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One is the description that the Torah documents. A sea that splits once and everyone walks through. The second, posed by a midrash, is a bit more complex \u2013 a sea that splits twelve times and each tribe leaves individually, albeit with walls of water that enable eye-contact between the tribes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Student, Moshe Binaymin and I had rather different perspectives when challenging the paradigms. At first glance I posed that the midrash was inclusive, promising that everyone leaves as individuals in their uniqueness. Moshe Binyamin challenged me, claiming that if everyone exited within their own path there was no inclusion, but rather segregation; that only a journey that brought everyone together was a true inclusive path. Today I hear him. Perhaps louder than I initially did, for as the days have passed since we studied his perspective has grown and reverberated in my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I now desire to integrate the two parts and ask: can we all leave Egypt together or do the Straights leave through one tunnel in the ocean, the L\u2019s, the G\u2019s, B\u2019s, T\u2019s, Q\u2019s, the Z\u2019s and other segments of our community leave in their own individual paths? Are the moderates in one lane, flanked on the left by the progressives and the liberals, and on the right by the conservatives? \u00a0Is the vision of the Torah the ideal being asked of us, and the Midrash describing the current reality, at best? (No different than God\u2019s vision in Creation of \u201cTwo Great Lights\u201d and our reality of \u201ca Great light and a Small light\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I think of these questions at Passover, can I say that my sense of liberation this year is one that does not allow for fragmentation? Can I say that I can no longer leave Egypt if it means, \u201cto each her\/his\/their own\u201d and that until we can leave as One, I choose to stay?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t know if this is possible, I don\u2019t even know what I\u2019m asking for looks like. I don\u2019t know how to get there. What I do believe is that if I continue to stand like my Primordial-Soul- Mother, Miriam the prophetess, watching over her brother, \u201cfrom a distance\u201d that redemption is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to say to the One-and-Only this year: \u201cin the same way \u201cYou revealed Yourself to me from a distance <em>\/ <\/em><\/span><em><b>me\u2019rachok<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hashem nir\u2019ah li<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d (Jeremiah 31:2) I too will \u201cstand from a distance \/ <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">va\u2019titatzev achoto <\/span><b>me\u2019rachok<\/b><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201d<\/em> until \u201cI can know what will be \/ <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ley\u2019dah mah ye\u2019aseh lo<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d \u00a0(Exodus 2:4).<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":49304,"id":49304,"title":"Dt1-inclusivity - Artson","filename":"Dt1-inclusivity-Artson.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt1-inclusivity-Artson.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/in-gods-promise-everyone-belongs\/dt1-inclusivity-artson\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt1-inclusivity-artson","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":49303,"date":"2019-02-12 18:15:59","modified":"2022-06-01 15:08:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":855,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt1-inclusivity-Artson-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt1-inclusivity-Artson-300x134.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":134,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt1-inclusivity-Artson-768x342.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":342,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt1-inclusivity-Artson-1024x456.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":456,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt1-inclusivity-Artson.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":684,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt1-inclusivity-Artson.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":855,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt1-inclusivity-Artson-1200x534.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":534,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt1-inclusivity-Artson-943x420.jpg","home_baner-width":943,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Redemption - 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