[Avodah] Ani velo hashaliach

[I. Balbin]

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> Towards the end of Maggid, just before the Ten Plagues, the Hagada  
> quotes the pasuk "V'avarti b'eretz mitzraim", and offers these  
> comments:
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> "... Ani v'lo mal'ach.
> "... Ani v'lo saraf.
> "... Ani v'lo hashaliach."
>
> What is the significance of the heh hayediah in the last of these?  
> Is Hashem referring to a *specific* shaliach, but only a generic  
> mal'ach or a generic saraf?

I wish I could remember where I saw it, but I read that there is a  
concept of the possibility that Hashem himself and not Moshiach will  
redeem us. It is obviously linked to the Gemora in Sanhedrin 92b of  
"Ein Moshiach LeYisrael" and is one of the Pshatim. Pesach was special  
in that Hashem didn't use HaShaliach (which is the Moshiach) to redeem  
us. Rav Hillel's Memre, is explained as attempt to say that as a  
result of the actions in the days of Chizkiyahu, Hashem will cause  
Geula to also come directly and not "v'lo hashaliach" because we  
aren't zoche. Who knows, perhaps Rav Hillel held that Achisheno was  
through Moshiach and B'Ito is v'lo hashaliach.
Either way, we don't accept Rav Hillel's view.