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There are forty-two spiritual journeys each of us makes throughout our life.
The nation's exodus from Egypt is both its own birth as a nation and an allegory for every individual birth, the liberation of the fetus from the confines of the womb into the freedom of the outside world, where it can develop and become independent. The final journey is to the spiritual Promised Land, the afterlife that awaits us after death.
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Our existence here in this world is a tremendous opportunity.
The
Lubavitcher Rebbe teaches that, allegorically, the Land of Israel represents the
physical world in general; we can only
perform G-d's commandments and elevate material reality while our souls are in
this world, that is, during our physical lifetime.
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