Do You Want to Be Free? Then, Stay Connected To The Truth!

By Jane Andrews, Malasya

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Excerpt from Rabbi Moshe Perets – Live Meeting on Pesach for Noahides (2025/5785)

When we talk about Pesach, one word springs to mind – FREEDOM!

We all want to be free. What does it mean to be free?

HaShem freed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and brought them to a land that He promised to the Patriachs; Avraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov. HaShem led the children of Israel through the wilderness to receive the Torah at Har Sinai.  Every year on the 15th of Nissan, Jews commemorate this phenomenal event with the festival of Pesach.  So, as Noahides, what can we take from Pesach?

There are basically four levels of freedom corresponding to the four realms viz. minerals, vegetation, animals and humans. We are composed of these four realms and we can achieve freedom by moving up from physicality, to creation, to formation and finally to the world of emanation.

The realm of minerals or the inanimate is silent. It comprises water and stones. For the stone, freedom entails letting the stone be a stone. Do not attempt to break it, just let it be itself. We see streams of water flowing from their wellsprings and moving in a gravitational direction towards a body of water like a lake or sea or even an ocean. That is freedom for the inanimate world. For the world of vegetation or plants, freedom means surviving and maintaining growth through a steady supply of sun, water and earth or soil. Vegetation grows but it is not mobile unlike the third realm of animals. If we try to give sun, water and soil to a cow and tie it to a tree, it will be most unhappy because it cannot move. Animals find freedom in their mobility and fulfill themselves through movement.

Likewise, if we give sun, water, soil and movement to the fourth realm which is human beings, it would never be enough. Although human beings are provided with food and shelter, and be allowed to move freely, they would still feel stifled. Human beings would not feel free. Why? Because, HaShem created us to speak. We find expression in our purpose when we speak or communicate, without which, we would not be free. The sages teach that there is no free man apart from he who studies Torah. Man needs to be connected to HaShem; that is, by having a relationship with our Creator in order to fulfill our purpose. That is what constitutes a truly free person.

No amount of worldly physical treasures like a big house, a fancy car, elaborate food etc can ever hope to bring true fulfilment to us. The only fulfilment that we can have is to establish a relationship with our Creator, HaKadosh Baruchu. It is a decision that each of us will have to make. Do I want a relationship with HaShem for 5 minutes? A day? A lifetime? For those with families, what do you talk about with your children at home? You have a choice to impart to them the values and truths of Torah or otherwise.

How can we keep the Seven Noahide commandments and all their details if we do not know what they are, much less teach them to our children? We can only hope to find true freedom when we study the Torah. And that can be achieved through learning from kosher rabbis and teachers. A good place to start is the Noahide Academy of Israel which has a wealth of resources.

Let us learn and share the truths of Torah in our respective spheres of influence and make this world a dwelling place for HaShem.

May the knowledge of HaShem fill the earth as water covers the sea bed.

So, stay connected to HaShem!

By Jane Andrews Reviewed and edited by Rabbi Moshe Perets

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Rabbi Moshe Perets is the President of the Noahide Academy of Israel, Founder and Executive Director of NoahideAcademy.org, the world’s largest Noahide informational website. He accomplished his Rabbinical Studies at the Chabad Yeshiva and his medical studies at the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium.

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