And you shall rejoice in your festival --you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
“G‑d said to Jacob: I am the G‑d of your fathers. Do not fear descending to Egypt . . .” (Genesis 46:3)
The pain is real. The fear is not.
The pain is real, because we are not in our true place. Nothing is in its true place. It is called exile.
The fear is not real, because no matter where we are, our G‑d is still with us.
The only thing we have to fear is that we may no longer feel the pain. For it is that...
