Our preparations for Pesach should remind us of the actions that prepared Bnei Yisrael to emerge to freedom. It’s an obligation for us to use those preparations as a tool to delve into the middos that bring a person to freedom of the spirit.
A person should not get caught in the net of the yetzer hara that prevents him from focusing inwardly on his preparations. The yetzer hara causes one to turn his actions upside-down into technical actions without inner content. (Rav Chaim Friedlander Sifsei Chaim Vol. 2 Page 445)
I love Pesach. It’s the chag of spring when the world awakens. I remember as a little girl I loved Pesach so much I was even willing to wash dishes. I had never liked that task preferring to fold clean piles of laundry to tackling greasy plates. Thankfully my sister was always ready to switch with me.
But on Pesach we had beautiful dishes with gold rims all the cups and saucers were matching and it was so new and pretty that I always agreed to wash them.
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