Each generation is to celebrate this watch-night as if it were the one leaving Egypt in haste. All slavery is alike. But there are different kinds of freedom. There is a freedom that comes after freedom, as the Children of Israel were to discover in the wilderness. No promised land awaited, only the hazards of the journey.
Freedom is hazard.
Yes, there is a kind of brief, hollow freedom that is only the absence of slavery. Seemingly limitless but really transient, that kind of freedom will always prove a swindle. It is not liberty but licentiousness. Call it cheap freedom. It does not cost much or last long.