Kabbalistic Insights: Maggid
Maggid is when we tell the story of leaving Egypt on Seder night. Join Rabbi Avraham Shira as he explores the Kabbalistic insights on this special mitzvah, including meditations you can bring to your own seder.
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Kabbalistic Insights: Maggid: Kabbalistic Insights: Maggid
SHALOM. Welcome to our erev Pesach zman of casses, focusing on the ‘Maggid’ of the Hagadah of Peasach. Each week we will explore the nature of this role, this effort and expresion woven by the Sages into a multi-layered experience of ritual guidance, historical perspective, family interactive and group praise of Hashem.
The simple surface of the story the Maggid tells is anything but simple. Look forward to seeing all of you tonight.
Avraham Shira
Kabbalistic Insights: Maggid: Kabbalistic Insights: Maggid
Tonight on our exploration of Maggid, the recitation of the Hagadah on the Night of Passover, we will begin with a deep story of the Baal Shem Tom, and try to understand the connection of the story to the nature and essence of Matzah, and its place in the history of Jewish people. This is a story that never ends.
Join us in a few minutes on Webyeshiva.org
Avraham Shira
Kabbalistic Insights: Maggid: Kabbalistic Insights: Maggid
Shalom, Tonight on Webyeshiva, 9pm. Israel we will look further into the patterns and paradigms of Maggid, the recitation of the Haggada on Leil haSeder. We have seen many allusions to the ideas of contraction and expansion in the story of the Jewish people, and its significance for the individual. Tonight we will look for the allusions that lead us to the Unity, the receiving the Torah and becoming a nation. Surprises are always on the way. Look forward to seeing you there,
Avraham Shira
Kabbalistic Insights: Maggid: Kabbalistic Insights: Maggid
Welcome. Tonight, our final in a series on the Maggid portion of the Haggadah, we will explore the notion how a Voice carries lifeforce to its listeners, and how the Voice is cut into expressions of sounds, letters and speech, dibbur, that transfer meanings to a person’s inner being. These meanings trigger memories that activate feelings that prompt actions.
All of this communication is to bring us to express our deepest truth, and Rebbe Nachman says most people don’t believe in their prayers. How does this tie into the famous advice of many teachers, “To teach Torah we believe in what we say.” So too the Maggid, and so too every Jew in prayer.
Look forward to seeing you.
Avraham Shira
Rabbi Avraham Shira received smicha from Rabbi Benayahu Shmueli, Rosh Yeshivat HaMekubalim, Nahar Shalom, in Jerusalem. He has been a student and teacher in the Yeshiva since 1993. Since 1996 he has taught for twelve years at the Berot Bat Ayin Seminary, specializing in Likutei Moharan, and conducting workshops in meditation, and spiritual creative writing. He has also received a Masters Degree in Clinical Sociology & Family Therapy from the University of North Texas, Neve Yerushalayim Campus. Rabbi Shira has published a novel and translates a newsletter for Nahar Shalom. He lives with his wife, Elisheva and their five children in Bat Ayin, Gush Etzion.