Living with Light: Chametz

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

Living with light. Today's topic is going to be and we are now within 30 days of pes which means it's time to prepare for pes not just by emptying out our freezers but and cleaning our houses but also by learning about pes. And much of the preparation for PES revolves around getting rid of our KT. around getting rid of our KT. And it's very interesting because it's not so clear from the commentaries why we need to get rid of our other than that the Torah tells us to. But in terms of the reasons behind it, what's so bad about it's not so clear. Many commentaries don't really many commentaries who will often weigh in on the reasons for mitzvos don't have anything specific to say about why we get rid of and it seems that that's because they just bundle it that that's because they just bundle it up with matzah meaning on this holiday we eat matzah. Why do we eat matzah? Well, we eat matzah because the like we say at the seder because when we left Egypt, we didn't have time for our bread to rise and the matzah reminds us of our freedom. There's also concept the matzah reminds us of our slavery and we'll touch a little bit on matzah today, but it's not really our focus. But many commentaries just commentaries just roll kates into one. Well, it's the opposite of matzah. You you eat matzah to remember the redemption and you avoid the things that are not matzah and it seems that they leave a bag. All part of just remembering the ex's nothing special specific about necessarily but it's worth noting that the prohibition of kamates is intense as we know it's

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1. 0:03Living with light. Today's topic is going to be and we are now within 30 days…
2. 5:17we are forbidden to eat. Some of them are karis but many of them are not…
3. 11:02on. Additionally, um although we have an obligation to get rid of our um maybe that's…
4. 16:42How are you impacting yourself with the lessons of amuna of faith that the matzah is…
5. 22:22Mitzvah means that if you are in the situation and you do it, you you it's…
6. 28:06that is constant with us for seven days the essence of pes and to like we…
7. 33:13independence, a kazayas, a olives worth of kamitz during these seven days of remembrance of our…
8. 38:54and uh and there's a gamar in braos that uses sor as a uh to express…
9. 44:33you know the is like an agricultural celebration. um it's the time that we bring in…
10. 50:12the atara is tame. It's impure. um that uh that the impurity it's kind of similar…

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