Parshat Bo’s name is confusing. As the stage is set for the eighth plague, locusts, God calls on Moses to go (again) to Pharaoh and demand the people’s freedom. But the word used here by God, “Bo,” means not “go,” but rather, “come.” Why is this? The answer of the rabbinical commentators is that Moses Continue Reading »
As we have just passed the halfway point of our observance of the Passover, many of us are still feeling connected to the themes presented in the Haggadah, the ideas and theology of the Seder. For me this year, the image of Egypt looms large. There I see a power-hungry Pharaoh who rejects God’s ideas Continue Reading »
“In every generation, each person is obligated to see themselves as though they had come out of Egypt.” Each year, these words from the Passover Haggadah hit a little differently. This year, I have been thinking a lot about something like this: what does it mean to remember the triumphant moments in the Exodus story, Continue Reading »
