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Joseph is here to teach us to let things go.

The point of Pesakh is not culinary creativity. The point is constraint.

The plagues give us a model for how to think about liberation struggles.

Freedom can be more frightening than slavery.

Until we are still and present, there is no empty space to which our lost humanity can return.

The Torah doesn't steer people away from slavery; it merely regulates the “lawful” treatment of human property.

We creatively insert ourselves into the mythic story in a way that reflects us, and by doing so, express our deepest values.

Abolition is more than the ending of legalized enslavement. It is a dismantling of institutionalized systems of oppression that enslave, imprison and devalue lives deemed expendable.

Judaism needs to be disrupted to respond to our radically changed world.

We must ask the hard questions because that is the wisest thing we can do.