<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">What I always have found interesting is that r<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; ">emoving chometz from our homes was to be a time for us to reflect on removing the inflated ego from our lives. We are to learn to be as humble and as unleavened as matzo. But then just a week later, we're back to eating chometz. In one way I see it as human nature. We may be successful to temporarily remove the inflated ego and arrogance, but</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">too often, it returns with a vengeance. I guess it would be too cumbersome to do away with chometz forever, but perhaps once a month (maybe Rosh Chodesh) we could symbolically eat matzah for that </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">day (or two) just to remind us that our ego must be kept in check.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Hope you all had a good Isru Chag yesterday.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Kol tuv.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">ri</span></font></div></body></html>