Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, in this pre-Pesach message for 2009 (5769) talks about how the redemption of the Israelite slaves from Egypt is not a precursor to God's stepping in and saving the Jewish people again and again. Nor is it a sense of triumphalism and "chosenness." But the redemption from Egypt at Pesach became a symbol of how the Jewish people must condemn injustice wherever they find it.
