“If your dispersed are at the end of the heavens, Hashem, your God, will gather you from there, and He will take you from there.” (Devorim 30/4)
Zera Shimshon asks, it seems the word "there" in the phrase “Hashem, your God will gather you from THERE" is superfluous. Since in the beginning of the possuk it says that we were exiled even to the end of the heavens, then obviously we will be gathered from "there". Why then did the Torah have to write it?
Zera Shimshon answers in light of the Gemara min Megillah (16/a) that says, after Haman told his family how he had to take Mordechai around town on a horse, his wife told him, "This nation (the Jewish one) is compared to the dust and is compared to the stars. When they fall, they fall into the dust, and when they rise they rise to the stars." On a simple level it seems that these two states are not connected; there are times Klal Yisroel is mighty and great, and there are times when the opposite is true.
However, we learn from a Gemoro in Berochos (4b) that it is much more than this. It is written in the possuk (Amos 5:2), “The daughter of Israel has fallen and no more shall she rise...”. This simply means Klal Yisroel will fall never to rise again. However, the Gemoro there tells us that the Rabbanim in Eretz Yisroel explained this possuk differently. It means; She has fallen and no more shall she fall and now she shall rise. The Gemoro is teaching us that the fact that Klal Yisroel fell to such a low level is the cause of being able to reach high levels!
According to this, concludes Zera Shimshon, the reason the possuk repeated the phrase, from there is to stress that even though Klal Yisroel will be exiled very far away, both in a physical sense and a spiritual one, and it seems that they will never be redeemed, the truth is completely the opposite, precisely from THERE, from a distance place and when we are also distant from Hashem, Hashem will redeem us!
There is also another Medrash (Shemos Rabah 2/9) that teaches us that not only our final redemption will be a product of our being far from Hashem but this is exactly what happened at the time when we were redeemed from Mitzrayim! It is written in the Medrash; R' Eliezer said, Bnei Yisroel is similar to a bush; Just like the bush is the most inferior tree of all trees, so to Yisroel, were downtrodden and oppressed in Mitzrayim. Therefore (because of their state) Hashem appeared to them and redeemed them!
