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The ORIGINAL Pesach was in the HOME
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On the night when the Jewish people left Eygpt they were confined to their homes, as it says (Shemos ) "No one shall leave the entrance of his house until morning." We can learn from this several important lessons applicable to current events. Based on teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe זי״ע. Visit https://SoulWords.org/ for more videos from Rabbi Taub.
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okay welcome to today's class first of
all we want to mention that the class is
lilian ich muss high-moisture been
Benjamin's fee who's your site is today
when the shaman should have an alia this
class is being spoken to an empty room
because of precautions that are being
taken regarding the spread of the corona
virus we are not having class in the
regular way
but Baruch Hashem the age that was
mocked in ryofu LaMacchia
to some extent and made the wonders of
modern technology available to us and
although the room is empty
in the physical sense we are actually
able to reach so many people through
through video and online so our minds
today should be unprepared for pacer we
know that 30 days before the opt if we
begin to prepare and yet the whole world
is preoccupied with the the headlines
about the spread of this virus
interestingly however I think that we
can do both at the same time we can
prepare for Pesach and we can learn a
lesson from today's headlines at the
same time we know the Baal Shem Tov
taught one of his the tenets of his
teachings was that from everything that
one sees and everything that one hears
one must learn a an instruction in the
service of a Shem and certainly this is
no exception something that is affecting
literally the whole world in an
unprecedented fashion must be something
that teaches us gives us guidance so
let's begin and let's talk about Pesach
Pesach as we know is the commemoration
or even the reliving of the redemption
of our people the liberation from
slavery to freedom
and regarding the very first pacer
meaning the actual exodus from Egypt we
find something rather interesting that
maybe we gloss over from year to year
but this year takes on new significance
the night before the Jewish people left
Egypt we know that they performed the
carbon peso that's the the Passover
sacrifice and that they had to perform
the sacrifice in their homes and then
applied the blood from the sacrifice
upon the doorposts and the lentil of the
door and not only did they perform this
at home but as the Toyota tells us this
isn't parshas buddy
Bullock Optima goodness Asaph this is
Hashem's instructions that you should
take a bunch of hyssop with devoloped
him but dama share bus a few dip it in
the blood that's in the bowl we guide
him l am asking if they'll stay a
mezuzahs and she touched that blood upon
the to doorpost and on the the lintel
minute Dom a cher bus off from the blood
that's in the bowl the Ottoman you the
Jewish people they say so ish me pastor
they say add bacon no one should leave
his home no one should leave from the
entrance of his home until morning in
other words on that first night when the
cordon PASOK was performed and the eve
of redemption the Jewish people were all
homebound they were all quarantined
nobody was allowed to leave from the
entrance of their home so this is an
interesting this is an interesting
detail of the the exodus that perhaps we
don't think about from year to year but
what is the significance of being
homebound what's the the lesson and the
teaching for us about being stuck at
home okay so I want to share with you
two teachings that we find in the
teachings of the lubavitcher rebbe
one of them is from a seeker published
in Lakota circus the edited seekers
Gaelic
half of that's volume 26 the third city
of Pasha's bite this is a city which has
a great deal of scholarly insight it
analyzes a discussion of the raga
chathur who looks into the details of
the actual sacrifice in it and it's and
its rights but the gist of the serie
asks a question there's a takes after in
in Sock'em it tells us that one of the
primary differences between passive
mitzvot and peso from tri means the
carbon passer as it was performed at one
time that first time in metrium while
the Jews still were were in Egypt before
Redemption and the eve of redemption one
of the differences between the pass of
me trying and what's called pasa do i
specify race means all subsequent
passover offerings that were brought
every other year after the exodus one of
the primary differences that they
Serfdom Sock'em says is that passive
mitzraim called a Quadra awkward shake
it they say they say the Passover
offering that was performed in while
still in Egypt every individual would
actually slaughter the animal in their
home in their individual homes passive
derives the subsequent Passover
offerings that were brought for all
generations
Colio shaved him became a cloud all Jews
would have their animal slaughtered in
one locale in one location which was the
asana the courtyard of the base of
mikdash of the holy temple
it's an interesting thing how do we look
at this let's just give a little
background so we understand the Corbin
pest if the Passover offering was
performed on an air of Pesach and how
was it done you take a lamb you bring it
to the base at McDuff and the to
the slaughter and the the sprinkling of
the blood which are basic components of
any of any sacrifice that's all done in
the base of mcduck and then you take the
lamb back home and then you eat it at
home we eat the lamb at home the first
carbon passer how did they bring the
lamb to the base hamikdash or even the
Michigan Michigan was the temporary
sanctuary that the Jews had the 40 years
in the desert and then subsequently four
centuries before Schlemmer Malek built
the permanent house in Yiddish a line
but how did they bring the lamb either
to a Mick - or to a Michigan meaning to
a central location when it didn't yet
exist so they had no choice other than
to do all of the components of the
sacrifice in the home in other words in
all subsequent generations there were
two phases of the sacrifice you would go
to the temple and they would do the
slaughter of the the animal on the
sprinkling of the blood and then you
would bring it home to do the roasting
in the eating the first time it was done
however there wasn't that option there
was no central place there was no
Michigan and there was no Mick - so what
did you do the whole thing was done at
home the question is however was that a
practical dispensation was that
basically a a seeding to the to the fact
to the reality that there was just no
other choice or was it like the rabbit
brings out in this sefa
actually not a leniency but a stringency
not a cooler but a Cumbre in other words
the fact that all parts of the sacrifice
had to be performed at home in the home
wasn't a dispensation it was actually
for that year part and parcel of the
laws governing that sacrifice in other
words so that that hadn't been done that
way it would not have been anyone would
not discharge one's obligation would not
wooden would not be doing one's duty
according to the to the parameters of
the mitzvot in other words for the first
time the Jewish people brought the
carbon passer it wasn't just that they
cool
would do the whole thing at home it was
that they had to do the whole thing at
home the first carbon path sock was done
entirely in a homebound
way it's a very interesting concept now
from a practical standpoint again we
understand that one of the reasons they
couldn't leave the home was because the
magis the destruction of the destroy the
destructive energy was out performing
the the the Marcus Belarus the the the
slaughter of the firstborn and that the
idea was to administer the blood to the
doorway so that the hashem would pass
over literally pass over the the homes
where the blood was placed so that's why
they weren't going out they weren't
going out because of the the negative
energy that was out outside of the house
and they will only be protected by
staying in however as there ever brings
out in this circle there's more to it
than that yes this this aspect of it as
well but there's more to it than that
part and parcel of the carbon passer is
that there has to be a sprinkling of the
blood and that has to be done on them is
back on the altar in the temple but when
you have no michigan and you have no
Macduff and therefore you have no altar
what are you supposed to do so that ever
brings out that in this particular
instance the Jewish home and the
doorpost of the home became as if they
were the altar with all the stringencies
and in fact in certain ways greater
stringencies than if it had been done
and in the actual temple so what do we
see from this what do we learn one very
powerful lesson is that from the very
beginning of Jewish nation hood of
Jewish peoplehood the message was made
clear the power and the centrality of
the Jewish home it's not just because we
didn't yet have a central place we had
no other choice but to do it
from a certain perspective it's that we
had to do it at home because that itself
was what was inherent to the message
what message the mandate the charter of
the Jewish people we know Hashem created
the world because NASA Valley a slave
did a potato masher
desired yearned to have a dwelling place
in the lower realms in the physical
world the exodus is likened to the birth
of the Jewish people and many many lives
very much imagery in the especially in
divorce your Haskell
that describes the Jewish people as
being born during during the Exodus
what does it mean birth birth is when
you enter this world the physical world
your soul your eternal soul existed long
before you were born
birth is not a hideous not a
revolutionary change for your soul it's
it's it's a new change for the world
it's your soul entering a new phase
these are V being embodied and entering
the world so the birth of the Jewish
nation basically means the beginning of
the Jewish people think about the Jewish
people before their birth meaning this
Bank of souls that that pre-exists the
giving of the Torah and pre-exists the
exodus and actually mystically speaking
pre-exists the creation of the world and
how all of a sudden these souls are
being put into the world into physical
bodies in order to do physical mitzvahs
with physical objects to refine the
physical world to make it holier than
having to make the physical world where
they're going holier than the heavens
where they came from
how can we make a statement that the
purpose of life the purpose of
embodiment the purpose of being here in
this world is to make the world a better
place not through going out to a central
place outside of one's day to day life
or outside of one's home but to the
contrary by bringing all the spiritual
energy into the home by putting the
focus into the nuclear family as it says
of regarding the carbon Pesa than it was
say laborious a sheep per household and
Rashi explains very clearly it doesn't
just mean that we're talking about a
family like a base of a Sikh it says
earlier in the in the plastic an
extended family but we're talking about
the nuclear family we're talking about
the family that lives under one roof
that the whole point of the carbon
passer the first carbon passive was to
put the focus on the nuclear family that
means the the family living under one
roof and to show that that is the focal
point of everything but it very simply
there was once a visitor who came to 770
Eastern Parkway and he was underwhelmed
why because it wasn't so fancy and he
asked that as chief secretary about how
to cuff you know why is it like this why
don't you make it nicer why don't you
make it more grandiose and share about
how to Kovach lee thought of a parable
or an allegory he says have you ever
been into the big skyscrapers in
Manhattan so the guy says yeah sure he
says you've been up to the you know the
top floor would have the penthouse you
know the fancy apartments on the top of
the skyscraper where the rich people
live yeah okay he says how do they get
heat all the way up there there's a you
know there's a system that brings heat
up there where does the heat come from
comes from the basement now down in the
basement there's a boiler room
you ever been in the boiler room boiler
rooms not pretty so but if it wouldn't
be for the boiler room that heat
wouldn't reach the penthouse
so he says welcome to the boiler room
right here asking why it doesn't look
fancy here the point of this building is
not to receive spiritual energy warmth
and light but to emit it to put it out
there okay and that was the same thing
with the base HaMikdash Celina not built
the base I'm English in such a way we
know that the windows were school FEMA
told him that means flared outward
why were they flared out were generally
speaking in in in those days
windows were built the opposite way that
warmth and light from the Sun should
diffuse should spread out as it comes
into the house so that it would maximize
its effect sort of like a reverse funnel
but Schlemmer Malek built the base time
ignition away the windows were flared
outward why was that so because that
point of the base of English was not to
bring light in but to put light out sort
of to be a boiler room so here's the
question what's the point of a boiler
room without rooms without offices in an
apartment in the building to send this
to send its heat - but then conversely
how useful are the apartments and the
offices if they don't have a boiler room
to get their heat from that's the
relationship between the mix - and the
Jewish home the Mik - the central focal
point that's to emit all the warmth the
spiritual light that's what that's the
boiler room that's where everything
comes from but each individual Jewish
home that's the focal point that's the
goal that's the target where the
spiritual energy is supposed to actually
reach and be admitted - and we see this
from the very beginning when Hashem told
the Jewish people to build a sanctuary
he said ah so li mikdash make for me a
sanctuary which economists say come and
I will dwell within them why not be say
hey within it within the sanctuary
because like the commentaries explain it
means to say come within each and every
individual Jew so even from the very
beginning the point of the Mishkan was
not that it should receive spiritual
light but it shouldn't emits
like in an admitted toward where toward
each individual Jew in their individual
life so from the very beginning what was
the point the point wasn't that we
should build this massive Cathedral that
should be the the the the monument to
Jewish spiritual life and if you want to
be spiritual you have to go to that
place no to the contrary the very
opposite that yes there's a central
place but that's not the place we have
to go to that's the place where the
energy comes out from and it's supposed
to reach you in your home in your day to
day life
and this message was clear from the very
first day on the eve of the exodus
before we even formally became a people
and the eve of our birth as a people
again that idea of birth means coming
into the world what do we come into the
world for we came into the world so that
each little corner of this world should
become Adira
batak titanum a dwelling place for our
chef we came into this world
so each Jewish house should become a
Mick Dutch MOT a miniature sanctuary and
that was abundantly apparent at the very
first moment when the first carbon
passer the passive human I mean not only
could be performed at home but it had to
be performed at home all components of
it even the components that would
normally be performed in the temple to
make the message clear the focal point
the target the goal of Judaism is in the
home it's interesting I was just
thinking just for myself that ever had
10 myths of campaigns the 10 myths all
you and I never heard anybody else point
this out but so I don't know how much
validity there is to the thought but it
occurred to me that none of the 10
Mitzvah campaigns require a shul or any
building or institution any communal
place but many of them require a home of
you at home
Shabbos candles primarily is lit in the
home the Jewish woman lights the Shabbos
candles where the family eats for
Shabbos filling okay Phil could be done
anywhere gonna be done in a street
corner if it doesn't need to be done in
any particular place mrs. Olsen so you
have to have a home in fact the whole
obligation of the scissors is for your
home when you are when you when you
actually are established residency you
know home Torah study okay that can be
done anywhere
sadaqa can be done anywhere but however
you know they're ever often emphasized
the importance of sadaqa being done in
the home to the extent of encouraging
people to a fix at Snuka pushka as part
of the home to actually build a dacha
pushka into the walls of the home so
that the house itself should become a
receptacle for Fairford sadaqa by its
molix forum is one of the 10 myths i'm i
mean there you have the word bias right
there a house full of Torah books house
full of Torah books is you know requires
a house Cassius ok Cassius of course
that applies even out of the home but
the main idea of conscious is to make a
kosher home takasho the home and to make
sure that everything you bring in the
home should should be should be kosher
Alva Cicero
okay you could do that anywhere maybe in
the home is the hardest places obviously
Sorella that's that's another class for
another time
Pino education okay yes that could take
place out of the home but the primary
education is in the home is from one's
parents and and and looked it up a spoke
about many many times really from from a
mother to two small children that really
the foundation of hindu cos is in the
home and in mikvah okay obviously very
few people have a mikvah in their house
but the whole idea of mikvah taught us
so much maka really is about what
happens in the home in fact what happens
in the epicenter of the home what we
call the caterer kadosh IAM of the home
the marital relationship is the holy of
holies is the epicenter the inner
sanctum of the home and is really the
bedrock the foundation of of jewish home
life so again we see that the tar
and the goal is always about the
personal life the home life nuclear
families bringing it into your immediate
sphere of influence so at this time when
we are all home bound I think it is very
very worthwhile to meditate on the fact
that the message from the first payoff
is that this is where our thoughts ought
to be our thoughts ought to be on our
homes and we could use this as an
opportunity every challenge is an
opportunity and every problem has the
seeds of a solution so at this time when
so many of so many of us are
quote-unquote stuck at home no you're
not stuck at home you have an
opportunity to refocus and recalibrate
how much attention should really be paid
to the spiritual health of the home and
to remember that that's really the goal
of everything Jewish we do the birth of
the Jewish people the coming into this
world of the Jewish people is about
keeping our focus on what we can do in
our homes okay so that's that's one
thought another thought also from the
teachings of the data is from a myth of
Chloe myth of Chloe is a general letter
a pastoral letter that ever wrote
several times a year letters that were
addressed to the entire Jewish people
very often one of those letters would be
written on your Dolloff Nissen that have
his birthday and would usually have a
Pesach theme being in the days right
before Pesach so the midst of quality of
your Dolloff Nissen tough Shin of Dalit
57:24 which you can find easiest way to
find it is if you have the the Haggadah
the rebus Haggadah that isn't a
two-volume set so in the second volume
they have all of the general letters for
Pesach from all the years and that's the
easiest place to locate that letter and
all the other letters so in the midst of
quali 57:24 the rabbit asks again about
this idea of the theme of the home
in regards to to paisa not like we were
talking about before about how peso from
a time the very first passer every part
of it had to be done in the home but
even passive data is the subsequent
generations there was still a major
component of it that had to be done in
the home
meaning even when they had the the
temple and the the slaughter and the
sprinkling of the blood was done in the
temple still they had to take the animal
and bring it back into the house and eat
it together as families in homes so we
see even after the first the fourth of
the first carbon path stuff the home
continues to be an important
indispensable component of the carbon
and what it what is the message there so
to briefly summarize in in the ladder in
the middle of Chloe the the never speaks
about the idea that the carbon Pesa
as we mentioned before in partials buddy
is introduced debreu al Cola das yes ro
Hashem tells Moshe speak to the entirety
of the congregation of Israel the entire
Jewish people and then proceeds to tell
them to perform the carbon passer and
then stipulates how its to be done Vika
Houlihan they should each take each each
individual cell of a service a sheep for
each family say laborious a sheep for
each household
so it's interesting juxtaposition on one
hand the verse starts and says da Bloo L
Cola da Cecil speak to the entirety of
the congregation the entire Jewish
people but then the verse ends and says
the actual application of the Mitzvah is
cell evasive ace a sheep per family said
laborious a sheep per household what do
we see from this that's something that's
big something that's universal something
that's applicable to the entirety of the
congregation of Israel if you really
want to do that thing it has to be done
in the base a vase in the bias in the
family in the home
and that ever there Heba moans how often
we see especially from leadership but
ever talks about rabbis who want to have
a big message a universal message and
they talk about major world global
problems that really don't have any
practical bearing on anyone's life and
you know the this and they say there was
once a young man he got married during
Sheva broca's he was you know who newly
married he's saying that marriage is a
little bit more tricky than if then he
understood so he was in Sheol he went
over to an older guy I've been married
for you know 30 40 years and he said to
him listen you have any advice for me so
the older guy says yeah well I'll tell
you something of what works in my house
my wife and I made a division of
responsibilities I deal with all the big
issues and she deals with all the small
issues he says really and it works he
says yeah thank God
35 years of marriage hasn't yet been one
big issue
what's the every truth has a little joke
big issues are very interesting in
theory but in real life did they really
come up do they really occur what is
real life real life is a bunch of little
issues quote unquote little issues but
it's the little issues that make or
break everything because that's those
are the things that we actually have
control over those are the things that
actually constitute our life so
sometimes it's much easier to put the
focus on the big things that really
don't have anything to do with us but
it's a distraction from the little
things that we should be taking
responsibility for this is a getting the
old story about the Communists
indoctrinated came to the village before
the the Russian Revolution and who's
teaching communism and he's making sure
that they understand so he asked this
little this little farmer in the
audience he says comrade you understand
how communism works he says yeah I think
I do he says let me quiz you make sure
he says if you have two cows what do you
do he says I have two cows what are you
doing says I keep one cow and I give one
cow to the communist party very good
comment ok let me ask you you have two
goats what do you do what do I do
you says I keep one goat I give one go
to the communist party so it's very good
comrade ok you have two chickens what do
you do
guys silent comrade - chickens what do
you do
no response guys he won't answer
so the Communists and dr. Nader says
comment coward two chickens what do you
do he says let me think for a second he
says the Communists says I don't
understand when it came to two cows
right away you're ready to give away a
cow when it came to two goats right away
you're ready to give away one go now two
little chickens and you're hesitating
what's the difference here he says you
want to know the difference I actually
have two chickens
well it's talking about giving away a
cow that you don't even have okay no
problem I'll give it away go - you don't
have I'll give it away one now you're
talking about chickens huh chickens now
you're getting personal I actually have
chickens right so what's the idea here
the idea is that sometimes we distract
ourselves from being effective from
being most potent by trying to take on
issues that are way beyond us and
instead how could we be more powerful
and more effective and influential but
focusing on the little things you know a
lot of times we can unfortunately many
of us can relate to this that we're so
busy with the world that we fail to tend
to our own backyard and this is a
message of Pesach a message of Pesach is
that in order to be universal it has to
be specific in order to be global it has
to be local you want to change the world
start by changing yourself focus and you
your family your immediate sphere of
influence this is the lesson each year
on Pesach
especially in a time like this be in a
situation as we are in right now I think
this takes on very poignant meaning for
us
that we have now an opportunity to
really really change the world how by
being forced to focus on the family this
is a time where our kids can remember
being cooped up in the house with their
with their parents whose nerves are
frazzled and they'll look back on this
weird two weeks hopefully it'll only be
two weeks or however long it'll be and
then they'll say how stressful it was or
our children will look back on this time
and they'll say wow you know it was
really weird and you know we hope it
doesn't ever happen again but it was in
a certain way it was kind of nice you
know the family was bonding and we got
to know each other again and we
connected with each other
and you know it's really up to us the
adults to set that tone in the house
that we're cherishing the opportunity
obviously we want everyone to be healthy
and we don't want a situation that's
negative to have to force us into our
homes but in truth based on what the dev
is saying here but the lesson of pacer
we should have anyway focused on the
home because pacer has coming but it's
neither here nor there at this point how
it came to be the situation the fact of
the matter is this is the current
situation and we should embrace that
aspect of it as a time for refocusing on
the home which is the place where we are
most powerful not just in an immediate
sense but ultimately in my ripple effect
on the whole world you want to change
the world change yourself change your
family put the focus on the home okay so
those are just a couple of thoughts
regarding peso and the current situation
I also you know in the few minutes
remaining I just wanted to touch upon a
couple of other thoughts that applicable
to our times we know that the virus can
be transmitted even by people who do not
feel sick that's one of the things that
they're telling us is you have to
practice social distancing even if you
don't feel sick
because you don't know if you're a
carrier you don't know if you're
infecting others first of all you might
not find out too much later that you are
infected or you may never find out
because some people's symptoms are so
mild it's a very interesting concept
here you don't know whom is being
affected by you it's a very interesting
idea you don't know whom is being
affected by you my friend of mine really
a mentor a colleague rabbi Daniel
Moskowitz all of a shallow who was the
hedge Lea in the state of Illinois he
once told me that the you know of the
sages has I'll say the words from the
heart and to the heart but he added and
he said but sometimes you don't know
which heart words from the heart always
enter the heart but sometimes you don't
know which heart and he actually had a
whole story that he that he used to tell
I heard he never didn't tell the story
on a number of occasions a story about
having to go to the hospital with his
wife on Ed of Shabbos in a very bad
neighborhood in Chicago and running out
of gas and he thinks maybe even somebody
siphoned to the gas because he thought
the the tank had been full the previous
day and so I knew was he was stuck there
in this very bad neighborhood and had
the walk to the gas station and so he
was walking to the gas station and
finally he saw a police officer which he
was relieved to see a police officer in
this neighborhood and he asked the
police officer if he could help him
police officer didn't even want to get
out of the car he just told him to keep
walking the gas stations in six blocks
so finally got to the gas station and
the guys behind the big bulletproof
glass you know the guy doesn't even him
the guy at the gas station so he says to
me can i buy some gas sure you have a
gas canister he's not on the canister oh
no ok fine maybe I'll go to another
guest who wears in the next gas station
he points them six blocks down another
six blocks it's not he doesn't want to
walk in this neighborhood anymore so he
starts rummaging through the trash and
he finds a big orange juice like a
plastic orange juice canister
and he's gonna put the gas in the in the
orange juice canister and as he's doing
this a car pulls up and this guy pulls
up and he's looking at Robbie Moskowitz
and he and he asks him hey what's going
on and he's like I ran out of gas and I
don't have a canister and and I'm
putting it in this orange juice bottle
so the guy says you need a ride back to
your car come on get in
it's a big Mitzvah so it's not a very
Jewish neighborhood the guy doesn't look
very Jewish wasicus asks the guy he's
like yeah you Jewish the guy laughs he
says do I look Jewish come on man
okay get in the car let me do a mitzvah
so he stick to himself what's more
dangerous getting in the car with this
stranger and he seems nice but it's a
bad neighborhood and he's a stranger or
walking back six blocks you know so he
decides to take his a little take his
chances and he goes with the guy and as
they're riding you know a little
30-second ride back to the car
so he says where did where do you know a
mitzvah from how do you know a mitzvah
so the guy system he says your Habad
he's like yeah how do you know come on
so he says when I was younger I went to
school I went to college on the East
Coast and I had a Jewish roommate and
every Saturday morning the Chabad rabbi
would come knock on the door to get my
roommate and I used to apologize to the
rabbi and I would say you know what
I'll come you know what you need my
roommate for you and he told my quorum
we need 10 in order to pray he says
outcome he says all that Sun I see you
like right but yeah and you know Jewish
person to come so he said I would yeah I
always felt bad I couldn't help him but
the rabbit was so nice and he told me
look you'll help in other ways and so I
saw a way to help so you know this is my
way of helping you know I couldn't be
part of that the Dominion every every
you know Saturday morning but you know
you can help in other ways so this is my
way of helping so here we are here's
your car okay sir I'm a Moskowitz handle
on the drive home he's telling his wife
about the myth
a man who gave him a ride and who was
trying to help out in the way that he
could help out and he says you know the
amazing thing is there's some shalyah
at some campus on the East Coast who has
no idea that years later the roommate of
the guy who never came to minyan was
affected so deeply to the extent that
he's going around and doing mitzvahs so
that's our mouseka robbery Moscow had
said words from the heart and to the
heart we just don't always know which
heart
it's an incredible lesson for us we go
around and we're affecting people all
the time and we don't even realize it we
don't know that we're a carrier but in
this case a carrier for something good
so we should learn from the virus that
if we could be a carrier for something
negative and transmit it without even
knowing that we're doing so how much
more so is as we know our sages tell us
that Maroubra made that flavor that the
good aspect is abundantly
disproportionately greater than the
middle Peronists than the the negative
or destructive aspect there's a story
that ever once told at a faux Brennan in
in 1955 it was the good base to demote
Thomas for bragging which was a yearly
high point it's the celebration of the
liberation of the previous rabbit and at
this this gathering that ever told the
story about a young man and he referred
to him as a Bostonian a young man from
Boston who was walking down the street
with his beard and with his hat his sits
as' hanging out and that an old man
looked through the window and saw this
Bostonian and he asks somebody who is
that young man he looks at you know we
talked about in the 1950s so he says he
looks like the Jews that I knew back in
Europe before the war he looks like my
grandfather is he from Poland is is he
from Galicia where is he from and they
told him no he's a Bostonian
I explained how being from Boston is
very upper-crust and very respected
that's like the aristocracy of America
happens to be the the buck or the young
man in the story was Robin Hood a
Krinsky so that ever speaking about this
at the the Fabri in' and saying and the
young man doesn't even know the effect
that he had he doesn't even know that it
stirred this old man to teshuva and not
only affected the old man but affected
his children and his grandchildren so
here you see how its Maroubra the midde
Teva because with the virus if you
practice social distancing if you make
sure people are out of your dollar Damas
you're six feet then you can't really
affect them right
but here the Bostonian the young buffer
he was walking down the street outside
and somebody from inside saw him and was
affected never mentions their their
albums eight levels of sadaqa many of us
are familiar with the fact that album
says there are eight levels of sadaqa
what's the highest level the highest
level is when the giver doesn't know the
recipient and the recipient doesn't know
the giver so they never said this was
the case here because the barker didn't
even know the effect that he had on the
old man and the old man didn't even know
who the baha was he didn't even know his
identity this is the highest level of
sadaqa spiritual sadaqa so we see from
this we can see a living illustration
that we're having an effect on people
all the time we learned this from the
virus that we're transmitting something
we can be carriers without even
realizing that we're carriers but we
have to realize that even if you don't
see it words from the heart enter the
heart even if you don't necessarily find
out in the end which heart and that not
only is this happening but it's Muruga
it is great or disproportionately
greater than the negative that we that
because I mean this this itself is the
greatest example of it the fact that I'm
speaking into a this is an empty room
there's no one here I'm speaking into a
video camera but I'm able to transmit
something there's a session with without
even being in physical proximity so when
it comes to the virus the the the
there's a limit to how much
we can reach when it comes to positive
things Taylor and mitzvos giving
encouragement and and positive direction
according to Tyra there's there's no
limit and we don't know how much
influence were having so I want to
encourage everybody again the primary
focus now should be on the home to
embrace the fact that we're in the homes
to embrace the focus on the nuclear
family and on our children that they
should look back and remember fondly the
closeness that we experienced together
as a family unit during this time and
that we should also remember to take a
lesson from from the transmission of the
virus itself that if this is something
in the negative that can be so
contagious think about in the positive
when it comes to spreading positivity
and clarity and wisdom how many people
we affect all the time we don't even
know we don't even know but we just have
to put ourselves out there continue
doing good things and let Hashem decide
where those where that energy is going
to reach we don't know who will be
affected but surely people will be
affected everybody should stay safe stay
healthy enjoy your time with your family
and God willing we should all have a
very culture and Happy Passover