Rabbi Ari Hertz - Pesach Burst of Inspiration

hi everybody I'm very grateful that I get the opportunity to address everyone before pesach this is a beautiful and crazy time of year there's a lot of preparation a lot of a lot of cooking cleaning getting ready for family all the different dynamics that go into that and and a lot of time we just result in pesach we end up there and we don't get an opportunity to really enter into Pace off the way we might like we don't get the opportunity to be present in it and and appreciate what we're really doing so I wanted to help with that a little bit um there's an awesome question that's asked uh basically PESA all the way through Shavuot is the time where we get to relive not just not just recount or or tell over but really try to re-experience the leaving of Egypt all the way until the culmination that great moment of Sinai of of harcina where we received the Torah from God directly and and that's like a really really if you think about it the Pinnacle of of our nation's history and it's interesting we spend time we we every night leading up until that from pesoff until Shavuot we count like in anticipation for that moment and and what's what's so peculiar is the fact that we don't start on the first night of PESA we don't start counting on the first night of pesach we wait until the second night so the question is why what's so pressing and and so meaningful that we can't begin counting on the night the first night of pesach and an answer that's given is that we're trying to really re-experience we're trying to relive not just recount and if you're going to relive the acceptance of the Torah and that powerful moment in our nation's history you also have to relive the fact that Hashem chose us at the beginning of all of it before he took us out before he gave us the Torah he chose us and for us to focus on that spend time appreciating that Hashem cares about us he chose us from all other nations he chose this individually as well each of us for a special Destiny but the fact that he chose us before he took us out it all starts from there and it's very powerful in the sense that what it's telling us is really that we have such a unique relationship with Hashem that it's it's such a relationship really that before you can go and actively pursue doing and accepting hashem's Torah you have to appreciate the fact that he chose you he wants you and then we can reciprocate by by choosing him back but it's really a prerequisite to appreciate Hashem chose us I hope that everybody in this in this year this pesach we can all enter with with calm and and a plate coming from a place of being able to appreciate that Hashem really chose us each of us to be here to be in these moments to to recount to relive and and I hope that's what it can be for everybody hugs and math everyone