Q&A: If the Lord had not brought our ancestors out of Egypt, then we and so on would still have been enslaved to Pharaoh in Egypt
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If the Lord had not brought our ancestors out of Egypt, then we and so on would still have been enslaved to Pharaoh in Egypt
Question
How do you interpret this? Historically it doesn’t really seem correct.
Answer
I think the claim is that we would have remained spiritually enslaved to Pharaoh. That is, we would not have received the Torah and would not have become Jews.
Hasidic…