Citação sobre Êxodo 3:2

“And God appeared to him as a flame of fire from within the bush.” To explain this, it appears that the root practice for a person is to break the hold of the ugly qualities such as hatred, jealousy, pride, desire, and the like; all those qualities which need fixing and whose repair then allows a person to arrive at a high level, great visions, and great enthusiasm and attachment in the service of the Creator, whose name be blessed. This is “And God appeared…as a flame of fire from within the bush,” meaning that God appeared from within these ugly qualities which are the thorns, through which Moshe arrived at the level where he experienced a fiery enthusiasm. And he saw that the bush was burning but not being consumed, meaning that he experienced this fiery enthusiasm but these ugly qualities didn’t leave him by being entirely consumed; and so he said that he would turn aside and look at this, meaning that he would turn totally away from these ugly qualities in order “to see this great vision,” and then I will arrive at the highest levels and experience the greatest visions. “Why isn’t the bush consumed?” The Hebrew word for burning/consuming is the same as the one in the phrase “and it grazes in another field” (Sh’mot 22:4). What this is trying to say is that Moshe asked, “Why can’t all these ugly qualities which are like a thorny bush be consumed and be gone forever?”