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Rav Shlomo Katz explores the teachings of Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt"l on the Parsha with the sefer Even Shlomo
Okay good morning everybody. Before I forget, quick shout out Itamar Rosen because you're the reason we have this shiur. Like about a half year ago Itamar asked me, said like can we start learning Even Shlomo bikveius? So the next day we started months ago baruch Hashem. So this is your zchus that that you're with us.
Okay Shevat Chodesh Shevat sponsored by the Arf family לעילוי נשמת לוי בן יוסף by the Silvers לעילוי נשמת בתיה פייגא בת ישראל anonymously for the refuah shleimah of Sara bas Rochel פייגא מלכא אלקא בת פערל שושנה יונה בת עדל and Hila bas Ilana and by Joni and Moshe Polak לעילוי נשמת שמעון בן משה צבי מרדכי שירה רחמא בת רב אלתר נתן נטע. The week is sponsored by Kevin and Sharon Ross in memory of זלמן בן אברהם דוד Barry ben Avraham Dovid Jerry ben Avraham Dovid Peter ben Avraham Dovid by Sara and Baruch Gold לעילוי נשמת תחיה שירה שמעונה and for the refuah of פעשא מלכא בת בלימא by the Deutsch family in memory of Miriam's abba מנחם בן שמואל אליעזר. Today is sponsored Yom Revi'i sponsored by Moshe and Avital Gadosh לעילוי נשמת מיכאל מאיר בן חי Moshe's abba תהא נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים שתהא מליץ יושר עלינו and knock on Heaven's door to bring down the great day Amein teichef u'miyad mamash b'ezras Hashem Yisborach shlach Moshe okay. There was a it was very hard to choose which one thank you Yosef it was very hard to choose which one to do today Torahs in Parshas Bo are geuladik they're just redemptive it's speaking about geula when you hear about geula like this you really you actually really want it you want it badly and I know how badly we he can pass these out I know how badly we want them and I was and and honestly I'm still debating so much so that I printed two different Torahs on on each side of the paper because I'm I pashut there's two different things we want to say so we'll start with one if we get to the other one אשרינו מה טוב חלקנו but these are avnei yesod foundations of the Torah of Reb Shlomo on geula.
So I think that we'll we'll do one that will sound a shtickel insane based on a lot of the other stuff that we say here but I want to talk about it b'pnimiyus'am shel devarim b'pnimiyus sham like like mamash on the inner layer. Thank you Yosef ברוך אתה ה' אלקינו מלך העולם שהכל נהיה בדברו Amein. You see the Torah that says ein yoter avdus it's probably on the other side of the paper that you have ein yoter avdus. There's a pasuk that Hashem it's very interesting before right before we leave Mitzrayim we have a commandment וישאלו איש מאת רעהו Hashem says tell everyone that they have to ask from their rei'ehu which is the whole topic of the shiur today who's rei'ehu.
But the pshat is that you go and you go to the, who do you go to to get all the, nu, the spoils? The spoils. The Mitzrim. The Mitzrim. Right.
כלי כסף וכלי זהב.
כלי כסף וכלי זהב. Who do you go to to ask from this? The Mitzri. Your friend.
No, that, you're saying pshut because that's what the pshat is. But, but, you're even, you even go to a shtickel someone that could have been your slave driver and you ask them for klei kessef and klei zahav. If that's the case, then why did the Torah use the word re'ehu? What should the Torah have said if that's the pshat of who you're going to ask from for the? Does anyone need any more? Everyone has? Everyone, everyone, you need? Ata tzarich? Here. If that's the story, then what should the Torah have said? Ha-Mitzri? Yeah, it could have been like anything but the word re'ehu.
That's the point, right? I mean in our, when, when usually do we have this word re'ah? Like the way we use it most common? Ve'ahavta lere'acha kamocha. It's the same lashon that's being used here for the person that maybe was whipping you two days ago. We have to see exactly who it's speaking about. But the mefarshim speak about this to great length, to say the, this is a very, very strange lashon.
Again, what could have been, let's, let's think about this for a second. Forget about the word Mitzri. What could have been a better, chalila, better usage of what the Torah says? But what would have made more sense if the Torah would say va-yish'alu ish me'et? What's another word? Adonav would probably be a good one. No? Adonav would have...
what's that? What about... even oyvav would have worked over here. Shechenav? The point over here that I'm trying to push is that the last word that you, that that you would think that Hashem would use is וישאלו איש מאת רעהו. It doesn't add up.
It's something's not, something's not shtimming over there. So we have to understand what the Torah is really telling us bipnimiyusam shel devarim that's choosing to use such a, such an interesting word, such an interesting language. Okay. In classic Reb Shlomo style, this is obviously in the beginning going to sound very, very, ke'ilu, what are you...
where are you taking us? Can't you just, just give me like... Lenny Solomon has a great cover. Many great covers. One of them is Hit Me With Your Best Pshat.
Do you remember that one? Do you guys remember that? Do you know what's so funny about Lenny, I just want to give like kavod to Lenny. I probably a lot of you guys have the same experience. Most songs that he covered, I thought, I didn't know the originals. So one day I was on, I was on, I was listening to the radio in LA and I'm already like eighteen, nineteen.
And I hear this guy on the radio say, "With or without you." Saying, that's not... "To unite all Jews." It happened again a few weeks later. "Every bite you take, every cake you bake." "He'll be watching you." Right, all these things. It happened, I think, also with Hit Me With Your Best Pshat.
How many chevra grew up here on Lenny? Yeah? The yeshivishe velt, the yeshivishe chevra didn't grow up on Lenny. Eli? No Lenny Solomon? Asur legamrei. Pas nisht. He was my first rebbi.
Right. Lenny. It was either him or Shotei Hanevuah. Haynu hach.
Same thing. Okay. This is, this is going to be something that will flip the way that we usually understand the pshat. Not flip, but it'll, put it like this, it's another example that when you go to shul on Shabbos and you're actually listening to the Ba'al Koreh and following word for word, you won't be able to not only read the pasuk again like you used to, the whole experience of Yetzias Mitzrayim will be a different one, which hopefully will then change the way that what we're davening for right now as well.
And maybe it's all, not maybe, it's for sure mishamayim that we're davka learning this piece because there are ninety-three million people in Iran. How many people from the ninety-three million people are people that we would love for them to have freedom? Let's estimate. Let's give a safe number. Josh, what's a safe number? Safe number? Ninety-two and a half? Want freedom? Who we want, who we're davening for them to have...
who we would, we would be shaleim in our, in our hearts to daven for them to have freedom. Say, a safe number? Safe, half? Okay. That's a lot. Let's go with the minimum.
Okay? That's fifty million, almost forty-seven million people. I'm having them in mind when we're saying this, but that's... he takes it even, even more. So look what he says here.
מה התחושה העמוקה יותר במערכת יחס What is the most deepest sense in a relationship?
לא רק שאני יכול לדבר איתך. Not only that I can speak with you, אלא שאני יכול ממש להאיר את נשמתי לתוכך, that I can illuminate my soul into you.
הזכות הגדולה ביותר בעולם היא כשכל הלב שלי מאיר לתוכך וכל הלב שלך מאיר לתוכי. Halevai.
The people that we call friends, this is what's going on. What did he just say over here? That my soul is full, that which makes me tick, that my shine is shining into you, it's going into you, it has an hashpa'ah on you and vice versa. The same thing as well. Now normally these things happen, can only happen through sichas chaver, and that's why I encourage everyone to read what Zev posted this morning on the group to internalize it and to take it further, in order for this thing to be established over here right now.
Now he says like this. Ba-hagadah shel Pesach, which you know that the Rebbes, a lot of the Rebbes, the tzaddikim had a minhag to read a chunk of the Hagadah this Shabbos, Parshas Bo, because this is the illumination of Seder night is happening in this parsha. I just saw a story of Reb Moshe Leib Sasover, I think it was the Apter Rebbe, I forget who, they started, there was such a his'orerus Shabbos Bo, that the Rebbe got up after shul Friday night and got up and started saying Hallel. And they were asking what's going on over here, he's like it's just, it's so in the air, it's so there, you know, it's so there.
The geulah is so here right now, don't wait till Pesach to say, oh no, I'm going to feel it. When you read it, hakriyah meoreret hazman. That's the lashon by the Chasidishe Sforim. Hakriyah meoreret hazman.
The leyning in the Torah arouses the zman that it's speaking about. So this Shabbos there's a Pesach is not just like mentioned but it's misorer. What happens on Pesach is misorer.
באגדה של פסח אנו אומרים אני ולא מלאך אני ולא שרף אני ולא אחר.
This lashon is so chashuv that we're saying it was the ריבונו של עולם בכבודו ובעצמו שtook us out of Mitzrayim. Today we're working so strong on trying to get out of this mess, the dependency that we still have on so many different politicians is not what we're looking, that's not what we're looking towards. This is not our vision of geulah bichlal.
השם אומר לנו שהוא זה שבא לגאול אותנו ולא דרך שלוחים אחרים.
Hashem is saying he's the one that's coming to redeem us and not through other emissaries, not through any other messengers. And now Reb Shlomo brings us to the Alter Rebbe's Leil Seder. This is unbelievable. Not to mention, obviously Jerome just walked in this second, so of course we get to the Alter Rebbe's Leil Seder.
ליל הסדר של האדמו"ר הזקן היה משהו שאי אפשר לתאר במילים. You can't describe the Leil Seder of the Alter Rebbe.
כשהוא היה מגיע למילים אלא הקדוש ברוך הוא בכבודו ובעצמו גאלם, that it was Hashem himself that redeemed them, הוא תמיד היה מתעלף. He would always just pass out, he would faint.
ולקח המון זמן להחיות אותו. And it took a while to shake the Alter Rebbe out from the state of being fainting. Atem yodim lama? Why?
כי הקדוש ברוך הוא ממש האיר לתוכו. We talked about the relationship in the beginning of the shiur.
The Aibershter, the Ribono Shel Olam, it was a very clear illumination coming directly from Hashem into the heart of the Admor Hazaken, into the heart of Reb Shneur Zalman of Liadi. So when that happens and you feel it and it's real, what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Especially if you're the Alter Rebbe. What are you gonna do? So he passed out. But the point over here, what he's saying over here is that the point of the liberation from Egypt was to have a relationship.
And that's what Moshe Rabbeinu is asking by the sneh. He's saying why are you doing this? Remember he has two shailos there. He says what is this for? So the point, and it's amazing that Moshe Rabbeinu is saying this like amazing thing. He's saying, okay I can see you could take them out, but Hashem it can't be that you're just taking them out because you want them to stop being slaves.
What's the point of the Exodus? What's the point of the liberation? The point is to have a relationship where Hashem is saying, my words will reach you and you will shine from them, and kivayachol so to speak, you will believe in your koach hatefillah that when you want to cry out to me, you're shining into me. That's the point of Yetzias Mitzrayim. It's not just to stop suffering. Just like the state that we're in right now with Yishmael.
The point is not just that they all, that they, all our enemies just fade to existence and vegimarnu. There's got to be a deeper thing going on over here that Hashem is shining something into us while we're going through all this and kivyachol, so to speak, we are shining back up to the Ribbono Shel Olam because that's a relationship. That's a relationship. That's the deepest depths of a relationship.
That's what he's saying over here. And obviously this happens the strongest Seder night.
בלילה סדר הקדוש ברוך הוא מאיר לתוכי משהו שאי אפשר להגיע אליו באלפיים שנות חיים. You could live for 2,000 years, but this domain that is accessible Seder night, it could, you could live for 2,000 years, you won't reach what...
2,000... what do you mean? 2,000 lifetimes. He says shnot chayim, years of blah, blah. Yeah, it doesn't matter, it's the same thing.
Chaver, forever. It absolutely doesn't matter. You could live for eternity. That's what he's saying.
Live for eternity, right? And it still won't do it. It still won't reach what you could reach Seder night. Why? Because this is what's happening. Hashem me'ir letochainu.
Hashem me'ir letochainu.
וברגע שהשם מאיר לתוכי, in the moment that Hashem is shining into me, what happens?
כל העבדות מפסיקה להתקיים. Slavery, slavery, being a slave to anybody or anything or any addiction, stops. Everything stops.
Slavery to anything ceases to exist.
אני בדרך כלל מפחד מהאיש הזה.
אני תמיד עצבני כשאני ליד האדם הזה. That person irritates me, I got to stay away from him usually, a certain person.
I'm always nervous when I'm next to them. And then there's people that אני חושב שהאדם הזה הוא אדון שלי. And then I feel like that person's my slave master.
אבל בפסח ברור לי לגמרי שאף אחד אינו האדון שלי.
I was having this conversation with one of my children, that whenever she's around a certain someone in class, she always feels that this person is ke'ilu, in Hebrew you say mitnase. Mitnase is... nu, Uri? Condescending? It's a totza'ah of it, but mitnase comes from the language of higher than... haughty? Overlord? Overlord? Yeah, overrule, ke'ilu they're above me.
They're above me. And it always makes me feel... haughty? They talk down. And then I said, and it's always the classic statement that a parent knows is the right answer.
You shouldn't let anyone be above, why are you giving them that authority? Why are you giving them that control? Because we're still in a state of Galus and that's what happens. But Geulah comes and what happens is how do you know it's a sign of real redemption? That no one is a slave driver over, no one, other than the Ribbono Shel Olam. Nobody. I'm only, only in a state of illumination from, coming from Hashem v'tulo lo and nothing, nothing else.
Remember at the beginning of the war, one of the disgusting hostage releases? There was that woman, I forget her name, that one of the Hamasnikim, oh yeah, that tried to get her to smile, I don't know, wave, and she gave him the death stare? This is what this Torah was reminding me of. They were, those people saw Hashem in the tunnels. So Hashem, did you watch the recent interview with Eliya Cohen that he did in Florida last week? Yeah, I saw pieces of it, clips of it. You have to watch this.
This is the way he put on Tefillin in the minarot by the... did you see this? You have to, you guys have to find this. He was saying that every day he went to the corner, he grew up in a somewhat religious home, and he did what he did. I think he was at the festival.
But when he was in the tunnels and there was a group of them together, every day he'd go to the corner of the room that they were in and he would say Shema Yisrael and שיר למעלות אשא עיני אל ההרים. And then he would go like this. Right? He was a free person in the tunnel of Gaza. He was a free person in the tunnels of Gaza.
There were some Yidden that were with them that obviously come from very much, you know, atheistic kivyachol atheistic backgrounds v'chulu. And they said, what do you do, what do you keep on doing when you go to the corner and you're moving your arm? What's that thing you're doing? He said, do you really want to know? He said, yeah. Well, I, I'm putting on... tefillin.
I'm putting on tefillin the way that I remember how to. They're driving me crazy. So the person, I think the story was the person's, I think he said, "Do you want to put tefillin on with me?" mashu kaze. They're in the dungeons of hell and no one's a slave, no one's no one's a master over them.
This is crazy. We, we have everything in the world and we're slaves to so many different things. It's a crazy thing. Such a meshugene thing.
And I believe they opened they we're living in an era בזכותם ובזכות המסירות נפש של הצדיקים והחיילים that we they opened up the gates of geula for any person that dares to dream that they could actually not be a slave to anybody, that it's possible. Now that it's really really possible to do this. And that's the most geuladike thing that they like I told you that the Yenuka told Segev Calfon when he looked into his eyes he says to him, "I'm looking at the eyes that saw Hashem." Those were his words. "I'm looking at the eyes that saw Hashem." You also and he said to him, "You also saw the exact anti of God also.
You saw both. You saw Hashem and you saw the exact opposite kiveyochol of what Hashem is in this world." Those are the and these eyes are walking around. It's amazing, it's an amazing thing. I just again this last line in the fourth fourth paragraph: בפסח ברור לי לגמרי שאף אחד אינו אדון שלי.
What does it mean when it becomes clear to me that no one is my master? It means that when that person that usually irritates me when they walk into a room, they don't have that control over my automatic sensory. That my sensory that senses this person comes into the room and then I already get I go on shpilkes the way they talk bothers me. These things don't bother me. These things have no shlita over me.
Nothing. Free person. Free people. Real real free person.
You know how people have social anxiety? That's a very normal thing. It's a very it's a very very normal thing. When you walk into a room that you don't know anybody and you have to be intimate with them, that's hard. If you go on stage and you have to be intimate with a crowd of hundreds of people, it's not such a problem.
It's very easy. I know a lot of people a lot of very big musicians that when you're with them one on one, it's it's they are the most shy. It's torture to be around them. It's not fun.
It's depressing, it's lo it's not a fun thing. I met one of those heroes of mine one time and I tried all I knew after like meeting them is that I should have never met them and I want to go out of here. I want to get out of here right away. Right? So you could be on stage and not have to be intimate with people and hakol beseder.
You could do your thing, you could play, and everyone in the crowd thinks, "Oh my god, he's talking to me. He's singing to me." Oh you don't even know how much he's not singing to you, you know. He's bechlal not singing to you. Then you have people that are the opposite that are chevra, you know, we zoiche to know Chananya.
It's the opposite. He told me that that one of the times that he was with the chevra he he's he walked into a room and he saw a bunch of people he never saw before but he knew that he's gonna love them and they're and he's and he's gonna feel close to them eventually like pretty soon. So he said, "Why don't I just start right now?" v'as Chananya. Well that yeah but that's a free person.
That's a shtikel free that that's a free person. You understand? That that's a person that has cheirus. That's a person that has freedom. And this happens to every person on Pesach and the point of geula from Mitzrayim was that each of us have that mida.
Each of us have that mida. This connects also to what in Chassidus specifically in Chabad they refer to to the atzmi. The atzmi, the most inner part of a person's essential being that's liberated from any type of slavery and dominion over him. yalla weiter.
בכאן אני רוצה לחלוק אתכם משהו כל כך מיוחד. And here I want to share with you something very special.
מה אתם חושבים שהמצרים הרגישו באותו לילה שיצאנו ממצרים? So we don't really think about them too much, but Reb Shlomo's saying, "Let's let's change the the spotlight for a second, the way that we relive Yetzias Mitzrayim. What do you think the Egyptians were thinking when the night that we left Egypt?" So what do we know from the midrashim? Does anyone remember any any midrash? What do we know from the midrashim about the state of the Mitzrim the night that we left Mitzrayim? They were eager to get rid of us.
They gave a lot of kavod to Moshe and everybody except Paroh was giving kavod to Am Yisrael. One midrash says everyone was giving kavod to Paroh and to to the Yidden. Another midrash says that they were actually standing there and waving goodbye and blowing kisses ke'ilu mamash like full on. It's a very it's a fascinating thing but they so what's the psychology behind it what do you think how could that be how could that be a m'tzius bechlal but didn't they think we were coming back not at that not at that point didn't they see all the makkos by now they're already in on Hashem they already had to wake up on Hashem and they're in on him what does the Torah what does Hashem keep on explaining to he says there's a pasuk וידעו מצרים כי אני השם the makkos were נגוף למצרים ורפוא לישראל all the how long did the makkos take a full year of this experience of Egyptians getting smitten Yidden getting healed but the overlying kavana was daas now when Moshiach comes what does the pasuk we say this when we do Tashlich and Diaspora Yeshiva another plug-in has the most what's one of my top three Diaspora Yeshiva songs Diaspora Yeshiva Band songs top three mamash it's been on my top three for for many years it's the psukim it says לא ירעו ולא ישחיתו בכל הר קדשי כי מלאה הארץ דעה את השם that the world will be filled with daas of Hashem the world not Yidden sorry to break it to some people that still think that Moshiach is a Jewish concept but it's the whole world this also explains something we taught many we learned many years ago according to Rav Kook will there be korbanos in the third Beis HaMikdash or not no why according to Rav Kook won't there be korbanos when Moshiach comes because when we say ומלאה הארץ דעה את השם daas even will will also be infused into the animal kingdom so if animals are then walking around with daas of Hashem you can't it can't be shachted most people don't go that to the to that extent but that's how Rav Kook explains why there won't be korbanos in the third Beis HaMikdash maybe it's also why he was living a very Moshiach'dik'a life and you know he was he didn't eat animals Rav Kook so daas this thing that's going to permeate the whole world we had a taste of it Leil Seder the night we left Mitzrayim because something was going on with the Egyptians but first it was dependent on someone else to smell the coffee and wake up who's that us it was dependent on us there will not be peace between nations that are fighting in the world until Yidden have daas Hashem nations that have nothing to do with us it is on this shlichus that we have to fill our consciousness with the daas of Hashem from there it will then have its its hashpa'os and go out to the whole world but don't expect anyone to wake up and smell the coffee and figure out oh really there's peace in the world God exists vechulei until it's clear to us that there is no slave driver over us nobody not Achashverosh there's no one that's really calling the shots no one and it's interesting in the peninei halakha that's been going on where Rav Melamed is relating to a reality where we are still not calling our own shots that's a bedieved that's not a lechatchila everyone should know that's a bedieved that is not the ideal situation bechlal klal u'klal lo so again what did he what did the Egyptians see we're on this next paragraph מה אתם חושבים שהמצרים הרגישו באותו לילה שיצאנו ממצרים גם להם הייתה התגלות אלוקית הגבוהה ביותר בעולם they also had the Godly highest Godly revelation in the world the Egyptians באותו לילה היה ברור להם שפרעה אינו באמת האדון שלהם that night they actually really believed that Paroh is not their master ela who is their master Elokei Yisroel Elokei Yisroel Hashem the God of Israel is their master as well who's having this experience people that were whipping you people that were beating you people that were just filling orders right now obviously not everyone but we took care of those when did the ones that didn't reach this level what happened with them Yam Suf no this is before Yam Suf already this is during Choshech they already we already got rid of all of them that's why chalila anyone in this room should think what we're really saying is we should keep alive all so many of the terrorists because one day they're going to have hisgalus of daas of Hashem no no there are people that the Torah tells us needs to be removed removed from the blockage over this light of Hashem hu Elokim.
The whole world of them. What's gonna be with them? What's gonna be with them? What a thing to say that the night of Seder night, it was clear to the Egyptians that Pharaoh wasn't really their master. Now how long did it last for the Egyptians, this hisgalus Elokis? How long do you think it lasted for? All you gotta do is read Parshas Beshalach because you know that it didn't last for too long because then they join Pharaoh, sus v'rochvo, and they're charging us immediately afterwards. So the hisgalus Elokis didn't last for too long, but there was a moment, one night that it did last.
Okay.
אני רוצה שתדעו משהו לא ייאמן. I want you to know something unbelievable. Now we're going back to the way we opened the shiur with the shaila: why did it use the word re'ehu? Why did it use re'ehu the night we left Egypt? This is beautiful.
Hakadosh Baruch Hu omer l'Moshe וישאלו איש מאת רעהו ואישה מאת רעותה כלי כסף וכלי זהב. Re'ehu, when it says ask your friend, אין הכוונה רק לשכן, doesn't just mean the person you're living next to, אלא לשווה ערך אליך. How do they have it here in the English Evan-Shlomo? The one that is re'ehu? What's the lashon? It's under the word equal. Someone, it means your equal.
Someone shaveh erech eilecha. Equal? We're equal now? Have we reached the level that now us and the Egyptians are equal? So how does he explain it?
הייתי חושב שכאשר יש לך את ההתגלות האלוקית הגבוהה ביותר אתה צריך ללכת לכל מצרי שהכה והצליף בך כל כך הרבה שנים ולנקום. I would think that when you have the greatest Godly revelation you have to go to each person that was tough on you and was mamash chazak on you to go and revenge them.
אבל לנו היהודים נאמר לכו לשאול מהשווים אליכם.
Go and ask from those who are equal to you. Mehashavim? Equal to you?
הם השרצים הכי נמוכים בעולם! These are the lowest creeps in the world!
אבל אתם מבינים באותו הלילה שיצאנו ממצרים הייתה טעימה של איך שזה יהיה אחרי שמשיח יבוא. The night we left Egypt, it was a night as if Moshiach had already come. And what's the status...
what's the state of humanity the day after Moshiach? If you really want to understand what the whole zach is about, what's the whole thing gonna be like? The most important thing we need to know is that it'll be שאיש לא יהיה עבד של אף אחד. Or what I like to say, there is no business class anymore. Ein davar kazeh. That's why someone said it's only business class? Or there's only business, better, sorry.
Or there's only business class. But in terms of I should probably get rid of that, no, I'm saying because if we're all in coach and you don't know there's something better, so you're okay. But when you always know there's something better, you said daas comes to the world. We know already it exists.
Everybody's gonna be up. Avi, what's going to be... what's the seats gonna be like now to book? What's it gonna be when Moshiach comes? They're probably gonna be hand-me-downs. Amen! Amen! We had a taste that no one would be a master over anybody else.
לא רק היהודים יצאו החוצה. The Medrash says it wasn't just Yidden left Egypt.
כל העבדים במצרים יצאו איתם. All the slaves in Egypt left with us.
The only thing is, is that it didn't last that long. But guess what? It's not just that it didn't last that long for... for the Mitzrim. How long did it last for us? How long did that hisgalus Elokis last for? Until right after the geulah? I mean, we're talking the kvetching comes very soon.
Like meat, meat... No, Amalek wasn't the... You know, they tried to. Amalek, Amalek tried.
Meat, avatichim, kishuim, all these things became our slave masters pretty fast. But for one night, for one night, it actually was ke'ilu already Moshiach already came. So therefore, when the Alter Rebbe hears... to go back to the Alter Rebbe's Seder table, the Alter Rebbe hears the description of Hashem shining so clearly into you, filling you with daas Elokim and there is no one in the world, אין עוד מלבדו אפס זולתו, in the clearest way, of course you faint.
The whole shaila is, how did he even stay alive? How did he even stay alive? Like, that's a bigger shaila I have. How do you stay in your kishkas? How do you stay in this world? So chevreh, le'inyaneinu, because I don't want to confuse anybody with what we learned today during the makkah of... The only reason why Pharaoh wasn't removed is in order to continue to show Yidden the gadlus of Hashem. That's the only reason and Hashem decided to mechazek his heart.
That's the only reason why he wasn't removed at that point from the picture. So the situation we're at today is that I feel this very healthy illumination coming from Iran and someone came up to me in the shul last week and said why do you keep on talking about Iran? I said I don't know, I'm a Yid and when I hear that there's millions of people in oppression and they may not be like I actually think that they are lovers of God and that they are lovers of Israel, we just don't know any of this because it's all shadowed, but I would like to believe that millions, millions of people know that the besora of geula can only come from Yidden, even if it has nothing to do with them, and they're counting on us and I really feel this very strongly. I don't know, I'm not in the driver's seat so I don't know lemaiseh what that means, but I know that when you see a bunch of people being oppressed and it doesn't give you a kvetch יש פה בעיה בזהות היהודית. There's a problem with the Jewish identity.
And the famous story I told you many years ago that in the early 1900s there was a Breslover chosid that was in Yerushalayim. And two people, there was eyewitnesses that saw the following thing: they saw him on the street, he passed by a newsstand and he read the koteret, the headline, and then he kept on walking and then he started crying his eyes out. But after a few minutes of crying that Yid in this on the spot in the street in Yerushalayim starts dancing, dancing. So a person that saw this ran to the newsstand to see what did the whatever it was called back then, the press, what was written on that headline.
So they saw that two for some reason I don't know why it made headlines but it said two or three Asian workers died in some kind of a chemical accident somewhere in the world. So they didn't understand, they said ma kesher? So they went up to this chosid and they said what happened? He said Hashem wanted me to know for some reason that there was pain done to certain people and their families in the world and it just touched my heart so deeply and I started thinking about them and their families and I started crying. And then the people these people asked this chosid then why'd you start dancing? He said because I tasted what it means to be a Yid, that a Yid could have a heart that could cry over something so foreign to him but view it as a godly experience and I just couldn't stop dancing over that, I couldn't stop dancing over that ability to experience something so kiveyachol far from me yet so nogaya to my heart. So any other people in the world that would have gone through what we're going through the last few years hears about tzaros that's coming from a country that's been so satanic to us, what do you do? You just say ah, all of them should just go to hell, all of them, who cares? And it's not our story and I think it's a big limud over here right now for us to realize that be'emes be'emes when we see such oppression in the world it has to be part of our tfillos, but the greatest way, the greatest way to exemplify that type of person is to fill ourselves with da'as of Hashem, to fill ourselves with knowledge, to learn and learn more and more and more, to fill ourselves with learning Torah, to fill ourselves with allowing people to illuminate their being into our hearts and us trusting that if we open up our hearts we'll be able to shine into them as well.
And b'ezras Hashem kacha we'll have one more mashiach deka moment, mashiach deka moment, and then you have another mashiach deka moment and all we have to do eventually is just tie the dots together to form like one circle b'ezras Hashem to bring about the geula hashleima veha'amitit and it should be in the zchus of Parshas Bo, the illumination that's coming from the parsha. And I know that we're living in an era right now that it's almost impossible for us to feel that there's any re'im in the world, any re'im, any friends slash shvei erech people. But maybe that rea is waiting for a Yid to get his act together and just be a Yid, to just be a Yid, to act like Yidden, to not look for any type of...