****D’var Torah For Monday****
L’zecher Nishmas Rabbi Ravitz Z”L
The Bnei Yisroel traveled from Ramses to Succos…(12:37)
The Pasuk tells us that the Geulah took place at the end of 430 years. The Gematriah of (sorry i don’t have hebrew letters)Ramses is 430. At the end of 430 years, they left Mitzrayim and traveled to Succos. The Gematriah of Succos, is 480. It was only 480 years after the Bnei Yisroel left Mitzrayim that King Shlomo began to build the Beis HaMikdash to establish a permanent home for the Divine Presence in the nation’s midst. Before that, the Bnei Yisroel could not be seen as being truly setteled in the land. Thus, the Pasuk tells us that in leaving Mitzrayim the Bnei Yisroel were taking there first stepsto go from Ramses- the 430 year period of Galus- to Succos, the 480 years of quasi-setteled status that marked the first era of living in Eretz Yisroel.(R’ David Feinstein-Sefer Kol Dodi)not googled.
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