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Pesach Sheni Jews

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Let's start again, okay. Kedoshimtiyo, the Mitzvah of the Torah, is to be a holy people. And one of the desires of being a holy people is that you're supposed to facilitate within yourself a desire for holiness, a desire for connection to akhada shbarahu. The goal of a Jew is not simply to be Jewish, but rather to connect with God. We're supposed to be in akhada shbarahu shbarahu, and the Mitzvah of the Torah, and to develop within ourselves a love of God and a love of Mitzvot. That is really the paradigm. That's really what we're aiming for, because simply to live a life as a Jew just to be y'all say, if you will. So you don't get hell, right? That's not really the goal.

I mean, it's a good idea to stay out of hell, but that is not really the goal, right? The goal is to develop a connection with Hashem, and that's a love of Mitzvos. This week, we're going to have the paradigm example of what that means to love Mitzvos and have a desire, and that is that we have on Friday, we're going to have Pesach-Shaini. You know, Pesach-Shaini, and Pesach-Shaini, really, it seems from the medrish, it's a hard thing to really understand, but it seems from the medrish that there was no such thing as Pesach-Shaini. There was no such thing. If you couldn't bring the carbon on the 14th of Nissan, because you were Tameh, this is where it goes, man. It happened a bit of Pesach-Shaini in the period,

but certainly they had to be softened. No, no, no, no, no. What's that? The answer is that, so many, when it got Mosheh, went up the mountain to receive the Torah, he received all of the Mitzvot, the principles of all of the Mitzvot. It almost seems from the way the midrash describes the conversation between Mosheh, the people, God, and the people. It's almost that, what did the people say? They said, came to Mosheh, the first year in the desert, the first Passover, meaning the first one, that they celebrated in the desert, and they said, Mosheh, I gave the commandment, you're gonna bring that first year, they brought the Pesach-Shaini offering. And they came to Mosheh with a complaint. What was the complaint? Lomon Nikola. Why should we lose out? So he says, stand here, and I will go ask God. And God, the way the midrash describes it is that the people so much wanted to serve,

to bring that Kerb and Pesach, that God says, you know what? I'm gonna make a Pesach-Shaini. It almost seems, it's hard to say exactly like that, it almost seems that it was born out of the desire of the people. I saw it interesting by the, by the Benos-Slovakah, there was not like that. It's true that they were indeed desirous of the land of Israel. And therefore, it says that Hashem orchestrated it, that Mosheh didn't teach that law, or discuss that law till the daughters of Slovakah demanded a piece of erity, so like they said, why should we lose out? So much he says, stop here, that's the Allah. Maybe it was like that before. It was just, it wasn't expanded upon. It seems to be by Purb and Pesach, Pesach-Shaini, that it wasn't gonna be, there's no Pesach, there's no Sukhas-Shaini, there's no Sukhas-Shaini. Let's say a person's not feeling well

or it's raining all like seven days. That way it goes, man. It's so Sukhas-Shaini, right? You don't have a show for Tablo on Versus Shana, right? Or comes out on Shabbos, right? He's Tablo, yeah, that's where he goes. That's such a thing. But here, the people had such a desire that it was born out. Now, that idea of having a desire of mitzvahs, right? That's really what we're supposed to learn from Pesach-Shaini. Pesach-Shaini is, yes, we're hoping that maybe Mashiach will come and we're gonna bring the Pesach-Shaini. Hallelujah. But whether it comes or not by Friday, the most important lesson that we're supposed to learn from this is to be Pesach-Shaini Jews. To be Jews that want to do mitzvahs, that want it, that they have a desire, they want to do it, they want that extra, they want to have a rhyme, right? It's another, otherwise, what happens many times we say is that there's an expression, right? What's the greatest time of the day is, I'm not flashek, I'm not flashek.

I'm not flashek, I'm a limited opportunity, I don't have to dive in now. I can eat Melchig, I can even do whatever I want. That's a Jews symbol of freedom. A person is supposed to be a person to be dream of mitzvahs. That's really what Pesach-Shaini was all about is that all of us should be feeling long on nigora, why should we lose out? Right, we have opportunity for mitzvahs, right? Say, the stifler says that when he was a young boy, he was, he was going, I forgot what she was. That he, that, they say over that, one of the gadolim was, he was not so much into learning.

He went to the Ischiva in Kletz, I think, but I don't remember the place, in Europe. And he went there, so the Ischiva, that interviewed him for the Ischiva, so that he was not such, so into learning. So he told him, before accepting him to the Ischiva, I can't remember who was, for accepting to the Ischiva, he sent him to go to a certain base medwish, and he told him, I want you to go sit there. I want you to go sit there in that base medwish. And he'd be there a little bit, and then come back for the interview. He says he went to, and that's what he wanted to go sit there in that base medwish before he goes, but he'll be, well, he doesn't, he goes to this place, he goes in, and he says, there's nobody there. And he walks in, walks in, and he sees that there's one person in front. And he hears the person saying, we're repeating a gammari, he says, the world is like a banquet. The world is like a banquet.

All right, gammari, grab and eat, grab and drink. Grab, grab, grab, grab, grab. So the person was learning this piece of the gammari, the gammari says it in a straight line, but he was learning the gammari as a muster. I don't know what's going to be. You only have a limited amount of time on this world. You have to grab a line, you have to grab it, you have to, you know, you only have a limited amount of time, you have to grab and eat. You might compare to a banquet. We're preparing for the world to come. That's really what we have to realize, is that we have to have a desire. We have to build us the opportunity, the gift that we have of Chaim. All right, is this, is this. That's simply to be youtsy, right? Nobody goes to a piece of program, right? And, you know, it doesn't eat. All right, you hope not. Yo, you're going to a piece of program, you've played us to be rounded. You're right, gee, you got to pay by, you know, you got to pay him by the pound. All right, you got to eat your fill. All right, that's what this world is. You know, you've got to eat your fill.

You know, you've got to eat your fill. You've got to eat your fill. You've got to eat your fill, right? That's what this world is. The world is like a banquet. It's the shmorgas board. You've got to eat your fill. You don't just come back with a little pickle. All right, you've got to go back to plate. That's what we all have to do. We have to live our lives as Jews packing the plate to the guilds, but it's not the shem. We'll stuff it in. And, based on the shem, it will connect us with the shem and a beautiful, right, after 120, we'll have a lot, a lot to look for. We'll have a kid in a bit of a cut. We'll talk about the shem. We'll talk about the shem and the shem.

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