Parshas Shemos: Empathy as Repair

A Breach And The People Who Reached Across It

Our Parsha opens up with perhaps the first account in history of a minority being persecuted from the perspective of that minority¹. And what’s interesting to me is that when you look at all such cases in history in light of the account in Parshas Shemos, the names change, the targets and perpetrators change, the exact claims change, but the underlying d…