Emet Inspire - Rabbi Benyamin Yuhanan - Pesach

Shalom as we enter the 30-day preparation for Passover we can ask ourselves a question why is it that God freed us from the slavery in Egypt and took us out of the country of Egypt why wouldn't it be good enough if he just removed the slavery from us and allowed us to choose whoever wants to stay in Egypt stays in Egypt whoever wants to travel to another country can travel to another country why not just punish the Egyptians and make us free in the land of Egypt and the question is strengthened when we remember the famous song Dano we say Hashem you didn't have to do everything for us you could have done a little bit less if you didn't do this it would be enough if you didn't do this it would be enough but the first thing that we cannot accept less than we say Hashem if you just took us out of Egypt it would have been enough that's the foundation why don't we say Hashem if you removed the bonds bonds of slavery from us if you would have made us free it would have been enough no it wouldn't have been enough why not and the end answer is it's not enough for a person to become free it's not enough for a person to stop doing whatever bad he was doing because if he's still in that location if he's still in that environment eventually he will go back to his old ways if we would have become free but we would stay in Egypt we would not be able to become God's Nation the chosen people the holy people if we stayed in the same environment among our former Masters among the people who we saw serving Idols immoral Society our freedom would not do us any good it's only after we remove ourselves from that environment and go to a better environment then our freedom matters and the same way a person who did a made a mistake in his life and he sinned it's not an enough to say Hashem I apologize I'm not going to do it again if he is still in the same environment with the same friends same influences he should not make a mistake he will go back to his old ways he must remove himself from his company he must create a new environment and only then he can honestly say to Hashem I am never going to repeat the sin I am a new person and then Hashem will say I see that you are serious you not only recognized the bad but you removed yourself from the bad just like the ram tells us if the society that you live in is not good you have to move to a different Community if all the communities are not to your standard you have to go into Wilderness separate yourself from negative influence because eventually it will have an effect and that is the lesson the first lesson that we learned about Passover that we need to ask Hashem not only to save us from the trouble but he also needs to remove us from the bad environment in which we got into trouble and we pray to Hashem that he should bring gah Redemption mashia and take us out of galut we don't want to remain in the United States with all the Comforts and privileges even that is not good enough we want to go back to our homeland we want to go back to Jerusalem we want to have our kohanim we want to have our prophets our leaders be may we witness the coming of mashia and the Redemption of the entire Jewish people and the rebuilding of Jerusalem amen shabat shalom