Four Days: a drash for Parshat Bo

In a small village of destitute slaves

Watched over by nasty Egyptians

The kind who worship animals,

Like lambs,

And who will kill you if they find you with one of their sacred beasts.

And Moses says,

"You shall take a lamb to a family"

"You shall keep watch over it until the fourteenth day of this month."

okay.

Easy for him to say.

You ever keep a lamb?  

'Specially a lamb without its mama?

You know what lambs do when they're looking for their mamas?

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

So four days,

Four days with this lonely lamb

Waiting for the Egyptian soldiers to come crashing in

And if they do

It ain't the lamb they're gonna slaughter for breakfast.

In a large gathering of destitute slaves

Oppressed by nasty Egyptians,

The kind who take pleasure in causing pain

To innocent slaves
Like you and me,

And said Egyptians only want an excuse to hurt you
Bad

And Moses says,

Use these four days

To prove your commitment!

If you can live through this tension

You can live through anything.

Trust in God

Trust in goodness

Trust in the future

And you will be protected

And you will be free.

Baaaaaa.

Long story short,

We waited four days.

Lemme tell you

It was very stressful.

Four days felt like four years.

It took ten years off my life, easy.

But the time finally passed

And we killed that monster

And we ate him up,

Every baa and bleat of him.

He was delicious.

And we put his blood on the wall

And the Angel of Death passed over.

You know the rest.