וּלְמַעַן תְּסַפֵּר בְּאָזְנֵי בִנְךָ וּבֶן בִּנְךָ אֵת אֲשֶׁר הִתְעַלַּלְתִּי בְּמִצְרַיִם וְאֶת אֹתֹתַי אֲשֶׁר שַׂמְתִּי בָם וִידַעְתֶּם כִּי אֲנִי ה’.

“And so that you may relate in the ears of your son and your son’s son that I made a mockery of the Egypt My signs that I placed among them – that you may know that I am Hashem”.
 
This week’s parasha Hashem sent the last two of the 10 plagues to the city of Mitzrayim: The plague of Locust and death of all the Egyptian firstborns which completes the 10 wondrous plagues which geared Am Yisrael up for Yetziat Mitzrayim.
 
What was the purpose of these spectacular plagues? But why put on this spectacular show in the beginning?
 

 
Why? Hashem wanted to show Parah, who thought he was a mighty Gd, who used all different Gd’s to his advantage, that He, Hashem was the true Gd in the world. That He had the power over every being a fibre of the earth, skies and galaxies. The first 3 plagues, דצ”ך, came from within the ground. The next 3, עד”ש, from on the earth and the last 4, באח”ב, from the skies. Hashem rules it all. He created and keeps the world going. He has the power to go against Teva, nature. 
 
But why this show? Why not allow Parah to let us go easily in the first place? Hashem did so in order so that we tell it over, in “the ears of your son” why specify the ear, of course it would be in his ear! Why did the Torah have to specify, graphically, where to say it over?
 
It means to tell YOUR child in a way that YOUR child will be interested and understand and WANT to give it over to HIS child. Telling the story of the Exodus of the Jews, isn’t just another lovely story which we hear, and we relay every year. It’s generations who keep building a link in the chain of our heritage! The Makot, Yetsirat Mitzrayim, Matan Torah, it happened to an entire Nation! Father to son, mother to daughter, an unbroken tradition, we’re telling them our history to our children, which are the future!
 
With this all said, we need to inspire the next generation. In the Haggadah it states 4 types of children, The rasha, chachan, tam and she’enu. We need to tailor make a story so each one of our children can understand, it’s not above or below his head. By doing this they will want to give over the “story” to their children to continue creating links for generations to come.

May we all be blessed to find the flame of the stories of our past and may we use that to help us ignite the spark to inspires us give over our traditions to help build strong links in our chain for generations to come.

Shabbat shalom.