Chol Hamoed (literally, The weekdays of the holiday) are the intermediate days of Passover in the spring and Sukut in the fall; they are the days sandwiched between the beginning and end holy days of both festivals.
Passover is seven days long because it took seven days to leave the slavery of Egypt and become a nation. Freedom to the Jewish People means they were free to serve the Creator – slavery means, work come first. Freedom in our time means, free to make money and acquire wealth.
Being enslaved by the physical world prevents people from being free in the spiritual world; without spiritual freedom life is purposelessly confined – the meaning of the word Mitzriam/Egypt is Confinement. To become a nation the Jewish People required confinement.
The seven days of Passover is a metaphor for the birth process ending with the splitting of the sea and the drowning of those who attempted to restrain the birth – the 210 years of slavery was a long pregnancy but when the time came nothing could prevent the birth from happening.
These two seven day holidays, Passover and Sukut, are differentiated by food; during the seven days of Sukut anything can be eaten but only in the Sukah but during Passover one can eat anywhere but must eat matza – the holiday of Sukut represents sex while Passover is the birth.
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