Losing our Stuff In Egypt This Passover

I can’t help but feel the irony of the Suez Canal being blocked on the eve of Passover. You see the Torah tells us as the Israelites left Egypt they could take only what they could carry. Fleeing Egypt they did not even have time to let bread rise hence eating matzah on Passover. Even as slaves in a strange land people were able to accumulate more material wealth than they could take with them as they traveled through the desert. On Passover, we are grateful for what we have and what was done for us therefore we say “Dayenu”…It would have been enough!

Jews all over the world celebrate Passover tonight. They will eat foods from all over the world on plates and silverware and tables made in foreign countries. Much of the materials probably traversed the Suez Canal at one point. I am no less guilty of collecting material goods from around the world. The laptop I write this on was manufactured on the other side of the globe. This past year has tested my need to travel the globe. I have spent most of the past year in one state, my home state, Florida.