Inner Redemption Within Exile

ברוך שומר הבטחתו כו’ שהקב”ה חשב הקץ לעשות כו’. Blessed is He that kept His promise…for HaShem calculated חשב the end to do. (The words חשב thought, and לעשות are both used. The Sfas Emes will now explain this combination). פי’ להיות בכל דבר מעשה גשמיי ג”כ בחי’ הגאולה This means that in every physical action there must also be the element of redemption. (Since physicality can entrap one in its properties, one needs to elevate the physical realm to bring it into an element of redemption- to the level of thought מחשבה) שלא להיות נטבע בגשמיות הדבר. That one should not be ‘drowned’ in the physical nature of the thing he is involved with (נטבע connected to the word טבע – nature) וזה המשכת המחשבה בהמעשה להיות קץ לבחי’ עשי’ כנ”ל. This is the idea of drawing the thought into one’s actions (and by elevating the actions) one puts an end (redemption) to the action. as above. (The idea explained is to uplift the physicality to the world of thought, as opposed to dragging the thought into the action. By uplifting the action one can indeed put an end to it.) וזה שהבטיח לאאע”ה בברית בין הבתרים כו’ ומה הבטחה הוא זה להיות בניו בשעבוד ת’ שנים. ואז הי’ עיקר האהבה לאברהם מהשי”ת שכרת עמו הברית. This is the promise that HaShem promised Avraham Avinu at the Covenant of Parts. For what sort of promise was HaShem giving Avraham by telling him that his descendants will be enslaved for 400 years. And (we see that there was much more to this promise for this was) the main expression of love between Avraham and HaShem by making this covenant. (So what was the greatness of the promise?) אך כי הוא הבטחה גדולה שע”י הגלות יהי’ לבנ”י כח זה למצוא בחי’ הפנימיות בכל הסתר However it was indeed a great promise. That through the exile Bnei Yisrael will be able to always connect to this energy of finding the pnimius in every hidden place they will go through in every exile.

וז”ש והיא שעמדה כו’ כי הבטחה הנ”ל הי’ תועלת לכל דור ודור שכל ההסתר מוסיף עוד חיזוק בעת הגאולה This is why (immediately following this statement in the haggadah we say) והיא שעמדה (declaring that it is this covenant that protects us throughout the generations of all evil trying to destroy the Jewish Nation). For the above mentioned covenant (of the long exile), is actually what stood in our stead in every generation. For it is through every layer of hiddenness that actually gives us more strength at the time of redemption. (through revealing more and more pnimius in every difficulty, one merits to an even greater redemption) וז”ש הקב”ה מצילנו מידם כמ”ש רבות רעות צדיק כו’ יצילנו ה’ ופי’ [עי’ זוה”ק בפ’ וישלח] כי הוא מלשון ויצל מקנה אביכם כו’ שמן המיצר נפרש עוד כח הניצוץ הקדוש This is therefore the meaning of the continuation “…and HaShem saves us מצילנו from them”. As we find in the pasuk (Tehillim 34:20) “The misfortunes of the tzadik are many, HaShem will save him from them all”. [See Zohar on Parshat Vayishlach]. (The word מצילנו is the word used by Yaakov Avinu when he got all the flock from Lavan) it says ויצל (which means to seperate), this means that from the difficulty that one goes through, the holy sparks of energy are seperated (from the side of impurity and elevated to a status of holiness). כמ”ש יצאו ברכוש גדול כו’: So too (HaShem promised Avraham that Bnei Yisrael) will leave Mitzrayim with much wealth. (The pasuk in Shemos 12:36, describing Bnei Yisrael leaving says וינצלו את מצרים “they despoiled Mitzrayim” which does not mean to save but rather to remove and seperate).