Table Of Contents of my Passover Articles
- The Haftorah For Shabbos HaGadol, Serving G-d and Not Serving Yourself
- We’re Leaving Mitzrayim, Are You In?
- Why We Need The Symbols Of Slavery Also on the Table
- The Second Half Of Maggid Starting With “Metchila Ovday…”
- The Seder Night As the Vehicle of Passing Over the Tradition to the Children and Grandchildren
- A Collection of Individual Points on the Story of the Exodus
- Seder Night and the Day After
- The Last Day of Pesach, What Was Revealed At the Splitting of the Sea
- Reciting Shiras Hayam Joyfully as if I Passed Through the Sea
OK, so I did what I told my family that you’re supposed to do. That there is a power in the seder night which holds the key to unravel ourselves from the shackles or the yetzer harah, and to throw ourselves into the hands keviyochol of the Ribono Shel Olam.
And that is by attaching ourselves to the night, by feeling the exiting from Mitzrayim, meaning by feeling and internalizing that we were living the most miserable kind of life both from the physical standpoint and from the spiritual standpoint, and that Hashem Yisborach saved us and lifted us up in both senses. Took us out, goy mekerev goy, separated us from Mitzrayim, both from the avdus and from the tumah.
Now what? What’s supposed to have happened? And now I am a tzadik, bin liylah? How does it work exactly?
The next day, when the madraigot that we reached on the night of the seder were taken away, (like it says in the sefarim hakedoshim), sure, I feel uplifted a bit. But the yetzer harahs are still there. Sure, it’s easier to vanquish, who wants to sin on Pesach, that’s pretty stupid. But I know in my heart from many years of experience that it’s basically downhill from here.
Rather, that’s also what it says in the sefarim hakedoshim – that the madraigot of seder night are taken away, and now we have to work on ourselves during the days of sefira, sheva shabbosos temimos, until by Matan Torah which will be on Shavuos, then I hopefully will have mastered the self-control of leaving the yetzer behind, and clinging to Torah and Yir’as Shamayim, shivisi Hashem lenegdi tamid, and then I will indeed be in the Hands (keviyochol) of the Ribono Shel Olam.
In other words, included in the successfully experienced lail haseder is accepting upon ourselves a process of continued working on ourselves, which will result in distancing ourselves more and more from Mtzrayim, ervas ha’aretz, basar chamorim besaram, zirmas susim zirmasam. To rise up level after level in kedusha, which means strengthening ourselves in limud HaTorah, observance of the Mitzvot, and tikun hamidos.
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