Sipur YM - Kol haMarbeh Lisaper, Afilu Kulanu Chachomim

Afilu Kulanu Chahamim, Kulana Nivonim, Mitzvah aleinu lisaper beYM...

Even if we were all great scholars and wise men, we would still be obligated to discuss the Exodus from Egypt.

The more we discuss, the more praiseworthy....

Just as Hashem as no limits, there are also no limits to understanding and believing in Hashem...

Emunah has no limits...

We can believe in Hashem on many levels. In many different ways.

With our minds.

With our hearts.

With our limbs.


On many levels within each of the aforementioned aspects of ourselves.


The purpose of telling over the story of YM is to strengthen our Emunah.

There is no limit to telling and retelling.

On many different levels.


Utilizing our minds.

Utilizing our hearts.

Utilizing our limbs.


Regardless of how wise and smart we are.

Regardless of previous knowledge and understanding.

There is always more.


We can know and believe in Hashem on so many levels.


Every year, every Pesach, a higher level than the year before.

Pesach - Jewish Renewal

The Jewish people in Egypt, before they were actually Jews, were famous for having sunk to the lowest level of Tumah [spiritual impurity]possible.

Pharoa assumed he would maintain control over them because of thier lowly state. He figured that regardless of their history and the fact that they are the progeny of Avraham, Isaac and Jacob, he would maintain control over them. Paroah figured, that he had brought them down to a point where any goodwill between them and the G-d of their forefathers was irrelevant. He thought he had stripped them of their capacity to have a relationship with G-d.

Hashem instructs Moshe to tell Pharoa - "So said Hashem, My firstborn son is Israel."

Historically, the children of Jacob became the Jewish people, the chosen people.
"Vilakachti Eschem li liAm." "And I have taken you for myself as a people."

The Nesivos Shalom suggests that the People had the status of converts at that time.

"Bichol dor vador chayav kol adam liharos es atzmo kilu hu yatzah mimitzrayim."

In every single generation we have to imagine ourselves as if we ourselves are exiting Egypt.

In every single generation, we suffer from our own personal "Egypts."

Egypt in Hebrew is Mitzrayim, meitzar, tzar. A narrow place.
A place from which it is difficult to exit.
Egypt was the birth canal of the Jewish people. We suffered birth pains.


Pesach time is a time of Jewish renewal.

We can achieve our own person exodus.

Our own personal freedom.

It is a time of renewal of the "beni bechori yisroel. A time of reestablishing our place in our relationship with Hashem. It does not matter how far we have drifted, Hashem's response is my arms are open wide ready to embrace you.
Just as then Hashem took them from a spiritually low place and uplift them; similarly, nowadays, Hashem is ready and willing to help us get out of our restrictive existences and help us broaden our abilities and level of observance.

Freedom on Pesach Night

Rav Tzadok haCohen:

Pesach evening:
We see ourselves as the slaves in Egypt. We go from being bound up to being liberated.

In micro, the experience of liberation...

is in the questioning and answering that is the theme of the evening:

People who have questions are bothered.

Why is this happening? Why do I have to do this?

Why? Why? Why?

Constricting and containing.

When my question is answered there is a sense of liberation. A sense of freedom.

There is a feeling of process - of going from slavery to freedom.

Resolution. Freedom.

Ain mi sheBen Chorin, elah mi sheOsek baTorah

Cheirus, freedom comes through understanding...