Who Took Us Out?

By Shalom Katz

“We cried out to Hashem and He heard our voice; he sent a ‘Malach’ / emissary and took us out of Egypt.” (20:16)
R’ Shlomo Zarka and R’ Yehuda Chermon, writing jointly, ask: Don’t we say in the Pesach Haggadah, “I [Hashem] and not a Malach”?

They answer: Rashi comments on the “Malach” in our verse, “This was Moshe. From this we may learn that the prophets are termed ‘angels’.” R’ Zarka and R’ Chermon write that Moshe was the emissary to set the stage, and then Hashem himself took Bnei Yisrael out of Egypt.

Rashi’s explanation is alluded in the very word “Malach” (Mem-Lamed-Aleph-Chaf), which is the acronym of: “Moshe Levi Aharon Kohen”. These are the two emissaries Hashem sent to
“facilitate” the Exodus. (Haggadah Shel Pesach Rinah V’yeshuah p.78)

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