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The Pnimiyus / Essence of Pesach - Part 1

3.6K views · Mar 4, 2018

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A shiur on the essence of Pesach given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.

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tonight is a shooter on the holiday of Pesa and what I'd like to do is cover Pesa the way most people never understand it it's certainly more upgraded of the material you probably will never have heard which is interesting it's a paradox because peso has such a well-known yontiff it's one of the foundations of all the holidays of the entire Jewish faith every time we say entire Jewish faith every time we say they only TS Mizraim in of course for the remembrance of the fact that we went out of Egypt but the truth is the panini suppressor is not really well known it's not really understood by most people most people think Pesa is basically a historical event that the hidden the Jews were enslaved of course by the Egyptians and of course the revenues Egyptians and of course the revenues from cent Moshe obey no to of course rescue the Jews and during the entire time of trying to convince of course in quote the the Egyptians to release the Jews of course they had the essa Marcos the ten plagues and then they had cleared Yom Tov and finally they receive the Torah at half senile the truth is that Pesa looks like it's it's based on historical event the truth is it's not the historical event is not what makes the historical event is not what makes piss off what it is as we will begin to see during this year the the essence of Pesa is really the spiritual conflict that was taking place and we have to understand what was the spiritual conflict what did they use accomplish in Festa why is it so great now to that end I'd like to ask certain questions and what I don't want to do with this kind of issue is to really make a

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  10. 40:39sudden takes the power he dies that's exactly what happened and he died with the exact

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