Tonight G-d Willing everyone will be sitting at the seder with their family and friends. We will say in the Haggadah that if Hashem had not taken us out from Egypt we and our ancestors would still be slaves in Egypt. I always read this to mean that if Hashem wouldn't have taken us out, the exile in Egypt would have lasted longer, maybe the entire 400 hundred years. But that is not what the words say. The words say that "we" me and you would still be there today! On one hand this seems like an exaggerated statement. We were slaves thousands of years ago, how many empires have fallen and rose since then, no doubt Egypt would have as well. At some point things would have changed naturally and we would have been free. But no, this is exactly what the Haggadah is telling us. We need to come to the conclusion that everything that happens in the world and to the Jewish People in particular is Divinely Ordained, if G-d would not have taken us out, then in fact we would still be there today. This is the message that we need to internalize and most importantly impart to the next generation. We are His People and He is directing us through the world in order to bring us to the ultimate rectification and good.

Chag Kasher Ve'Sameach,

Heath