When I was six
years old, at the beach, sitting on a sandbar, I was pulled into and
submerged in the water. I wasn't afraid, though. I saw in my mind's
eye a farmer, chasing after animals. Looking back, I realize that
I had been in danger of drowning, but at the time, I was not afraid.
I was watching cartoons!
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Insight of the
Week
17 NISAN 5785 -Tuesday,
April15, 2025
Spiritually,
these two matzahs were of different essence. The first matzah was
still "bread of affliction," as it is referred to in the
beginning of the Haggadah. The eating of it before midnight together
with the Passover offering constituted what is called in Kaballistic
terminology an "arousal from below"–a movement from
the Jewish people towards G-d. This in turn elicited an "arousal
from above,"–G-d's response: the after-midnight divine revelation
when "the King, king of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He, was
revealed onto them and redeemed them" [Haggadah].
The second matzah, baked only after the Jews left Egypt, after the
effect of the great revelation, is "bread of freedom." The
Hagaddah phrase, "Matzah zu: al shum mah?" refers to this
latter matzah of revelation. (whole
article ). That is one reason why it is good for us now to eat
matzah every day of Passover.
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