Happy Passover

What happens when you cross the power of leaving Egypt with the inner cleansing ritual of Yom Kippur? 

THE BIG IDEA

This Friday night, a special kind of energy opens up in the world. 

In addition to the regular shabbat light, it is Seder night, the night of the most practiced Torah ritual of the year. Happy Passover! The Torah Omens further intensify the night’s energetic potential by bringing our attention to the mysterious goat ritual of Yom Kippur that Aaron received after the death of his two first born sons.

The resulting energy offers deep cosmic freedom from the innermost realms of slavery. 

This is a very rare channel.  DO YOUR BEST to maximize your elevation potential. 

Bring your Exodus story inside the consciousness of the Sabbath of Sabbaths on an actual Shabbat night. 

As you clean your home from all ‘chametz’ (all bread)  aka. old consciousness, pray for your personal and our collective liberation as if it was the eve of Yom Kippur.

Believe in the potential of the process to bring down a new world order. Direct your attention to your innermost process. Use this incoming light to free yourself from  (inner) enslavement to trauma, fear, anxiety, and the your general slave mind. Surrender yourself to the radiance of the shabbat light, and welcome your body into the blissed out feeling of true spiritual freedom.

Let us pray for a life of abundant positive energy and generosity of spirit within a world that promotes peace, love, unity, and respect for one’s neighbor and one’s self.

*bonus special prayer*

This year the Torah Omens deepen your prayer by asking for physical and sexual alignment. Along with the goat ritual, there is a long list of sexual transgressions and immorality in this week’s Torah Omens, including the prohibition around incest and bestiality.

Together with your personal prayer I ask everyone to include a prayer to end sexual and physical abuse and violence in our world.

May we awaken to a world where every child, woman or man feels safe in their body and on their land.

Next year in Jerusalem!

TIME SENSITIVE RITUALS

From The first night of seder until Shavuot we begin a 50 day process of internal liberation. 

EXERCISE 1: ENVISION FREEDOM

Step 1: Chart Your Exodus route.

Before Passover take some time to observe your current life processes.

Are you sleeping well at night? 

Are your eating habits feeling right? 

Does your prayer feel connected? 

How is your overall physical health? 

Do you feel confident in your lifestyle? 

Do you need to adjust your habits and thoughts around money? 

How are your your relationships?

How does your romantic life feel healthy?

Do your friendships feel generous and supportive?

etc.

STEP 2: Note the areas of your life that you desire to change your behavior and grow. Write out a list of the places you would like to see an improvement.

How would your life look with a loving partner and supportive friends?

How would you want to treat your body, and allow it to be treated?

How do you want to feed yourself?

How do you imagine moving your body?

How much money would you like to make, and how do you imagine it coming into your possession?

Take some time before Passover (Friday Night) to create a 50 day mediation on personal adjustment and liberation. 

Set clear Goals.

Step 3: Track your progress.

Starting on the 2nd day of passover take note of your eating, exercise, sleep, and meditative practices. Notice the way that your relationships to people, money, and the world are evolving. Keep a journal of your progress.

Remember - The only people that got out of Egypt were the ones that took it seriously and went along for the spiritual ride. They risked their lives taking in a sheep (the God of the Egyptians) and putting its blood on their doorpost risking death. Choose God as they did. Be unafraid of killing false representations of divinity and limited beliefs that are held around you (avodah Zara) CLEAN ALL SUPERSTITION OUT and find your place of deep surrender.

The more information you allow yourself to see about yourself and your attachments, the deeper the exercise can penetrate.

EXERCISE #2: Burn the INNER Chammetz.

The ritual of finding and burning the chammetz (bread aka old consciousness) is both a physical and spiritual one. This opportunity comes once a year, so I hope everyone can maximize on it. 

Step 1: Assume that bread means consciousness, and chamtez (the technical name for bread that can’t be owned at that time of the year) is the Yetzer Ha’Rah (the evil inclinations) 

Step 2: As when you clean your home from old consciousness, aka bread, imagine you are cleaning your soul from evil inclinations. 

Step 3: Write out 10 inclinations that you want to clear from your life on pieces of paper. 

It could be 10 self destructive thoughts. 

It could be 10 self destructive behaviors.

It could be 10 self destructive fantasies.

Write out whatever negativity that comes to you during the cleaning or highly pressured experience of preparing for Passover. Notice the feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and characteristics that construct your reality and try to isolate the ones that feel good, from the ones that make you feel bad.  

The list should be of 10 thoughts that make you feel bad. Anything that blocks your ability to constantly delight in a sense of awe and wonder about the oneness in the world.

** tip*** if you can’t find them in yourself - notice places you think negatively about someone else. See how the things you dislike about others are true of you too. Make your list from that place. Commit to cleaning Chametz (old consciousness, evil inclinations, and negativity) out of your heart and life. 

Step 4: Write each on a separate piece of paper and place these 10 papers in corners around your house and room.

Step 5: On Thursday night, during sunset or after nightfall, close the lights in your house. Take a candle and a wooden spoon and crawl around your home looking for the parts of your psyche and consciousness that are ready to get free. (if you don’t have a home, or aren’t in one, write the notes now and place them in the room you will sleep on Thursday night as soon as you can). 

Step 6: On Friday morning BURN THOSE PAPERS along with any remaining bread or chametz in your home. Give those parts of yourself to the sacred fire that is here to clean our soul with our offerings. 

The burning of the chammatz (bread) is one of our few remaining fire rituals, although we are constantly lighting candles and thinking about the holiness of light. Still, there is nothing like a fire to burn it up. Take your pain and your issues and give them to the fire. 

SPECIAL BLESSING
May we awaken to a world where children, women and men feel safe in their bodies, and that human body and its divine potential is protected and respected always and forever. Please let every human feel safe, protected, and awakened in our mind, bodies, hearts and souls. 

Happy Passover and Shabbat Shalom!