Where the Self Lives

Over the years, you build an awareness of self: Who you are, what you like and dislike, how you feel about things. This is the mind of "Da'at"--a place of consciousness, of knowing and feeling "I exist." It is the most visceral of minds, closely linked to the emotions.

Consciousness is not evil. The problem is the way a human enters into his consciousness and identifies with it. What is actually only an awareness of self becomes your actual self. This is the act of self-imprisonment, as you become trapped in a tight cell of self-definition.

The path of inner Torah leads you to reach beyond this conscious state to an essential self that is one with the Infinite. This is the act of liberation from a personal Egypt, which Torah makes possible on a daily basis.