If a person doesn’t meditate this way, he not only remains dry, he also becomes stressed and upset—as we see often that people become upset during these times. The reason for this is that these people are connected only to the external aspects of the mitzvah. They are now disconnected from the Ribbono shel Olam.
It’s lamentable that some people think of this time of Pesach preparation as spring cleaning. The home must be organized once a year in any case, they say. But with this way of thinking they lose the entire “neshamah” of the mitzvah, and they can thus become becomes nervous and stressed—because they left the Ribbono shel Olam out of their hachanah.
It’s ironic that as we’re engaged in a mitzvah, we would abandon the Ribbono shel Olam. But this is what sadly happens so often.
