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And we're back. It's always great to have Rabbi Daniel J. Glassin with us. He has his own publishing company, Machon Maggid Harakia. He's the rabbi of Tiferes Mordechai in Cedarhurst, and he came out and it came out a little last year, but it's still very relevant. It's on the Haggadah. It's called Rav Daniel Glassin on the Haggadah. Revolutionary insights into the Haggadah, the Exodus, and the final redemption, published by ArtScroll. Good to have you back again. Thank you so much for having me. So I want us Usually we start at the beginning. I want to start at the end. We're close to the end this year. I heard that and and I've spoken for for some reason I heard quite a few people talk Rabbis talking about Shfoch Chamascha, pour your wrath on the non-Jews, and they said there was an alternative version, Shfoch Ahavascha, pour your love onto the nations. So I know you write about it in in the Haggadah also about the blood libels. So let's begin with that. Well, the the phrase Shfoch Ahavascha Lagoyim, pour your love on the gentiles, was uh said tongue in cheek in uh it was in response to the terrible allegations of the blood libels that uh notoriously were always uh drummed up Pesach time, already beginning in the Middle Ages, both in the Christian world and in the Arab world. And by the way, if you think that that was something of the past, there were blood libels in North America, there were blood libels in the United States, in Minnesota, uh not so long ago. And when the State of Israel is accused of genocide, that is nothing short of a blood libel. So, it's something that we face in every generation. And in response to that, it's uh Shfoch Ahavascha Lagoyim. And it's important to know and and the

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1. 0:01And we're back. It's always great to have Rabbi Daniel J. Glassin with us. He has…
2. 1:38nations of the world should know that they have a they have a very important choice…
3. 3:40fact that there's a uh a lack of unity among our people, that means that the…
4. 5:47So therefore, it's this time of the year when we're supposed to be thinking about, "Hey,…
5. 7:21Pi Hachirois, the mouth of freedom. And the one that subjugated us was Pera, that Paro.…
6. 9:31that were precipitated from the blood libels, we had no choice but to lock the doors.…
7. 11:36Yeah. Yeah, so you know, that's a legend where the No De Be Yehuda because of…
8. 13:15Chanan explains, there are two sins that we're always paying the price for, whether the sin…
9. 15:25But the answer is very basic, very important. We're not telling a story. If your children…
10. 17:38There are 1,820 words in the Haggadah that are the exact number of times that Hashem's…

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