A Pesach Vort

we put the blood of the Pesach on our doors.

the Mechilta brings that the Destroyer generally does not distinguish when he is given permission to destroy.

the same Mechilta brings the Navi Yeshayah that we were told to go into our deepest chambers in the house, and to lock our doors.

the destroyer entered the homes of the Mitzrim but not the Jews. clearly he was told to distinguish and to Pass Over the Jews.

1. the destroyer needed the siman of the blood to know in which homes were the Jews?

2.staying indoors protected us. the destroyer couldnt get inside?

3. the destroyer was prevented from entering by locks?

none of these things were to thwart the destroyer abilities. im sure the mitzrim had doors and locks as well. so what was their purpose? and why did we have to stay inside? for whatever reason we were spared, the destroyer could not have spared us as well outside? he is a Moloch!

these things, the blood of the mitzrim avodah zorah brazenly displayed on our doorposts, the locking our doors and staying inside eating and singing while the mitzrim were undergoing their last plague, these were all demonstrations of our willingness and desire to separate from the umis ha olam. in this merit that we separated ourselves as a Nation apart, as Hashem was going to create us the next day, was the merit in which we were passed over.