So Pesach, the Jewish festival of liberty and celebrating the miracle of Moses and his fight to get us out of Egypt, is over.
In many ways, this marks a victory over darkness and the emancipation of the Jews.
This is what we have been through, since the 7th of October. Breaking the chains that Iran had laid out for us, link for link.
Look at us now, we are free.
Then what should we do?
In my local Chabad class, we had this amazingly beautiful poem by king Solomon. A love letter. The Song of Songs.
The description of Solomon’s love to a woman.
Many see this as a celebration of the love to g-d.
But I think it’s just a way to describe Solomon’s feelings for a beautiful woman.
But can it be used to describe our relationship to Israel?
Our profound love and feeling of loyalty to a country so reviled by everyone else?
While everyone else hates Israel, we the real Jews, and the scions of the that long haired king, still love Israel.
I think that it is by that deep and endless loyalty to an ideal larger than ourselves, that we can gauge our relationship to g-d.
Because as we stay loyal and sincere, while as everyone else has abandoned that beautiful country, we show our love for the divine.
G-d bless the freedom of the Jewish people, and may we love, as Solomon.
