confirmation

thank you lord for sending me what i needed to hear as i go into another pesach, as i hope to move from slavery to freedom.

oprah (aka new age ministress) in an interview with queen latifa just confirmed the following... and i quote

"32 is when you come into yourself and at 35 you're there."

amen!
dayenu!

nearly as inspiring as this more conventional (or maybe thats relative) pesach message that i read in this highly recommended hagaddah. dr joel ziff, says as follows:

Pesach of liberation from slavery in Egypt, which marks the birth of the
Jewish nation, also serves as a symbol for all the periods of exile and
redemption in Jewish history. As such, the Exodus represents deliverance; not
just from oppression in Egypt, but from all exiles and oppressions in the past,
in the present, and in the future. These events, which mark the turning points
in the development of the Jewish people, are also symbolic of critical points in
our own lives. As it says in the Haggadah, “Each of us is obligated to consider
ourselves as coming out of Egypt”. This transformation, the psychologist says,
is embodied in the passages we transverse as we give birth to ourselves: in
leaving home, in career changes, in marriage, divorce, in birth, sickness,
death, addiction and recovery from trauma.

Life can be overwhelming, sometimes leaving us feeling defeated,
hopeless and depressed -- in many ways feeling as the enslaved Israelites in
Egypt. Viewing our lives through the mirror of the Egyptian experience, we can
grasp onto a positive transformation through the Exodus story.

thats powerful....
get the hagaddah or apparently this book has more of the idea.

happy matza to you all!