Welcome to our Pesach Bitachon series. We continue with another thought on the portion of Maaseh B'BRibi Eliezer Bribi Yehoshua…. discussing how they spent the whole night talking about Yetzyat Mitzrayim . The Sefer Ateret Yeshua says that these Hachamim taught us that even in the exile, (which is compared to night), we have Yetziat Mitzrayim , because Mitzrayim refers to the Yetzer Hara which is always out to ambush a person. And every time we overcome our Yetzer Hara , that's a Yetziat Mitzrayim . That's what it means that they were telling the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim that whole night. So even at night, which is the Galut , the entire night, we have a responsibility to uproot the Mitzrayim inside of us. That's why we have a commandment to get rid of the Chametz before Pesach - because the Chametz refers to the Yetzer Hara . That is why the students came and said the time of Shacharit has come. The ultimate goal of Keriat Shema shel Shaharit is to gain the clarity of Hashem Echad and overcome the Yetzer Hara . He says something unbelievable, that the pasuk Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokenu Hashem Echad has the same numerical value as Srefat Chametz (I didn't add it up). So when it says we reached Kriyat Shema shel Shacharit , it means that we've reached the point, through telling the story of the night, that we've gotten rid of the Yetzer Hara . That's the goal of the night of the seder -to reach the concept of Hashem Echad . That's why the sefarim say that at the end of the Seder , we say Echad Mi Yodea / Who knows One? Hashem is One . The goal of the night is to get that clarity, which we call Yechudo Yitbarach , the Oneness of God. As long as there are other forces, God is, so to say, not One. But in the future, Hashem Echad U'shmo Echad . The goal of the Yetziat Mitzrayim is to reach Hashem Echad U'shmo Echad , which was the level of Adam HaRishon before the sin, and it's the level that the Jewish people reached at Matan Torah , if not for the sin of the golden calf, which eradicated it. The point is to realize the power of telling the story that night; it rids us of our Yetzer Hara , because although we thimk of the Yetzer Hara as out to do evil (and all the other things, which is true) the fundamental point of the Yetzer Hara is denying God's Oneness. That's why the snake said, " God ate from the tree, so can you eat from the tree. " It's denying God's Oneness. Kriyat Shema shel Shachrit , is God's Oneness. Kriyat Shema throughout the year is actually a continuation of the message of Yetziat Mitzrayim . It's not a coincidence that we talk about Yetziat Mitzrayim in our Kriyat Shema . The end of Kriyat Shema talks about Anochi Hashem Elokecha Asher Hotzeticha M'Eretz Mitzrayim . We talk all about the Geula , and all about Mitzrayim every single night in connection with Kriyat Shema . It's not just a side point. Yetziat Mitzrayim is the source for Hashem Elokenu Hashem Echad . The Ramban says that when we say Hashem Elokenu , how do we know He's our God? We know He's our God from Yetziat Mitzrayim . This was not just a haphazard, random wake up call for the rabbis, telling them it was time for Kriyat Shema shel Shachrit , as if they were saying the rooster is crowing or something like that. No. Reaching Kriyat Shema shel Shachrit means we've reached that revelation, that clarity, which is the goal of the night. The sefer Imrei Emet says a similar thought: that Kriyat Shema shel Shachrit symbolizes the Geula of the future- LeHagid Ba'boker Chasdecha . Ba'boker Chasdecha is the Kriyat Shema of the morning, which is light and Geula . We're currently in the era of Kriyat Shema shel Arbit , which is Emunatcha Ba'lelot . Throughout the night, we need to have Emunah . The ultimate is the time of Kriyat Shema shel Shachrit , when, as the Gemara says, Misheyakir Ben T'chelet Lavan , you can differentiate between T'chelet and Lavan . T'chelet symbolizes the heavens and brings us up to the Kisei HaKavod , up to God. So the Kriyat Shema shel Shachrit , the morning Kriyat Shema is said when there is clarity, when there is light. Many of the mefarashim say the word Sipur is fr the lashon of Safir , which means sapphire . The Or HaChaim HaKadosh says this on Sefirat HaOmer , that when you count the Omer , it causes the person to shine. Similarly, the Imre Emet says, they were Misaprim B'Yetzyat Mitzrayim , and the Safir is the shining ; that through the telling of the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim , we're turning the lights on, lighting up the night, and that clarity comes by telling over the stories and the Nissim . Getting back to where we started, although we're in Galut now, even in Galut you can bring the light in- the light of clarity that can give us the ability to survive the Galut , and this is what happens on the night of the Seder . We have to appreciate what these great rabbis were doing, spending the entire night on all these details of the miracle. The Chida, in his sefer Simchat HaRegel points out that these rabbis knew Kol HaTorah Kula , and yet they spent the entire night staying up, not sleeping. We should get Chizuk from this, that we also have to strengthen ourselves and put all our energy in giving over this message and gain the clarity that we can attain on this one night a year. Bezrat Hashem , we will all be successful.