Last week, we left Egypt.
Our sages in the
Passover Agadah told us that we are so lucky it happened, because otherwise we, our children and
grandchildren wouldn't have ever escaped.
Let me explore what
they meant by this.
Pharoh will die some
day, how can the redemption from Egypt, more than 3,000 years ago, help us till
today?
Well, the name of the
game is Ego.
In Hebrew, Egypt is
Mitzrayim, the same route of the word as Tzar, narrow.
Every one of us
carries Egypt with him.
In fact, the word
Pharoh, Changing the letters in Hebrew, you get the word Oref, the neck.
We all know that we
are a stiff necked people, and that is where the freedom is coming from.
When we know that our
own Pharoh, the stubbornness of the ego, is narrow between the brain. Where the
Truth is, to the heart. Where the ego is, all we concentrate and care about is
ourselves. To the extreme of narcissism.
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But let it go, be
there for others, care ONLY about others, that's where you'll find freedom.
It's either we are
locked, imprisoned, in our own ego, or we are free and busy with others.
Let's be free, only
for each other, and be ready to accept the miracles.
Just like the
Splitting of the sea in this week, Parasha.
By
Dinush Blau.
EXCLUSIVE
ARTICLE BY DINUSH BLAU (ISRAEL) FOR THE JOURNAL MITZVAH.