Kabbalah & Mysticism: The Hidden Meaning of the Passover Seders - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

picture this perfect scene this perfect suburb scene okay you got the beautiful green grass the nice duplex two-car garage the sun is shining the Beautiful Morning the de is still on the grass it's like ganaden you know actually that's what the complex is called ganaden now inside one of those homes is Michael living the perfect life of success and all of a sudden there's another guy some guy walking along the sidewalk he looks in his house and he's freaks out you could see in the window he looks and he comes running to the door and he starts banging and banging so now Michael gets up and he comes running to the door he he opens the door like see this like crazy man screaming back on the door he's like are you crazy what are you doing B on my door at 7:00 in the morning so the other guy turns to him and says what are you nuts you don't see look your house is on fire so Michael is like you must be on I don't know what you're on but looks B everything is perfect what do you want from me what fire what are you talking about you don't see it your house is on fire get out when he grabs him he throws him out of the house now the question is what is what kind of crazy story is this what's the point of such a story what does it have to do with so listen to what he teaches us unbelievable Insight in in the essence of what it means to when what we are hopefully going to participate in and go through on some level this coming PES now if we go back to the first PES took place in MIT so he's going to teach us about what we call pesak the idea of The Exodus from Egypt and specifically we have to appreciate what the word p means PES means to jump to skip jumping and skipping you know cets that's that's p pesak is a unbelievable idea of breaking out of our place our limits and just flying soaring running racing that's P that's p p what do I mean so where were we in P where were the Jewish people before the very first PES so we're taught by Kaz that they reached the 49th level of Tuma one more moment in MIT and they would have reached the 50th level of Tuma and from that point there is no returning finished done no more Jewish people they were in a house burning down to its crisp the entire foundation and edifice of the Jewish people was basically going to disappear fall from the bottom and Hashem saw and understood that and the Jewish people had to realize that if we don't move now we're finished and this is what p is all about it's about breaking free from prison running taking risks doing what you have to do to get out of the clutches of evil and danger when a soldiers Behind Enemy Lines he he doesn't have time to rest relax think no cappuccinos no Barbers no nothing he's got to every second the one wrong move and he's finished he's got to get out of Enemy Lines got to get on back on his back in his own land that's what the Jews were in M we were in enemy territory the forces of evil the kipa was so strong so powerful they were consuming us and if we didn't move we were finished when someone's chasing you with a gun to kill you and you're running and you reach a cliff and on one in One Direction there a bunch of guys with guns and the other side is the cliff what are you going to do you're going to turn to the guns and beg them to have mercy on you you jump even if it means risking your life because staying where you are or turning the other way means for sure death so you have to jump that's PES jump for survival but that's and we were to that we did it the Jewish people people did it we made it out once we got out it's a whole another story now we go into do a p seder the very phrase PES Sader is an oxymoron it doesn't make any sense PES means to jump to fly to break free to break boundaries to to jump levels Sader means to be organized to be deliberate to go step by step don't skip don't jump don't miss so what is this idea P Sader it doesn't make any sense because the first PES was to leave the hands of evil the clutches of evil into the realm of kadus but nowel is a nation we receive the Torah we we we we we're a holy people and now we're on our turf on our territory and in the real of kadha you don't jump you don't fly you don't jump off cliffs to try to reach spiritual highs our is not about reaching spiritual highs it's about fulfilling our purpose and building building from the ground up is World a new that's p s p future all the P after the first one is about the step by-step process of building and rebuilding ourselves the world and and of course till we see msah coming and that's the difference the it's represents the idea of jumping away from evil but with the p s is the gradual deliberate meticulous climb step by step of spiritual Heights to reach the level of sadic and and all the different levels that we're meant to perfect and complete and that is the connection between the and the immediate beginning of counting which we counted down 50 days until we reached theah and received hashem's Torah those 50 days of counting represent this idea of the Sader and the hadr the the the measured calculated step by step fixing and preparing ourselves to be a vessel to receive hashem's Tora and to be his emissaries and ambassadors in this world [Music] [Applause]