Rabbi's Message

There is poetry and meaning in the Jewish calendar that brings us the celebration of our freedom in the season of spring. It is on Pesach, Chag Haaviv, that we commemorate the formative moments of Yetziat Mitzraim, exodus from Egypt, and it's eternal message of renewal, the everlasting springtime of our nation.

It is the bright and hopeful reawakening of springtime -- bringing to life a world cold and lifeless through the hard winter -- that reflects the spiritual reawakening of the Exodus of our people. That excitement, that rejuvenation of life that abounds in spring so beautifully patterns the great and awe-inspiring event that is celebrated on Pesach.

It was the night of the Seder, "layl shimurim", the night of protection, that will forever remain the wondrous night of G-d's protecting and eternal love for us. Layl shimurim tells us that we have and will always have a guardian who will not let us perish. It is G-d who protects us, cares for, preserves, and nourishes us. He was our guardian that night in Egypt as well as throughout the time of suffering so that our light was not extinguished, our life did not expire, and our strength was not broken. Under G-d's protection the faint light flickering in the winter of our bondage was guarded and sustained to enjoy a great reawakening the night of layl shimurim, the night of the Seder.

On Pesach we herald and celebrate that glorious and wondrous Jewish spirit of reawakening and renewal. We commemorate that hope of springtime, that everlasting power that transforms our pain to great healing, our tears to great joy, and our despair to hope and salvation.

Now, more than ever, as we prepare for this holiday of renewal and blessing, we pray and yearn for a new light to shine to disperse the great darkness and danger that has enveloped our nation.

With that hope we confidently await the coming year that it may be the year that brings a great yeshua and geula, salvation and redemption, to Am Yisrael, Klal Yisrael, and Medinat Yisrael.