Rabbi Avi Geller - Pesach: The Passover Haggadah - Connecting to the Exodus

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

[Music] okay so we're beginning the hag of Passover right the is one of the oldest books in our library it was written by the an AA the men of the great assembly approximately 400 years before the approximately 400 years before the mission was written down the oldest books of of of in our library right it was written at the time when the temple was still standing we still have the Passover a sacrifice and after the destruction the number of changes were made so before we begin the hag we have to talk about a number of important themes of Passover first one is freedom right what does freedom mean sometimes I think the secular concept of freedom is not much different than that of the animals in the zoo if you ask the animals in the zoo what would be your animals in the zoo what would be your greatest desire what would they say open up the bars let them be a wild animal right Born Free right that's not the Jewish concept right right and just for an example uh the first Passover in Egypt right I mean for weeks and weeks before the holiday began the fathers had to study in the C they had to study all day long laws laws of slaughtering animals laws of slaughtering sacrifices the laws of uh of baking matah right and they had to circumcise all their sons they had many sons right right then

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1. 0:02[Music] okay so we're beginning the hag of Passover right the is one of the oldest…
2. 6:07the grace of the the so surrounding these four Mitzvah the rabbis made the format of…
3. 12:13that's or and that's caras now we break the matah what's the idea of breaking the…
4. 18:21and nuts and wine it tastes delicious right but it looks like mortar the mortar that…
5. 24:28ancestors ate in the land of Egypt whoever is hungry come eat does that make any…
6. 30:32right right right right Moshe predicted nine plagues and they all came true and at midnight…
7. 36:42still connected so says I'm like 70 years old and I didn't marit they should say…
8. 42:53ter rationalization right you don't want to do this so you have a question right have…
9. 48:57story so the Tas says that the starts off with derogatory statement about the Jews and…
10. 55:05you sa before the God and aramite wanted to kill my father get the singular and…

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