"The Passover Challenge" - A Short Passover Message from Rabbi Mintz

[Music] my friends you are watching this video I'd like to challenge you with a question PES Passover is called the time of our freedom we know that the whole purpose of PES of going out of Egypt was for the Jews to accept the Torah Mount Si 613 mitzvah commandment 613 of them the Jews have to be careful perform and keep away from so many things do so many things is that called is that called Freedom Rabbi what's called a free person one who is busying himself with Torah Torah study Torah performance is that considered Freedom we have it sounds like slavery we have to keep all these mitzvah all these Commandments I don't know what you're thinking I'm asking this question but let me tell you my thoughts in the matter which I think is the truth the reason why we asked this question because man is made of two two parts his body and the Soul we're used to being in touch with our body we don't see our soul we see our body we feels our body and our body is is lazy and has a lot of character traits that are not like they should be and to perform the Mitzvah the Commandments we have to go against our bodly desires we have to be not lazy we want to go to pray to in the morning we have to get up out of bed if we want not to speak slander gossip L we have to control control ourselves control ourselves everything is controlling oursel and that seems to be uh uh in direct conf with how we feel how we feel good we have to be constantly slaves to keep the laws of the Torah so to speak because that's only if we look at it from the standpoint of our bodies but let's face the truth the main part of a person is our our soul not our body our soul wants to do the mitah our soul wants to study Tor our so wants to keep the shabas our soul wants to keep all the L kosher and and all the Lost between man and man between man and God when we don't keep the laws of the Torah our soul is ens slavery it's enslaved to our bodily desires when we keep the Torah our soul is very happy our soul is free soul is doing what it wants to do the soul wants to keep the Mitzvah does not find it difficult to keep the laws of the Torah on the contrary it feels very upset so to speak not to keep the laws of the Torah what's the main part of a person is that our body is our soul naturally our soul is a main part of our of our being our body dies and rats in the ground where a soul lives on forever of course the body will be reun reunited with the soul eventually but the soul of a person that's what our spiritual part of us that's our our main part of our being our creation as our soul when we say the time of a freedom a person is only free when he busies himself with the laws of the Torah that with performing the laws of the Torah that's really being free because our soul is very happy a soul is not lazy the soul wants to keep the laws of the Torah the soul is free when he keeps all the laws of the Torah and that's why he call this is how we have to focus on to realize that our eternal life is really our soul keeping us alive and our soul wants Torah so wants Mitzvah wants the performance of of laws of the Torah and that's really what our freedom really is time of our freedom that's we have to focus ourselves on so we think about the time of a freedom not like most people think that we didn't stop working for the Egyptians that's not our main Freedom our freedom was we we able to perform the Mitzvah and the soul is able to function and enjoy life the way really should would like to enjoy it so let's be more Soul people over PES let's be more spiritual think about what we really are think about our soul is what we really are and that's our will be performed the laws of the Torah that's the real Freedom we hope everybody has a very happy joyous Passover enjoy the matah enjoy the and enjoy the macaroons and that will be a wonderful passel for everybody