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Opinion | Imagine a Bible With No Moses, No Story of the Exodus
The amazing thing about Exodus is that, as the great Torah scholar Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg observes, it was a story that happened in order to be told. God commands Moses to tell the story of the liberation before He actually performs the liberation.
from The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
Why was the Exodus necessary at all? Had God not led the Israelites into Egypt, He would not have had to rescue them and set them free. The story of Abraham and his children might have been quite different.
from A Letter in the Scroll by Jonathan Sacks
The history of the struggle for freedom in the West teaches an inconvenient truth: that there is no coherent view of human personality stripped of the imago Dei. Britain’s former chief rabbi, the late Jonathan Sacks, explained that the “self-evident” truths of the Declaration of Independence were anything but self-evident. “They would have been u
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