Five Transitions: "Писать в стол" - Examining the achievement of Va’era from 5 points of view: Conceptual Changes in Freedom; Changes in מצרים (Achievement of יציאה); Change in the גילוי השם ה'; Change in Moshe, and here at last, the Changes in Yisrael. Speaking to Oneself and changing the “Nesting Space” as the achievement of the space for freedom, expressed immediately in the resultant ולמען תספר and in the ability to ask for the ביזת מצרים.
Nesting and Achievement of דיבור as that which is the true answer to the מלאכים in מה אנוש כי תזכרנו is what turns Moshe into the רבינו instead of the גואל (expressed in the giving of מצוות in next parasha) in this parasha of transition. But it is also the fullness of relationship to a reality that does not search for the שעשוע of comfort, leaving behind the אל ישעו בדברי שקר, but for the שעשוע of playing with reality which is so much a part of language. This became the path to freedom in our own times in the USSR, where the willingness to write went hand in hand with the jokes that destroyed the reality of the ruling clique’s hold through the Samizdat (Самиздат), the jokes expressed in the אשר התעללתי במצרים in the next parasha. This becomes embedded as Писать в стол in the הגדה של פסח (“write into the table”) PisAt v stOl.

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