With time racing and Passover impending, the question arises: what does it mean to be free? Conventionally, freedom is associated with being able to do what you want, being devoid of limitations, becoming free of constrictions, and not be binding by obligations.
Passover teaches us that true freedom is defined not by being limited in what you can do but being free in who you can become. Externally, a man’s actions can be at his liberty but, internally, he can be a slave in his mentality.
Life is not about finding yourself but rather creating yourself. Creating yourself is about cultivating your personality, and it can be done whether you’re enslaved to a master or in prison under torture, and the only one that can stop you from being you is you and only you. So it follows that the true freeman is not the one who can do what he likes in his actions but the one who can become what he dreams in his emotions and intentions.
2014