How Did Pharaoh Prepare Yisroel for the Torah?

1/5/2018

What greater gift could Hashem give anybody in this world that’s bigger than the Torah? But in order that they should accept the Torah they needed another gift as a prelude, and that was the gift of tzaros (suffering). And so Pharaoh was even more influential than Moshe Rabbeinu in getting them to accept the Torah. — Pesach, Matzoh and Maror (#638)