Feeling Free - R. Yitzchak Oelbaum - TorahAnytime.com

While teaching his class in YTT in Staten Island, I mean Chaim Leverton was discussing the custom of married men wearing a kittel by the seder. As the Rebbe spoke, one boy in his class says, "My grandfather does not wear a kittel." And Leverton was perplexed. He knows Chabad, some Ger Chassidim, some of them do wear a kittel, but this boy was a regular Ashkenazi boy. What was going on? And the boy looks at him and he says, "Rebbe, but my father does wear a kittel." "But your grandfather doesn't?" "No, grandfather doesn't." He says, "Why?" He said, "We come home from shul, my grandfather goes up to his closet and takes out that striped uniform that he wore in the concentration camp. And he puts that on and that's what he sits at the seder with. It's with that striped shirt that he sits at the seder with cuz he wants to remember what it means to be a slave. And now he's free." What better way to make kind the words who yatzanu Mitzrayim? That was his way of trying to get out of Mitzrayim. Everybody has their own shibudim that they felt they were stuck over the course of the year and we're able to get out of whatever that feeling was. Could be at work, could be at school, could be a relationship, whatever you have, it doesn't matter, but everybody has that nekudah that we feel like gave us and let us free. If you look at that, that will help us talk and be make kind the mitzvah of odem l'eros k'ilu yatzanu Mitzrayim.