The significance of this holiday... They say it's about freedom, they say it's about remembrance, they say it's about a lot of things. What it is is a holiday of realizing that we are not free. We are not in our homes. Six months ago during Sukkos, the same message was applied but on a physical level of actually leaving our homes for eight days. Now we sit indoors and digest that thought spiritually.
Tonight, we will sit at our seder tables (which are the same dining room table but has an extra holiness added to it when you dress the table in a chometz-free table cloth), and we will, briefly, have a glimpse of what freedom is.
For those who have not yet understood, this Yom Tov is not about being free or physical freedom, contrary to belief.
It's a reminder of how we are not free yet and how this Yom Tov is about spiritual freedom.
At the end of the Hagaddah we say, "L'shona Haba B'Yerushalayim"
Next year we will be both physically and spiritually free.
Freedom is not a feeling of non-dominated periods. Freedom is a spiritual moment encapsulated within our souls momentarily.
If we were free all the time, we'd have nothing to do.
In recent events, we are reminded again how free we really aren't.
Chag kasher V'sameach, dear reader :)
~ArchiTalmud
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