[Avodah] Ani v'lo hashaliach

[Zev Sero]

kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> Towards the end of Maggid, just before the Ten Plagues, the Hagada quotes
> the pasuk "V'avarti b'eretz mitzraim", and offers these comments:
> 
> "... 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?

R Rubin of the Albany Shtiebel suggested that Malach, Saraf, and
Hashaliach is roshei tevot Mosheh, and that perhaps this was a way of
sneaking a mention of Mosheh into the hagadah, even though he doesn't
appear explicitly (except as an aside in the pasuk "vayaaminu baH'
uvemosheh avdo").  He related this to the way Mosheh is missing from
the explicit text of Tetzaveh, but is hinted at in the very first word,
"ve'atah".   Perhaps the author of this phrase wanted to get Mosheh
back into the hagadah, and this was his way of doing so.

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