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The chapter contains an alarming story, in which God musters a small force to kill all those who disobey God, young and old alike. Only a few will survive, marked on their foreheads by a mysterious man with a writing case. They are singled out because they have \u201cmoaned and groaned\u201d about the sins of the Israelites, voicing their dissatisfaction or opposition to the actions of the many. But how many people were killed who did not engage in the actions that enraged God, but also did not speak out?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Talmud asks this very question. In the tractate Shabbat, Rabbi Aha imagines that originally, God had instructed the man with the writing case to mark on the foreheads of all the righteous in the city, so that they would be spared. But the Angel of Justice spoke up, claiming to God \u201cThese righteous people did not try to stop the wicked from their deeds!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I know even if they tried, they would never have succeeded in changing the behavior of the wicked,\u201d God claims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStill, they could not have known if they would succeed or not, and they didn\u2019t even try,\u201d argues Justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So God retracted God\u2019s protection of the righteous, and allowed the Angel of Destruction to take those righteous people who did not protest the actions of the evil. Only those who spoke out against the wickedness in their midst were saved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For anyone who has ever let something slide, who has kept their mouth shut when they saw injustice because they didn\u2019t feel they could change it, this is a chilling story. We may not be able to change anyone, and indeed we might do damage to ourselves by speaking out. But when it comes time to reckon for our actions, we will be marked by our actions, not our impact. We should strive not for persuasion, or even fortitude to resist temptation; we should strive for bravery, to speak truth to power even when power will not hear us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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