Happy Passover!!!
THE BIG IDEA
It's hard to believe but at a certain point stopping the flow of your daily life every seven days for a 25 hour ceremony that honors the creative cycle of the infinite essence - actually becomes an unconscious routine.
And so, once a year, practitioners of the abstract all encompassing Source Energy of the Universe are commanded to go back to the spiritual starting line, back to the consciousness of being a slave in Egypt, and recreate the profound paradox of being free/d.
In order to embody this feat of the imagination in the physical world, there is a yearly festival, in the springtime full moon that pulls practitioners entirely out of their normal flow. For one week the most basic of the permitted foods, bread (and anything connected to it) is forbidden, forcing the faithful to overturn an entire organized reality and admit that, despite our best yearly attempts to make meaning of our actions, we follow this practice because we choose to believe, and because we were chosen to believe.
I cannot stress enough the importance of this night. Seder night (Saturday night) is the biggest spiritual night of the year. It is the night the consciousness for the entire year comes into the personal and collective spiritual body - and this year — this biggest night falls directly after the biggest night of the week.
This year we move from distinguished to distinguished. From Kodesh to Kodesh. This year on the BIG SHABBAT we bathe in the energy of the priests - and then step into our own ritual.
So for the sake of your best life, for the sake of our soldiers, for the sake of the hostages, for the sake of the spiritual body of Israel, for the sake of the entire world, for the sake of the Almighty ONE… whatever your motivation and reason… let’s really take this as seriously as possible. Let’s really resonate as one people eating one cracker on one night.
Imagine your ancestors getting free - imagine yourself getting free (really free) - imagine us all getting free from the evil and lies and delusion that rules our world.
This year – when you eat your matzah – take a moment to really really do it. Be silent. To listen in to the sound of this ancient bread coming into your body, swallow it like a medicine that can heal your wounds and additions and distortions, with the next bite imagine the sound moving across the holy land and in pockets around the world.
Connect the experience of your body to all the other tribal practitioners across the planet. Believe not only in the God that commanded us to eat this holy medicinal cracker bread, but in the power of it do really change our entire reality for the better.
Only love will set us free.
Only 4 cups of wine will help you open your heart enough to know it.
Happy Passover — wishing real love and real freedom for us all.