Category Archives: politics

the second cup — the cup of redemption — כוס גאולה

Posted on 2012/03/30 by davka

[Orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in 2012.03.30 as: “#blo­gex­o­dus : (the cup of) redemp­tion”] Think of each cup of wine as a toast to the gen­er­a­tions of our peo­ple who com­mit­ted them­selves to the strug­gle for lib­er­a­tion in their own day. With the sec­ond cup … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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#blogexodus : (learning from) the signs

Posted on 2012/03/26 by davka

the signs We each need to learn dif­fer­ent things at dif­fer­ent stages of our lives. Pharaoh was unwill­ing to release his labor sup­ply. Pharaoh thought him­self a god. He believed he could do what­ev­er he want­ed to with indi­vid­u­als or entire peo­ples. … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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