There are two things that can limit human freedom:
The first limitation is the physical limit: You are trapped within the limits of nature, you can not
leave time or you can not heal, the second limitation is the
internal bondage , you create a need to work, you have no freedom and you can not
let go. the first limitation, realistic, we are born, but
God wants us to break the boundaries of reality, and this is done with
the culture. I'm not talking about art, but about all human creation
is not natural. As soon as humanity developed agriculture, it has been increasing
the limit of nature. fire It is overcoming darkness, transportation over
distances, electronic communication breaking the limits of distance Estate
suddenly created a paradox: what liberates you is what limits you.
The technology, in culture, overcomes the limitations but that
Breathing creates bondage. You used to be able to get along with a tent and a donkey,
today you need a lot more, you are enslaved to countless things that
you think you must. They talk like a house with toilet and kitchen and bed to
smartphone and wattsap. Everything seems basic and necessary. I just saw graffiti:
"The luxury of today is the need of tomorrow."
This is the essence of Egyptian culture. Egypt was the height of civilization and the height of
enslavement. The midrash says that no slave escaped, even though there were no guards.
People preferred to be slaves in Egypt than to be free. Even
today we prefer to work like a donkey in a flea market in America but to
be at the height of civilization than to live in a less civilized and developed place
that will allow us to rest.
Judaism, as I understand it, is the balance between these movements. We
pride ourselves on being a "start-up" and so on, but that's not the point
Our job is not to invent new things all the time, but
to take the existing culture and choose from it what is right and what is not. "
