English: “I Will Be What I Will Be” — the Holy One said to Moshe: Go say to Israel, “I was with you in this bondage and I will be with you in the bondage of the [later] kingdoms.” Moshe said before Him: Master of the Universe, sufficient is the trouble in its time.
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Chazal teach that the doubled “Eheyeh” originally signaled both the present and future redemptions, but Moshe requested that future suffering not be disclosed yet.