And you shall explain to your child on that day, 'It is because
of what the Lord did for me when I went free from Egypt'. It was
the moment for which they had been waiting for more than two
hundred years. The Israelites, slaves in Egypt, were about to go
free. Ten plagues had struck the country. The people were the
first to understand; Pharaoh was the last. G-d was on the side
of freedom and human dignity. You cannot build a nation, however
strong your police and army, by enslaving some for the benefit
of others. History will turn against you, as it has against
every tyranny known to mankind. And now the time had arrived.
The Israelites were on the brink of their release. Moses, their
leader, gathered them together and prepared to address them.
What would he speak about at this fateful juncture, the birth of
a people? He could have spoken about many things. He might have
talked about liberty, the breaking of their chains, and the end
of slavery. He might have talked about the destination to which
they were ab