This Shabbos comes out this year on the first day of Passover.
It was on this very evening that HaShem Freed us from the bondage of Mitzrayim . We had come into Egypt originally when Yosef , Yaakov's son who had been sold into slavery by his brothers had been brought to Egypt and after first working for Potiphar ( meaning ' the mutilated one ' ) , had been wrongly accused , due to Potiphar's evil wife Zulaicha desiring and chasing him every day, She finally , realizing he would never succumb to her, made false charges against him that had him put for many years in prison only able at night times , to allow him out to still serve in Potiphar's home, here she still continued to to harass him . Yosef , through HaShem's intervention only came out of prison , when he , through HaShem , interpreted Pharaoh's dreams and , was appointed viceroy of Egypt. With the Help of HaShem , Yosef , saved the country from the years of famine with his plans and also caused his Father and brothers to then come and settle in the land of Goshen in Egypt ( an area originally given to Sarah by a previous Pharaoh , when Avram and Sarai had gone there ) , and so, we as a people came to Mitzrayim.
A new Pharaoh arose in Egypt after the passing of Yosef and his brothers and that entire generation , and they quickly and conveniently ignored how much HaShem and Yosef and us Jews had done for the country ,and so , to allay their concern that we might join their enemies , Pharaoh and the Egyptians , knowing our ways of Chesed, deceitfully advertised a new building program , that they made out would be a great help to the country , knowing we as Jews would always volunteer to help. Pharaoh himself even went out in the beginning to show how important a task it was advertising , and went so far as to even take a spade in his hand . He had Egyptians also volunteer , who every day would get less and less, till only Jews were left at the work, and to work areas that really could never get finished in swampy land and the Jews found day after day how the Egyptians dwindled and we suddenly found ourselves under whipping taskmasters, who were instructed to work us day and night in the fields and in their homes . Men were savagely beaten and killed , the plan was to destroy our menfolk Chas Ve Shalom and take our women for the dirty Egyptians .
These evil Egyptians went so far as to throw all our male babies that were born , into the Nile river , when their astrologers said a redeemer would come to us and would be destroyed by water . How they read this wrong ( for the only water that had affected Moishe was the decree later in his life at the Waters of Meriva when he struck the rock ) and so beautiful new born Moishe Avigdor was put in the Nile n to make the Egyptians think that the redeemer was now in the Nile . This Moishe grew up to be HaShem's Messenger and he was chosen on this Pesach day , after Ten Plagues , HaShem Sent against Egypt , brought our Pesach day of freedom . HaShem Instructed us on this day to tell our children of the Exodus from Mitzrayim and so , on this night , we do just that , on our Passover Seders.
A night , we are to never forget , the time when HaShem Took His Legions ( Us Jews ) out of Egypt .
Such is the day of our Passover . This period starts from the night we went free and we commemorate right up until the time we were not ever to be bothered by the Egyptians when they drowned in the Yam Suf . That was the end of them enslaving us at that time . HaShem's Final straw with Egypt , when His Time of our redemption from there came , was when HaShem Saw how Pharaoh was going to bathe in the blood of our murdered children , some of those of our people that had not been put into their walls among bricks . How cruel and low these Egyptians were.
Egypt was called Mitzrayim , which means , ' borders , ' for once a person came to Egypt , they were locked in and could not leave , unless Pharaoh gave permission . These Egyptians were the lowest negativity of a people at the time , the lowest in morals . Thus Pesach , is also a reminder , to free ourselves from any form of negative behavior .
HaShem Asked us to mark our doorposts , knowing full well who was Jewish , but Left it up to us , even then , to choose HaShem , and not foreign ways Chas Ve Shalom .
The Unleavened Bread Matzah that we took with us out of Egypt , not having time for the dough to rise , was so precious to us , that we kept it close to us on our shoulders , yet the valuable silver and gold , we left on our donkeys .
The idea of Leaven, that we are to remove from our homes is also a lesson to remove from ourselves ego and arrogance and to be ever humble before HaShem . The whole way of Egypt , was one of leaven arrogance , and that is the path away from HaShem . Thus we are to choose HaShem and so , we must remove any trace of arrogance that leads to self love and idol worshiping Chas Ve Shalom .
This night of Passover , throughout history , is a night related to our freedom from enemies . As an example , it was this night that in the story of Esther , haman had come into the courtyard to hurt us , by wanting to talk to the king about killing Mordechai , but on this night , our conditions there in Shushan were turned around , haman found himself having to humble himself to his enemy. HaShem , on that night , turned our future into on of rejoicing .
Everything we do on the Passover Seder , like talking of our freedom as a nation and leaning to the left ,is allied to also acting as a free people , only under HaShem , for it is only under HaShem that one can truly be free .
We remember on Passover the bitterness of our slavery in Egypt , when we eat the Maror , the bitter herbs at the Seder . This is our Festival of freedom , under HaShem . Thus we also think forward to the Final Redemption , as put a part of the Matzah in hiding as the Afikoman , that comes out after the meal , to remind us of the Final Redemption . We also remember Eliyahu Ha Navi , who we pour a glass of wine or grapejuice for , hoping that he will usher in Moshiach and the Final Redemption , that will take us close to HaShem . We drink four cup of wine or ( though it should be wine , ) to commemorate the four orders made by HaShem in Torah to do with us being told to leave Egypt .
We remember on this night other miracles HaShem performed for us , like Avraham overcoming the enemy , HaShem Sending Avimelech a dream not to touch Avram's wife Sarai . It was this Passover night time, that HaShem Warned Lavan not to hurt Yaakov . It was this Passover night time that Yaakov wrestled with the Angel Samael till daybreak , just before meeting up with Eisav . It was this night that HaShem Sent the Plague of the Slaying of the firstborn of Egypt , and there were many firstborns in Egypt as the Egyptians had many firstborns , even among husbands and wives , who were not faithful to their partners and so had many firstborns among their unfaithful relationships. It was on this night in time , that HaShem did destroy Sisera , our enemy . It was on this Passover night in time , that Sannacherib's plans were frustrated . It was on this night in time , that Daniel was given his vision of what he was shown . It was on this night , that Belshazar , was killed . It was on this night that Daniel was saved from the lions den . As I mentioned earlier, on this night , haman's evil was turned back on him , when he came to the King Achasvuerus to ask for Mordechai to be killed, and HaShem turned it around n, so that Haman would have to parade Mordechai through the streets of Shushan. ( Seder Book Haggadah SAZF Appeal ) . It was thus also this night in time , that HaShem disturbed the sleep and night of Achasvuerus , that he ended up asking for the annals and was told how Mordechai had saved him from Bigthan and Teresh , that same night haman came in to try hurt Mordechai and it was turned around on haman's own head . Yes , this is a very Holy night , on which HaShem Has many times , Saved our people .Yes this is a very holy night .
HaShem Wants our closeness , and we are constantly reminded in Torah . This night we re to remember that HaShem Took us out of Mitzrayim and how HaShem Keeps Saving us . This is the night of our redemption .
So as we sit this Holy Shabbos and Pesach , reading our Haggados , may we truly give ourselves over to true freedom , by turning completely to HaShem in Love .
I wish HaShem with Love , a Very Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Pesach Sameach with Love and to all my fellow Yidden , a very sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Pesach Sameach with love .
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