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problems . Hence says Rabbi Simeon ben |
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Jochai ( Tanis 6a ) " if Israel does not fulfil |
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the wish of the Lord , failing to serve the |
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Lord God with all their visionary power , |
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the work will have to be done by each |
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individual " . |
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They will not work in union . If physical power , spiritual power |
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and visionary power is not united , man will remain in his heart |
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selfish and think only of one's personal advantage to |
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gratify selfish aims , then each man will gather-in |
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for himself only , instead of all to help to gather your |
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corn , your wine and your oil . |
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Freedom from want cannot be fulfilled nor |
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freedom from fear , fear of starvation in the |
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midst of plenty . Help will not be easily forth- |
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coming for the people in need . They will |
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think of the animals first ( which is of course |
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our duty ) . Of course the individual will |
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eat and be full but : " Take heed to yourself , |
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that your heart be not deceived , and 1ye turn |
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aside , and serve other gods , and worship them " , |
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the yourself is thy greatest enemy , the self- |
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seeking self . |
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And you serve Mammon and God . And you cannot serve |
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two masters , and you worship self-interest , isolating |
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yourself , under such conditions the goods are your gods . |
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" And then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you , and he |
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shut up the heavens , that there is no rain , and that the land |
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yield not her fruit and lest 1ye perish quickly from off the |
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good land which the Lord 1giveth you . " |
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For without the vision to serve the Lord your God with all |
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your heart and with all your soul and with all your might |
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the problem of life cannot be solved . " Therefore shall 1ye lay |
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up these my words in your heart and in your soul . " The text |
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adds and in your soul , searching your soul . |
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And the sequence in the text is different than |
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in the first part of the Shmah , we have first " and |
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to bind them for a sign upon your hand , that |
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they may be as frontlets between your eyes . " First to |
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bind them to have the vision and then " And 1ye |
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shall teach them to your children . " And as we have go- |
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ne through the mill , we need not teach them |
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to the children any more diligently and the |
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children will grasp now what will befall |
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them without visionary power . |
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And the tsitsits had a message sealed inside the knots |
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just as there is a message sealed in the four emblems which |
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are used on Passover , to depict the " time of our freedom " . |
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And they are ( 1 ) Matzo ; ( 2 ) Bitter Herbs ; ( 3 ) Salt-water and |
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Charauses ( a kind of fruit mixture in likeness of the |
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appearance of mortar ) ; and ( 4 ) an attitude to lean |
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back . |
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( 1 ) Matzos is deficient bread , ( LECHEM ANJO in Hebrew ) , |
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so are we deficient without spiritual knowledge , and to |
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cure our mental incapacity we should be willing |
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to learn . Education is always the most important task . |
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Education gives : Freedom of Speech . ( 2 ) Bitter Herbs |
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symbolises the bitterness that is hurled against us . |
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We eat it . We accept it , to show we have self-control |
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and that God dwells within us . |
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Self-control gives us : Freedom to worship God . ( 3 ) Salt Water and Charauses : |
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the salt-water at the Seder-Table represents the Covenant of the Torah |
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( MELACH BRITH ELOHECHO in Hebrew , Salt is the covenant of 1thy God , |
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Levit. 2 , 13 . ) Salt preserves and we should have this salt in |
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ourselves and have peace with one-another . And the sweet |
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Mortar ( the CHARAUSES in Hebrew ) that binds all the " hard- |
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facts " together and explains them , represents the Oral |
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Tradition . |
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We dip into both , at the Seder . And we want to understand |
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more of the Torah and the Oral Tradition , our inheritance . |
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Living the life of the Torah ( " dipping-in " ) makes us |
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meek : " But the meek shall inherit the earth ; and shall |
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delight themselves in the abundance of Peace " ( Psalm 37 , |
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11 ) . That gives us freedom from want . |
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( 1 ) Matzo represents Peshat ; ( 2 ) Moraur |
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represents Remez ; ( 3 ) Dipping-in represents |
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Derush ; ( 4 ) Leaning-back represents Saud . |
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( This is the PARDUS . ) Matzo represents |
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the literal meaning of Pesach which |
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is called : The Feast of Matzos . The |
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Bitter-Herbs represent the spiritual |
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principle and this gives us " a wink " ( Remez ) |
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how to live and accept all the bitterness |
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that is hurled against us . The Salt-water |
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and the sweet Mortar in which we dip-in represents |
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the richness of the Law and that we should |
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And we answer , that the Lord our God gave us " four freedoms " |
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without which Society cannot make progress . And we drink |
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" four cups " to thank the Lord our God for the " four |
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freedoms " which are Divine . There are four ways of |
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redemption : ( 1 ) I will bring you out from under the |
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burdens of Egypt . ( 2 ) I will rid you of their bondage . |
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( 3 ) I will redeem you . ( 4 ) I will take you to me for a |
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people . ( 1 ) I will bring you out from under the |
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burdens of Egypt : How was it that Israel was |
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brought out from under the burdens of Egypt ? |
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Because , they kept the Passover and they were |
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eating Matzos in Egypt and the " Feast of Matzos " |
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was known even to Abraham and Lot . |
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The new century opened with James 1 ascending |
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