Can someone please state the exact number of years since Yetzias Mitzrayim?
Am I correct that we’re in the range of three thousand and three hundred years?
And can someone (could be the same person) please list the 3 things we didn’t change back there in Egypt?
Although we sunk to 49 shaarei tumah, keeping away from secular influences brought us the geulah.
You can draw 2 separate conclusions.
Please choose whichever —
Either:
Bnei Yisrael kept away from secular influences in ancient times.
Or:
Yotz’ei Mitzrayim, as evidenced by the shtreimel-clad men in the pictures our little ones bring home from Yeshiva, were chareidim.
P.S.
As for secular influence in education, you may be familiar with the Medrash that Yakov Avinu sent Yehuda ahead when they were going down to Mitzrayim to prepare batei medrash.
And for avoidance of secular influence in general, just read any of the psukim in the Torah telling us to make sure we’re not influenced by the previous inhabitants of the Land of Israel as we’re about to enter and conquer it.