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Why are we thanking G-d for taking us out of Egypt? He put us there in the first place!

by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg

  

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Many answers are given to this question. The following is the mystical (Kabbalistic) explanation: G-d did, indeed, put us into Egypt and promised to redeem us, but we complicated things for ourselves.

The Egyptian led an extremely immoral and depraved lifestyle. In fact, when the Torah tells us to stay away from immorality and abominations, it tells us, "Like the actions of the Land of Egypt you should not practice."(Leviticus: 18:2)

The Jewish people allowed themselves to be influenced by this lifestyle; they embraced a pagan way of life and sank into the depths of impurity. According to Kabbalah, there are fifty levels of impurity and the Jews had plummeted to the forty-ninth level and were at the verge of descending into the fiftieth, which is the point of no return.

G-d had obligated Himself to set us free from our physical slavery, not our spiritual bondage. We thank G-d for coming in the nick of time, pulling us out of the lowest point of impurity and giving us the Torah thereby enabling us to reach the greatest heights of spirituality.


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