Essays
The Mountain and the Sea
When the Jew is headed towards Sinai and is confronted with a hostile or indifferent world, his response must be to go forward.
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The Journey
Counting the Omer: Beginning with the second night of Passover, we count the days traversed from the Exodus, chronicling the milestones and stations of our journey of self-refinement.
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The Great Shabbat
Spiritual explanation: The Shabbat before Passover is called “The Great Shabbat” (Shabbat HaGadol), because a great miracle occurred on that day.
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The Freedom To Passover
The Hebrew word for “Egypt,” mitzrayim, means “boundaries,” and the endeavor to free ourselves from yesterday’s boundaries is a perpetual one.
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The Festival of the Child
It is the child who opens our eyes to the ultimate significance of Passover: that in taking us out of Egypt to make us his chosen people, G-d has liberated us of all enslavement and subjugation for all time.
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The Coiled Spring
The spiritual winter of Egypt was now shown to have harbored and nurtured the Jewish soul below its frozen surface, just waiting for spring.
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Speed In Three Dimensions
The haste of Passover emphasizes that life, for the Jew, is never again to be the passive and static experience it was for the clan of Hebrew slaves under Egyptian bondage.
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Passovering Time
In the closing hours of Passover, we enter into the world of Moshiach: having vaulted over millennia of past, we now surmount the blank wall of future, to taste the matzah and wine of redemption.
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