Comment: Passover is a big celebration of the exodus from Egyptian slavery. It is celebrated by almost the entire country [Israel] and by all the Jews in the world.
This, of course, is also a family holiday; that is, everyone gathers at a festive meal, and everyone is waiting for it.
For those who study Kabbalah, Passover is a person’s understanding that he is enslaved in his egoism and he is fleeing from it.
My Response: He is fleeing from it—he is not exactly fleeing from it because in Egypt there was everything!
Everything you can imagine as communism in this world was there. In principle, they had everything ready for them; they had the best land and everything they could wish for. But ahead of them was a dead desert, a dead sea; everything was dead and full of uncertainty, nothing good. So where is the Egyptian slavery and where are we going? This is the question.
The whole work in Egypt is to picture that all the desert in front of you is paradise. And everything in Egypt (where everything is fine and absolutely everything you want) is hell. Egypt is an egoistic fulfillment, fulfilled by everything you wish.
It relates to each of us. It is our Egypt. Everything is good in it; there is everything here. All the pleasures of this world in all their details and in all their variations are at your disposal.
Nobody wants to get out of it. All is good in general. The only one who feels bad is the one who is not like them, the one who wants to get the people out of there.
Who wants to get the people out? Moses. So, what good did he do? For centuries after that, we only feel bad. There is nothing better than Egypt!
Comment: But it is written that we were slaves in Egypt.
My Response: We were slaves because we were in our egoism, but we got practically everything we could wish for.
Question: So why does a person suddenly want to get out of this fairy tale?
Answer: That is how a person is built.
Question: Why does he suddenly hear Moses? This is instead of listening to the Pharaoh who says: “Stay here, I will provide you with everything, and everything will be fine.” And Moses says: “We will go into the unknown, into the desert. Follow me.” Why did they follow him?
Answer: Apparently, Moses told the Creator that something had to be done with them to make them want to leave. Moses made an agreement with the Pharaoh and with the Creator that there would be Egyptian executions of the Jews, from which they would want to run away. But if it had not been for those executions, they would have run nowhere. And if they had not wanted to run away, then there would have been no executions.
Question: That is, after all, the egg was first? Did they want to escape in some way at first?
Answer: I think it was Moses who made an agreement with the Creator: “Let us arrange it so that they still want to follow me.”
Question: But still you said that Jews suffered from the ten plagues there. Even the Egyptians had a hard time. It is written that the Egyptians suffered the most.
What does it mean, in your understanding that the Egyptians suffered from ten Egyptian plagues?
Answer: It is the egoism of a person who wants to be free. That is, it was unclear to whom and how to be subordinate. But the main thing was to break out of this communism that had everything. There was everything in abundance.
Question: Are the Egyptians this communism that exists within us, this egoism? They want to keep us and ask: “Why are you running away from there? You feel so good there.” Does it turn out this way?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What is the Passover holiday for the world? Jews celebrate it materially and Israel celebrates it. But what is this holiday for the world?
Answer: It is liberation from Egyptian slavery; it is liberation from egoism; it is the liberation of man from himself. I do not want to be controlled by an egoistic property that wants to get hold of everything, to be filled with everything, and thinks only about that. I want an altruistic property to control me so I want to connect with others, to fill others, and not myself. This is the desire that emerges. This is Moses in us.
We become Jews when we hear Moses when Moses is inside us. And if not, then we are the same Egyptians.
Question: Can we say that there are only two kinds of people in the world? Are there two kinds of people in the spiritual world?
Answer: Yes, you are either an Egyptian or an Israelite. There is nothing in the middle.
An Israelite is one who is directed to the Creator, Isra-El, meaning straight to the Creator. And the Egyptian is directed toward himself.
Question: When you say that this holiday is for the world, does the world have to decide who it is today?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: Today is such a critical moment that we really need to resolve this.
My Response: We do not even realize it yet. The world is unaware of where it is being led, completely unaware!
Question: But can we say that the Egyptian plagues are taking place all over the world now?
Answer: Yes! It is very serious. There is such a wave all over the world.
Question: But maybe the world will come to an understanding that it is necessary to get out?
Answer: It all depends on us, how we show this path to the world—the path of development, the path of unification, what should be ahead, and what to strive for. Will we be able to do it?
Question: Do we have to show it so that it somehow would be pleasant, sweet, and happy for a person?
Answer: Both sweet, pleasant, and necessary! That is, it should not attract someone because it is sweet. No one sees that in Egypt it is sweet as well.
But there the sweetness comes from freedom from egoism. That is, the feeling of slavery in Egypt is opposed to freedom from egoism outside of Egypt. And a person must grow inside oneself to such an extent that this difference between the two states simply pulls one forward.
Question: So must the world today hear that it is necessary to get out of egoism, out of Egypt?
Answer: Yes. We are stuck!
Question: It turns out that we were a little delayed in this Egypt. And what is happening now is pushing us out. Don’t we feel the need to get out of it?
Answer: But we must set a course, we must understand, we must strive, and we must pull everyone along with us.
Question: When you say “we,” who do you mean?
Answer: First, I mean those people who can understand and realize this, who are striving forward, Yashar Kel, Israel. And everyone else will follow.
Question: It is not necessarily the Jews that are directly to the Creator?
Answer: The main mass, the initial mass are Jews, that is, those who experienced in the past, in their roots, the state of exodus from egoism. And the rest will go and join “Israel.” There is absolutely no question about this. The whole point is to raise Jews.
Question: What is your prayer today?
Answer: My prayer today is to fulfill the role of Moses, to pull out this head part of all of humanity, which is called Israel, aspiring to the Creator, and which in potential can aspire to the Creator, to pull it out of such, I would say, a somnambulistic state, and begin to excite them so that they themselves at least somehow try to want, to worry, and to rise forward to the exit.
Question: Is it in order that at least a thought arises that it is necessary to get out of egoism? But first, you always say that egoism is bad. Or is it not?
Answer: Egoism is bad depending on how you measure, weigh, look at, feel, smell, and taste it. But in fact, egoism is everything that gives you taste and life.
And altruism, freedom, what is it in? You go out into the field, and you do not know what, what for, or why.
Moses is not one person, in principle. It is a whole group of people who understand that the future lies in getting out of egoism. How can we get out of it? This needs to be studied and we should begin to apply it between us. And each time we take each step, it is done again out of the darkness, when we allegedly do not see any attraction in egoism, when we begin to try to get out of it and find that it holds us for all our feelings, for everything! And you cannot get rid of it.
And then we should only stick together and cry out.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/14/22
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