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“Can someone please state the exact number of years since Yetzias Mitzrayim?”
I cant as it is a machlokes. But lets say approximately 3323
“And can someone (could be the same person) please list the 3 things we didn’t change back there in Egypt?”
Hmmm Vayikrah Rabba 32:5 has Name and Language
Lekach Tov, Devarim 26:5 has Name, food and dress
There are other reasons given in other mdirashim
I assume you mean shem lashon and malbish though interestingly no such medrash exists.
“Bnei Yisrael kept away from secular influences in ancient times.”
I can draw the opposite conclusion too. they were emeshed in secular culture having descended to 49th level of Tumah but becasue they maintained something they were redeemed.
“Yotz’ei Mitzrayim, as evidenced by the shtreimel-clad men in the pictures our little ones bring home from Yeshiva, were chareidim.”
yep that is what I was taught growing up, and many who claim charedi Jews never changed seem to imply