The Torah, “Leviticus” 26:1 – 26:2: You shall not make idols for yourselves, nor shall you set up a statue or a monument for yourselves. And in your land you shall not place a pavement stone on which to prostrate yourselves, for I am the Lord, your God. You shall keep My Sabbaths and fear My Sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Not to prostrate yourselves means to try to be as independent as possible—free.

This is a paradox, but freedom and independence must be formatted under the slogan, “for I am the Lord, your God,” which implies absolute lack of freedom. It is in this absolute lack of freedom that I attain that I must be totally free, which means to ascend above myself and be united with the Creator.

It is actually in the unity with Him that I achieve complete independence. It is hard to perceive this paradox because of its duality, but it exists. Scientists who deal with quantum physics also are beginning to realize this duality. Although they don’t perceive it, theoretically they realize that it is so.

However, how can we integrate these two opposites? It is absolutely impossible. It is impossible in our one-dimensional perception. We cannot even imagine what it means to be free according to our unity with the force of the Creator. In order to do so, we need to have an internal system that combines the two opposites.

Question: This means that I must be free of all the idols and graven images that I follow.

Answer: The idols and the graven images are essential for my development. I must hold on to something, like a child who holds on to some toy, a pacifier, or a blanket, and cannot manage without it. I feel the world through them.

It is impossible to advance without idols and graven images since we develop to the extent that we ascend above them. Each time I change the different deities until I ascend above these states by becoming totally free of the idols and at the same time am totally dependent on the Creator.

This phenomenon is typical of our times when the idols and graven images gradually disappear and a person seems to find himself hanging in the air. We are beginning to cleanse ourselves of them, but, at the same time, they also are flourishing and spreading. We soon will see the growing attraction to religion and more wars that are supposedly desirable to God.

Humanity somehow needs to cut off this tight and complex connection and do something about the economy and politics and the harm they have caused the world.

However, they will solve nothing by this method. The only alternative for the sufferings is the proper education of people and bringing them to the recognition of what is going on in the world. There is nothing else but that, no other method of changing man or of putting pressure on us, on the part of nature or society. This critical point is getting closer.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/19/14

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The Torah, “Leviticus” 26:3 – 26:4: If you follow My statutes and observe My commandments and perform them, I will give your rains in their time, the Land will yield its produce, and the tree of the field will give forth its fruit.

The Creator’s commandments are the laws of nature—both the laws of nature of our world that we partly see, understand, and know about, and the laws of the upper nature that is concealed from us—which are based on the attributes of love and bestowal, mutual cooperation, and understanding.

Your threshing will last until the vintage, and the vintage will last until the sowing; you will eat your food to satiety, and you will live in security in your land. (Leviticus 26:5).

This means that everything will return to its normal state, not only in our corporeal life when a person has everything that he needs, but also in the spiritual life. If we begin to keep the laws of the Torah, we will receive a reward on the level that we fulfill them, either on the spiritual or the corporeal level, or on both levels together.

The system is built so that if we are normally incorporated in it and fulfill our role, taking our niche in nature, all of nature operates harmoniously, thus filling each of us with harmony.

Question: What is the meaning of, “you will eat your food to satiety, and you will live in security in your land?

Answer: It refers to the two levels. One level is our human level that we feel in order to bring and adapt us to the second level, to the spiritual level. Bread is the embodiment of the attribute of Hassadim (bestowal, Bina). “You will eat your food to satiety,” means connecting to Bina and fully attaining this attribute. The word, land, stems from the word, desire (Ratzon). “And you will live in security in your land,” means that we must fulfill all the conditions in our desire, and then all the desires will be filled.

The Torah describes the structure of the system that operates and influences us, which is called the system of the spiritual worlds: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. We advance in these Sefira, and our mutual cooperation with it is only possible when we are connected mutually in a right, harmonious manner, complementing one another and creating one whole sphere of all of humanity inside it.

If we keep this condition, we find ourselves in total harmony with the external Sefira as a result of our common desires (desire meaning land), and everything that is good fills us. We feel this system in a perfectly precise manner, and it feels us in the same manner, and thus we work together.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/12/14

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Question: How do we relate to the powerful, multi-leveled intimidations that are abundant in the Torah, like “If you won’t follow My laws… etc.”?

Answer: The Torah never intimidates anyone. It is a clearly written instruction and like any other it explains what and in what order things should be done.

I remember one time when professionals showed a technical specification to a scientist. He looked it through and said: “If you follow this instruction, you’ll get an accordion instead of a submarine.” Everybody was perplexed, looked at each other and silently stepped away from the scientist. Later, things turned out to be as the scientist predicted. In other words, knowing the laws means: “If we act in a certain way we’ll get certain results…”

Comment: Do you mean that similar to those “professionals” all humanity doesn’t hear “the scientist?” We are warned: “Do not turn rivers backwards. It will ruin the ecology!” Nevertheless, we still do what we want.

Answer: Yes, you are right. It was a communist project. The world was afraid that they would actually reverse the flow of rivers. There is nothing you can do with an uncontrollable country that was all of a sudden preoccupied with a crazy idea. Should they ever implement this plan, it would change the world ecology and turn the Earth into a lifeless planet. Water would disappear and life would vanish from the face of Earth.

Fortunately such grandiose projects are quickly forgotten. It’s incredible that they considered this plan in the first place. Humanity must choose a different path of advancement. There are other ways of getting a greater harvest.

When I was in Krasnoyarsk, someone asked me: “Is it possible with the help of Kabbalah to correct what happened after the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric station was built?” Locals told us that after the dam was built fish stopped spawning; everything around the construction died; things are not as they used to be. We should never interfere with the laws of nature.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 11/12/14

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The Torah, “Leviticus” 25:51: If there are still many years, according to them, he shall return his redemption [money] out of the money for which he was purchased.

I can get into an agreement with my owner and gradually “buy myself out.” He will let me go under the condition that for each year of freedom I will repay him the amount of silver that equals the sum that he paid to purchase me. In other words, I will return “the screen” to my owner. “Silver” in Hebrew is “kesaf”; it derives from the word “kisuf” that stands for “a covering, a screen.”

Question: If everything that the Torah tells about takes place inside us, what does my brother who I can sell mean?

Answer: There is a condition: Approach me and I will repay you. In other words, I can go to a store and take whatever I need even if I have no money. However, my name will be added to a debt book. I will be allowed to take endlessly as soon as I use everything I take from “the store” to enhance my spiritual elevation. Again, I can take from the spiritual store everything I want. The major condition is that I should use whatever I take from there correctly.

As soon I start using things that I take from the “store” in the wrong way, things that I get and keep are considered my debt and are registered in a special category. On the Day of Judgment, a calculation is made: how much I received and how much I returned.

On my spiritual path, I should always use this opportunity for my advancement. That’s why the Torah says that if an owner bought a slave, the latter can be freed under the condition that they come to an agreement that the slave gradually, day after day, month after month, year after year, returns the price for which he was purchased.

It means that one should cling to the upper Partzuf and the latter will feed him. One stays under the screen of the Upper. One works with the Upper Light, and by annulling one’s egoism one works together with the upper Partzuf as a fetus or as a minor Partzuf.

One can come out of the Upper’s influence only if one “repays” him. Although, there is a problem here: Who will take care of one, should one come out of the authority of the upper Partzuf? One is still very small. It means that one’s relatives have to take guardianship over one and that one has to transition from one governance to another. This kind of transition is called “a shift” from one power to another. It’s as if you are moving from one country to another that has a totally different system of governance.

It is not easy since one alters the means of one’s spiritual elevation with the help of which one rises.

Question: What kind of desire plays this game with us?

Answer: The desire to be independent and optimally use ourselves at every given moment of our advancement. Getting out of the authority of someone else’s owner and finding our own host is a very big step forward.

In order to understand who “somebody else’s owner in us” is, we have to know the law of the inverse relationship between desires and lights. So, being maximally independent of somebody else’s owner means that I do great work that is equal, let’s say, to the force multiplied by the distance. The greater the distance between us, the more exertion I apply, thus getting a bigger screen and attracting more light.

Each one who reads this passage should interpret it in their internal language and start slowly “grinding” and cleaning oneself.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/19/14

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The Torah, “Leviticus” 25:39 – 25:41: And if your brother becomes destitute with you, and is sold to you, do not work him with slave labor. As an employee or a [hired] resident, he shall be with you; until the Jubilee year he shall work with you. Then, he shall leave you he, and his children with him, and he shall return to his family and resume the status of his fathers.

If I have desires that are not ready to exist separately, I must keep them with me and with all seriousness, “stand them on their feet.” After finishing all the work on the entire cluster of desires, they detach and move away from me independently and continue their independent existence.

We are always talking about desires and not about bodies. This speaks about a schema in which an immense desire exploded into 600,000 parts that must be reconnected with each other to transform again into one general whole, even though egosim and mutual rejection is burning within them. All of this remains, but it is covered and neutralized through love.

It follows that this tremendous ego and tremendous love, which is created between them thanks to the ego, remain and gather intensity, inner attainment, and inner unity with the Creator. Therefore, all the problems are only needed to reveal more obviously the state of our unification with the Creator. Everything revolves around this; there isn’t anything else.

Servants are those desires that cannot be independent, so they seem to have been sold into slavery. That is, I agree that that it is necessary for me, like a small child,  to be ruled by someone great, because there is evil in me and I want someone more mature than me to manage me, otherwise I will go on in a bad way. So, I agree with this voluntarily.

A person who cannot serve and take care of his ego by himself is subordinate to another person (a greater ego) and if adhered to him, is ready to work with him for his ego, because in this case, the one who is greater will protect him and take care of him. This is like a child who compensates his parents by giving them pleasure. That is how nature created us. I give my parents pleasure and in exchange they take care of me. And if nature hadn’t created me such that merely through my existence I gave pleasure to my parents, they would not be concerned about taking care of me. So the servant gives pleasure to his master and is ready to work for his sake. And the master takes responsibility for him, for his life and the satisfaction of his needs.

In our world, we incorrectly understand slavery. Slavery is a state that one enters with his own free will. As long as I want to be a servant, I remain a servant. And if I prove that I want to be freed from the shackles of servitude, this will happen immediately. We see this in the example of the Exodus from Egypt, which represents egoistic servitude. If you want to abandon the ego, then please, all that remains is to show your desires: what you are ready for.

Am I ready to live independently, without the ego, and get fulfillment and food for myself, to work on the development of this process? Do I understand that this is not for the sake of the ego, but for the sake of the Creator? How must this be realized? If I show proof of all of this, then the way is open.

Question: But from a spiritual point of view, a servant wants to have a master, for this is sweet for him, this is a good situation. Why should he leave it?

Answer: Incidentally, that is how it was. Slavery was not submission and subjugation! But I have to show that I have matured, that I want to and can take care of myself and my family. I no longer have a need for a master who manages me; I am ready to manage myself. And the ego that controls me, whispers to me: “What do you want this for, why? Live in comfort!”

We see that seven billion people want to be slaves. There is no one who wants to become independent in place of the Creator, meaning to care about everyone. Nobody wants this! Everyone wants the conventional material prosperity, swirling among them, helping each other within their little closed circle. This is their small world, and what is outside of it doesn’t interest them. After all, in a small circle, I feel everyone else like myself. Whereas in a large circle, I need to go outside of the boundaries of my self. It follows that society has not yet developed sufficiently.

I feel partnership only with someone who is equal to me and I am not ashamed of that. The main thing is that I will be like him and he will be like me. We aspire to it and pay careful attention to this. The entire goal of our existence is to feed our beast (the physical body), and bring a person to a state of absolute equality with everyone. This creates a very interesting situation, a natural communism, where people exist according to the laws of nature, satisfied with only the minimum necessities of existence.

Suppose that I raised carrots, cabbage, and potatoes in my garden. For the winter I have five sacks of potatoes, two sacks of cabbage and I don’t need anything more. Why should I work anymore and toil for someone else? Would it be for how the neighbors will look at this?! Why should I suddenly tear down the borders of my circle? That is how we live.

Comment: It is amazing, but 70% – 80% of people really don’t even want to expand their plot of land, because what they have is sufficient for them.

Answer: And this is a natural communism that is revealed on the animal level. After all, animals in the forest search for their food for for that day, and the next day they search for something else. Whereas among people, this is revealed a bit differently. They know in advance what they minimally need to live.

Is it possible to rise above this state? It must try to do so with the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah, that begins developing desires not in a negative direction, in the direction of the ego, but in a positive direction, towards altruism. Equally altruistic and egoistic components will grow in people. That is how they gradually grow.

Comment: It is interesting that sociologists have tried to awaken people, calling upon them to develop a business and realizing that they cannot motivate them to do this.

Answer: Business for people like these symbolizes going out of their normal balance. They feel that they are in the right situation that is good for them; they don’t need anything more. They have something to wear, something to eat, and this is enough. And if something is broken somewhere, they will do a little fixing, put in some kind of board and that is how they will continue to live. As said in a Russian proverb: “A peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder.” Only an urgent need will force him to do something.

The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks precisely about this level, but not in such an anarchistic form when a persons completely irrelevant. It explains that the correct next state of humanity is concern for oneself and others. But this is only on a level of existence necessary for living; everything else is directed towards spiritual development.

So, if Kabbalists come to these people and will work on their inner development, without taking them out of the same good situation they are in, then the soul will begin to be developed in them. If a person works for himself, believing that he have nothing more, he will continue to work for himself, and the Kabbalists will develop a his soul, adding spiritual egoism, not physical.

Question: Is it possible to call the present existence of these people slavery?

Answer: No, for these people have a feeling of freedom. I take care of myself, I help my neighbor because he will help me in turn. We depend upon each other. We are like one family. I don’t think about more than this. So I am free!

Question: And if we add a spiritual component to this, is it possible to expand the circle gradually?

Answer: No. It is not necessary to expand the circle, but only to increase the connection between people. After all, people live to feel goodness in themselves and enjoy each other. But in fact, it is specifically the Kabbalists who make this component of pleasure among them.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book“ 11/12/14

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When of all the people the Creator called only Moses and no one else, it meant: “Moshe, I know you’re upset that denied the opportunity, as all the others, to contribute to the construction of the Tabernacle of the Covenant.

“But you shall know that you have another task, more important than theirs. Their job is finished; your work is just beginning now. I urge you in the Tabernacle to give you the instructions about the sacrifices that you explain, and then pass them to the people. Your teaching the Torah to the people is dearer to me than their gold and silver offerings.” [“The Great Commentary”]

This speaks about work on a higher level of attainment. Suppose that a person builds his house and after the construction of the building, there is the finishing work and equipping the interior of the home. The construction of the building is an easy job, which is usually performed by construction workers. And inside the house, a higher order of work is done.

That is also how it is with spiritual work, everything depends on the level of the desire to receive: 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. The work of “Moses” is the highest work of the last level that we divide into many different sublevels: Cohens, Levites and so on; everything that the person does with the help of his higher desire is called “Moses.” Desires on a lower level, build the tabernacle. On an even lower level, those found around the tabernacle are doing work around it, and so on. So every spiritual level is completely different in relation to the other levels.

When a person carries out spiritual actions on various levels, each time he has a new understanding. For example, the world of Assiya (the lowest level) is the level of action. The next world is the world of Yetzira, which is creating. The world of Beria is found on a level of creation in which the person becomes a partner of the upper force. Atzilut is the world of intentions. The person who is involved in its general work rises gradually up the ladder of worlds and passes through all four levels of work, and their highest level is the level of “Moses.”

Question: Does it make sense that now when the tabernacle is ready, it is necessary to begin to purify it? In other words when Moses purifies the tabernacle, does he bring sacrifices?

Answer: No, after everything is ready, the work with the prepared Kli begins.

This is because the tabernacle, the courtyard, and everything that is found in the tabernacle, including the decorations, are not physical parts, but parts of the soul of the person. They have already been corrected and are compatible with each other; the feelings and the intention of the person are in a particular relationship and all of his desires and thoughts are directed towards bestowal to others and through the others to the Creator, as it is said, “From love of the people to love of the Creator.” Otherwise, love of others won’t bring any benefit and we don’t attain the goal, because the other is the Creator. In any case, we must maintain this arrangement all the time—from love of others to love of the Creator.

So we must connect the entire equation so that it can be discovered within the person, meaning all of the emotions, thoughts, the relationships towards the environment, the group, the people, in a small or large group of people. This is the soul of the person.

In our world, this formula is realized among the people. But when a person begins to work with it, he begins to feel not the people, but his inner thoughts and desires. And if he connects with them in spite of his ego, he feels that he has resistance, which is called the “evil inclination.” If he corrects it, he begins to feel the Creator within it. It is then said that the inhabitant is found within the tabernacle.

Question: What does it mean that the Creator turns to Moses regarding the more important work, which is explaining the sacrificial laws to the people?

Answer: Moses is that part of our soul that is in contact with the Creator. Through him we receive all the commands, discoveries, and clarifications, everything that is required for us to resemble the Creator and ascend to the level of bestowal and love, to the level of “Adam,” the level of the “Tree of Knowledge.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/13/13

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The weekly section of the Torah BaHar (On the Mount) tells us about the laws that the Creator gave the nation through Moses. These are laws that a person has to fulfill inside him. There is a mountain of egoism in each of us, which is the same Tower of Babel but is now depicted to us as Mount Sinai (Sina – hatred).

The upper force is above its summit and it helps us fulfill the ego and turn it into a holy mountain, into the Temple Mount. Then we build the Temple upon it, the Creator is revealed in the vessel above our ego.

If we stand at the foot of the mountain and are ready to love one another, to be mutually responsible for one another, and to be as one man in one heart, we receive the Light of correction called the Torah, and then we can transform the whole mountain of hatred into a mountain of love. It is only on top of it that we can build the house of the Lord.

During the giving of the Torah, only Moses can ascend Mount Sinai. Then it completely loses its holiness completely, as Mount Sinai is holy only when a person receives the Torah. Otherwise it is just a pile of egosm. This is why the Torah tells us allegorically how to turn the mountain of hatred into a holy mountain on which we build the Temple.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/12/14

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The Torah, “Leviticus,” 25:35 – 25:36: If your brother becomes destitute and his hand falters beside you, you shall support him [whether] a convert or a resident, so that he can live with you. You shall not take from him interest or increase, and you shall fear your God, and let your brother live with you.

Among all desires that were shattered after the breakage of the common soul and now have to reconnect there exists a system of re-assembling. The closest relationships among broken desires are called “the brotherly connection.”

“A brother” means any closely related state that is associated with us within the system that exists among the souls that we interact with in order to produce common actions.

Besides, the notion of a brother has a root that means, “we all rise to one Father”; so, all of us are brothers. When ascending one step up, there appears among us a different intensity of closeness and mutual interdependency. Later, we all merge and become one whole.

A “slave,” a “newcomer” (a stranger, a convert), and “other nations” stand for various states of the soul that have to come to unity when there are no more “brothers, parents, or children.” Rather, everybody will be one inseparable whole.

Our relationships will become permanent. They won’t be subject to changes because all of them will undergo the process of correction and will attain complete perfection.

In the meantime separation and detachment still exists among us. We must redirect ourselves from internality to external types of connections because it is easier to correct internal liaisons than impact the external ones. We should always proceed from easier states to harder ones in the process of correction.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/12/14

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The Torah, “Leviticus,” 25:30: But if it is not redeemed by the end of a complete year, then that house which is in the city that has a wall, shall remain permanently [the property] of the one who purchased it throughout his generations. It will not leave [his possession] in the Jubilee.

In spiritual work there are laws such that if I don’t correct my characteristics fully (49 = 7 x 7 characteristics, 49 years), then in the 50^th year they are all renewed and I will begin to work again. It is interesting that according to the laws of the Torah it is forbidden to sell or buy anything for more than 49 years. I can buy a house, field or plowed field for temporary usage, and after that it goes back to the owner anyway. This means that the person who possesses land (Eretz) must correct that desire (Ratzon) by himself and if he “transmits” it, meaning that he uses other characteristics for his correction, then this is only a temporary state.

So in our world these laws are shownin a very interesting form, for ultimately everything returns to its previous state and the owner remains the owner. When every tribe entered into the land of Israel, they received their inheritance; all of the sections were clearly indicated and nobody had the right to alter the boundaries. Moreover, nobody had the right to marry  someone from another tribe.

But we must understand that the Torah is not talking about houses, sheep, or slaves, but about spiritual laws. If the people of Israel begin to use these laws internally, then when they return to the land of Israel they will manifest these laws in their external form also.

Question: In the Torah it is said that if you sell a house, then after a certain period passes, you can buy it back. What is the buying and selling needed for?

Answer: At the end of development everyone must attain one commonly shared desire; the Creator will reveal this desire in the form of a stream of desires, one within the other, and the connections between them.

So we need to get married, have children, be in relationships of buying and selling between us, have familial connections, etc. This means that the connections must fill all of human society with a large number of connections so that all of our characteristics of bestowal to each other will be realized, and through this the one and only power, the Creator, will be revealed.

Comment: Which is to say, everything that happens inside of me, the buying and selling, the flow from desire to desire, this is what we are now seeing in the world…

Answer: Today we have really reached this because no nation and no individual can get along without using the entire world. If we take each one of us and see how he dresses, what he uses in his home, at work, on the street, then we see that we are absolutely connected with the whole world! This is the result of the mixing of desires within a person.

So we call our world global, integral. We are heading towards a state in which the world will exist without borders, without governments. For if I depend on everyone else, what can the government give me? I no longer depend on it. Governments will begin to exhaust themselves and disappear.

Ultimately, full and mutually dependent human relationships will encompass the whole world, and we need to discover this here in an aspect that is not so good because the relationships that exist between us now are absolutely egoistic. If the system is mutually connected, it must be reciprocal, and in the meantime we don’t have reciprocity.

It follows that on the one hand, we are found under strict egoistic conditions, but on the other hand, the same force that manages us, and has already been inviting us to move towards it, is absolutely altruistic. These are two opposing forces and here we need to produce within us a tremendous number of corrections.

We will achieve this. On the one hand, we will be obliged to nullify the borders, and on the other hand, we will see that it is impossible to do it. In this way, we understand that the idea is not about borders; rather, it is about ourselves. We must change ourselves, nullify the borders within us, which means that we must annihilate the distance between me and others. It will be clear to us that we cannot do it ourselves. So we will need the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/8/14

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The maturation of the attribute of Moses in a person and in the nation leads us to a direct confrontation with Pharaoh. The Torah describes these states as the ten plagues of Egypt, the ten plagues of the ego, with the demand: “Let my people go.” They develop on the background of powerlessness and, at the same time, a desperate need to break free.

The Haggadah tells us about this internal night: “How is this night different from all the other nights?” In Egypt we had to exit the quagmire of self-love and we turn and move quickly upward without any power to unite as yet but with the power to escape.

Everyone tries to escape the persecutions, the internal disputes and conflicts. Thus we find ourselves further away from Egypt until we reach Mt. Sinai where we can complete what we have started.

This is how Pharaoh, the ego, pushes us to a new level of love. Eventually, all of humanity will have to rise to this level, but we are the first to do so. It is the lab of the Jewish nation, an essential phase in its formation.
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