In this meditation, we explore the obligation to see yourself as if you personally left Egypt by understanding the leaving of Mitzrayim as the leaving of a narrow constricted emotional space and entering into merkhav Yah (based on Psalm 118 in Hallel), a place of divine expansiveness which is open and inclusive and welcoming of all people, parts and feelings. We work on creating such a space inside us and practice welcoming whatever emotional states are currently present and noticing the way that judgment and resistance works as a constraint, a metzar, that blocks us from this openness. We return again and again to the merkhav Yah so that we have an experience of what it means to leave Egypt and be free.
Illustration by Anna Hanau
