Remembering Slavery so We Can Prevent It

Passover Reflections on Liberation from Oppression

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The purpose of the Passover Seder is not merely to remember, but to experience what it was like be slaves and to go through the process of liberation. Since we celebrate being allegedly free, we are called upon to tell the story and teach our children about the need for liberation in every generation. The Seder is loaded with symbol and rituals.

We encourage and even require our children to ask questions. Since there are different kinds of children, we tell the story to each in a way that they can understand.

Few of us imagined that we would actually be at risk of enslavement. As millions of us are awakening to the realities of the Great Reset, the Central Bank Digital Currency and the ability to control everyone like China’s social credit system, mandates, coercion, inescapable surveillance, digital passports and the end of privacy, in addition to remembering slavery, we are now called upon to prevent slavery. This time it is global and digital and ubiquitous. There are Pharaohs we know and Pharaohs we don’t know.

The path to liberation is marked by 10 plagues, ending with the killing of the first born. Mystically, the process has been likened to a birth, with the 10 plagues delineating 9 time periods, nine months of gestation. The name for Egypt in Hebrew is Mitzrayim, which means from the narrows. The escape is like going through the birth canal with the waters breaking.

Here is a maze, symbolizing escape to freedom, that you can print out.

Here are some thought experiments to ponder. Excerpts with a few explanatory inserts from me.

THE PASSOVER STORY – A CREATIVE RENDITION by Dr Simcha Rafael

1) THE PLACE OF SLAVERY. (Uncover the matzah and begin the reply - Avadim Ha-Yinu – We were slaves and now we are free)

REFLECTION ON THE PLACE OF SLAVERY

What are the ways in which you are in slavery in your life?

What are the implications of this slavery in your life?
How do you maintain that slavery?

2) PLACE OF SUMMONING (Raise the cup of wine and say - V’hi she-amdah –

“This is what has stood by our fathers and us! For not just one alone has risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand!”

REFLECTION ON THE PLACE OF SUMMONING
What are the ways in which you are being summoned by God this year?
What are the ways in which you are avoiding responding to God’s calling?
What are the challenges and tasks awaiting you as you respond to God’s calling for your life this year?

Sing: LET MY PEOPLE GO Traditional Spiritual

3) THE PHARAOH PLACE Narrator: With the guidance and support of the Eternal One, Moses and his brother Aaron went to the Pharaoh to fulfill their mission to redeem the Hebrew slaves. Appearing before Pharaoh they said:  Aaron: Thus says Adonai, the God of Israel: Let my people go that they may celebrate a festival for me in the wilderness. Narrator: And Pharaoh remained stubborn in his refusal to let the people go free. And so God sent the plagues upon Egypt, beginning with the turning of the water into blood.

Recite The Ten Plagues Sing Dayenu (It would have been enough – song of gratitude for each stage of liberation).

REFLECTION ON THE PHARAOH PLACE

What or who are your Pharaohs?
In what ways do you find yourself oppressed this year?

How do oppress others?

4) PLACE OF CHOICE

REFLECTION ON THE PLACE OF CHOICE
What are the choices you face in order to experience liberation?

How are you responding to those choices?
What do you have to sacrifice in order to be liberated?

5) PLACE OF LIBERATION

Narrator: In every generation a person must view herself or himself as though she or he had come forth from Egypt, as it is written: “And you shall tell your child on that day saying: ‘on account of this thing which the Eternal One did for me when I came out of Egypt.’” But it was not only our ancestors whom the Holy Blessed One redeemed, but equally redeemed us along with them, as it is written: “And the Eternal One brought us forth from there in order to bring us to and give us the land which had been sworn to our ancestors.”

Narrator: And so that night of Pass-Over, which is also this night, was a night of divine revelation for the Israelites. The Eternal One, who manifested for our ancestors, and continues to be present for us, delivered the Children of Israel from the Egyptians. And the Israelites sang:

REFLECTION ON THE PLACE OF LIBERATION

What is your vision of liberation in your own life?
What are the steps you need to take to experience liberation?

Let’s experience, remember, wake up and join forces. If there might something like divine intervention, let’s bring it on!

Happy, profound and meaningful Passover, Easter, Ramadan. Make meaning and find inspiration, whatever your path is.

Also see reflections from truth teller, Janet Phelan,

Passover Reflections—The Flight from Oppression Towards Freedom

Op-Ed by Janet Phelan

As the narrative goes, somewhere around 2000 BC a number of Jews fled slavery in Egypt to find refuge in the promised land. This story, with its central threads of oppression and redemption, has very strong resonances throughout history and is again rearing up as the central theme in our geopolitical crisis today.

From my friend, Josh Mitteldorf

We the people have fought many kinds of oppression over the years. The oldest was enslavement by brute force. Then economic serfdom became dominant. Today these are far from extinct, and yet they are in disrepute. The modern way of enslaving people is by controlling their minds, and diabolically, the legitimization of censorship is gaining ground today. This is the greatest threat to our freedom that humanity faces at present. I propose that we dedicate this year’s seder to freedom of expression, and that each of us who wants to has the opportunity to bring a story of someone whose voice has been suppressed. I'm going to write a paragraph about each of these people, and I encourage you to think about other suppressed voices, especially women.

• • Socrates

  • Giordano Bruno

  • Hildegard von Bingen

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • W E B Dubois

  • Eugene Debs

  • Nicola Tesla

  • Martin Luther King

  • David Bohm

  • Julian Assange

  • Vladimir Zelenko

  • Robert Lazar

  • Robert Jahn

  • Martin Fleischmann and Julian Schwinger

  • Andrew Wakefield

  • Peter McCullough

  • Alexander Solzhenitsin

  • Wilhelm Reich

  • David Ray Griffin

  • Thomas Merton

  • Stanislaw Burzynski

  • Meryl Nass

  • Emma Goldman

  • Rachel Carson

  • Anita Hill

  • Tituba

  • Samuel Hahnemann

  • Timothy Leary

  • Cynthia McKinney

  • James Joyce

  • D. H. Lawrence

  • Ruby Loundge

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene

  • Bella Abzug