Machshava:

Pesach 

Collections: Rabbi Weinberger: Pesach

Description

From the new Maamarei Pachad Yitzchak, Maamar 14, on Pesach. The counting of the 400 years of exile in Mitzrayim (Egypt) began with Yitzchak, not Avraham. Davening with a broken heart is the way for a tefillah (prayer) to be best received. The greater something is when it is perfected, the more horrible it is when it is in a broken state. It is specifically in the state of lowness that the geula (redemption) comes. The geula is not an upgrade, it is a total transformation. Only Adam came into life from being lifeless dirt, and then was infused with a neshama (soul). Growing from nothing into something greater is uniquely human. Am Yisrael's yeshuot (salvations) come when we are at the bottom. The geula came at the point when it looked like the line of Avraham was going to be completely cut off.