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0:00 Adiel? - Yes. If you are learning now, from a sefer... and I have here... and that is already For reading, for learning, it is possible - but to go and bring it specially and set it down...
1:30 To Torah, to the chuppah and to good deeds. With joy, in good time. Only with joy. Amen. - Rav, what is the way to reach Him? That is why one needs to pray, to work at choosing, to struggle, to learn, to pray - that is the simple thing.
2:07 No... Torah learning. There, that is Torah learning - but hisbodedus too. It won't be there. You speak to the Holy One, blessed be He, from your heart, in your own language. You tell Him what you are going through; you plead. That gives a greater closeness to Hashem - when you talk to Him about the learning, about the choices. "I am trying. It is hard for me to learn, it is hard for me to pray." You are not succeeding, you cannot concentrate - you tell Him everything, and you become an upright person.
2:36 About my desires too? I should tell Him about my desires too? My desires? - Talk to Him about everything. Do not hide anything from Him. Talk like a son talking with his father. This can bring a person to great closeness to the Holy One, blessed be He. You know, the bedikas chametz, the search for chametz, that we carry out - this search is with a candle; we do the search with a candle.
3:02 It is a search: you are searching for the chametz in the chambers of the soul. Inside the soul there is chametz that keeps a person from speaking to Hashem. The purpose of bedikas chametz is to remove all the barriers I have to speaking with the Holy One, blessed be He. "On the eve - 'or' - of the fourteenth, we search for the chametz." Or means light: to search for the light. Where is the light? Where is the Holy One, blessed be He? He is with me everywhere; one needs to speak with Him, to search the chambers of the heart.
3:28 You search the chambers of the heart, you drive out the chametz - all the barriers. With a candle and not a flashlight? The Or LeTzion writes that if you search with a flashlight you cannot make the blessing - better that you not make the blessing. So writes the Or LeTzion. But in the view of Rav Feinstein, a flashlight is fine lechatchilah, from the outset; another Rav too - a flashlight lechatchilah; Rav Elyashiv - there is no problem with a flashlight. No problem. According to the Pri Chadash and the Shulchan Aruch HaRav, one does the bedikas chametz lechatchilah at the beginning of the night.
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4:01 Not out of concern that he might forget. Rather, that is the time of the search. Not out of concern that he might forget, and then... That is, it is not only for one who might forget; rather, he must search specifically at the beginning of the night. How can one...? - Yes, search as much as you can. - How can one know? And also pray for this, with attachment to Hashem - that the good traits take root in you, truly take root, not just for the moment. Only prayer - and to love the Jewish people. Because if there is no ahavas Yisrael, love for every Jew - in Tractate Taanis, page 7, Tosafos say: it is in order to provoke, and to lord it over one's fellow. Right?
4:33 So if you do not have ahavas Yisrael and love of your fellow, you will want to provoke him and lord it over him, and then it gives you dross. Learn - learn ahavas Yisrael, to love the other person. Develop it toward the other person, pray for this - it is work. If not... The Rav is saying that through the learning I discover more of myself and of my strengths? - Yes. You discover what is hidden within you, yes.
4:58 But a wax candle, right - that is what I stressed - that is the best, yes. Because the Or LeTzion says that with a flashlight you cannot make the blessing. And the candle is the best - to bring the candle together with the salt. And a flashlight - Rav Feinstein says even a flashlight is lechatchilah... one cannot make the blessing. Rav Elyashiv says that yes, a flashlight is permitted. A flashlight - both together is a plus; a flashlight can get into the cracks. That is good.
5:25 As for the beginning of the night - that is the Pri Chadash - if he has Maariv to pray, even so, at that very moment, and after that... Because their chiddush is that it is not out of concern that he might... that is the time. It is siman 434, yes. It is not that we are concerned he might forget. It is not a concern - that is the exact time. That is the Pri Chadash and the Shulchan Aruch HaRav, the Gra. The Mishnah Berurah and the Magen Avraham...
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