The Meaning of Freedom – Part 2

When my father-in-law, the Rebbe, was freed in Leningrad, he stated: “It was not myself alone that G-d redeemed, but every Jew, even those who are Jews in name only.”

Miracles did not cease in ancient times. In 1927, the Communist regime, after hounding his educational activities and incarcerating him, suddenly changed course and expedited the Rebbe’s release and exit from Russia, together with his family and his precious manuscripts – an overt miracle.

Likewise, whenever Jewish observance is challenged, any Jew can muster the determination needed to prevail, because he is connected, at his essence, to G-d.

Even a Jew born and raised in a secular environment, before he was born, an angel taught him the entire Torah; so nothing could be more innate. Returning to the Torah way of life is simply a return to the true path of his own family for generations and centuries before him – a return to his own essential identity.