Month of Miracles

Today begins the month of Nissan. Our forefathers were redeemed from Egypt and in Nissan the future will be redeemed, according to the Talmud-Book of Law. The name of the month, Nissan, is cognate to the word, Nissim/Miracles.

The first commandment to the Jewish People is to make this month, the month of Nissan to be the first of our months even though the world calculates years from the fall–Rosh HaShana/Head of the Year. The new year of the fall provides sustenance whereas the new year of the spring brings freedom.

Freedom is a miracle as witnessed by the great difficulties surrounding being free–but, what is free? The Torah says that the teachings will make you free yet the teachings involve endless laws. How do laws make you free? The laws are boundaries and within the law you can be free and spontaneous.

Animals are not free because they are restrained by their inherent nature which never changes–the most stringent boundaries; human beings are expected to go beyond their nature and spiritual laws allow a safe place for this constant transition.

The Cabala explains how Cheresh/Free is connected to Cheresh/Engraved; when the truth of our freedom is engraved inside within then our light shins into the world. The month of Nissan in the spring is the beginning to a new cycle of freedom and freedom is a miracle.