The Secret of Passover & The Miraculous Reality of Modern Israel - Jeremy Gimpel: The Fellowship

shalom fellowship i just love that ari is leaving us today it's like the perfect way to begin the new cycle of the shalosh regalim it's the week before pesach and every week before pesach my family and i we go up north to the land of israel and it is just the most beautiful time of the year everything is green after the rains everything is blossoming there's flowers the sea of galilee is right behind me it's just the most marvelous time of the year and this morning when i woke up i was just praying for all of us and so man it's like traveling around all of the land of israel i've been so i'm isolated on our mountain finally to be able to walk out into the land and to pray for all of us from all over it's just been amazing it's like plugging into the energy and the life force of renewal in the land of israel it's just the most marvelous time anyway you know every year we get ready for passover and every year on the seder we're reliving a moment we're reliving the moment the night before the great liberation from egypt and we're told to celebrate the passover in a very specific way with a primary purpose and the purpose is to give over the story of the exodus of egypt to our children but it's more than that we're told we're not just supposed to tell the children the story it's not so much just about the information as it is about experience every year we try to reenact imagine as if it was us in egypt and right now we're on our way to freedom when you think about it the passover seder maybe other than circumcision is the oldest surviving ritual in the western world dating back 3 300 years ago with the children of israel eating their last meal preparing for their journey to freedom in every year since then the people of israel have celebrated passover by telling the story over to their children until today and every year at the end of the seder we say this year slaves next year free men this year here next year in jerusalem it's just mind-blowing thinking of the centuries of jews who finished their seder that way and now this year we're going to be in judea overlooking jerusalem that's just a one-day walk from our home it's like how did israel do that it would have just taken one generation in thousands of years to have broken the chain just one generation had to mess it up it's astounding and to realize that before our very eyes the modern state of israel which is now emerging as a new superpower of energy technology and morality is the culmination of this 3 000 year old process it's just beyond reason how did israel do that and so what's remarkable is that you can see how we did it coded from the very very beginning moshe gives guidance he addresses the nation two times before they leave egypt preparing them inspiring them guiding them directing them i mean the exodus from egypt is the greatest grassroots revolution of all times and without telephones the internet social media telephones i mean those speeches that moshe gave were more than just historic they were the primary guides that mobilized a nation of slaves to liberate themselves from the oppression of the world's superpower so look at what he says in each time that he speaks exodus chapter 12 verse 25 it shall be that when you come to the land that hashem will give you as he has spoken you shall observe this service and it shall be when your children say to you what is this service to you you shall say it's a pesach feast offering to hashem who has passed over the houses of the children of israel and egypt when he smote the egyptians but he saved our household he doesn't really talk about freedom or justice or courage or faith to free themselves from egypt he tells them one day when we finally arrive in israel tell your children about the passover feast look at the next speech he gave here in exodus chapter 13 verses seven and eight months shall be eaten throughout the seven day period no hamets no leavened bread may be seen in your possession nor may leaven be seen in your possession in all your borders and you shall tell your son on that day saying it is because of this that hashem acted on my behalf when i left egypt what are you going to do as you celebrate passover for seven days eating matzah tell your sons and daughters about the exodus tell your children pass on the memory and look at moses for the third time in exodus chapter 13 verse 14 and it shall be when your son will ask you at some future time what is this you shall say to him with a strong hand hashem removed us from egypt from the house of bondage over and over again tell your children tell your children tell your children the jewish people we see every world event in history through the prism of faith and all of history is an ongoing interaction with heaven and earth the prophets of israel were the first people to see god in history israel was the first nation to see meaning in history and a future leading us toward a greater destiny in that way god has invited us as his image in creation to be co-authors in writing history with him when we tell the story we're accepting his invitation and preparing ourselves with our families to write the next chapter and every holiday has a spiritual power to it in an underlying a voda an underlying service passover we celebrate our freedom but the ancient command from the very very beginning was to tell over the passover story to the next generation we're commanded to remember the exodus from egypt all the time everything brings us back to this moment but not only to know it to remember it the word remember in hebrew zachor it's mentioned 160 times in the tanakh there's no religious text in the world that has such an emphasis on remembering history as a religious imperative to an entire people as the tanakh israel in some ways are the keepers of time the memory for the world and this year we're remembering rabbi jonathan sachs of blessed memory who passed away this year who this session is dedicated in his memory inspired by his haggadah he points out that history is a story outside of us literally his story it's an event that happened to someone else it's detached from me memory is my story while history is information memory is identity memory is how the past lives on through me on passover it lives on through us to our children the agata starts from a single man's journey following an inner calling to higher living and moral responsibility to a promised land to build a kingdom that will usher in a messianic age where people construct a society that will inspire the world that honors the image of god in every human being sanctifying life building families of love and trust shaping communities by the principles of justice and compassion and living at peace with their neighbors no people have ever taken on a greater responsibility and there's no people that's made that responsibility intergenerational mission that has lived on throughout all times passover the holiday of freedom the holiday of family is the holiday when our history becomes our memory and in the ritual of the seder we enter into a relationship with god in time in our generation and take place in the unfolding story of israel in god's plan for the world in our time dear fellowship recognize where we are we are so lucky to be where we are and who we are in doing what we're doing in these times as we align ourselves with israel's destiny we are so fortunate so i bless you all with a beautiful passover filled with light and freedom and family knowing that wherever you might be around the world this year we're apart but next year we'll be together in jerusalem shalom my name is jeremy gimpel a few months ago we started an online seminar teaching life-changing biblical wisdom revealed from the original hebrew and straight from the mountains of judea with global instability on the rise more and more people are turning to god realizing now they don't exactly know where to look for guidance the bible says the guidance will come from the land of israel what started as an online seminar has grown into a global fellowship with hundreds of members from over 30 countries we are participating in fulfilling prophecy as we learn the bible through the eyes of prophecy with a focus on what it's telling about us in our lives today what you will discover is that the wisdom transmitted thousands of years ago is speaking directly to us in our time right now instead of learning the bible as a religion it's the torah of israel the living guidance of god so please join us for our next online gathering and get access to the full library of teachings that the land of israel fellowship is offering join now and get an audio series on the prophecy encoded in the book of joshua absolutely for free just click on the link below or email fellowship at the land of israel.com i don't know how you found this video or what compelled you to click on that link but i don't believe in coincidence and i would encourage you to take 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