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It can't be that old because we wrote it in Shuva, in Shuva down south once the war began, so it can't be that old. You know I was looking at a video yesterday of a message I sent to the shul Erev Shabbos HaGadol. It was probably two years ago. And over there I was talking about that we're going to Shabbos HaGadol like never before and our eyes can't believe what we just experienced this last Motzoei Shabbos. And we have to do a special mizmor, let's, and I said we're going to do Mizmor L'Todah in Shuva on Shabbos. It's like, you know, because the Motzoei Shabbos before was the first Iranian attack. Remember Motzoei Shabbos where they sent us messages? By the way, in three or four hours these bombs are going to reach you, right? And it was such a, and it was a complete total nes and we couldn't believe we lived to experience such a thing. It seems a little like, you know, אשתגענו לגמרי עד הסוף מה? You know, but for that, on that level where Am Yisroel was, you know, it was like my god, lo ye'uman, lo ye'uman. And we're actually going to all say together, we opened up the Aron Kodesh Shabbos morning and we did Mizmor L'Todah and it was like, it definitely brought a much-needed chuckle, tell you that much. However, we're going to learn a beautiful piece from Abbierman in Shabbos HaGadol now. And the whole week the learning has been sponsored by the Yudlemans in gratitude to Hashem for Refuah and with deep thanks to the kehilla for all the help with love and tefillos Baruch Hashem. And by the Blanks, by Bentsion and Shrona Blank Mazel Tov to Tzvi and Emuna Blank on the birth of a baby girl. ברוך אתה ה' אלהינו מלך העולם שהכל נהיה בדברו. Amen. When Pesach comes out on the calendar the way that it does this year, Shabbos HaGadol feels extra special because the date when Shabbos HaGadol happened, the original taking of the Korban Pesach was the way it works out this year where it came out asiri Yud Nissan was Shabbos and they kept it by them for four days until they brought the Korban on Wednesday. So when it's in the air, when it's like this and Shabbos is the, I'm not trying to get you all riled up and give you another siman of like, oh this is going to happen now, it's not about, this is just going back, not going, we're going back and saying the original Shabbos HaGadol on a calendar-wise date-wise was like it is this year where we have Shabbos is Yud Nissan. Right? Shabbos is Yud Nissan. However, this teaching is actually going to show us why Shabbos HaGadol is called Shabbos HaGadol even in years when it doesn't come out like this where Shabbos HaGadol, meaning that Yud Nissan is Shabbos HaGadol. But we'll see over here a very beautiful nekuda we have to learn from here. So let's see on the left column. Shabbos HaGadol. טעמים לקריאת שם זה. Some of the reasons why we call this Shabbos Shabbos HaGadol. Hinei. נס גדול נעשה לבני ישראל בשבת זו kedisa b'Seder Olam. Because the great miracle that took place to Am Yisroel on this Shabbos as kedisa b'Seder Olam. Seder Olam is basically the most legitimate chronological documentation of everything that's ever happened in the world to Am Yisroel. And kedisa b'Seder Olam sheyom tes-vov. בניסן יום יציאת בני ישראל ממצרים. If I had to guess what the next word was going to be, יום יציאת ישראל ממצרים. I don't know, in today's day and age it could be יום יציאת ישראל מישראל, chas v'shalom. יום יציאת ישראל ממצרים היה ביום חמישי ושבת, nachon? Thursday, Wednesday night, Thursday was Yom Tov kivyachol, first day of Pesach. nimtza she-asiri l'chodesh, the 10th of the month, שלקחו איש שה לבית when each one took seh l'bayis, when they took the, how do you say seh? sheep to the house, was on Shabbas. ונעשה להם נס כפי שהביא הטור בשם המדרש. The miracle, like the Tur brings in the name of the Midrash, was that, what was the miracle? We have to think about this mamash mamash mamash chazak because the miracle of Shabbas Hagadol is what's mamash needed today. What was the miracle? That they took the sheep? That's not the miracle. ולקחו להם כל אחד שה לפסח וקשר אותו בכרעי מטתו. They took the sheep, they tied it to the bedpost, ושאלו מהמצרים למה זה לכם and the Mitzrim who are looking at their gods being taken, strapped to the bed, and they're asked, why are you doing this? Heishivu and they said לשחטו לשם פסח מצות השם עלינו. We're taking your gods because we're about to shecht it because it's a mitzvah of Hashem. That's the miracle. Not just that we took it, that we answered them back, that this is why we're taking it. והיו שניהם קהות על ששוחטין את אלוהיהן. Their teeth were, you know, like we have this lashon in the Hagaddah, hakkes es shinav. Eli, how do you say it correctly? Blunted. Blunted. Their teeth were blunted that they're about to shecht their gods, and we're saying it. I could just imagine it. You think a Yid said, 'we are going to shecht your god'? No. We're taking this because Hashem told us to and we did this and this is what's going to happen to it. Barur. Chad v'chalak. That's it, you know. That's Lo megamgemim. The whole Torah, whole teaching I'm working on, in writing now, about how we've entered the era of the confusion that has brought Am Yisrael to the place they've gotten to right now is due to a generation of stutterers. Not because of a speech impediment, just because when you can't say befeirush why you're doing what you're doing and you start stuttering, ha-devarim doesn't come out so good. Doesn't come out so good. והיו שיניהם קהות על ששוחטין את אלוהיהן ולא היו רשאין לומר להם דבר. And they couldn't say a word. ועל שם אותו הנס קורין אותו שבת הגדול like the Tosfos in Shabbas says this as well, that this, this is the miracle. The miracle wasn't just that we took the seh, the miracle was that when we were asked, I think like the greatness of the miracle is that when we were asked why, that we actually didn't stutter and we told them, wait, that just shows you how crazy it is that sometimes to just say why you're doing what you're doing is considered a miracle because it's when it's contrary to whatever the world thinks and you can have every reason to be afraid of what you're going to say but you still say it, that's so to speak a miracle. That's mamash a nes. That's a nes. We're still not talking like that yet. We're still not talking like that yet. Like thinking about our little conversation this morning, imagine we went up to the during the war right now, etzavnu yaad and the yaad, the goal, goal of the war was we are going to conquer that piece of land that keeps on getting our, that keeps on causing trouble for Am Yisrael and chayalim keep on getting killed there. No, anachnu megamgemim. We're still stuttering. אנחנו הולכים להסיר איומים. We've heard all this lashon, this same. But if you went up and you said, well there's a mitzvah of kibbush ha-aretz, there's also this inyan of v'chai bahem, I know it's not such a popular front but inyan of v'chai bahem, v'nishmartem me'od l'nafshoseichem, Yidden can't live in Eretz Yisrael the way that it is right now with these behemot on the northern border. If we just stopped stuttering and we just said this is why we're doing what we're doing perhaps there would be nissim, even even greater nissim, which sounds chutzpadik to say after what we've been experiencing, but even greater nissim. Not that two boys have to be killed yesterday in Lebanon. Kol od we're stuttering po va-sham. No. The Mitzrim asked us why are you doing this, because we're about to shecht it. This is my god you're talking about, we're saying... You you do your thing I'm going to do my thing. Ah, na'asah nes. And a miracle, a miracle of Shabbos HaGadol comes out and takes place. Yeah. What does it mean ולא היו רשאים לומר להם דבר? Isn't that the nes like? Meaning, meaning that they couldn't, rasha'im over here rasha'im means they were so, it's not that they weren't allowed to, it's that they couldn't. They couldn't. It sounded... they couldn't, they couldn't open their mouth when they saw, when they saw Yidden with conviction. They couldn't open their mouth, they couldn't say a word. And these were Yidden that were still their slaves. A second before, ke'ilu toch kedei, yeah, yeah. But didn't they stop being slaves since Rosh Hashanah? Physically, mentally we're still not out, but mentally, I mean this is a big thing in Chasidus of Seder night of omnam hamakkos hayu happening for 12 months, it's true, for a year, but we see how much is needed to schlep the Yiddelech out of the mental Mitzrayim is very difficult and we're still, yeah, ten and a half, we're still, we're still there. Now, now, so that's bikhlal why they, why it's such a nes this Shabbos, Shabbos HaGadol. It doesn't explain yet about the nes, but it's obviously alluding to it. Next page Lamed. ידוע קושיית המפרשים מדוע מייחסים את הנס ליום השבת ולא ליום י' ניסן שבו ביום אירע הנס. So this is a good shailah. When did this miracle take place? Happened to be that that year Yud Nissan was Shabbos. But if, if the real inyan is about what took place on Yud Nissan, then what should be the commemoration of it ledoros? Yud Nissan. And it doesn't always happen like this year that it's Yud Nissan. Like I was saying in the beginning of shiur, it doesn't always happen like this year that it's Yud Nissan. The only time in the whole, the whole luach, right? That we, we go with instead of the actual date, we go with the day. Meaning the day of the week as opposed to the day of the month. It's true, like if we found out exactly when, when, I would say, thinking about this, I don't know if anyone could ever figure this out, when Khaf He Kislev was, like the original Khaf He Kislev, right? What day of the week? It wasn't a set calendar back then so it's, it's impossible to know. But this is, this is before, we know, because we know... let's say we would find in one of the Maccabee books and then we found out what let's say kiviyakhol and if we could figure it out, it was Tuesday, let's say. So right, we wouldn't do this. It's only here that we're going commemorating the day of the week when something happened as opposed to its date. I listened to a shiur from Tuesday night, it was, it was on this exact point. On Yud Nissan? No, what the Sfas Emes holds this week, on Tuesday night was why do we commemorate it on Shabbos and not on the day of the week because it was the day of the... Oh, because the Rebbe, yeah, nachon, the Rebbe has some strong sichos there, nachon. Okay. ידוע קושיית המפרשים מדוע מייחסים את הנס ליום השבת ולא ליום י' ניסן שבו ביום אירע הנס כשאר מועדים שנקבעו ביום החודש שחלו בהם ולא ביום השבוע. These things don't happen, this is, we don't see this anywhere else. ומבאר הרב הקדוש אוהב ישראל זכותו יגן עלינו. This week was the yartzeit of the Ohev Yisrael, Ohev Yisrael Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel of Apt, that many of us have been zocheh to be by his, where he's buried, and to his beis medrash. I was just, we were just there a few weeks, like about a month and a half ago by the beis medrash of the Heilige Apter Rebbe. He's right by, in Medzhybizh by the Baal Shem Hakadosh. So the Apter Rebbe says: מה שקיימו בני ישראל ביום י' בניסן משכו ידיכם מעבודה זרה וקחו לכם צאן של מצווה. That they removed their hands from avodah zarah and they used their hands to take a tson for mitzvah. ודבקו נשמתם בבורא כל העולמים היה זה בכוחו של יום השבת שהוא יום הדבקות. Ah. What is the Apter Rebbe saying over here? That if the commandment to take the seh labayis would have been on a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, they wouldn't have been able to. They wouldn't have been able to, they wouldn't have had enough koach, they wouldn't have had enough emunah. It's that because the commandment was on Shabbos, that's why they were able to have enough koach to do what, to end up doing the mitzvah that they ended up doing. לכן נקבע לדורות גאולה זו ביום השבת שהוא יום הדבקות ואז יוצאים מגלות הנפש. To tie back I think to what you brought up before is that we on Shabbos is the only day of the week I could actually get out of Mitzrayim, more or less. Even though I say talk about Yetzias Mitzrayim every single day during davening, but really the only day I can actually get out of Mitzrayim is really on Shabbos, me'ein Olam Ha-ba. כל המתענגים בה יזכו לרוב שמחה. That's why I don't - you understand what he's saying over here - that's why we were kovei'a le-doros that this inyan has to do with Shabbos. And it can't just be stam a nice vort, nice idea. There's gotta be a lot more going on in here that is relating to what this Shabbos Ha-Gadol and every Shabbos Ha-Gadol, really bichellal, every Shabbos gives us, but definitely Shabbos Ha-Gadol. Like people are very big on waiting to like the night before Pesach to do bedikas chametz. I'm talking about nishmasin bedikas chametz, you know. Actually, no, I'm talking about both. Many people are big on both. But on the פנימיות פנימיותם של דברים, Shabbos Ha-Gadol is this great like leap, you know, this like leaping pad, this launching pad from which I can be like, from here I know that I can do things that I would have never imagined that I'd be able to do. That begins on Shabbos Ha-Gadol. The whole inyan of removing chametz is the same thing to realize I could jump to places Pesach that I could have never imagined I could ever do. Shabbos Ha-Gadol is the beginning, is the headquarters for this tnuas ha-nefesh, for the movement of the soul to do things I could have never lo chalamti aleihem that I would have never dreamt of. Bichoach ha-Shabbos. Again, if a Yid would have been commanded to take an Egyptian god and do the exact same thing they ended up doing, but the commandment was to do it on a Sunday or a Monday or any day of the week, the Ohev Yisroel saying they wouldn't have ended up being able to do it. It's just the ko'ach of yoma denishmasa, the day of the soul, enabled them to have the ability to do such a thing. That's - this is just important. Shabbos is not really a day of kabbolos and achlotos. Or doing? Bidyuk. It's like more something else is going on inside. You're filling your soul with some kind of other type of shemen ha-manoa, oil for the engine, where it's not about right now okay I'm doing this, it's more like I've become someone else. I've become through the yoma denishmasa a person that's able to do things that I simply would have never imagined I'd be able to do. And that's very important to understand the concept of that why this is called Shabbos Ha-Gadol because you become a gadol. You become a gadol. You yourself become an ish gadol through the ko'ach of the original Shabbos Ha-Gadol of when it first first happened. There's a lot more to elaborate on, but I want to continue. I have to end a little bit early tonight. הלבוש ביאר שלכן נקרא שבת הגדול כי היא הקדמה לגאולה. Basically what we're saying, it's called the greatness of it is that it's the intro, it's the sholom aleichem, welcome to the G train, you know, this is what's happening. Shenemar bo, הנה אנכי שלח לכם את אליה הנביא לפני בוא יום ה' הגדול והנורא והשיב לב אבות על בנים ולב בנים על אבותם. When do we say this? This is the haftorah on Shabbos Ha-Gadol. הנה אנכי שלח לכם את אליה הנביא לפני בוא יום ה' הגדול והנורא והשיב לב אבות על בנים ולב בנים על אבותם. This is Moshiach. This is describing the zman of geulah. Ita ba-Ohev Yisroel zechuso yagen aleinu נשגבות בקדושת שבת זו. The Ohev Yisroel goes on and on about how illustrious and how much it's worth paying more attention and learning a bit more about Shabbos Ha-Gadol because this Shabbos is different than all Shabbasos. והנה מבואר בזוהר הקדוש that the Zohar teaches us, we've seen this many times, מיניה מתברכין כל שיתא יומין. From it all the six days of the following week are being blessed. Where - how do we say this a little bit different in Kiddush? כי היא מקור הברכה. That's Lecha Dodi, but in Kiddush how do we say it a little bit like... we say the same concept, just a different thing. Techila le-mikra'ei kodesh. Bidyuk. It's important to... sometimes it's good to know what we're actually saying. Like techila le-mikra'ei kodesh means over here this concept is whatever mikra kodesh, whatever calling out of kedusha will be in the coming week, techila, first it's Shabbos. So if we know Pesach is coming next week, that means... means that techila l'mikra kodesh of Pesach is Shabbos Hagadol. Perush, and he's going to say, basically this is what he's going to say, פירוש שכל ימות השבוע יונקים מקדושת השבת לפניה. All of the six days of the week suckle their kedusha from the Shabbos before. Ulam, now, no pressure, but this is a big Shabbos. כל השבתות כולן יונקות כוחן משבת הגדול ושבת תשובה. This Ohev Yisroel says, all Shabboses receive their life force from two Shabbatos: Shabbos Hagadol and Shabbos Shuva. הרי שכל השבתות של כל השנה גנוזות בגוה. That means that all the Shabboses of all of the year are basically concealed within these two Shabbatos of the year, which is interesting on many levels. Let's see who here ever held a shteller. Who, is there anyone here who's ever a rav in a community? We have a bunch of them in the shul. No? Uziel, were you holding? No, not yet. So you know back in the day that rabbanim only gave two drashas a year: Shabbos Hagadol and Shabbos Shuva. The rest of the year who would give drashas? So either there weren't drashas or maggidim would come and scare the daylights out of you with some words that they would, you know, mavhil ad ha-etzem. Till Rebbes came onto the scene. And Rebbes would speak bifrat Shalosh Seudos. It wasn't drashas the way we have it today, every Shabbos the rav has to give, like, you know, pulpit rabbis, more in chutz la'aretz, their whole thing is every Shabbos the sermons, you know. These are not, if it was up to me I'd go back to the minhag of this, trust me, trust me. Where do you get a maggid from? We're looking at one. Am I that scary? No, no, no. We don't want scary maggidim, but you know yourself, and why would they, why would they, maybe every now and then, every now and then we'll get like some guy to show up and like really scare the daylights out of you, you know, just once a month or something. Once a month? That's quite big. Anyway, the rabbanim would get up and darshen on Shabbos Hagadol simply because to give over hilchos Pesach. It wasn't, it wasn't a drasha of machshava, no, I'm sure they, actually I'm not sure, it was mainly to give over the basic halachos of Pesach. Today it's not, today what do people do? You know, I try to do it as well, it's a minhag, so since it was established as a minhag Yisrael, so you start off with some kind of halacha and you build a kav machshava through it. Today, to learn the laws of Pesach, the accessibility to the things that back then they dreamed of, today is unbelievable. We have anything on our fingertips. Shabbos Shuva also dinim of teshuva and Yom Kippurim, that's what it was. But the Ohev Yisroel says all Shabboses of the year receive their geshmaak, their chayus from these Shabbatos. What were you going to say, Zevi? It's kind of a cyclical logic, but you know Rebbe Nachman says that Leil Seder is the headquarters of emuna. And Shabbos is emuna. So you have Shabbos Hagadol giving emuna to the Yidden to be able to say zeh hakeves, this is the lamb, and the rest of the, and then you have Pesach this week, and then the rest of the Shabbatos are feeding off of this Shabbos. It's really just emuna building on emuna. Mamash. And matzah's called michla d'asvassa, right, michla d'meimenusa. This is the bread of emuna. Nachon. I want to give us a bracha this coming Shabbos Hagadol to get all the koach in the world to not stutter. Lo legamgem, to not stutter, to be clear. And I don't just mean to be clear to enemies, but even when our children are asking us questions about מה העבודה הזאת לכם. Lo legamgem. Not to, not to give them any of these like shtuyot kita aleph answers that we got when we were kids because the people we were asking couldn't answer us, so they just told us things that really weren't, you know, satiating our deepest ratzon to understand. When a kid asks you a question, "why do we do this?", first of all to not think they're trying to be, like, it's not like the rasha asking, you know, it's more, it's more, I would say the tam, you know, he's not really asking that same type of question. But lo legamgem through the koach of emuna that comes out of this Shabbos, that we can do anything, we've done almost anything. We should, just like we said in the beginning of the shiur, we look back to two years ago Shabbos Hagadol, oh my God, that was considered to be so insane, that we should be zoiche by next year. We thought we were already that that was Gadol? That that was Gadol? בעזרת השם שיהיה שבת שלום ומבורך וגדול מאוד מאוד מאוד. Amen. Yasher koach.