Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - Prepare Yourself for Pesach

well the wonderful work they do in spreading Toyota all over the globe all over the world so many people are the beneficiaries of the lectures on tour anytime and we should all take advantage of over 2000 lectures you can watch and tour anytime you know just want to make an announcement at 10 o'clock on Sunday night Saturday nights evening after Shabbos special movie and Bilhah Tehama i'm the blessing of the sun which is going to be wednesday we know that wednesday opportunity once in every 28 years to make a special blessing over the Sun the Sun and the earth are gonna be aligned as we wore when the Sun was created this happens every 28 years and you understand from the video why every 28 years since a fascinating moment we're getting back to a point yeah video and probably paste our own roughly foyer I'm going to explain it from Kabbalah from science the whole thing 10 o'clock Saturday night here okay I courage it very much and we're gonna make a blessing as a community actually Wednesday you probably get more yeah yeah yeah mostly Shabbat after Shabbat okay so the program tonight is I'm going to give a little talk now and some of the ideas of Pesach and robbing the son of is going to speak after me and gonna go more of the details of the whole occult of the laws of how to set your kitchen so right now we'll do something a little more philosophical and then robbing the son of we'll take care of something a little more practical so let me just begin by telling you a quick story that one time I had a student and this student was really on his way to becoming more observant and he was a great guy and he was covered to my classes all the time but his wife was very much against it and it was kind of an unusual situation because usually the women tend to want their husbands more than the two the husband's want the wives you know it's a rare rare scenario that you see a woman who's saying listen you know Friday night I don't want to stay home and have a Shabbat meal I'd rather go out to the you know after the mall or out today I don't know I took I had to eat very wonderful lady but it was just whatever reason she had her issues and she couldn't we he couldn't really get her to follow and so I was very excited for a long time of learning with him that she agreed to come to a seminar that we were doing in New Jersey and we were doing a seminar and I was very excited that she would come and I have an opportunity over three days Friday through Sunday to speak with her talk with her and try hopefully to explain to her what her husband already knows about the beauty of who we are as Jews and what we have so we get to the hotel and we sit down and she joins my family at the table Friday night I went to get to talk and you know just nice conversation but nothing great but that's we're getting towards the end of the meal she says to me rabbi I have so many questions I want to ask you when can we talk so being a young inexperienced rabbi I said whenever you want I'm ready whenever you'd like how about after dessert how about right after dessert so we had dessert and everybody leaves and she and I stay at the table and deeper got tea if we're sitting they were drinking tea a little bit cake in front of us and we get to talk and she says to me rabbi how do we know God exists how do we know if Shem is there so listen this what I do for a living you know the answer these questions so I started telling her you know I gave her my whole speech I'm talking about perfection and creation and I'm talking to her about the perfection of the human body says Robbie that's wonderful that's great but how do we know that God actually communicated with us Oh lecture number two right you've heard my lectures before lecture that God spoke to the entire Jewish nation our scene I and we have five million witnesses and other nations that have made such a claim and I'm just telling her and I'm answering her you know the best lectures I've ever given and that you say but Robbie that's wonderful it's so beautiful but how do we know it's relevant to our lives Oh relevance into our lives here comes the Shabbat lecture you know no one is happier family life is better you know you have more peace of mind I'm talking about your back you know but rabbi but this is really apply today you know done now it's tough mishpokhe ah right I'm I'll read through the whole thing and for me you know this is what I do for a living you know and so asked me these questions and they're so eager to hear you know like this was so wonderful you know just on a side point I was displaying something my brother the other day you know he was like you know he didn't agree exactly what I was saying I said to look just give me a chance this is what I do for a living you know he says that's what you do for a living you know I said it's kind of surprised you know make a living in this teaching tour but so I was having a great conversation with her and we were talking and we've talked about two-three hours in about three hours and she was so excited and her face was lit off and she was so receptive to the words I was saying I think this was great and I came back to my wife and I can that she said you know was like one of the more you just had to go I said great I think I really touched her next morning and Shabbat go down to breakfast she's not there I look you're doing but that's a feel ah I'm a seer I look for at lunch she's not there I said their husband where'd she go so she's up in our hotel room so I said I'm look for later you know the the lecture in the afternoon she's not there he's not there for the third meal she's not there for Abdullah I said to her husband what's going on is she okay she's sick she doesn't want to come out of her room so I look for Sunday morning at the brunch you know at the the big breakfast we have I look for at the lecture I don't see her the rest of the three days she stayed in a room for three days so I said to her husband what's going on you know we have such a great talk Friday night and like what happened I was so excited she was gonna participate and really be part of this and so it was said to me well she asked you her questions she disagreed with the answers so she feels nothing else to discuss so she stayed in her hotel room the rest of the three days watching television so I came back the Queen's really depressed thinking you know I have such an opportunity and like what went wrong so I have a good friend and he's got 75 years old he's probably the most incisive person in human nature I've ever met I said to him Marty he I said it Marty let me tell you what happened I tell what happened I said what I do wrong you know this lady was asking me these questions and she was so sincere and I gave her my best answers and like I lost her and he said to me Robert Kraft you blew it he said you really blew it this time I said I know but tell her what I do wrong he said she wasn't asking you questions she was making statements you heard it as a question but she didn't want to know she was just telling you her opinion she phrased it in a way that sounded like a question but she had no desire to hear an answer so all you did by answering her so-called questions was you gave her the excuse to think that there are no answers because she wasn't asking to learn she wasn't asking to know she was just making a statement that's what I think rabbi you know how do you know there's a god she wasn't asking me rabbi how do you know there's a god she was saying rabbi how do you know there's a god that's not a question that's a statement of course she phrased it in a very nice way so she fooled so all I did by answering her questions was I convinced her that there are no answers now I noticed something she the bobbum notice is this you know when you look at the seder and what we're going to do on Wednesday night is we're going to spend an evening asking questions and the whole point of the Seder is to ask and that's why so much of what we do at the Seder is to evoke questions now what I do at my Seder you know one day you'll hook up to my Seder I'd love it I sit there with a big bowl of candy in front of me and whenever one of my children ask a question I throw them some candy and the reason why is because I want them to ask I want to encourage questions because questioning is the whole purpose of the evening because what's a question a question means that you're searching for something that you don't know a question means that you're incomplete and you want to be filled up that was interesting by the way what is almost the first thing that we do at the Seder we sit down at the Seder we say Kadesh we make kadosh right and then we do cottage or cots car pass we dip we'll talk about that then we do something called yeah cots we break the middle piece of matzah in in half we put the smaller piece underneath the napkin we hide the big piece what's the idea of breaking something in half what's the symbolism the symbolism is that I feel that I'm not whole but I am incomplete I am broken in half and I want to spend tonight looking to find an answer looking to understand more deeper what it means that God took us out of Egypt and what it means that God has been actively involved in the life of the nation the Jewish people we break the mocks in half to symbolize that we want to find something and the whole Seder if you think about is looking for that matzah and that's the last thing that we do you have to search it for it you have to find it and you can't complete the Seder to get it back to make it whole again but the night is a night of searching and that's why we begin with questions now our rabbis tell us for example you're supposed to come to the Seder I were at the Seder I wear a white kitten that's the the thing I got married in it's like a long white robe I don't thinks far to do it but we do it i screen eyes and we do it we wear this white Kittel do a white suit you know what sir we were a white Kittel oh and I wear it at the seder and you know why I wear it it's brought down the show come on rook to get your children to ask you why are you wearing such a funny robe ah but there must be something different tonight and then it's that you're supposed to give nuts and and candies to the children why so they should ask you you know what's going on tonight it's different you don't hand out candies every night and then it says that you're supposed to ask four questions what are those questions we know the questions man me Carlos that's customary that the youngest child gets up and says it you'll do that in your homes you know the youngest child gets up and does that I remember one time I did a seder at a nursing home I was the youngest one there so I have to stand on the chair and do it you know I was clearly youngest one but about fifty years and know what's going on why do we have to ask these questions out the halacha says that if two great Torah scholars are eating together having a seder together one of the Torah scholars has to ask the other Torah scholar these questions it says that if you're having a seder with just you and your husband or you and your wife one ask the ask the other the questions well thank you very much look at I did not even know the longshot clothing in law it says something else very interesting if you're having a seder by yourself you have to ask yourself the questions because the reason is the question is supposed to evoke in you triggering you that you don't know you're searching to find something new that's the question is if you think about it even when you ask a question how do you ask a question listen to my voice Jacob asked me a question Oh am I here Jacob's voice say it again what do you want me to ask you totally what happens when you ask a question is your voice goes up what do you want me to ask you and it sort of sits there and hangs and it needs to be resolved it has to come down I want you to ask me a question my voice comes down so speech pathologists will tell you an audiologist will tell you the reason is because a question is saying it's like a musical note it just hangs there till you bring it down that's the idea of a question a question means I wanna I'm incomplete until you answer me and the Savior is to be looking for that completion now I want to scrape out a question I don't ask you a question we have four sons in the in the Haggadah there are four types of children that we speak to when we tell the story of the going out of Egypt who are those four sons the the Phenom the Y Sunday the rush of the evil son the time the simple son Andy end of the leash all the sudden doesn't know how to ask four types of sons now where do we get these four sons from the Torah tells in four different places that you have to teach your children what happened to you when you are in Egypt the Torah stresses it teach your children about all of the miracles of the going out of Egypt tell your children encourage them to ask and teach them and our rabbis explained the reason it says it four times in four different place in the Torah is there cuz there are four types of children now I want to play a game with you I'm gonna read to you the question of the wise son and the question of the son who is called the evil son and I want you to tell me what the difference is between the question now it's gonna be a little bit challenging as you will see here it goes everybody listen read by ready I'm going to say to the Hebrew could all say us at the Seder so it's a good review here's the question of the hung the wise son you could find this in Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 20 his question is as follows it says the hokum says and make sure I got it right over here McCallum or when your child will ask you tomorrow saying AHA a dose what are these laws the hook him the statutes rubbish bottom these ordinances all the types of laws are shared Siva a sham lo que no es creme which is Shem our God commanded you listen carefully listen to his question he shall have been heard before they more when your child will ask you tomorrow what are these laws statutes ordinances which is Shem our God commanded you that's this question why is that the question of a wise son is anything why is it out that question when your son will ask you tomorrow what are these laws let a Shem our God commanded you did you hear any wisdom in that question well let's hear he's asking a question he sang Keesha I'll have been comical a bar when your child will ask you your son will ask you tomorrow saying what are these laws that Hashem our God commanded you well listen to the evil sons question tell me if you hear a difference the evil son of the son attributed the question of tribute to the evil son confound in in in Deuteronomy back to you that's chapter 6 verse 21 the other was an exodus verse you'd base verse 26 it says as follows the question tribute to the evil son is the high Akiyama are they from beneath him when your children will say to you my voters OWSLA hem what's all this service to you that's the question of the evil son what's the difference do your difference listen to gefilte I see an English says the wise son says what are all these laws that are shem our god commanded you okay that's the wise sons question the evil sons question is what is all this service not voted as those look um what is all this service to you what's all this work they were doing all this service to you do you hear a difference in the questions [Music] what's that in my voice what's what's the quirk in his voice okay so some say that Sean you're right something Malvo does Auslan what's this heavies work that you're doing a voter can mean people have you work a voter could also mean those service to God I bought us a shot so I'm going to tell you something all right listen carefully also some say that also excellent that's the Haggadah says he says my voters uh look what's it to you when he's including himself from it doesn't say lana aussie says to you not me so some say that very good the cup says it also he says what are these laws what are these laws to you one of these were these laws of yours true that's true the of does say a Schemmel okay no but the russia's question isn't so far from it he says you know what he says my vote has those look um what's all the service to you what's all about like I don't see why that's the question of evil son so let me suggest let me to you and this is what the mob of the 19th century rabbi says listen carefully the mob says you know the questions are almost identical the difference is what's behind the question listen carefully to one word difference the question the wise son begins as follows ich bin Harlem or when your child will ask you tomorrow saying what are all these laws the course of the evil son is when your child will say to you what's all this service to you once it gives you the wise son of the evil son the white son says Keesha he's asking a question the evil son is making a statement they're asking the same question but one wants to know the other one is just making a statement you know I could ask things at different ways I could say like this I could say you know why do you make a blessing on soda so what do I mean by that I could either mean you know I teach me like why are you so specific and why are we so specific everything that's known blessing and you might answer me and say you know because the more specific we are the more gratitude we have to got beautiful but you know I could say those same words in a different way I could say those words why do you make a blessing that soda what am I one of my worry what's my tone apply in those words I'm wrapping it what do we need to make a blessing I'm so in why do you need to make a blessing of soda am I looking for an answer in that statement am i attacking the ideal earth maker busting a soda I think I'm attacking now there's some people who are very smart some people say why do you make a blessing on soda but you know what if you can read what's really behind them they couldn't care less then well they might say even in a normal tone but really they're not asked looking for an answer they're looking just because they couldn't care less the looking to attack blessings yeah that's a good question that's a good question how do you know now I when I was with that lady in the hotel I thought she was asking me questions she was using a very nice language she was talking in a way like you know how do we know that God exists but really what she was saying to me if I can read if if I could have listened more carefully to most behind her words it would have sounded more like rabbi you know proof to be God exists how do you know God exists it's not how do you know God exists how do you know God exists you hear the difference you could say the same words but what behind is behind your question is the difference between everything what makes the evil sons question and evil question is he's not asking a question at all he's making a statement he's like I don't care about this what's all this service to you I couldn't care less the wise son is saying what's all this service to you I really want to know so I'll tell my friends you know if you learned from this no question is a bad question every question is a good question if it's really a question but a question has to mean you really want to grow you really want to grow you really want to find an answer you're really looking to enhance yourself as a Jew to make yourself a greater person if your question is merely just an attack if someone you know and you might find this in life people will ask you questions about things and listen carefully are they asking you questions or making statements if they're making statements don't bother answering them you know I should have done with this lady when she was asking me all the so-called questions you know I should have done guess what I should have done you know I should have done anyway I should have said to her all those are really really great questions you're asking me you know but we don't even know each other yet we just met each other tell me about your family tell about your kids you know I should have talked to her a half-an-hour better children why because that you were trusted me and maybe should have showed up tomorrow but all I did was answer what I thought were questions and I set her back she wasn't looking to learn she was looking just to attack the rush of the evil sons question are statements of attack I don't want to grow I don't want to know you can't prove anything to me the wise sons question is the same question when his breakfast is preceded by the words when I'll ask you he wants to know he wants to grow so the goal of the Seder is to be like the wise son to look at the search and to find something new in the evening that you have never discovered before okay now what are we supposed to discover let's just take a look for a moment you know one of the first commandments that God gave us who could tell me what are the first three Commandments that God gave us the first three Canaris he gave the Jewish nation that was much later that was actually a heart CNI forty days later more the commandments we received while we were still in Egypt before we left Egypt we received three Commandments or those three Commandments Rosh Chodesh could change your calendar to go after the mourn good the second commandment was was the commandment to eat matzah third commandment was the commandment to take a lamb tie it to your bedpost take it outside make a big fire and roast it whole over a fire is called the Paschal sacrifice three Commandments New Moon matzah Paschal offering listen carefully why God choose these three things as the first three things to tell the Jewish people we're now a nation were in Egypt we're ready to be liberated God's ready to bring us out it gives us three Commandments change your calendar eat matzah and offer up a lamb as a sacrifice what are these three things have to do with anything so let me explain to you you know in Egypt the calendar always went after the Sun the Egyptians actually worship the Sun is one of their gods and all dates were determined in the Earth's relative relationship with the Sun what's your question when you look at the Sun every morning does it rise every night does it set when you look at the moon is sometimes it's there sometimes it's not there what's addition the mood of the Sun this is the more of the Sun is the Sun is something which happens over and over and over again as interesting religions that use the Sun as their determinant of a calendar often believe in something called predetermination of predestination predestination means that you were born with something you can't change just like the Sun can't change it's always going to be there the mornings to set at night it's constant first thing God says to us is change your calendar go after the moon why because the moon is changing and you have to understand if you're gonna be a great human being you have to appreciate the change is possible just like the moon sometimes it's there sometimes it's not there it's gonna come back again you have to understand just like it changes you can change first thing you have to know it if you want to be if you want to be a great human being you have to appreciate the fact that you can change that's gonna have a double one commitment number two is God says eat matza you know he gave us a commandment to eat matza even before we left Egypt which is interesting we forget that sometimes one could man with the matzah is to remember how we went out of Egypt but the first time the commandment was given what we're still need you to eat matzah so there's a spiritual aspect of matzah what's the spiritual aspect how do you make matzo what's the recipe for matzo water and flour one of the five grains wheat spelt oat barley or rye what's the recipe for bread flower and one of the five grains like wheat spelt you know oats barley and rye what's the difference in matzo and bread it's the same recipe what's the difference what happened the difference is is that we know that when you combine water with any of these five grains there's going to be a chemical reaction there chemical reaction will produce a type of glucose the byproduct of that chemical reaction will be carbon dioxide that carbon dioxide will cause a arise a leavening we sometimes want to stimulate that leavening enhance it but we put some Eastin we make it some more bacteria to you know really make the rise really big what's matzah matzah is wheat and water but what do we do we stop the rise we prevent it from growing how do we do that well I'll tell you first you have to take wheat which was guarded so no water should touch it you have to take water that's isn't guarded that no we touched it you have to add it together and as soon as you add it together stopwatch goes off and the race begins you start you put the water onto the wheat you flatten it out you know you smooth it out you make it round you make some holes in it you get in the oven you bake it you pull it out all within an 18 minute period if you can keep this Mott's of this wheat and water moving right and not allow 18 minutes to go by where it was idle you could stop the leavening process you can stop the process you could stop what's natural you can rule over what's natural so to speak that's what matzo is now why is this the second commandment that God gives us why is it give us a commandment of matzah what's the idea why does he give this commandment what's the spiritual the deeper spiritual meaning I think the deeper spiritual meaning is as follows number one if you look at bread what actually gives bread that really fluffy appearance what is it you know what it is it's air it's air is there anything really there it's really just an illusion it's just wheat and water with a a reaction that produce carbon dioxide and cause the rise but that whole fluffy inside of it really doesn't exist it's really an illusion and our rabbi's tell us spiritually it represents the idea of arrogance of arrogance meaning the idea that there's something more important about me than there should be so bread is the idea of falseness and spiritually it's the idea of the falseness in ourselves which we call arrogance because what's arrogance arrogance means that I think there's something about me which deserves praise and if I'm going to say that that is there's something you know I will look for something phony about myself that deserves praise that's called arrogance what's matzah matzah is a very honest food it's the bread of the water but there's no rice there's no illusion there's no lie so to speak all this is it is what it is it's very truthful there's nothing fake about it and that's why matzo represents the idea of humility because what's humility humility is the idea that I know exactly who I am I'm honest about myself you don't taste lame by the way he merely does not mean that I think that I'm a schemata humility the shmatte is like a dust rag the Yiddish schemata where'd you grow up in a crop in New York mark I'm here about the Irish mob took this award to give us what it means in Iraq but it doesn't me that I'm a doormat doesn't mean I'm a dust rag what what humility means is that I know exactly who I am I'm very honest about myself that means if I'm Michael Jordan I'm supposed to say that I'm the greatest basketball player that ever lived if you asked Michael Jordan he should honestly say that he is the best basketball player who ever lived in the last 20 30 years is that arrogance no it's the proof what makes it humility but who gave me that ability God and I've got it giving you the ability that I had you should be great yes I have talents I know I have talents but it's all from God and if I achieved anything it's so small God gave me the brain God gave me the body God give me the hands God give me the circumstances God give me the parents God give me the ability so if I achieve something like where's there room for a full scent that I achieved it that's arrogance humility means that I'm gonna be honest I Know Who I am but it's from God Madison represents negative complete humility because it's honest it says what it is I'm water and I'm flour that's all nothing phony nothing fake that's interesting one reason this is the second commandment that we received while in Egypt because God's teaching us important relation important lesson about having a relationship with him if you want to have a relationship with God you got to be honest with yourself you got to realize you have great talents but you have to appreciate who gave it to you don't think that what you have is something that you've brought into yourself don't think that you're more than you are recognize exactly who you are but your talents are straight from God if you want a relationship with God you need to have that honesty and God is saying to you now Jews I want to make you a holy nation but you got to work on this trait of humility that's interesting by the way for seven days God says only eat matzo right it must mean that for seven days he wants us to work on this trait someone asked me a question to Rabbi maybe we should eat matzah the whole year you know it wouldn't be a bad idea right maybe we should even watch the whole year you know work on this trait of honesty and humility the answer is seven days is like a seven day injection of penicillin sometimes you could have an infection but you gave enough to penicillin that you you locate the infection you could cure penicillin or matzo the idea is that for seven days we can work on arrogance and develop this honest sense of our talents but the appreciation that's all from God if you could do that you'd have a relationship with God you know like the dca Shotaro has one of these videos that it shows this this guy he's having a date with this girl you know I know you listen object of listeners cuz now he's still talking religious philosophical stuff of it I talk about girls he's got he's right with me like sooo the job just kidding of him but he says like this that this guy's out there with a girl and it's a funny video and he sits down at the table with her and he starts saying you know oh when I'm gonna produce my new movie you know I spoke to Steve Spielberg and he wants to buy the rights and you know she's looking at him and he's like well actually I didn't produce it you know he said you know but you know when I'm gonna direct the movie yep she looks at him he's like well actually I'm not gonna direct it and he's like you know but you know when I'm going to act in a film that Steven Spielberg is directing and she's looking at him he's like and the waiter is listening to this thing goes he goes to the kitchen he brings out a dish covered you know in a silver thing he puts it down before him he lifts it up there's a big matzo you know he looks at the matzo he looks at her and he says well actually I'm the guy who fetches the sandwiches from the store you know not to teaches honesty this does not to be false so first thing God is teaching us if you want to be a holy nation you got to know that you have talents but be honest where did it come from second thing I think is so interesting you know there's a question what's natural is it natural for bread to rise when you add water to wheat is it natural that the the chemical reaction will take place and co2 and result there will be a gas and the water will rise and then and that will cause a leavening in the bread is that natural yeah absolutely is it unnatural to try to stop it absolutely it's extremely unnatural because to stop it you have to expend a lot of energy you know as soon as you touch that flour to the water you have to start kneading and pushing and you know and and prevent something that naturally wants to take effect you know the second lesson God is trying to teach us about matzah God is saying to us that if you want to have a relationship with God you want to be holy you have to understand that the tests of life are to fight over nature to fight your nature you know we have nature's URI that we want to be like animals there was an animal want to do an animal wants to be at rest and wants to sleep wants to lie in the Sun and eat you know goosh got D Gucci of course smart animals do you know that's what an animal wants to do it wants to lie in the Sun it wants to rest it doesn't want to work and just wants to feed its body we have an animal side to who we are we do and if you look at the genetics DNA you know we resemble the monkey no question there is an animal in us but if you want to be great if you want develop something great about yourself you know what you have to do you have to rule over your animal you have to rule over what's natural about you if the rule over nature God says for seven days I want to teach you to rule over nature make matzo don't let the leavening which is natural take place rule over it you know it's natural right it's natural to be afraid it's natural to say you know when your boss tells you look if you don't come to work on Saturday I'm gonna fire you it's natural to be afraid it's unnatural to say well wait a minute I know there's a creator of this universe is gonna take care of me you know it's natural when you walk by a pizza store and you smell pizza with pepperoni but you have a strong desire for it you want to buy it it's unnatural to say wait a minute but God has said this is cruel to mix milk in the meat I'm not going to do it right it's natural to say that you know when you see her and she sees him you know it's on that it's unnatural to say no we're gonna sanctify this through marriage you know it's natural to it's unnatural gender start works greatest in life means we have to fight over nature we have to fight over who we are that's what makes a great human being and that's amounts of teaches us stop the natural stopped it from taking the face effect rule over it so to speak and that's what I told you I think once in lecture I did on the letters what's the word for a righteous person in Hebrew that's a dick outside because of an interesting word sadiq because a letter cuff at the end of the word means monkey a monkey is an animal we look like monkeys you go to the zoo we all look very much like monkeys and that's why the so it's always fun to watch because they look so human-like right but your ass Atticus the two letters at the beginning of that word spelled sad no it's admins not thought in Hebrew means to trap to hunt to control you know it's Atticus someone who traps who controls the monkey in him he's not ruled by the animal he rose over the animal yeah you have an animal inside of us we know that we're not supposed to follow it was to rule and control it that's about to teaches us rule over the natural it's easy to be a monkey you know it sees a banana and eats it it's difficult to be a Jew eat that banana we'll make sure you make a blessing first you know that's greatness great this is when you rule over yourself you're not ruled by yourself that's the matzah teaches how about the Pasco offering third thing we got God said take the lamb and put it on the spit roast it on a fire do not boil it and that by that you know did not boil it do not break the bones you know by the way that's one of the reasons you might not have be probably doing this custom on the Seder night we don't have roasted foods you don't have a roasted chicken we don't have a roasted lamb you know why because people shouldn't think we're doing the Paschal offering because you can't have the Paschal offering today without the bacon dick - so people shouldn't be confused that's why the custom on Passover is to eat foods that are boiled like I know my mother always made brisket it's like a you know it's like you boiled the meat and water so what you have so everybody have that oh you know I really everyone knows this that I'm in my previous carnation I was rigidly from Samarkand I'm pretty confident that I am originally from some other country and I you know that that explains my love for Miss America at the food but we don't to eat anything which is roasted because people shouldn't think that we're eating the Pascoe offering now what was this MIT so that God gave us why did not give us a mitzvah to take the Paschal Lamb take a lamb put it on a spit bring it over a fire and roast it whole can't break it can't boil it for interesting reason the God in Egypt was the lamb addition to the Sun and was the lamb one of their let one of the gods was a was called Li was a liquor Ram like a sheep house one of the gods hearth understand why but that was one of their gods so it's interesting one of the first things that God commands us to do before you leave Egypt Jews you've been here for 210 years first hundred years were pretty good the last 90 years or so were slavery they got more intense as the years went on but Jews your slaves to these masters I want you to take the God of your masters and I want you to roast it over a fire there's a question do you think that takes courage it takes a lot of courage to do take the lamb of the people have been enslaving you for the last hundred years and roasted whole over the fire that's tremendously brave act and in fact not only that they're supposed to tie the lamb up that's this Shabbat about a good ol is when they actually three days they prepared it the tied the lamb up to their houses so the Egyptians could watch it say what are you doing this lamb and you supposed to say to them wait and we're gonna we're gonna sacrifice we're gonna kill it you know you're gonna kill my god yes then they have to roast it on a barbecue spit you know whenever you smell roasted lamb it smells great doesn't it see gypsies are supposed to look over into the backyard of the Jews and you know they look over at the Bubba condos over there in the backyard and they say to them they say oh my god that's what to say yeah that's your God right over there it's roasting on the spit you know but that's exactly what God wants them to do this was this was this was after this this was after the tenth this was preceding the last plague preceding the mahabharath we haven't yet hit moppet before death of the firstborn after ninth like now what's the idea because God teaches a very important lesson in growth that number one you want to be great you want to be a holy people you have to realize change as possible go by the moon because the moon changes I watch it eat matza you have to rule over nature to rule over yourself but number three it's very important it's very interesting that in life if you couldn't be somebody different somebody greater than you are now I think something we all want to be somebody greater than we are I think none of us want to be the person we are right now I think we work should be happy with who we are and be confident we are have positive self-esteem 100% but I feel and I feel my own self now I want to be greater I want to strive to be as big person as I can be it's great a holy person I could be we all want that God is teaching us something very interesting when you begin the process of growth you're always going to have something that you have to do in which you break with your past you've been slave for 210 years in Egypt you've been subject to a people who worship this lamb is a God first thing you have to do Jews is show these people that this is a joke show them that you let your laugh at it do you willing to put it on a barbecue spit and roast it whole in front of them God says to us you know in life sometimes before you begin you got to take one very big step I want you to take that very big step God will help you climb the ladder and go up and up and up and up and up but sometimes the big step has to be to show God that you're committed and that's what the Jewish people have to do they have to show God we are committed we're willing to take the God of Egypt and roast it