Leaving Egypt

Hi! I can see a few people got puzzled. The meme is an allegory, a puzzle, of a mystic/spiritual interpretation of Egypt (a narrow place). It can be anything that constrains us. An example of a personal Egypt can be a bad addiction. Leaving it may be very difficult and it is hard to move forward, but it is probably good for you to move on with your life from it. It can be something big or small, but difficulty also depends on each and every one of us. It may be harsh, but truth is great. Reply

Hi! I can see a few people got puzzled. The meme is an allegory, a puzzle, of a mystic/spiritual interpretation of Egypt (a narrow place). It can be anything that constrains us. An example of a personal Egypt can be a bad addiction. Leaving it may be very difficult and it is hard to move forward, but it is probably good for you to move on with your life from it. It can be something big or small, but difficulty also depends on each and every one of us. It may be harsh, but truth is great. Reply

I don't get this. I agree with BA Kress. Yes, a person should continually work on refining her/himself. What about the improvements that are made? Positivity is key! Reply

Rabbi, you are so brilliant, and I value your thinking and inspiration very much. But I wish you would stop painting the self with such a broad and negative brush! We are to love our neighbors as our selves! We are to love our self. It is when the self gets bloated, wayward, tarnished, or, in other ways, distorted in ways that are noxious to the soul that we must change or flee. Our task is to effect an exodus from the self "in Egypt," not from the self per se. Reply

Freedom... from self...and our constraints, wiil lead us to Hashem! Sounds easy...but not so... Must weed out the bad inclination... Reply

Thanks for all your inspiration Reply

Self defined Perhaps leaving oneself means to stop focusing on the self and start focusing on G-d and Mitzvot. Selfhood is only significant when engaged in meaningful and sacred service. Reply

leaving egypt Very thought-provoking and personal growth-evoking! Surely, many people are 'prisoners' of one thing or another - i.e. habits like smoking, etc. or emotional - i.e. fear, jealousy, need to control, etc. (at least I feel these are a few things that can feel like imprisonment). I was an extremely heavy smoker; and one time years ago, the rabbi brought this subject up one Shabbos, and I've always remembered it - how, when something controls us, we are prisoners of it, I quit 20 years ago. What freedom! This, to me, is a reminder to continually work on these issues that hinder freedom. Reply

Exodus from Egypt I found this to be confusing. In Judaism we were always taught, in so many words, ..."to thine own self be true." But, according to my understanding of this "Daily Dose", I'd find this to be a "command" to leave ourselves behind, just as our ancestors left Egypt behind, to escape slavery, to become the Jewish peoples. So, to think of this "Dose", so many things come to mind that I feel a bit of "chaos" within. Perhaps it means that I must "leave Egypt (myself?) in a sense, as I say the Hashkivenu (sp?) at bedtime? Perhaps I "leave myself/Egypt" just as I turn my "soul" over to G-d while sleeping. But in the morning, I must leave "myself/Egypt" again, as I greet the day with thanks to Hashem for allowing me to move once again from sleep and actively choose to leave Egypt behind as I transform myself from "slavery" to the person I know I am and can be, and choose to leave "Egypt " just as I choose to move from darkness to daylight. Reply

Leaving Egypt Remember only 2 from those who left Egypt entered the land becuase of their stubborn hearts. Only Joshua and Caleb entered the Promised land.Even Moses was arrogant when he struck the rock and was refused entry. Even Moses was not able to fully obey what G-d commanded, but He promised to pour out His spirit in the last days may the veil be lifted as we turn to the Lord for we have all sinned and fallen short in some way haven't we. In Numbers 34 the land was allotted as an inheritance to the Israelites - so who are we to give it away? The Lord says never again will my land be divided into two Nations, so no Palestinian state then? May the veil be stripped off the eyes of those who think it;s ok to give away the land G-d promised. His word is truth isn't it? Reply

It took 40 days to come out of Egypt and it took 40 years for Egypt to come out of them.and this is what is more important. Reply

stubborn Pharo . is it a lifelong exodus from Pharo or self or both ??? Reply

egypt What Egypt .? Reply

Being Paradox

By Tzvi Freeman

Don't be "this". Don't let them define you. If you catch yourself fitting into a definition, contradict it. Never travel a single road. Reply

Habit itself, even a good habit, can enslave. With this I'm not saying that the good thing one does, over and over, should no longer be done. I'm saying that something done for no other reason except habit can, at times, put one into "Egypt." Reply