14 Mar Pesach; Garments That Merit Redemption from Mitzrayim

Garments as spoken about in the Torah can have a multiple meaning, as a garment of cloth or a spiritual garment ; both are ‘enclothements’.

Among the those things that merited the redemption of the Israelites from Mitzrayim (Egypt) are;

The Israelite slaves to maintain their Hebrew names,they maintained the Hebrew language and they did not participate in the sexual immorality of the Egyptians. It is well know that the Hebrew letters and Hebrew words are conduits of spiritual energies that create reality. These are commonly ideas shared at a Seder table.

What may not be so commonly shared at the Seder table is the idea that the merit of ‘the garment’s’ to merit redemption typically believed to be garments of clothing of the slaves are actually ‘redeeming’ spiritual garments.

It’s understood that as a slave, they didn’t have the luxury of ‘going shopping’ to choose their garments. Perhaps we can than understand more deeply that the Torah refers to garments as something other than clothes, but as ‘spiritual garments’. So we can understand the garments the Israelites merit for the redemption was the merit of  keeping the spiritual power of their Hebrew names (their letters) and the mitzvot prohibition of engaging in the massive transgression of sexual immorality throughout Egypt.

Perhaps we may not have shared this idea at a seder table due to the sensitive nature of the idea of sexual immorality where children are present.

Leib Getzel (Lawrence) Lax
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