Rabbi Yona Mezger - Derasha Shabbat Hagadol

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Hello dear viewers. This upcoming Shabbat is Shabbat Hagadul. And next week on Wednesday, Bezat Hashem, we will all sit together at the Seda night with our beloved families and celebrate the steps of the Seda, among them, Karpas and Yahhatz. For karpass, we take a vegetable, each community according to its custom. In our home, we might use a potato or a radish, but there's a specific vegetable called carpass or celery that we dip in salt water. For yahhat, we take the middle matzah and break it in two. The larger portion is reserved for the afikcoman and the smaller piece remains uncovered on the table along with the other matzas. Let's speak about why [music] do we break the matzah in two. Despite we've offered an explanation before, [music] I think there's an interesting new insight we can share this year. The Gamarra says in McGill that on page 14A, [music] >> [music] >> Rabbi Ababar Kahana said, "Great was the removal of the ring." As a hasharash's removal of his ring gave Hmon permission [music] to destroy, kill and annihilate all Jews from young to old, children and women in a single day. The removal of the ring was deemed greater than the 48 prophets and seven prophetesses who prophesied to the people of Israel because all their efforts could not bring [music] the people to repentance but the removal of the ring ultimately compelled them to return to the right path. In other words, the Jews reaffirmed [music] and accepted the Torah a new because the ring was given to Hmon. The Mahara asks why did Hazal focus specifically on this act of removing the ring? It was just a means to issue the decree to destroy, kill, [music] and annihilate all Jews. So it

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1. 0:01Hello dear viewers. This upcoming Shabbat is Shabbat Hagadul. And next week on Wednesday, Bezat Hashem,…
2. 1:05>> [music] >> Rabbi Ababar Kahana said, "Great was the removal of the ring." As a…
3. 2:05should have been written, great was the decree to annihilate Israel [music] or the decree to…
4. 3:08instance, all trees are quite similar in appearance. They possess a trunk along with branches, leaves,…
5. 4:11[music] role and purpose. A Jew understands they're not merely here to live this life and…
6. 5:47hatam sofa found an expression to explain this in psalms where it is written the wicked…
7. 6:47family, then go to work. You [music] need to eat, then eat. You need to sleep,…
8. 7:47live and living to eat, then the prophet's [music] words mean nothing to you. You remain…
9. 8:50letter Sam, living in a cycle. We were eating just to live and living solely to…
10. 9:50we must free ourselves. We no longer want to live the life we lived in Egypt.…

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