Mystical Musical Meditations in Jerusalem |
For my MMM this week when Passover begins, I want to talk
about the Universal Consciousness elements that are unique to Passover, but we
can work on them all year long. I have a short list of them and will share a few
now:
1) G-d wants to reveal where He is hidden. This is the whole
purpose of getting out of Egypt and it’s what Passover is all about. G-d is
asking us to reveal Him, G-d, where G-d is normally not found.
We are told, “you are my witnesses,” that’s what it says in
one of our blessings. We have to testify, to witness to what other people have
not seen. We all have to testify, to reveal, to show where G-d is normally not
found. That’s Passover.
2) Mega-lights – That’s how G-d got us out of Egypt. He just
zapped Pharoah and the Egyptians, and blinded them with this incredible, Divine
light. They weren’t ready for it, nobody was ready for it. It killed the
Egyptians and it freed the Jews.
We need to learn how to harness the Divine light and to
receive it to free ourselves again now. When we can get it, we can use it to jump
out of whatever trap we may be stuck in.
3) We were born as the Israelite people on Passover, so it’s
time for each of us to get ourselves born into something new, something we have
not entered into before.
4) The Israelite slaves began the process of redemption with
wordless screams. It wasn’t prayer, it was screams, it was wordless. G-d said, “I
heard their screams, Moses, so you go tell Pharoah to let them go.” G-d caused
the people to scream in the first place, but He attributed it to them, as G-d
often does.
So, Passover is a time for primal screaming and also for zerizut,
which can best be described as alacrity, zeal or enthusiasm. It represents
going fast, not delaying by messing around. When you have to do something, go
for it.
When a mitzvah comes to you, don’t delay. Jump on it, do it.
As our Sages say, “don’t let it be chametz,” which is what we try to avoid
eating on Passover and which represents indulgence. Don’t indulge! Jump in and
do it, go for it! Just go for it, that’s a big lesson on Passover
consciousness.
5) As regards counting the Omer, we will get into this topic
later, but for now we just need to know that it’s about the Sephirot and how
they change our lives. And this happens along with Passover.
6) Another important element of Passover is speaking. We
speak on the night of Passover because that’s when the Israelites received the
gift of speaking. The more we speak, the more of a purification process we
undergo. We have to speak our way into consciousness, that’s a basic Passover
thing.
7) The difference between matzah and chametz is significant.
It represents the difference between indulgence and not indulging. This is
related to “when it’s time to jump, jump…” To the extent that we do that, and
we avoid indulgence, good things will happen for us.
8) The unique freedom of Passover is what I call our, “servant
of G-d freedom.” It’s a freedom that comes with responsibility. There are other
freedoms, but this one is unique to Passover.
9) We are called to become a nation that’s above nature. To
do that, we have to connect with the part of ourselves that is already above
nature.
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