The lesson from the Exodus
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
History is on our side only if we learn from history.
Our millennia-long history and the history of this very war show us that as long as we stay united, we prosper and become able to do extraordinary, almost supernatural things.
When we forget about our unity and allow infighting, mutual distrust, and animosity to separate us, we weaken and fall back.
Even if we compare our state and the progress the IDF made within the 2–3 months following the October 7 atrocities to how we are as Israeli society and how the IDF performs, there is a huge difference.
We have become uncertain, and we have started to yield to external pressure, which is directing us to defeat-like compromises.
There is a single lesson from the symbolic meaning of the Exodus — as our greatest sages described: we need to escape our “internal Pharaoh,” the instinctively selfish and hateful human ego that controls us.
Only then will we become able to rebuild the Nation based on “supernatural” — above instinctive nature — unity and mutual guarantee.
Then we merit the method of the Torah that can teach us how to reach the sublime quality of “loving others as ourselves” and through that unique quality become similar to reality’s single governing force, partnering and harnessing that force.
Then we will find solutions to all our problems and not before.