Important times for the holiday:
End of chametz burning time on Friday – 11:20
Lighting Shabbat candles in Haifa – 18:26
End of chametz eating time on Saturday morning – 10:15
The departure of Shabbat and the lighting of the holiday candles from a fire that was lit on the evening of Shabbat – 19:34
The holiday starts on Sunday evening – 19:35
With perfect timing, this year Passover falls on a Saturday night
In this week’s parsha “Order”, which deals with the actions of the priests – there is also the answer regarding our freedom since the Exodus from Egypt.
Something worth reading!
Last Sunday the chimneys of the sky were opened. No, the flood did not come, but hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been “on luggage” for a whole year, could finally leave the country.
“Freedom !!!”, I heard someone shout when he received the news of the opening of Ben Gurion Airport for flights.
On the night of Seder, we will sit at a set table and sing “This night are free,” as if we are at the pinnacle of dreams.
Three matzahs made without any spice – not even salt, Are they the ones who will bring us true freedom?
And why are we really free, if as soon as we left Egypt we received fourteen mitzvot that do not allow us to move an inch without any mitzvah?
As part of the distribution of food for the holiday and “reserved matzah” kits for Seder night, I met with a Jew who also asked to receive three matzahs.
He lives in a luxurious house with his partner, a villa with a huge yard, but, no-us, it turns out he has an artificial heart and can hardly move… So I came to bring the family a crate with basic holiday products.
I received a message: “Your Honor, you have no idea how happy you were with us, our holiday will be full thanks to you!”.
So what exactly is a free man?
Our Torah portion of the week opens with the words, “And the Lord spoke, and commanded Aaron and his sons to speak.”
Moses commands to transfer to Aaron and his sons the priests their role in the tabernacle of the Lord.
An entire parsha that tells of the dedication of the tabernacle and the tasks of the priests, but the beginning is in the words “command Aaron” and not “said” or “thing.”
Rabbeinu Shlomo – Rashi – interprets this as “there is no order but the language of urgency – immediately and for generations”, meaning that here the commandment is stronger, to do so immediately. And another thing we learn from this – that the commandment is eternal and not one-time.
The work of the priests took place just as on the first day, even a thousand years and more after, until the destruction of the Second Temple.
In the theory of storks there is a wonderful depth in this word
The word “mitzvah” is from the word “tsavta”. That is, by the mitzvah one connects with the Creator of the world.
Created, as much as he does and strives he will not be able to come close to anything to the infinite Creator.
Only when we keep the commandments and will of the Creator can we connect with Him.
And this is the great gift we have received from God, the possibility of connecting to it by the mitzvos, as we bless every mitzvah “which we have sanctified – in its mitzvos”, we are more holy by keeping the mitzvos.
This is the difference between the word “command” and saying or speaking, because only by commandment, does action work towards the goal, the connection to the mitzvah – the Creator of the world.
The novelty is that precisely when we are commanded and do it because of the mitzvah – and not because we “have fun” or “get along”, then the doing is higher and leads to a purpose – the connection with the Creator. When we perform the mitzvah out of intellectual understanding, emotion or other connection, the observance of the mitzvah lacks the doing of the Creator’s will, and precisely when it is a “law”, meaning that we do it because we have been commanded, then the connection is real and perfect.
In a fascinating letter written by the Rebbe Melech Moshiach prior to Passover 1958, he expanded on the essence of “Ben Horin”, and I will embrace his words – our true freedom is not expressed in vacation or money, but in reaching the purpose of our existence, which is – Connecting with the Creator.
When we were “slaves to Pharaoh” in Egypt, we could not do the will of the Creator, and therefore, although there were “free” hours, we were not free, we belonged to Pharaoh and Egyptian culture.
But Passover led us to be free, to belong to the true truth – the Creator of the world.
For this is the great celebration on the night of Seder, which even tasteless matzah becomes much tastier because it is the one that connects us to our truth, Jews, sons of kings – sons of the King of Kings.
At the moment, we still do not really know the results of the last elections that took place, but it is very important to remember and internalize that nothing will change our reality and essence.
One whose ‘freedom’ derives from one act or another, from a leader or leader, is in fact “a slave” to a stranger. Only accepting the yoke of the kingdom of heaven, studying the Torah and keeping the commandments, make us truly free!
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After the great length, I will add one more thing:
This week, 11 Nisan, the Rebbe’s 119th birthday falls.
The Rebbe who changed the world map when he manages to connect every Jew anywhere in the world to the root of his soul, to his true truth.
The Rebbe, who with a bright face and a love of Israel for every Jew without any difference between them, revealed to us the true truth of each of us, that we are all Jews, brothers.
This is the message that can be taken from his birthday, and given a “birthday present” – to look at the essence of the Jew and not at the external. To truly love every Jew, to believe and even to discover the faith that is hidden in him, because we are all free, forever.
In preparation for Passover, I would like to personally wish you a Shabbat Shalom and a kosher and happy Passover, that we will all leave the straits and personal and public restrictions, and discover the true freedom within us, until the true freedom in the near and complete redemption, where they will not interfere with this freedom.
I would also like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping and supporting the rain and wind, deeds and money, ideas and everything, in the ‘Kamcha Depsha’ project 5741, in which we distributed holiday assistance packages to over 500 families, thousands of reserved matzah sets, and hosted on Seder night All over Haifa, many hundreds of Jews would sit together, as freemen.
post Scriptum.
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Important times for the holiday:
- End of chametz burning time on Friday 11:20
- Lighting Shabbat candles in Haifa 18:26
- End of chametz eating time on Saturday morning 10:15
- The departure of Shabbat and the lighting of the holiday candles from a fire that was lit on the evening of Shabbat 19:34
- The holiday starts on Sunday evening at 19:35
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