Sunday, April 6, 2014

With Alacrity We Left Egypt

The Rambam says that the hagada begins with the words בבהילו יצאנו ממצרים - With haste we left Egypt. Why is it so important to emphasize at the beginning of the hagda that we went out quickly?

One reads the hagada and says to himself "What is the point of all of this?? We are not really free! We are still mired deeeeep in the galus. So why this celebration of freedom?"

So we start the hagada and say "We left Mitzrayim quickly". So too, we can leave this galus quickly as well. It can all end in a second! We can be redeemed and allllll of our tzaros will disappear like smoke.

[Rav Nosson Geshtetner ztz"l]

לזכות רבי אפרים אבא בן מרים שושנה לברכה והצלחה לו לביתו ולכל משפחתו