By the Grace of G-d
Dear Friend,
Pesach is about saying Thank you to G-d for redeeming our ancestors from Egypt. No, not just our forefathers were redeemed from Egypt.
WE TOO have been liberated. For if our forbearers wouldn’t have been redeemed, we would all have still been slaves.
Giving praise to the Almighty and saying thanks is really core message of the holiday of Pesach.
Our Sages taught:
G-d says, ‘mention me constantly, for whenever my people Israel mentions me in praise, my heart fills with longing for them’.
Continue our sages. G-d says, ‘It is for this reason that I redeem them and do wonders for them so that they should praise Me’.
It’s a delightfully delicious cycle!
Hashem does kind things to us. We thank Him. He adores hearing from us and His love to us gets aroused.
This is not limited to Pesach.
Anytime G-d does a kindness to us the intention is to create a reason for us to connect to Him, to acknowledge that gift and thank the Almighty.
And the Almighty waits to hear our praise because then he is filled with an outpouring of love to us.
This concept is mindboggling and uplifting beyond…
Hashem wants to always be in a loving relationship with us.
So He does things that cause us to call out to him in praise and thanksgiving.
May we always be mindful of the great opportunity and obligation we have to thank G-d for His kindnesses.
Just by remembering what last Pesach looked like… we have loads to be appreciative about.
For many many people, this years Pesach is quite different than last years thank G-d.
Let us eat our Matzah, drink our wine, recite the story of the going out of Egypt and say a HUGE thank you to the Almighty for Exodus from Egypt and for the myriads of wonder and miracles that Hashem gifts us with on an ongoing basis.
THANK YOU HASHEM FOR EVERY BREATH!!!!
And may the Almighty liberate us from all the things that bother and disturb, physically and spiritually.
Even more importantly may the Almighty send us the FINAL redemption with the coming of Mashiach, NOW!!!
Shabbat Shalom
Chag Sameach
Rabbi Yosef Kantor