Passover, Terrorist Attacks and the Korban Pesach - Shabbat Hagadol

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Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum talks about mesirut nefesh, the Jewish holiday of Passover and how the sign upon the doorposts can be a comforting message for us today in these difficult times of war and terrorism.

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Shalom my friends Simcha Hochbaum of Hebron here in Midbar Yehuda in the Judean desert. This Shabbat is Shabbat HaGadol where we read about the mitzvah Am Yisrael was given to bring the Korban Pesach and to take that sheep on the 10th of Nissan and to tie it onto the doorpost to let the Egyptians know and let the world know that we Jewish people are servants of God not servants of Pharaoh.

The very god the Egyptians worshiped was now being taken to serve the God of Israel. The Jewish people took the blood of that Korban Pesach and they put it on the doorpost to show their commitment to Hashem.
The symbolic sign of the blood on the doorpost teaches us the Mesirat Nefesh of the Jewish people. As it says in the Passover Hagadah “b'damayich chayi - Through blood we live.”

How much blood was spilled in these last few weeks? Victims in Bnei Brak, Hadera and Beersheba. So many different terrorist attacks. It should be this blood that Hashem should see and just like He redeemed us from Egypt through the Zehut of the Korban Pesach He should also redeem us today.
We should be able to be privileged to see the complete redemption, a Geula with Rachamim, with mercy and compassion. We should be privileged this year not just to have the Zeroah, the bone on the seder plate. We should have the organic Korban Pesach and see all of Israel together eating all in the one house on the Har HaBayit in the Beit HaMikdash.
Shabbat shalom.