According to Kabbalistic tradition, dibbur, the capacity to speak, was exiled during the enslavement in Egypt and returned as part of the redemption. Passover is a holiday that moves us from this place of exiled, restrained speech to an overflowing place of song — the song at the Sea. This meditation offers an internal experience of this movement from lost voice to speech to song.
Sources (in the order in which they appear in the meditation):
Zohar 2:25b
Arami Oved Avi section in Haggadah
Ezekiel 16:7
Exodus 1:10
Avadim Hayinu section in Haggadah
Ana Bekoach, Friday night prayer before Lecha Dodi
Four Children section in Haggadah
Song of Songs 2:12-14
Nishmat kol chay Shabbat morning prayer
Song at the Sea (Exodus 15:2)
Photo is of my two older children Medad and Margalit when they were young.
