Rabbi Moshe Elefant - Seder B'Seder

hello my name is Mikey elephant I am the chief operating officer of our culture and the maggot here of one of the Deaf you I wish you were on the only all deaf program and I'm happy to join you to share with you my thoughts as we prepare for this year say Sidora teen than its own for weeks but I called them to hear how he's doing he told me I want to tell you that a 1944 I was at the Seder of the night or of the night to rob was the robbed of the city nitro in Hungary Czechoslovakia he had one of the largest if not the largest deceiveth in Hungary and it was actually the last is Shiva to close was the list she was still to operate in Europe during World War two he told me in 44 and there was a seder in the yeshiva being led by the nitro roof was approximately 80 people he said some of the people at that Seder were people who were there illegally in the town of Nitra and they had under the table after that Seder a trapdoor to lead to a tunnel that should the Nazis come in during the Seder and try to peek capture people and deport people who were there illegally they could escape through a tunnel and indeed he said during the Seder the Nazis arrived obviously the terror that everyone in that moon felt cannot be described he says but even the Nazis they were shortened your maximum as they walked into the room and they saw had a nitro rod was sitting at the head of the table with his family and his Tom Needham that sight even they could not withstand and instead of starting to round up people and started acting in their normal barbaric sadistic way they said you could continue we only ask you that since there are bombs going on outside please cover the windows because they are light inside the room the same there is a time we are called Sparkle the Mazyck the Nazis cannot attack us and if the Nazis can't attack us neither can cove it and then I saw another story which I think is most appropriate to think about as we approach this year say them it's a story there are by loud the chief rabbi of Tel Aviv the former chief rabbi Verity Cyril said recently he said it's a story that he doesn't repeat often but he feels that this year it's a year to say it he says exactly 75 years ago Pesach fell the same way it falls this year Wednesday was there a Pesach and it was not long before the liberation of booked involved the concentration camp the infamous concentration came he said he was in that concentration camp his brother was in that concentration camp and there was a father and son who are in that concentration camp as well the mother of that family had passed away on the way to book about and the father was dying and he indeed died on Chavez how godly and he left over he left over a son who was with him at the concentration camp who was 13 years old in the concentration camps if somebody died the rules were very strict that the body was to be transported immediately to the crematoria for cremation this young boy who just lost his father had already lost his mother asked the people before we notify the officials and they transport my father's body I'd like to say Kaddish so they said ok say Kaddish but he says I don't know Kaddish and there was no siddur obviously a sinner was about as illegal as you could get but they said that there was a Jew who came from Germany who had been in the concentration camp for years already he was the manager of the laundry and rumor had it that he had a sitter maybe you could go to him and he'll give you a sitter that you could say Kaddish for your father and he went to the laundry and he found that you and that you were initially denied having a sitter but seeing this young Ostrom this young orphan who cannot have rock mono spoken and a pity and he says yes I have a sitter and you could say the Kaddish for your father but not as a new issue it was just this young boy and this Jew who was the manager of the laundry we know to say Kaddish we need 10 people where are you gonna have a minyan for the Kaddish nobody's gonna come from the barracks and take that risk of coming to the laundry so the boy turned around and looked at the room and in the room they were hanging the pajamas that was the uniform we've all seen pictures that Jews wore in the concentration camps and he said these uniforms that you just washed these pajamas in those pajamas yesterday they were living Jews they were burnt a kiddush Hashem Dennis Thomas remain in in those pajamas let's take eight pairs of these pajamas with the neshamah stand in those pajamas and there'll be our minyan with you and i and this young boy said Kaddish for his father we're going to be also alone had to Seder we're gonna be alone we're not gonna have the groups that we always have at the storeroom but at you was never alone but you always has a share with him and that you always has those nice honest then the summers that he's connected to whether those measurements are still alive for Hashem or those measurements are not alive anymore but maybe this you knows miss Thomas will be our real guest at the Seder and it'll be a chance for us to reconnect with those Michalis there'll be a chance for us to say to those neshama so we want to learn from your lives we want to learn from the lives that you led when you lived a kiddush Hashem many of those in some start a tradition the many of those Lewis Thomas lived our condition and we want to connect to that life I remember many years ago I was a man to you once and I was visiting the touch level and the torture ever was a very great Sabich and when I was visiting him and I asked him a question I asked him what should a Jew try to work on what should a Jew try to achieve he says what did you was supposed to work on a seder to be organized to think about priorities in life what's important what's not important and he said to me what's the proof that I am right he says look at the holiest night of the year you know we in the world of Costas know that it used to be that even Jews who weren't so religious but they kept or Shoshanna Yom Kippur now they say the Jews who are at that religious may not even necessarily go to shore or show him Kippur but they keep a seder I guess it's easier to eat than to fast and he said the Seder why's it called Seder because the world the word say there is a Hebrew word that means order organized a Jew has to have his life organized and as I think about his words holy words and as I think about this year Seder I think what we need to learn from this situation that we're all experiencing is to get our priorities right to think about what's important and to think about what's not important in life and if we could think about that then we will have a different experience in our Seder and we hopefully will have a different experience to our lives as I conclude I just want to say two more things there's a vote that I say every year because of art that I say every year at the center to my family this year obviously I'm just gonna say it to my wife the Gemara that we say in the Haggadah my suburban kid horrible Osman II she was the press are you sure show him a super good neighbor act they were sitting in Bnei Brak but in soccer bit serious with Ryan they were sneaky but it sees me crying Carlos AHA Lyla that entire evening at she guilt on medium until their students came normal ahem rebus a new there tell me them the students came and told him he is mad at Roy and the question is the question is these Tammy them these tsadikim needed somebody to remind them of the midst of Krishna chakras again referring back to the Deaf yayi we not long ago finished massage the process that speaks over and over again about the first mitzvah that chaste decides to delve into is the midst of Krishna Krishna Sharma is a mission every evening Krishna chakras st. Christmas every morning so that a question is these great rabbis needed to be reminded of that Mitzvah so I want for a beautiful part the gamma Raschi and hummus teaches us that when Joseph and Yakov his father were united after 22 years of being separated so Rashi Homer says that Joseph fell on his father's neck and cried who we don't find that Yakama be who did that Arashi how much tells us cuz Yahoo was saying Krishna at that point and the question is obvious if it's the time to say Krishna why wasn't Youssef also saying Krishna and if it's not the time to say Krishna say yeah Keith who had been separated and distanced from his son who he loved so much for 22 years now is the time that you decide to say Krishna so the finishes firm saying that a Jew is supposed to take every emotion and every strength and every talent that he has and use it for avoid accession so Yaakov who felt at that moment when he saw yourself after that separation love that we can't even imagine love that we can't even describe so Jakob said you know what I need to do with that love I need to take that love and use it first shed to say Krrish Marshall chakras so when we sit by the Seder the talmidim of those Rab ornament Bnei Brak said ready you've come to such a high my draeger to such a high level of love emotion you know what you need to do with that loss say Krrish Marshall chakras use it to show and express our love of a son so when the Seder comes wherever you'll be with whomever you shall be you should use those moments to think that not alone no Jew is ever alone to think that we were - em to think that now is an evening that we correct noise that we need to be better and that if we will be better that a Shem will accept our Chili's XM will accept our tree Weiss for everybody Hashem will accept the treeless of all of these holiness Thomas that I've left us in these last weeks under this terrible terrible mathworld I would be remiss if I didn't mention that just now the northern Minsk rebel was Nestor we had this course of being having a connection with him a brilliant time a costume a leader of Cairo but every time I spoke to him he didn't believe in division he believed that we were all Hashem children and that even if we had different ways of serving a sham we used to tell me I'm not really sure if I understand all the rabbis who are rabbis of communities not like the community that I listed and I need to understand their challenges but I need to feel for their challenges and we need to work together in the challenges that we enquire or face so as I'm sure he is now standing in front of the Keisei high coverage he's standing now in front of the casaya coverage and saying to our Shem and daven attach them for all of Chloe's role that all of us should already have he is sure it's very interesting if you think about Pesach and the mixes that are attached to the yonk of a Pesach there's a very unique characteristic to those mitzvahs that you don't find by any other mistress all of the mitzvahs are done typically by day we a Jew puts on tefillin by day someone can't be warm by night most Mitzvah my day Pesach is a young TIFF with a mistress are done by night we start with ridiculous comments the Gemara master Sock'em teaches us the bedico summits must be done specifically at night not by day the Seder was only done by night da Walker doesn't allow to say that to be done during the day and on the second night of Pesach we're going to begin the midst of Shira Siler for 49 days for 49 consecutive days would account desirous homer and the midst rest account by night if you didn't count by night even if you're going to count by day not to have mr. day you're only good you're not gonna be able to make a brothel on the midstream why because the lesson of this young is that when it's dark when it's dark and you have no sunlight that's where her color Sparkle looks at us and that's when I color Sparkle joins us he joins us when we do the bit because comets to examine ourselves who are we what are we he joins us where we do the mistress of the Seder again the only time during the year where we could do a mitzvah madrasa a biblical mitzvah by eating is by the seder there's a midst of the Raisa to eat matzah and then we're gonna cap this fira for 49 consecutive nights because in the night in the night of goddess and in the night of Taurus I could aspire who is with us and that's why the night of the Seder is called the Lael she moving fast at Farish lima it should be called leia you will actually call al Hamish summer the night of the Seder we know that we're protected says that Farish lima that the shimmer in the shimira that every Jew in every home obtain by the night of the Seder doesn't just remain for that one night she mu him it remains with us for all of the nights of the year so now when we all need a shamira will we need heavenly protection that we should all be healthy and should we all be safe and that this terrible my gaiter should end we tak a hope that the Lael shimmering should bring a shimira to all of us and that by the Seder when we go out to greet Eliyahu Hanavi it shouldn't be Delhi our Navi that we go out to breathe but we don't see that you mean le our Navi that should be able to reveal himself as he said last week and after er the Haitian wave of a subordinate delay Barnum L avoid some children should be able to reconnect with their parents parents should be able to reconnect with their children whether they are or aren't Lea are aren't physically together and together all of the generations of car you throw should be able to go out and read Beshear said Cato comparable baby thank you