[expat1000]

Essay on the meaning of freedom in the context of the Jewish Passover holiday.

[expat1000]

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[theBuckwheat]

I am waiting for someone who can speak with some authority to elaborate on how people who are supposed to be the guardians of Torah can support socialism, a system that is built in part on the overt violation of three of the Ten Commands.

Socialism is the system of slavery in the modern era.

[Cyber Liberty]

One of the reasons it’s difficult to convince people to free themselves is they don’t even realize they’re slaves in the first place.

Thanks for the ping.

[GOPJ]

Passover is the beginning and the end. It is the start of the journey and the end of it and we are always in the middle, on the long road out of Egypt, discovering that there are more chains in our minds than we realized a year earlier or a hundred or a thousand years ago. Each step we take toward freedom also reminds us of how far we still have to go.

It is the ritual that reminds us that we are still on the journey, that though we have been lulled by the routine of the system, the trap of the present that like the soothing warmth of an ice storm or the peaceful feeling of a drowning swimmer, embraces us in the forgetfulness of the dying moment, concealing from us the truth that the journey is not over. The desert still lies before us.

The desert still lies before us...