The Talmud teaches that 30 days before Passover, we should start learning about the holiday and its meaning. In that spirit, I humbly offer "30 Days of Liberation." For each of the next 30 days, I will offer a brief message drawn from the wisdom of Passover. I hope you find these messages meaningful and inspiring. Feel free to share/forward.
30 Days of Liberation: Day 23 When Pharaoh’s daughter discovers Moses in the basket, the first thing she notices is that he’s crying. In the (previously mentioned) novel “Here I Am,” author Jonathan Shafran Foer asks, “What was Moses crying about? Was he crying for himself? Out of hunger or fear? Was he crying for his people? Their bondage, their suffering? Or were they tears of gratitude? Perhaps Pharaoh’s daughter didn’t hear him crying because he wasn’t crying until she opened the wicker basket.” Or maybe, Foer suggests, Moses was crying for all three reasons: the pain, the sadness, and the gratitude, all at once. Right now, you are the sum of all your experiences up to this moment. You couldn’t be who you are without the good and the bad, the pleasure and the pain, the successes and the failures. All of it was necessary to bring you to this moment. Even pain and sadness are, in their own ways, blessings. Those experiences, when they occur, may bring us to tears. Don’t allow your tears only to be expressions of agony. They can and should also be expressions of gratitude, for today’s pain helps you become the person you will be tomorrow.
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