The Kabbalah of Matzah
We have a golden opportunity coming up and I hope we all take advantage of it. One of the most profoundly impactful Mitzvot, and yet one of the easiest to observe, is to eat matzah on the first two nights of Pesach. Allow me to explain. Please come along with me for a short Kabbalistic journey. I promise it will not be too esoteric and I will try to write it in somewhat simple terms. Everything in this world has a spiritual source above. There are spiritual worlds above that are made up of ten components, just as our physical world is made up of those components, called sefirot. While the physical sefirot and the spiritual ones obviously don’t look the same, they are, nevertheless, related. In fact, as the spiritual energy flows through the worlds, it is transformed from a spiritual sefira to physical sefira. The first of all the sefirot is called Chochma. Chochma means wisdom, and in the physical realm this means intell...