Part 5: Yachatz - The Real Hide and Seek - A Walk Through The Passover Seder With Charlie Harary

What’s said in this shiur

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

Most people roll into the Seder, and they know this part. So, then what's the point? We have to delve deeper to understand what's really going on. Every moment has a theme, and every nuance matters. And when you go through [music] it, you come out a different person. So, that's what we're going to explore together. The themes, the lessons, the reasons, the purpose. Because that's what this is really all about. The next part of the Seder is Yachatz. Yachatz is when you take the three matzahs, you take out the middle one, you split it in half, the bigger piece is now becomes the Afikoman, the smaller piece goes back into the three, you take the Afikoman and you hide it till the end of the meal. Now, if you're Sephardi, you may have other customs, or you may be Ashkenazi. You may have other customs. Misharo Tam, you walk around the table, whatever. But, what's the point? Why do we do this for? And this whole idea of Afikoman seems very interesting. Like, why do we seems very interesting. Like, why do we have this thing where we take it, and we hide it, and you don't know where it is, and all the kids have to find it. Now, a piece of it is, for sure, to keep the kids up and to find you get presents. Awesome. But, deeper, from a deeper perspective, what is the source of this idea that we're hiding things, and you're finding things, and you get to the end, and you can't find to the end, and after I was looking for it, and it's What's the point? So, the Maharal has an approach which I think is brilliant.

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1. 0:00Most people roll into the Seder, and they know this part. So, then what's the point?…
2. 1:00seems very interesting. Like, why do we have this thing where we take it, and we…
3. 2:00is golus. She'ein chein shleimus. El chei soron v'eider. Because it reminds us that we're in…
4. 3:00the completion, the putting it back together. If you can imagine that smaller piece of that…
5. 4:01the return of that piece the sofa seder during afikoman he remez legulah it's going to…
6. 5:04involved. If you have something and it's being hidden from you that means that somebody else…
7. 6:37himself. And he said, "Hashem says, I hide myself from you, but the purpose of my…
8. 7:38That's how you get it. You have to want it. The famous cuz he says in…
9. 8:38he's hidden and he hides that he's hidden. Like Hashem's hidden, but he hides it from…
10. 9:40That desire, that tzipisa, that's what yachatz is supposed to bring. So, we're about to start…

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