Bo 5782 - Are You Going or Are You Coming?

If you were sending someone on a mission, how would you send them off?  I would say “LECH”, GO on your way!  And Hashem does, indeed, tell Moshe numerous times, “LECH El Pharaoh” “Go to Pharaoh”. Yet, at the beginning of the conversation this week, Hashem changes His language, and instead tells Moshe: “BO El Pharaoh” ‘GO to Pharaoh’. And the question, of course, is what is the difference between these two commands?   Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik argues that the difference…