Pessa'h 5769 in English
Rav David Daniel Hacohen שליט״א
Résumé
Ahead of Pesach, the Rav asks why we keep remembering the Exodus from Egypt every year, in many mitzvot and in Friday night Kiddush, when we have gone through other exiles since. He gives the example of a man who wins the lottery, spends it on education and then loses the money: he keeps celebrating the day every year, because the knowledge he gained remains. In the same way, the Rav explains, when Israel left Egypt it became a people for the first time, and in later exiles only the body was exiled while the soul and the mitzvot remained Jewish, until Mashiach comes. He compares the night of Pesach to a birth, when the newborn shows he is alive by crying and speaking, and says this is why we are required to speak on this night. The automatic transcript is somewhat inaccurate in places, so the summary stays close to the clearly understood points.
Temps forts
- 0:06 Pesach recalls that we were slaves in Egypt and that Hashem took us out Exil Pessa'h
- 1:53 Why remember the Exodus when we returned to exile afterwards Exil Pessa'h
- 3:52 The lottery winner: the money is gone but the knowledge remains Étude de la Torah Pessa'h
- 6:13 Before leaving Egypt Israel was not yet a people Exil Pessa'h
- 6:32 In later exiles only the body goes into exile, not the soul Exil Néchama
- 7:41 The Exodus made us Jewish in the sphere of the mitzvot Mitsvot Pessa'h
- 8:22 Pesach as a birth: the newborn shows he lives by speaking and crying out Néchama Pessa'h
- 9:12 Starting a new life every year on Pesach Pessa'h Téchouva