I'm glad my kids feel so free. As for me, I'm still a slave and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, never died. I labor for him all week long
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This fit me very well! End results was good, and something I will learn from!
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I also have been "plagued" by the same feeling that we celebrate our "freedom" by having a long and long-winded ceremony attended by a lot of holiday requirements and preparation for the Seder. It reminds me of the feeling I had in high school when we were assigned Thoreau to read to learn to be ourselves, and free of convention, but we had to turn in a paper of repectable length in a jiffy to stay in high school.
Go figure. "My plastic Pharaoh" is a delightful piece! Give us more!
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um i just had a question about the part of the unquestioning son: wasnt he unquestioning not because he was not paying attention but just the opposite? i learned once that he did not ask questions because he had reached a holy level in which you follow G-d's commands without question.
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Yes, Rabbi Sholom Dovber, the fifth rebbe of Chabad once gave that explanation.
But there are 70 ways to interpret everything in Torah--all of them true, all of them Torah. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the 7th rebbe, gave the interpretation I presented here.
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When we soar to that place of "natural connection" with G-d and our true Matza being, we can throw away the "shoulds" and the "wants" and just BE. Being connected to our spiritual selves is the greatest freedom there is. It is the true Lightness of Being. thank you for a wonderful way of transmitting this deep concept.
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Thank-you SO much! I really enjoy your writings! Your style is so practical and yet deep and enlightening. I have been wondering the same question - how do we free ourselves from ourselves and truly connect with His infinite endlessness of self and abundance??? Thank-you for a peice in the puzzle, I truly believe the Rebbe is right on! Thanks for sharing your journey!!
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i really like this it teaches u a lot i am in 6th grade and some of these things i didnt even learn any way i really want to hear more of these at least once a week or once a month my favorite part is when it said help people out even though they are not part of your family very nice!!!!!!!!
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