Our Precious Holiday of (Limited) Freedom: חג החירות המוגבל Over the past few months, three thinkers have helped me to understand a more layered approach to the concept of freedom, one that I will bring to the Seder and Pesach this year. Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals In this amazingly thoughtful book, Burkeman says that while we often think and frame ourselves as free, our “freedom” is actually very limited. Our capacities, our abilities and our time, are undeniably finite. And, ironically, that limit can sometimes be freeing. He writes, “it’s not that you’ve been cheated out of an unlimited supply of time; ..it’s almost incomprehensibly miraculous to have been granted any time at all……There is a very down-to-earth kind of liberation in grasping that there are certain truths about being a limited human from which you’ll never be liberated. You don’t get to dictate the course of events. And the paradoxical reward for accepting reality’s
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