We may spend two hundred dollars on sneakers or eighty on a skirt that would have been considerably less without the designer label. We are still in bondage. We may find ourselves hanging out with people we know we would be better off avoiding, acting in ways that we would find contemptible in others. We have returned to Egypt. As our investment in the ideologies that surround us grows, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to divest ourselves of our commitment.
Free choice requires an adequate understanding of the options at hand.
To choose without information is to be a slave to ignorance. Each of us must seek to root out cultural and personal bias and to uncover the universal truth that is the foundation of Jewish identity. Rabbi Yonason Goldson is a teacher at the Yeshiva High School of Atlanta. You are invited to read more Passover articles.