Shimini and Pesach
or; Freedom and Matzah
- Pesach is the holiday of freedom
- Freedom is constructed (cf. Mishkan)
- Pei–samech–chet: The understanding (like the genetic code in an embryo) which brings about a paradigm (like a city wall) of construction (like a rope).
- Mem-tzaddik-hei: Bringing out potential (like a river into an ocean) for getting to a further goal (like bread from wheat’s fruits) to define a form (like the front of a building).
- Pesach is an understanding of freedom
- But because we left Egypt in a hurry, the infinite is in a finite form, and history unfolds in time
- This relates to Nadav and Avihu since their offerings burned them
- Cf. life is a series of offerings, each thing we do in freedom and we do for the infinite is an offering
- Cf. sometimes we are imperfect actors within our offerings, and this is seen by a world which is not harmoniously in sync (i.e. pleasingly), and yet these are offered too, and accepted, knowing that sometimes our service is “alien to us”.
- This relates to the infinite being finite since we move towards infinite/freedom, yet sometimes moving closer means being burned/learning
- ~For 7 days we remembering being free
