The Seder A Mystical Understanding (Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair)

okay so last week we talked about the ramban at the end of pasha's bowie ramban as we discussed describes what it is that a person should get out of the seder that's what we talked about and really to sum it up the ramban says that the great miracles that hashem brought in egypt were to show number one that he exists number two that he's not so transcendent that he can't be imminent as well he's both college kardash totally removed and at the same time omnipresent and not only that that he is a thing called meaning that hashem cares so to speak what we do he wants a relationship with us and also those miracles were shown to show to us that he can do anything once he's omnipotent and the last thing the ramban says is that through pre-announcing these miracles to moshe this would once and for all uh prove demonstrate that hashem speaks to his naveem and confides with them and as the ramban says on this the whole torah rests because only the jewish people only heard the first two mitzvahs with hashem and the rest of the torah comes to us by moisha who is probably the most elevated holy stenographer in all of history because basically what moshe did was to copy down verbatim what hashem told him and of course seeing as we weren't there at the time it had to be demonstrated and validated that hashem does speak to people human beings and confides in them because on that says the ramban the entire torah rests and then at the end if you remember the ramban says that from these great public miracles by um imbuing the knowledge the memory of these great public miracles into ourselves and passing it down to our children that through constantly doing this so many mitzvahs zecharia's mitzrayim and being mahavin to that event eventually a person gets to a point of understanding that everything that happens to him is really miraculous and as we said even though that a person is born under a mazal masala from the los angeles maybe we could turn the air conditioning off it's a little bit uh roasting so um uh thanks a lot that um i appreciate that so that even though a person has a mazal but it's possible miraculously hidden miracles to change what's going to happen to a person and that is why the torah says the ramban is full of promises about what will or will what will not happen to the jewish people should they teach to keep the torah yo mal kosh you won't have to worry about bandits entering your land etc etc and if you don't come to keep the torah then all the dire perils that will befall the jewish people all of these things are all in hola mazza why don't we see anything any mention of the rambam basically explains that it's possible it's simple it's self-evident that a person will be rewarded for a spiritual action a mitzvah in a place of spirituality meaning what is not clear and what the torah has to stress and therefore that's why the torah goes to great things to mention whether all of the rewards and punishments in allah moses is that is counterintuitive i wouldn't necessarily know that a person would be rewarded or god forbid punished for his performance or his failure his transgressing of a mitzvah making it doing an aveda in this world in a physical world like this comes along the torah to says no and that's really the bottom line of what a person should be intuiting should be internalizing at the seder is that everything that happens to me is miraculous if i do a mitzvah hashem will reward me not just in olombo even in this world and god forbid the reverse that is the basic lesson over the ramban so the rabban is ramban is basically talking about it mitzrayim on a on the level of chat what we want to do tonight is talk about on a more mystical level which is really the ram khal's approach so the rav khal discusses his main point is the effect of us performing mitzvahs during the seder even without the proper mokshava clearly when a person has to correct kevon and the correct bhakshava this adds immeasurably thought the correct thoughts thanks for stopping me the correct thoughts add immeasurably to the value of our mitzvahs but the essence of the mitzvahs of the sailor are to do the mitzvahs the physical actions and the ramkhal says that this actually causes a physical change in our bodies it's not com just of course it is commemorative on a certain level the seder the seder is not just commemorative it actually causes a physical change in our materials and this is the point we'll elaborate on let me give you a very basic example let's say that you go to a cedar somewhere and you're not really into it not you but somebody and you know eat the matzah eat the matzah so probably the scar for your your matzah is like um on the richter scale from one to a million it's about it's one and if you're the holiest jew in the world probably your scar is a million now let's say you go to a reformed seder and there's a very talented clever how do you say um i think what's the female of a rabbi rabbit rabbanite i don't know fish poor rabbit a a lady rabbi and she expounds and has all these amazing conceptual ideas and probably she's you know been studying uh cabala on the internet and um she comes up with these all these amazing amazing ideas and and you know you you sit at the sedan you have these fantastic ideas so basically you have the six zeros without the one you have gonishment gurnish in other words makshava i'm assuming that she said things that were true but without the myself is nothing myself without the marshava is always something so the ram khal describes how even the bare performance of the mitzvahs changes a person it sees mitzrayim and of course every seder because we plug when we sit at the seder into three and a half thousand years of its mitzrayim and we'll talk about that it seems really created a fundamental change in the mahouse of clay israel in the substance of clarissa in other words even for example a baby boy before he has a brisk mealer he has a lower ability the body has a lower ability to ingest spirituality so even without kabbalah satoru the mere fact of yetis mitzrayim affected a fundamental change in our bill our ability to come and recover the torah let's go from the beginning on a mauritian was in a very sp very high spiritual level even though that he lived in a physical body but even physical things can be on a very high level and when someone on that very high spiritual sorry spiritually right spiritual level does physical things it doesn't make him more gash me it doesn't make him more physicalized which is not the case with us adam's body was as though it was transparent his body wasn't connected to cashmere so it's a it's a a how do you say a paradox in a way but on the one hand he was in a physical body but he wasn't gash me any time he did anything physical that didn't make him more physical the soul shone through his body and the light was not dimmed by the body however because adam was physical the body had the potential to become gash mystic yashmi more physicalized and of course that's what happened when he ate from the fruit at that point even though raphtessa says it was an avail in the veil of shema the mauritian made a calculation he understood that if the yata horror which up to that point existed only in potential outside of his body so by bringing that yata into his body and conquering it that would be a bigger kid of hashem of course he made a mistake but the and that was the aveira but it was an available but nevertheless once the yetzer hara was not just outside of him but that was now inside him so that caused his body to become more cashmeres and after the ket the body then desires the things that the body desires covered tiver the point is when we do a mitzvah this is really the point i'm going to keep hammering home when we do our mitzvah our body changes uh nephesh abahamis the physical part of us becomes elevated it becomes the body itself becomes more inclined to do good and when we do an average so the body becomes the nephesh bahamas becomes lower therefore literally means the animal soul the part of us which is physical that can be raised in a human being anyway from being on a lower level to a higher level automation as we said was on a very very high level meant that the human race could not be missed in hashem in this world it could not cleave to god in this world why so as we said the mathias the reality of this world is you can't be here without a body so what happens when a person dies and now in order to be because other malicious brought death into the world death was necessary in order because the body became so physicalized so lowered that you know i have to put a pause here the ram khal believes that because the body um is the partner with the the the soul in earning the soul and the olam hubba it's not fair that the body should not receive its world it's a reward excuse me now other admiration theoretically before the hate could have gone to body and soul together once the body became polluted by the aveda it was not possible anymore now for that to happen therefore the body we have to go through a process of death of death we when at that point the shama separates from the body it goes to a place called the ulam and the shomois the world of souls and eventually when mashiach comes in the acid level in the time to come the neshomer and the body are reunited to be how do you say to have this supernal pleasure of the ziv hashina the radiance of the divine presence but of course the nishamah cannot go to ulamaba without a goof because why the goof was instrumental was his partner in doing the mitzvahs in this world what about uh with regards to gehenna the body caused the neshama to do a an average so then the body should believe him why is the neshama going to hannah that's a good question i'm not sure i don't know enough to tell you the answer to that question it could be one of two answers one answer is that that essentially the goof has its um agenda but a person it says that says the the the the the eta horror is a malach and if if college morocco didn't help a person he wouldn't be able to stand up to the the the malach the atari is a male much stronger than you but it doesn't say anywhere that the yetzer tov is a mother the yetzeta is a person's seiko a person who doesn't use his sacral it's because the person didn't use the sacral that he ended up doing the avaira so it's the responsibility of the neshama more than the goof i think that's the answer i'm not sure could it be that the the purifying process for on the shama is going to to get him and in turn the the purifying process for a body is to die and decompose and then be brought back that's very good yeah i mean there is a there's a thing called the kibbutz that a person when the physical the body goes through a lot of pain in the grave and there's uh but exactly what's which where the pain's coming from is it you know that also the nashama gets thrown from one side of the world to the other it's called kaffa keller there are many things which we don't think about in too great detail about what happens after a person dies but let's let's let's say that that's the case that the process of decomposition and the pain of that is the body's tikkun the body and the shaman will be reunited reunited now adam orisha brought so much darkness into the world so much ra through that hate that the only way man could purify his body uh there you go to be a clea fit to basque in the srivashrina although i'm not sure the body was necessarily responsible but seeing as the body was part of the aveira so the body also has to be purified as well so to be a clea fit for to bask in the sh of the screener so it has to be this is the talking about mankind in general man either has to work on himself very very hard or he has to go through isurim through afflictions not quite what i said before we're not leave that about the the the decomposition of the body let's just talk about mankind in general mankind the body of man is now inhabited by this ra and for this ra to be evicted to be expunged requires a tremendous amount of work or issue suffering in jewish the jewish idea of suffering is never vindictive suffering is a kipara yesurim always come to cleanse it's it's like the bleach not a very pleasant thing but it whitens a person so the only way that a person could purify the body to be a clea fit is to work on himself very hard or to go through your serum it's only in this way that the goof could be changed as we said punishment affliction issue suffering has the ability within them to purify a person only adam yitzhak yakov were able to work on themselves to the degree that they didn't need to [Music] go through these hissurim so those 20 generations between adam and avraham hundreds of years with no torah and mitzvahs one reason is that the world would be just being in this world putting up with being in this world would be a process of cleansing the seven mitzvahs did not purify they just they didn't make you better they just preserved the social structure it was to preserve mankind a form for mankind but there was no tikkun in the matsias the flood the dora palaga that didn't fix the world so what happens basically is you see us with shrimp is the clal israel in order to be purified in order to be in the am shem in order to receive the torah go into an accelerated process of yesurim of affliction and suffering in order that they can now be ready and the goof will they'll be able to be purified that their bodies will be able to receive the torah and as it says that the hassenai the jewish people were like other mauritium coding of course with the the eagle that all fell apart but right then and there when we received the torah we reached the level of other mission before the head now on the night of the seder we have we reenact that it's here and derek hashem is going to say we're going to say it in a second the time jewish time is not really linear it's cyclical it's a bit like when you were a kid you had a everybody sure had a train set yeah so the train set goes through the station into the tunnel over the bridge every week is really a cycle the same when we get back to the station it's called shabbos that's the shape same shabbos as shabbos parachutes it's not a it's the same materials and the spiritual from a spiritual point of view that's the spiritual the influences from upstairs on every shabbos are the same as shabbos parachutes and similarly with sukkos basically we plug into three thousand years of yitzhis mitzrayim the same spiritual landscape is there and if we plug into it into the right way we experience the atheism in the same way so as i said the it's here from from israel the the the uh excusing the suffering in egypt was the cleansing of the ra and on the night of pesach that ra is taking us out taken out of us again it's a tremendous opportunity however we have to be mechasic this process by eating the mural again this is not something commemorative this is actually physically when we eat the more we change we are taking the right out of ourselves let's maybe look now and we'll look at work because the the model is is better so why any better that's taking out better it's to accelerate the process of the usurim that we had in mitzrayim it's like a that's okay let's maybe we'll see if we'll look over here this is something called uh okay it's the first page it says indian actually that looks wrong to me let me see you know let me see this yeah it's the second page i stapled it wrong all right here we go you should have something that says my morocco this is back to front okay sorry i apologize here we are indian cedar layla i'm going to read in hebrew quickly and i'll translate indian sadie shall pass by the ramakhal paige kufiyan in as a process of the coming out of egypt nivarro israel the jewish people were clarified and navdolu was separated mccall i mean from all the nations leos miss alim to be elevated but madre gossame in their level and rodriguez are notions ahumarius from this physical level of the rest of mankind only has royal meant to be fit ready to be to crown be crowned by tara sakadusa with the crowns of glo of holiness and as i mentioned before as up till this point the darkness of physicality had dominated the body for gurim and cause that the light of the torah of course the torah is in existence the ramban says two thousand years before the creation of the world so the torah was already there it says right that uh of avraham all the others were able to keep the torah how are they able to do that the answer is that they had the eyes to look into the mathias and see the torah the zohar college says he staggered hashem looked into the torah and created the world the world is a reflection of the torah so conversely the of us were able to look at the world and see torah that's how they were able to keep all the mitzvahs now but that basically for every the rest of mankind the ghetto maritime and the humerus the physicality of this world prevented the light of the torah from shining israel after the jewish people had put up suffered from the affliction and the servitude the great servitude shisobulu that they put up with this paisa meetha sadin in other words the media saddin was appeased the jewish people were now ready to receive the torah because they'd suffered as we said suffering is a kipparra banisha amaka beli taina and the accuser was now let was left without an accusation and they were now prepared to be radiated with the supernal light on this night all of this is renewed um and reawakened martian as it was in the beginning was there atmos and this itself is an aid for the eventual final redemption that will come to pass meaning and we'll go into this in slightly more detail as well that every time we go through a seder with kha'zik in this which is basically right that's what the ghoul that's that's the gaulah but that is going to come is fortified every year by our going through the seder by us performing the say the by us living through the sediments doing the same doing all the mitzvahs this builds a an edifice which will eventually as he says at the end here bring the ghoul of shalema for amnam talib the essence of the sarah sada relies on four things rahim pesach mata moro now we're going to explain what the what's all about hinate sirif agolas kava biano we've already explained that the godless the exile was the thing that purified the jewish people and removed from them the zuama it's almost like literally means filth it's a spiritual concept that of the nakhash of the snake that it's really the atahara the eights are the zuama the spiritual filth literally that uh was a was um encrusting the jewish people was now this the suffering we went through was now removed from us and so i lost the place of him in order they can afterwards receive the likes of kadusa this is the idea of the moral as we mentioned before moro is it says in the passage that parrot embittered their lives however when the time arrived for them to be redeemed is long sentence basically what we're talking about is i think i understand it was sumera the turn aside from doing evil all the evil had been um how do you say expunged from us taken out from us but we didn't have the spiritual capability of elevating ourselves just by removal of the removal of the evil we needed some outside force to elevate us as he says here which is the corbin pessah when the time came from their redemption so it there was the hashem revealed a light of holiness and through this light of holiness the jewish people were able to attach their souls to through this attack this attached themselves to hashem and they through this light of holiness they were drawn out of the quagmire of mitzrayim out of the tumor and raised up from their lowliness and separated from their spiritual impurity that they were wallowing in it and this was done through the koben pesach in other words the morrow was the sumaira that took all the evil out of us the corbin passage was the asetov was the positive how do you say um energy which was able to bring us out of mitzrayim says withdraw your hands and take withdraw your hands from zara the cooler mitzvah and take to yourselves the the lamb of the mitzvah meaning the pesach so the paschal so now what happened the process is as follows we got rid of the ra we've got the mr's assay of the komen pesach but in order to fix this in us this kadusa so that's why we need to eat a spiritual food which has no yatahara in it which is the matzah for seven days these seven days in a year which is food which has the aspect of only ethertov without any yetzera at all in other words that's so to speak the cement that seals inside us for those seven days a year the kadusha that we imbibed by going through the seda and of course nowadays we don't have the koben pesach but that's that's the process obios nizonimbaza yomim elon to be fed from this in these days and the character will remain the the um how do you say the effect of this good effect for all of the year leo's kalashana kadusa the whole world we will be prepared for kedusha we will be by going through the seder in the right way uh as i said before our bodies are rendered susceptible um like uh prepared to receive kadusa throughout the rest of the year the matzah seals that with insiders it's now so that's where we had the moro which is the sumaira we have the koben pesach which is basically elevating us that's the asetov and the matzah which seals this kedusha in us for the whole year om nom indian of the allicosis now let's talk about the four cups the four cups the the levels of the sahara the sitra literally the tsajaka negan the other side the other side the other side of kadusa the side of tuma are four just like there are four letters in hashem's name so there are four exiles which represent the four aspects of the opposition to hashem in this world and they are represented by the four exiles of babylon um persia we just got through um purim then we have uh greece yavan and finally rome but these four exiles each have a beginner which i'll discuss later if we have the time to which are connected which stand opposed to the four letters of hashem's name the morale goes into great deals on this maybe chanukah will do more in detail but that's basically that's the idea of the four cups the four cups come to oppose so to speak to bhimavatal the koyach of these four exiles therefore after this opening of the door so to speak by other mauritian these four exiles were able to these four powers were able to rule over man are you miss nagdos ella kadusha they oppose holiness vahatov and the goodness and goodness shalom their idea is that they should not be in the world for israel now this is the kabbalistic idea that the what's called the clippot the keeper is a shell which prevents the light from shining in and the jewish people so to speak were encased through these four exiles with the clepot sealed inside them in order that they they couldn't get out and the line light couldn't shine in either until hashem shone on them with his great power for shabbat and he broke through he shattered the four clippers he's the israel and and he brought the jewish people out from these forklift which by the way and we've discussed it some other time mitzrayim was the tamsis was the summation was the distillation of all of these four exiles all rolled up into one but after mitzrayim and we go out from its rhyme so we still have to we may battle these four exiles throughout history four exiles this is the way the jewish people were redeemed with through the four letters of the name yud kevke indians israel sorry montgomery he's saying that as i said before the eastern rhyme was basically the breaking fourth of these four clip but in order to completely dominate and vanquish them completely so the four exiles also have to be vanquished lavo that's going to be in the future when finally at the end of this exile we're now the exercise of rome omnom hinay zaire and it gives a marshall here like a tree when you're chopping down a tree you can't drop it down at once what do you do you give one blow after another blow so every pesach so to speak cuts down the power of the four exiles until finally they come to an end completely hole we by doing keeping the missiles of the say that we cause this light to shine more brightly again uberticon and then through this fixing which will be done eventually oz in the end um in other words that idea of cutting down this tree of of tuma slowly slowly until it finally falls down with the kami mashirch vna but so far in the end of of everything hadalab klipos and they will be destroyed though some of them may madolo coaster shall piranhas shall him those are what's called the four cups of punishment will the israeli coaster shall jewish people will have these four cups of redemption um but the harass hashem with the final shining so to speak of course those mystical ideas of the four letters of the shaman of sem's name and that's basically what we said the icker of this tikkun is through us doing these mitzvahs now he's saying that as we saw that that's the idea that why do we finish off with the afikoman and the holocross you're not allowed to taste anything afterwards is that we want to be mam sheikh to draw out this kadusha into the rest of the year hamaksik haitsa tov to bimaksik the eighth of as we mentioned he mentions before for this tiguan to remain the whole year round we need to eat the afikoman and after that and we shouldn't eat anything after that that's something as we say before that the taste should not leave our mouths so similarly the light should not leave us for the whole of the year okay the next thing i want to look at is the derek hashem which is the same idea this is the my maha mama right now if you turn to some of you to go to either order it says peric chess this is really complimentary information here it's very clear so it says the ram khan and we'll finish with this right until the exodus from egypt the jewish people were intermingled with the rest of the nations nation in the midst of a nation that says going to carry of going the jewish people were so to speak caught up intermingled completely interspersed with all of the other nations and with the coming out from egypt they were redeemed and they were separated until this point all the bodies of mankind were darkness with darkness and this spiritual filth shahia misgaba alaihim which was dominating them will be at seer and through the atheism israel niv the israel the jewish people were separated when this manu guru for some and their bodies were readied and prepared lita hair to become pure will is dumb in the torah and to be ready for torah and the evolution orleans there this is the idea of this destruction the removal of comets this is the really equates in truth to the um the desired situation for a person really that's the way a man should be why the indian akhimuts shohu dava tv balaham that's something natural in the bread in order for it to become bread shiite cow it should be easy to digest should be good in a this is also the way things normally should be in other words if a man is supposed to have a yet sahara he's supposed to have these things naturally for gum [Music] he also has to have this yet sahara and as he said this physical tendency and that's the way the rest of the year that's the way things are supposed to be that's why you'll ask me i thought something else well why if maths is so great why don't we eat mutts all day around the answer is that's that's not the way we're supposed to be bread is natural bread is the way we're supposed to be however says the ram khal amnam lismanam yukhad for a special time um and a measured amount of time israel the jewish people required lehimana to hold back minah mates from muhammad sawin mamatsa and to be nourished by matzah and mata alone leost in order should be that they should encourage nurture in themselves the power i'm sorry that in order they should marty they should reduce in themselves the power of the eta hara by nathiya kumris and the desire for and the physical inclination and they should raise up inside themselves their closeness to spirituality for ulam however shia zonu ef i said before to be nourished in such a fashion all year round constantly that's impossible that is not the desired state in this world ah for these measured days seven days lazer for this rui it is fit that this matter should be guarded and carried out obviously they because through this they will stand or they will i think it means they'll remain on this mag which is fit for them this is the main idea of the hagamattas bashar mitsu salila hareshona and the other mitzvahs of first night kulam all of those inyonim pratim are individual ideas and matters which are magabilim sorry which are parallel to the individual details of the goulashi as we said those four exiles now this is basically what we wanted to to get to the when we the seder inculcates changes us physically it's not commemorative it's actual it's something which we don't understand it's a mystical change it predisposes us to be on a higher level spiritually and the mata eating the mata for the seven days fixes that for us for all year round but of course we're not supposed to live like that the whole year round but by going through that process of of pesach it raises us for the whole year and every peso that comes around we get closer and closer to the googler now we did mention the four exiles and i just wanted to um point out that there are four exiles there are four elements and there are four negative uh attributes and four positive attributes so let's go through the four exercises as we said before the first of the four exiles is bovel babylon and poros persian and medea rome uh so i got the wrong way around yavon greece and then rome so the element which corresponds to bottle is fire fire for a fire fire earth air and water right so the element which corresponds to the bubble is fire and fire goes up fires this um connotes guyver covod and also kina of course jealousy comes from the fact that a person can't bear that his covert should be impinged upon i'm the great of you know the greatest thing in the world so how can anybody come along and impinge on that so automatically i'm jealous of that person so that's also it's also guyva guyva wants to go up and the opposite of that the uh what you call it the i was this is the four cups we're talking about is the opposite that is another is humility the next exile is porous porous and persians it says they were restless like the bear they were that's the media of uh of uh of tiber physical pleasure and of course the their element is water the l the beginning of all pleasure is from water and the opposite of taiva is a media called histopek bermuat which means to be satisfied with the minimum the opposite of physical desire is to put up with what is suffice sufficient islamic word then yovan which is yavin is heir because if you remember the attack of the greeks on us was verbal and the negative how do you say quality of air is losh and horror nivel pair which is foul language and clearly the opposite of that is de bonnochon correct speech encouraging speech learning torah all of these things so these are the four exiles these are the four elements these are the four negative elements for negative qualities and for positive attributes okay questions what was wrong rome is um rome is i'm sorry to say rome is offer rome i've missed that out thank you rome is offer around his uh earth uh fire earth uh earth fire and water so rome is sinks down that's atlas that's uh how do you say laziness and it's interesting the word atlus and azfus in hebrew atsus means sadness and atlas means laziness they only have one letter difference because if you see when when a person is is sad he usually moves in a very slow way so they're connected together and also atlas probably the other way around causes a person to feel depressed i mean this is something that psychology took many hundreds of years to figure out and one of the things that psychologists do behavioral psychologists do when a person feels depressed what do they tell a person to do go out run away do something do something why because ahreful islam so atlas is and the similar the sign of sadness is is laziness and that's the idea of sinking down inertia rome and the opposite of that of course the positive meter is resist okay so i hope this will give you something to to think about but the main thing i wanted to take from this is that when you go to the seder to say it is not something which is commemorative it's actual the mitzvahs are not commemorative the mitzvahs change who you are they raise the bahamas to be on a higher level and be doing that of course as ada shepherd brings the ghoul of shalema kharov