PERSONAL FREEDOM

Dear Family,

I hope that everyone is well.

Wishing a refuah shlemah for Yechezkiel ben Ester

Mazal Tov to Brian and Sharon on their 50th Wedding Anniversary! What an amazing and beautiful achievement! Kol Hakavod to you both, and wishing you many more happy and healthy years together BEH.

We wish Avi long life for the Yohrtzeit of his dear father Reb Yisrael Meir ah, coming up next week. His Neshamah should have an Aliyah, and I am sure that he is very proud of all the amazing efforts being performed by all of his Family BH.

Mazal Tov to Zalmy and Nechama Dina on the Pidyan Haben of Ariel Rachamim Alexander BH!

The current Sedras are describing the breaking of the power of Pharoah's grip on the Jewish People, resulting in our subsequent Exodus and Freedom from Egypt.

Connected to this, today's Hayom Yom explains how this relates to our own personal lives, which I would like to share:

The Hebrew word for Egypt is Mitzrayim.

The root of this word, metzar, means constriction or limitation.

In ourselves, spiritually, this reflects our animal soul severely restricting our G-dly soul, to the degree that it becomes diminished and hidden.

Our exodus from Mitzrayim is the removal of these constrictions and boundaries.

This comes about when the intellect in the brain is freed, to illuminate what is going on in the heart, bringing about fine character traits, translated into actual practice.

Gut Shabbos to all