Freedom is a concept bandied about so much nowadays, but it mostly has to be with being freed *from* something: oppression, regulation, responsibility. Of course, liberation requires being free of the forces that demean you, but it's a thin conception of freedom that sees its end-goal as being rid of any and all expectations. It's a child's notion of freedom.
Passover presents us with a more complex and more robust notion of freedom, in which our liberation from slavery freed us to commit ourselves to that which is actually worthy of that infinite gift: the free self. It's a freedom that comes along with responsibility, to ensure that all around us can experience the gift of, the right to, freedom itself.
Chag Sameach!

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