Pesach and the Slaughtering of the Egyptian Deity with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] Shalom alaikum everybody Welcome Home to Torah a warm welcome back to the given a big rush and we are it's right before pesach so we're changing gears we're going to talk about not just the uniqueness the special aspect a very special aspect of the pesach offering but as anybody who is well read in Jewish thought Jewish philosophy Jewish knowledge knows that the pesach offering uniquely is representative of a foreign God yes the god of the Egyptians and we're going to see a very interesting reason why we roast why we roasted by fire and that is to show and symbolize and perhaps even cause Hashem to react by roasting the god of the Egyptians and I'll just make it a little bit more vague anyone who believes that their God is representative by the pesach offering it's roasted in fire so I hope that's a good enough tease for you guys to continue to listen to this year we deal with the clear car number one that's going to be the basis of the discussion and we're going to be impartial's bow it's chapter 12 and um if I'm not mistaken it's verse two and three and whatever well we're going to discuss how it works but keep this in mind I just want to make a one more last plug for the piska fund reach deep down into your pockets all right it's uh it's a Mitzvah to give for especially the Jews to give to needy people for the funds of for the needs of pay socks or they can afford to buy at least four cups of wine a little bit of meat cup potatoes right matzo of course that's the main thing and there'll be a link below so you can certainly contribute as much or as little as you want and let's get started so you also find the pages that we're going to be dealing with also in a link down below there's a link to a link to a link I know it's a little frustrating but once you get a handle on it you'll figure it out you just have to look for whatever Shear we're discussing you look at the year and you can go back into the um basically it's very organized on our website according to the years and according to the titles okay so if we open up in parsha's Bow that's Exodus chapter 12. I'll just read this verse in English and Hebrew right Hashem said to Moses and are in the land of Egypt saying this month shall be for you the beginning of the months and it should be for you the first of the months of the year and in Hebrew it says like this this month will be to you right the beginning of the month the first basically rosh hodesh it'll be it'll be for you though rosh kotish of the first month of the months of the year and we have a tradition that Hashem actually showed Moshe what this new Moon looked like and we're kind of coming in the middle of this clear car so um in other words what I gave you is where we're going to start but I only uh printed out and where we're going to read so basically the prior paragraph was discussing such a concept that God is the creator of the world he's the one who began he's the cause of all causes he's the first cause so to speak and therefore we're picking this up Midway and the Clear Car wants to say we're going to get further reason for why Nissan is the first of the months of the months of the year now he's going to ask two questions we're really going to focus on the second question first question is how come out of all the misses 613 Mitzvahs the very first Mitzvah is to sanctify the not only the new moon but also to count Nissan as the first of the months but basically let's just say for the sake of Rosh hudish the concept of roshkosh and the second question the clear card asked is why is that the very first Mitzvah right next to what this book called the second mitzvah in other words why is there juxtaposition in this partial parsha's bow when it begins by telling us this is going to be the first month the rosh hodish the first day of the first month and that's a Mitzvah to count the months and to uh to sanctify roshkodesh and the second right away it's going to discuss the laws of the Corbin pesach so why is there a juxtaposition why does that become let's just say not just a second could be third and fourth depends how you count but basically the the concept of the Corbin pesach that's the sacrificial lamb why is that so important to be second so he begins by saying the explanation is as follows drum roll please Le fisha since the faith the belief system the religion of the Egyptians were as follows now what was the results left that's the constellation of Aries in other words is a lamb and Aries is an adult lamb we'll call him a ram for all practical sakes that the constellation of Aries is according to the faith of the Egyptians and perhaps other religions that the lamb is the shepherd or leader of all existence [Music] we have the Gomorrah in Us in Shabbos that explains how the I'm going to call it fate how the constellations work okay so there are these ideas that whether you're rich whether you have a lot of children how long you're going to live whether you're smart or not whether you're able to acquire wisdom even a lot of that is we'll call predestined okay and it all depends on which muscle which consolation which day what hour you were born in now we're getting into this idea I want you to go to um in Genesis chapter 46 verse 34. because there we have a here it is so on our way out of Egypt I wouldn't say on the way out of Egypt sorry on the way down to Egypt meaning Joseph was already in Egypt and the brothers come and join him in Egypt and he says to them make sure to tell Pharaoh when he asks you what is your occupation he says in for in the Torah says in 46 34 you shall say this is not God speaking this is Joseph speaking to his brothers your servants have been owners of livestock from our youth until now both we and our ancestors now the reason he told them to say that so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen the idea is that Joseph wanted to prevent intermarriage he did not want us to assimilate into Egyptian Society so he told the brothers when when pharah asks you what do you do for a living what is your occupation tell him this and the the verse goes on and says because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians Rashi says there because they the Sheep are their gods just to make that point bring that home a little bit and there's another verse in Exodus chapter 8 verse 22. that um when pharah says you know what you can go ahead do your sacrifices here in Egypt I'll let I'll give you the freedom to do whatever you want but you can't leave you can do it you can you can worship your God here so Moses responded to Pharaoh is it it is improper to do that for we will sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to God our Lord will we sacrifice the deity of the Egyptians before their eyes and they not Stone us interesting the word sacrifice here is the same word means a uh an Abomination we're talking about we wanted to sacrifice our sheep and our goats and Rashi says over there what does it mean abomination of the Egyptians our slaughtering is a hateful thing to the Egyptians for they will see us slaughtering their deity okay so it's very clear to us at this point that the pesach offering has a representation of killing their God their deity I hope that's very clear okay so what was what would bother you right if you went to India and they asked you what are you doing you say I'm a cowboy you know I wrestle with uh with um with with Bulls all day long they're going to have a problem with that because that's their one of their deities so here in Egypt the clear car says you know it would not be proper for someone else right to lead the leader around right if you're if your God is a sheep and you are a Shepherd it means you are leading their God around and that would be inappropriate you you know in their society you're not greater than they're gone their God is the greatest thing and by you over lording and that's a word overlording right um controlling their God that would be an insult to them kirohahu because their God is the ultimate Shepherd alkane sivashem this is the very reason that God commanded us to slaughter this sheep we'll call it the Passover offering why the fish remember it's we even though we know why we have to count Nissan as the first of the months keep this in mind because God redeemed us there and we're counting the months always all year round to remember that we were redeemed in other words it should be the Forefront of our minds that Hashem chose us and redeemed us however the Egyptians also and many all around the world considered Nissan the ram to be the firstborn keep I want your ears to ring when you hear this that that is the firstborn of the constellations in fact that's when the world was created according to Ruby right according to the the Gomorrah there's a mock Locust Yeshua elazar and we're not going to go into that now but we do poskin at least according to testost that the actual world was created in Nissan so it's not far-fetched to believe for those of them of the world to believe that this constellation created the world that this constellation is the Forefront is the leader of the pack it all began with it it's the it's the firstborn of all of the constellations and therefore by actually slaughtering this uh sheep what's happening so the clear card takes us to Isaiah 24 verse 21. the part of the verse he wants to us to hear is read the whole verse but he's only really focusing on the latter part it is um it's Isaiah actually he's gonna sorry my mistake he's quoting the first part now and he and we'll examine it and then he quotes the second part of the verse because that will Enlighten us regarding the first part of the verse so the first part I already said in Hebrew it shall be on that day that Hashem will deal with the host of Heavens gift code is a visitation a visitation can be a good thing as God visited Sarah and told her the good news through the Angels however this word we're dealing with the word translated he dealt with right because is like um it's a judgment it's a judgment of sorts therefore Hashem will be judging the hosts of Heaven but then what is the rest of the verse saying then it says well it says Tell them at the Kings actually I don't have the whole Hebrew in front of me I just have what the clear car says aladdamate but the verse says and with the kings of the Earth on the Earth in other words God will then after he visits meaning he takes Vengeance he visits in a negative sense right uh the the heavens hosts on high then he will do what then he will visit the Kings on the earth of the Earth on the Earth that's referring who the kings of the Earth on the earth that's the firstborn of Egypt now happens to be listen to this in Australia astronomy when the Zodiac of that month enters and for the entire month the Zodiac the the constellation can be seen when 45 minutes before sunrise and the answer is because it's behind the Sun so exactly the words during kotish Nissan that's the time that the sun s-u-n enters the constellation of Aries so meaning Aries on the other side of the Sun and that's how it works and therefore we they made it it was made as the beginning of all the months of the year for us for the Jewish people that it should be it was made like this the first months of the year in order that we should remember be cognizant conscious of the fact that this was the leaving of Egypt and it should be always in front of our eyes constantly [Music] there is to be concerned and this is uh going to be uh fascinating because God gave us this Mitzvah God's also concerned about the mistakes that non-jews would make and even Jews through the non-jewish philosophers okay so there is to be concerned maybe from the fact that this myths was given yet that it allows space or place for people to make a mistake by saying the following maybe they would say in air quotes maybe it's because of the importance of this very constellation maybe that's why God made it the first of the months because that was the first of all the constellations this is the very reason the clear card says is why God gave us immediately so this mistake cannot be made that therefore commanded upon us the Living God immediately call rowing to slaughter the pesach offering in front of everyone anyone can see it and it would be taken on the 10th of the month now just I want to get some background here with this first Mitzvah of this is the first day of the months of the first month this actually took place because it says that Mo that Moses was shown what the new moon looks like so that was nine days was ten days before the 10th okay so the on the tent itself which I would ask for a drum roll but on this year it's going to fall out on Shabbos guess what the year we left Egypt it also fell out on Shabbos and that's going to be a main topic of today because we're talking about meaning the main topic we're going to talk about it's not just the pesach offering but what exactly happened on the 10th day of Nissan which fell out on Shabbos three thousand three hundred plus years ago okay so he says like this and the command was we were commanded to take this Lamb on the tenth day of the month now what is the 10th an average month has 30 days so the first 10 days is considered as it's getting stronger and stronger I guess as let's say the middle 10 days it's kind of weakening a little bit it's staying strong and then on the last 10 days it's going down they call it waxing and waning okay so basically during the first third third which is the first 10 days of the month he has a Mazo yote bitakpo that's when the Mazel is either its strongest or it's most strong at that time and yet this God had write this deity this fake news deity right it didn't have any power it didn't have the power to save the actual sheet which it controlled because it was represented by the sheep and it could not even as we're going to see on the 10th day we were told to take it and tie it into onto our bed post in in the bedrooms in the innermost room of our house and watch it for four days it's all together five days it'll say four days because you're gonna Slaughter on the 14th towards the end of the day and then we're gonna roast it in fire so it couldn't even save itself right and through this procedure everybody will come to recognize and know IES that there is an Almighty that there is a higher authority than any other authority okay that he is the most powerful of all powers okay meaning Hashem [Music] that's why the Mitzvah of sanctifying the new moon came first that's the only way we could come to understand that you have to take it on the 10th the myth was to take the Sheep on the tent now I want to just clarify something that was then that was a one-time Mitzvah to take it on the 10th and examine it and tie it to your bed post and whatnot the truth is it still has to be examined but not necessarily in your possession not that you have to take it three days in advance or four days in advance that was a one-time thing so um let's go on so the fish is since that God commanded us to take this sheep on the 10th of the month our Cain who truckloadia did I skip something no um our King who tracked therefore it was necessary to inform us that's the whole reason for the and to count the months to inform us from which day you should begin to count those 10 days so you finally arrive at the 10th day and that's what Moses said that's what God said to Moses right he said to him just like this you will see it and you will sanctify it and we knew this was passed on father to son Rabbi to students and hedrin to the people ever since that day onward that's when you count these 10 days and what does it inform us of who shot to inform us of the weakness of the vulnerability of what they call the bahor the firstborn of all the constellations now in its being hit in it's being struck so too every one of the firstborn would also be struck there's a symbiotic relationship because they have put their their I'm going to say trust but that's not what it says because they Place their foolishness their foolish trust in the firstborn of all the masalos again it's not just the Egyptians that have held on to a deity represented by the Passover Lamb okay we're heading towards the second paragraph which is going to finish the clear card but boy do I have some something in store I just want to give you a heads up if you have the stamina we're going to go through the the mission of Brewer we're going to read um in the drushu as some of the Modern Day post game what they have to say about it we're going to go back to the Gamora in Shabbos on 87b we're going to hopefully go through some of the notes and take a look at tostos on that there's a lot if you have the stamina to hang in there let's do it now this is the reason why God handed over he transferred to us a Mitzvah or the Mitzvah to be involved in them now what's them two mitts that have to do with blood okay the Don pesach the blood of the Passover offering and the damn Mila the circumcision you cannot offer the circum you cannot be even if you're Jewish you cannot offer or be part of eating the pace over offering if you were not circumcised but you'll see shortly see what is it about the Dom pesos this whole idea of circumcision the blood of the Passover offering is actually to negate to uproot to nullify this opinion of or even religion but it means the knowledge this belief system of those who believe in the Passover Lamb I'm sorry in the lamb itself in the constellation of the Lamb and what about the Dom Mila that sounds like it's just a preparatory thing it says in Exodus 12 48. the end of the verse called any uncircumcised person should not eat it of it I'll just read the whole verse in English when a proselytite that's a gear who someone who's living amongst you converted and so joined among you he shall make a passive offering to Hashem each of his males should be circumcised and then he may draw near to perform it and he shall be like the native of the land no uncircumcised male may eat of it so it's actually a preparation for the um for the eating of it as well okay we're not going to get into obviously the midst of circumcision means a lot more than that it's actually a covenant it's an everlasting Covenant it's a holy thing and we're not going to go there right now but in in this context that the Dom there's two there's two uh concepts of blood one is the damila as a preparation for the eating of it and then we have an interesting gemara and I have the Rashi here that quotes him I think also and and okay so this is the good this is what it says [Music] okay so what does that literally mean I want to start this rushing from the beginning so it says like this the idea of this this is by the way it's on um it's in Exodus chapter 12 verse 6. so 12 6 says like this [Music] it shall be yours for the examination until the 14th day of the month the entire Congregation of the Assembly of Israel shall Slaughter in the afternoon um I just want to know did we go through um the early you know what let's just start at three I just want to get that out not out of the way because that's going to be one of the main verses uh speak to the entire assembly of Israel saying on the 10th of the month they shall take for themselves each man a land or a kid for each Father's House a lamb or kid for the household so yes now if the household will be too small for a particular lamb or a kid then what you do is you get together with your neighbors okay I want to go down to verse six it shall be yours for examination until the 14th day of the month the entire Congregation of the Assembly of Israel shall Slaughter in the afternoon okay Merit what does it mean it should be for examination or for safekeeping Rashi right away says this is a lotion of pikur Biko means an examination okay it requires an inspection for a blemish four days before its Slaughter now why was the designated animal taken four days before its Slaughter something that is not required in the Passover sacrifice of later generations it was just that year romancia the son of harash used to say and this is the quote behold he God says and I passed by you and saw you and behold your time was the time of love this is a quote from Ezekiel 16 8. okay now what is that referring to it's referring to the oath that I swore God swore to Abraham that I would redeem his children the the time has arrived but they the children in Israel had no Commandments in their hands in other words they had no merit first of all we were all also Idol worshipers but what Merit did we have we had no merit in our hands with which occupy ourselves in order to be redeemed those words we're going to keep in mind they didn't have any Merit in their hands and wish to be redeemed we also see in Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 7. just one verse prior says but you were naked and bare we didn't even have those we'd have no Mitzvahs so God gave us two Mitzvahs according to this rashi's quoting rumacia he gave us two misses the blood of Passover and the blood of circumcision right Mila um Okay so I'm going to save the latter part of this Rashi for a few minutes um let's go back into the Clear Car where he mentions this idea and he says the kashal devara this quote that Rashi just gave us from Asia romancia Ben harash is difficult why is it difficult because we all know that on account of four things the Jews were redeemed meaning we kept for Mitzvahs at least two of them are Mitzvahs and the other two let's say well let's see what they are you can decide right so it's famous on account of four things on the Merit that we didn't change our names I'm not so sure there's a big mitzvin that the Shona we didn't change our names we didn't change our language but let's just assume they are good at Customs they were guarding against sexual immorality or even intermarriage and they didn't speak lashnar for sure those last two are for sure big mixes to do don't speak Russian hard don't speak evil about your neighbors don't turn them into the authorities and don't enter marriage into marry or have the illicit sex relations okay so what do you mean they didn't that's rashes that's the clear Christ's question what do you mean they didn't have any Merit in their hands the old Kasha the actual language of Romance was God gave us these two misters to be involved like making your business to be totally engrossed Why didn't it actually say Lord why did it have to say to give them all these misses to be involved in why don't you just tell it like it is that they didn't have anything in their hands and he married in their hands in which they should be redeemed that would have been better to put into the language of the statement so the clear Christ says everyone knows about this idea marble that the Jewish people redeemed because of these four mitzvahs however there are differences between what we call the dues we call them ASE mixes to be performed and Lota say don'ts Mitzvahs that you refrain from violating Mitch as you refrain from violating do not require you to do something necessarily it just requires you not to do something there's a huge difference in in your action that's what it means less a sake they didn't have anything to actually be involved with listen to what the clear card explains that however those misses they had meaning the four things they didn't do they didn't change their their names they didn't change their language they didn't speak Russian horror they didn't intermarry guess what those are don'ts they only fulfilled these by the way people call them negative minces whereas the assays are positive are you tricking them you know what they needed to do they need admits us to be involved with which is called say get up and do in other words Act and this is similar to what the rabbis actually have said it's Aramaic but Mitzvahs while you're performing them while you're involved with them they protect you and save you so we had to get up and do something we did the brzmila and we did the circumcision and we did the Quran PESA kind of you so Khan here now that we had these Mitzvahs I mean not prior to beginning the Mitzvahs we required to do something which would save us because as long as you're involved in the Mitzvahs you will be saved that God would not allow the we'll call the angel of the death destroyer to come into their houses on the night of the 10th plague of the plague of the death of the firstborn therefore it was necessary for them to be involved in these two Mitzvahs blood the midst of abdom in the mid of well the midst of Amelia and the midst of a passage to be involved with them but listen to this drum roll please Levante even us who were involved with Idols right we were also out of worshipers that's why I want to take you towards the end of that Rashi that we're reading it's not really the end of the rash it's the end of that paragraph of Rashi where it says in Exodus chapter 12 verse 21. so I want to read the verse to you and then we'll read the Rashi Moses summoned all the Elders of Israel and said to them draw forth and buy for yourselves sheep for your families and Slaughter the Passover sacrifice now in English you would never understand what it's saying in Hebrew it says means withdraw pull away and then purchase for yourself so the clear card explains this is what Rashi means mishku draw away from by taking the pesach lamb taking it meaning to be slaughtered you you're you're drawing yourself away first you have to draw yourself away be willing to slaughter be willing to think new ideas get rid of these ideas wash your brain out okay remove yourself from a vote of Zara that's what the word mishku means and then take for yourselves the Sheep as a Mitzvah of in other words it's a positive Mitzvah it's an action moving forward now that is as far as the clear card goes but I'd like to take you on a little journey into the shokhand and it's in tough lava that's 4 30. okay 4 30 in the shogunara it says like this that the Shabbos the Shabbat that comes before the the holiday Passover Karin Oto Shabbat again I just want to mention this Shabbos this year 57.83 that's 20 23 according to the goyam according to the way they count happens to be that the 10th is this Friday night Saturday Shabbos so on that one but it doesn't matter every Shabbos this is going to be the main question we're going to deal with how come we don't recognize or celebrate the 10th every year the 10th of Nissan as this unbelievable well we're going to see there was a Miracles that happened we're going to talk about these Miracles so why aren't we calling the Shabbos might want to say why aren't we calling the 10th of the month why are we focusing on Shabbos no matter what happens to be this year it's the 10th but it could be the ninth could be 11th and yet we're going to celebrate as the as the ashokanark says because of the miracle that happened on it Shabbos not the 10th it's very strange we all know it happened on the 10th and that was like a big deal because God said you're going to start counting the whole idea was to count till the 10th happens to be that 10th with Shabbos so any other year it doesn't have to be it's not necessarily Shabbos and yet we're celebrating Shabbos we're recognizing Shabbos we're calling Shabbos the great Shabbos why because the miracle that happened on it on Shabbos not the 10th obviously it was the 10th but that's the point here it's because Chavez so let's find out the Fantastic power that Shabbos has in and of itself by the way so the the Macabre we just read the Macabre the Rama mentions that there's a Min hike to sell over to read over parts of the Haggadah on Shabbos afternoon after minha Ela avadimain from the very beginning of we were slaves and carry on until we mention the words that we were atoned for all of our sins okay so the mishnu Brewer the hovenshaim says like this what does it mean because of the Nace because of the miracle we're going to call that Shabbos Shabbos so he says that the year we left Egypt Shabbat that the tenth of Nisan was shabba's day [Music] Israel and that each Jew each one of the Israelites took a Seth offering now did each Jew actually literally take a set yes and no no because we just read that if you have a family that's small so you're going to join up with another family but if you just had like one person you had to join up with someone else in other words it was not that each person brought but each person was counted in so in another set in another way to look at is each Jew was accounted for by attaching himself or herself to a particular sheep and when the Sheep is actually slaughtered it has to have the the Cohen the person bringing it in mind the list of the people it's counting for so in that sense every Jew has to be involved in bringing even though they're not the actual one bringing to the temple to be slaughtered he had 60 million Jews so you brought a million Jews brought the sheep and on average probably 15 16 people were counted in each sheep very important to know that so he says that each Jew each Jew took a set for its pesach and Charo they actually brought it into their home on the 10th which was a Shabbos by the way and they tied it they put a nut they tied I guess to a string a rope the Sheep to their bed now just like the verse said it actually says right on the 10th of the month shall take a person meaning each person they said to the house of their fathers now the Egyptians saw they saw all this happening the Egyptians said why are you doing this now why would they ask first of all we're gonna see they already knew that the Jews for 190 years we were in Egypt we ate sheep we ate them so what's the big deal must be because we told them we're going to offer it to our god that was already uh I think uh Beyond reason for them so but maybe also because it was Shabbos we said a few weeks ago in our own dabbing we say yes that Moses was overjoyed in the gift of his portion which is Shabbos because he went to Pharaoh in the very beginning he was very worried about the Jewish people we're talking about before he ran away before God even approached him to become the leader of the Jewish people he was already concerned he told Pharaoh you know people can't treat their slaves like this are going to die this is a big investment for you you should give him a day off so they live he said go ahead you choose the day and he chose Shabbos knowing Moses knew Sheba was a very special day and he got the Jews off from working on Shabbos so the the Midstream the Egyptians knew that the Jews kept Shabbos to a certain extent to what extent I don't know but apparently they knew that we don't handle sheep and that we don't tie knots listen to this so the missions saw what they were doing and asked why you're doing this the Shibu and you know what the Jews answered this is another drumroll moment le chakato le Shane pesach the mitzvahlenu we're gonna Slaughter this sheep for the sake of Passover as amidstv as a command that God can put upon us now what happened they couldn't speak their teeth became numb or dull remember those they couldn't react and we're going to see different ideas what does it mean they couldn't react well they didn't react ing on the fact that we were going to slaughter their gods God didn't allow them to say anything so is this the miracle perhaps okay the miracle was we did something so drastic so revolutionary so against the norm killing their God and they were not able to do anything or say anything [Music] now from the very fact that that year the 10th of the month fell out on Shabbos I can cover Liquors therefore the rabbis established that we're going to call that Shabbos to come to Professor always all generations not just that Shabbos but all Shabbos is to come for pesach as Shabbos okay then the uh the mission Brook continues just regarding saying the and minhas on Shabbos because that was the beginning of the Redemption and all the Miracles ah so I'm gonna say we already had 10 plagues well let's say at this point nine According to some only eight we'll see but we already had such tremendous amount of Miracles that took place so what do you mean it's the beginning so we're going to see some really interesting kabbalistic ideas of what we do here will elicit a response from above from Hashem so hang on we'll get to it what I want to do now is go to the next page which is the drushas of darshu so we're going to deal with some of these very interesting ideas and I hope that you will be uh you're paying attention listen to this so as the mission of Brewer quoted because of the miracle that took place what miracle that we shected their gods and of course they couldn't do anything about it or they didn't do anything about it and on that year that was the 10th of the month it fell out on Shabbos and the rabbis established called the Shabbos before pesach always Shabbos hagado okay now we're going to go through a lot of reading there's an additional answer reason that toastless gives mushroom there was another miracle that took place at the time that the Jews took the Sheep as their Paschal offering efficient move up in midrash just like the major Springs [Music] okay when the Jewish people took their pesach offerings which would be on the 10th day of the month nitkatsu bakuros um seemingly all of the firstborn of the nations of the world not just the Egyptians gathered together Israel by the Jews visayam and ask them what are they doing [Music] and they answered this is a offering of pasak to God and wait to hear this Ryan it's like it's one statement right that what we're doing is we're going to offer this sacrifice to Hashem where this offering to Hashem that he will kill or that will be killed as a result of this the firstborn of Egypt yeah Haku you know this is pretty stunning I mean what do you think they're going to do well we already know they didn't do anything against us except ask what we're doing but they didn't stop us they didn't persecute us it says they went to their own parents who else they're going to go to Pharaoh yes they went to the leaders they went to their father's Israel meaning they probably put pressure on their parents let's all go to Pharaoh let's convince him to get rid of these people because you know what they're going to slaughter the Passover offering and then the firstborn of Egypt will be killed meaning we're talking about the God the deity the firstborn of the constellations are we talking about the firstborn of Egypt or are they synonymous I think by now we realize there's a S I don't know the word something synonymous about it okay veloratsu meaning Pharaoh didn't want it maybe the parents also didn't want and the firstborn cause to of War they fought against their own parents and many Egyptians were killed as a result of this and this is similar to what's actually written in Psalms 136 verse 10. I want to take you on a little journey to that verse it says over there this is Psalms lamake to him who smote the Egyptians with their firstborns listen to the words I mean I don't know what the other texts say meaning the other English versions that are not based on kazal to him who smote the Egyptians with their firstborn for his kindness is eternal with a bet with right the prefix bet means with it doesn't say their first prince doesn't say who smote the Egyptians firstborn that's what you would have expected it to say God smote the Egyptians firstborn but that's not what King David says here it says to him who smote the Egyptians with their firstborn so Rashi says it doesn't say their firstborn but it says with their firstborn the firstborn arose and beat their father's legs because they detained Israel when they heard about the tenth plague from Moses unbelievable well it's believable okay so we're still in the explanation on the shogunara and he quotes another reason it's written in the his Cooney another majorish Le fish of a Shabbat zoo on this particular Shabbos this the Jews actually performed that first mitzvah that they were commanded in it which was to take the Sheep in the name of Evan an additional reason was actually brought by this ready for this as we know that every Rabbi gives a drusha a special speech in shul in the synagogues on the Shabbos and it could be quite long and people will come home late and it might even be drawn out after midday Venera yoms and how will people look at this day much longer and greater than any other day because they're coming home so late okay um the Marshall he explains the the tourstroke in arach and he says that there are those that say the following reason s right we're going to be reading the half Torah is Malachi is unbelievable it's it's another it's a beautiful prophecy and the navi says I'm going to read to you in chapter 3 verse 23 Milwaukee behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord foreign okay so why do we call it Shabbat hagado because not really only because we're reading this but it could be and I'm sure it is we're reading this Malachi because it is the day that all those miracles happen and we're looking forward to the Final Redemption uh coming up now this is I just wanted to stop here for the the maharrao will be explaining to us it's the power of Shabbos we've explained this before that what you do on Shabbos brings power into the weak what you do during the week brings the power of the week into the Shabbos it's like two different entities there's six days of action and if you don't prepare you have nothing to eat so the preparation for Shabbat is bringing we call power abilities power and abilities into Shabbat all your preparation helping create Shalom at home peace at home cleaning your clothes dressing nicely setting the table setting your bed all the involvement of six days brings in a beautiful Shabbos enters in a beautiful Shabbos and what you do with that will then set the tone for the coming week but it's the power of the Shabbos in other words I'm actually trying to answer why is it the tenth that we're not celebrating but it's Shabbos because if we didn't do it we were supposed to do on that Shabbos we never would have been redeemed it would have been different if it was a weekday but let's go on I want to go down to where we left off the last thing we said we spoke about this being the great and awesome day of the Lord and he mentions there's so many other explanations which we're not going to go into okay now so the number two in the story sheet is going on the idea of slaughtering their God came even though prior to this day remember we were in Egypt for 190 years a Midstream um y'all do a Midstream the Egyptians knew should they knew we slaughtered their sheep and if they knew we ate them this was different though because of a bar they read the real reason you know why the Midstream the Egyptians were really angry at the Jews at this moment remember if God had to prevent it from doing anything and saying anything obviously there was an emotional response and God prevented them from doing that well guess what the bach writes the real reason that they were angry is because of what we told them we said we said we told them the real reason why we why we were going to slaughter their sheep leafe that God actually informed the Jewish people said that if we will which is their gods shall Miss Ryan lamata that's their God Down Below in this world that God himself will then Slaughter the their gods above meaning the uh whatever is represented by the Zodiac let's call it the arch angel of the Egyptians or the Archangel of their God and that is similar to what's written in the Zohar now I'll tell you the truth I tried to find this zoa I don't own a copy of the Zohar but I have access and I could not find this but I'll tell you the source he gives it's in parsha's Bowman Ted bet and I did the best I could in terms of trying to understand it it sounds like what we God is saying what you're going to do down below I'm going to do above and explains that's why it says because it says you will then roast it not only Slaughter it which I will do as a result of you slaughtering it but I also want you to roast it in fire so he ends off by saying so too that's what God is going to do with the um the deity roast and fire as well okay now number three in the source sheet is saying that we're always going to call this Shabbos hagado yummy it's very interesting because we were told to take on the 10th which happened to be Shabbos and we didn't Slaughter until the 14th then what about the 11 12 and 13th maybe even the 14th include until we salute it they didn't do anything to us either so why is it only Shabbos that's considered great that um let's just read what he says even though the miracle took place on the other days until the slaughter of the Passover Lamb so the base Joseph says the real Prime miracle happened when we actually took the set of the Egyptians on the first day when it says the first day with him at the Shabbos the first day of those uh for you know as opposed to the following days Ika and Ace umitrim so the icarness was the fact that they couldn't do anything or say anything on Yom rishan meaning the first Yom harishon the first day we took it however the 11th 12th and 13th and including the 14th they already became used to it it became a matter of fact and they basically they they gave up and doing anything about it so the celebration or the recognition of the Nace even though you may think that a miracle took place on the 11th on 13th it wasn't really a miracle anymore it was more of a habituated custom where they were no longer agitated as much I mean because of the taking obviously they're aggregated uh for other things and went to their own parents and caused a civil war okay so number four is going on the idea that the um the rabbis established that the tenth of the sorry that the Shabbos before Passat would be the holiday and not the 10th so we have a lot of questions regarding that the reason that the rabbis did not establish the remembrance of the miracle taking place on the 10th like other holidays we have right throughout the Torah I would say the 15th whether it's on the of Nissan for pesach or even the seventh day of pestock and has a date and seven days later you have um you have sukis okay and then you have seven eight days later you have shminia Terrace these are dates they set up the time you also have let's say Roshana and Yom Kippur you know the first of the month or the 10th of the month here this holiday this interesting day that we recognize and understand is on Shabbos and not on the 10th so the lavouche writes nation that the reason that the miracle occurred was because the Jews observed and kept the Shabbos the Egyptians knew soy Israel they knew they kept Shabbos for 190 years well actually I have to say it wasn't 190 years so we we ate sheep for 198 years but we I would say only since Moses who was probably in his teens certainly before the age of 20 gave the advice to pharaoh to not work the Jews on Shabbos so let's say if we didn't already try to keep Shabbos before at least when we were enslaved so we got Shabbos off so I think Levy kept Shabbos I'm not so sure how much of the homonym of the masses were able to keep Shabbos but once we were um what's the word enslaved so we're talking about for at least at least 60 years uh while the last 60 years we were in Egypt we kept Shabbos okay so since the Egyptians knew that we kept Shabbos how you to Mayhem they were very confused the very fact that the Jews were taken care of you know by bringing them into our homes uh even though there is this concept you're not allowed to trap animals when it comes to domesticated animals it's not exactly trapping and I'm not sure how they did it but it's not exactly trapping but we don't deal with um with animals in this way and therefore we also don't tie them we don't make knots on Shabbos that's exactly why the Egyptians say why are you doing this so the preacher explains shall you a Midstream to maim alha keshar they were actually bothered or in wonderment about the knots that the Jews were making on Shabbos Bishop at the time that the Jews were tying up the Sheep he looked apparently they did not know the difference between a knot that could be let's just say like this a permanent not is forbidden from the Torah and if they kept Shabbos according to the Torah even before the Torah was given then making a permanent knob would be a problem but making a a slipknot a a a tie that you could undo let's just say easily that's called a not a permanent knot so most likely that's exactly what the Jews did Even though God told them go ahead and tie them to your bed they knew to make a temporary knot according to his opinion but the Egyptians didn't know and so they were bothered and that's why they're asking what are you doing I know you're not allowed to make knots what are you doing okay then we have another answer from the Baka natas that on the the 10th of Nisan by the way this is this everyone should know this when did we cross the Jordan to come into land of Israel right so we have a verse later on in Deuteronomy that says that right we all know that we all know Moses was born and he died on the seventh of Adar okay so if he died on the seventh of Adar it says in the Torah that we mourned for him for 30 days and at the end of that 30 days then Joshua says we're going to wait three days before going to land of Israel that's in Joshua so between these two verses uh we're waited 30 days in the morning period and then we waited an additional three days before entering the land of Israel so from the seventh of Adar 30 days plus another three days it was a tenth of Nisan when we entered the land of Israel so this is like aliyade this is the big day of um National National Aliyah dates time to come to Israel so milvard now aside from the great miracle that took place while we were in Egypt guess what name in Israel that's when the Jordan River split on account of the Jewish people entering the land if the rabbis would have established that the day um that we're going to celebrate or recognize this great miracle taking place was what was the tent of the month not Shabbos because the tenth month doesn't always have to fall out on Shabbos so if they would have established that Miracle of the Egyptian Miracle happening on the 10th so then they would have thought we would have thought that that day is considered great wine I'll shame a nation we would be remembering only the answering of the Israel entering into land of Israel and not necessarily remembering far back when the Redemption actually happened and what we did to help cause it that's why they established on Shabbos in order not to wipe out the memory of the tent but that it was it was less significant and the rabbis did not want the tent to overtake importance by the way so the yardame did not split on Shabbos it was a different day of the week now the magane avraham gives a different reason what's the day that Miriam died Miriam passed away on the 10th of Nisan that's right and when when great people pass away we establish fast days so they didn't want people to and when it was you know let's say to uh this in other words it's not the 10th that we're celebrating it's Shabbos we're celebrating so that's why he says like this the Muggin of ramay should be your Nissan Kavu Tinus shell pateros Miriam that they establish a fast day on the day that Miriam passed away lethica and this is the reason they didn't establish the the um the remembrance of the miracle that took place on the 10th of the month okay now the last Point here is you should always call this Shabba segado so Mercado why is it called regarding this particular Miracle there were so many miracles that took place but we're going to call this one great wasn't the splitting of the sea great and yet we're only talking about this particular incident with taking the sheep and they didn't do anything so well think of that like this there was a civil war that really enabled us to leave as well but anyway he quotes all these different people explaining kavan shahane's nimsha Cole hamesha sayam Ru Allah that actually the truth is that Miracle didn't just take place on the first day it took place on the 11th 12th right not just on the 10th but on the 11th 12th 13th 14th all five days that we guarded the set the corn pesach but what happened on Shabbat itself is in other words if the miracle took place on all these five days not just on the 10th so why is Shabbos called great because on that Shabbos it was a great miracle more than the other days because after Shabbos already the Midstream were quite regular accustomed to the fact that we took their sheep and tied it to the bed therefore Karla Shabbos because on it was a great miracle that happened more than the other days of the week now [Music] he brings down that one should actually bless each person on this Shabbos the following way that each person should greet with the following greetings um right shabbat shalom shabbat shalom and you should be blessed okay now that seems to be the intent of the shakenara because it made a very unique Simon like in other words it's chapter heading in the shonkanarak that on this Shabbos we call this Shabbos meaning you're specifically supposed to call it that okay now there's one more thing here now we're gonna stop here I just wanted you to know that if you really want some of these other source sheets like the gemara is really it's like chock full I'm not gonna pain you because I think what we did was we covered the highlights it's really an amazing piece we covered the highlights and so I'm going to leave it at that I'm gonna wish everybody first of all a hot cushion for some mac have an unbelievable Passover I hope this is the last I mean listen we still have a few days we might have a temple we might have the real deal but hopefully Lashana Bob you should line this should be the last uh pesach outside of the temple outside of Jerusalem but again we still have a few days left hopefully that will change already but hopefully we'll see you we invite people to our seder every year we have about 100 people coming this year and it would be nice I don't know how it would work I don't know if we can have that many people but basically we can split up into groups in other words if we have 500 people right we have the real deal we can bring uh I don't know 10 Corbin pesox it's very complicated but you basically split up let's say 50 people in each group and uh we'll work it out we'll work it out details details anyway so I do hope that though people will have an opportunity to read to read on Shabbat I'm sorry on Arab pesach the Corbin pesach itself because our lips replace the Bullocks so too our lips our reading of the qurbanos do tremendous good for us in the Fulfillment of the Passover Lamb in the meantime that we don't have it I would even suggest to learn them in advance because when you come to say it it's not a lot of time between Minka and um and mariv on Passover evening to be able to read it but I wish everyone has an uplifting experiential freedom-minded redemption-filled Passover seder whether we have the temple or not it's not the Shem it should be rebuilt sooner at days and we'll be able to um to eat from the Corbin pesach properly Shem so we'll see on the other side there's no class for the next I think two weeks we will see you on the other side have a great Shabbos and have a great year and a great life and if I live on everybody [Music]