Parshas Bo: We All Go or No One Goes

Evidence for the Egalitarian Impulse in Judaism

This devar torah is on something that seems obvious to me, so it’s barely really even a devar torah. That said, it seems like a point that people don’t remember.

Moshe is before Pharaoh, trying to negotiate a holiday for his enslaved people. Full freedom is not yet on the table, all he’s asking for is permission to go into the desert, have a holiday to …