy Temple and had his Dwelling Place in the physical world and the same thing we have to realize that even if we Are Spiritual Seekers and we are doing Mitzvahs and we're learning Tara and we're we're so grateful for our ability to connect spiritually and we say oh this is beautiful dayenu we're we're living the life well it's really not about you it's about Hashem and Hashem is not finished until he has his Dwelling Place in the physical world back this time you want even more than last time last time it was just in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem this coming time when Hashem will return he wants the entire world should become a Dwelling Place for his presence so it might be enough for you we might be enjoying all of our religious freedoms and we're feeling very inspired but it's not it's not enough it's not enough to let him get the whole kitten caboodle which is mashiach okay just something important to remember um you guys gonna remember this stuff you said anyone got anything that they could actually use over here yeah okay I'll give you one I'll give you one this nobody would even think to have a vote on this because it's not even really to say there it's an instruction it's an instruction line um so after you do see so you actually find you you finish the the Magi the which is the telling the story and then you do the the you eat the matzah and the moro and the sandwich um so then it says the meal case base legumo you can eat as much as you need and you can have more wine between cups two and three fine it's just like a technical thing what's so exciting about that no it is exciting I'll explain to you why between cup one and two you can't have more wine cup one is kiddish cup two is the one that we just had at this point right here when we finished Magid and we're about to eat the matzah cup three is benching at the end of the meal when we bench when we say the grace after meals cup four is at the end of the whole thing near it so when we're when we're all finished so between cup one and two you can't have any other cups you can't like pour a cup in the middle of Magid and just drink it between cup three and four you can't drink more wine I mean by that point you've eaten without the claiman so really you're not supposed to have anything some people won't even drink water at that point but yeah you're not supposed to have another cup of wine and then certainly after cup four where you're at that point the whole seder is over this you don't drink wine you don't eat eat or drink till the next day but between cups two and three you can drink as much as you want okay why is this interesting the four cups correspond to the four Sons the first son like we said earlier is the wise son he's the easy kid to deal with second son is that Russia he's rebellious he feels excluded the disenfranchised kid the third son is uh the simple one and the fourth one uh is the oblivious one which doesn't even know how to ask questions so you don't have problems with him so I guess for now it's also you know easy to deal with um each of those cups is a One-Shot deal you drink the cup and that's it you don't drink another cup it's only the second Son who's who the Second Son Russia you can drink as many cups as you need in other words don't tell me well I don't know he was making a fuss at the Seder and I tried to answer his questions but he just didn't want to listen so I gave it a shot so give it another shot and give it another shot and give it another shot there's no limit to the amount of attempts that you're allowed to take on the second cup so that's a that's a lesson for us don't give up on a Jew okay um what else we got here what do we do for a grand finale okay I'll tell you oh by the way I just want to give you a pro tip over here um before I tell you the last Ura and that is Sometimes the best strategy is not to tell these Toyota when they come up in the hagada Sometimes the best strategy is that when something comes up you say okay I have something interesting to say about this but I'll tell you at the meal just a practical uh Pro tip there sometimes you can just tell people heads up I have something interesting about this but we're not going to talk about it right now because I know everybody wants to uh get to the meal so I'll tell you during the meal and then when they have their mouths full you can you can talk okay here's the last thing I'll tell you this this is really um this is what it's all about in the end at the end of the say there we say beautiful next year in Jerusalem sounds like kind of a downer like Oh no you're telling me we tried it didn't work obviously we're still here okay try again next year I gotta wait a whole year got away a whole other year for this and uh no that is not the correct reading means that next year next time we have a Seder we're going to be neutralim but that doesn't mean you have to wait until next year for Misha to come that means all right so we finished the Seder in gaulas we're still in Exile Michelle will be here a second from now and then next year seder will be entirely in a state of redemption and uh the altareb is nusa of the hagada the balatanya in his hagoda he does not have the customary words that you'll find in many haggadas where it says we hereby complete he does not have that word that we've completed the Seder and you could think well maybe it's just the printer's Omission maybe I don't know they ran out of ink but uh there's a deeper explanation which is that the point of the say there is ongoing Liberation from all limitations from anything that is holding us back from living up to our full potential so we never finish the Seder if we do the Seder right the whole point of it is continuous growth constant growth and therefore the Seder really doesn't end we bring it into the year with us okay anyways I hope this helps everybody what they're saying their caution foreign joke you can crack everybody up with my Michelin joke okay