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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>The following is from RSRH's
commentary on Parsha Bo. YL<br><br>
In declaring
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>v'lakachti eschem
li <b>l'am</i></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>(above, [Shemos] 6:7), God
announced the<br>
positive objective of the
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>geulah</i>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>from Egypt. Stated in the
idiom of our<br>
own times, what God wanted to create was not an “ecclesiastical
congregation”<br>
to worship Him, but a people, a nation, a society. From this<br>
redemption must emerge a state whose whole
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>social
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>existence is to be<br>
rooted in God, built by Him, founded upon Him, fashioned by Him,<br>
and dedicated to Him. And it was with the
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>korban Pesach
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>that God laid the<br>
foundation stone of this edifice.</font></body>
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