Why do Jews mention the Exodus from Egypt so many times every day?

Rabbi Landau explains that we mention Yetzias Mitzrayim three times a day because it is not only history; “it’s happening now.” Mitzrayim, he teaches, is a mindset: constraint, being in a small box, “it’s called tunnel vision.”

Isn’t saying it so often a little overdone? Rabbi Landau calls the answer “a secret of life.” Every time you thank Hashem and say Yetzias Mitzrayim, “you are getting out of your tunnel vision. You’re getting out of your constraints.”

Hashem gave the strength at Yetzias Mitzrayim to leave constraints, and that strength is still available. “This is why you say it so many times a day, because it’s happening now. You have now the power to go out.”

Going deeper: Rabbi Landau's teaching, level by level

Surface claim

We mention the Exodus many times a day because it is something happening now, not only a memory.

Fear, vulnerability, or tension

Mitzrayim is constraint and tunnel vision. In A Soul at Peace, Rabbi Landau describes the feeling, in making a living, at home or in spiritual life, that “this is how it is, and this is how it will stay.”

What may be behind it

The strength Hashem gave to leave Egypt was not used up then. Rabbi Landau teaches that each time we say the words, we draw on it to leave our own constraints.

Deepest human truth

Every day holds a real chance to go out. “You have now the power to go out.”