As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L

“And they afflicted us and they put upon us hard labor.” (26:6)

“And we cried out to Hashem the G-d of our fathers and He heard our voice…and Hashem took us out of Egypt.” (26:7)

One reason for the affliction was to induce them to cry out to Hashem and thereby gain more Awareness of Him. This (in addition to the promise in the covenant to the Abot) is here declared the reason for the deliverance from Egypt. By dint of their outcry, they sharpened and clarified their awareness of Hashem so that they became ready for the great events that followed.

“He gives wisdom to the wise.” (Daniel 2:21) When by their outcry, again and again, they acquired the wisdom of Awareness of Hashem by their own efforts. Hashem thereafter bestowed upon them a gift of very great wisdom of Awareness by means of the Ten Plagues, the episode of the Sea, the Mann, the unequalled spectacle of Hashem’s voice at Har Sinai and the Clouds of Glory overhead by day and night.

Indeed, the pious heartfelt outcries deserved this sublime reward. But had there been no afflictions, there would have been no outcry. Affliction was the great gift.

Quoted from “Fortunate Nation” by Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L

Shabbat Shalom

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