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Parashat Massai began, "These are the journeys of Israel who left Egypt." It says      "journeys ", plural, even though the first journey - from Rameses to Succoth - had left Egypt. That the Torah teaches us that many levels in Egypt, and who was already out from Egypt, and came into the distance, still it add to travel in and out from Egypt.

An example is the prayer, which brings the man from below to above. Prayer is "a ladder to the ground and his head reaches to the sky" - while the prayer is one from below to above, from the strait to the space. Prayer itself has several climbs, one after another. Any increase is out of the previous situation, but it is not satisfied with what reached, because he needs to get more and more.

The first step is the preparation for prayer. Before the person stands praying to the infinite G-d, he must be cleansed and purified material interests. It is written in the Shulchan Aruch: "Before prayer needs will wash his hands." First he have to remove the visible and the internal rubbish, and then remove the invisible impurity itself.

Now he begins to pray, and here there are stages. First, "thank to G-d" - he admits the existence of G-d is one and only reality, whereas a person's sense of reality is an illusion. He walks out of the limitations of reality and transcends high spiritual level, that is a 'Exodus'.

Even praying itself has several ups and advances, including the four stages to reach the highest level – Amidah (the last part of pray). On this prayer person completely out of any sense of personal reality, and going with a sense of utter idling before G-d, as a slave before his master. So before Amidah asking "Lord open my lips", because due to the great idling sense we cannot even talk ourselves before G-d.

So we got the highest level in the Exodus, and yet, when tomorrow comes, we start again the whole process - preparation for prayer, through saying "admitted", to the Amidah. That as we reached a high level the day before; now it is this level of 'Egypt', and, we must get out and to get an even higher level.

This teaching, we must learn from the story journeys: the Jews who came to a high level and thinks enough of him thus, he is told he should continue to increase, add, and travel. Jew is required to be 'walking' not 'standing'. If he stopped at some point, however high, does not perform his duties.

On the other hand, a Jew in a down and out, should not despair. He must learn from the story of travel, even from Egypt, the nakedness of the land, we could go and be free, until you arrive to the "Jordan of Jericho", true and complete redemption by the messiah.

 
 



     
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