Tonight is the beginning of Passover that will run into Shabbat. So I will be cut off from news, Twitter, etc until Saturday night. Passover is the holiday of liberation--it celebrates the exodus of the Jews from Egyptian slavery. But it is also about person liberation. 1/n
The Hebrew root of the word for Egypt is the same root as narrowness, limitations, straits. So alongside the national story of the birth of the Jewish people as a people coming out of Egypt, we think about a re-birth at a personal level--the opportunity to escape from bad 2/n
habits, old narratives that keep us from being who we can be. May we all be blessed to get out out Egypt, to escape those restrictive habits that have built up within us over the years and at the same time, may we appreciate the gloriousness of what remains even in 3/n
the face of all our personal imperfections and flaws. They are all part of who we are. Of course, it is strange to celebrate freedom at a time when we are not free to leave our house and be with the people we love. But physical freedom has never been central to this holiday. 4/n
Jews have celebrated Passover in Auschwitz and the Warsaw ghetto and yes, even in Egypt before (before!) we left. This hints at the power of hope that better times will come. I hope we are making progress against the invisible killer that is restricting our physical freedom 5/n
and I hope that each of us can find the resources and inner strength to overcome our personal limitations that hold us back psychologically and find personal freedom even in the face of the challenges we are all facing in this troubled time. 6/6
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