The Inner Exodus: What Passover Is Really About | Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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[music] >> Shalom everyone from Yerushalayim. As all of you know, [music] we are going through once again difficult times, and as we approach the Yom Tov of Pesach, >> [snorts] >> all of us pray that the Kodesh Baruch Hu should bring us shalom and the Geulah Sheleimah as Chazal say, uh "B'Nisan Nigalu", we were redeemed in the month of Nisan, "U'V'Nisan Asidin L'Higa'el", and the future redemption will be coming in Nisan as well, and may all of us be zocheh to see this Geulah b'meheirah v'yameinu. I wanted to share with you a thought about the four cups of wine. All all of us know that one of the great mitzvot of Seder night is we have to drink a four cups of wine because the Torah uses four terms of redemption. "V'hotzeiti", I will take you out, "V'hitzalti", I will save you, "V'ga'alti", I will redeem you, "U'l'kachti etzchem l'i l'am", I will take you for me for unto me for a nation, which is actually referring to Matan Torah, which is the ultimate and the climax of the redemption. And I indeed I have spoken about this before, but I'm going to say something that I have not said before, and that is I want to project backwards a little bit and look at the calendar before Pesach. In the month of Adar, we have four special parshiot, four special Torah readings in the month of Adar, uh Parshat Shekalim, about the

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1. 0:13[music] >> Shalom everyone from Yerushalayim. As all of you know, [music] we are going through…
2. 1:45half shekel, Parshat Zachor, about remembering Amalek, Parshat Parah, about the mystery of the red heifer,…
3. 3:50fourth level, which is chodesh, which means "hischadshut", renewal and connection to God. And as a…
4. 5:22whether you're wealthy or poor makes no difference, and that doesn't only mean in money. Some…
5. 7:25eradicate the Amalek that is within us, because in essence, it is the Amalek within us…
6. 9:28Why is it that we turn off and tune out, even if we're going through the…
7. 11:02with jealousy. Zachor in an indirect way helps us reflect on taiva. And then we come…
8. 13:04Hashem and I must use my talents to serve Hashem. There is bad humility in which…
9. 14:36sometimes be a break between Shekalim and Zachor and Para, but there is never a break…
10. 16:39And when we live on the level of animals, we are not ready to be sanctified…

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