He lifted us into a realm where we could be ourselves, free to think, free to feel, and free to hope.
Four words of geulah, the process of redemption.
But the order is intriguing, for isn’t the first step the salvation itself? When coming to help, a rescuer will first save the victim, and then remove him from the place in which he’s being oppressed.
Why is V’hotzeisi, I will take you out, before V’hitzalti, the actual saving?
The Mitzriyim didn’t just physically oppress the Bnei Yisrael. They had a more sophisticated idea. They would dehumanize them, strip them of their dignity by giving them no chance to think, to feel, to simply be. It was a program designed to smother that which allows a person to have any dreams at all.
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