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Okay. I wanna talk about the part of the Seder called Safun. Safun is the part of the Seder where we eat the Afikraman. And Afikraman is a very, very interesting, mitzvah. It's a what's the according to Rashid Hashem, the is the mitzvah is the matzvah.
Rav Gavriel Singer:It's the first Kazayas to Kazayas that we eat of matzah According to Tzafun, so the of matzah was actually the that's the main. And the only reason we make a on multi matzah for the is because if a person already did the Pulitzer mitzvah, it's very funny to do the Pulitzer mitzvah without a on it. You only make a later. So the way the says is So then he's gonna make his He's gonna make a on it. So now the ikkah mitzvah of that is Na'fikreimon, but the reason we make the brachah is beforehand.
Rav Gavriel Singer:So number one, what's what's unique about this concept of that we that that that's the ikkah mitzvah of a qilas matzah. That's one point I want to discuss. Now in order to address that, I want to discuss a few other points. Now it's very interesting. The is correspondent to the Korban Pesach.
Rav Gavriel Singer:Korben Pesach is a very interesting Korben. There's a unique halachas to Korben Pesach. So even though it's Kochikalin, so there's very very unique halachas that only apply to specifically Korben Pesach. How you cook it, that you have to be you have to be appointed to eat the carbon. And the Gemara says something very very interesting, that it's actually a korban that you say hallow over, the korban pesach.
Rav Gavriel Singer:And the Gemara says that they used to Korban Pesach and go into the roofs and sing so hallow so fervently that they actually they would they would break the roof with Poka Igloo. They would break the roof because they were singing hallow so fervently with the korban Pesach. Now korban pasach also has a laqa that has to be You only have to eat a korban pasach, but you have to eat it when you're full. It's not a korban that you can just say like, okay, I'm gonna eat it on empty stomach and pound korban pasach. No.
Rav Gavriel Singer:There's a korban khagiga there's matzah and you eat that after you eat that the last thing that you eat is is afikrama I'm sorry is the korban pasach now who didn't when it comes to the layla say that the last thing that you eat is an afikrama and there's to the extent that there's a halacha in makhti and akha pasak hafikoman that is also to eat anything else once you've eaten the Afikoman itself. So so why is that? So the Gomorrah says because you want tamasa, you wanna keep the tamasa in your mouth. Okay. But what what's that mean?
Rav Gavriel Singer:Also, I wanna just this is so interesting that what how how does Hafiqomah and the Bala Hafiqomah refer to the mitzvah of Afiqhimon? The Bala Gavriel refers to the mitzvah of Afiqhimon as Tzafun. Now Tzafun is a very strange language. Tzafun, on one hand, is a language of being hidden. Right?
Rav Gavriel Singer:That there's something that's soft when something is hidden. Now the we hide it. First of all, we hide it by the fact that we cover it. Once we do, we break it, we cover it, and we save it for later. But also there's a meaning of hiding it, kibshutah, you hide it from the kids, they take it, they hide it from you.
Rav Gavriel Singer:That there's a concept that the is something which is hidden. That concept is such a strong concept that it actually takes on the name of the mitzvah itself. It's something called according to it's called Now, there's a different connotation to That Tzafun is also a language of Tzafun. Tzafun is north that the the the starts from Tzafun. That the Tzafun is called Sefini.
Rav Gavriel Singer:These are all things because I presume because of the hidden, but there's a connotation almost of the Itzafun when it comes to the language of Tzafun. That being said, like I told you, that they when they used to take the the Korben Pesach, and they would they would actually go ahead and they would sing so much when they eat the Korben Pesach, it would break the roof out of the excitement. So there's a mahriel. The mahriel says that I'm gonna need to eat two of matzah for a few kormons. The bishop says it cause one zikr the pasak and one zikr the chagigah.
Rav Gavriel Singer:The same way that you have to eat a chagigah and then you can eat the korban pasak. So so too you eat, you know, a a Korben Pesach, Pesach, Pesach. Because it's a mitzvah which is Gavivat Ad Ma'id. It's a mitzvah which is a very, very endeared special mitzvah. And because of that, we eat to to show our appreciation for it.
Rav Gavriel Singer:So just thinking about this, you know, what's this mean? What's this teach us? There's something called is a version of means to take out either take out another portion, I take out dessert, after we immediately have you take out or is to take out more kayim but the other that whatever it means it means dessert. This is what you're leaving. This is the sweetness of the meal.
Rav Gavriel Singer:This is the sweetness of the meal. Right? When you go out, you go out with a bang. That's the afiko man. So my my assumption is as follows.
Rav Gavriel Singer:The is a carbon which the whole essence of the carbon is you are different than every other nation in the world. And where I'm going, I I'm going I'm going from and I'm gonna go get anyone who stood against the values that either believed in and who stood against my people, the Jewish people. So I'm gonna smite the first born. We are a person who is part of Christel, defines himself as part of Christel with a Korben Pesach. That is how we defined ourselves.
Rav Gavriel Singer:And we took the Korb Pesach, we ate it, and wow, the rest of the world is suffering. So what what's happening with us? We're sitting in our house and we're singing halal. We're eating Korb Pesach and singing halal. That's the mitzvahs of Qur'an and Yitzvahs mitzvahs.
Rav Gavriel Singer:The world is getting destroyed and we're in our houses singing hallow. So Tzafun and Hafiqrimon, right, the Gama teaches us, Khazar teach us that when Qurayas was in the Yam, the came and said to them, ostensibly we are no different than the and the is the is there something that's soften inside of us, there's something which is hidden inside of us, it's covered inside of us. You're gonna call it the you wanna call it the whatever you call it, but there's an of a which is connected to the that that is a that that that is something which separates us from the it's what makes us and that that if you eat everything and you have your meals and you have everything you have your mitzvahs but there's something that you have to be left with and that's what you're left with is the the taste the flavor of that no matter what you're Banishad of child. That even if that's hidden, and maybe there's a part of us which that part of is always hidden because it's a relationship which is a deep relationship. And the deeper something is, the more hidden it is.
Rav Gavriel Singer:So then that that aspect of Tzafun is the that's the most beautiful cherish thing that we have. It's like the Mariel said, you'll eat two pieces or you'll eat two because other rabbits, mitzvah, and we'll sing halal over and it'll be because if we can't celebrate the fact that we're there was a latest where Hashem took us to make us in the quiet realm. So then so then what do you have with your life? And that's the most exciting thing that we have. So Menela, that Saffun is is the hidden secret of the Jewish people.
Rav Gavriel Singer:And that you can keep that Saffun, and if you keep that aspect of yourself Saffun, so then you're just disconnected from Yiddishkeit and that's where all that happens to eat Tzafun Tzafun and there's a part of you which is to take it out, take the out, take out this mana, take out this extra portion, this portion of if to take that out and taste it and eat it and keep that time in your mouth and don't let it go, then that's the biggest privilege that we have. So we should be We should be to take that Tzafun and make it an we should take it out and enjoy it and express with that that love that the B'na Shalom has that which is hidden inside of us and and and mamish experience in this Pesach.