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5:41 And each time we can prolong this exile with our thoughts and with our deeds. If we were cleaving to Hashem, and we would think where is the Master of heaven and earth... One who looks up at the heavens and knows that we are now close to the holy place, to a place that was sanctified by Dovid and Shlomo...

6:17 to a place that the Radbaz explained, that whoever looks at it is granted an outpouring of wisdom, and abundance, and holiness and purity from Heaven... that in the time to come we will merit to be purified by the ashes of the Red Heifer from all the impurities, and now there are only those few remnants and individuals who merited this purity...

6:46 Hashem, blessed be He, gave us the way to choose - that we went out of Egypt - to follow Him. And the thing the Jewish people see right away when they go out of Egypt is a sea.

7:10 Let everyone think to themselves what it was like when the Jewish people were in Egypt, that no one could see a sea, and they did not see the element of water, except for the Nile. And the first plague there was, was blood - the element of water. And the last miracle and wonder they had: 'For the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again, forever.'

7:37 The meaning was that, corresponding to that same element that Hashem, blessed be He, struck at the beginning, He struck at the end, for its end is wedged in its beginning... For if a person contemplates, he will see that at the beginning there was a nullifying of the element of water, and at the end, the same thing, there was also a nullifying of the element of water.

8:02 When the waters were split, then Hashem, blessed be He... Rashi explains in Shemos, in chapter 14, that all the waters in the world, all the water in the world, split. And this explains that the plagues were in the elements... When Hashem, blessed be He, struck, He struck the 'element' of Creation, the elements of Creation. And why did Hashem, blessed be He, strike the elements of Creation and not strike only those Egyptians, or, at the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, only the sea would have split and the other waters in the world would not have split?

8:35 Rather, the meaning is: in order to show all created beings that Hashem, blessed be He, He is the One who rules over all four elements, and over all created beings and over all of Creation. The outlook and the thought when they saw the splitting of the Sea of Reeds: 'And the waters were a wall for them on their right and on their left.'

8:59 And the waters reached up to the sky, and the holy nation passes through inside. And it explains in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, in chapter 41, that at the time they passed through, and the waters were a wall for them, Hashem, blessed be He, made everything freeze on all their sides, both on the right and on the left. 'And the waters were a wall for them on their right and on their left.' And they had all kinds of precious stones and pearls, and they would see one another, those who were in this path, from this tribe, and those who were in this path, from the other tribe, would see one another.

9:32 And this way they were all in unity at the time the Sea of Reeds was split. And then they all said the Song together, at one time, all together, and gave thanks to Hashem. And this is what we say, 'With a new song the redeemed praised,' that the meaning is that a new song is one that all created beings can say together. That is called a new song.

9:56 When we say a new song, it is a song in which the mind and the understanding will be nullified before the conduct of Hashem, blessed be He, that the intellect and the understanding will be nullified, which is what the Rambam explains at the end of Hilchos Melachim, in chapter 11, at the end at the end: 'For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Hashem, as the waters cover the sea.' That at that time, when the knowledge of Hashem will increase, then the intellect, the understanding, will be nullified by itself before the conduct of Hashem's kingship, and the moment the intellect is nullified to the knowledge of the conduct of Hashem's kingship, then all created beings can say a song together...

10:34 And then there was no dispute among them, whether these would say it this way or that way, because the song was one song, for they all said one song in a clear language, all as one they said the song before Hashem, blessed be He, like the angels who say Kedushah in Heaven, and so on... Our connection to Hashem throughout all the exiles, in all the years...

11:03 When we also see the Exodus from Egypt and we read all the stories and all the Midrashim and everything that was done, and we see the greatness of the distance and the greatness of the providence of Hashem, blessed be He, who watched over us with individual and precise providence, and saved us from the house of slavery, and how each one would lift his eyes to Heaven... that this is now an illumination that is found on Chol HaMoed, the time of the seventh day of Pesach, when it is a mitzvah to speak of the Midrashim and the Haggadah, about this whole matter, all that was done there, and to go on at length, and to tell, and to explain, and to contemplate.

11:43 But the greatest connection was that each one understood that after they had been in Egypt, where they could not pray, they discovered the greatness of prayer... When the Jewish people go out of Egypt, Hashem, blessed be He, lights up the way before them, and the paths and the pathways of prayer, for as long as they were before that, when they were in Egypt, they could not pray.

12:11 Moshe Rabbeinu said, 'And it will be, as I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands.' Only then, right away, could he spread out his hands in prayer, to spread out his prayer before Hashem. And as long as he was sunk together with the Jewish people in Egypt, he could not lift up a prayer on high. And at the time that Moshe Rabbeinu goes out of Egypt and the Jewish people go out, they immediately reach the sea, and the sea closed in on them, and they had nothing at all to follow.

12:37 And then Hashem, blessed be He, split all the waters in the world, and the Jewish people passed through inside... The secret of the seventh day of Pesach is that there was revealed to them the ability and the thought to understand that every created being in the world has the connection to the One who created it... The exile and the punishment of the exile is not only what we see, this distance, that we are not redeemed and still do not go up to Jerusalem, rather the exile is that created beings think that they have grasped the greatness of G-d, blessed be He, that they think they already know His knowledge, blessed be He, that they think they already know His mitzvos, that they think they know His Torah, that they think they have had their fill of His Torah,

13:32 that they complain against Him with grievances in the heart: how did He do this, and how did He do that, and why did He do that, and they forget that 'The Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are justice, a G-d of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is He.' When we look and we see that we came into the world... that Hashem emphasizes this to us, and this is specifically on Pesach, that we can see this and remember this.

13:57 And this will also be understood: why we so much need to remember the remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt. Because the world thinks that Hashem, blessed be He, is there to fulfill all their satisfaction and all their cravings for them, and to give them all their requests, and to do good for them, and whatever they wish, and this is the main point of prayer, but no one thinks in his mind that we are servants of the Omnipresent.

14:30 And this starts from the mitzvah, 'And you shall love Hashem your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might,' that even if He takes your life, takes your money, with everything a person has, he must love Hashem, blessed be He... The connection of a person to the Creator is specifically on Pesach, that Hashem, blessed be He, reminds a person: you are My servant, and do not think, Heaven forbid, that you are trying to lead, the reverse - that I will be there for you, to do your will as you desire.

15:11 And this is great heresy and unbelief, that created beings go about with this thought, that Hashem, blessed be He, has to do whatever comes into their mind, and they come with grievances and with heresy inside their heart, or with all kinds of hidden belief that... no one can know the greatness of G-d. And when we stand and look here at the sky, that Chanamel, the uncle of Yirmiyahu, at the time when Jerusalem was about to be destroyed, then said a Name and suspended it between heaven and earth, and immediately the Holy One, blessed be He, kicked it and it was destroyed (Yalkut Shimoni, Eichah, remez 1009)...

15:48 These heavens are the awesome heavens that exist since the day the world was created, these are the heavens where the eyes of Hashem, blessed be He, are here, toward this holy and awesome place... Here is the place of the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple... The bloodshed, the eyes of all the prophets...

16:14 how many eyes lifted their eyes upward to this place... And this is the place where everything began, everything was created, and everything ended here. And after such a long, long exile, that Hashem, blessed be He, made it so that 'they all gathered together and came to you,' the souls stand close before Him, blessed be He...

16:41 'All your males shall appear'... and the Master will come to visit in His sanctuary... The fear, when one understands before Whom we are standing... and what He wants from us: that we be servants before Him, and not to think, Heaven forbid, that the main point of my keeping the Torah and my mitzvah, or the service of G-d that a person serves, is so that Hashem, blessed be He, will save him, and if He does not save him, then he immediately throws off the yoke in defiance toward Heaven.

17:21 And this is the flaw, in Pesach and Pharaoh and the Exodus from Egypt... When the Jewish people went out of Egypt, they went out into the unknown. They knew they were going after a leader, they knew they were going after Moshe, but no one knew or believed that there would be a sea that would close them in... And then Hashem, blessed be He, splits the sea before Moshe, and then the sea is split before them...

17:50 And then, when the Jewish people come to pass through something of which there is no grasp or understanding: how an element that Hashem, blessed be He, set in the world, which can never be split... it was split 'into parts', that each time they moved forward, it went on splitting, that is to say, at every moment the miracle was made anew. It did not split in a way that it split all at once to all sides, rather, as the Jewish people moved forward, so the sea went on splitting before them, as if they were cutting, and this is 'Who cut the Sea of Reeds.'

18:23 When the Holy One, blessed be He, cut the sea, split the sea, it is like a person who tears, the way one does when destroying, it tears slowly, slowly, slowly (Rabbeinu Bechaye, beginning of Parshas Beshalach). And then everyone was inside the sea, and at every moment there was the miracle, and all the miracles and wonders that Hashem, blessed be He, wrapped us in are not miracles that were forgotten, they are not miracles that cannot be seen... Whoever truly cleaves to G-d, blessed be He, and knows that he came to serve Him, and all his hope, and all his longing, and all his thought, and all his intention, and his way, is for the truth of His existence, blessed be He, who thinks how he will bring pleasure before Him, blessed be He, this is the main level and the closeness to G-d, blessed be He,

19:10 this is what Hashem, blessed be He, desires... And beyond everything that all created beings talk about, and let us not even speak of all the matters: informing, gossip, and hatred, and all these things that there are... which is altogether the greatest and most terrible flaw there is... which grieves the Torah, and grieves Hashem, blessed be He, with this... But the connection there was, was only for those who merited to attain the true cleaving.

19:39 This can also explain there what Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai meant in Tractate Sukkah, page 45b, when he said, 'I have seen the people of ascent (Al-Yah), and they are few,' that the thought - who are those who merited to attain the level of their thought, that their whole intention will be to raise up and to unite the letters Yud-Hey that were damaged by the flaw of arrogance, as it is known that arrogance equals the number of Yud-Hey, and Yud-Hey equals the number of 'arrogance', as brought in Rabbeinu the Arizal (Shaar Ruach HaKodesh, Tikkunei Avonos, chapter 7, and elsewhere), but in order to repair them and raise them up, one must constantly intend to repair this flaw at its root, and to bring pleasure to Hashem, blessed be He.

20:21 About this Rabbi Shimon said that he saw people of ascent, and they are few. He said: how many are there really whose whole thought and whose whole purpose is that they think to unify His Name, blessed be He, they truly love Hashem, blessed be He, and they have no bad trait at all, and they are completely clean of the 'skin of the serpent'. And this is what explains, what we explained, that Moshe Rabbeinu, to whom Hashem, blessed be He, was revealed in the bush, and the body of Moshe Rabbeinu was... as is known, there is the attainment and the intellect that a person can attain, his levels... when a person is not in the world, does not see the world, and is not found inside the world, that he is completely separated from the sight of this world, when he does not see the world,

21:12 then the serpent's skin cannot touch him, Now, when Moshe Rabbeinu was inside the basket, when he was in the 'river', then at first he came by way of the element of water, and then the first decree was 'Every son that is born, you shall cast into the river', for the leader of Israel was destined to come from the element of water. So that means we see at the start that the leader - this is 'Moshe', he is named for the element of water: 'for I drew him out of the water', he came through the basket in the river, which is the element of water, the first plague was the element of water, and the Exodus from Egypt was through the element of water - the splitting of the Red Sea.

21:52 That means that Hashem, blessed be He, arranged that this whole matter be through the element of water. And when we ask for the redemption... so this is what the Rambam explains at the end of Hilchos Melachim (the Laws of Kings); he writes that in the future, at that time there will be no famine and no jealousy and no war and no competition... 'For the earth will be full of the knowledge of Hashem as the waters cover the sea.' For when the redemption comes, just as the waters, which are the knowledge, spread out everywhere, so will the closeness to Hashem be, for Hashem, blessed be He, hinted to us that remembering the Exodus from Egypt means remembering that it is possible to get out of any reality, there is no reality that one cannot get out of,

22:33 this is the power to understand that everything is possible, and there is hope for everything... everything, everything is possible, no gate at all is closed before the one who believes and cleaves to Him, blessed be He, no gate at all is closed before him... whoever truly has the cleaving and the trust in Hashem, blessed be He, and thinks only and solely of Him, blessed be He, and all his hope, and all his joy, and all his vitality is to give Him satisfaction...

23:06 Understand, all of us, we can end this length of the exile, if we change our thinking, and lift our eyes upward and try to stop and think and close our eyes to the illusion of this world, not to see the world, and try to think truly, truly, truly what the purpose of this whole world is, what the purpose of the whole world is, of a person's learning, out of the learning - 'When you rise from the book, search and examine what you have learned, whether there is something in it that you can fulfill', which the Ramban warned his son about in the letter, that he should read it, so that he understands how very important it is what learning you learn, and for what purpose you learn, and for what you work for your livelihood, and for what you exist.

24:02 If a person would stop and think what the purpose of the whole world is - the whole world blinds their eyes and leads them on crooked paths, and makes them forget the whole purpose, and time passes, and more time passes, and suddenly a person finds himself already close to the end, and there is no greater shame than this, than to depart from this world without our having lifted our eyes to Heaven and asked for the Kingship of Hashem...

24:30 This request, and this desire, and this faith, and this trust, to feel and to love Him truly, without any difficulty and any question about Him in the heart, and to know that He is the merciful G-d, full of mercy, and He is the Good in every kind of goodness, and He is the Righteous in every kind of righteousness, and He is the Splendor in every kind of beauty, and He is the Ancient One in every kind of seniority, for there is no language or description with which to laud and praise the One Who spoke and the world came to be, for this is the intellect that is greater than any intellect, that no idea and no reasoning can grasp, for He is the knowledge, and He is the knower, and He is the known (Rambam, Yesodei HaTorah 2, 10) - that is Hashem, blessed be He...

25:18 And if we stop and cease to think and to hear, to hear the voices of the world... all the voices of the world are full of lacks... the whole world is lacking and all the eyes are full of lacks, which the world sees and looks at... And when the Jewish people goes out of Egypt, then Hashem, blessed be He, takes their hearing from them, and takes their sight from them...

25:49 And so when they were about to receive the Torah, which is those three days of setting bounds, and Mount Sinai was all smoke, and there was a great sound of noise there, and the great thought they had was: who is this, and who is the one who merited to go up the mountain of Hashem and to be there and to attain those levels that no mortal can merit and reach and attain, for the serpent's skin... a body like that of Moshe Rabbeinu, who was the secret of the supernal Chashmal from the Chamber of the Sapphire Brick of the World of Beriah (Creation), which our master the Arizal explains (Etz Chaim, Shaar 49, 2) is the secret of the Tree of Knowledge of Good of Atzilus (Emanation), for he attained the level of the body at the holy and awesome level...

26:35 for the serpent's skin swallowed the filth of all created beings, and all of them, their body is full of the serpent's skin, which is all kinds of filth, and Moshe shed this body from himself at the bush (Tikkunei Zohar, Tikkun 21, 48b), and when he went up to receive the Torah he drew down and revealed hearing and sight anew, so that their eyes and their ears would hear and see something new.

27:03 That is why the skin of Moshe's face shone and he had to cover his face, for it was already impossible to look, for the foundation of sight was already at a greater level... This is the secret of 'ta shma' (come and hear) and 'ta chazi' (come and see), which is the Oral Torah - the meaning is that the level of the learning of Torah is that a person attain the 'ta shma' and the 'ta chazi' as our forefathers attained, as they once attained, as they truly attained the Torah, the thought which came out of self-sacrifice, out of their thought of loving Hashem.

27:35 When a person cleaves to Hashem and asks no question at all about Him, blessed be He, then he can attain and come close to Him, blessed be He. And if we think and look and see that time passes, and time goes by, but this must be stopped... We must, must stop, and ask Hashem, blessed be He, more for His mercy, ask Him more to have mercy on us...

28:09 lift our eyes more and know that He can save us. It is true that people rely on tzaddikim and go to them to be blessed, but a person must know that Hashem, blessed be He, hears you just as He hears the greatest tzaddik, and Hashem, blessed be He, loves the farthest of the far and the most cast-out of the cast-out just as He loves the greatest tzaddik, and everyone can lift their eyes and turn to ask of Him, blessed be He, and lift their eyes and ask, as when we went out of Egypt.

28:37 And why is remembering the Exodus from Egypt so important to Hashem, blessed be He? To show all of us how beloved everyone is before Him. After all, if it were only Moshe Rabbeinu, the great and mighty tzaddik, then Moshe Rabbeinu would have gone out alone, and there would have been no need to bring out the whole Jewish people, and with that it would have ended: Hashem, blessed be He, would have revealed Himself to him in the bush and given him the Torah, it was at Mount Sinai anyway, so Moshe Rabbeinu was inside the bush, for he suddenly saw the sound of the birds, and he saw a mountain and went up there, and just then he sees the bush burning, that was Mount Sinai, it is the same mountain to this day.

29:12 And it has a sign of this, of rocks, for so those who understand stones once wrote, that there are all kinds of stones, so this rock is there to this day, which is famous because you see the actual shape of the bush, you see it engraved in that stone; wherever you break it, you will find the bush. And there were many, many more wonders here in the Land of Israel that were seen in all kinds of stones, and in all kinds of communities that had all kinds of things connected to history, which Rabbi Binyamin of Tudela wrote about, for he was on journeys through the Land of Israel, and he found out many things about this, as it was here in history, how the place here looked, and where the settlement was, for there was almost no one here

29:56 who was found in this place. For after so many years of exile, suddenly one sees all the remnants that come up, both on the side of the body and on the side of the element of the dust of the stone... even in this there was an engraving of the revelation of Hashem's Kingship that He made in Creation. And then Hashem revealed Himself to Moshe in the bush and could already have brought him back from there and redeemed the whole world, so what did Hashem, blessed be He, do? He sent Moshe Rabbeinu back to make such a very, very great detour, in order to bring him back only afterwards to give him the Torah.

30:29 So let everyone think: for whom was this whole journey? After all, Hashem was already with him in that same place, at that same point, from the start, to give him the Torah, and He did not give it to him. He waited in order to reveal Himself to him, to tell him: 'Go, save My people, go, rescue My people, I cannot see them in this sorrow, that they are in sorrow, and they cry out, and they suffer and are tormented.'

30:58 But because they turned to Hashem, they asked for Him, they wanted Him to save them... Think how many circumstances we have today in which we do not need to ask for Him at all - whether because the world is doing well, whether because people think this is already a kind of redemption, whether because people think there is a livelihood, whether because people think a person has everything he needs, what people ask for is only livelihood, children, and a wedding, and a home...

31:29 But no one asks anymore that He be before us in a pillar of cloud, in a pillar of fire. 'And their cry rose up to G-d' - that was in Egypt, but where is our cry from within, asking that it be enough already, enough, all the appointed ends have passed... Whoever knows and understands how much suffering there is in this nation, and how much sorrow there is in this nation, and how many orphans and widows, and poor, and sick, and people in suffering who are tormented every time...

32:01 And one can pass the time... and everyone passes it, and one can again learn and sharpen in wisdom, and advance, but the exile remains exile, and the people suffer... And it is possible to stop this! For one more and one more and one more who will say 'Enough of our troubles', who will cry out from his heart and say to Hashem, blessed be He, from the heart, even if it comes out as a cry, 'We want to see You, our King, we want to see You, we want You to redeem us, we want You to walk before us, we want You to guide us, we want You to say 'enough' to our troubles, we want You to have mercy on us, we want You to save us' - to ask for Him, blessed be He - this is the thing Hashem, blessed be He, wants to hear...

32:48 If we have come to all this exile, and we were in Egypt... I said at the evening prayer that we prayed, right after the prayer on Friday night, which was the Seder night, so I told everyone not to forget to make one request, that right at the end of the Haggadah, after we had done everything, and read all the Midrashim, and all the miracles and wonders, and we ask for 'next year in Jerusalem'...

33:24 but to ask of Hashem... we read it, we went out of Egypt, but we are still not in the complete redemption, Hashem, we want Your complete redemption, we want to see the satisfaction, that You have satisfaction from us. For the whole Jewish people, all of them, each and every man, and each and every woman, all are special beyond measure, and Hashem, blessed be He, has love for each and every one, with a personal and precise Hashgachah, And if we thought about what Hashem, blessed be He, truly says, as we read in the Midrash, they say: 'The Holy One, blessed be He, said', 'The Holy One, blessed be He, said', we see how much the Holy One, blessed be He, says in Heaven above.

34:15 What does He say? He says 'My son, My firstborn, Israel', and what is in His tefillin is 'Israel, in whom I take glory'. All the hope, all the joy, everything there is, all the pilgrimage festivals and all the holidays and all of Chol HaMoed, it is so that we understand this, why we rest from work: to understand what I explained, not for anything else.

34:41 But the greatest test, and the most important thing, and on this there is the test, is simply that we do not remember, and we forget everything we have learned until now, everything we explained simply vanishes, it simply disappears from the eye, and we forget all of this...

35:06 The greatest hope there can be is that each one know that the redemption depends on him, this is 'For my sake the world was created', that each one must do all in his power to lift his eyes to Heaven, and to ask: enough, it is impossible any more, impossible any more to be in exile, this lengthening of the exile is impossible any more, we want to see all the prophecies...

35:37 If one more and one more and one more and one more will do... then we will finally be able to see what stands and what hides - this curtain that is called 'Rakia' (the firmament), it is a curtain, what is here before us in the heavens, and Hashem, blessed be He, will remove the curtain, and then there will be a revelation of His Kingship, and everyone will see what we say all the time: 'Hashem is King, Hashem was King, Hashem will reign forever and ever'.

36:11 Hashem does not love idol worship, He does not love it when people follow a man, He loves it when people go with their eyes upward, and love Him, and act for Him, and we will always remember that we were in Egypt, and we will never be in Egypt... and we were slaves, but with Hashem, blessed be He, we are children... Slavery - we have already left it, slavery - we have no part with it, love for Hashem, for we are His children...

36:45 And the outlook will be out of love and out of affection, to love and to give peace in the whole world, and in all created beings, whether in proper conduct, whether in character traits, whether in thought, it is to love everyone, it is to honor everyone, and to lift the eyes to Heaven, and to feel that the true salvation, and the complete salvation that I desire more than anything, is 'And their cry rose up to G-d', it is that just as they were in Egypt, and all that they hoped for and all that they cried out for - I do not need to explain what they were, and what they did, and how they lived, and under what conditions, and what they went through - everyone knows this, and everyone has read it - but out of all this, their whole hope was

37:36 that they want G-d, they want the G-d Who is with them in Egypt to reveal Himself and take them out. And if we too will be here and ask for this, then it will be, but... there is not even a need to speak of it in a roundabout way, but we all know that there was the lengthening of the exile and when the eyes went down, and were not lifted upward - what the consequence was...

38:07 That we may merit that Hashem, blessed be He, wrap us in mercy, and be filled toward us with great mercy, 'And with great mercy I will gather you', may we merit this... And from today, let each one think more about this matter, and pass it on further and further... until it awakens among each and every one, among everyone, this meaning, of asking for this before Him, blessed be He.

38:39 And may it be the will that there be satisfaction before our Master, the Creator, blessed be He, that there be satisfaction before Him, and all created beings, all of them, will praise Him, and laud Him, and glorify Him. - If possible, please fold the chairs too, so there will be less crowding.

1:12:40 There will be a quick pass-through, for a blessing only. The entrance is only from here, [unclear] So we ask the whole public to first give honor to the Torah scholars and the elderly. If possible, to let the elderly go in first, if there are any here, let them go in first, and there must be no pushing under any circumstances.

1:13:07 Passage only from here. For a blessing only.