This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Rabbi Sam Feinsmith of the IJS Core Faculty. It's the last in a series of four meditations on the theme of "From Constriction to Expanse," a series intended to help us prepare inwardly for Passover. Rabbi Feinsmith reminds us that we are usually suffering from a case of mistaken identity. We erroneously understand our constructed self-identity, generated by our ego, as our true self. But the ingrained narrowness of our ego, which seeks to protect, cherish, and justify itself, inflicts suffering on ourselves and the world -- just like Pharaoh in the Exodus narrative. Whereas our deepest, truest self emerges from that which is timeless, ever-present, and infinitely spacious. On Pesach, we move from the constriction of the false self, and move towards the expansive freedom of our essential, true self -- which emerges, and is never separate from, Timeless Presence.