According to sources cited in Seder Hadorot, Tevet 28 is both the birthday and the day of passing of Shimon the son of Jacob; other sources place the date as Tevet 21. (See the entry for Tevet 21).
Shimon ben Shetach successfully completed the expulsion of the Sadducees (a sect which denied the Oral Torah and the authority of the Sages) who had dominated the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court), replacing them with his Torah-loyal disciples, on the 28th of Tevet of the year 3680 from creation (81 BCE).
Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson (1879 (O.S.) - 1964), mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, was born on Tevet 28.
You need to escape your Egypt.
Egypt, in Hebrew, is Mitzra’im—meaning “straits.” A tight, narrow place.
Existence, for a human being, is a tight and narrow place. Because we are children of the Infinite, entirely beyond existence. The natural order of time and space is for us a prison.
A mitzvah, on the other hand, is an act of transcendence, a reconnection to the Infinite. A mitzvah strikes a permanent rupture in the restrictions of being.
That is your Exodus. With every mitzvah you do, you are shattering the bonds that enslave you to Egypt, just as when Israel left their bondage to become an eternal people, transcending time.
Are you no longer human? No longer a part of this world? An angel? A divine thought?
No. You remain human, very human. Your mitzvah takes place within time and space, not much unlike any other human activity.
But your life is now a commentary on eternity, every moment a moment that is forever.
In you, the universe transcends itself.