“Go Out Now”
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
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Parshat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16) Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel – Only a people committed to universal freedom has the right to benefit from a revolution and create its own nation-state. Most revolutions in history have failed, with the leaders of the new regime acting far more cruelly and high-handedly than the despots they replaced. When former …
Shabbat Shalom: Parshat Bo Exodus 10:1-13:16 Efrat, Israel – “When your children will say to you, ‘What is this service to you?’ You shall say, ‘It is the Passover service to God.’” Why does the author of the Haggada call the questioner in this sequence “the wicked child”? The reason that the Haggada itself emphasizes lies in …