BHP Holidays - Pesach: At Your Service

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

perform the night of the seder. The Chida asks, "What about [music] sippur yetzias Mitzrayim?" Says the Chida, "No, Avudraham was only counting mitzvahs that we do with action, [music] but sippur is with dibbur. Dibbur are other mitzvahs. They're not even officially on the list." Well, how many mitzvahs are there if you count not only mitzvahs ma'asiyos, [music] but mitzvahs that we perform even by speaking? Well, Rav ben Avraham [music] writes that there was a rabbi in the city of Mer who quoted Rav Elchanan Wasserman [music] who had a tradition from the Vilna Gaon that if you would add up all the mitzvahs we do the night of the seder, there are 20 there are a total of 64 mitzvahs we do the night of the seder. >> [music] >> I even came across a kuntres written by the tzaddik, Rav Shmuel Hominer, >> [music] >> called "Mitzvahs Beliel HaSeder." And he says that if you add up all the different mitzvahs ma'asim [music] tovim we do, there is there's a staggering total of 168 mitzvahs. Why, [music] of all times, do we perform

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1. 0:30perform the night of the seder. The Chida asks, "What about [music] sippur yetzias Mitzrayim?" Says…
2. 1:00from the Vilna Gaon that if you would add up all the mitzvahs we do the…
3. 1:30so many mitzvahs leil Pesach, more than any time of the year? It's more than Rosh…
4. 2:02Had we remained there a moment longer, we would have fallen to [music] the point of…
5. 2:34We read in the haftorah of Shabbos Hagadol about the son who serves his father. You…
6. 3:05The Pharaoh trained us in servitude, and then we harnessed [music] it and channeled it in…
7. 3:36Hashem took us out not to be just an eved, no, to become [music] ben ha'oved…

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