Pesach: 5782 - 'Va'avadum Ve'inu Osam' (they shall enslave and afflict them) physically, and 'Veyeitz'u Birechush Gadol' (they shall go out with great wealth) only spiritually? Rabbi Shimon Zonnenfeld with a message for Pesach at the conclusion of the Daf Yomi shiur of Rabbi Betzalel…

00:00 Speaker 1 Please.

00:02 Speaker 2 To add to what Rabbi Brook said: I once heard Rabbi Zevin ask the same question. What does it mean, “so that that righteous man should not say”? Hakadosh Boruch Hu made a promise; He has to keep it. He speaks and acts—He has to keep His promise. So Rabbi Zevin said that, in truth, what is the “great wealth”? The great wealth is the Torah given at Mount Sinai. That is the true greatness: “The Torah of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.” But then Avraham Avinu would come with a complaint: “They will enslave and afflict them”—that was fulfilled for them, in the plain, physical sense. But “afterward they will leave with great wealth” was not fulfilled for them; they were given spiritual things. Avraham Avinu would complain about that, and that is why Hashem asked them to go and ask each person of their neighbor, and so on.

00:52 Speaker 1 Yasher koach!