As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“And I shall see the blood and I shall skip over you and there shall be no plague upon you.” (12:13)
Why was anything necessary to protect the Israelites from a plague that was sent upon their oppressors?
But there is a rule: “When permission is given to the Destroyer, he no longer distinguishes between the righteous and the wicked.” (Baba Kama 60A) Hashem’s preference for the righteous is not permitted by Him to interfere with this principle of His. Unless the righteous take shelter in houses which are distinguished by a mark of Hashem’s service. The Destroyer, then, ‘passes over’ the loyal.
The significance of this symbolism is one of the miracles of history: the eternity of Israel as a nation in this world.
The Destroyer eventually brings destruction to every nation, one after the other. No nation has survived this inexorable fate of eventual downfall. Egypt (today Egypt is merely a name, but the people and the culture of Egypt’s original greatness have vanished entirely, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome have disappeared from the face of the earth.
But Israel, that accepted G-d’s service forever, is ‘passed over’ by the Destroyer and they shall continue as a nation forever. Those of Israel that are disloyal shall also go lost forever. Not only in this life is Israel’s existence forever, but also those that pass into the Afterlife are also forever. “All Israel has a share in the World to Come.”
Quoted from “A Nation is Born” by Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
Shabbat Shalom
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