Passover teaches us how to escape our own egos
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
We can’t fight a war until we know our real enemy.
Obviously, we have enough external enemies; we do not even know towards which front to turn or where to defend ourselves against missiles and terrorists.
But are they the true enemies we need to liberate ourselves from?
Is everything going to be perfect and good if we defeat Hamas and Hezbollah and keep Iran at bay?
What does history and the chronicle of this war teach us?
As long as we build and keep a unique Jewish unity — above and against the inherently selfish, egoistic, exploitative, and hateful human nature — we survive, prosper, and defeat any external enemies. When we abandon our original method of unity — which also helps us harness and partner reality’s single life-creating and governing force, when we want to become like other nations, following their lifestyle and method that is based on the original human ego, we fall and face existential danger.
Pesach does not teach us how to liberate ourselves from external enemies. The true, symbolic meaning of Pesach teaches how to liberate ourselves from the all-governing ego within us.
Only when we escape our own egos and unite above and despite it can we successfully defeat our external enemies.
Then — as we show a crucial positive example to the world — we might find that there won’t even be external enemies…