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Most people roll into the seder and they
know this part. So then what's the
point? We have to delve deeper to
understand what's really going on. Every
moment has a theme and every nuance
matters and when you go through it, you
come out a different person. So that's
what we're going to explore together.
The themes, the lessons, the reasons,
the purpose because that's what this is
really all about.
So the next step is karpass. We take a
little bit of vegetable. This Friday I'm
use celery. I think the ash we use
potato. Dip it into the salt water. Make
the braha adama. Have in mind to bot the
mar and that's it takes about a second.
Why do we do it for? So I saw this idea
originally from Foreman and I did some
research on it and it's really
incredible this concept. Why do we dip
the vegetable in? So the magistration
bracia
says Yseph when they took when his
brother sold Yoseph they took his
coat and they slaughtered goats and they
blew they dipped. These are the words
they use. The Torah said they dipped it
in
blood. Interesting. The word dipping is
being used in the story of Yseph and his
brothers. The Talmet
says why were they punished
for they were punished because they sold
them into the in fact the Torah says
that the word karpass is very much
connected
to right that's connection there the
schlaw
says the first
dippingus this car has the Torah says
connected to the
katonisim and we dip it to remember
it. Now this is really
important. Remember
something one of the main questions that
people ask is why did Hashem torture us?
This hap you can ask that question
forever and there's no answer by the
way. I'm not trying to answer anything,
but one of the great questions that
people ask when it comes to the seder is
we're thinking for taking us out of Mit
who put us in
mit. And we begin the seder with the
underpinnings of this specific question.
It didn't even get asked yet and we're
already dealing with it. You know who
put us in mitim? We put ourselves in
mit. We're we didn't even say a word
yet. We're starting the process. Look
how this is incredible. Look, isn't this
awesome? We're not even saying anything
as if was like winking like you know
what
like remember the dip. Mhm. You dipped
the casinus posum. You dipped his coat
in blood and you sold him as a slave and
because of that I sent you down. You
know put yourselves in in Egypt. You put
yourselves in Egypt. The major
says, "You sold your brother, we're
going to sell you." In fact, the
says, "Right, we had to go through
gullis. We had to be through some period
of exile. That was part of the
Brisbenar. We had to go through some
period of disruption. Okay. Did it have
to be Egypt? Did it have to be slavery
and the craziness of what took place
there?
Why? Well, because you sold your
brother. That's why you went down. Theel
says, "We had gullis, but it wasn't
You know why we went down to Mit? I
heard this the first time I heard this
forum. Look at all these sources. I
couldn't believe it. By the way, I put
this all into chat GBT has some sources.
It's a very complicated world. Chat GBT.
You can't just use it. You have to be
very careful to check it. But when you
get some of the sources from it, you can
look and see if the sources are correct.
But it's incredible how many sources
line up with this narrative. The says,
You know what this is really about? You
know what the first theme really is? The
first theme, by the way, is also the
entire theme. You know what's
interesting? I believe that the night of
the seder is the same night as
Tishabove. I have to check that for me.
I believe that's
true because it's the same issue. galos
and gula. It's the
same coin. It's just two different
sides. Because what's driving it? What's
driving it is
a we begin the seder and right away
before we say one word in the seder, the
act of
karpass is setting a tone.
First and
foremost,
we caused this. I'm not saying it would
have been nothing, but we drove this.
Our actions drove our punishment. Our
actions drove our slavery. Our actions
drove our
exile. And it's not done in a way that's
told you so. Hashm doesn't say it. He
winks it. He hints it. He wants us to
recognize it. This thing called sinam is
big. And our ability to look over to
other Jews and to accept them for who
they are. Now, we don't have to agree
with them, but our ability to not be
jealous of each other. As I believe he
always says, our ability to not get lost
in me and selfishness, in my way, and I
want what you have.
our ability to recognize that we're all
on the same team and we are we're
responsible for each other and we're one
unit and that essence of aus for the
service of Hashem is what is driving our
gullus and our
gula experiential education before we
begin even talking.
Karpus comes in and Hashem says, and we
say to ourselves, remember Yoseph,
remember what
happened? This one little thing called
dipping led to the entire thing we're
going to read about in a minute called
Avdos. Where am I? Am I still
self-centered? Do I still think that my
family is supposed to service me? Do I
look over to my neighbor or friend and
want and expect what they have? Am I
jealous? Am I happy for them? Am I still
in a place
where I can't support, take care, worry
about people that are not in my
immediate family? And I'm not saying
that I own this. I'm not saying that I'm
even good at this. This is half the
stuff that the rabbi talks to me about
about being better and better and
better. And the idea that aus is really
holding back our ghoul. And this says it
directly. Says had we had aus the gullus
would have been totally different. And
we're here in Gulos on the night of
Gulah. Amazing, right? And we're sitting
and saying, "Wait, this whole thing was
driven by our lack of
aas. Where am I? Have I been giving? Am
I a giver? Someone came to my house last
week. Someone came to my office. Someone
called me. Did I
care? Did I care about somebody else?"
It doesn't mean we have to give us an
inch on our personal
avoda, but where is my heart
at? Do I really believe that we're one
unit? Do I really believe that we're one
people? Have I reached out to someone
who doesn't have my background and
shared with them the beauty of my Torah?
Do I really believe that this
infighting, this jealousydriven activity
is what's causing my own personal
exile? The reason why I'm not fully
happy is because I'm not good to my
family and to my wife or husband or my
children. And so by constantly
constantly my passive aggressiveness, my
my self-centeredness, if I'm being
honest, is just making my life
miserable.
That's why I'm not connected. That's why
I don't feel like I have more. I can't
give
freely. What's really driving it
collectively and personally? And if we
delve into our lives and we're honest,
we'll tell ourselves, we'll see that a
lot of what's driving our challenges in
life is this inability to be one with
others, to give, to be open, to be to be
one.
And when I see us as one nation, we win
together, we lose together, and I
care, I tap into what real ghoul is. And
so we begin the
seder, lifting our cups. I want to
madish the world, washing our hands. I
want my action to be pure and then
dipping. I want my aus to be enhanced. I
don't want my heart to be self-centered.
Thank you so much for tuning in and
joining us for this series. I hope that
you enjoyed and I hope that it enhances
your seder and brings you closer to
Hashem. We have some cliff notes for you
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holiday and uh may we see the full
redemption soon.
