Pesach! What True Freedom Really Means | Rabbi Michael Khaimov

We have coming very shortly the grand holiday of Pesach. It's the holiday of our freedom. >> [music] >> And we must discuss this topic of freedom. We live in a country. >> [music] >> It's the world of the free. That's what it's called anyway. And the question is, what about it? What about this freedom? Is it that brought us to this country? So if it's in terms of doing what we want and when we want it, I don't think that's what freedom is. Freedom is the ability to be able to connect to your spiritual roots. >> [music] >> Freedom is the ability to be able to be found in synagogues and Bet Midrash. Freedom is the opportunity to educate children in the ways of Hashem Yitbarach, in the ways of the Torah Kedosha. That's what freedom is. Being able to go where you want and when you want, that's [music] nice, but that's all a prerequisite for greater and loftier pursuits. If a person lives 120 years, living free, going from vacation to vacation, from island to island, but never really utilizing his freedom towards what? [music] Towards connection to Hashem. Like the Torah writes, I have taken you out of the clutches of Egypt. [music] I have done it to Elohim on the Har Zeh. Now you must serve Hashem on this mountain. Meaning I gave you this freedom with a loftier purpose of serving Hashem on Har Sinai and serving Hashem throughout our lives. Freedom is a uh means, it's a medium to something greater and loftier. And we must commemorate that. That in America they preach they preach freedom, >> [music] >> but that freedom sometimes it's dangerous when it's not guided and it's not directed and it's all in material in the material realm, but nothing to lead to something more spiritual, [music] to a heartfelt uh uh uh prayer, to a uh uh serious Torah learning uh session. A person who doesn't utilize his freedom >> [music] >> for the education of his children, for growth spiritually, then that freedom is in vain. And Hashem teaches us, I'm going [music] to take you out of Egypt. It's Zman Cheruteinu, a time of our freedom. But freedom is only when we're able to connect [music] ourselves to these spiritual pursuits. And that's why I believe our parents came to this country. They wanted us to be free, but not [music] just financially free. They wanted us to be able to connect our spiritual roots. And so the message is we must [music] make sure that our children they stay close to that link that connects us to how to Sinai. They [music] connect to spirituality and that's the true hair root, the true freedom that I could ask my who wanted for all of us. May we merit a [music] beautiful Pesach kosher with summer.