The Process of Becoming Free: A Passover Reflection

The Process of Becoming Free

As we prepare for Pesach, one thing to remember about getting out of your own Mitzrayim (constricted place) is that it’s not only something you pray for—it’s something you grow into.

Where there is growth, there IS change.

Resist the urge to believe that only your situation needs to change. Realize that it’s also the you within the situation that is being called to stretch.

The potential lessons within your life experiences are unfolding inside of you. They are there to teach you, to expand you, to elevate you—but only if you allow them to.

When you begin to uncover the lessons you are meant to learn, one of two things often happens:

Either the situation itself begins to change,

or you begin to see the situation differently--and transcend entirely.

Either way, when something within you has moved—that changes everything.

Remember: leaving a place of constriction is a process. And process takes time.

So if it feels like your prayers are not being answered because things aren’t changing fast enough—know this: they are.

Just not always in the way you expected.

That is why Hashem asks us to relive the story of the Exodus every year on Pesach. It’s bigger than history—it’s a blueprint. A living example of how redemption unfolds through process, and how we are meant to transform within it.

First, we were slaves.

And within that stage, we cultivated endurance, faith, humility, and servitude.

Then, when Moshe, our leader was born—we didn’t yet know what that would mean.

Redemption had already begun, even as we still felt trapped!

Hashem was unfolding one of the most monumental stories of all time—and we couldn’t yet see it, because we were inside of it.

Moshe and Aharon came to Pharaoh at Hashem’s command. The plagues followed, each one awakening another layer of our awareness, another step toward freedom.

And then came a moment of choice.

Each Jew had to decide:

Would we leave—embracing the unknown, the discomfort, the growth required for true freedom?

Or would we stay—choosing a different kind of hard… one that is familiar, but every day keeps us stuck?

When Hashem gives us an opening, there is always a choice.

Those who left did not only walk out of Egypt physically. They began the deeper journey; gradually shedding an old mindset and stepping into a new way of living, aligned with Torah. That was God'd deeper purpose for us.

And even then—it didn’t happen overnight.

Every step required processing, adjusting, learning, becoming.

And that is what we must remember.

As we sit at the Seder and internalize the story of the Exodus, we taking our current selves into history and bringing the lessons into our lives. And in this way, we continue the story...

Hashem is with us.

Within our constriction, our struggles, our uncertainty—we do have a voice.

And we do have a choice in how we show up, and what we allow ourselves to become.

But the growth… the gain… the transformation—

that unfolds gradually, over time.

We don't need to rush it, we simply need to live it.

And as we open ourselves—with humility, with trust, with a willingness to grow—

we will begin to discover that something far greater is unfolding, even now.

Because just like then, even when we cannot yet see it…

the redemption is already in process.

The question is not whether Hashem will lead you forward.

The question is:

are you ready to walk with Him—through the hardship, through the unknown—and into the freedom that is already waiting for you?