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When You Make a Seder Alone
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This Pesach is going to be different than all other Pesachim. Most of us will not be with our families and many will be alone. The Rambam spoke of having a Seder alone and there's much to learn from him.
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this pacer is going to be different than
all other soughing that we've celebrated
still one will s managed on our land
eyes there why is this night different
from all other nights
well it's gonna be profoundly different
because all other experiences of pacer
we usually have family around us our
children our grandchildren in-laws and
this year because of the corona virus
and this epidemic we have to be isolated
and it's extremely important that
everybody observe all the health
regulations that have been that have
been you know have been laid out for
everybody no manana
no private many on him social distancing
and so on so I thought it'd be
appropriate to speak about the Alumni
many come over that teaches us and tells
us about the experience of celebrating
the Seder alone the Rambam into exile
from hill kilometer matzo says but some
class oshina Delilah is there today she
you have on in the issue of young Manish
Donna Shalala Sammy called al ellos that
and this night you have to do things to
make it a little different to peak
children's interest so that they should
ask why is this night different from all
other nights actually your sugar have
the yomel ahem till you was able to
respond to them Catholic up Eva Catholic
acarya this is what we experienced halo
then if he doesn't have a son - Esther -
tano
so the ROM says he's so awesome if he's
alone doesn't have a son with him so his
wife asks halo YCJA
if he's alone and his wife is not with
him shows - Donna Carlisle Azera - cool
uncle common if he just has another
colleague with him and other colleagues
so then they ask him and they ask each
other why is this night different -
Donna
hi elevado what if he's experiencing the
stator completely alone so the RAM says
Shola axle managed to Delilah's era so
then he asks himself the Fiat ashes why
is this night different from all other
nights
so the mock-up of this Rama is a myth
kilter the mistletoe says only Elvis man
she a tional been they no event acts
will be null then ask Amy nine
what if he's alone how do you know that
they still have to ask for your mimosa
al-haram is a si yo I say it's a
slim it's right and this is also the
moment so from a duck sign it says turn
upon and coffin but no show alone a
coffin his son asks him then a no
East Oh show law so if his son doesn't
know the managed honor that his wife
asks be in love who Shola arsenal but if
not then he asks himself the phyllis
schneck hoc committee for comedy yoga
video suppressor show and sellers here
and if it's just two people having a say
edit together to calm him each one s the
other so one could query him he could be
mr. topic
what if he doesn't have a son to ask
present so who comes first isn't his
wife is that preferable or was it
preferable and that a fellow should ask
his colleague some for the lotion of the
random it would seem that ish no his
wife comes first because theorem says
the in a low issue shoulder is there
itself but but it sounds that it doesn't
is there that his wife is preferable to
his car to his colleague however for the
high on them the way he quenched a
locker the high other says in a shanty
no you shall be no oka very
/ filum issue so from the bank for
feeling ish though it seems that
container was totally Ishtam so I'm
going to talk about what what this
revolves around so I heard from the
valve and the valve has this and one of
his York side soon he has a fundamental
principle about the Mitzvah of sequence
is me trying because the Mishna says him
something for donation allow me the oven
avi as she ignore call her pouch Akula
that in terms of the Mitzvah of secret
sign your delish you interpret the
entire partial of allow me over avi
which is the power shot of McCovey Kuen
and the random codifies that as well in
tax I'm Turkish consul matzo he says for
who she you dosed me allow me over the
bar V a cheat will call her power sure
so call her most suitable married with
Josh been partially a lazy Meshuga the
mom says that we interpret the entire
power shot which is in fact the core
text of our Gordon and the mom says and
he we know that how marvelous are
amazingly super development seems to her
to relate that specifically the whole
Hammarby big Vash vouchers ooh in in
terms of interpreting this powder that's
praiseworthy so I mean of course what
strange is this why is it that the core
text is around me over Davi I mean we
would have thought if you're riding the
Haggadah
they're explicit power shield in the
Torah gracious for a whoa whoa
mashaallah
that relates explicitly to the story of
the Exodus
why did we take an obscure POW sure in
Seifert volume when we have the first
hole the whole slew of ashes the
beginning safest most that deal with
with the part of the story of obviously
Smithsonian we would think that that's
the more appropriate power shoe store
chosen so the rough explain that the
reason we don't
is because the mid sir of Secrets is
Messiah is a mitzvah of Tama Toa it's
it's fulfilled through the medium of
Tama Toa and therefore actually they
love said that the gonna miss this
question why is it that arriving open
obvious chosen so the answer is because
we choose not the explicit posture but
one that we have to interpret through
the meter shattering interventions for
him through the instrumentality of
toilet repair and elucidated and
interpreted and therefore we choose not
the explicit passion but the parsha of
allah me over loving and it's clear them
upset that the Mississippi design is a
meet as a mixer of of Tama Toa because
the in the we see that from the answer
to the problem to the bank Hoffman says
after Emma loci Hilton suppressor in
that even after I pass the traffic
calming that it's not we don't just on
the story of the exceed sign of the
Exodus but we tell him he'll kiss a
person so stunning the laws impressive
itself is part of the myths of Secrets
inside and the Vilna Gaon was of the
with the opinion interpreting optimal
okey he'll disappear so that it doesn't
mean only to teach him the laws of you
know just this law a mechanical person
afikoman but it means after ello he
Hills a suppressor it means a Mufti and
Africa South Africa means till the end
of the sinners from olive pissed off
from the beginning to the end
aim a particular alpha oppressor - : so
all hills are suppressor are integrated
into the midst of series in society and
the this is explicit in the toss after
which is quoted by the coast Mac Mini at
the end of his comments in Martha
the Interceptor says hide or the Last
Supper Hilton suppressor a Filipino
Levin arsenal
Pinole event-based so they know Levin
tell medo that there's a mitzvah to an
AI person upland indeed an obligation to
study the laws of Meza
the Filipino lovenox mo even himself my
simple and Galil the hokum him shall
hollywood-based by suspend xun in there
was once a story of ever become allele
and his colleagues come him who in the
house of Isis been zoning for how you go
scheme the hill Casa Tessa call her Lila
at close together that they learned the
laws of pacer the entire night till the
crowed boom will flame for know
again for half will be symmetric and
from there they went to continue their
learning is a base of marriage so you
see that studying the health of
suppressor is also integrated into the
Mitzvah of CP design and therefore the
love said we make a special block on
this qiyam of Talmud Torah related to
secrets time and that broker is the
bottom of Kampala fool pollution arson
toll on myself powerful so that's a
special because a Torah that we find
integrated to the Haggadah context of
the gada
and the special mitzvot of sequence in
Israel so I would enter whatever said
now that we see that the secret Israel
represents a special Mitzvah of Tama Toa
we prefer that that fulfillment comes
through the halacha
the Ilocos of tau should be a pair big
cause until mix of there's no miss over
the terms to accept the written law or
the written text the scripture itself
that stores your Excel you don't have
you don't need amasova on that because
it's myself it's written down the duel
is over to treat the tradition of
passing it on
that's an Toa should be up here and
therefore since the night of seeking
sighing is the night of Misawa the night
of regarded illa billah' of telling over
the storm agencies mitzrayim and DBC the
halacha since it's right to each person
to each child based on his ability his
capacity his orientation what is the
hokum
a tongue of russia any daily show but to
everybody who's at the Seder so we
wanted to be to total should be a pair
Toshiba because tone-on-tone Shmi
apparel is collared in my soul as
opposed to throw ship itself now when
he's at the sated by himself it says
show L is at slow of course it's a
little that needs some interpretation
what does it mean he asks himself you
know how is he having this conversation
with himself but actually we find in
Tama Toa that that possibility as well
because the Rambam says that the RAM
says in paragraph refers Tama Toa
he says Kasim Shem it sir olive low mode
as below conformance with Allah Allah
made at slow the Justice is obligated to
teach his son so is he obligated to
teach himself so the RAM doesn't say
justice is obligated to teach his son so
he's also obligated to learn himself and
also by the way the order is strange
I'm gonna think first is obligated to
learn himself so that he's know
something what to give over and then he
would teach his son no the Rambam begins
with an application for us to teach your
son and then he says and if and also you
have to
yourself and it doesn't say you have to
study yourself you have to you have to
teach yourself because the midst of Tama
Toa is always a mitzvah of miss Silva of
teaching it of teaching to others
passing on the Messiah and indeed even
in the reflexive if he hasn't had
anybody who taught him he himself is
obligated to learn and to teach
not to learn but to teach himself so
therefore we understand in terms of show
Ellis at slow because we find that
concept as relates to Tama Toa that show
Ellis ants mo is because by Tama Toa
also hives Allah made is at slow and it
would seem that if he had in his ransom
at the Seder his twin son would take
precedence over other people each toe or
others because for grandson there's also
a mitzvah of Tama Toa
I'm a grandfather to to give over the my
soul and to teach to his grandson as the
rama Baskins in the beginning Hills
estimate over a shame shall hide on the
lamas no cargo hide l-'alamin has been
below shanem of O'Donovan fo neighbor
never Justice is obligated to teach his
son he's also obligated to teach his
grandson and just a parallel to this
about the mitzvah of CPT Smith's rhyme
we find also in the midst of Krishna
because creation Mahadeva many times he
said the midst of Krishna also while
it's an independent Mitzvah the de Vaca
bond in there Tariana Mithras it's a
mid-city of Iser but it's also fulfilled
and linked to the midst of time at agra
and this we can see for new shall me
because the Shami says that a person
whose tourism also was completely
engaged in torah
like if sunni bhai for five arrows that
he's he
is exempt from Krishna because of Shami
says the high Sheen of the high chignon
that both of them are learning so
therefore the since Krishna also
represents a special team of Tama Toa
which is when he's engaged in creation
MA and therefore the the person was to
rush them not so has a special status as
relates to creation and this term
approve the krishma is a special mixer
of Tama Toa from the fact that a
vallabha is transformed into a glucose a
Toa because alpha baba if a person
didn't say the biggest turin in the
morning if he's not sure if he said it
he can fulfill that because I told them
Lamar says by saying I'll forever
because Alvarado is a special Mitzvah
especially profitably and the unique
Mitzvah of Tama Toa that's integral into
the midst of creation and I just want to
show this link between the midst of
Kriya schmuck and the midst of CPC sorry
because we know that the midst of CPC is
trying is a mitzvah of Kabbalah's oMAFRA
shaman accepting the unity and gods
dominion over the world because it's
often Oh it's often easier to accept
God's Dominion over the world then took
self guard dominion over each of us
individually ourselves but the the
brighter in the blockers and the
fatality says Tanya shrimp in your high
armor but didn't who she act him smile
of a high young Samoa
says a little more the Zelalem a that
that Sh'ma comes to before I am Samoa
because it has these
ingredients and washes a little Mulford
about the bond the cell Allah may Allah
monitor my service to nation the in low
Lama Sheila Hale kilometers one off so
we see from Rashi that he says that the
Mitzvah that DVD bathtub on which is
referring also to the midst of Tama Toa
so it's both the Mitzvah it's the source
for the midst of the Arizer of saying
Krishna but it's also the source for
completar go so we see that time at Unga
and krishma I'm integrated one in the
other and this is undoubtedly what the
law says the first Pelican in the Derman
that that Maher says how does one
fulfill the Mitzvah of hargeisa boy yo
mama Lila that he reads the MER says
coaccretion with my mind the Boca by
Elif if he reads creation twice a day
namely 8:00 in the morning and at night
so that's the minimal that's considered
pretty simple yo mama Lila that you've
been involved engaged at our day and
night so we see that creature is a
fulfillment special fulfillment in the
midst of Krishna and with that and a
minimal basis one fulfills the ISA por
yova Lila so if you look in the Lambo in
Perak Aleph a la cabeza Prieta mom says
Martinoli close pal Sushma initiation
Yahoo Hashem we have our selves the
Camuto show hoo-ha eco Hakadosh occult
allah go that we that the first partial
of schmuck takes precedence that comes
first because as these three critical
elements to mom says y russian ivar so
the camuto
accepting God's unity his singularity of
or so
I love of Hashem yeah after the Talmud
oh sure who has eco Hakadosh or : and
Talmud Torah and this is the great
principle that everything else is
dependent on and what the mom seems to
be saying is that it has to be in other
words without Tommy Tommy
without the study of Torah it's
impossible to have cabal so much mine
because it's only through taller that we
know about God and through tower we
glimpse the infinite mind of Krrish
powerful and therefore that's an
essential ingredient in Kabbalah
omikoshi mine and it's interesting the
lamb mom's opinion is that all three
pouches of Sh'ma our divisor the my
man's opinion is that only the first
possible is divisor Schmeiser Makino
Schermerhorn wow she seems to say the
first partial but the lamb balm says
that all three pouches are divisor
now the Rama is somewhat difficult
because the glow seems to be explicit
the my eyes discussion of the Rafa's why
do they choose the partial cities for
the third pasture of schwa and the God
gives different suggestions why did they
choose the power ship Mikado's of the
pouches that could have been chosen from
the layers partial according to the
robber the mom says that this is on the
krishma azul krishma seems that all
three parties do I said that sort of a
crime is soon so how could I have a
suggestion why do they choose this
partial why not another partial but
according
but the rough quoted the crime is
answering that the Rambam thinks that it
could have been a different posture but
it had to be a posture of that included
the theme of schema CGS with shrine and
and in fact the crime answered you know
the ask and the Wamba on the saga sorry
is others is how come the ROM doesn't
mention the minion amid sirs we don't
find them
mounting a mitzvah of schema sleaziest
massage to remember the seasonal shine
so the client answered that apparently
the RAM doesn't count it because he said
Souza's under the mid South Korea schwa
it's not an independent mitzvah it's
part of the middle of Korea it subtract
within Krisha and therefore since he
counts creation were so zoomed under
that is fever City society but why
indeed is he or she T sorry an essential
ingredient for according to the ramen
for Krishna because foolish ma when we
affirm my belief in God we believe in a
God not only whose distant who created
the world the prime mover and then is
not engaged involved anymore
we believe in a God who can intimately
involved in the world in human affairs
and most especially through I'm you saw
his chosen people so therefore that's we
mentions here seats in sorry because
that's the theme of GTS which I mean
that God is involved with the Jewish
people and with all the mankind and
indeed the entire creation it's
interesting if you look in the Rambam
the Mamba counts a Nokia similar kefir
is one of the Carioca mitzvahs the man
bun disagrees from dances and no he is
not a camp acanthus in the mid sir
because it's just the foundation of all
mixes if you don't believe in God who is
the Mitsuba the commander who is the
divine legislator then you can't that's
the principle or the foundation of all
mixes but in itself is not is not
counted as a mitzvah the lamb bone in
your so deity Torah does count it and
the mom says your soda your so those who
I would have cosmos the pit the the
foundation of all foundations and the
pillar of all knowledge
later shisha multi-region that no that
is a great a creator who mom she called
him Sir and he's the creator of
everything and then the rabbim says the
dear stove is a myth
I say and the knowledge of that ISM it's
as I say Shamima a Nokia Shem Elam
careful the whole Himalayan title she is
a local alpha Hood s'mizza over below
Cersei chinami Loyola file kima came
upon our and if a person denies that he
is the sole creator and the civil the
Vint divine force that he's his violates
no Yili for the co for the Eco and it
denies this great principle
he's an apostate so their food Ram says
have Iike her god alloh Shakuntala go
because this is the great principle that
everything depends on so this language
um who are Kiko Golden Circle tomboy
should be reminiscent to you because
that's what the RAM said also by Krishna
that the reason that the first fire
comes first because it has the food of a
Versova town Muto - hoo-ha eco acabo
shall call Tommy Bo and therefore that
Mitzvah of krishma
is linked to an or key because it is an
affirmation also Cabos on my flesh of
mine and it's interesting what is our
no-fee i know here she okay I shall see
from an ancestor on because that's the
great principle of our faith an intimate
relationship that everybody can have
with God is powerful and that's what we
affirm that the night of the Seder and
in that intimate relationship comes to
the fore not only the night of the Seder
and creation but through study of Torah
um and that's why it comes specifically
the myths of Tama Toa now this year is a
very difficult for us but I believe in
Kurdish powerful enoki I should say see
let's assume we know that the Jewish
people in many many difficult
circumstances throughout our history
Karishma who has been there to hold off
a dog on the milena lauhala say no but
there always is a cut-off
Marcelino me Adam now we're confronted
by this virus and one of all of us have
to have a seder you know to some degree
in isolation without our children our
grandchildren appearance it's a
difficult time but the gums area Evora
and colorful always been with us he is
always with us to comfort us I once said
mentioned sure and remarkably said
Finkelstein told me that he had it was
his teacher when I was in she was
central Queens I had to teach a
wonderful Rebbe his name was rabbi
Pfeiffer and he told the story about how
he fulfilled the hug he had a seder and
the most difficult of circumstances in
the Warsaw Ghetto his wife and family
were killed and he rebuilt his family
and so this we're not living through
what happened in 1940 but things will
change and things will get better
you know Abraham Lincoln in 1859 he
spoke it was a very difficult time this
was the prelude to the civil war in an
address to the Wisconsin State
Agriculture said it is said an Eastern
montag once charged his wise men to
invent him a sentence to be ever in view
and which should be true and appropriate
in all times and situations they
presented him with the words and this
too shall pass away how much it
expresses how chastening in the hour of
pride how consoling in the depths of a
political affliction the gums air yavar
my son gets his today spoke and he's
mentioned that in partially be despair
Shabbos will win sure we would have read
partial South Shabbos a girdle and the
the mid-surface
the beginning of south tells us that
there's a mitzvah that the the line
and the Miss Bayer should never go out
and that's the x'mas this is mentioned
specifically to be Missouri's the car
the Cohanim that at night when no one is
around in pitch darkness the coin should
always know that he has that's his
application to make sure that the light
of the MS mayor doesn't go out so even
in darkness the flame of the miss bath
is still with us and that's what we know
that even in dark times in difficult
times could ash fall who was with us and
therefore and the torment is always with
us so even if we're completely alone
schürrle saxophone he gets that the the
questions to himself because while he
may seem completely alone he's not
really completely alone the screeners
with him Karishma who is with him and
next year leshawna bob you shall I'm
next year with our children and
grandchildren we'll celebrate with the
carbon passer compressor especially is
halakha that we celebrate with family
it requires kabura and we know things
are gonna get better
so my wishes to you is that it should be
even in this difficult time in this
lonely time a high cost of a Sameach you
should have not rest from your children
and we should hopefully be able to
celebrate together you know I mean
yawning in our schools it may take a
while this is not evaporating in the
next few weeks but in time it will
change and we'll all be together again
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