Real to God
Posted by Abe Mezrich on January 6, 2008 | Tags: Pesach, Sefer Shmot, Shmot
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God frees the Children of Israel from Egypt by means of Plagues and Signs: in which a staff becomes a serpent, and water becomes blood, and land becomes lice.
These miracles prove the fixed world to be more changeable than it would seem to be.
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God frees the Children of Israel, largely, on account of the Covenant. God remembered His Covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob: and He sends Moses to free Israel.
And so while God changes the nature of the world, the Covenant lasts.
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Slavery requires a captivity with no way of exit. So slavery is only as real as the bonds that hold it in place.
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The bonds that are the world of Egypt prove to be fictions: God changes that world at His whim.
But the Truth of God's Covenant remains constant.
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So, in this light, God does not so much free the Children of Israel.
He simply reveals that slavery was never really there in the first place.
For slavery is a fiction with God.
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Abe MezrichJoined: October 11, 2007 Abe Mezrich is a new-York based writer and lecturer, and the author of a weekly dvar Torah. Contact him at amezrich@gmail.com. Divrei Torah (12) |
