Passover Seder Secrets: Deep Mystical Insights - Part 1 - Rabbi Eli Deutsch

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Okay, my friends, today we're going to talk about the Passover Seder and we're going to go through different segments of the Passover Seder. We're going to talk about different Kabbalistic gems that we have on the Passover Seder. This is a good opportunity to take notes and you'll have what to say at your Seder. Okay, so we begin by taking a look at the structure of the Seder. The Seder includes 14 stages. Those 14 stages are not random. Matter of fact, the 14 the number 14 is the numerical value yad. Yad because what this the what the 14 stages are all about is seeing the yad Hashem, the hand of Hashem in our lives. Unlike other holidays, for example, Purim, which we had a month ago, where the focus is seeing Hashem in nature, seeing Hashem in the system, what Passover focuses on is seeing the hand of Hashem clearly. It's happening in this month of Nisan, which is from the word nes, which means a miracle. And we're seeing God clearly. This is the time when we're talking about water turning into blood. We're talking about the splitting of the sea. So, this is the message. This is one of the themes of Passover time in general and Passover Seder in particular. In addition, the Sfas Emes, one of the great Hasidic masters, he asks the question. He says, "Okay, if this is a night where we're talking about how Hashem did miracles, how God did miracles for us, how he got he went beyond the

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1. 0:00Okay, my friends, today we're going to talk about the Passover Seder and we're going to…
2. 0:32value yad. Yad because what this the what the 14 stages are all about is seeing…
3. 1:33system of nature, beyond the order of nature, so then isn't it interesting that we talk…
4. 2:35with any other people. And this is what the Sfas Emes is teaching us. As we…
5. 3:06that there are four things that kept the Jewish people separate when they were in Egypt.…
6. 4:08now Jewish history, there are four exiler nations of the Jewish people. Right? We have Babylonia,…
7. 5:08that first cup is is called is happening in the section of the Haggadah, which is…
8. 5:39Persian empire wanted to do, in particular Haman, is to wipe out the Jewish people in…
9. 6:41Zeus and stick it into their synagogue, they would leave you alone. So, what they wanted…
10. 7:42And the fourth cup of wine happens in Hallel, where we praise Hashem. We're also we're…

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