The Final Searching for Your Personal "Chametz" (KB)

The past 12 days have taken us through the process of identifying and cleansing ourselves of belief systems that cause us to continually re-experience those situations in our lives where we allow ourselves to become victims. Tonight, the night before the Pesach Seder, we will go through a process called “bedikat chametz,” the final searching for any chametz left in our home. The chametz represents our ego, and this searching is our final assignment in identifying any negativity that still holds us in bondage. For this final personal “searching,” I recommend that you do the following exercise (especially if you have not been going through the 12 Days of Aries process with us): 1. Acknowledge that you are 100% responsible for everything you experience (for more explanation on this go to: http://livingwisdom.kabbalah.com/12-days-aries-part-1-returning-one-ment). 2. Make a list of the areas in your life where you feel like a victim. 3. Read through the posts about the 12 days (found at http://www.kabbalah.com or at http://www.facebook.com/karenbergkabbalah). Chances are that you will find that your feeling of victimization is the result of your holding fast to one of those 12 belief systems stemming from the ego. 4. Once you’ve identified which belief(s) ring true for you, meditate on the Vav Hei Vav to literally eject the “victim” cassette from your hard drive of life and then install the cassette of unconditional love using the 72 Name of God Hei Hei Ayin. Remember, the purpose of cleansing ourselves and sacrificing our ego is to bring us into at-one-ment with the Light of the Creator so that when we come to the Seder, we are in the best spiritual condition to receive the true freedom offered us. In preparation for this magnificent event, I’d like to leave you with a beautiful excerpt from the Rav’s original epilogue to his book The Kabbalah Connection. “Such is the world of Kabbalah—a world in which personal power of awesome magnitude lies vibrantly at the fingertips of all who are willing to set aside the common hunger for instant gratification, short-term gain and other manifestations of the self-serving Desire to Receive for Oneself Alone. Like all things truly worth having, it is not free of charge. He or she who would pursue kabbalistic teachings must do so not as a dilettante seeking a momentary intellectual adventure, but as one willing to forswear the bread of the Egyptians for a trek through the wilderness of this world to the promised land of heightened awareness, altered consciousness, and eventual at-one-ment with the Creator. There will be sacrifices along the way, but one willing to make them will soon find that what he is eliminating from his life is not treasure, but trash. God has never stopped calling His children out of Egypt. Only those who answer His call today, not only at Pesach but every day of their lives, can ever know the true meaning of freedom.”