The BIG SHABBAT

THE BIG IDEA

If you are legitimately concerned about World War III, the existential fate of the State of Israel, and the wellbeing of the Jewish people, wherever they are in the world — I HIGHLY SUGGEST you take the rituals of Passover seriously this year and fully activate your root soul’s spiritual potential, if not for your sake, for the sake of us all. 

This week’s torah energy carries within it the power to end all wars, and reveal the final chapter of history for the jewish people and the entire world — the era of growth through joy. 

So, for anyone feeling victimized simply for being a jew, or terrified of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, ISIS, Yemen, or any other enemies, this Monday night is the most favorable time of the year to touch into the root of your ancestral fear, and then, with all your conscious might, SHAKE IT OFF at a deepest soul level. Let each of the 4 cups of wine blur your attachment to the ego based oppressive regimes of this world, and eat your matzah as if your life, and the continual life of our nation depends on it.

A little background…

For over 3500 years, on the full moon of Nissan, when nature bursts open with another cycle of life, the descendants of Israel actively commemorate a moment in physical time when an enslaved people were miraculously freed from physical and psychic bondage forever. The simple fact of both the story and rituals have endured across time, against all odds, should itself fill you with wonder.

TRUST that the Passover story, with all the corresponding symbolic gestures, hasn’t passed from generation to generation for thousands of years simply because it’s a riveting tale and matzah is a delicious thing to eat  —rather —  the story and rituals performed in their spiritually designated time ACTUALLY contain the power to transform us individually, collectively, and globally — if only we allow ourselves to believe.

This year, with each bite of Matzah, do your best to digest the understanding that YOU were freed directly by GOD, and not by a proxy. There was no international governing body that intervened, no king that conquered Pharaoh and took a nation of slaves to another land, and the Israelite slaves most certainly didn’t rise up and revolt on their own.

With each bite of ancient ritual cracker, liquify your doubt, swallow your fears, and let your body absorb the powerful spiritual nutrients of surrender to the Creator of the Universe, God, that took our ancestors out from a living hell and brought us into conscious freedom from this world’s ego based limited consciousness. The Passover Seder is the moment to GET YOURSELF FREE from the world of illusions and delusions of separation from the Oneness and the power of divinity. Freedom paradoxically marked by the willful surrender of the most basic of food (bread) for 8 days. 

And so…

This Monday night, for the love of our people - activate.

On Seder night stop being a victim, and feel yourself re-formed as an essential part of a holy collective.

Trust that our ability to believe is directly proportional to our ability to survive. 

Accept that liberation came then, as it comes now, with some degree of mortal loss.

But most of all, know in your deepest of places that the same force we turn to right now now in our moment of need, is the same force that liberated us then.

Please God, King of all Kings, Creator of All, help us to awaken on Seder Night to the process of complete redemption, the time beyond war and death and existential threats, beyond fear and hate and the illusion of separation, to a world of joyful unity, mutual respect, and peaceful co-existence.

No pressure God… but now would be a good time.

See you all next year in an awakened joyful Jerusalem!!!!