The Talmud teaches that 30 days before Passover, we should start learning about the holiday and its meaning. In that spirit, I humbly offer "30 Days of Liberation." For each of the next 30 days, I will offer a brief message drawn from the wisdom of Passover. I hope you find these messages meaningful and inspiring. Feel free to share/forward.
30 Days of Liberation: Day 25 Pharaoh’s plot to control the Israelites through enslavement fails, so he orders the systematic murder of their baby boys. According to legend, in the wake of this decree, the Israelite men were crestfallen, and pledged not to be intimate with their wives, lest they inadvertently conceive a male child. The women, however, refused to give into the fear and sense of futility. They knew that with life, there is possibility. And with possibility, there could yet be redemption. So they conspired to beautify themselves to make themselves irresistible to their husbands. The women continued to get pregnant. One of them was named Yokheved, the woman we now identify as the mother of Moses. If the men had their way, Pharaoh would have won, and the Israelites would have ceased to be. Their hopelessness would have been a self-fulfilling prophecy. The women’s resilient hope facilitates redemption. Only a hopeful outlook can produce the outcomes envisioned by that hope.
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