Therefore we are obligated to thank, praise, laud, glorify, exalt, lavish, bless, raise high, and acclaim the One who made all these miracles for our ancestors and for us: He brought us out from slavery to freedom, from subjugation to redemption, from sorrow to joy, from mourning to festivity, and from darkness to great light. , And let us say before Him, Halleluyah!72 In the statement, “From slavery to freedom,” refers to the body. “From subjugation to redemption” refers to the soul since the soul was in exile, “as a soul which incurred guilt” through the idolatry of Egypt for our soul went out from there. “From sorrow,” refers to the demonic realm; “to joy,” refers to the Shechinah who is called Simchah. We were subjugated to the demonic realm but we came to dwell beneath the wings of the Shechinah. The Zohar states that we were given matzah which is feminine.73 For the body we say, “From mourning to festivity.” For the giving of the Torah we say, “From the darkness,” of false beliefs which were in Egypt “To a great light.”

Or it might be that the double language, “From slavery to freedom,” according to the sages, refers to the statement, “Slavery ceased on Rosh Hashanah”74 our forefathers’ slavery in Egypt ceased; in Nisan the Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt.” since they were freed from doing servile work, But they were still subjugated (to the Egyptians) which is a level above slavery. Afterwards they went out from subjugation to partial redemption so that they could be completely redeemed.

There are seven terms of praise used in this formula “To thanks, to praise…” for the six days and the seven day, to thank God and bless His name. They are the exodus “God took us out from slavery to freedom…” It might be that they refer to five times Elohim which have the gematria (the numerical value) of 430 that we were supposed to dwell in Exile. But God in His mercy only made us remain in exile 86 years, the gematria of Elohim. God transformed four times elohim to compassion, as the sages said. And for this they decreed five exoduses for God’s compassion is never ending.