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Jews complain. It’s understandable. Our lot in life has often been hard, and the choices we’re forced to make, impossible. A favorite game of ours is to look to our leaders to take responsibility and make those choices for us, but with our 20-20 hindsight, to criticize the path they took, because the very definition of an impossible choice is that it will mean a sacrifice, and thus always room for criticism. It’s a game we’re very good at it; we’ve been playing for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Who wanted to leave Egypt? You think that was bad? This is awful!” The path not taken, sparkling with the pristineness reserved for the theoretical world, will always beat the muddy roads of reality. So we complain.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most natural response to this national character flaw is to fantasize about replacing the nation with a better behaved one. Why can’t we be more like Egypt, for example? There you have a nation who has suffered terribly under its leader. But at the moment of crisis, when Pharaoh readies his own chariot and calls to his nation, their overwhelming unity defies grammatical norms, and Egypt, in the singular, moves “with one heart.” Moses tries a similar tactic, rallying the nation around God’s imminent salvation which demands nothing of them more than to enjoy the might of their leader.<\/span><\/p>\n

God’s answer to Moses: That’s not how things work with these Jews. They will never move like an obedient herd after their shepherd. So what they need is for the angel that has been leading them to move to the back of the camp, so that they can make the choice themselves, to take responsibility for their own fate and to vote with their feet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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