Passover Haggadah.
Four sons.
On the Laboring for passover night:
"Rasha, Ma Hu Omer"
"The Evil, what is he saying:
What's it [this labor] to you?
To you and not to him.
Having set himself aside from the whole,
he denounced the essence...
If he had been there, he would not have been saved"
Participate in laboring not just the passover night,
but to the extent of the labor of the people of Israel
in Egypt before Exodus,
which is required to have survived there.
The people of Israel came to Egypt with the intention
of being a symbiotic parasite.
Enslavement is part of the game,
and if you want to survive with, you must share in the burden.
The Haggadah is very careful about this:
Jacob came to Egypt for just a temporary place to stay,
not to exercise life over there.
In Hebrew, to live, as in:
to stay in an apartment and live there,
is a separate word than to live, as in,
to exercise life.
The Haggadah quotes the bible,
denoting the distinction:
Jacob came to just live there for a while,
never intending to stick around for long.
The bible is not much clearer on this,
but does give some interesting foresight:
Exodus, Ch.1, V. 8
"Va Yakam Melech Haddash al Mizraim
Asher lo yada et yossef"
"A new king arose on Egypt, who did not know Joseph"
What a bizarre thing to write, considering it was an
Israelite who was doing the writing.
Is someone not of the People to be blamed and/or
reprimanded for the future slavery of the Israelites.
Did the new king really not know of Joseph
and the history of the Israelites in Egypt?
Of course he did. He just didn't like it.
And what of Joseph himself?
The visionary who can read dreams and foresee
years into the future of Egyptian leadership and
its outcome did not see this one coming?
Or was it all part of a plan, carefully woven generations ago.
Egyptian enslavement served a purpose in the history
of the Israelites.
To survive, as a People, the Darwin way, during hard times,
they must first learn themselves how to stand together,
like the Wolves, the Bees and The Wall.
Even so, Moses still had to drag them ariound
in circles for forty years
in a very small desert for the same reason,
to arrive in Israel with a cleansed generation,
to complete the plan.
A geographical side note:
It didn't take Abraham forty years to get there
from northern Iraq, which is much further away.
So close it was, that it was easy enough to send back
his chief servant to look for a spouse for his son.
from his own Iraqi tribe.
