607. Remember that You Were a Slave
“Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt.” Here it implies to us that when a person is in a state of ascent, he should learn what he had at the time of descent, since during the descent, there is no one to speak with, since then a person is devoid of consciousness in the spiritual life and is concerned only with filling his body with pleasures, and it does not matter to him from which place the pleasures come to him, but only “Give!”
However, during the ascent, a person can learn and gain from the state of descent. This is the meaning of “Remember.”