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The portion begins with the eighth plague
locusts — arbeh
brought in by an east wind [Ex.10:13]
carried away by a west wind [10:19].
The wind blows both east and west
for the children of Israel.
East wind –
intuitive, lateral, mystical.
West wind –
conscious, linear, rational.
Chokhmah and binah
chokhmah – unself-conscious heart of wisdom
the seamless embrace before language –
aha
the heart’s deep wisdom.
Binah –
self-conscious inquiry
identification
conceptualization
language,
the right and left sides
thirty two paths of wisdom
the hidden God
engraved during the Emanation.
Both winds blow through our camp
east – west people
perched on western branches
eastern roots.
Our goal
union – shleimut – shalom
integration
every blessing a union
all the terrible twos of existence
folded into One.
Set against this is Par’oh
Pharaoh
the dis-integrator
peh resh ayin – to separate, rend, split
Par’oh the great separator,
and that’s why we had to leave Pharaoh –
to become one
with ourselves.
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