When someone asks why we do physical cleaning of leaven for Pesach when we are also experiencing something spiritual, I tell them the physical can be used to show us the spiritual. For example, this happened to me years ago.
I had cleaned for a month with little kids. There are no “safe places” when you have little kids because they go all over the house tracking things. So I had cleaned everything imaginable. I mean I had done AAALLLLLL the cleaning. And it’s four or five days into the feast of matzah and I suddenly found a sleeve of crackers in some obscure cabinet – and I had no idea how it got there, what it was even used for when I bought it, and to find it now in this random location was shocking. My insides were yelling “oh no! That can’t be here!” And then the spiritual truth hit me square in the face as I saw what leaven really meant spiritually. I internalized that this is exactly how those little seemingly unimportant sins affect me. They mess up my whole “clean” house bc they are hiding, lurking in the random corners of my heart with no day to day purpose, no focus from me in every day life, but they would come out when given the opportunity. So I looked a little deeper than I did the day before bc these very physical crackers highlighted a very spiritual issue I might have overlooked.
Ushering in the Light of HaShem 