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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua

פורסם בראשון, 22 נובמבר 2020 16:23

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For the passpover seder - from Rabbi Arush and Rabbi Shlomo and the Ari zal

Michael (here with me for the seder) says FAMILY is the most important thing about Passover - but IS IT? 

WHAT IS THE BEST THING ABOUT FAMILY? 

During college I was always happy to COME HOME ...
but the slaves in Egypt - they were never sure what would happen after a day of slaving and looking for straw and baking bricks ... 

I saw the pyramids - and they weren't built by happy families 

And when the Israelites were in Egypt waiting to see if G-d's promise to Abraham would really happen -
COULD it really happen?
WHEN could it happen? NO ONE ever escaped from Egypt!

And the Moses Dude - when did he come back from Midian -
with all his FANCY TALK about Israel? The Promised Land of Abraham Isaac and Jacob...

WHAT was going to happen?
And the Jewsih slaves during the Holocaust! OIY!

Rabbi Arush of Israel taught this weekend that 
AT YOUR SEDER YOU CAN EXPERIENCE THE HOLINESS the GREATNESS and the EXCITEMENT OF THE EXODUS from EGYPT 
JUST LIKE the ISRAELITES who HELD A SEDER -
and went FREE the next morning!

He quoted from the Holy Ari (from Zefat 500 years ago)
who tought us that 
THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF EVERY JEWISH HOLIDAY
(HERE on Passover the FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY)
IS IN THE AIR - WAITING FOR US TO BREATHE IT! 

AND RABBI CARLEBACH TOLD US- (I paraphrase)
Who is a slave? Someone who has no home;

WHO IS THE LEAST ENSLAVED PERSON?

HE WHO CAN TASTE THE FREEDOM IN THE MATZA - the simple bread over which we tell -
THE SIMPLE STORY -
the story that
G-d took us out of slavery
gave us a homeland
gave us the Shabbat
gave us a Temple of Holiness ...

and DAYENU!!! 

MAY WE BE BLESSED TO SEE IT, TO TASTE IT, 

AND TO BE THANKFUL FOR IT - for
FAMILY
SHABBAT
THE MATZA AND THE SEDER WE CAN CELEBRATE IN FREEDOM

and please pray for Jonathan Pollard
and for those still enslaved in Sudan and elsewhere - etc.

Love from Israel

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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