Passover: Faith, Freedom & Tradition | Rabbi Leff

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[music] >> Shalom Aleichem, Rabbi. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for joining us on this Pesach. Pesach already begins according to the Torah on the day before Pesach. So, maybe you could share with the oil and what Pesach is. Pesach is the uh birthday of the Jewish people, basically. Um According to Baruch made a spectacular uh show of uh 10 plagues and uh then uh redeeming the Jewish people posthaste from Mizraim and splitting the Red Sea and finally the uh summit was uh communicating with the entire Jewish people face-to-face uh at Har Sinai and giving us the Torah where the entire people heard God speak prophetically at least the first two uh of the 10 Commandments. Um and that's it. The foundation of our mesorah, of our tradition. Tradition meaning a chain of belief that started with uh events that were witnessed by an entire nation. There is no other nation in the world that claims that the foundation of their religion was witnessed by an entire nation. Christianity is based on something that one person said he was which could not be corroborated in any way and uh what a small group of people said they witnessed uh when he uh was resurrected. They themselves say that it was witnessed by a small group of his closest uh disciples who had a vested interest in saying that The entire foundation of Islam is that uh Muhammad claimed to have had a dream in a cave where the angel Gabriel came and revealed to him the Quran and told him to start a new religion. No one videoed the dream. Nobody witnessed the dream. He may have had a dream, but nobody says that it was a true dream. Maybe it was just a nightmare or a dream or whatever. Um no nation, no religion claims that the foundation of their

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1. 0:01[music] >> Shalom Aleichem, Rabbi. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for joining us on this…
2. 3:11religion was witnessed by an entire people except us. The entire 10 plagues the Exodus from…
3. 8:50But in any case, the uh purpose of the Seder and that's been since the time…
4. 11:51The cable doesn't doesn't isn't tied around the monitor. That's external. The cable has to go…
5. 14:52after you get what comes from the DNA. So, we needed thousands of years to make…
6. 18:00The Gemara says "Ritzoneinu la'asot ritzonecha." Every Jew has a portion of his soul which can…
7. 20:35to the memory of the Jewish people that exists in that time zone that we're passing…
8. 23:43with that. And he translated the Haggadah already and printed it up, 25 volumes uh English…
9. 26:48trying to relive, as you said, the the slave aspect. And today, right now in Eretz…
10. 29:50persecuted has a a positive aspect to it. We may not understand it and it may…

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