[Avodah] The Positive Objective of the Geulah from Egypt

[Yitzchok Levine]

The following is from RSRH's commentary on Parsha Bo. YL

In declaring v'lakachti  eschem li  l'am (above, [Shemos] 6:7), God 
announced the
positive objective of the geulah from Egypt. Stated in the idiom of our
own times, what God wanted to create was not an "ecclesiastical congregation"
to worship Him, but a people, a nation, a society. From this
redemption must emerge a state whose whole social existence is to be
rooted in God, built by Him, founded upon Him, fashioned by Him,
and dedicated to Him. And it was with the korban Pesach that God laid the
foundation stone of this edifice. 
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