The Power of Performing Mitzvot and Remembering the Leaving of Egypt with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome home to torah welcome to the yibbana bait midrash a very very warm welcome to everybody i want to mention this will be the last class before pesach until after pesach the first thursday night after pesach mizrat hashem we will resume and we're dedicating tonight's class to the reforeshalema for berea as well as to the memory of herschel ben simka zalman and abigail boss mo aron that's just for starters so through our learning we should bizrat hashem merit for them all to have you either reforeshalema or to have an elise in shama also as you know that uh does a lot of it so we're collecting kimko the pisca funds to distribute to the needy for the upcoming holiday of pet socks anybody that's interested to participate down below in the description box is a link and you could um you can contribute and let us know that it's for the kim for the pisco fund and we will uh be a shliyak for you we're doing such great work here okay the truth is we're not going to talk about the parsha this shabbos is called shabbos that is the term that khazal call it and it's not for naught there's a very good reason it's called shabbos hagado and as you know for those who have watched us we talk about major fundamental principles in judaism and we use the clear car as the outline so we have a discussion at hand and we're going to deal with parashat bow let's say it's in parashat bow it's chapter 12 of exodus we're going to look at verse 2. so for those with the english sheets you can use that instead of you if you brought your own hamish great for those who are online on our web page you can find the original source sheets of course not beautifully colored like i have here but you can find them and follow along put your finger on the place and learn a little bit of torah a little bit of hebrew because how could you possibly learn god's word without knowing the original and the nuances are so beautiful the language is just unbelievably deep okay so let's begin um i also want to stress that the really good stuff doesn't come until the end right in other words what the the clear card does is he gets our brains activated our soul's activated but he lays it on thick towards the end and it's usually just like preliminary laying the groundwork okay so hang in there till the end so in chapter 12 verse 2 of exodus in english and i'm going to read it in hebrew this month shall be to you the head of the months semicolon to you it shall be the first of the months of the year now you may think oh what's the repetition right in english it's really hard to pick up the nuances but look in the hebrew means to you so it's going to be what we'll call the head of the months and then as i mentioned there's a semicolon but really you know in the trump if you knew how to read hebrew you would know you make a major pause rishon so it's going to be the beginning the first of but it's going to be to you the beginning of what the months of the year okay let's begin with the clear car although rashi mentions that god showed moses what the moon looks like what does it mean because from that point on we as people know you have to have witnesses and the and the sanhedrin that the supreme base then is going to establish based on the calendar when the holidays are right imagine eating homemade if it was in pesach i mean if it was and then you're gonna you're gonna eat comments on pesach because you made a mistake when it begins or you're going to not fast on yom kippur right yom kippur you're supposed to fast so you have to know when the beginnings of the months are and you know you're going to count 10 days in or 14 days or 15 days in for the different holidays so you have to know okay so the very first thing it says god showed moses it's very interesting because moses was not shown this at night could he have been moses prophecy was he was so unique all the prophets were in a slumber when they prophesized they were in a slumber they went to sleep or they had some kind of epileptic fit but they were asleep and it was usually at night however usually night however moses was a unique prophet in that he was standing fully awake during the day so god is going to show him a new moon at date during the during the night you would imagine so but no the answer is it was close to dusk right around sunset when you can begin to see the moon okay that's just a side point the clear car says leftish barracuda the code word for that he showed him with his finger it says that god showed hakaris who the holy one blessed me showed moses with his finger what this renewed moon what we call a new moon the renewal of the moon looks like now we all know hashem does not have any bodily physical parts so the code word is hazet whenever it says usually it infers that god showed moses literally and here it's a figure of speech that he showed him with his own finger that's what means finger what was god trying to convey what was the message saying just like this when you see this i want you to see it and this is what you're going to sanctify when you see it like this that's called a new moon and you sanctify it now we do notice and it sounded at least in english kind of repetitive so there were two messages in this first statement al kane amar tahila the first message that god was trying to convey to moses was regarding this month this month this new moon you're going to see but specifically of this month will be the beginning of the whole year rosso this renewal now this renewal could mean the month itself it could mean the new renewal of the year but the rest of the verse says it will be to you what the beginning of months so it's not just it could mean again it's every time you see this it's always going to be the new moon not just this month but all the other months as well every time that every time you see this renewal of the moon in this fashion it's going to be to you the beginning of the months each month through the rest of the other 11 months of the year now and you do el haya so after hashem gave moses a clear sign a well-known sign that he would know according to these days in other words once you see this particular new moon you'll know all the rest of the months of the year when it's a new moon but this month is called rishon but this particular month which we will call nissan is the beginning of the count of the months i just want to stop here for one second to let you know i have met certain people mostly christians who have told me you guys are celebrating rosh hashanah at the wrong time of the year because the torah itself tells you to count as if it's a new year here i want you to know there are many new years according to judaism we had many new years right you're not allowed to mix when you make a tithe for your animals the sheep right different animals you don't mix them from one year to the next you have to give 10 from this year 10 from another year you don't say oh i'll just give twenty percent next year and be you know yolt's design doesn't work like that so there are actually different time periods in the oral torah when sheep when um cows right grains they don't all grow all year round so you're not allowed to mix the tides from one grain to a following year you have to there's there's demarcations i'll just give you an example you have fiscal years right so okay if there's a new year comes a fiscal year i ask most people when do you send your children to the new school year and they you most people tell me i mean there could be exceptions to this in september i have no idea what they do in the netherlands but in most civilized countries i shouldn't say that that i'm aware of right that there's there's at least a new school year and it doesn't always begin on january 1st right yes okay so here you have it so keep in mind that there is a new year for the counting of months and then there's going to be a new year for something else that we are commanded to make right the into the entire month of nissan as the first of the months of the counting of the year of the months of the year okay it's the months of the year i'll tell you i'll tell you something a lot of people are not aware of when you write a check right it gives you a very small space to put in numbers right january version 0 1 0 1. so there are opinions in judaism you're not allowed to do that you have to write out the whole name january because if you connect if you think that january is the first month you're violating a torah commandment not everyone agrees with this but this is a very um accepted opinion many people do it um don't count don't call january the first month it's inappropriate just write it out now obviously there are government forms you have to fill out sometimes and they only leave you spaces to put in actual numbers so have in mind you're not you're not considering january the 1st of the month the first month of the year but you're doing it just for them for their bookkeeping right otherwise you're going to mess everything up for them okay before we get to the next paragraph i do want to just go back to number two on our source sheet so in exodus 34 22 it says you shall make for yourselves a festival of weeks we know that's okay that's after pesach it's the 49th 50th day this after the seven weeks that's the first of the wheat harvest then there's a comma and you make a festival of the ingathering in hebrew when is that that's sukis and what does it say in english at the turn of the year but what does it say in hebrew it's going to be to kuffat hashanah now rashi says there what is tukufa which is at the return of the year hirashi says when that's amazing get this you're talking about what circus is happening in tishrei tishrei is a new year had a new year for something else but that's with the hebrew again i'll read the rashi which is at the return of the year meaning at the beginning of the coming year it is in the month of tishrei which is the first month of the year i want you to hear these next three words counting from creation okay now that is a major discussion argument when was creation was it in nissan or was it in tishrei without going into too much depth right now i'll leave it because we're going to discuss it according to ruby eliezer the creation actually took place in tishrei and therefore we're celebrating the creation of man and all man is judged in fact the torah itself does not use the word rosh hashanah the words rosh hashanah for that holiday that we call roshana so the torah calls what we call rosh hashanah the first of tishrei it's the day of the blowing of the shofar right it's a unique holiday the torah describes as the blowing of the shofar king david in his wisdom remember there's nothing the prophets can tell us that's new the prophets only explain what has been given to us already at mount sinai that as rebuke as strengthening ourselves to follow the law to follow the path there's nothing new and king david tells us and we happen to read this it's psalm 81. we read this on thursday mornings but we also read on roshana it says blow the shofar at the moon's renewal at a time appointed for our festive day i read the hebrew too but you understand that there is no festival out of all the festivals that are on a new moon except for rosh hashanah okay so blow the shofar at the moon's renewal at the appointed time of our festive day festive day and what's the rest of the verse say because it is a decree for israel a judgment day for the god of jacob okay and he imposed it as a testimony for joseph and when he went out when he went forth over the land of egypt okay so in the hebrew tiku de shofar right blowing on the khodish on the new moon of you're blowing i'm sorry and you're going to blow in the moon's moon's renewal what is it's talking about when the moon is covered kesa so you're talking about when it's a new moon there you have it right here in the hebrew there's only one festival that we're blowing the chauffeur on as a as a commandment from hashem and that's roshana and it says here that it is a judgment day for the god of jacob okay this is not for so the next paragraph begins the nakat did you notice it says hem twice it says look i'm twice why if if the same word is used in a verse it's either superfluous which obviously it's not right it's extra with no reason no every letter every word has meaning and it says it twice so in this paragraph we're going to try to understand why it says it twice let's see the first time lechem is used is it's the sanctification of the month which we already said it's also sanctifying or let's say letting us know that it's the first month of the years but let's use his words it's speaking about the actual sanctification of the month itself and maybe that's even the sanctification of nissan [Music] no nimsarkim the basement this obligation or let's say the process of sanctifying the months was given over to the court it was not like each individual just goes out and says oh i see the new moon and i'm going to start my own calendar and you have your own calendar and you ha everyone would be it would be chaos this is the way god set it up that it's the based in his job and we actually see this if you look in rosh hashanah 24a it's speaking about motion iron and koi al-mosha the arrow of the his kilofunning the previous verse and verses was speaking specifically about iron and moshe so you have clear that a court a system is already set up by the authority the authority is going to be the one to recognize and that's lachem is plural you guys the second legend is teaching us another idea and this other idea i mentioned already that there's a argument amongst the sages when was the world created was it nissan or was it in tishrei now without getting into too much we're going to go with rebbe eliezer that it was created in tishrei but just keep in mind that what we do is we believe ailu the elude that both opinions are true and tosos explains that one was in thought and the other was indeed hashem thought about creating the world let's just go with rabbi eleazar he thought about creating the world in nissan but he actually created it in tishrei and rebel yeshua held god thought about creating in tishrei but actually created nissan and when you go into the depths oh it's such a beautiful discussion really what's behind cause remember we're creating the image of god and with all the mastery and abilities that god has we have a smidgen of you know even the word selem elokim it says we are creating the image of god what does that mean like a shadow you look at the shadow down on the ground it's my hand my hands on the ground is my hand really on the ground no is it an image of my hand yeah i move it and it moves right it's the most amazing thing so i want to make a plug i just started giving over the tomer devorah you can look on the ibneh youtube channel and you'll see the introduction we are creating the image of god the goal of creation is for each one of us to imitate the characteristics of god because we have the ability because he created us that way he wants us to be i'm going to say perfect that's about stick perfect he wants us to strive to be like him okay and there are many proofs of that and that you'll have to see the class so here we have the second uh lechem was to teach you shaolin tishrei that the world was created in tishrei kiddot on review 10 b therefore it says lechem to teach you what to teach you you jewish people you the jews but what shaqual the um no mention that when it comes to the gentiles when the non-jews when they count and they do for a certain extent at least when it comes to school year they count the beginning of the year from tishrei reishi tashana that's the beginning of the year of allah you are going to count the months from the months of the year from nissan and there's a reason for it you jews you left egypt they didn't leave egypt you have to remember at the forefront of your mind that you were slaves you were in bondage and hashem himself personally saved you he brought you out from bondage from slavery yes that it should be a constant reminder always on the forefront of your minds it's very poetic he says it's constantly between your eyes very similar language by the filling the to filling is sitting here not obviously between your eyes but right here between your eyes and i'm gonna tell you a major secret that your eye is the window to the soul okay and behind your eyes you have all kinds of connections to your brain it's really the beginning of your brain and therefore directly from your original hair point down but behind the scenes that's the connection point that's the connection between your eyes and your brain so when it says between your eyes that's filling it means at the forefront of your thought process the very beginning of your thoughts because what are your eyes your eyes don't think but they're the beginning of the thought process so the co-connection there is about right here you know from a side point of view okay anyway very very interesting ideas here and now he says like this kamo harvey mitzvah torah shabu lazarismus ryan there are so many i always wondered to myself how come i'm doing this mitzvah it's or this one particular misfits ordinary also is majorly brought down in order to remember that i left egypt first of all the very first commandment of the ten commandments i am the lord your god who brought you out of the land of egypt but keeping shabbos mitzrayim right a kiddish time we're remembering shabbos because we left egypt right as this as the ten commandments there's two sets the first set is keep shabbos because i created the world but you should also keep shabbos the second set because i brought you were slaves in egypt and i brought you out right there's so many mitzvahs muzuza to fill in right corbin pesach like we're going to talk about so many mitzvahs that are sitting in the sukkah in order for you to remember that i took you out of egypt that's why those mitzvahs are specifically the 6 13 commandments what we call the torah the revelation is for the jews i might as well mention it now non-jews there are seven principles overreaching principles they're really more than a hundred mitses but beyond that right because every missile that's logical and non-jew has to keep anyone that's ethical and non-jew has to keep okay besides what we'll call the seven and they can if they want but only optionally i mean optionally not meaning preferably but optionally meaning on an optional level meaning their choice free choice to do additional mitzvahs because they want reward because they want to they want reward let's leave it at that okay so i'll derek schnemer in the very similar fashion by shabbos it says in chapter 20 of exodus verse 8 you can find all these verses on the uh on the sword sheets if you're looking number five by the way the gemura's i brought they're all there in english on these sour sheets so it says remember the sabbath day to sanctify it by the way it says is a language of remembering it's true but it's also a language of mentioning it proclaiming it shiroillano limnos koloyami god actually wants us to count the days we don't have the names sunday monday tuesday wednesday i mean we do use them for you know communication purposes but we call sunday echad beshabas shami bashabas on monday and we actually do the one i just read to you earlier 81 is said on thursday there is a whole list of different psalms that we say on different days and this is what they did in the temple the levine sang different songs in the temple in different days and we would say this is the song for sunday we're supposed to count i'm not going to go into the whole argument between bashan my base hillel how should you perform your week right hillel said what hillar said every single day go out and buy something for shabbos buy it for shabbos and then monday tuesday the second or third day of the week you find something better eat what you bought on the previous days and saved now so every day it's all for shabbos right and that's all hillel but what about shamai shamai says just wait until thursday thursday you'll go to the shook or friday morning and you'll buy what you need and okay then we're not going to go into that whole discussion right now but every single day you're supposed to think about job so even though we don't possibly like this that we don't buy every single day for shabbos the other opinion that said you know what just by on thursday said the other person is actually really really correct we should be buying all of our food for the sake of shabbos because that's really the icker of the week and you're going to find out why shabbos had got those shabbos the gutter shop is so great unbelievable but because we're not on that level and you know what we'll just buy on thursday night friday and call it you know what i mean call quits as they say so let's continue now kade and the reason why we're supposed to really be thinking about shabbos all week long is so that it would constantly be on our mind a remembrance between your eyes which does what it's supposed to teach you and reflect the whole idea that there's a whole creation of the world that once you know the world was created listen to this once you realize there is a creation right you could look back and you say wow six days the world was created and wrestled on the seventh there was a creation there must be a creator it brings you to your forefront of your mind where you're cognizant of a creator that's the ultimate goal to be god conscious correct now going back to what we're talking about our discussion that all of the months right we were commanded to count all the months from nisan that's the command kamur as we have already discussed therefore it says should be the first to you you jews of allah most but not to the rest of the nations they have no need it's not necessary for them to have a remembrance of the leaving of egypt the zeb masking la divre rebellieser that's according to rabbi eliezer's opinion and i do want to just add i happen to believe that we actually post can like rub yeshua the world is actually created in nissan but that's not for now but i do believe that those nochides righteous nochites one of the important ideas of being in noah khad and being a righteous narcad and being assured a place in the world to come is knowing that the torah is true that the jews did leave egypt and the torah was revealed right in the year 2448 from the creation of the world and god reiterated those seven laws to them as well so on a certain level it makes more sense to me why we're going to hold by rob yeshua and it all fits in well but lo michonne this last paragraph was all according to rebbe eliezer now a level elo kim kaim these and these are the words of god and they're all true now the next paragraph okay guys here we go are we having fun yet is this is this not amazing right okay so this paragraph i think is when it really gets juicy although there's still another paragraph after this okay sri nu li tenta mode i love it when we're giving reasons for things right we it's so much it's more palatable i mean of course we have to understand and do whatever god says no matter what but if we have a reason it makes an understandable reason it kind of uh brings it home a little bit better so the question the clear car asks is this why does right why begin all the misses the first mitzvah that we were given as a nation really we were about to leave egypt globally like you know in terms of like claudi right the first mitzvah was kid sanctify this moon now you know and then 10 days later you're going to take this this little sheep or a goat and you're going to roast it and there's all these laws and then you're going to have this seder and you're going to leave egypt after eating matas and onora and brismil also right you have all these issues you have to do but it all begins with kirusha so the question is now why is it such an important question if you go back to the rashi in the first rashi of genesis 1 1 you'll see that rashi asked that question actually if the torah the word torah means instructions because that's what we believe our torah is an instruction manual okay so if it's an instruction manual of laws why do you need all genesis what do i have all these fancy stories about people's lives when all i really need to know is what to do just tell me the laws it's a book of law start with laws what do i have all genesis and it's an amazing answer i don't want to really delve into and i'm not obviously it's not a waste of time but it'll take too much time away but rashi points it out so we should know that really the first law is this law okay and if we move on the next question he asked is lama nismecha mitzvazul in mitzvos corbin passage i mean i think that question is a little bit more obvious because the very next mitzvah in the process of leaving egypt but let's strengthen the question number one why start with the myths of zakir shakhodish and why then proceed right away with the quorum pesach who said it had to be in that order okay so here is the beginning of his answer uber al-zahu the the explanation is as follows what i would like at this point is a great grey sir what do you call that drum roll please here we go drum roll this is going to i think ruffle some feathers of christians in particular because they believe well i don't want to tell you what they believe but okay the actual belief of the egyptians their religion was the mazel tiller that they believe the module of ares the constellation of ares was the shepherd was the leader was the pastor was the man he was the leader of all of existence as we ourselves know in gamora shabbos a that that constellations do have some influence there's no question about it whether you're going to be rich whether you're going to be poor whether you're going to be smart whether you're going to be good-looking or a lot of things the only difference is we should know that the jew and when i say jew i also mean a righteous noah who wants to be part of the true faith can also become like a jew in the sense that we go above the mazel we're not stuck in fate we have a relationship with god directly that's called that's why we're called israel yashar el straight to god no intermediaries whereas the faith of christians anyways there's no way to get to the father except through something else it's just like it's like so obvious right that's what they say that's like you can't have relationship with the father except through something okay so here we have how do i know how do i know how do i know that the egyptian god the deity the false god was the was the sheep which is what we kill what we sacrifice i want to take you to two verses in particular and those verses you'll find let's start with genesis 46 34 number eight it says now when the brothers go down to egypt and yaakov comes down to egypt so joseph is quite familiar with egyptian society you know that so he gives them the secret i am not interested in the jewish people assimilating i want you guys to get good property good real estate that's true but i don't want you hanging out with the non-jewish women i don't want you assimilating into egyptian society he says to them when pharaoh asks you what you do for a living this is what you should say to them you should say to pharaoh your servants have been owners of livestock from our youth until now we're shepherds both we and our ancestors and he's saying this is what you should say in order that you will dwell in the land of goshen but what's the reason you should say that because all shepherds are an abomination to the egyptians look at the hebrew mitzrayim ko rohitson is an abomination okay now look at rashi what does it mean and aborting to the egyptians because they the sheep are their gods now i want you to take you now to exodus chapter 8 verse 21 and 22. it's really 22 but i'm using 21 as a a jumping board so we understand what's actually happening as we know moshe has asked let my people go so they can serve god and we can sacrifice to our god and make a festival to our god so how many times did he ask several times thereupon pharaoh summoned moses and aaron and he said okay you know what i'm going to let you do what i'm going to let you sacrifice but do it here do it here in egypt go sacrifice to your god in the land the land of egypt but moses said hey it ain't gonna work it's not gonna work for us right it's improper to do that because what are we going to be doing we will sacrifice the abomination of the egyptians to god our lord we will sacrifice the deity of the egyptians before their eyes and is it not they're going to stone us i mean look at i want to show you rashi at the bend it just mentions at the end actually in the beginning the abomination of the egyptians raymond the deity of the egyptians skipped down may also be explained in another manner the abomination of the egyptians is our slaughtering will be a hateful thing to the egyptians because we're slaughtering their deity okay and will they not stone us is a question okay let's continue in the clear car and he says right away that verse tavatman's rhyme call row eight zone the verse in genesis 46 34 uh 46-34 that this is an abomination to the egyptians and you know why if their if their god is the she then being a shepherd would be an abomination because it's not proper to say that you believe this is the most powerful thing right and yet is being led around by others if others are leaving it that means the others are more powerful and it would be like an insult you get off the plane in india and they say hey man welcome what do you do for a living well i host rodeos i don't know i i'm a cowboy i i mess around with cows you know a bullfighter there you go i mean like it would be it would be i don't know i don't have a word for it but you get the idea okay so all you describe the sacrifice through the slaughtering sorry just the slaughtering of their god because we don't right it says now just keep this in mind when it says in um isaiah chapter 24 21 20 it's number 10 on the sorcery remember the prophets did not come to reveal anything new okay they came to give rebuke they came to straighten out what we should be doing and it will come to pass on that day some day in the future that the lord shall visit punishment upon the host of heaven on high i'm going to stop there you can see in the hebrew right a stop there according to the tradition we have the trump and that's referring to what the heavenly hosts meaning the constellations meaning the false gods meaning the powers that they believe in and yet what does the next part of it say and upon the kings of the earth on the earth that is referring to even though yes in isaiah's time it could be talking about the kings it's talking about the firstborn the firstborn are considered the kings of the earth on the earth now i want to stop here and read for you an art scroll notes and this is from art scroll the milstein edition hashem will deal with the host of heavens in heaven most commentators explain the hosts of heavens are the guardian angels of the nations of the world each one has its own guardian angel and they will be destroyed this is what god was doing by destroying this he was taking his anger and punishment out on them so the spiritual counterpart of every nation is its angel which is its source of strength and the support of its government against foreign enemies on this day god will remove the power of those angels and thereby make their nations helpless to protect themselves by the way as long as israel is in exile and cast under the sway of the nations their heavenly angels are preventing us from rising from servitude but once god takes power away from those angels our earthly oppressors will lose their power over israel so there's a direct connection between each nation and its heavenly let's say ministering angel okay and what god was trying to show them at that time by doing two things he destroyed the and punished this arch angel of the egyptians which was ares and i'm going to show you in a second what wikipedia says about ares but also the first port of egypt they held that it was the first born and this is why it's important when we come to count specifically nissan as the first month it has to counteract simultaneously this thought process of people who will make a mistake to think that we believe in aries now i want to show you on the english store sheet and anybody can find it for me i think it's here somewhere can't hear you what okay look at number 17 on wikipedia so aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac um it's basically the aries is latin for ram okay in ancient egyptian astronomy so aries associated with a certain god that had to do with the fertility and creativity but it was depicted as a man with the ram's head turn the page um the idea here is that the last line ares acquired the title of lord of the head the god of richon the god of rosh right in egypt referring to its symbolic and mythological importance so um you got you got the idea that this is uh very commonly known if wikipedi i'm not saying you have to rely on wikipedia but if wikipedia said it somebody was aware of this and obviously we were as well okay going back into the clear car the last thing we just mentioned was this verse yithcode hashem bimarum and it ended with al hadamah i don't know where the word tehraid comes from but doesn't matter it's talking about the kings of the earth will be destroyed on the earth now what is that talking about the clear guard says al-kobikurai mitsuram bakurim is ryan this is referring to the firstborn of egypt god wiped them out he named whenever a constellation enters you know that month where is it found in the sky i had this discussion with you guys before you will only find it what i thought before i knew any better was in the night sky either beginning of the night or at the full moon of the night guess where it's found the truth is it's only found 45 minutes before sunrise and the answer is because it's behind the sun it's behind the sun and therefore it's only visible to the naked eye for 45 minutes before the sun blurs everything up it's still there it's there right but you cannot see it so that because it's on the other side of the sun so he says it's the time that it enters the sun of that particular the aries constellation and therefore we made or hashem made for us this is going to be the first months to you not because of ares not because of the god of the egyptians but in order that we should remember we were slaves in egypt and the god with his mercy and his love his infinite and un unfathomable love took us out of egypt took us out of bondage removed us from egypt then we should be conscious of this however there is to worry there is to be concerned perhaps within our mitzvah god gave us the missus but he knows how people think right he knows that people are going to come up and make a mistake that people will come and they'll make a mistake and they're going to argue and they're going to make claim like this you guys you jews you know i know why you keep right nissan as the first of the months it's all because of aries you guys believe like egyptians that functions in this month that's why you guys made it the first of the let's say the calendar year that's why god commands us simultaneously you're going to count from this month but you're going to check you're going to slaughter remember we imitate god what god does we do he slaughtered the egyptian god in the spheres of the upper spheres and he and he himself killed the firstborn but we're told at that point also kill the kill slaughter the slaughter the the sheep in front of everybody and that's why shabbos hagado is going to become very important because the great miracle that took place on shabbos which was the 10th of the month of that year when we left egypt the 10th of the month fell out on on shabbos god commanded us to take the sheep into our bedrooms time on the the bed post and examine him for three days him or her right examine the sheep for three days and what what's going to be if there's a blemish not going to be good if it's free or blemish you're going to kill it on the 4th right the 14th the 14th we're going to slaughter it we're going to eat it that night on the 15th okay and you have to roast it you can't cook it in water roasting you know what roasting does roasting wafts smoke every egyptian knew what they're doing to our god are you kidding me not only did they you know take it on shabbos and a miracle occurred they couldn't do anything hashem protected us and then when we slaughtered we put the blood on the doorway and then we had a barbecue these these people who believe this was their god where i don't know what word i could tell you i want to just stress once again the miracles that's why it's called shabbat and we're going to see several reasons why it's called shabbos but that was just one that god protected us from them it was god's command do it okay now alkane he actually commanded us to take the sheep on the 10th of the month we'll talk about why it was shabbos and whatever it happens to be sharishan in other words it was the highlight the pinnacle of the first third right there's approximately 30 days in a month and there's a waxing and a waning of a month so this was the waxing part right it was on its way up towards its full strength so right there as it's approaching its full strength which would be one third of the month at least the first third but the tenth of the month that is the strongest or that's when it's becoming the strongest member and its own god its own authority its own archangel couldn't even save itself it couldn't even save the the sheep which represents the earthly representation of the aries and through this yakiro villedu everyone will come to recognize and know that there is an authority that there's a god high above all these other deities these false gods these fake gods these imposters al kane therefore this is helping us to answer and understand hectic mitzvas kirusha kodesh this is why sanctifying the moon is the first of all the commands the fish's so that we would know to take the goat or the sheep on the 10th of the month so then it would be required to inform them from what day to start counting so you know when the tenth is i'm marlow and that's why god said to moses kaze the kadesh when you see it like this meaning the moon you will notice you will know to sanctify it from that day onward from rosh chodesh onward yemna sir yami melo you will count those ten days lodi to inform to make known the weakness of what we call the firstborn of the constellations that was the master of constellations has no power okay and simultaneously with its hitting meaning god striking the arch angel of ares also he struck down all of the firstborn of egypt firstborn of of um constellation firstborn of the egyptians i share sammu who these firstborns became the egyptians in general because they placed their foolishness their their confidence foolishly in the first born of the constellation okay i told you the most juicy stuff comes later right so we already talked some about some pretty juicy things visetam llama again we're talking about fundamentals and let's translate this is the reason the zeal tom this is the reason that was given to them mitzvahs to be involved with which mitzvahs the the blood of the passover offering and the blood of the brit mila of the circumcision there was a reason for that and this is the reason when it came to don pezza the the blood of the passover offering is it actually tries to negate by killing by slaughtering the sheep it's supposed to remove levateo the religion of those who believe in the aries ares which would be the the leader of the constellations the first of the constellations of the constellation of aries right get rid of that so by slaughtering the pessoc that is supposed to negate what about the dam mila well it's kind of like no choice because you can't eat the pesach unless you're circumcised the fish nema pesach it says in chapter 12 verse 48 in number 11. so it says like this and the proselyte resides with you he shall make a passover sacrifice to the lord all his mouth shall be circumcised and then he shall approach to make it and he will be like the native of the land but no uncircumcised male may predict of it the coal are rail loya anybody who's uncircumcised may not eat of it so it's kind of like it's almost like a given okay we could talk about it another time but he wants to show like this this is what he wants to show us apparently there was a need it was necessary to do these two bloods the blood of circumcision the blood of the pesach and that was something that we were asked by him we were involved there was a necessity to be involved in these misses why we have a contradictory statement before we get to that there's a there's a statement by rob marcia ben harash haya do you see with darshan out shalom that they were empty of mitzvahs and therefore god gave us these mitzvahs to be involved in now the problem with this is what we see later on in vaikaraba which we're about to quote that the jewish people actually had four qualities four merits under their belt so to speak and what were they they were they didn't change their names they didn't change their language they did not um intermarry with the egyptians women and they didn't speak lashing hara so the question is why would you need to be involved in these two misses to get you over the hurdle to be saved to do mitzvahs to be saved when they were already doing again maybe they're not outright mitzvahs but they were doing something which gave them merit to be saved keep that in mind the contradiction seems to be that it was necessary because they had no merits but we have a statement clearly in ghazal that says they did have merits i hope this is clear let's read the words the kasha of dvara after saying that they needed to be involved in mila and pesach because they needed the merits hello hazal doesn't do don't the rabbis already say biscuits on account of four things the jews were were saved from egypt in the merit they didn't change their names uleshona they didn't change their language they were guarded against sexual impropriety lawyer behind de la toron that they didn't speak lashing hara or negatively or turn each other in the odkasa the actual language itself from rob massiah that they needed to be involved in this meaning physically doing something well guess what then havilai lamar shouldn't have said the lawyer well they didn't actually have in their hands misses that they could be redeemed on the merit of these well it didn't say that so elivaday so what he wants to say is like this shigan rebbie marcia silver that you know what it must be that rebbi masia actually did hold he wasn't really arguing he must have also agreed that the jewish people did have these four mitzvahs we were we did have some merit but it wasn't enough you know the difference between an assay and a lot of means a positive we we translate as positive they're called the do's and then you have the don'ts say we translate those negative commandments nothing there's no commandment that's negative but you know what i mean right so when you do it when you fulfill a negative commandment you're not doing anything you're just holding yourself back from doing anything you're actually not doing anything it's called shave the lotus that you're sitting and doing nothing right they didn't change their name they didn't change the language they didn't go out and and do things with women they shouldn't do they didn't do anything so to speak however when we said him to be involved in to actually get up off your tuckers and do something to be involved now that's going to be the difference so listen to the words he uses amnam however oyster mitsubhalota say those four things that we had credit for to a certain extent well they're called shave the low tassel we will call them uh don'ts those s but what was really necessary for us was to do mitzvahs that we can be involved with as hazal saying gamora sota 21a it actually says the doing mitzvahs save us and guard us mitzvah if one is involved in the mitzvah magna um it can actually save and protect the kanye three kim gone matsala what did we need we needed hat salah we needed a salvation so we got involved in hamashiach that the destructive forces should not enter our houses as it did throughout egypt therefore what was required of us was to get involved in these two particular acts mitzvahs of the passover offering as well as circumcising ourselves at the time to be involved with levatel amuna mazutlet this is ingrained in every jew and that's why a really educated you would never fall for christianity right because it's to get rid of this whole ancient egyptian mythology get rid of it and that's what rashi says i want you to look at rashi towards the end um it's got to be here somewhere so what we're going to do is we're going to look at exodus 11 5 i'm sorry let's look at exodus 12 21. look at exodus 12 21 it says like this moses summoned all the elders of israel and said to them right this is the command to bring on chapel sagado right for the sake of shop as a gutter draw forth or buy for yourselves sheep and for your families to slaughter this the passover sacrifice who to draw i just want you to see what rashi actually says look on the same page page six above the very top paragraph towards the end withdraw and take for yourselves he means what is what is god telling moses to tell us to do withdraw from idolatry that's with the word mushroom you draw away and take for yourselves the next word was a clue take for yourselves so first you have to drop the idols and then you take the mitzvah of the the object of the mitzvah which in this case was the sheep okay so that is the the how how this clear car ends however i want to mention just a little bit more about shabbat sagado i mentioned that chava sagado happened on when the 10th the year we left it was the 10th why don't we just celebrate the 10th why is it shabbos in other words it ha what what's shabbos have to do with it just because it fell out on shabbos it was the 10th every year on the 10th of nisan we should celebrate the great miracle that hashem protected us when we took the sheep and they didn't stone us it was a big deal so the answer the morale seems to say that and the maharaja by the way was the rabbi of the clear car seems to say that it's all about shabbos it's the power of shabbos that can if we didn't do this over this way the power of shabbos brings all of the heavenly influence and godly influence into the week what you do during the six days because you're supposed to work six days and then rest those six days as we spoke about buying and getting ready for shabbas and having shabbos in your mind that's the pinnacle of the week but then it's like the slingshot into the following week it's like all the energy that you built up the word shabbos it made shabab is so magnificent you take that energy from shabbos and it brings it into the week and if we didn't experience what we experienced on shabbos the command of taking the sheep we would never have been redeemed so it was the power of shabbos now what the car says remember he's a student of the of the morale he says something very similar he says imagine for a second if we celebrate the 10th then it would overshadow something else what actually happened on the 10th of nisan that's the day we came into israel that's national aliyah day i want you to look on the last page on the english we're going to go through a series of verses joshua chapter 4 verse 19 and the people came up out of the jordan on the 10th day of the first month this is when we entered the land of israel isn't that fantastic now keep in mind how do we know that we entered on the 10th i mean the torah says it when i say the torah i met the navi but you all heard of the radaph right so the radaph says to keep in mind we all know moses died on the seventh of adar they mourned for him for 30 days like they did with uh with the other the siblings and then three days later we passed into israel how do we know three days later look joshua chapter three verse two it was at the end of the three days the offers went through the midst of the camp the end of what to me why would you tell me three days of what after the thirty days of mourning and joshua tells them in chapter three verse five prepare yourselves for tomorrow the lord will do wonders among you meaning look at rashi on the third day the thirtieth day and the third you know the third day of this and the 30th day of moses morning period was the same of the first of three days and we came in on what's after three days after the seventh of adar of nissan is the tenth of nisan so the clear car wants to say like the like the um like the like the marau the importance of shabbos it's called shabbos hagado we don't celebrate the tenth it's specifically because of shabbos so even this year it's going to come out on the 8th of nisan right in other words shabbos is the eighth of nisan we're celebrating because it's about shabbos the beauty and the power that shabbos has and i implore you i check out the mahral's discussion um amazing idea on shabbat sagada i mean there's volumes just alone uh that the the maharaja himself wrote and many people have commented on it and i wish everybody number one a great shabbos shabbos haggado right that this shabbat should bring all the influencing powers for the full redemption for not just us individually but for the am israel for the jewish people and for the world and uh with that i wish everyone not just a shabbat shalom a good shabbos but a a haksama right bezrat hashem will help a kilometer and a half from here will be bezrant hashem if the temple is built by them we'll be celebrating uh with the real pesach offering if not there's still a few open places at my seder we have about 70 people but what's one or two more right and um and have a great life have a great life and i want to see you again in a few weeks [Music] is [Music]