The symbols of Kabbalah teach us to be mindful of the past but more importantly we also learn simultaneously to be watchful of the future. Since Kabbalah in its aggregate is essentially a toolbox filled with the means for doing both we may learn how all of this pertains to this weeks Parasah Beshalach in its study of redemption, hesitation, faith and looking forward to the encounter on Sinai in the weeks to come.
What is it that this toolbox of Kabbalah is being used for? It is for the rebuilding of our own connections to Hashem and the repairing of our doubts in this very same area. First the doubts. Israel complains to Moshe.
Shemos 14: 11. They said to Moses, Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us to die in the desert? What is this that you have done to us to take us out of Egypt?
What they are saying is that without the status quo they have been used to surely they will perish. After all they at least could count on a meal each day and were not worried about being annihilated while they stood defenseless. It is a shock to the awareness that once free of the chains that bind it there is indeed more that has to be done.
Consciousness becomes caught in its own repetitions and forgets that the fundamental nature of being is to improvise and seek more than just what appears to be. What Israel must learn and so too our own thoughts is that we can operate upon another level of awareness that can simply let go of those repetitions of thought and rise up to a new level that speaks only of our well being and prosperity. This is of course easier said than done, however the second step in utilizing this toolbox is the step of revelation.
While remaining fixed in the status quo represents attachment to the past revelation transfers that reliance on a future that looks brighter each day. The way this happens is very similar to the wearing of a garment each day without changing it until it simply wears out versus the changing of a garment freshly each day. The garments we are speaking of are thoughts and while we discard the worn garments of thoughts (repetitive thinking) we put on the new garments of revelation.
Revelation in terms of Kabbalah is simply learning a new insight about Torah each day or contemplating holiness and making it your own so that it applies directly to you. This application means that you are directly connecting a thought with an event that you experience in such a way that it provides incontrovertible proof of your connection and its convergence above. The key to this convergence and connection is what is known as Hashem or YHVH the central theme of Torah through which all threads tie themselves to.
Shemos 14:14. The Lord will fight for you, but you shall remain silent.
Moses asks Israel to give themselves over to the reality of the higher voice that seeks the greater good always. Within Consciousness we are also always seeking this higher voice and it is an act of faith to let go into this flow realizing that you are both directed-guided by this higher voice and that where it flows is by definition the greater good including specifically your own good.
All of this Torah tries to show on the way to Sinai, the revelation of unity that represents the pinnacle of connection. B"H.
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