Pesach - Jewish Renewal

The Jewish people in Egypt, before they were actually Jews, were famous for having sunk to the lowest level of Tumah [spiritual impurity]possible.

Pharoa assumed he would maintain control over them because of thier lowly state. He figured that regardless of their history and the fact that they are the progeny of Avraham, Isaac and Jacob, he would maintain control over them. Paroah figured, that he had brought them down to a point where any goodwill between them and the G-d of their forefathers was irrelevant. He thought he had stripped them of their capacity to have a relationship with G-d.

Hashem instructs Moshe to tell Pharoa - "So said Hashem, My firstborn son is Israel."

Historically, the children of Jacob became the Jewish people, the chosen people.
"Vilakachti Eschem li liAm." "And I have taken you for myself as a people."

The Nesivos Shalom suggests that the People had the status of converts at that time.

"Bichol dor vador chayav kol adam liharos es atzmo kilu hu yatzah mimitzrayim."

In every single generation we have to imagine ourselves as if we ourselves are exiting Egypt.

In every single generation, we suffer from our own personal "Egypts."

Egypt in Hebrew is Mitzrayim, meitzar, tzar. A narrow place.
A place from which it is difficult to exit.
Egypt was the birth canal of the Jewish people. We suffered birth pains.


Pesach time is a time of Jewish renewal.

We can achieve our own person exodus.

Our own personal freedom.

It is a time of renewal of the "beni bechori yisroel. A time of reestablishing our place in our relationship with Hashem. It does not matter how far we have drifted, Hashem's response is my arms are open wide ready to embrace you.
Just as then Hashem took them from a spiritually low place and uplift them; similarly, nowadays, Hashem is ready and willing to help us get out of our restrictive existences and help us broaden our abilities and level of observance.