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Good morning and welcome to Living with Emunah, our weekly support group to remind ourselves not only that there is a Hashem but that He loves us, of the special relationship that we share together, of His involvement in our life, and therefore how calm, tranquil, peaceful, happy, healthy we should be at all times knowing that Hashem is with us. I want to thank our generous sponsors of the Emunah series for the year, Doctors Avi and Bella Morgan, in memory of Rabbi Doctor Brian Galbut, and Bella's mother, Doctor Ellen Schanzzer. Thank you so much for your generosity. Thank you for your sponsorship. Reminder, if you'd like to sponsor a future class, an episode of Living with Emunah, please email lee@brsonline.org. Okay, I want to continue this morning. We started last week, we took a break from Biyom Darechecha, Rav Itche Meyer Morgenstern on Dveikus, which we had been learning, and we took a break to discuss Biyom Darechecha on Pesach, a little something about Matzah and about Chametz. And I want to return and revisit, I want to pick up and continue from there as we are in Shavua shechal bo, the very week in which Pesach will shortly begin. I want to finish that theme and if you're listening to this series and it's not Pesach time, still worth listening, don't turn it off because the message, the ideas nevertheless will resonate all year round. The lesson of Chametz, Matzah, and Pesach, ultimately a lesson of Emunah. The reminder that we don't exist independently or in isolation, that we are the creation, we are the Bas Melech or Ben Melech, we are the prince and princesses, the children of Hashem, His involvement, His role in our life. So we spoke last week trying to understand Chametz. Chametz is an anomaly. We have in the world of Halacha, in the world of Jewish law, we have foods that are prohibited, we have foods that are considered to contaminate the soul. They're off limits, they're assur, they're forbidden. On the other hand, we have foods which are permissible, they're kosher, they're eligible, you can eat them, no problem. Chametz is this bizarre anomaly that falls somewhere in between where 51 weeks of the year Chametz, no problem, delicious, enjoy. Sometimes Chametz is a mitzvah, Lechem Mishnah on two challahs and so on. And then you have one week of the year, the week of Pesach, in which all of a sudden Chametz becomes arch enemy number one, Chametz is this enormous villain. So which is it? Is Chametz a villain? Is Chametz a hero? And we discussed last week, Rav Itche Meyer Morgenstern developed the notion of the Borei and the Nivra. There is the Creator and the created. And the idea that Matzah—let's start with Matzah—Matzah doesn't have spices, doesn't have salt, isn't introduced to yeast, Matzah is not manipulated. And therefore Matzah represents just Hakadosh Baruch Hu, the bare minimum. Matzah is flour and water mixed, it produces Matzah, Matzah is the Borei, the Creator. One feels the presence of the Almighty in the bread of Emunah, that's why Matzah is called the bread of Emunah. You feel Hashem's presence. It is the product, it is the result only of the intervention, only of the interaction with Hashem. Chametz is the Ma'aseh Hanivra. Chametz, a sourdough bread, the effort, the time it takes to produce a sourdough bread, a challah, to have to mix and add the ingredients. Challahs today, cinnamon, everything, chocolate, a challah's more like a cake or a babka than it is a challah, to braid it, to manipulate it, to design it. Challah is Chametz, represents the Nivra. So Matzah is the Borei, Matzah is the product of Hashem with no other intervention, and Chametz is the Nivra, Chametz is that when man intervenes, interacts, takes initiative, the result is creating a Chametz. So Matzah represents Lechem of Emunah. So for one week a year, we go back to eating the Borei, we go back to focusing on Emunah. It's not about my initiative, it's not about my effort, it's not about my results, it's not about what I can produce. It's all about recognizing above Hashem, Emunah. I live in a world in which though I have to take my initiative and I can be proud of results, but at the end of the day, nothing can happen without Him. He is the senior partner in every endeavor, He is the secret and source of success in every effort. It's all about the Borei, it's all about Him. So when I imbibe, when I eat that Matzah, I'm eating the simplicity, I'm eating something that is the creation of the Borei. This is clearly the will of Hashem with no human intervention, with no human ingenuity at all. And therefore I am affirming, I am a reminder Emunah, there is a Hashem, He created me, He created this world, He makes this world go round, and although I have to take my initiative and make my effort, in the end of the day, it is all about Him. And only then can I go back to eating Chametz. So that's where we'll pick up. ולכן בתחילה משביתים ושורפים את החמץ. So before Pesach, we have to mashbisim, we destroy and we burn the Chametz. Yotzei mehaga'avah shelanu. We leave that arrogance, the ego, the attitude that says it's me, I'm in control, I'm in control, it's about my pleasure, it's about my happiness, my desires, my needs. I once, I have to get out of that place of gaiva. I have to get out of the ego. The ego is the poison that sabotages relationships. The ego sabotages health. The ego sabotages success. שנו רואים את עצמנו כדבר עצמי. We think you know what? There's God. I recognize, I believe, I'm a believer. There's a creator, there's a God. I even daven, I learn the Daf Yomi, I volunteer for chesed. There's a God. But there's God and there's me. We both take up space, we both contribute, we both have talents and skills. He's much more than me, He is God after all and I'm just a finite created human being, but but I take up my own space. There is a me independent of Him. That's a mistake. That's chametz thinking. אז נכנסים חזק לאכילת מצה. We have to go strong into a week of matza. We destroy, we obliterate, we go on a search mission to find that villain called chametz. Chametz the ego, chametz that selfishness, chametz that thinks that I am an I, there's a yeshus, there's a me, there's an existence independent of Him, of God. Shavua shalem, an entire week, לקנות ולהשריש ידיעה והכרה במציאות השם יתברך. ברוך אתה ה' אלהינו מלך העולם שהכל נהיה בדברו. A week-long matza mentality. A week-long there is no me independent of Him. A week-long the simplicity, a week-long His feel the feeling of His impact in this world. ואחרי שבוע של אכילת מצה, and after a week of eating matza, כשהאמונה כבר ברורה ומושרשת, now that I have planted, I have ingrained, I have seeded within myself that there is emuna, there's a God, there's a creator. I don't exist something from nothing, I'm not independent, I'm not isolated, I'm not in charge, I'm not in control, I'm not responsible, I'm not to blame. I have to do my best and once I do my best I let go and I let God. And once I have eaten literally and metaphorically the matza, then אפשר לחזור ולאכול חמץ. I'm ready to go back. Lehachnis l'metziyus hanivra to now go enter a place not only of recognizing the creator but to realize the responsibility of the created. Laborei the creator and the nivra the created. Aval b'ofen hanachon, but now I engage and now I encounter and now I am among the created not with a sense of ego or arrogance or independence, but I now think about myself as among the created and I engage that which is created. שהנברא פועל ועובד מתוך הכרה שהוא שליח של הבורא ופועל רק מכחו. Now I see myself as not an independent entity in this world separate and apart from the Almighty, but now I see myself as His agent, as His ambassador. Now I am here with a sense of shlichus. I'm on a mission, I have a charge to represent Him and to expand His presence, His brand, to grow His brand in this world. Az adaraba, the opposite, מעלתו גדולה שמגלה את הבורא בתוך ההסתר. My mission is to reveal God within the hiddenness. You don't see, smell, feel, taste God. So I have to be God, represent God, live in a Godly way that people say I just interacted with him or her and they are a religious personality that believes in God, I want a piece of that God. I love those values, I love that vision. The world is a better and a brighter place, a more selfless place. So we spend one week reminding and reaffirming, one week in boot camp, one week in rehab, one week intensely reminding ourselves about the borei. There is no nivra. There is no me, there is no anything, there's no world. Nothing exists but God. Ein od milvado. Matza is ein od milvado. Matza, its simplicity, there's no salt, there's no spice, there's no cinnamon, there's no everything. There's just flour and water. It is the borei. I eat the matza and all week long I am intensely in this revisiting of this week-long intense program. There's a borei, there's a creator that's all there is ein od milvado. He is all there is, that is all there is. And now I can graduate that week-long and I can come out. Now that I know there's a borei, now I can live as a nivra. I know there's a creator, now I can properly live among the created. ולכן בכל השנה אף שאוכלים חמץ, all week long, sorry, all year long even though we eat chametz, v'highlight metziyus l'nivra, so 51 weeks a year I know I exist. Not independent, not separate or apart, not in competition, but as an agent and as an ambassador of the Almighty. זה נעשה באופן הנכון, the 51 weeks a year I live realizing my talents, my skills, my sense of self, but not independent but rather as an agent of God. דהיינו שהנברא מגלה אור הבורא. As the created I am the platform to reveal the light of the creator. החמץ מגלה את המצה. 51 weeks a year I'm eating chametz, but I'm entitled, I'm licensed to eat chametz. Why? Because one week a year I eat matza. One week I remembered the Borei, now 51 weeks I can live as a nivra. So all that is the introduction and it's so important. We're obsessed with cleaning and destroying and burning, we're all obsessed this year when Erev Pesach falls on Shabbos with how to eat the challah Friday night, Shabbos morning, fulfill shalosh seudos, how to get rid of the crumbs, and the physical crumbs are important, chametz assur be-mashehu. Chametz is forbidden even in the smallest amount. But we cannot be so obsessed with the minutia, so OCD on the rules in a way that we ultimately neglect the deeper meaning, the pnimiyus, what it's all about and how it's meant to transform us. Take the time to be mindful. Take that deep breath and lean in when cleaning, when searching for chametz, when the burning of the chametz which we'll talk about momentarily. 51 weeks a year have to be empowered by the one week a year. And if in that one week a year I'm not remembering, I'm not reminding the difference between a Borei and a nivra, I'm not returning to the simplicity, I'm not returning to the recognition that ein od milvado, there is nothing but him what the matzah represents, then my 51 weeks a year are not going to be authentic and genuine, they're not going to be successful. והנה בערב פסח אנו בודקים מבערים ושורפים את החמץ continues the Iturei Meir. On Erev Pesach, this year on Friday which is not Erev Pesach, it is erev erev Pesach, we will on Thursday night, tomorrow night, we will search and then we will destroy and we will burn the chametz. וצריך לזכור את פנימיות העניין, we have to remember the deeper meaning. Don't just yell at your husband or you go yourself or you're running, don't forget to burn the chametz and take the kids and get out of here and burn it and I don't want it. Take a moment when you're standing around that fire, take a moment. It's not a social scene, it's not tashlich, it's biur chametz. Think about the chametz in our life, the sense of self, the ego, the anger, the arrogance, the envy, and that's what we're going to destroy. We have a minhag in our home, I saw it in a sefer years ago, when we hide the 10 pieces, I ask my children, each of you take a piece or two and think about what this chametz represents in your life that you want to overcome, you want to purge, you want to destroy, you want to burn, you want to get rid of this year. What is the quality? What is the behavior? What is the personality trait? What is it that you view and you realize are unhealthy and we're going to go search for it, we're going to go eliminate, we're going to go obliterate, we're going to go burn, we're going to get rid of and purge from inside ourselves. But that takes the mindfulness. You make a bracha on bedikas chametz, on biur chametz. Let's all think about what we're going to do. We're not just looking for the chametz in the pockets and in the drawers and the dressers. We're looking for the chametz in our heart, in our soul, in our life. We're looking for that ego that gets in the way, that makes us be envious instead of realizing we have what we need, that makes us feel arrogant instead of realizing we're the same as everybody else, that makes us feel anxious instead of deferring and realizing we're in Hashem's hands, everything's with a plan and it's going to be okay. We're looking for that chametz all over, and then we're going to collect it, gather it, and ultimately burn it. כי כדי לקבל מדריגה עמוקה ובהירה יותר באמונה, in order to be able to receive a deeper, more penetrating, more illuminating sense of faith in our lives, צריך להכין כלי נקי וטהור. How can you live with faith if you're not a vessel to receive faith? If you're running and going and doing and cooking and shopping and preparing and searching and burning and check check check check check check check, and nowhere on the checklist you stop and say what's this all about? And kids, kinderlach, or just to my own self, why are we doing this? How am I meant to grow and gain from this? How am I meant to be transformed by this? Then what will it do? You're not a kli, you're not a vessel, you cannot receive that light of emuna. You're a different Jew altogether when you come to that seder table. You are regal, you are royal, a prince, a princess, we are transformed, we are pure, we're wearing the white of the kittel, the white of the tablecloth, we come to the seder table angelic. But only if we did the hard work that comes before. Only if we come prepared and ready and eager. אבל אם האדם מצדו לא מתאמץ לנקות הגאוה והישות, but if we don't have the courage, if we don't have the boldness, if we don't have the tenacity to go and to search for the sense of self, for the ego, for the arrogance, to clean it out, to get rid of it, to first identify it and recognize it, לא יוכל לקבל את המצה, then you're not going to be able to sit and eat the matzah. אז גילוי אמיתת מציאות השם יתברך המצה, the bread of emuna represents Hashem. How are you going to eat the bread of emuna if you've not turned yourself into a vessel to receive the light of emuna? And the way we become that vessel to receive that light of emuna is in the effort, the preparation, it's what we do before. כי השם יתברך אומר אין אני והוא יכולין לדור בדירה אחת. When the person is egotistical, self-centered, arrogant, God says there's not enough room in this world for me and him. So I'll tell you what, God says, no competition, no hard feelings, I'm just going to pull back, you're on your own, subject to the elements, and subject to people, and subject to randomness. I'm out. Not enough room for both of us. Oh, you think you're a somebody? Oh, you think you're in charge and in control? Oh, you think that you have power? You think that you can compete taking up space with me? No competition, Hashem says. Hashem says, "I'm tapping out, I'm out of here. You're on your own. Good luck, God bless, let me know how it goes. אין אני והוא יכול לדור בדיר אחת, we cannot live in the same place. There's not enough room for both of us. V'zu ha'avoda hapnimis, and this is the inner effort, bechol nikayon v'nikayon, with every amount of cleaning, with all the cleaning and all the searching and all the preparing שהאדם מנקה בגשמיות, with all the cleaning and preparing that we're doing physically, lachshov al ha'emes, to think about the truth, she'ha'adam eino klum, I'm a gornisht, I'm a nothing. No, I'm an everything. I'm a child of Hashem and therefore I have a tzelem elokim, a godly soul. But before I can come onto the thought that I'm an everything because I am an expression of God in this world and I do have a mission to fulfill that's unique in this world, before I can come to that I have to realize I'm a nothing. Really I'm nothing without you God, and now that I know that I rely and depend on you, now let's talk about what I do for you. How am I your agent? How am I your ambassador? How am I your messenger? What's my shlichus? What's my mission? What's my mission? ויתפלל וישתוקק מתי אזכה לצאת מהגאוה. So with the searching and with the cleaning and with the preparing, you're not distracting yourself with a podcast or talk radio, you're not distracting yourself from nebach, resentful and more bitter than the maror that I have to clean and prepare in the hard work, you lean in and you think about as I do that I'm thinking about Hashem, I'm offering a tefillah, I'm offering a prayer. Hashem, as I clean as I prepare as I get rid of the chametz, the ego, the selfishness in my life, Hashem help me overcome gaavah, help me overcome arrogance, help me realize that I'm no different than anyone else, we're all the creatures of you and therefore we are all the same. ולהכנס להכרה עמוקה וחיה יותר מהשם יתברך. Hashem help me come to a greater awareness, a more acute life with you in it. Help me realize never get bent out of shape, never get angry, never get envious, never get arrogant, never get anxious, help me see you, feel you, know you're in my life, your arms are around me. And he writes here in this footnote, such an important important footnote, he writes here in this footnote: ובאמת הנסיונות בערב פסח, these very thoughts that we're meant to have, the hardest time in the world to have them, these critically important thoughts that transform the entire yom tov for us, that are so so important, the hardest time in the world to have them is when? Davka when? Erev Pesach. Why? Halachatz. Because the pressure. Did you make the salt water? Did you make the charoses? Did you grind the horseradish? Is the table set? How are we coordinating Shabbos with Pesach this year? הכנה לפסח כי לחץ בא ממחשבה שאני עושה. That pressure, did you roast the shank bone? Did you roast the egg? Is everybody taking a nap so they're going to be well-rested for tonight? The guests, did we set a place? How are we doing the seating? All that lachatz, all that incredible pressure, pressure. Says Rav Itche Meyer, what's at the root and what's at the core of lachatz, of pressure? מחשבה שאני עושה אני צריך להצליח. At the core, at the root of pressure is the mistaken notion that I must do, I'm in charge, I'm in control, it's all on me. Umimeila ha'adam nilchatz. And then a person feels incredible pressure. וגם עלול ליפול לכעס אם מפריע לו. So what happens? There's so much to do and so many people disappointing that you end up angry. In Erev Pesach, a time that should be characterized by calm and peace and love and light and faith, is instead filled with anger, yelling, screaming, pressure. וכוונת השם יתברכ היא שיעבוד על זה. So Hashem wants us to work on that. Ke'hachana l'Pesach. That is the work, the preparation, the anticipation, that is the countdown to Pesach. ובכל פעם שהיצר מפיל את האדם ללחץ, and every time we start to be drawn to pressure, our blood pressure is going up, we're panicking, there's so much to do, so many people I need to do it, they're not doing it, I'm getting angry. Take that deep breath. Vetzarich laatzor, stop. Velachshov, and think. ולהשנות לעצמו בשמשך זמן מסויים אין לי מה לכעוס ולהילחץ. What am I so frustrated, what am I so pressured, what am I so worried about? Last year Pesach what I would have given to have guests, to be with other people. Last year Pesach the pressure to get to shul and to be convening as a community. Last year Pesach how many funerals, how many Zoom Shiva calls, how many tragic tragic deaths, how many morgues were filled because there and they had to bring in refrigerator trucks because there wasn't room. So stop. You're feeling that pressure, that panic, that anxiety on this Erev Pesach. Whatever it is, how much you have to pack or how much wardrobe you're going to have to change each day at the hotel, or it's how much you have to prepare or who's going to come or how will the conversation work or how will everyone get their divrei Torah in. Everyone has their own pressure when it comes to Erev Pesach. But the common denominator, the tzad hashaveh is stop, take a deep breath and become mindful again about what really matters and a sense of context and become that kli, that vessel that's prepared to receive the light. כי יודע שהכל מאת השם יתברך, it's all from God. Hu oseh hakol, he's in charge of everything. I'll figure it out, I'll make it work. ואני רק שליח שלו, I'm his agent, I'm his messenger. ואם אעשה לפי כוחי אזי אין עלי תלונה. And if I do according to my best effort, and this is a critical sentence, אם אעשה לפי כוחי. If I try my hardest, if I work my hardest, אזי אין עלי תלונה. ואדרבא אם אלחץ זה מראה שיש לי גאווה ומחשבה שאני עושה כאילו הכל תלוי בי. If a person feels and succumbs to pressure on Erev Pesach, if a person loses their cool, it just means that you're lacking in emunah, you're lacking in faith. It means a person thinks that me, alay, it's me, it's on me, I'm capable, I'm in charge, I'm in control, it all has to happen the way I drew it up, the way I want. Person has to take that deep breath and realize I'm not in charge, I'm not in control, there's a plan, there's a reason. I have to make my list, I have to follow through, I have to manage my time, I have to exert my effort. Can't arrive at the Seder table and you didn't shop, you didn't prepare, you didn't chop, you didn't grind, and think you're going to have Seder. You have to do what you have to do, but once you've done it, there's no room for lachatz. There's no room for pressure, there's no room for anger, there's certainly no room for losing yourself. There's a plan, it's all up to the Ribbono shel Olam, it's all up to the Almighty. And we see things in context and we compare and contrast and we think about this year Pesach versus last year where we were at and the things that feel and seem like the biggest deal in the world should recognize that gam ze ya'avor, that we will endure, it will pass, we'll figure it out, we'll make it work. We'll make it work. כי אמונה חושית והביטול הם הדבר המענג ביותר שיש. חיי גן עדן חיי נשמות חיי אמיתיים. Emunah that one feels, that's palpable. Habittul to nullify, not only the chametz, bitul chametz, but to be bitul the yeshus, to be mevatel, to nullify my ego, my arrogance, my independent sense of self. This is something that's incredibly pleasurable because you're tapping into immortality and you're nourishing your soul and you're living true to yourself. You know, there's a terrible challenge going on in Orlando, apparently that's the aliyah l'Orlando is where Jews are meant to go on Pesach, apparently. So they're descending on Orlando and there's a challenge taking place in Orlando of double bookings and of people showing up and the houses they thought they had they wouldn't have, and I'm not minimizing it. It's a tremendous challenge, very difficult, a major pivot has to happen, find another place or to be able to get back home or to make Pesach last minute. It is an enormous challenge, not minimizing it. But a ba'al emunah, a person who has tremendous emunah says, you know what? I wasn't meant to be in that house, Pesach wasn't meant to be in this place. I'm not in charge, I'm not in control. Yetzias Mitzrayim, I'm going to release myself, I'm going to liberate myself from the bondage of thinking I'm in charge, I'm in control, it all has to happen the way I want. If you have to sue Airbnb, sue Airbnb, do what you have to do, but lachatz, that pressure, that angst, and to lose oneself, make a list what has to be done and do it. So you'll say Goldberg, you're sitting comfortable, you're sitting pretty in Boca, who are you? What kind of attitude? Who are you to have an opinion about the Jew of Orlando who's in challenging times? So I'll tell you that last summer when we made my daughter's wedding and there was a hurricane that hit New York the day of the wedding that we had moved from Florida to avoid problems, and we're sitting in the wedding hall a couple hours before the wedding begins, makeup is being done, not for me, and the hall lost power. This tropical storm, borderline tornado, hit where the wedding was and the whole hall lost power. And you know what I did? I was sitting in the lobby with family and I started to laugh, thanks to this Living with Emunah class. If we hadn't been learning emunah together, working on emunah together the last couple years, I don't believe in a million years I would've been in that place. But I sat there with my wonderful mother who also listens most weeks to this class and with my children and those who weren't getting their hair and makeup done, and we just started to laugh and we said, you know what? We're healthy, we're alive, we're here, there's a chassan, there's a kallah, there's a bride and a groom, they'll be married by the end of the night. Will there be lights or a band or hot food? We'll find out what God's plan is. Sometimes in moments that seem like crisis, catastrophe, disaster, the ba'al emunah takes a deep breath and says, you know what? Are we alive? Are we here? Are we well? Is it a pandemic? Is somebody in an ICU on a respirator? Are they in a morgue or a refrigerator truck because there was no more room in the morgue? One takes that deep breath and realizes that this is not about me, ein od milvado, there's a God. I'll do the best I have to do, I'll do everything I can do, let's go find some generators, let's go figure this out, let's go make this happen, but I'm going to start laughing and giggling because this is Hashem's plan. I can't wait to see how it turns out. And baruch Hashem, He brought the power back and baruch Hashem it went off without a hitch. And I hope the Jews of Orlando will have the most beautiful Pesach of their lives, wherever it settles and however they find a solution and however they figure it out. I hope it will create the memories and the most beautiful Pesach they've ever had. But the believing Jew, the Jew of faith. stops and says, I'm not going to feel lachatz. I'm not going to feel pressure. I'm not going to forfeit my serenity. I'm not going to become a slave to the feeling that I have to be in control. Hashem has a plan. And therefore, as uncomfortable and as challenging as unfortunate, all of those things, and how much I have to hold whoever did this to me accountable, it's not going to rob me of my peace of mind. It's not going to make me a slave. I'm going to liberate myself and let go. ובשרפת חמץ יעמוד וישרוף את החמץ הגשמי. So on Friday morning when we go to burn the chametz, we're going to go burn the physical chametz. ותוך כדי כך יתבונן לשרוף עם זה את החמץ הרוחני שבלב. Simultaneously to burning the physical chametz, when you throw it in the fire, you have to stop and pause and think about: what is the chametz in my heart? What is the chametz in my soul? What is the chametz in my life? I need to get rid of it and I need to burn it as well. Kol hargashas hayeshus, my whole sense of self, my independence, my needing to make the world revolve around the way I see it, vehaga'ava, my arrogance, וכל המחשבות כאילו אני פועל ועושה, and all of the thoughts that I'm in charge and I'm in control and I'm responsible and the world has to bow to me and defer to me and fall in line to me. ויתפלל לזכות להיות אדם חדש. And that we daven. Biur chametz, going to do biur chametz should be an avodah, should take a moment of time, that you daven to say I want to be a new person, I want to be born again, kli naki. I want to become that vessel, God, to receive your light. לאור העצום של הלילה הקדוש, in anticipation, in the countdown to the holy night of Seder night, a night in which we make a deposit in the emunah bank account that lasts an entire year. Hashem, I want to be that vessel. I want to feel and I want to see and I want to be the conduit that channels your light. And to do it, I need to stay calm. I need to let go and let God. I need to liberate myself from that arrogance, that ego, that feeling I'm in charge, I'm in control, I am something. There's a Ribbono shel Olam, there's a God that created the whole world. He remains involved in my life and while He has expectations of me and consequences for me, once I've done my best effort, it's all up to Him. Psh. Now I'm free. Now I'm liberated. Now I'm emancipated. Now I can really enjoy. So, my dear friends, set yourself free this Pesach. And if you're listening now on Pesach, set yourself free any day. You don't have to wait for the next Pesach. Every single day, we have the ability and the opportunity to set ourselves free. We're not meeting next week for Pesach. We resume right after Pesach. Tonight 9:00 PM, we're going Behind the Bima to the head of the CRC Kashrus to talk Pesach kashrus and much more, Rabbi Sholem Fishbane, a good friend of mine. Until next time, chag kasher vesame'ach. Stay happy, stay healthy, and stay holy.
