Freedom has its own demands. God brought His people out of Egypt with the express purpose of leading them to Mount Sinai, where He would bestow upon them a different code of conduct: His code of conduct, the Torah. Liberty is not merely freedom from interference -- the so-called "right to be left alone" -- it is the right to be left alone to pursue righteousness . There is no right to engage in evil; that is libertinism, not liberty. There is no right to participate in degeneracy; that is not freedom, but slavery to malice, greed and self-indulgence.
The obligations of freedom do not fade with time. "In every generation," reads the Haggadah, "it is one's duty to regard himself as though he personally had gone out from Egypt, as it is written (Exodus 13:8): You shall tell your son on that day: 'It was because of this that God did for me when I went out of Egypt.' It was not only our fathers whom the Holy One redeemed from slavery; we, too, were redeemed with them, as it is written (Deuteronomy 6:23): He brought us out from there so that He might take us to the land which He had promised to our fathers."
The call of freedom does not end with exodus from tyranny; the call of freedom demands more. It demands allegiance to the good, to the true, to the right; it demands allegiance to Him who led us from the hellish night of slavery to the bright sunlight of liberty.