The Torah records that; “...Jacob
blessed Pharaoh.”[1]
Years later Pharaoh tried
to subjugate Jacob’s descendants by making them slaves, but eventually freedom prevailed.
The Kotzker Rebbe
explained that the reason why Pharaoh could not enslave the Jews for perpetuity
was because; “...once a person receives something
from another, he (can try but) will not be able to (totally) subjugate the benefactor.”[2]
As long as a potential
subject can give, bless, teach, influence or bestow something intangible upon
the perpetrator, there can never be absolute subservience or subjugation.
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