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[Music] the r tells us in Mitzvah 158 that there's a Mitzvah on PES to eat mat and only the first night of PES do we have the obligation to eat matah only at the Seder one Seder in Israel and outside of Israel two seders but during the days of pesak the subsequent days of pesak there is no obligation to eat pesak there is no obligation to eat matah this is the this is the basic Mitzvah of eating of mat what is the what is the hint our rabis tell us that LE which is prohibited on Passover represents the ego just like the leaven Rises so two On's ego Rises similarly the ego comes from and stems from the the evil the evil inclination when Mia will come we are told that God will Slaughter the he will Slaughter the evil inclination and the question is why does it say he's going to slaughter the evil inclination why doesn't it say simply that God will kill the evil inclination why the word she and the answer and the answer is tells us the concept of slaughtering means to elevate when we Slaughter an animal in general we Elevate the animal from the potential of animal to the potential of human and now when you make a br on the animal you elevate the meat and the Flesh and the energy to the level of a human being and similar here the idea of slaughtering the means that the will be elevated to a new position and will be
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- 2:35we find that the AL writes in his truis in his respons that on P even…
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- 8:22matah we find interestingly that there are two passages that talk about matah in truth there…
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