Today’s online Torah study is dedicated l’ilui nishmas Rabbi Yitzchak Aharon ben Rabbi Yakov Eliezer ע”ה whose yahrzeit is on the 25th of Adar.
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This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 250.
1:40 – Why do we search for chometz at night by candlelight rather than by natural daylight?*
6:45 – PARAGRAPH 9.
8:50 – PARAGRAPH 10. The restoration of the moon’s light, as in Yishaya 30: “The light of the moon will be like the light of the sun.”
14:10 – PARAGRAPH 11. Sreyfas chometz (burning the chometz. Why is chometz destroyed only by fire? Yechezkel 15: the forces of evil originate in fire and so they can only be destroyed through fire.
21:50 – What is the deeper meaning of our Bracha (blessing) on fire after Shabbos at Havdala? Not only is Shabbos above the forces of nature; on weekdays, Hashem is also in charge of “natural forces”.
29:24 – If chometz is so bad, why do we eat it all year?*
37:00 – Getting rid of chometz for one week – analogy of a disruptive student being sent out of the classroom.*
43:12 – PARAGRAPH 13. Secrets of the splitting of the sea, the “two tears that fall from Above” that cause earthquakes (Berakhos 59a.)
50:18 – PARAGRAPH 14. Mah Nishtana – the four questions at the Pesach seder.
53:00 – The four sons parallel the four exiles.
54:00 – The roshei teyvos (initial letters) of “rabim” in the Haggadah hint at the four exiles.
57:45 through end – The real miracle of Pesach was that the exodus took place at night rather than during the day. Why?*
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