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Ramban on Exodus 3:9/רמב"ן על שמות ג׳:ט׳
אהִנֵּה צַעֲקַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בָּאָה אֵלָי אע"פ שֶׁאָמַר (שמות ג':ז') וְאֶת צַעֲקָתָם שָׁמַעְתִּי, חָזַר וְאָמַר כִּי בָּאָה אֵלַי, וְהִנֵּה הִגִּיעַ צַעֲקָתָם אֶל כִּסֵּא כְּבוֹדִי, וְלֹא אוֹסִיף עוֹד לַעֲבֹר לְפַרְעֹה, כִּי מִצְרַיִם לֹחֲצִים אוֹתָם יוֹתֵר מִדַּאי כְּעִנְיַן "עַד לַשָּׁמַיִם הִגִּיעַ" (דהי"ב כח ט). וְעַל דֶּרֶךְ הָאֱמֶת, צַעֲקַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל הִיא כְּנֶסֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל, שֶׁבָּאָה אֵלָיו צוֹעֶקֶת, כְּדֶרֶךְ "הַכְּצַעֲקָתָהּ הַבָּאָה אֵלַי" (בראשית יח כ"א) וְשָׁם רָמַזְתִּי:
1AND NOW, BEHOLD, THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IS COME UNTO ME. Even though He has already said, and I have heard their cry,176 He says again that it has come unto Me, thus stating that “their cry has come to the Throne of My Glory, and I will no longer pardon177 Pharaoh, for the Egyptians are oppressing them exceedingly.” It is similar in sense to the expression, a rage which hath reached up unto heaven.178By way of the Truth, [the mystic lore of the Cabala], the cry of the children of Israel is a reference to Knesseth Yisrael,179 similar to the verse, according to the cry of it which is come unto Me.180 I have alluded to it there.
בוְטַעַם וְגַם רָאִיתִי אֶת הַלַּחַץ לֵאמֹר שֶׁיִּקַּח נְקָמָה מִפַּרְעֹה וּמֵעַמּוֹ מִפְּנֵי שֶׁעָשׂוּ עִמָּהֶם יוֹתֵר מִן הַנִּגְזָר לָהֶם בְּלַחַץ גָּדוֹל שֶׁלֹּחֲצִים אוֹתָם, כַּאֲשֶׁר פֵּרַשְׁתִּי בְּסֵדֶר לֶךְ לְךָ (בראשית טו יג):
2The meaning of the verse, moreover I have seen the oppression, is that He will punish Pharaoh and his people because by oppressing Israel so exceedingly, they perpetrated more than had been decreed against them, as I have explained in Seder Lech Lecha.181, 15:13 (Vol. I, pp. 203-8).