It would have been more appropriate to say, “Blessed is the One who kept His promises….” if we are speaking of the Exodus. Also our text states, מְחַשֵּׁ֥ב, “The Holy One calculates the end, to do…” It should have stated, חִשֵּׁב “Who calculated.”¹⁰⁴ calculated, while Rabbi Foa’s text says *Michashev, “*calculates.” Many of the variations in the manuscripts of the Haggadah text have, מְחַשֵּׁ֥ב. He now asks why the text doesn’t say חִשֵּׁב “calculated” instead of מְחַשֵּׁ֥ב “calculates.” But the intention of the Maggid is to make known to us what God is doing for us. God continues “To keep” the promise that was made to Abraham (and is still calculating the endtime). The word shomer, is similar to the language in the verse, “And his father kept ( שָׁמַ֥ר ) the matter in mind.”¹⁰⁵ (Gen. 37:11) That is, God hid and kept the promise in mind until they had completed the four hundred years that God told Abraham his descendents would be enslaved and afflicted (before being redeemed.) Since they were only enslaved in Egypt for two hundred and ten years, there remained another hundred and ninety years for our people to complete the exile. If Israel had not continued to sin the exile would not have continued more than one hundred and ninety more years. But since they had to atone for the sins and guilt that they committed day after day, causing troubles and afflictions to overcome them constantly. As a result, they only deducted a small number of the extra years after the golden calf.¹⁰⁶ of the first calf. When weighing a substance, there would often be a disparity of up to one twenty-fourth of its weight. as it is stated: “On the day when I punish, I will punish their sin upon them” (Ex. 32:34), indicating that atonement for that sin is incomplete, and the Jewish people will continue to suffer for it. “ (Sefaria) The idea here is because of all their sins - they only remove a small amount of their guilt for worshiping the Golden Calf with each act. Thus the 190 years get added on to their other transgressions drawing out their punishment. When the 190 years are complete, redemption will come. When they complete the 190 years, the redeemer will come and redeem them. That is why we calculate the redemption/end time based on the 190 years - the Ketz. If Israel had been meritorious (and not sinned) then redemption would have hastened and their suffering would have taken place in the count of 190 years. It is to this that Maggid refers when it states, “Blessed is the one who keeps His promise.” The Maggid states that God calculates the end and it does not say that God calculated the end.¹⁰⁷ God constantly calculates all of the oppressions that will come upon us during this exile, and how much will be added to the reckoning of 190 years in order to fulfill what God said to Abraham at the Covenant of the Pieces. Was not the purpose of the Covenant of the Pieces to judge the nations that afflicted Us, as it states, “But I will execute judgment on the nation they shall serve…” (Gen. 15:14) This means not only those nations that afflicted us by taking our wealth and our lives will be judged for such judgment would not purify Israel. Rather, “the nation that they served” is Egypt. It would appear that this was not meant to be seen as a punishment of the Egyptians since God had decreed that Israel would be enslaved. Rather God decreed that they should be judged for the abominations they committed, how they committed evil acts, and Egypt’s stubborness in not listening to God.

footnotes: ¹⁰⁴ Note that many Sephardic and Ashkenazic texts actually do have חִשֵּׁב Hishev, ¹⁰⁵ That is, Jacob kept the matter private regarding Joseph’s dreams… Similarly in our verse God kept the promise of four hundred years of slavery private but never forgot his promise to Abraham’s descendents. ¹⁰⁶ See BT Sanhedrin 102a - “Rabbi Yitzḥak says: You have no punishment that comes to the world in which there is not one twenty-fourth of the surplus of a litra ¹⁰⁷ With each sin and transgression God has to recalculate the end time…..