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What message can I take from a 3000 year old Passover holiday?

by Rabbi Herschel Finman

  

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The holiday of Passover represents the birth of the Jewish people. Seventy members of Patriarch Jacob’s family descended into Egyptian bondage. Two hundred and ten years later, this family emerged as the 600,000 strong Jewish nation.

The Hebrew word for Egypt is Mitzrayim. It shares the same root as the Hebrew word which means limitations. Each year on the holiday of Passover, and even daily, every Jew can experience a rebirth and an Exodus from their personal Egypt—limitations. The “I can't” of today must become the “I did that already” of tomorrow. This is just the beginning. Tomorrow there are higher limitations which must be breached.

The “I can't” of today must become the “I did that already” of tomorrow

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Passover
A Biblically mandated early-spring festival celebrating the Jewish exodus from Egypt in the year 1312 BCE.
Jacob
Third of the three Patriarchs and father of the Twelve Tribes. Lived most his life in Canaan and died in Egypt in 1505 BCE. Also known by the name of "Israel."
Exodus
1. The miraculous departure of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage in 1312 BCE. 2. The second of the Five Books of Moses. This book describes the aforementioned Exodus, the giving of the Torah, and the erection of the Tabernacle.