Pesach (full video) - Approaching the Final Redemption

You're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Goldwag, recording with the Shams now running assistance in Ramat Beit Shemesh Israel 5786. 2026. This week we don't have a partial because we have the holiday of Pesach, of Passover. So I'd like to share with you a thought about Pesach. And I'd like to read it to you from my safer of my Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Per. It's the current rocha. Whose second yahrzeit is coming up at the end of Pesach. It says like this, "Chag Pesach v'geula ha'asida." He talks about the holiday of Pesach and the future redemption. And as I've shared in past years, Rabbi Per in his Haggadah talks about the concept of the the seder. The seder and Pesach don't just talk about something that happened in the past. As it's as it's true in regards to all of our holidays, we're not just commemorating and celebrating something from history, but that spiritual uh that spiritual power comes back into the world again in this time. The redemption that happened then happens again. It also happened in the time of Purim. It was also on Pesach. The story of Purim actually happened on Pesach. Esther Hamalka went into Achashverosh on Pesach. And the Gemara indicates that many different salvations that happened for the Jewish people happened on Pesach. And so the future geula, the the redemption of the Jewish people also there's a powerful time of redemption which we experience. And as I've spoken about, we're not going to get into that so much from my Rosh Yeshiva, but we say "Loi lonu Hashem, loi lonu." We say full hallel on the first day of Pesach. It's a special time when we move deeply into humility. It's not because of us. "Loi lonu Hashem, ten kavod." Should do it for your honor. When we say that, we got to mean it, of course. But that creates yeshua, it creates salvations, it creates redemption. And this year is certainly a powerful redemptive year where we see the Jewish people going through an incredible salvation every day. It's going on every day for us here in Eretz Israel for the last month. Let's see together what my Rosh Yeshiva says. "V'chag Pesach yesh Yom Tov b'techilaso." So he points out something very interesting. Pesach has a Yom Tov at the beginning. We have a festival at the beginning of Pesach. "V'ein es avinu mikum mitzvos." And we have a number of commandments that were given to us for the first day. We have lots of interesting things to do. "Ki si preitzem Mitzrayim." We get to talk about the Exodus from Egypt. "Achilas matza." We eat the matza and the maror. And of course the korban Pesach when there's a Beit Hamikdash. "Ukrias hallel is a mitzvah to say full hallel." "V'gam b'seif hayom tov." At the end of Yom Tov we also have after the first six days there's a seventh day. It's a Yom Tov as well. It's a full festival. "V'hu yom echad meyuchad m'vu'ar yoter m'melacha." But it doesn't have any specific mitzvos that are associated with that day. It's just an issur melacha where you're allowed to do any forbidden conscious creative activities like Shabbos. "V'hu yom harishon she kar sh'mo yom harishon." It would seem that the first day of Yom Tov is the main day. "K'mo she sharyam uvoinam rak l'chazek rishonim v'acharonim." And it would seem like if we look at it in a superficial way, that the days that follow are just there to deepen perhaps the original impression that we got from the first day of Yom Tov. "B'yom avinu ikar avodas hachag." And that's when we had the main service that we did of Yom Tov. We have the we have the seder and we have the korban Pesach and or the mitzvah of matza and maror etc. Okay, so and I would say also it's actually of course the day tes vav, tonight and tomorrow is the actual day that the Jewish people were freed from their bondage in Egypt. So that seems to be the main day. "Al ta'asi hashkafa zos." Says my Rosh Yeshiva, says Rabbi Per, it's actually a mistake. This is not the correct understanding of what's going on. "Mikumat ha'avodah hu emes." He says it's almost the opposite the truth. "Kol mitzvos hayom harishon kol sheshes hayamim harishonim b'Pesach kulam machar l'yom hashvi'i." Says Rabbi Per, all of the first six days of Pesach are actually a preparation for the seventh day. Okay? And I'll read the note here. "B'pshitus nitan l'havin k'shvi'i shel Pesach hu av g'mar l'yetzi'as Mitzrayim atzma." In the simple understanding we can say that the seventh day of Pesach is the completion of of the yetzi'as Mitzrayim. Why? What happens on the seventh day? The seventh day is when we had the miracle of the splitting of the sea. It's where we went through the sea on dry land. The Egyptians were drowned in the sea and we came out on the other end and we had a clarity that we're not going back there. "Moshe avinu nidmu la asir she nishtachrer v'husar mimenu hakabalim." It's like it's analogy to a person who is incarcerated. And he's getting freed and they took off his handcuffs. "Sh'da'as nish'ar roshem hakabalim b'saro." He still sees the handcuffs, there's an impression on you know on his skin. "Ad she yis'aref ha'ishur l'gamrei." Until his flesh gets completely well. "K'mo she kein rak ha'ishur me'isur asiya yetzi'ah m'isur asiya b'vasar." The impression that was left from the from the stranglehold of the ropes that were tying our arms so to speak, the impression left when we saw that Egypt the Egyptians had died there. So it was the completion. The completion is on the last day of Pesach. "Omnam yesh omnam," says Rabbi Per, "b'yom harishon yesh avinu mitzvos." It's true that on the on the first day there's a lot of mitzvos of commandments. "Aval acharei acharei hamitzvos she hayom shel hachag." But after those and as the chag as the holiday continues, "Hamitzvah piy l'yom hashvi'i." It's days of of we're waiting for, we're anticipating the seventh day. "Oz yashir Moshe v'Yisrael." Because on the seventh day we merit to have the song. Right? The song of Moshe and the Jewish people when they went through the Yam Suf, when they got to the other side of the Sea of Reeds, they sang a song of thanks to Hashem when they saw indeed that they were saved. "Al ten l'havin b'seider hatam b'shiras hayam." We need to contemplate what is the secret which is hidden in the song of the sea. "Al ten l'havin yashar k'mo Rashi b'peirusham." Rashi writes two explanations on the words "Oz yashir" which means then Moshe and the children of Israel will sing. Right? The simple understanding is then they sang. But actually the words mean then they will sing. "V'eichan amar loi libo sh'yashir." What is "oz"? Let's focus on the word "oz". Oz means then. What's then? Then they say. Why does it say then they say? It should just say they sang. Oz means then. So Rashi says there was something that happened and then followed the song followed it. What was it? "Amar loi libo sh'yashir." Moshe Rabbeinu had he had a feeling in his heart. His heart told him it's time to sing. We need to sing. "V'chein asah." And that's what he did. So "oz yashir" means then he sang after his heart told him to sing. Beautiful thing. >> [sighs] >> "Moshe amar l'libo sh'yashir v'chein asah." "Ein adam l'havakash." It says Rabbi Per, when a person thinks has a good feeling, has a good uh inspiration. When a person is inspired to something, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to actually do it. Right? You could be inspired, I could be inspired, but not actually per se uh execute the feeling. Don't take it lightly. He had a feeling to sing and he sang. "Ein adam she'eino b'libo la'asos ma'aseh she'eino omer v'say." A person having a good idea or a good inspiration does not You might have experienced this. I'm sure we all have. Having a good thought does not actually mean that they're going to actually do it. "K'mo l'havin achilah b'midas na'arus u'midas ziknah." Says Rabbi Per, we can understand over here the difference between the idea of youth and the idea of being elderly. "Mishum na'ar." Someone who's young, someone who has the vibrancy of youth. "K'mo na'ar l'davar chadash." They're always awake to something new. You give a child a new toy, he gets excited about it. Something new, something new. "K'shehu mit'orer b'meirus." He's jumping quickly. "K'she'ar ha'aros harishonah." When the first awakening, the first inspiration quiets, "Nish'ar b'chesron shleimus." Often a person who's young doesn't necessarily complete all the things that they've started. Oh, wow, cool, a puzzle. Start it up, they get tired of it. Here he says on the bottom, Israel is silly as an arm. It's a Jewish trait. An Israelite trait to be young, to be youthful. Right, I don't even cuz I let's just call Dover. We like to get involved in things. I feel the arm shall have it. Sometimes it's something that's meaning meaningless. Can I just say it's real positive in Osea? All right, I'm going to be ashamed of Sham. Osea says about the Jewish people that we are young. Cuz you're all the right and believe Israel when an idea comes into our minds. Yeah, cuz in the comment we quickly initiate it. I don't know if it's a good song to listen to or listen to God mercy in ours. We believe I shall my own Messiah. Right, it's also a youthful thing to to start and do things that may not be significant, may not be worth completing. Okay? So, that's the meter of youth. Young people are excited. Young people are involved. Young people are looking. They're looking for what they can accomplish and do. Okay? Not always doing it. Not always completing it. The most zealous talking. If we look at an elderly person, call it an experienced person. Ain't nobody has to be so cool Doesn't allow himself to get so inspired all the time to do all kinds of different things. Should I engage him a lot of the Marshall King? Right? When I was young, I made up a lot of songs. And you know, you can't put out every song that you make up. As you get older, I mean, it's been my experience as I get older, I make up less songs. Because not every song can be brought to completion completion. You learn that you need to be picky about what you get inspired by and into. All right, so an an older person, a more experienced person, ain't no Messiah of the car. Doesn't get inspired or doesn't get motivated to do something so easily. Because he started many tasks and he's not always completed them. When they should fire Islam in the market or recon Ryan is volume. Since the elderly person has already learned to recognize the emptiness of very high ideals ideals doesn't mean I shouldn't be idealistic, but it means I need to know that I can't do everything. We built the Marshall moment. Many things I've not completed. This is the condition of our claw. The danger is that a person who has a lot of experience will say, "Look, ah, I'm not even going to bother at all." I know I don't finish things. I know I get very inspired and do a lot of things, but I don't ever finish them. So, that's the danger of a lot of sucking a hawk on. An elderly person who's wise, we're going to get to a point here. We're going to see what the point here is. It's important. Stay with me. You shouldn't be a Messiah An older person who's wise, even though he doesn't get so inspired all all the time. But when he does find something that moves him, when he does find something that he's got to This is the right This is what I need to do. He takes it all the way to the end. He makes sure to to complete it. Okay, I got loose as you might have been reading the Rashi. So, now we see something important about Mosha. And what Rashi said, let's remember Mosha Rabenu at this point is 80 years old. So, he's not young. Kila Rashi all of the living in the Mashira. Not only was he awakened by his heart to say to sing. He was inspired to sing. Let action is our last so I shall have also. Not only was he inspired to do it, so he has both, right? He's got the inspiration of youth. And he does it. He has the ability to complete it. He has that appreciation of the elderly. Of the wise. Okay? So, that's about Mosha. That's the song. That's the completion. Now, let's talk about the completion of the hug, which is the seventh day. That's what I am from the Mashira. The seventh day of Pesach is the day that we married that song. We married this song. We married this idea of being awakened and wanting to take it to its end. We have to fish out of the Hamala of Halulu. So, this is the Yontif. The last day of Pesach and the Yontif that has these two advantages. I think I might have already been chasing the Shamash of the hug. Through the experiences that we've had from the first day through the next altogether six days of Yontif. So, we're inspired. Messiah in the Mashira. We're inspired to sing. We're inspired to appreciate the miracles that Hashem is doing for us. The odds of Sham and pile. And then we actively sing. And I And I want to say this is such an important thing for right now because there are miracles happening every day. Every day to call Israel right now. And we can get used to it cuz like, "Oh, wow." Wow. Wow, BUT HOW MANY HOW MANY TIMES DO you say wow, right? When we get used to it. This is saying, "No, no, no." Let it inspire you and culminate in a song. Let it awaken the song inside of us. We can be the Halulu of the hug. I'm a star of the berries mark. When we get these these meters, these character traits, and we absorb them and inculcate them into ourselves, so we have the ability to emulate Hashem as it were. I'm a shy of the Mashira covenant. I have the because I can walk across. I rush to be saved in the Shacharis. We say in the beautiful Shira covenant on the Zemer as we say in Shacharis. So, we refer to Hashem as being young and old. Seeing long flowing black beard, long flowing white beard. Hashem has both aspects. Hashem is inspired to create. And he's hunkers down to complete it as it were. So, creates the world. Hashem brings it to its completion. So, we are also emulating Hashem when we behave in this way. Is that volume with Peru Hashem shall Rashi know? Now, here we come to the second explanation of Rashi. All the positive of us Yasha, then they sing. All of us have become the same in the Torah. He said something amazing. He says that our sages find in this statement of us Yasha, then they will sing. It's a hint to the fact that there's going to be some amazing. The dead will be revived. I might as well I just want to say Mosha. In the future, Mosha will sing again. When there's a when the final redemption occurs, Mosha is resuscitated. He's brought back from the dead. And he's going to sing again with call Israel. Kikisha Niska like nice team in the Halulu. Cuz when we acquire these two assets, these two characteristics, one of youthfulness, willingness to be inspired, but also the ability to bring things to completion. As Niska the Mashira as love you with my Lucy and guy I'll be marrying a man. Amen. Call Israel is in this elderly state. But Zikna and you who positive says, "Until you are old," Hashem says to I'm Israel, "I will still be with you. I will still carry you. I will get you to the finish line of Gula. I'm Israel, we've been waiting a long time for Messiah to arrive, for the Messiah to arrive. We've been waiting a long time for Kiva's Galius. We're starting to see it. Almost 8 million Jews in Israel, right? We've been waiting a long time for Messiah to arrive, for base I mean this to be built, for the Sheena to return, for I mean this to be able to come back here. Right? Wait it out. Don't give up at the end. You got to still be inspired. We got to still be inspired. I sure you should have been Mashira Pesach. The song that we married to sing on the seventh day of Pesach. It's the song that we're waiting for. It's the song that's inspiring us to wait also. The summer see how many years you sang in the Mashira hug. It symbolizes the level that we attain, the highest level that we attain through the hug of Pesach. I'm a Messiah Gula see the Shisha of I got a second. I am. And it also represents the future redemption, which is the result of what we've gained, what we're meant to gain from Pesach. What are we meant to gain from Pesach? The ability to stay inspired. The ability to appreciate over and over again the miracles that Hashem is doing for us. The ability to recognize, "Hey, we're far along in the path towards Messiah. Look what's going on. Look how many Jews are living in Israel. Look how Israel is being rebuilt. 100 years ago, there was 20, 30,000 Jews here. That's it. In 1926, that's it. And now, here we are. Unbelievable things that are going on. Appreciate it. We Don't be old. The old person doesn't have the inspiration to say, "Hey, we're almost there. Hey, let's start singing." We got to be the wise old person. We got to learn from basic to be the wise person who is singing. I'm going to read from the note here. V'ray an azeh. This idea sh'gulah sh'mishrayim sh'yachas b'gulah sh'yida yishmo so we can dusha sh'mosa he says that there's a parallel between the g'ulah of Mitzrayim of Egypt and the final redemption, which we are standing on the cusp of. You can see a hint to this in in Kedusha in Musaf of Shabbos. Yom Tov We say Hashem is going to make it heard again. It's going to be a second time. Besides through the first time that Hashem made heard, the whole world knows about the redemption from Egypt. Right? Everybody knows about it. Hashem is going to make it known again. It's going to be heard again. Wow, the Jewish people were redeemed a second time. So, this is the second time we're we're facing now. The original time, the first redemption was Egypt. We're on the cusp of another one, second one. Pasuk says that like the days when you went out of Egypt, I will show you wonders again. The future g'ulah, the future redemption is going to be like the redemption from Egypt. And we request of God that just like the purpose of the redemption from Egypt was for Hashem to become our God. So, he became our God, our king. He guided us and gave us the Torah, he showed us what a a relationship with him looks like. So, too, it's going to happen again. So, he's going to redeem us again. And he's going to reassert his covenant with us. There's going to be a new relationship. Another time, Hashem is going to do what he did taking us out of Egypt. He's going to bring us back into a relationship with him again. But, the future revelation Hashem is going to perform will be for the entire world. Not just for Am Yisrael. Not just for all of us. Are you the g'ulah sh'yisrael? But, it will be through the redemption of Klal Yisrael that we all, the entire world will be redeemed. Because says Rabbi Paretz because the first day of Pesach, beginning of Pesach, the first six days of Pesach are just a preparation for the last day. So, more miracles were seen at the Yam Suf at the Sea of Reeds. There were if there were 10 plagues in Egypt, there was five times that. 50 50 plagues at the at the sea. What's the concept? Why are Hazal teaching us that? We say that we all know this from the Haggadah. But, what is the concept of it? The concept of it is that here's the big show. You had the little show until now, but here's the big show. It's the culmination. And it's representative I'm saying I think that's what he's hinting to. It's representative of what it's going to be like when Mashiach comes, when the Messiah arrives. It's going to be the big show so to speak. The attainment, the the spiritual enlightenment that they received and and experienced at Yam Suf was awesome. It was so powerful. It was the the most uninitiated person the most spiritually, perhaps we could say not sophisticated person experienced a higher revelation than Yechezkel Hanavi, Ezekiel the prophet. And we know about the Ma'aseh Merkavah, what it looks like in heaven from Yechezkel. We know about the angels. Yechezkel's description first perek of Yechezkel. Similarly in the Haggadah on the night of Pesach the variation. We're talking mainly in the Haggadah about Yetzias Mitzrayim, about the the first night. What happened on the first night? We went out. We were freed, first day. But, we don't stop there. We also talk extensively about what happened at the Yam Suf. We're talking about the miracles and the numbers of how many miracles there were. Excuse me, how many plagues there were at the splitting of the sea. According to one explanation, there were plagues. And we also hint we also hint to the fact that we're not just talking about something that happened in the past but we're also talking about something that's going to happen in the future. By the g'ulah by the future redemption of the Jewish people. Where it says It says blood and fire and pillars of smoke. Right? What is it talking about? It's not talking about Egypt. If you look at the pasuk, it's talking about the g'ulah sh'yida, the future redemption. So, it's it's hinted to by referencing that pasuk that we're not just talking about something that happened in the past. We're talking about something that's going to happen in the future, the future redemption of Klal Yisrael. It's going to happen in the end of days. Not only that, but the fifth cup, which we call the cup of Eliyahu Elijah the prophet's cup. Who is Elijah? Who's Eliyahu Hanavi? He's the one who comes at the at the end of days. Hinei Anochi shole'ach l'chem es Eliyahu Hanavi. Elijah the prophet is going to be returned to us. Before that great and awesome day, before the redemption occurs. And his job will be to bring us back together, to bring the fathers and the sons' hearts back together, to open our hearts. Really, Eliyahu Hanavi is going to do that. So, hinted to in the fifth cup, the cup of Elijah the prophet is the very future that we're so so anticipating. We're so dearly anticipating. It's all We're waiting for that moment. Don't get old. Don't allow ourselves We can't allow ourselves to get to the point where we're not inspired anymore. We have to be like we're Moshe Rabbeinu. We have to be ready to sing Az Yashir. Inspiration, bring it out. Bring it out. Let's bring it out. Let's bring out that inspiration in ourselves. And in our kids. We have an awesome opportunity. It's Pesach. We've got to make it real, make it come to life. Bring that song to life. It's something that we have to have an appreciation for what's going on, what's been going on. What's going on right now, where we are, how close we are. And we're going to see it down to its completion. With Hashem's help, I want to bless you, ask you to bless me. Hashem should help us that we should merit to be able to be inspired, that our hearts should be moved. And we should be able to sing that song. Not just of the redemption of Egypt, but the song, the ultimate song of Klal Yisrael and the world's full redemption. May it be speedily and in our days. Thank you so much for listening. Have a Chag Kasher v'Sameach, a beautiful Pesach and a good Shabbos. This podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like [music] you. 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