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The Inside Story on Passover
Discuss (16)In each one of us there is an Egypt and a Pharaoh and a Moses and Freedom in a Promised Land. And every point in time is an opportunity for another Exodus.
Egypt is a place that chains you to who you are, constraining you from growth and change. And Pharaoh is that voice inside that mocks your gambit to escape, saying, “How could you attempt being today something you were not yesterday? Aren’t you good enough just as you are? Don't you know who you are?”
Moses is the liberator, the infinite force deep within, an impetuous and all-powerful drive to break out from any bondage, to always transcend, to connect with that which has no bounds.
But Freedom and the Promised Land are not static elements that lie in wait. They are your own achievements which you may create at any moment, in any thing that you do, simply by breaking free from whoever you were the day before.
Last Passover you may not have yet begun to light a candle. Or some other mitzvah still waits for you to fulfill its full potential. This year, defy Pharaoh and light up your world. With unbounded light.
Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.
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Thank you so much for posting this. I loved it so much I sent it around to many of my friends and each in their turn, as did I, chose to read it at their seders. These words touched many lives this Pesach and inspired many deep and thoughtful conversations.
New Haven, CT
Wishing everyone reading this and all people of our faith a Zeesen Pesach.
Fran
Kingston, NY, USA
dbn, za
Certainly gives one food for thought.
Efrata, Israel
SEDONA, az
G-ds love i leave to you and all of the Chabad Team this season with His Peace that it may wash ALL clean and prepare each and every one of us for ALL He has in store to enable us to strengthen our entire Global Family of Jew and Gentile, combined so that we may all feel equally respected and justified in our existence with and alongside Him providing thus this Earth in it's entirity as a dwelling place we can equally share and take pride in. thanks be to G-d
Marietta, GA
Abuja, Nigeria
THANK YOU! For me, at this time, your writings are number one.
Vienna, Austria