Passover is our holiday of freedom. Our tradition provides a wonderful insight on the nature of freedom through a play on words. We find this wordplay in the Talmud, based on Exodus 31:16. That verse ...

Sermon Illustration Discipline Is the Price of Freedom We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free ...

Freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline. It is to be bought with a high price, not ...