The Shabbos before Passover is called “Shabbos Hagadol,” the Great Sabbath. What is it about this Shabbos that makes it worthy of such a title and makes it “greater” than the other sabbaths of the year?

On the verge of our liberation from Egypt 3,338 years ago, G-d instructed each Israelite household to take the sheep that they were soon to offer as the Paschal sacrifice and tie it to their bedpost. The sacrifice was made on the 14th of Nissan, but the sheep was to be bound 4 days earlier, on the 10th, which was shabbos. The reason for this was in order that the Egyptians should see the sheep bound to the Israelites’ beds and ask them why they did so. The Israelites would then explain that they were........

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