22. Pesach 5779: The Four Cups of Redemption

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/TheLighthouseProjectMiami/videos/2037454033216578/ Notes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p6y460bdhccn641/22.%20Pesach%205779%20-The%20Four%20Cups%20of%20Redemption.pdf?dl=0 -- How often do we feel disappointed when our efforts don’t bring us back the results that we were aiming for? How much more so, it is when we are speaking of spiritual matters, in which we feel that we truly stepped out of our comfort zone for G-d, and feel that G-d promised us if we do, we will receive spiritual reprieve, a spiritual meaning and sense of purpose and spiritual and emotional contentment. And yet, while we have truly taking this step, and not that we are deceiving ourselves, but we have truly, tangibly and practically taken this step out of our egocentric behaviors, and towards G-d’s will for me, and nevertheless, we do not experience the desired, or even promised, experience of life. Now, doubly so is the sense of dejection, if what we are searching for, is not a physical, or even spiritual, selfishness, but for to live the will of G-d for us. And, nevertheless, so it is, as a feeling of futility descends upon us. We are speaking here of a scenario in which we are the Pharaoh of our own Egypt, and within us we have our own Moses, the G-dly Soul, who comes to help us free ourselves from our inner-slavery. We hear Moses, we take guidance from our Moses, and we act on it, and still, no reprieve from our self-centeredness, which is the motive and drive for our every thought, speech and action. Rabbi Yitzchok Luria, the Arizal teaches that holidays are not (only) the past, but by remembering through study, prayer and observances of the holiday, we reenact the event once again. “Nizkarim V’Na’asim -[Through] Remembering and [we create the reenactment of the] what was done [happened],” is how the Arizal defines these words in the verse. Thus, in this lecture, we will search for our Personal Seder to create our personal Passover 2019 Redemption, of our present 2019 inner-exile, with which we struggle with. This lecture is based on a maamor the Rebbe delivered in 1965, on the second night of Passover, after the Seder, which explores the deeper, yet most practical, meaning to our drinking Four Cups of Wine at the Seder.