The Passover Challenge - A Short Passover Message from Rabbi Mintz

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] my friends you are watching this video I'd like to challenge you with a question PES Passover is called the time of our freedom we know that the whole purpose of PES of going out of Egypt was for the Jews to accept the Torah Mount Si 613 mitzvah commandment 613 of them the Jews mitzvah commandment 613 of them the Jews have to be careful perform and keep away from so many things do so many things is that called is that called Freedom Rabbi what's called a free person one who is busying himself with Torah Torah study Torah performance is that considered Freedom we have it sounds like slavery we have to keep all these mitzvah all these Commandments I don't know what you're thinking I'm asking this question you're thinking I'm asking this question but let me tell you my thoughts in the matter which I think is the truth the reason why we asked this question because man is made of two two parts his body and the Soul we're used to being in touch with our body we don't see our soul we see our body we feels our body and our body is is lazy and has a lot of character traits that are not like they character traits that are not like they should be and to perform the Mitzvah the Commandments we have to go against our bodly desires we have to be not lazy we want to go to pray to in the morning we have to get up out of bed if we want not to speak slander gossip L we have to control control ourselves control ourselves everything is controlling oursel and that seems to be uh uh in direct conf with how we feel how we feel good we have to be constantly slaves to

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1. 0:01[Music] my friends you are watching this video I'd like to challenge you with a question…
2. 0:33mitzvah commandment 613 of them the Jews have to be careful perform and keep away from…
3. 1:03you're thinking I'm asking this question but let me tell you my thoughts in the matter…
4. 1:34character traits that are not like they should be and to perform the Mitzvah the Commandments…
5. 2:05good we have to be constantly slaves to keep the laws of the Torah so to…
6. 2:36our bodily desires when we keep the Torah our soul is very happy our soul is…
7. 3:07with the soul eventually but the soul of a person that's what our spiritual part of…
8. 3:38laws of the Torah and that's why he call this is how we have to focus…
9. 4:08stop working for the Egyptians that's not our main Freedom our freedom was we we able…
10. 4:40Passover enjoy the matah enjoy the and enjoy the macaroons and that will be a wonderful…

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