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The wealthy man who raised an orphan his wife treated the child very kindly, as if he was their
in his house own. Not simply did he eat at their table and sleep
“ – ואלה שמות בני ישראלAnd these are the names of bnei under their roof. He was made to feel like their son
Yisroel” (Shemos 1:1). In sefer Shemos we read about our in every sense of the word. One day, as the man and
exile in Egypt, the tortuous enslavement there, the his wife were dining alone together, a pauper came to
murderous Egyptians and our hard labor with brick the door asking for tzedaka. The pauper assumed that
and mortar. We read of the miraculous redemption, he would receive no more than a few dollars, but the
how HaShem freed us by means of crushing plagues man of the house expansively reached into his wallet
that He brought upon the Egyptians. Many ask, “Why
was all of this necessary?” Before HaShem took us to
Him as a nation and gave us His Torah, why did He
send us to Egypt to suffer such terrible ordeals for so
many years? What would have been wrong with letting
us stay in Eretz Yisroel? Couldn’t we have grown to be
a nation naturally and in peace? Afterwards, when
HaShem saw that we were ready, couldn’t He have
given us the Torah and Eretz Yisroel as an inheritance
without sending us to be oppressed in Egypt?
The Ben Ish Chai answers with a parable – one that
our generation in particular always needs to keep in
mind.
There once was a very wealthy man who raised an
orphan in his home, from the child’s infancy. He and
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