Ep 17 | How You Can Identify Your Personal Egypt & How You Can Escape It

Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Many of today’s problems are the result of bad choices you made yesterday. They put you in your own Egypt. Want to see the mugshot of your worst enemy? Easy — look on your driver’s license. It’s relatively easy to conceive a male baby: It only takes a minute or two. It’s a little harder to give birth to a male baby: it can take several hours. But it is a whole lot harder to turn a male baby into a son. That takes years. It takes years of knowing what to do and doing it. Societies that fail to produce sons, but rather, only produce male human beings is a doomed society. Sons come into existence only after years of fathers and mothers working together. Lessons from Passover… “When your son will ask you…”. Discovering the name of the person most responsible for your failures and disappointments and turning things around is crucial. Who really enslaved the Israelites? Who enslaved you? Seeing the future is the only way to escape the past.

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