Living With Emunah (Part 266) - Break Free From What is Enslaving You

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

cooking for Pesach. We do all of those things in order to create an environment of Pesach, the Chag Emunah. It is the yontif of faith, the night of faith. It is a night not of information. It is a night of transformation. To be able to come to and sit at and leave our seder table entirely different people than the ones who came. To review the stories of Emunah. And I think that's an amazing exercise for all of us. Among the preparations that we're making for Pesach, for the Chag Emunah, is not just a fancy Haggadah, not just to buy the little toys to put out for the eser makos, the ten plagues, and not just to work on your famous Pesach recipes or to chop up the charoses, but to come to the table and say, "How will we leave with greater faith? What stories will we share with one another about divine providence, about Hashem's guiding hand in our lives? What story will we tell about our own journey from galus to geulah? Because chayev adam liros es atzmo, Pesach is all about seeing ourselves as going from a position of Rabbi Dr. Akiva Eiger in his divrei Torah every year from the seder, Mitzrayim is meitzar, constraint, narrow, from a place of feeling confined, no way out. We've all had that feeling. Medically or with health, with illness, God forbid, financially burdened, no idea how I will pay the bills or put the next meal on the table, relationship felt like it's going to crumble or implode, how will we salvage this relationship? Feel like the walls are caving in and closing in, the ceiling is falling. It's getting more narrow. Mitzrayim is not just a geographic

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