And then starts : the Passover Holiday! 

And  PASSOVER  is a FOREVER thing - For Israel - and for the World.

 

Okay, Passover laws appear in a few parts of the Torah - so who needs it here?

 

The wise commentators say the Torah should have just begun here - not elsewhere!

 

So why all the stories about Adam Noah Abraham, etc (the whole first of the 5 BOOKS)?

 

RASHI explains beautifully - writing in the era when -

 

The crusaders and the muslims fought over controlling the Land of Israel! So ???

 

Rashi explains right in the beginning of the Torah - that

 

The first of the 5 BOOKS is really to TELL THE WORLD to "Loosen Up" 

 

BECAUSE it was - and iS - ONLY OUR LAND - US ISRAELITES!

 

already from EARLIEST HISTORY!

 

Get it straight world - The Almighty Created it for US - not for conquerors!

 

AND IN OUR PORTION THE ALMIGHTY TEACHES THAT AGAIN -

TO THE EGYPTIANS AND TO THE WORLD - AND RUSSIA LEARNED RECENTLY -

TO  LET OUR PEOPLE GO!

 

So why, today, does the UN and Anti-Semites try to squeeze us out of OUR LAND?

 

I saw in the weekly from: "short, practical Lelamed Weekly Dvar" 

and I will paraphrase his idea that its  writer brings from

 

Rabbi Henach Leibowitz (Majesty of Man): who suggests (in the portion) that

 

The Almighty telling Moshe to “please ask them [the Jewish people] to borrow… silver vessels and golden vessels” before leaving Egypt, 

 

 was meant to instill a sense of self-worth within them, and compensate them for their hundreds of years of slave labor - and slave mentality, 

 

and (especially) to teach them (former opressed slaves) to speak up for themselves.!

 

G-d’s request was to begin the Nation of Israel's transformation into a nation that fights for what is right and deserved .

 

The writer says it can be a lesson for us as well (and) teaches us that it’s right to stand up for ourselves - MAYBE WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN OUR OWN RESOLVE!