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The Spiritual Meaning of Passover

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March 31, 2015

These are aspects of Passover you may have never been aware of, but they are more relevant today than ever before. The links lead to YouTube clips.

” target=”_blank”>What Is This Mutual Force Jews Have?

It's called schina, meaning divinity, Godliness, the place where the Creator is revealed. It can only be revealed through connection between us.

” target=”_blank”>Matza and Bitter Herb (Maror)

The matza is the force of bestowal, love. The force that pulls us from the ego and the marror in the matza. It's not easy to come out of the ego and that's what the marror symbolizes.

” target=”_blank”>Is Moses Working Alone? Everyone Is Against Him

The Jewish people meaning the rest of a person's desires – they'd like to do it but they can't. They're in a very passive state like you see Jews today in the world.

” target=”_blank”>Two Forces: Pharaoh Drives Us To Bad Relations and Moses Draws Us Toward Unity

There are two contradicting forces – one works on separation. And the other is the force of Moses that pulls them toward unity, mutual guarantee. Through the connection between them they can discover the higher force.

” target=”_blank”>What Is The Spiritual Meaning of Pharaoh and Moses?

The two main characters/forces in Passover, what do they represent? They represent the qualities in a person. There are two forces, the force that pulls us to development/spirituality – awakens a person at some point. Evolution brings us to that. The first time it happened was in Babylon.

” target=”_blank”>What's The Plan of Creation?

The purpose of creation is for that group which came out of Babylon – for it to finally unite as one and show humanity how to create that connection and be a center for all nations of the world to unite.

” target=”_blank”>How Did Moses Awaken The People of Israel?

How was Moses able to trigger this desire for a higher purpose in the people of Israel?

” target=”_blank”>What is The Spiritual Meaning of Passover

We were born with a negative force called the evil inclination. It is written, I created the Torah as a spice. What does that mean? Torah means light – there is a special light that influences us and can invert our negative inclination into a positive one.

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