In this week's episode, we recognize God's power and wisdom. God demonstrates these qualities in a number of ways. These include, but are not limited to:
- God shows His power through the Makkot He brings - locusts, darkness and death of the firstborn. God demonstrates that He controls the insects, the atmosphere and life and death itself through these precisely timed plagues.
- God demonstrates that He is faithful when it comes to keeping promises. Long ago, He promised Avraham we would leave Egypt with great wealth, and He ensures this happens by having the Egyptians give us items of silver and gold.
- God's wisdom comes up when we see the first mitzvah He gives to us as a nation. This is the mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh, the new moon. This enables us to create our own calendars, something which only free people can appreciate. It also introduces us to the concept of Kedushat HaZeman, the sanctity of time.
- God tells us how important it is for us to embed the exodus from Egypt upon our memories- it's something we think about when performing other mitzvot such as Pidyon HaBen or Tefillin. It is also of course something we think about when we keep the holiday of Pesach. These experiential mitzvot enable us to consistently remember God's power and be grateful He took us out of the bad situation we experienced in Egypt.
Based on the questions and discussions in this week's episode, we come up with some vey important lessons and takeaways for our own lives!
