We will now continue to explain how the פה with its three aspects of expression parallel the Ten Makkos according to the Maharal.
After listing the Ten Makkos in the Haggadah, Rabbe Yehuda gives us the acronym of them דצך עדש באחב. The Maharal explains what is the intention of Rabbe Yehuda to divide the plagues into three sections. The Maharal explains that our world can be divided into three sections from the earth below, from the earth and above to the heavens and in the heavens. Hashem was proving that He alone is the sole creator and ruler of all three, כי ה' הוא האלקים בשמים ממעל ועל הארץ מתחת which includes underneath the earth. The first three plagues blood frogs lice attacked the water and the dirt signifying below the earth. The next three plagued above the earth wild animals, cattle dying, boils. The last section the heavens enabled the last makkos to plague Mitzrayim hail locusts darkness the killing of the first born.
We can say that the three sections of Rabbe Yehuda correspond to the three functions of the mouth. Food for humans and animals is digested by the mouth but its source is rooted under the earth whether it be grain, vegetables, or fruit. Secondly, the food cycle ends with wastes and excrement which is used for fertilizer placed underneath the earth. Therefore we must use the king of our mouths tongue to thank Hashem for being the king of the universe, the creative source for our sustenance. The mouth also speaks and communicates with people and Hashem. This מדבר who possesses a body and a mouth exists in the middle section on the ground.
The third section which is the heavens corresponds to the breathing aspect of the mouth which is the koach of the heavens the neshama from the root נשימה to breath. In Mitzrayim the mouth of Yisrael was in galus for we did not appreciate Hashem as our benefactor in any of these three sections of the world. Only after Hashem struck Mitzrayim in all three sections of the world we realized that is was Hashem and not the idols that bring about and sustain life and has a השגחה פרטית on Bnei Yisrael. It was then that we had a complete geulah and our mouths with its three functions became free to thank praise glorify Hashem and crown Him as the sole .מלך העולם
The purpose of the Seder is to release the galus from our mouths in its three sections of אכילה דיבור נשימה whose acronym is אדן making Hashem our only true master.
