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Now, on a personal and individual level,
we don't always have clarity on what the
42 stops in our lives exactly are. We
don't always know where one begins and
where one ends. We don't always know
exactly what the stops what the stops
even are and how we're supposed to even
learn from them. Now, if you're like me
and you've reflected on your life
journey and you've prayed on it, you may
have an idea, some sort of intuition
about some of the stops and the lessons
you learned on them. But even if that is
the case, I'm not sure we're even
supposed to really know all of them with
clarity, at least not in this world. I
think the journeys in our lives are
supposed to happen to us. And while they
are happening to us, Hashem is is
shaping us and molding us as he sees
fit. And I'm not sure that process would
be as effective or even possible if we
knew um if we knew what the stops were
and what was happening to us. It's only
that we don't know that allows it to
happen. You know what I mean? We can we
we can gain inspiration and insight uh I
believe by looking back at the stops
that the Israelites took on their on
their journey, the spiritual growth they
experienced on their stops and and then
we could reflect on our journey and see
how ours parallels theirs. There's
something to that and I think it's
really worth it. I'll give a few
examples that our sages share and I hope
I'm not taking too deep a dive here and
stealing your fellowship, Jeremy. It's
just so good. The first stop on the
Israel's journey was Ramsy's as we see
inside. And they departed from Ramsy's
in the first month on the 15th day of
the first month. On the next day after
the Passover, the children of Israel
went out with a high hand in the sight
of all the Egyptians. Now Ramsy's
literally means ra
and mas which means melts. Evil melts.
This stop represents breaking free of
Egypt, right, of mitim, which symbolizes
spiritual constriction and inner
slavery. And it's the very first step in
redemption because in order to truly be
redeemed, we need to let the old self
dissolve. We need to experience the
melting of those deeply ingrained fears
and those false identities that we may
have even really started believing truly
define us. All of that needs to melt
away and it can be scary and it can be
painful and it can be even a very
disorienting uh process. I've I've
experienced a lot of this personally in
my life and I can tell you it's not easy
when that identity just melts away. Um
but you know the Ramban says that
leaving Ramsy's was done bey
boldness born of faith. It's only
through cleaving to our faith in Hashem
that we can really let all that stuff go
and melt away.
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