History is a Moment

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If you do not send out My people, God warns Pharaoh, then I will bring locusts into your midst:

Locusts the likes of which neither your fathers, nor your fathers’ fathers have seen—since the day that they were upon the earth…

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God frees Israel from Egypt.

Israel leaves Egypt in such haste, the people took their dough before it was leavened into full bread.

And God says: you shall eat unleavened bread each year, recalling this haste.

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God sends a plague that neither the Egyptians’ fathers, nor their fathers’ fathers have seen.

He wipes the worth of their history away.

He makes unleavened bread triumphant:

Bread that does not rise

Bread with no story, no history.

God crowns the moment over history.

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If this is so, then each person must ask: Do I live up to the flash of God in the world, this moment?

There is no more history than this moment to rely upon, to fall back to.

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Shabbat shalom, Abe

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Verses cited: Exodus 10:6, 12:34, 12:15