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In the midst of darkness, the houses of the Israelites were filled with light (Exodus 10:23).\u00a0In a land where the ruler is unfeeling to the sufferings experienced by those he rules, to the point that he promulgates edicts that continue to worsen the suffering of all, there is a group of people who are still glowing with light.<\/p>\n

In fact, the light is so powerful that they, unlike anyone else in the land,\u00a0protest the unjust regulations and the corruption in the system so much that if they are unable to reform it they will exile themselves from the land, to found a society devoted to principles of justice.<\/p>\n

And in fact, by the end of the portion of Bo (Exodus 10:1- 13:22), the light has continued to illuminate their path so brightly that \u201cthe Lord freed the Israelites from the land of Egypt\u201d (Exodus 12:51).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not only are the Israelites the only group to successfully resist the tyranny of the Pharaoh and overthrow him with his chariot in the sea [spoiler alert: next week in Exodus 14:28], they create a commemoration of this event, a way to retell it each year.\u00a0Jews still discourse once a year on \u201cwhat the Lord did for me when I went free from Egypt\u201d (Exodus 13:8) at an elaborate meal, a symposium on the meaning of freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That divine power behind the freedom is perhaps the source of the enduring light that is used to create the world (Genesis 1: 3,4,5, 15, 17), the light transmitted from the sanctified priests to the entire people in the priestly blessing (Numbers 6:25) whose words are used by Jewish parents to bless their children each Sabbath and which accompany them in a pillar of fire (Exodus 13:21 and 14:20) to radiate a path for them through the desert.\u00a0The light is commemorated in the Tabernacle when a menorah is set up to project light outward (Exodus 25: 37).<\/p>\n

Light is an embodiment of God in numerous verses in the Bible, such as the verse quoted in the Friday night Lecha Dodi hymn: \u201cArise my light, for your light is coming\u2026the Lord shall shine upon you and his glory be seen upon you\u201d (Isaiah 60:1-2) and \u201cin your light we shall see light\u201d (Psalms 36:10).<\/p>\n

The light in the houses is the motif of the Israelite resistance, their fealty to a divine law and system of value that supersedes the cruelty of the Pharaoh whose intransigence makes him harden his own heart ten times (Ex 7:13, 14, 22; 8: 11, 15, 28; 9:7, 34, 35 and 13:15).\u00a0The hardness of the heart of the Pharaoh is the very opposite of light which has the property of being able to shine through and around objects.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Against all odds in this portion, Bo, the light shines through in the homes of the Israelites.\u00a0Let us hope we can continue to use the light to defeat any Pharaoh who would attempt to extinguish it.<\/p>\n

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