Kabbalah of The Four Mothers; Symbolism in the Passover Cups

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

on the pesach seder we have three masa [Music] and four cups of wine the three matzah allude to abraham isaac and jacob the four cups of wine says the naral alluse to the four mothers however the medal does not explain each mother with that cup of wine and so i would like to expound upon this concept to connect each cup of wine with each one of the mothers and also to connect it with the four children of the seder because the four children also represent the four cups of wine so how does all of this work together we begin with the first cup of wine caddish meikidush the first cup of wine this is the cup of sarah what does kadesh mean holy holy to make the physical world holy this was sarah's entire life to inspire people as the media said she had a tent open from all four sides wayfarers would come in and eat at the end of the meal they would say sarah thank you she said don't thank me thank the host and the hostess which is almighty god and by doing so she spread monotheism throughout the entire world her and her husband abraham avinu so the first cup of wine is to make the world a holy place furthermore kadesh or holiness means separate to be holy means to be separate sarah and abram separated themselves from the majority of the entire world that at that time served idols and they said no we're not going to follow the norm we're not going to follow the nations of the world we are going to go against the current we're going to go against the stream

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