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Hillel's Paradoxical Sandwich and the Deeper Meaning of Seder Night

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Rabbi Yaakov Klein

An exploration of the deeper meaning behind Hillel's sandwich on Seder Night.

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what a privilege to sit here in person it's a b surreal not a box actually I have expected some of you to come with black and your faces so now I'm able to see everybody not on zoom and um and it's a privilege it's a privilege always to learn together certainly when we're in person extra special um and especially our of p is a super super busy time to make the time to come out to learn about PES is a very special thing um and it's extra super duper special for me to have my esteemed special for me to have my esteemed mother here um the legendary moracin where everything comes from all of our teaching capacities and everything um my father side a little bit as well but really for my mother and so and so it's a real here so let's jump in we're going to take a look at PES and I'm going to try to speak through my cold as best as I possibly can but I'm I'm just going to acknowledge that at the outset um and um and I wanted to take a look at the Indian the concept of k k one of the foundational symbols of the PES after Mar and and the mat then we are the and the mat together we make a bit of a sandwich we put them together what's the depth of that so this piece is from Ruger and the reason why I wanted to learn this particular piece is because I feel that it captures not only the depth of what kth is but much more broadly speaks about about Gula um and

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  1. 0:01what a privilege to sit here in person it's a b surreal not a box actually
  2. 5:42this we should be we should be contemplative about what the of H is conceptually right
  3. 11:55Gula Gula carbon PES and mat getting out of so again conceptually it would seem to
  4. 18:32them out to tell the story you know and that keeps the kids engaged I would
  5. 24:41special to visualize that we start with the we tell on the bottom of this page
  6. 30:51deeper way to understand this Dynamic of gullis and Gula is not that we have to
  7. 37:01we become so much wiser so much bigger as people so much more conscious of the
  8. 43:18Exile H eats these two things together he brings together he connects the concepts in the
  9. 49:24the circle you ever heard this that there's a people a circle of men or dancing
  10. 55:43Seder which has two meanings on the one hand can say I than to answer someone

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