Pesach Perspectives Part 1: Beware of the Smile

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shay Tahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] so I would like to begin tonight to talk about one of the holiest and the most powerful months that we have which is the month of Nisan as we approach the hunt of a face on the night of Pesach to me is three things the first thing that we'll talk about of course when we come to the Seder is freedom now I just want to give you an example of something that to give you an example of something that we could tell our children this year that perhaps we couldn't have explained to them in previous years I do not want to get involved at all in the politics of president Trump's attitude towards immigrants or not but if you would take a look at the pictures of those people on the borders with their children frightened out of their minds hoping to have been able to leave a country and then they're turned away they can't get then they're turned away they can't get into the country there was just a picture of a group of children it broke my heart from Syria it's true Syrian three kids that were in Toronto and they're going to be sent back and you have to see the fear on their faces and if you look in the airports and the pictures in the airports and at the borders that's what claudius row was all about we looked like that we were trying to get out of a triumph we were frightened out of our minds we were being beaten we had slave labor and we were filled

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1. 0:00[Music] so I would like to begin tonight to talk about one of the holiest and…
2. 0:30to give you an example of something that we could tell our children this year that…
3. 1:31we had slave labor and we were filled we'll never get out of there and that's…
4. 2:32have to explain to our children how fortunate we are that we can do everything that…
5. 3:33learning an artiste role but at that time he was 3 4 years old I'm from…
6. 4:36lift it up of Ramallah on my left knee and we're about to start singing roshanda…
7. 5:36telling us it never stops and I just could not I couldn't think with everyone everybody…
8. 6:39the truth is when you think about it in America look like we said have a…
9. 7:42before how does that happen that's what the ball of god is telling us sometimes it's…
10. 8:42platter of bagels right next to the bagels was a meat platter right next to the…

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