The Passover Haggadah Part 3 - Rabbi Dovid Gottleib

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Uh there's a little introductory passage that I'm going to go back to after we go through the the four sons uh in the Sheran Hotel. I got it on page 15. And if you don't have that one, see if you can find it. If you can, we'll have somebody find it for you. You have it? Okay. Now, this is a very on the surface very simplistic passage. It's very subtle. It's quite complicated. I want to read through complicated. I want to read through it. Um, even the translation can be questioned. Different translations can be questioned. Jesse, you'll have the content in front of you and then we'll start working with the questions. The wise son, though we'll deal with that translation later. The wise son, what does he say? What are the testimonies um laws and statutes which Hashem or God commanded you. Now there are three different words here for mitzvos. These are categories of mitzvos and there are other words that aren't being used here. And on the surface, are symbolic actions where if you don't know the connection to a historical event or to a Jewish value, it would seem to be absolutely arbitrary. And when you know, you know that you're expressing that you know that you're expressing that idea by the action that you do like putting on fillin or eating matzah to a great extent like shabas. You have to know the external connections to understand what they what they refer to. are mitzvos whose meanings aren't widely publicly known. You may hear being described as something that has no meaning, has no reason, has no explanation. According to almost every commentator, that's a

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1. 0:01Uh there's a little introductory passage that I'm going to go back to after we go…
2. 4:38principle and for a long time I was trying to figure out which principle does the…
3. 9:50Doesn't know how to ask anything. Even the question of the simple son. So, how old…
4. 15:01of of futility. There's nothing there to be accomplished. Choose your battles. Choose who you talk…
5. 20:14know. From a religious point of view, every person has a a different soul. There are…
6. 25:26confusing two passages. Says mahu. That's right. This is this is sociology. There are people like…
7. 30:10And here the the Hagar says since he says God commanded you but and and not…
8. 35:20details, the more impact the actions can have. And that's something that the understands. He says,…
9. 40:33particular event in history and that's an that's an introduction. Okay. So that's what's going on…
10. 45:44would be wicked and they praised God for that. Why would that be? And says the…

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