- Pupils should be familiar with the story of the Ten Plagues, preparations for departure, the departure, the splitting of the Red Sea.
- Pupils should be familiar with the mitsvot connected with the Exodus and understand the connection, for example that the Sabbath is 'a remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt'.
- The purpose of the Exodus was:
- to liberate Israel from slavery;
- to give the people of Israel the Torah;
- to take the people of Israel into Erets Israel.
- In every generation one is to see himself as having personally left Egypt.
- If we had not left Egypt, we, our children and grandchildren would still be there.
- The main purpose of leaving Egypt was to receive the Torah. Keeping this is an obligation on every generation.
- The Exodus demonstrated to the whole world that God not only created the world but also rules it and supervises all his creatures.
- The people of Israel were prepared to leave Egypt (those who did not want to leave died in the plague of darkness) in haste and without delaying. I remember the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, your following me in desert in an uncultivated land (Jeremiah 2:2).
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