Everyone has an Exodus

Hello my dawlinks!  My internet wasn't working, which I took as a sign from G-d to spend with my family and friends.  Setting up the table, making all the traditional eats... Oy! The nachas (joy) it brings!  The smells of baking chicken soup and matzo balls, brisket, roasted potatoes, coconut maccaroons, Passover cakes (no flour), real matzah, gefilte fish, the list goes on and on as does the meal itself.  I'm telling you, we ate for hours! 

But of course Passover or as we call it Pasach is not about the food (though it helps), it's about the telling of the story of how we survived once again and how Moses brought us out of Egypt and out of the hands of Pharoah.  It's the story of Exudos and the Ten Commandments (the movie with that good looking, gun slinger) which in truth was 613 Commandments, good luck in learning them all, and how, after forty years of wandering the desert, the Jewish people found their way to the Promise Land, which, by the way, Moses never stepped foot upon.  I wasn't there so I don't know for a fact, but I was told by some very smart Rabbis.

We all have a story of Exodus of kind or another.  My first one was the day I left the Mother Land for America; then the day I married my husband, Moisha and left my parents house.  Perhaps you might consider the day of becoming a parent a day of Exodus, leaving your carefree life behind and becoming responsible for another life.  Going off to college could be another type of Exodus and these are all positive things but I'm going throw one more at you, kindeleh; your pains.

Shokirn (Shock)?  Yes bubbelehs, your pain and woes are another type of Exodus.  G-d does not give you what you can't handle, He knows you better than you do!  This Exodus in particular is your tool to learn, to grow, bahershn (command, dominate) and in doing that teach others.  The Exodus of the heart and soul is one of the powerful and growing experiences you can have, liblings.  It frees you.

So my dawlinks give this a try; do a mitzvah (a good deed) for someone.  Not because your Yenta told you to and not because it's one of the 613 commandents but because you WANT to.  We, as Jews, as told to do a Mitzvah every day but told how.  Here's a hint, a Mitzvah is something from the heart.  It can be as simple as a smile to a stranger or as big as a donation to someone or an organization but it's done with truth of meaning.  Make this a part of your Exodus - It couldn't hurt! 

Tzizzan Pasach!  (Happy Passover)!  And for those of you that celebrate, HOPPY EASTER!  For the rest of us, once again, HAPPY FESTIVUS! 

As my grandson would say, "Party on Garth!"

Your

Yenta