Revealing the Exodus Miracle

כל המרבה לספר ביציאת מצרים הרי זה משובח.

“Whoever increases the telling of the exodus from Egypt is praiseworthy.”

The Sefat Emet explains that expanding the narrative of the Exodus is inherently virtuous and spiritually potent.

כי יציאת מצרים אין לו הפסק כמ"ש כל ימי חייך.

For the exodus from Egypt has no end, as it is written: “All the days of your life.”

The Exodus is an ongoing, perpetual reality that must be remembered and manifested every day.

וכפי מה שמספרין יצ"מ נגמר ומתרבה הנס דיצ"מ.

And in accordance with how much one tells the story of the Exodus, the miracle of the Exodus becomes completed and increased.

The more one recounts the events, the more the spiritual revelation of the miracle expands and is actualized.

כיון שענין יצ"מ היא פרשה בתורה היא נצחיות.

Since the Exodus is a section of the Torah, it is eternal.

The Sefat Emet teaches that anything rooted in Torah possesses eternal existence, and so the Exodus is continually alive.

וזה שהוסיפו כל התנאים אמור מעתה במצרים לקו נ' מכות כו'.

And this is why all the Tannaim added: “From now on say that in Egypt they were struck with fifty plagues,” etc.

The sages expanded the traditional account to reveal deeper dimensions of the miracles.

הרי שהוסיפו שמעתה מתגלה הנ' מכות שהיו מקודם גנוזים בשם עשרה בלבד.

Behold, they added that from now on the fifty plagues are revealed, which were previously hidden within the number ten alone.

The Tannaim’s elaborations uncover layers of divine action that had been concealed in the simpler enumeration.

וזה ענין סיפור יצ"מ להוציא מכח אל הפועל.

And this is the essence of telling the story of the Exodus: to bring what is in potential into actuality.

The act of recounting activates dormant spiritual forces and brings hidden miracles to expression.

כי עיקר יצ"מ הוא חירות משיעבוד הסט"א.

For the essence of the Exodus is freedom from the enslavement of the Other Side.

The liberation from Egypt symbolizes the breaking of spiritual bondage to forces of impurity.

רק במצרים הי' שורש הסט"א.

For in Egypt was the root of the Other Side.

Egypt served as the central locus of spiritual constriction and impurity from which Israel had to be freed.

ובפרטות נגמר בכל שנה יותר כנ"ל.

And in particular, it is completed more each year, as stated above.

Each year on Passover, the process of liberation reaches a deeper fulfillment, continually unfolding anew.

Summary: The Sefat Emet teaches that recounting the Exodus expands and actualizes its miracles, revealing ever‑deeper layers of divine liberation, which recur and intensify each year.