A point of truth that leaps over time

ובמדרש ע"פ החודש הזה.

And in the Midrash on the verse "This month" (Shemos 12:2):

The Sefas Emes turns to the Midrash on the mitzvah of "HaChodesh hazeh," the sanctification of the first month, given just before the redemption from Mitzrayim.

הנה זה בא מדלג על ההרים כו' כשבא משה רבינו ע"ה ואמר להם בחודש הזה אתם נגאלים אמרו הלא ת' שנה צריכין אנחנו להשתעבד והשיב להם כיון שהקב"ה חפץ בגאולתכם אינו מביט על החשבונות כו' ע"ש.

"Behold, this one comes, leaping over the mountains" (Shir HaShirim 2:8) — when Moshe Rabbeinu came and told them, "In this month you are being redeemed," they said, "But we are required to be enslaved for four hundred years!" And he answered them, "Since the Holy One desires your redemption, He does not look at the calculations" — see there.

The Midrash describes Hashem "leaping over the mountains" to redeem Bnei Yisrael ahead of schedule. When they protested that the decreed 400 years of bondage were not yet complete, Moshe responded that Hashem's desire for their geulah overrides the reckoning of years.

ביאור הדבר כי נקודה אחת של אמת יכול לגרש כל כח הסט"א.

The explanation of the matter is that a single point of truth (nekudah shel emes) can drive out the entire power of the sitra achra (the "other side," the forces of evil).

One genuine point of truth has the power to banish all the forces of impurity at once — its strength is not gradual but absolute.

וכשמעוררין איזה רצון אמת והוא למעלה מהטבע והזמן.

And when one awakens some true ratzon (will/desire), it is above nature and above time.

When a person arouses a truly genuine ratzon toward Hashem, that will transcends the ordinary order of nature and the constraints of time.

אין הטבע עומדת בפניו.

Nature cannot stand before it.

Such a will, rooted above nature, cannot be blocked by the natural order or by any decreed timetable.

וזה הוא בירור.

And this is a birur (clarification/refinement).

This awakening of true will is itself an act of birur — a moment in which truth is clarified and separated out from concealment.

לכן נקרא חודש הזה.

Therefore it is called "this month" (hachodesh hazeh).

The word "hazeh (this)" denotes something pointed to and clearly revealed — fitting for the month of redemption, when truth broke through and was plainly seen, like the renewal (chidush) of the moon.

וז"ש הנה זה בא מדלג כו' כי ע"י נקודה זאת של אמת נעשה הנס שלא בהדרגה ואינו מביט על החשבונות כנ"ל:

And this is the meaning of "Behold, this one comes, leaping" — for through this point of truth the miracle came about not in gradual stages, and "He does not look at the calculations," as above.

The "leaping over the mountains" expresses exactly this: because a point of pure truth was awakened, the redemption broke through all at once, skipping the natural gradations and the arithmetic of the decreed years.

Summary: When Bnei Yisrael protested that the 400 years of bondage were unfinished, Hashem "leaped over the mountains" because His desire to redeem overrides all calculations. The Sefas Emes explains that a single point of truth and a genuinely awakened ratzon transcend nature and time and can banish all the forces of evil — so redemption came suddenly, not by gradual stages, which is why the month of geulah is called "hachodesh hazeh," the month of revealed, renewed truth.