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eumeliaAccording to Dictionary.com "Freedom" is:
#1 The state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint.
#2 The power to determine action without restraint.
#3 Political or national independence.
#4 Personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery.
In this particular dictionary there are thirteen other definitions, in the thesaurus of the same site "Freedom" is also: immunity, indulgence, liberty, opportunity, power, prerogative, privilege, right and more.
A lengthy exposition, but a worthwhile one I think.
Pesach (Passover) is also called חג החירות that is "Holiday of Freedom" in Hebrew, because it is a Holiday in which we remember and retell the story of the Exodus - how Moses our Teacher, his siblings The Priest and Priestess Aaron and Miriam, led the Hebrews out of Egypt - It is a story of profound tragedy and happiness. It is a story of how Human beings, an entire people can live up to their full potential and be more than what they are, if they are inspired enough and if they have leaders that aspire high and far enough.
That is of course what Pesach symbolises to me.
Pesach is also a beautiful blend between High Holiday (Where we celebrate the relationship between us and GD) and a "regular" Holiday (where we celebrate an historical or miraculous event in our Jewish heritage). We celebrate our relationship with GD and we celebrate the fact that once again someone tried to kill us. We survived... and thus we stuff ourselves into a food coma.
And there is the "Hagada" which I'm not sure how it is translated, but is roughly the Recounting, or Telling. We sit around the supper table, while we recount (or tell) the story of Pesach, why we eat Matzah, why we have a plate full of stuff we're not to eat off, and how it is that we got to where we are.
Very beautiful, long and one is happy when it's over... I suppose we're supposed to feel as the Hebrews did after forty years of wondering the Sinai desert with led by a stutterer who talks to himself (I'm sure Aaron and Miriam took turns interpreting him, it had to be a huge job for just one person).
#1 The state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint.
#2 The power to determine action without restraint.
#3 Political or national independence.
#4 Personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery.
In this particular dictionary there are thirteen other definitions, in the thesaurus of the same site "Freedom" is also: immunity, indulgence, liberty, opportunity, power, prerogative, privilege, right and more.
A lengthy exposition, but a worthwhile one I think.
Pesach (Passover) is also called חג החירות that is "Holiday of Freedom" in Hebrew, because it is a Holiday in which we remember and retell the story of the Exodus - how Moses our Teacher, his siblings The Priest and Priestess Aaron and Miriam, led the Hebrews out of Egypt - It is a story of profound tragedy and happiness. It is a story of how Human beings, an entire people can live up to their full potential and be more than what they are, if they are inspired enough and if they have leaders that aspire high and far enough.
That is of course what Pesach symbolises to me.
Pesach is also a beautiful blend between High Holiday (Where we celebrate the relationship between us and GD) and a "regular" Holiday (where we celebrate an historical or miraculous event in our Jewish heritage). We celebrate our relationship with GD and we celebrate the fact that once again someone tried to kill us. We survived... and thus we stuff ourselves into a food coma.
And there is the "Hagada" which I'm not sure how it is translated, but is roughly the Recounting, or Telling. We sit around the supper table, while we recount (or tell) the story of Pesach, why we eat Matzah, why we have a plate full of stuff we're not to eat off, and how it is that we got to where we are.
Very beautiful, long and one is happy when it's over... I suppose we're supposed to feel as the Hebrews did after forty years of wondering the Sinai desert with led by a stutterer who talks to himself (I'm sure Aaron and Miriam took turns interpreting him, it had to be a huge job for just one person).
