CLD #555

For the Ilui Neshama of Avraham ben Ester ZT’L.

What does it mean to be free? On Lel Shabbat in 6 days Be’ezrat Hashem we will be celebrating Lel HaSeder 5772! Aren’t you excited?! But wait, we have been doing this same 'ritual' for the past I don’t even know how many years and it hasn’t even changed since!

The sad part is true, we are still stuck in our 3^rd grade version of what Pesach is all about. We don’t see it as something so personal, something relevant at all to our everyday lives or something that brings a connection with us and the most important people around us. The fact is that Yetziyat Mitzrayim is a core pillar of Judaism and the Torah HaKdosha. Besides for the Emunah that was seen from Am Yisrael during this time, especially since Am Yisrael believed in such great intensity in Hashem’s power and might to take us out of Egypt, it is also something that exists TODAY on such a personal level!

Mitzrayim was a country where one would get in and not leave. It is a place of narrow mindedness with Hashem’s presence barely felt. It is a place where know one believed. It is the 50 levels of Tumah (impurity, spiritual filth). Egypt was a place of slavery. And yes, let’s hear it again: we are going from slavery to freedom. 

Great.

But what does that mean? We all know that we have something we depend on. Whether it be a scoop of ice cream we must have before the end of the week comes along, or to check our phone after we leave class, or the need to call someone when we are alone, and on and on. The fact that we depend greatly on something or someone else shows our need for it is large. And on a deeper level this shows we are enslaved to this object/product/food/whatever. 

The fact that Hashem took us out of Egypt and all the desires that were there shows that Hashem took us out of the slavery that existed there! But then Hashem transferred our dependence on Pharaoh to the dependence on HIM!

 

Now through prayer, sweat and tears to this spiritual powerforce in the entire universe and beyond we show that we ONLY depend on Hashem. And as shocking as it is, this shows our ultimate freedom. If we G-d forbid get sick we do not depend on doctors (totally) or on medication, we are not enslaved to the machine that shows us our X-Ray, rather we are dependent on Hashem. This Emunah leads us to total serenity which shows our freedom is in our hands, through Hashem’s power.

SHAVUA TOV!

Judaism=Think.

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