Pesach and Hagomel-Parshas Metzora
(The following is based primarily on a dissertation of R’ Yeruchem Olshin in his sefer Yerach L’moa’dim [Pesach, vol. II,§ 17].) What was so bad about the experience of the Jewish people in Mitzrayim (Egypt)? To many, this might not seem like a particularly difficult question. What was so bad about it? What wasn’t so bad about it? It entailed years and years of backbreaking, torturous labor, Jewish babies were routinely [...]