KabbalaOnline.org Va'era 5783 Chasidic Masters Insights on the Torah Reading
KabbalaOnline.org Va'era 5783 Chasidic Masters Insights on the Torah Reading Losing Awareness of G-d Chasidic Masters By Binyomin Adilman, based on Sefer Baal Shem Tov "And I will take you to Myself as a People, and I will be your G‑d. Then you will know that I am G‑d , the One who took you out from the subjugation of Egypt." ( Ex. 6:7) The phrase "Then you will know that I am G‑d...." hints that up until now the Children of Israel did not know G‑d. They had become distanced from Him so much so, that they had to learn all over again. It is a condition which in part, brought on the Egyptian exile. The Baal Shem Tov taught that not only were the physical bodies of the Israelites enslaved, but so too their minds. Pharaoh worked them so hard that they didn't have any time to think about their situation - to contemplate if there was or was not a G‑d who was concerned for them. That is the meaning of, "Increase the difficulty of the work