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166) “But on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened…” This sourdough and leaven are one degree, and they are all one. Another authority are the ministers appointed over the rest of the nations. And we called them, “the evil inclination,” “another authority,” a “foreign god,” and “other gods.” Here, too, sourdough, leaven, and leavened food are all one. The Creator said, “All those years you stood in another authority and served a different people. From here on, you are free, ‘But on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses,’ ‘You shall eat nothing leavened,’ and ‘nothing leavened shall be seen among you.’”
167) It follows that we should not eat leaven all the days of the year, so why only seven days? After all, it is written, “Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses.” As long as one must show oneself as free, one should not eat leaven. And when one is not obliged, there is no need for prohibiting leaven.
168) It is like a king who made one man a minister. All the days while he was climbing to that degree, he was happy and wore stately clothes. Afterwards, he did not need it. On another year, he keeps those days when he had risen to this glory and wore those clothes. And so it was every year.
Such are Israel. It is written, “Seven days shall there be no leaven found.” These are the days of joy, the days when they have risen to this honor and emerged from enslavement by another. And for this reason, every single year we keep those days when we have risen to this honor and emerged from the other authority, and have come to the domain of holiness. This is why it is written, “Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.”
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