{"id":40822,"date":"2018-09-25T02:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=40822"},"modified":"2022-04-18T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T11:00:29","slug":"go-down-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/go-down-moses\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Down, Moses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[601,413,438,610],"acf":{"old_id":"40822","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36149,"related_cahpter":"53","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A timeless, universal message for all subjugated peoples and their more fortunate kin","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the more inspiring, recently established events in the White House was Barak Obama\u2019s Passover Seder. Unlike George W. Bush\u2019s institution of the White House Hanukah party, the presidential Passover Seder was not expressly, or even primarily, celebrated for the Jewish community. The annual retelling of the Exodus at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue spoke to the Obamas\u2019 African-American identity, who saw in it \u201ca tale that was carried from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement into today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exodus tells the particular story of a particular people, yet its message has been meaningful to a great variety of peoples seeking freedom around the world, including those who do not claim any Israelite ancestry. In the United States, the Biblical Exodus is most immediately associated with African-Americans who found inspiration in its message of hope and liberty during the crush of slavery \u2013 perhaps even more than Jews recalled it during their times of persecution. The verses of many African American spirituals were taken from the Exodus story, most famously, \u201cGo Down, Moses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like most spirituals, the precise origins of \u201cGo Down, Moses\u201d are lost to the steamy mists of the Southern plantations. The song did not have a specific composer in the conventional sense, but took shape communally. \u201cGo Down, Moses\u201d describes Egypt as depressed, echoing both God\u2019s assurance that \u201cI have <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">come down<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to rescue the Israelites from the Egyptians and to <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bring them up<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, out of that land,\u201d and the geography of American slavery. Remarkably, the song\u2019s title-line takes aim at Moses, a privileged Israelite who escaped slavery and had to be convinced to go back down to Egypt to help his fellow Israelites (Exodus 3-4). It is not surprising that the song was used as code by abolitionists like Harriet Tubman seeking to free slaves, and that it was sung by Civil Rights activists who traveled down South to show solidarity with their African American brothers suffering in places like Alabama and Mississippi. \u201cGo Down, Moses\u201d reminds us of a particular, oft-forgotten message of the Exodus story \u2013 the need for the fortunate members of subjugated peoples to descend into the kin\u2019s misery, and lift them up.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":52209,"id":52209,"title":"dt31-Moses","filename":"dt31-Moses.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt31-Moses.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/moses-and-his-fitbit\/dt31-moses\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt31-moses","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":52208,"date":"2019-03-26 16:09:53","modified":"2022-04-18 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