Welcome to our daily Bitachon series. We're now in Haggadah shel Pesach in the unit of Metichila Ovdeh Avodah Zarah , going through the history of how we came from weak spiritual beginnings and ended up at the great levels that we reached. It started with Avraham who went through his Nisyonot , and then Hashem gave him Yitzchak . We're now in a pasuk in Yehoshua : וָאֶתֵּ֣ן לְיִצְחָ֔ק אֶֽת־יַעֲקֹ֖ב וְאֶת־עֵשָׂ֑ו וָֽאֶתֵּ֨ן לְעֵשָׂ֜ו אֶת־הַ֤ר שֵׂעִיר֙ לָרֶ֣שֶׁת אוֹת֔וֹ וְיַעֲקֹ֥ב וּבָנָ֖יו יָרְד֥וּ מִצְרָֽיִם׃ I gave Yitzchak two children. And I gave Eisav Mount Seir. And Yaakov and his children went down to Mitzrayim. Based on the reading, it sounds like somehow this connects our story from the beginning, M'tichila , and in the end He brought us close and then we talk about going down to Mitzrayim . How exactly does that connect? In Bereshit 36 pasuk 7 , the pasuk tells us that Eisav took his wives and his sons and his daughters and everyone in his household and his cattle and his assets and he went M'pne Yaakov achiv away from Yaakov his brother. Seemingly, M'pne Yaakov Achiv he went away from Yaakov because he didn't want to hang out with him. But Rashi quotes a different explanation from the Midrash . M'pne Yaakov achiv . M'pne sh'tar chov . It was because there was a contract of debt. What contract of debt? The gezera ki ger yeh zaracha . The B'rit B'nei B'tarim debt. There was a debt that Your children are going to be sojourners , which was placed on Zaroh shel Yitzchak / the seed of Yitzchak . Abraham Avinu was told that Hashem was going to create a nation from him that's going to be connected to God. Abraham then went through his test, and had Yitzchak . Now Yitzchak has Yaakov and Eisav and Eisav decides to abdicate and get out of it. He says, Eylech mi kan. Ein Li chelek I don't want to get the gift.. And I don't want to have to pay off this debt. I'm not interested. So now we can make sense of what's going on in this pasuk . This pasuk of Yehoshua is telling us that in order to reach greatness, we're going to have to go through trials and tribulations. Abraham Avinu started with Va'Arbe . Hashem gave him many of tests and challenges. Then Yitzchak had a child, Yaakov , and in order for him to be successful, he had to go down to Mitzrayim. It was in order to purify him; in order to make him great- because that's the way to reach greatness. We reach greatness through tests. The Ramchal in his Sefer Derech Hashem , Unit 4, Chapter 4, says that the purpose of Galut Mitzrayim was to make the Jewish people special forever. After Adam HaRishon sinned, the world was in a state of ruination, and evil was overcoming good. There was no real, strong, good spot until Avraham Avinu came about, and now he was going to be separate along with his children. But it still wasn't enough to create a nation , a nation that should reach the level to be crowned in greatness, because of the evil that was in the world. To quote the Ramchal 's words, They had to be exiled to Egypt. Yishtavdu sham, to be enslaved there. Votoh hashibur hagadol, through that great enslavement, y'tzuful, you'll become purified, kezahav, like gold betoch hakor, like you smelt the gold in a smelting pot. That's what was happening to the Jewish people. This is an important fundamental- that Galut is here to purify us and make us great. The Chida says something unbelievable. In sefer Chomot Anah , on Yeshayah 54,11, he says that the reason for Galut Mitzrayim was that the Torah is spiritual and cannot land on, or be held by a person who has improper thoughts, specifically arrogance. So in order to humble the Jewish people, we had to go to Mitzrayim , and that way could receive the Torah . In his sefer Yosef Tehillot , on Tehillim 119,72, he says, that's why the Galut we're going through today is so long. Why? Listen to these words, only the Chida could say this: Ki Zot ha-Torah , The Torah we have today, he hevel , is like hot air, lefnei torato shel Mashiach , compared to the Torah of Mashiach . In Mashiach's times, shigalet talumot v'sodot ha-Torah , It will be revealed, the hidden secrets of the Torah, in order to receive that level of depth of the Torah. The Torah is not going to change, rather, we're going to have a deeper understanding. Sarich ha-Achna'ah gedolah , we need tremendous levels of humility . That's why the Galut today is so difficult. This is an important rule- any time we are going through difficulties and challenges, we have to know Hashem is preparing us for things that are even greater. That's what we're being told here, in this Metchila Uvdeh Avodah Zarah Avoteno piece. It's talking about the spiritual greatness that we're going to reach. We started off with weak spiritual beginnings, but we're going to have an unbelievably happy ending. In order to get there, we have to go through trials and tribulations and challenges. That is the lesson of this unit. It's not just Avraham , it's not the Jewish people of Mitzrayim , it's every single individual in their lives. Furthermore, in Yosef Tehilot , again in 119.72, he says, that's why we see that people who learn Torah have financial struggles and difficulties. And he asks, What's going on? Doesn't Hashem want that the people that are learning Torah should be financially stable and have everything good? He says, No. Since Torah is spiritual, and those that learn have to be humble, they have to have certain challenges and difficulties. This is an eternal approach that G-d has. Bnei Yisaschar, in his Mamarim of Chodesh Nisan , essay number nine, brings down this concept. And pasuk actually says (Shemot 1,11), לְמַ֥עַן עַנֹּת֖וֹ בְּסִבְלֹתָ֑ם In order to pain or humble them in their hard work. He says that this was G-d's way of making us better. He adds that when a sick person is being treated by a doctor, quite often the treatment is very difficult and very painful. But after he goes through the treatment, the patient is going to hug the doctor and thank him for healing him. That is what is going on for us now, and it's an important Emunah lesson, that we learned from the Haggadah , specifically, from this unit of Metchila Ovdeh Avodah Zarah Hayu Avotenu .