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0:15 And why is the Holy One, blessed be He, so fond of remembering the Exodus from Egypt? To show all of us how beloved everyone is before Him. After all, if it were only Moshe Rabbeinu, the great and mighty tzaddik, Moshe Rabbeinu would have left alone, and there would have been no need to take out the whole Jewish people, and that would have been the end of it, that the Holy One, blessed be He, would appear to him at the bush and give him the Torah, and redeem the whole world. So what did Hashem, blessed be He, do?
0:39 He sent Moshe Rabbeinu back to make such a, such a big detour (all the way to Egypt) only to bring him back afterward (together with the whole Jewish people) in order to give him the Torah. So everyone will wonder: for whom was this whole journey? After all, Hashem was already with him in that same place, to give him the Torah, and He did not give it to him. He waited in order to appear to him, to tell him: “Go save My people, go deliver My people.
1:09 I cannot see them in this suffering, that they are in pain, and they cry out, and they suffer and are tormented.” But because they turned to Hashem, they asked Him, they wanted Him to deliver them... (so He delivered them) Think how many comforts we have today, that we do not (feel that we) need to ask Him at all, whether because the world is good, or because we think this is already a kind of redemption, or because we think there is a livelihood, or because we think a person has everything he needs.
1:39 (And if we do ask, then) what we ask for is only a livelihood, children, a wedding, a home... But no one asks anymore that He be before us in a pillar of cloud, in a pillar of fire. “And their cry rose up to G-d” - that was in Egypt, but where is our cry from within, asking that it be enough already, enough, all the appointed times have run out...
2:04 How much suffering there is in this people, and how much pain there is in this people, and how many orphans and widows, and poor, and sick, and people in agony who are tormented again and again... And we can pass the time... and everyone does pass it, and again we can learn and debate in wisdom, and advance, but exile remains exile, and the people suffer...
2:30 And this can be stopped! Because one more and one more and one more who says: enough of our troubles, who cries out from his heart and says to Hashem, blessed be He, from the heart, even if it is out of a cry, we want to see You, our King, we want to see You, we want You to redeem us, we want You to go before us, we want You to guide us, we want You to say: enough of our troubles, we want You to have mercy on us, we want You to save us, to ask Him, blessed be He - this is what Hashem, blessed be He, wants to hear...
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3:20 Right after the prayer on Friday night, which was the Seder night, I told everyone not to forget to make one request, that right at the end of the Haggadah they should ask Hashem... We read it, we left Egypt, but we are still not in the complete redemption, Hashem, we want Your complete redemption,
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