BESHALACH, Part 2

Shalom, Shalom. As we continue our focus on the PARASHAT termed BESHALACH, we are inspired to focus upon the PRINCIPLE that the LIBERATION of the SOUL commences with IT’S true IDENTIFICATION. Just as BENEI YISRAEL had to be FREED from the OPPRESSION of MITZRAYIM before unfolding the GREATNESS that is LATENT WITHIN, we must be LIBERATED from the CHAINS of ERRONEOUS IDENTIFICATION before manifesting the UNLIMITED POTENTIAL that is hidden within.

This EMET can be seen in the illustration that after leaving MITZRAYIM, once our ancestors became AWARE that PHARAOH pursued them, they became filled with FEAR. The experience of FEAR was INDICATIVE that they were not CONSCIOUS of the UNLIMITED POTENTIAL OF THE SOUL. In other words, by not KNOWING WHO THEY WERE, gave rise to the experience of PERISHING, yea, the PROMISE is “I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse…” (Genesis 12:3a) Under the OPPRESSION of MITZRAYIM, they had LOST SIGHT OF WHO THEY ARE and LIKEWISE there are many who exist in the OPPRESSION of the NARROW PLACE of the MIND suffering because of LOST IDENTIFICATION.

We are made in the IMAGE and LIKENESS of the Holy Blessed One of Yisrael. That IMAGE and LIKENESS is ETERNAL, yet we die like MEN. No doubt we are held in the CHAINS of THIS OPPRESSION by the ERRONEOUS CONCEPTS WE EMPLOY to DEFINE OURSELVES. Thus the initial experiences of our LIBERATION must include the return to TRUE IDENTIFICATION.