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The Meaning of Pesach | Letter #22

1.1K views · Mar 26, 2023

Rabbi Shais Taub

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we are live from the sea kids shabaton which took place this Shabbos in Stamford Connecticut I was seeing my little badge here I was uh here's my name I was part of the program this Shabbos amazing amazing hundreds of kids and their parents spending a Shabbos together um yeah anyways let's let's do our letter um tonight's letter is an unusual letter and if you hear noise in the background by the way it's because I'm sitting in the lobby and uh behind me are the doors to the dining hall the ballroom so the kids are going in to have their malava malka so uh I'm gonna hear noise as they go in hopefully it'll get quieter once they start eating okay tonight's letter is a very special letter a special kind of a letter it's something called the mitt of clolly a mix of clolly literally translated means a general or public letter um you could also maybe call it a pastoral letter these are letters that the rabbit did not innovate this genre there's a long-standing tradition of of rabbis communal leaders writing public or open letters to uh their flock or their congregation or their following um the Reb is uh Innovation perhaps you could call it was the idea that it was addressed to all Jews everywhere and it literally means it is addressed to all Jews everywhere what do I mean by that um somebody once wrote the rabbit and said there they feel they feel bad because they wrote to the debit so many times and they didn't get an answer and never wrote back and said what do you mean I've answered you many times I wrote that this is to every Jew all

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  1. 0:00we are live from the sea kids shabaton which took place this Shabbos in Stamford Connecticut…
  2. 3:08learn tonight's letter in a manner of taking it super personally understanding that the devil wrote…
  3. 6:44from Nissan lindel it was reviewed I mean when you have an Englishman of quality that…
  4. 10:36yeah okay there's like a lot of people coming by and they're knocking the table okay…
  5. 13:44um matters connected with Torah and Mitzvahs are of course infinite and eternal as God himself…
  6. 17:25sources describe in detail the bitterness of the enslavement in Egypt and the Nader of spiritual…
  7. 21:11oh nice somebody's texted me a picture of myself sitting here in the lobby okay does…
  8. 24:28someone's reading hot okay anyone wants to come to Stamford right now you could also be…
  9. 28:24so that's what the story is that's the narrative you want to say the story in…
  10. 32:13foreign whatever gives now a very specific application of this message And Timely in our present…

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