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Pharaoh finally relents \u201cGo and worship the Lord your God, who are the ones to go?\u201d Moses\u2019 responds, \u201cwith our young and our old we will go, with our sons and our daughters we will go.\u201d Pharaoh quickly takes back the offer. He simply doesn\u2019t believe them. Everyone must go for your three days festival? He, correctly, believes the Israelites will not return, that they are clearly \u201cbent on mischief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, Moses\u2019 words were not words of mischief, they were just novel and revolutionary. The worship of the Lord is not limited to a segment of the population. It is not a group of priests or prophets alone that perform the service. Each and every person is obliged and obligated to be present and participate. \u00a0The democratization of worship is a theme that will be repeated in numerous other instances in the Torah: all (men, women, the young and old\u2026) are present at Sinai, in the aftermath of Sinai \u201cAny place where my name is mentioned I will come and bless you.\u201d Towards the end of Deuteronomy, we are introduced to the monumental \u201cHakhel\u201d gathering that would occur every seven years. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe men, the women, the children and the stranger gather to hear, to learn, to revere the Lord, and to faithfully observe every word of this teaching.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly, the idea didn\u2019t fully take hold. Whether it be the childless Hannah in the book of Samuel, an outsider viewed as a drunkard by the Prophet Eli, a woman who aspires to lead a major Jewish organization, a deaf person who has nowhere that he feels comfortable praying, or a convert who wants to sit as a judge on a conversion court, it is not only Pharaoh who refuses the democratization of Jewish worship and leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interestingly there are a series of lovely Hasidic ideas that add a layer of meaning to the words in an individual\u2019s spiritual journeys to God. When you approach God bring your youth, that is to say, your sense of wonder curiosity and excitement. Bring your old, meaning, your wisdom and experience\u2026The desire to bring your full range of emotions in the worship of God is commendable, but as Moses said the need to include all in the service of God is required.<\/span><\/p>\n

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