Thursday, January 19, 2023

What's Bad Is Good

Why does the possuk open וידבר אלקים and then switch to name יקוק?  What is the connection between Hashem keeping His bris with the avot and hearing the cries of Klal Yisrael? 

The Tiferes Shlomo says derech derush והוצאתי אתכם מתחת סבלות מצרים is telling us the key to leaving Egypt is סבלות to have סבלנות through any situation one is put in.  When one accepts the situation without complaint, that will lead one to be able to get out of the situation. 

Moshe complained that after Hashem sent him, far from getting better, things just got worse.  Hashem responds that the middat hadin represented by the name of אלקים really is the same as the name יקוק, that which represents the name of rachamim.  The increased harshness of the labor is necessary to make the exodus occur sooner. Hashem is telling Moshe I also hear the cries of Bnei Yisrael.  However, that itself is the reason to make the work harder so that they can get out earlier.  Klal Yisrael recognize this, they act with סבלנות and hence they will be reddemed. 

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