Pesach: Rising from the Ashes - Rabbi Avraham Reisman

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[Music] the Jewish people are called um olam which literally means that they have been around forever and they have a special power of existing for all the generations for hundreds thousands of years and they are an integral part of the very world itself and this is used to explain why other nations have come and gone and the Jewish people have existed two three thousand years four thousand years depending on how you count it and they constantly rejuvenate themselves and they constantly get difficult situations overcome them and have rebirth now this personally for me is a very important concept because my parents went through the Holocaust they had a life before the war this life was totally destroyed they went to the States and they rebuilt themselves and created a wonderful family and prosperity and happiness even though they had such difficult times so one could say good a lot of people have gone through difficult times and have accomplished the ability to rebuild themselves but what I want to contend is that this is an integral part of the very essence of the Jewish people there's a myth about the Phoenix the Phoenix is a bird that recreates itself from its ashes the Jewish people are an eternal nation because they can constantly recreate themselves and we have the holidays which we have at this time as an example of how we recreate ourselves every year we're coming up now to what is called the Passover and the Passover first starts off with a commandment which it says how high dish has their luckam this month is for you no question is what does it mean this month is for you so there are many explanations and different levels but the deep understanding of this is that

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1. 0:02[Music] the Jewish people are called um olam which literally means that they have been around…
2. 1:03important concept because my parents went through the Holocaust they had a life before the war…
3. 2:05which we have at this time as an example of how we recreate ourselves every year…
4. 3:09yourself from the ashes so we have two rituals which ashes are used are very important…
5. 4:13there are negative powers in this world and as long as we are held back by…
6. 5:16the negativity which we had until now mix this negativity with positive things with mime time…
7. 6:21very upset that he didn't come but all right I started my life and at that…
8. 7:22tremendous accomplishments in his community that is what we can do every year we can rejuvenate…
9. 8:26ability for them to continue is that every year they renew themselves and there is a…
10. 9:26constantly growing out of the ashes and if we grow out of the ashes each time…

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