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Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Basic Judaism: The Seder
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ERS so two of them come from the Torah
and three of them come to the rabbis the
two deer rice is the two mittens that
come from the Torah are simple yetis
Mitra I'm telling over the story of The
Exodus from Egypt and the second one is
eating matzah
the three rabbinical mitzers that we've
got are the four cups of wine that we
have to drink and the eating of the
moral and reciting Halo
so what we're going to do is we're going
to take a look at the the dimensions
that involve eating things and drinking
things yeah
actually I do how did you know that
the horse Rose here has been very weak
though from what I've noticed it's not
that strong just wait yeah just wait I
wanna see I you it won't be the whole
size it'll be red it'll be your face as
you're trying to try to get some more
air in there I don't know the truth is
like this when you when you eat the red
stuff it's been all kinds of things have
been added to it what's called crane has
got horseradish and it's got beetroots
added to it beetroot juice and sometimes
a bit of sugar just uh you know because
I can't otherwise it's too strong on
pesach uh the moral that we eat is is
just a horseradish we're going to eat
lettuce as well just to sort of like
keep things keep things under control
but uh just pure white grated
horseradish is relatively strong it'll
clean your sinuses out that's for sure I
had a friend whose father decided that
he was going to eat the prerequisite
amount of horseradish not using not
using lettuce at all and he fainted
so um
yeah for sure for sure we'll talk about
lettuce is 100 100 okay so we have to
look and see how much much you got to
eat how much more you've got to eat and
how much wine you've got to drink yeah
well this isn't much of a thing here in
Israel you just don't see it there
I'll tell you one of one of the problems
with lettuce is in general
um it's full of bugs
so the letters that you buy over here
are certainly in the Orthodox
communities is being it's bug free it's
been it's been grown uh it's been grown
in a certain way above ground and uh it
doesn't get infested with bugs that
makes it a little bit more expensive
which is probably why you don't see so
much of it around but on on Saturday
night you'll see masses of it don't
worry any any you know Nostalgia you've
been having for lettuce will be uh amply
amply remain lettuce yeah I imagine part
of uh kosher is or being organized
We Don't Spray the pesticides
I mean not once not once they're on your
plate no
um yeah we just douse it we douse them
in in high calorie dressings just to
make sure that there's no real health
benefits whatsoever from eating this
stuff uh interestingly enough that there
you know Judaism Judaism even though
Judaism is very concerned about the
ecology
um it doesn't there aren't any hard and
fast rules inside of Jewish law about
whether you should or should use
pesticides you know when I was growing
up they didn't know an awful lot about
pesticides so
um everything was down doused in
pesticides nowadays they realize that
this stuff is really pretty pretty
unhealthy to put it mildly so lots of
people are now
growing things that haven't used
pesticides which of course adds the
dimension of trying to deal with the
bugs and that's why good old good old
Jewish Innovation they came up with all
of this stuff that's grown it's it's
really it's detached from the from the
earth some of it some of it's grown
above above ground some of it's grown
inside of water I mean it's a it's a
fascinating you know different methods
of making stuff grow and keeping it bug
free but leafy vegetables in general are
a problem
so lettuce and and you know cabbage and
spinach and broccoli and cauliflower and
Brussels sprouts and all that kind of
stuff they're all they're all
problematic and you need to if you're
going to eat them
if you're going to eat them you need to
try and get a hold of stuff that's been
grown in a way that they are not bug
full
however we are not talking about bugs
today stop bugging
nice try over there to get us get us off
topic he did very good but uh I'm I'm
being super focused today so it's not
gonna happen it's not gonna work uh
let's have a look at the matzah right
we've got a matzah it says in the
Apostle schmoy says the era of total
matzot that you're supposed to eat
matzas on the night of seder now
interestingly enough the obligation to
eat matzah is only on say tonight you're
not obligated to eat matzah through the
rest of pesach if you don't want to you
can't eat you can't eat bread obviously
but you don't have to eat matzah how
you're going to be able to make leche
mishna that's a problem because on
Shabbos and yantev was supposed to be
you know making hamoti and eating Mata
but in the meantime the obligation the
biblical obligation is to eat only on
the first night who's obligated to eat
matzah so actually the truth is
everybody men and women even though you
might imagine that women might be exempt
from the midterm eating Mata because it
is a time-bound positive Knitter
nevertheless
the uh the possock says
that uh that anybody who is forbidden to
eat has to eat matzo that's what that's
what the the Apostle says like Posse in
the Torah says and that means that women
are included in the midtera as well
another reason that's given why women
have to eat the Mata is because again
without the women there wouldn't have
been any Redemption from Egypt we spoke
about that yesterday right in the Merit
of the uh in the Merit of the righteous
women that's why we were redeemed uh
matzo what's it supposed to be made out
of so it's got to be made out of one of
the five grains uh the five grains of
course are wheat spelled barley oats and
Rye now some of these things if people
have stomach issues so for example if
anybody is celiac for example or glucose
intolerant uh gluten I'm sorry gluten
intolerance uh so nuts are made out of
spelled is normally great it's a little
bit more expensive but it's apparently
it's a lot easier on the stomach on the
digestion and it's something which most
people are able to they're able to eat
without it causing any kinds of problems
if you do have stomach issues where you
can't really eat any of these five
things then you need to speak to a
competent Orthodox Rabbi
um to you know to maybe to have a
stomach transplant or something for
pesach and then swap things back again
afterwards when you no longer need the
additional protection
um
what do you make matzo with like we
spoke about the other day can only be
made out of two things flour and water
that's it nothing else can't use
anything else there is something called
matzah Ashira Mata ashiri is something
which has had eggs added into it or it's
had some kind of juice added into it
that is not matter that can be used on
Leila say that you cannot eat it because
you're not fulfilling the Mitzvah of
eating what is called lechem Ani means
Poor Man's bread Poor Man's bread is
bread which has got no additives in it
whatsoever
yeah everybody
yes they've been beaten a factory with
other breads if you have them uh if they
if they again in general anything that
you're going to eat on pesach needs to
have pesach supervision
right which means that if the month says
that you're eating even if they're
normally baked in a place which is full
of comets if they've got some kind of a
supervision over there saying that it's
okay to eat them on pesach then that's
fine it means they've cleaned the place
out if not then even if they're kosher
during the rest of the year you should
not be eating them on pesach you should
know in general matzah factories are
normally not Kosher for pesach they have
to be cashed for pesach because the
flour that's used in making regular
matzo during the year is not PESA flour
and it's been through some kind of it's
been through some kind of a process and
therefore in general all the months that
we're eating has to have some kind of
supervision on it
we're going to eat matzah three times on
Leila seder the first time is what's
called moitzimata that's the first time
that we eat the Mata with the letter
commissioner the second time is the
Korea when we make a sandwich out of the
moro and the heroices and the material
together and the third time is the Affy
coin that's the last thing that we're
going to eat on Leila Cedar the first
time that we eat matzo what's known as
mozzi Mata
that's what what it's called multimatter
because we're going to take the Mata out
but that's the one that we make the
hamoti over
uh that is a deal right so that's a
Biblical commandment to eat and korech
which is a sandwich is a rabbinical
Knitter and aficomen is a maclocus right
we've got a disagreement about amongst
the the authorities what it is and what
it's not why do we need to know this
because the amounts that you need to eat
are going to be classified according to
what you're eating if it's a dear writer
if it's a Biblical commandment then we
have to eat a little bit more if it's
rabbinical then we can eat a little bit
less
yeah why why the sandwich why the uh
why are the sandwiches
who would have come up with the idea of
having a matzo sandwich for all things
on Saturday night when we're eating so
much muscle anyway uh yeah that's an
interesting question Hillel the the uh
the origin of the sandwich comes from
Hilo not from the Earl of Sandwich at
all actually uh the first sandwich in
history was made by Hillel Hillel took
the matzah and the moro and he combined
the two together
and that was something that he
introduced as a an embellishment to the
say tonight and that's why it's got a
rabbinical classification why did he do
that because matzah and Moro are two
opposite
Concepts matzo even though that's an
interesting thing matzah represents two
different things it represents the
concept of slavery which is like an Oni
but by the time we get to eat it we're
already out of Egypt and it represents
the lechem the bread of freedom because
we went out of Egypt that's what we ate
when we went out because the bread
didn't have enough time to raise right
not Purity Freedom what was this second
one I'm sorry freedom freedom freedom
right so what have we got matzo
represents freedom Mora of course
represents the opposite it represents a
bitterness of the enslavement and the
hard work so what Hillel is teaching is
something really really something very
beautiful something very very basic
which means that hillel's trying to give
over the idea that there is no dimension
in our lives of only good or only bad
everything that we have is a combination
of both of these things which means the
good and the bad are intermingled with
each other good things happen with a
little bit of bad and bad things happen
a little bit of good inside of it and
like we've spoken about how many times
in the past something which we imagine
was good ends up being bad and something
which we imagine was bad ends up being
good right so what Hillel is doing is
Hillary is really giving us a symbol
with inside of La lasada that represents
the concept of good and bad being
intertwined with each other okay so you
I think it's just a practical thing
actually
and you've got to eat what we're going
to see you've got to read a certain
amount of Mata right and you've got to
read a certain amount of Morrow and I
guess the simplest way of doing it is
just putting the morrow in between the
matzah and eating it as quickly as you
can but if you want you could put the
morrow on top of the matzah and just eat
it like that without having a top on P
you know piece on top if you want that
the the Indian over here is really what
what Hillel is teaching is that we need
to eat the two together right how how
you go about eating them together what
whatever whatever works for you uh
matzah anybody who follows the Ashkenazi
tradition so Matra of course is
something which is very thin and very
brittle and uh it you know it leaves the
most enormous amount of crumbs
everywhere
um the some of that some of this fadim
have a custom to eat matzo which is
thicker and much more flexible a little
bit like a pita Iraqi what's called a
Laffer
um
I'm sure you do I've come across anybody
that doesn't actually it's it's
fantastic stuff especially when it's
fresh right uh of course I've never seen
you this animated before wow yeah you
know they're also loafers are also
fantastic when they're fresh it's just
it's been a while since we come across
anything right fresh inside of the
alphas but the uh the uh what so for
them making that making this sandwich
for them is easy right they just take
the morrow and they roll it up
you can do what you want with it if
you're good at origami you could turn it
into a little sailboat you know and give
it give it to the kids to play with but
uh it's it's uh so you know whatever I
think it's just a a simpler way of
eating it but you should eat it however
is good for you how much do you have to
eat let's have a look and see anyone who
is obligated to eat matzah has to eat
what is called a kazayat a kazai is an
olive volume's worth of uh of matzah how
much is that so let's have a look and
see
says that a Dior writer right the
mitzvidia writer which is the first time
that we're going to eat the Mata we're
talking about a minimum of half a hand
matzah or two-thirds of a machine Mata
okay because hand nuts are normally
bigger than the machine matters I don't
know which kind you're going to have in
your seder right uh so you know some
people are careful to only eat hand nuts
huh they look different they look
different how much is around
how much how much is it like that yes
very wow very good and a machine Nutter
come on Alex let's go for it and the
Machine Mata is square
that's good I don't know what that
little bit on the edges over there I
don't know but that's a
it must be shimoramatsu oh yeah we're
gonna we'll get to that as well in a
minute for sure that's an important and
important uh an important detail over
here
um but in the meantime what have we got
we've got you have to do the kazayas
again the khazadesh is saying that a
hand monster which is bigger than a
machine that's a half of a hand matzo is
a kazai
two-thirds of a
that looks more like that looks more
like a quarter to me I think you need to
turn a little bit a little bit more I
think
that's too much now I think you've done
too much
but two-thirds if you take your hand
back you take your machine master and
you you break into it break it into
three equal parts you should eat two of
them
thank you gavriel thank you I was like
got stuck over here
yeah and it's never quite straight you
have to just straighten it up a little
bit
that's right you try oh a pizza cutter
but you have to have a kosher piece of
pizza cutter right
yeah that it's not it's not so simple
that's for sure the the uh the machine
that the handbag that the machine
monsters are a lot easier to break
because they've got very straight lines
going through them and you could just
take you know you could you could work
out how much a third is knock off a
third the other two thirds is what you
should be eating because they're smaller
in volume and then they're handy buttons
for later times yeah you can do that
whenever whenever right
um further our buttons so we're talking
about one second one second one second
question okay it's important
okay
I think
um
so we've ever had a question on that
before haven't we
could you use machine monster for the
SE uh that's in the covering or does it
have to be sure yeah hold on we'll talk
about just what let me finish up the
volumes and we'll talk about it for sure
it's an important question
um
for the there are bottoms so we're
talking over here about the korak which
is the uh the sandwich right you could
use less because it's a rabbinical mid
so we don't have to be so stringent so
if it's enough to eat a quarter of a
hand matzah and a third of a machine
matzah now for those of you that are
having trouble working out how much
two-thirds is a third is the bits that
left
foreign
thank you no no I just I I don't want
you to be uncertain about these things
they're important
a third is a quarter plus a little bit
more yes
are you sitting in the corner he'd been
a naughty boy
doesn't look like it actually
okay
one last thing before we talk about what
kind of maths you're supposed to be
eating and that is how long you're
supposed to eat it in so the Allah crazy
you have to eat it in what's called
now what is a minute what happened
is a deal riser for the first one which
is the moisty Mata the first time we're
going to eat the Mata it's within two
minutes right now eating a kazai samata
within two minutes requires a little bit
of preparation I think if you want to
chew gum for like a week before just to
get your jaws into shape so that you're
able to do this then that's probably the
right thing to do yeah would it be bad
if you turned it into
it no not at all actually if that's
going to help get it down then that's
okay for durabone right so we're talking
about the curry you've got much longer
up to nine minutes to be able to finish
it up that's okay for anybody hold on a
second anybody who's not uh capable of
eating Mata so it is possible to soak
the matzah to make it soft in order to
make it more palatable in order to get
down some people for example if they've
got you know somebody has Dentures or if
they just don't have very strong teeth
to begin with it's permissible to do
that even if you normally come from if
your custom is not to eat matzah that's
been soaked in order to fulfill the
Mitzvahs of la la Sada it's okay to do
that even if that's not normally your
custom
that's because you're Swiss and the idea
of stuffing everything into your mouth
and then and uh watching it all like
spill out again is something that's not
the way you were brought out right you
have to eat your matzo with an iPhone 4
for sure
it's true that eating eating the
prerequisite amount of nuts in the
prerequisite amount of time is
definitely it's definitely an experience
I don't recommend that you watch anybody
else whilst you're doing it it's not a
very pretty site it really is
that's even worse yeah for sure
um you will you will spray the the
people there with all kinds of
interesting whatever yeah
um
so there is a the sheer is bigger yeah
but I understand why is it that when you
have a bigger Shear that the time amount
is smaller
vice versa because now because wait the
theorizer you go you go you go stringent
in both directions I know right oh it's
very hard which means that the the uh
no because it works like this that the
uh the what is considered
between two and nine minutes
right but two is the most stringent
opinion and nine is the most lenient
opinion which means that when you've got
a rabbinical midterm you can be you can
afford to be lenient when you've got a
pyramid sir yeah
yeah
that's me that's my middle name
uh what what nuts are you supposed to
eat on let us say you were supposed to
eat shmura Matsu now what is
Mata it's been made with wheat that has
been stored from the time that it was
harvested it's been stored it's been
kept dry it's been watched
um you can get which is hand baked matzo
you could get schmora Mata which is
machine baked Mata you just got to make
sure that when you're buying your boxes
of matter then it says shmura on it
okay which means that machine Mata
doesn't necessarily mean that it's not
schmura it can very well be schmora Mata
but you just gotta check hand baked
matses as far as I know are all made
from schmura wheat which means that
they're all the handbaged ones are okay
okay so just keep an eye on what it is
that you're eating on let us say that
for the rest of pesos if you don't want
to be careful about eating orish muramat
so that's okay right you can you can
have the other kind of butter of course
the love is it's Kosher for pizza that
goes without saying right are you saying
are you when is it
the difference between when it's like
guarded from the time of heart yes
versus the time from when yeah occurs
yeah 100 which means that regular matzah
the flour arrives at the at the uh at
the factory and then it's under constant
supervision the whole time from then
the flowers the wheat is under constant
supervision from the time that it's
harvested
right it's just it's an extra stringency
uh you'll know how do you know the
difference between the two the price
no it's it's pretty obvious once you
once you're comparing prices if one box
of Mata costs you 20 shekels and the
other box of matzah cost you 30 shekels
then that's because it's shmuramata and
that was one of the things that I always
learned that it's called lechem Oni it's
called Poor Man's bread because after
you've paid for your ham baked for a
Mata that's exactly what it is it is in
the Jewish world it is the most
expensive commodity that you will buy in
the entire year it probably probably
goes head to head with you know with
with truffles in in whole like with
French truffles or something because it
really is rather expensive do you just
personally I'm just curious do you use
it for the Seder only or no are you sure
I use are you sure about to all the way
through pesach the whole family does and
uh we also only use uh hand matses
normally that's not true we do have
machine matters after the sale tonight
but I my personal stringency I you know
everybody used to have like one
stringency so my stringency is to eat
only hand-baked Nutters during pesach so
what's what do you give your hamster to
eat
what do I give my hamster to eat uh
normally you know Charlie
you know chopped liver whatever there is
it's not it's not a hamster it's a
guinea pig
nobody it's a guinea pig to see whether
this stuff is edible or not
anyway that's the matter taken care of
Mauro let's move on to the neck the next
Dimension over here
what was your what was your question you
think I remember what your question was
what was your question the question was
very much yes yes yes yes I did ask you
a question you just weren't listening
but I'm gonna I'm gonna answer it again
anyway
you
you could use
it yeah
we're on La La on Saturday night and
asking mate could you use it no you
should use shmura matters on Saturday
night
right and if you right so and but if you
want to use square ones that's fine
right so long as they're shmura they
should be shimura Matas
yes
so some
like are we just talking about a
stranger things whether wheat that's
been rained on is
I'm low I'm loathe to answer the
question whilst we're being recorded but
uh it's it's astringency even though
even though there are there are opinions
inside of the halacha which make it more
than astringency
but nevertheless I mean the very fact
that you've got Mata which is which is
certified
by very reputable you know Cassius
authorities it's a you know an
indication that it's uh that it's
astringency are you saying that there
are opinions to say there are there are
very there are very stringent opinions
which say that uh that uh you can oh you
can only be you can only use
it
we're all frustringencies over here
right yeah I guess
we do our best right Morrow let's have a
look at Morrow what do we got over here
so we've got Apostle in Barbados which
says
which means that you've got to eat matzo
Amara together so in order for the ma
the moral to be a deal rice in order for
it to be a uh Torah obligation it has to
be eaten together with a cold and pesach
right the Paschal Lamb now we don't have
a common peso we don't have a temple
right now by the time Pizza comes
rolling around we'll have a temple and
we'll have a common pesach and we'll be
able to eat tomorrow as a deal racer
instead of a bonnet which means that
right now
sorry right now is going to be a
rabbinical mitzvah
how much needs to be so again we're
going to be revolving around the concept
of a kazayas how much is a concise over
there so if we're talking about romaine
lettuce which is one of the easiest ways
of eating tomorrow I will talk about it
in a minute uh if we're talking about
romaine lettuce then it needs to be
enough leaves so that you've got between
eight and ten eight by ten inches worth
of leaves or if you prefer 20 and a half
centimeters by 25 and a half centimeters
so we're talking about quite a large
amount it's probably about three maybe
two and a half or three large remain
lettuce leaves if you want to do it with
horseradish right without using the
lettuce then you need 32 milliliters of
horseradish or
11.1 fluid ounces it's a lot it's a lot
right
all over the place the past it'll be
everywhere right and it makes Hashem the
only only buy we spoke about this before
you came in but only buy letters that's
bug free don't buy letters I remember as
a kid one of the things that that was
part of the letters of what are the
pesaf preparations was was uh you know
washing out the lettuce and uh you know
trying to trying to get rid of all the
bugs and uh that is definitely one way
of describing it being the youngest
child I never actually did it of course
even though I was supposed to
um I just left it to other people to do
I think there's like a certain amount of
time that has to be immersed in water
even if it's but oh it's it's uh now
things like this the stuff that you're
buying over here is really it's really
if it's coming if it's coming you know
certified that it's bug free then you
just have to wash it off because it's
normally got a lot of sand on it
um if you've got lettuce which is not
certified as bug free then you've got to
wash it in soapy water it's a whole
procedure it really is and you've got to
soak it in there it's not it's not not
an easy thing to do at all
um
remain letters not Roman not Roman
lettuce
romaine lettuce I'm sure you've seen it
all the time no it's it's long it's you
know about this high and it's dark dark
green yeah yeah normally
well that's an iceberg iceberg lettuce
why is it called an iceberg when it's
round who knows yeah right but that's
not what we're discussing today we're
not discussing the vagaries of the
English language we are discussing the
vagaries of lettuce uh iceberg lettuce
which you don't see very much I think
because iceberg lettuce is packed very
tight and it's a lot more difficult to
get rid of the bugs but romaine lettuce
is like the standard you know normally
about that high green the outer leaves
are normally pretty dark and that that's
something that that's fine that's great
what what's the why is that okay because
the Gabara says already that when you
chew on the lettuce it's sweet at the
beginning and it becomes bitter the
longer you chew it the more bitter it
becomes and it's a symbol of course of
the uh of the slavery that we were in
that it started off it was okay we were
down there with Jacob ravino in Egypt
and with the with the shutter with the
brother others everything was great as
everybody started dying out and things
started becoming more difficult at that
point it became very bitter so it's very
symbolic what many what many people do
is that they'll eat both the morals
together right they'll take the lettuce
and the horseradish and they'll mix it
together that's what I normally do as
well I'll tell you why not for any kind
of it's not astringency
I just have the one stringency that's
all I have uh but I actually I I like
the taste of horseradish uh bunny are
you with me you like it too no yeah it's
like it's got It's got a great Tang to
it and I love I you know the two of them
together is uh
it's sad but I look forward to eating
the borrow on Saturday night that's
that's pretty sad huh thank you thank
you and you probably know how long I've
been feeling like this as well
with your background in Psychiatry I
would imagine that uh
all is revealed how long have you got a
Wheaton inside of how long should you
take to eat your Morrow nine minutes
right why nine minutes are not two
minutes let's see who's paying attention
let's not this is a little disturbing
absolutely thank you very thank you very
much you cover all your bases over there
that was good uh because it's a
rabbinical Mitzvah so we can take more
time to eat it inside of and we don't
have to eat it with inside of two
minutes who is obligated to eat to eat
tomorrow everybody again men women
icebergs everybody
um
Go books for sure yeah there's one
interesting thing over this this is a
Halo which is really really designed
especially for Bernie right that yeah
that uh you when you when you come to
get your sailor ready you should not
grate the horseradish until just before
the Seder right why is that but you know
why
let's see let's see what you know over
here come on let's see let's see how
familiar you are with the intricacies of
horseradish
oh
oh look at that
this man is he is a Bonafide expert
any questions that you people have on
horseradish they should be directed
towards Bernie over here
right if you if you grate it too early
it just that when you grate it it starts
losing its its potency and then after a
while it doesn't have very much shirt
doesn't have very much
um bitter taste to it at all right so
you should you're supposed to grate it
you can cut it up if you want cut it
into you know just it's you have to take
off the skin right don't just peel it
it's not a it's not a skin skin it's
just like the outside of the uh of the
horseradish yeah exactly so you could
get peel it then you could do what you
want you want to cut it up into into
little circles you could do that if you
want to be more artistic and you know
cut it up into a little uh you know
little snowman you could do that if you
want to cut it up into little Rabbi
laughers and stick needles in it you
could do you could do that as well
really I mean you know
oh so oh I'm in the wrong place today
I'm sorry I thought this was Voodoo 101
wasn't it
never mind
um again you know bug-free letters it I
can't stress it enough eating bugs is
got many different uh prohibitions that
are attached to it so you've got to be
careful with what you are eating right
let's just hope those crunchy bits as
you eat the lettuce are nothing more
than the bits of the horseradish right
and anything else
um okay what about what about the last
thing we've got to get through over here
is the Abacus we've got to drink four
cups of wine on say tonight uh again
what can you use use wine use grape
juice I told you the other day huh we
did this no we're going to go through
the the amounts exactly work out what
needs to be done
Uma means for and croissant means cups
so the other coasters of the four cups
of wine that have to be drunk on Leila
Seda I told you the other day that Vice
one of the greatest holidays in our
general Nation one of the greatest
authorities in the generation he says
that you can fulfill your obligation by
using grape juice you don't have to use
wine if you don't want to
um we spoke about the idea of preferably
using red wine
uh
the uh there's something I didn't
mention the other day but I'll mention
it now because it wasn't in my notes the
other day but it's in my notes now so
the uh why why red wine so the gamara
it's a good morning
base which is 108 B it says
the the the the uh the wine has to have
the taste and the look of wine
right and from there the gamara defines
mariang the look of wine is being red
right so we have to have red wine over
here as I mentioned before some people
only use white wine because the blood
labels we're not going to repeat
everything
um
who's obligated with the uh with the
drinking the four cups of wine so
everybody right women as well because
they're an integral part of the nase
like I mentioned without the women we
would never got out of there so
therefore we have that they have to
drink the wine as well how much needs to
be drunk
so we need to drink something called a
reverse yeah
is it they're abundant or the rice uh
you're drinking the cups of wine
the how much is the reverse right you
got a drinker of this worth of wine is
150 milliliters
right five just over five fluid ounces
okay
um interesting enough according to our
locker the best way to drink the four
cups of wine is by drinking you should
preferably you should drink the whole
cup of wine each go but at least the
majority of the cup right which means
even if your cup has got much more than
150 milliliters inside of it 150
milliliters we worked out is probably
right that plastic cup over there is
probably 150 milliliters now
no
it's an Elijah's cup traditionally used
for a peso yeah but not for drinking the
wine you know what we'll talk about in
just a moment but let's just finish up
over here the uh the uh the halachas
you should drink your cup of wine within
two minutes that's good right we could
that's all doable everybody can do that
one that's no big deal
um and there was one thing that we spoke
about the other day there is a minig
which you said was a was a was a strange
menu but it's not strange at all that
everyone pour wine for somebody else you
don't pour out your own wine because we
have the name of him we are the sons of
kings and we're free and normally they
have people to do things for them yeah
we are leaning as we drink them you're
leaning as you drink them but not as you
make the bracha
make the broccoli and then you lean yes
so I figured out
it is about that right
really yeah
wait how much is that
huh the bigger ones are 200 now
the price to here 150 milliliters not
it's not such a large amount of uh of uh
ah this is 180 million 180. oh good okay
it says a little bit just a little bit
less great okay here one one La one last
hello over here which is what what uh
avram Israel
mentioned which is which is the the
fifth cup of wine which we don't drink
it's called the coastal Elijah's cup
which is normally a much larger cup than
the regular standard size cup that
you're going to use during the Seder the
function of that cup is that it says
that God is going to send Elijah to all
the houses on Saturday night it's a very
beautiful story actually it says like
this that Elijah wanted to return the
Torah to God he said the Jews don't keep
the tour anymore and uh he wanted to
give the Torah back to God and God says
if it's not yours to give it belongs to
the Jewish people and as a form of a not
a punishment but as a form of a of a I
guess a lesson to teach
to teach Elio uh he comes to every
single home on say tonight to see the
Jewish people doing God's will right
fulfilling the mitter of say tonight and
a cup of wine is poured out from it's
called the kosher really oh it's a big
cup when I was a kid I was convinced
that you know after the Seda and you
know Elijah came and drank it because it
wasn't there in the morning the first
year that I was old enough to stay up
till the end and I saw my father pouring
it back into the bottle was the you know
it was one of the that was one of the
big disappointments the biggest
disappointment of my life
yeah oh at least over there who cares
you know as long as they leave you money
who cares who it is right
um
oh first time I lost my tooth I saw my
brother sneaking out of the room because
he punched me in the mouth
that's a that's a a separate issue hey
that's not what we're talking about
right now uh the question anyhow it's
interesting it says there are four
different words that are used about the
Redemption of the Jewish people but
there's a fifth word which is used not
in conjunction with the Redemption but
with in conjunction to coming into the
land of Israel they see it I brought you
to the land of Israel the fifth cup of
wine is is is is is symbolic of the time
that Michelle is going to come in here
very soon and that fifth cup of wine is
symbolic of the fact that God is going
to finish up the process of the
Redemption by bringing us the land of
Israel rebuilding the temple and
allowing us to serve God in the way that
we're supposed to which means it's a
very it's a very maybe that's a reason
why it's bigger than a regular size
because we've got a you know we've got
this great anticipation that uh that
emits Hashem that the mashiach should
come
smiling
why wait till tomorrow
tonight my father always should say
Tomorrow Never Comes
wise man
thank you
oh not me oh sorry okay we're gonna call
it a day over here tomorrow we're going
to take a look at the four Suns it won't
be Locker orientated it's going to be
just a journey through the hagoda to see
what the four Suns stand for and if it's
Hashem yeah that's uh but that's for
tomorrow
thank you