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Each and every one of us have righteousness, and each and every one of us has repentance to do. King Solomon says (-Ecclesiastic 7:20), “For there is no righteous man on earth who does good and sins not.” Isaiah (-60:21) states, “And your people, all of them righteous.” And both are true concerning each and every single one of us.
Nevertheless, there are those of us who find ourselves as only one or the other. Some of us are so super hypersensitive about our shameful mistakes, that we see ourselves as having no viable righteousness to ourselves, defining ourselves only as sinners, with only the journey of repentance as any hope of salvation. Others, see themselves as righteous. I don’t mean in arrogance, but rather, in a true self-evaluation, they find themselves to be organized, logical and decent. And for them, they see they journey of spirituality to be only that of a logical day-by-day steady growth, with no need for any irrational leaps of faith and commitment.
Both are lacking in seeing their true wholesomeness, which mandates a dual journey in their relationship with G-d. Without embracing our duality, we will always lack in our wholesomeness, and thus, in our inner-peace. In this lecture we will explore the mystical dimensions of Passover, teaching us of having a personal inner-communal Passover Seder, inviting all of who we are, the righteous and the repented within us, to the event.
This lecture is based primarily on a maamor the Rebbe delivered on this Shabbat in 1969, exploring why the Passover Sacrifice can be brought either from a lamb or from a goat, with no Biblical preference at all.
