Passing over/Passing out

We all know the story of the Jew's exodus from Egypt - and if you don't rent the movie! The old one which Charlton Heston as Moses, and Yul Brynner as the DEFINITIVE Pharaoh. It's worth it just to hear him bark 'So it said, so shall it be!'

So anyway, the Jews were to place blood from their Pascal sacrifice on their door posts - so G*d would know which homes are Jewish, and which weren't as he flew overhead slaying the firstborn.

Firstly - does G*d really needs some handy sign to remember who not to slay? One of the perks of being G*d is that he's, well….he's G*D - He's FREAKIN' omnipotent ! He knows where you are sleeping - he knows when you've been naughty and nice! (so, hey, you better watch out and better beware).

Also, we know that Egyptians first borns in Jewish homes weren't spared (which would be what I would do to avoid being slew - just hide out in one of the houses with blood on the door posts - to even go crazy and put some blood on my own door post). And Jewish firstborns in Egyptian homes weren't killed either.

What does it mean that G*d passed over us - and keep in mind that this was the definitive act that started the Exodus, which thereby created the Jewish nation.

It means that G*d allowed us to literally pass over reality. Jewish history makes little sense - we should have been wiped out dozens of times. Israeli battles aren't taught at West Point military academy, because they just shouldn't work.

When G*d passed over use he enabled us to pass over reality - to pass over the constraints of the rules of this world. The more one believes this reality is real, the more one is bound by it. The more one understands that it's an illusion, the more one is able to pop the hood on the universe and hot wire reality.

This is the cornerstone understanding that is the Jewish mission: to transmit to the world throughout the rest of time the world simply isn't real.

It's a conjuring trick, an illusion - and it's function is to provide us with the challenge of seeing through that - to seeing truth, to seeing REAL reality.

And that's all - no need to stand on a street corner screaming about it. Just live in this world understanding that what you see on the surface is just the tip of the iceberg, and in the final analysis usually quite irrelevant.

Live our lives with that understanding as constant reality, and just our existence will influence the world to change for the good.

G*d passed over us, so we might pass over the constraints of the physical universe, so that the peoples of the world can in turn reach that enlightenment.

So they too can pass over.

So we all can pass out to the days of the Moshiach, bim'hara, b'yomainu.