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Chelek 26 Vaera 1 Rabbi Yosef Kantor

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Sicha Women Shiur - Project Likkutei Sichos

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This is a book 25 of book 26 the portion of and it is [clears throat] the second the first Um I'm not sure if it's the first sika or second sika to be honest. Um but whatever the case is the talks about >> it it is the first sika but it's uh they had a dollar sika on number one so they made this the first seea on number two in the purple. Yeah. So our sages tell us that the reason we drink four cups on the night of P is corresponding to the four the four expressions of redemption that the says which are namely and they're mentioned in the beginning of this week's they are the words I will take you out of Egypt. I will save you. I will redeem you. I will take you to be my people. Four expressions, four cups. So the one of the asks, why do we have four cups of wine to correspond to the four expressions of why don't we have four breads? In other words, the eating of matzah on the night of Pes is a biblical minor commandment. Why did we eat matzah? because we were redeemed from Egypt and the dough didn't have a time to rise. So if we're eating matzas as the as the um reminder and as being testimony to our redemption, why don't we take these four languages of guah and incorporated in the mitzvah of matzah and say we need four matsas. So the Morai continues and he says

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  1. 0:02This is a book 25 of book 26 the portion of and it is [clears throat]
  2. 4:22reason for four cups. And there are those that hold, no, that's not the reason. The
  3. 8:38about the three. What's special about the four? Why the three is not three cups of
  4. 12:58about the concept of to rise can only is a form of Yeshu. It's a form
  5. 17:16Egyptians. So in a sense now there was a danger that they would once again be
  6. 22:00you. But the fourth one which requires a transformation by the Jews themselves that's not the
  7. 26:24produce something to be given the way it is in the mashia and the person who's
  8. 30:38um is still just the way it is in the mashia and the giver. The way
  9. 34:57with no taste. Just flour and water with no taste and you don't have to taste
  10. 39:11becomes the ability for him to develop into a free person. That's with a t with

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