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Daily Chizuk #0599
Weekly Parasha
Lenses of Emunah: Strength and Vision through Faith
Parashat Bo: In Ways We Could Never Imagine
In this week’s Parasha, Bo, Hashem tells Moshe that He hardened Pharaoh’s heart in order to bring more plagues on the Mitzrim and in order that we should tell our children how Hashem made a mockery of the Egyptians and brought all the plagues upon them. The sefer Chesed L’Alafim writes, the main purpose of the makot was not to get Pharaoh to agree to let the Jewish People go. Hashem could have done that easily, but rather it was to show us for the future generations that we should never despair from having our geula. We should never doubt that Hashem is going to perform miracles for us, just like He did for them. In fact, the pasuk says in Yirmiyah, “Days are coming when we are no longer going to be saying ‘Hashem who took us out of Mitzrayim,’ but rather ‘Hashem who took us out of this exile.’”
We don’t need to know exactly how our help will come, Hashem could figure that part out. We have to have emunah in Him that He is here with us constantly and that everything is happening the way He wants it to happen. And when the time is right, He’s going to bring about the ultimate Geula in the most wondrous fashion.
Shabbat Shalom!!
In this week’s Parasha, Bo, Hashem tells Moshe that He hardened Pharaoh’s heart in order to bring more plagues on the Mitzrim and in order that we should tell our children how Hashem made a mockery of the Egyptians and brought all the plagues upon them. The sefer Chesed L’Alafim writes, the main purpose of the makot was not to get Pharaoh to agree to let the Jewish People go. Hashem could have done that easily, but rather it was to show us for the future generations that we should never despair from having our geula. We should never doubt that Hashem is going to perform miracles for us, just like He did for them. In fact, the pasuk says in Yirmiyah, “Days are coming when we are no longer going to be saying ‘Hashem who took us out of Mitzrayim,’ but rather ‘Hashem who took us out of this exile.’”
We don’t need to know exactly how our help will come, Hashem could figure that part out. We have to have emunah in Him that He is here with us constantly and that everything is happening the way He wants it to happen. And when the time is right, He’s going to bring about the ultimate Geula in the most wondrous fashion.
Shabbat Shalom!!
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