I am Hashem your G-d

Alef Discussion (May 2006): "I am Hashem your G-d" - a discourse of the eve of SHAVUOT 1989. This discusses the fact that the opening words of the Ten Commandments speak of G-d as having taken the Jewish people out of Egypt. Why not speak of G-d as Creator of Heaven and Earth? In fact, through the Giving of the Torah at Sinai the ability was imparted to see the spirituality of existence and also to experience the teachings of Torah as continually being communicated from G-d. Yet in order to reach the Giving of the Torah the Jewish people had to go through the darkness and limitation of Egypt, from which G-d brought them to freedom.