G‑d reveals Himself to Moses. Employing the “four expressions of redemption,” take out the Children of Israel from Egypt, deliver them from their enslavement, redeem them, and acquire them as His own chosen people at “Mount Sinai”; He will then bring them to the land He promised to the Patriarchs as their eternal heritage.

Moses and Aaron repeatedly come before Pharaoh to demand in the name of G‑d, “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me in the wilderness.” Pharaoh repeatedly refuses. Aaron’s staff turns into a snake and swallows the magic sticks of the Egyptian sorcerers. G‑d then sends a series of plagues upon the Egyptians.

The waters of the Nile turn to blood; swarms of frogs overrun the land; lice infest all men and beasts. Hordes of wild animals invade the cities; a pestilence kills the domestic animals; painful boils afflict the Egyptians. For the seventh plague, fire and ice combine to descend from the skies as a devastating hail. Still, “the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he would not let the children of Israel go, as G‑d had said to Moses.”

Well, the main thing that kept running through my head was that History sure does repeat itself.

and I am the list of slaves continues… but throughout the years there has always been refugees across the globe, people who were cast aside or escaped their homes for a better future.

The Rabbi said how the Israelites were forced out of Egypt, even though it was only for a short time, and with haste they had to flee. Many probably didn’t want to leave their homes, even though they wanted to be freed from Slavery, and even though they left they were lost in the dessert for 40 years and, and that generation didn’t get to see the promised land.

I took that has the adults/elders making a sacrifice for the future generations, if they stayed in Egypt then the following generations would be slaves too and so on and so on…so sometimes one needs to make a sacrifice for the legacies you leave behind.

It is quite sad how history repeats itself, does man never learn?