Redemption doesn’t simply mean being let out of jail
When you’ve been tortured and oppressed for so long, all you want is a respite. But Redemption doesn’t simply mean being let out of jail
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n Pesach night we will raise four cups of wine in a toast to the freedom bestowed upon us more than three thousand years ago. As we commemorate that redemption, we will deepen and renew our consciousness of the meaning embodied in each cup of red wine we drink during the Seder.
For these four cups represent four levels of the Jewish concept of cheirus, corresponding to four expressions used in Hashem’s promise of the imminent redemption from galus Mitzrayim. These expressions are:
V’hotzeisi: I will take you out from the suffering of Egypt.
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