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With the exodus imminent, God now looks to the future. Most of the commandments in this chapter are meant to remind the Israelites about the exodus itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Consecrating the first born<\/span><\/em>- This halacha requires that all first-born people and animals be set aside as holy for God. The first-born animals must be brought to the Temple to be sacrificed or redeemed with the priests. This is meant to remind the Israelites that God had killed the first-born Egyptians and saved those of the Israelites.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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  3. Tefillin<\/span><\/em>. The tefillin are meant to be a sign on one\u2019s hand\/arm and in between one\u2019s eyes. The hand\/arm commemorates the fact that God took the Israelites out of Egypt with a \u201cstrong hand and an outstretched arm.\u201d The sign between the eyes as a symbol of memory for the Exodus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Mezuzah<\/span><\/em>- this commemorates the blood that was placed on the doorposts during the first Pesach and the plague of the death of the first born.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    All of these signs of memory link the plague of the first born on the first Pesach. This a moment of transition where God\u2019s punishment of the Egyptians overlapped with the exodus of the Israelites. These two moments are to be forever linked to remind future generations not only that they were freed but also to what lengths God was willing to go to punish evildoers and aid their victims.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    In the penultimate verse in the book of Genesis (50:25), the segue to Exodus, Joseph made the sons (descendants) of Israel swear that \u201cwhen God has taken account of you (<\/span>pakod yifkod<\/span><\/em>), carry up my bones from here.\u201d In today\u2019s chapter, Exodus 13:19, in exactly the same words, Moses takes Joseph\u2019s bones with him as they leave Egypt, because the children of Israel had sworn that \u201cwhen God has taken account of you (<\/span>pakod yifkod<\/span><\/em>), carry up my bones from here with you.\u201d How remarkable that B\u2019nai Israel remembered and passed down their promise, word for word, through so many generations!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Upon his return to Egypt, God charges Moses to say to the people the same words, \u201cI have taken account of you (<\/span>pakod pakad\u2019ti<\/span><\/em>, 3:16); a coded message linking Moses and Joseph; Moses is the one to follow now.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Our slavery in Egypt is a crucial part of our identity. The text tells us again and again to remember that we were slaves in Egypt. But our experience and memory of Egypt began long before slavery. It began with Joseph and a successful life outside of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In remembering and keeping their promise, Joseph was a tangible presence for all the years before and during slavery and 40 years in the desert. The promise also accompanied the people in the years of entering and establishing themselves in the land of Israel. The midrash tells us that Joseph\u2019s coffin traveled next to the <\/span>aron<\/span><\/em> that held the tablets of the 10 commandments. In the penultimate verse of Joshua (24:32), Joseph was finally buried in the land bought by his father Jacob, and now part of inheritance of Joseph\u2019s sons.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In Genesis 47<\/span><\/a>, Jacob makes Joseph swear that upon his death, Joseph will bury his father in the family burial cave in Canaan. He wanted his children to know that they were temporary sojourners in Egypt and their home was elsewhere. Joseph took that message to heart, but his path was very different.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Joseph spent all but 17 of his 110 years in Egypt and was, by any measure, a success story. He did not ask his family to bury him immediately in Canaan, as his father had done. When he died, the family was settled in Egypt but Joseph knew that God would remember B\u2019nai Israel, take them out of the land and return them to the land. Joseph accompanied the people in that exodus and in the migration.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    With Joseph\u2019s bones on the journey to peoplehood and settling the land, our memory stretches beyond slavery and freedom, it includes successful leadership and settlement in Egypt, outside the land of Israel. 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    Towards the end of his newly translated book <\/span>Catch-67<\/span><\/i>, the Israeli author and public intellectual Micah Goodman frames the dilemma of contemporary Israel in vivid and evocative terms. Meditating on the curse of powerlessness and the burden of power as the Scylla and Charybdis of Israel\u2019s troubled political waters, Goodman arrives at this memorable formulation; \u201cMoses described the fear of the power of others as a fear of returning to Egypt- but he described the fear of the corrupting nature of one\u2019s own power as a fear of turning <\/span>into <\/span><\/i>Egypt.\u201d The perennial challenge is \u201cNeither to return to Egypt, nor to turn into Egypt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This chapter exhibits an extraordinary self-awareness of the technologies of memory and worries over the suture between history and storytelling. Its tense is deeply hybrid and terraced, simultaneously narrating the Exodus in real-time and imagining how it will be told in the deep and unfathomable future, our past and present. Covenantal time intersects with Haggadic, Temple, and Biblical chronologies to create a matrix that reminds us, binds us, and contains us. But such alchemy is dangerous; it keeps ghosts in circulation and brings distant horizons tantalizingly close. \u201cThe land of the Philistines\u201d is the route that leads nowhere, because it is not far enough from where you\u2019ve been. The bones of Joseph don\u2019t limber up and walk themselves. They must be laboriously carried, because the past is both inevitable burden and necessary ballast. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The trick of neither <\/span>returning<\/span><\/i> to Egypt nor turning <\/span>into <\/span><\/i>Egypt is of course to <\/span>remember <\/span><\/i>Egypt, in all of its cruelty and corruption, its cucumbers rinsed with suffering and its leeks fertilized with lashes. Joseph\u2019s face streaming with tears that flooded his Nile-mascara, crying because he knew what his brothers would only come to learn; it is easy to come to Egypt, and exit can be had by way of miracles, but it is nearly impossible for Egypt to leave you. That is a riddle worthy of a Seder, or a Sphinx.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    The Israelites were about to go free. Nine of the ten plagues had already taken place. The tenth, they knew, would be the last. According to the biblical account, Moses gathered the people and instructed them on the preparations they were to make. By any standard it was an epic moment. For 210 years the Israelites had been in exile. They had experienced suffering, slavery, and attempted genocide. Now they were about to begin the journey known to history as the Exodus. What would Moses say? He might have spoken about freedom, or the promised destination, the \u201cland flowing with milk and honey.\u201d He might have chosen to speak about the arduous journey that lay ahead, what Nelson Mandela called \u201cthe long road to freedom.\u201d Any of these would have been the great speech of a great leader.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Moses did none of these things. Instead he spoke about children, and the distant future, and the duty to pass on memory to generations yet unborn. Three times he turned to the theme:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And if your children should ask you, \u201cWhat is this rite you perform?\u201d you shall say\u2026. (Ex. 12:26-27)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And you shall tell your child on that day, \u201cIt is because of what the Lord did for me when I went out of Egypt.\u201d (ibid. 13:8)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And if in that time your child should ask you, \u201cWhat is this?\u201d you shall say to him\u2026. (ibid. 13:14)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    About to gain their freedom, the Israelites were told that they were to become a <\/span>nation of educators<\/span><\/em>. That is what made Moses not just a great leader but a unique one. Freedom \u2013 he was suggesting \u2013 is won not on the battlefield nor in the political arena but in the human imagination and will. As the American justice, Judge Learned Hand, put it: \u201cLiberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.\u201d <\/span>To defend a land you need an army, but to defend freedom you need education<\/span><\/em>.<\/em> You need parents, families, and homes and a constant conversation between the generations. Above all you need memory \u2013 the kind of memory that never forgets the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    Said God to Moses: \u201cConsecrate firstborns
    \r\nTo me. Every first issue of the womb
    \r\nBoth man and beast, and even things with horns
    \r\nBecause God freed the Israelites from doom.<\/p>\r\n

    And when I take you to the promised land
    \r\nFor seven days you can\u2019t eat any bread
    \r\nExplain it so your sons will understand
    \r\nWhat God did for your ancestors, who fled.<\/p>\r\n

    And place this is a sign upon your hand
    \r\nAnd also on your forehead, as a sign
    \r\nThat even when you come into the land
    \r\nI\u2019m still your God, and you, Israel, are mine.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

    They traveled, free at last, thanks to God\u2019s might
    \r\nLed by a cloud by day, and fire by night.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":104046,"alt":"","title":"-625839483a25f--625839483a261Ex-Kurshans sonnet 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    Exodus 13 contains some strange imagery, with our chapter including two passages (in reality one extended passage) that are among the texts inside both head and arm <\/span>Tefillin<\/span><\/i>. \u201cIn four places the Torah mentions <\/span>Tefillin<\/span><\/em>\u201d, says the Midrash <\/span>Mekhilta Derabbi Yishma\u2019el<\/span><\/em>, referring to Exodus 13:1-10, Exodus 13:11-16, Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and Deuteronomy 11:13-21. The two Deuteronomy passages cited are the first and second paragraphs of the Shema prayer, but the Exodus verses are not recited as prayers, being only encountered in the liturgy during the Torah reading of <\/span>Parashat Bo<\/span><\/em>. Their mention of <\/span>Tefillin<\/span><\/em> is taken for granted by the rabbis, resulting from a parallel in the language of Exodus 13 to that of the <\/span>Shema<\/span><\/em>, both of whose first two passages talk of tying words as a sign on one\u2019s hand and having them as <\/span>Totafot<\/span><\/em> (a very rare Hebrew word of uncertain derivation) on one\u2019s forehead.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Hebrew word rendered as \u201csymbol\u201d in Exodus 13:16 is the same <\/span>Totafot<\/span><\/em> on one\u2019s forehead known from Deuteronomy, and the \u201creminder\u201d in Exodus 13:9 is also on the forehead. In addition, both these Exodus verses mention a sign on the hand. Here then is a connection to the <\/span>Shema<\/span><\/em>, and by extension to <\/span>Tefillin<\/span><\/em>, although unlike the <\/span>Shema<\/span><\/em> these verses include no mention of tying, nor of words.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Exodus verses state clearly what it is that the sign \/ reminder (or symbol) signify \u2013 namely the Lord\u2019s \u201cmighty hand\u201d that freed the people from Egyptian slavery. (The Shema <\/em>verses, in contrast, do not make clear what it is that the signs they mention are supposed to signify).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Whereas in the <\/span>Shema,<\/span><\/em> words themselves constitute signs, the signs in Exodus are rituals that are described in some detail. Exodus 13:3-8 talk of eating no leavened bread on the day of the Exodus from Egypt, and of a commemorative week of eating only unleavened bread, ending with a festival. It is these practices, combined with their evocation of the Exodus to one\u2019s children, that \u201cshall serve you as a sign on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead\u201d in verse 9.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In the following section verses 11-13 discuss the rituals of consecrating, or alternatively redeeming, human and animal first-born males. Verses 14-15 specify that a child asking for an explanation of these practices be told of their connection to the slaying of the Egyptian first-born. In verse 16, in a parallel to verse 9, this \u201cshall be as a sign upon your hand and as a symbol on your forehead.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What is meant by holiday and first-born rituals becoming a sign \/ reminder \/ symbol on hands and foreheads? To Rashi\u2019s grandson Rashbam (Rabbi Samuel ben Meir) it is all plainly metaphorical. He explains as follows, in his commentary to verse 9: <\/span>\u201c\u2018As a sign on your hand\u2019: According to the fundamental meaning \u2013 it should be a permanent reminder for you, as though written on your hand \u2026\u2019On your forehead\u2019: Like a piece of ornamental jewelry or gold band, customarily placed on the forehead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    When the Israelites finally began the Exodus from Egypt, it was Moses who \u201ctook with him the bones of Joseph, for he had exacted an oath from the children of Israel, saying, \u2018God will be sure to redeem you. Then you shall carry up my bones from here with you\u2019\u201d (Exodus 13:19). But how did Moses manage to recover Joseph\u2019s remains? It had been hundreds of years since Joseph had been \u201cembalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt\u201d (Genesis 50:26).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    According to Midrash Tanhuma, Beshalah 2, it was the immortal Hebrew wise-woman, Serah bat Asher, the granddaughter of the Patriarch Jacob, who yet again came to the rescue. Here is how the ancient midrash might be expansively re-imagined:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Serah led Moses to the banks of the Nile and said \"My voice is weak with age, and your voice is thick and your speech heavy. But perhaps you can find the words to make Joseph hear again\u201d. Moses gazed into the dark waters of the river until words welled up from within him. Stretching forth his staff out over the still waters, he cried out: \"Joseph, son of Jacob! The oath our forefathers swore to inter your bones in our homeland has finally come. And we are poised to go there now! But we cannot end our enslavement in Egypt without you!\u201d. Still, the waters remained unmoved. Then, Serah, reaching into folds of her robe, pulled forth a gold pendant. Embossed on it was the head of a horned bull and below were incised, in ancient Hebrew characters the words: <\/span>Aleh Shor<\/span><\/em> \"Arise, Oh Bull\". Immediately, Moses understood what he must do. He took the pendant and cast it with all his might. As it arched out over the waters of the Nile, he cried out the words: <\/span>Aleh Shor<\/span><\/em>! Now, thunder rolled, lightning flashed in the heavens and the waters of the Nile began to ripple. Slowly, a magnificent Egyptian sarcophagus, adorned with the head of a horned bull, appeared and floated up to the surface. Moses wadded into the river and shouldered Joseph's coffin. 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    I will bow to the life, the might and the beauty...<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    robbed by...rebels against the life coming from Tzuri-Shaddai's hand...<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    the god of the conquerors of Canaan by storm,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    and they bound him with straps of Tefillin.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Shaul Tchernichovsky, Facing Apollo's Statue, 1899
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    For Tchernichovsky and other early secular Zionists, the Tefillin, which we first encounter in chapter 13, are emblematic of the way in which the religious strictures of 'Exilic Judaism' emasculate the natural, healthy sense of power of the 'New Jew'. But these strictures did not originate in exile; their message was aimed at the \"conquerors of Canaan\" themselves, \"when God brings you to the land of the Canaanite\" (verses 5 and 11), and it is a message about power and victory that remains especially relevant today.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What do you do with power? Where do you take your victory?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Chapter 13 speaks repeatedly of God's mighty hand which redeemed us, and His smiting of the first born. But, in this chapter, the Torah commands for posterity that the spirit of remembrance is not one of triumphalism; we are not told to emulate God's strong hand. Rather, the Torah emphasizes the debt and responsibility that we have because we ourselves could have (and perhaps deserved to have?) suffered the very same fate as the Egyptians. \"For this reason do I sacrifice each male first born\" (verse 15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Tefillin does bind us and restrict us. Laid on our own weak hand, the straps restrain our natural tendency to turn victory to hubris and power to oppression. 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    \u201cThe column of cloud by day, and the column of fire by night, did not depart from before the people.\u201d \u00a0(Exodus 13:22)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Warsaw, August 1942<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    At the <\/span>Umschlagplatz<\/span><\/i>, the train to Treblinka,
    \r\n<\/span>Ready to transport the Jews of Warsaw
    \r\n<\/span>To where people are transported through chimneys
    \r\n<\/span>As smoke,
    \r\n<\/span>Waits.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Smoke from the locomotive,
    \r\n<\/span>Gray, thick, in an amorphous column
    \r\n<\/span>Rises, then drifts, then disperses and dissipates in the summer air;
    \r\n<\/span>Like Polish Jews;
    \r\n<\/span>Like hope.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Our fathers taught us
    \r\n<\/span><\/i>The Jews were led in the desert to the promised land
    \r\n<\/span><\/i>By a column of cloud by day,
    \r\n<\/span><\/i>And a column of fire by night,
    \r\n<\/span><\/i>Hiding the God of Israel\u2019s glory.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

    But in the desert of Poland, the Jews are led to their final solution
    \r\n<\/span>For the greater glory of the Third Reich
    \r\n<\/span>Packed in cattle cars on a train
    \r\n<\/span>(Or is it a mobile cemetery with iron wheels
    \r\n<\/span>For filaments of smoke who do not yet know they are smoke?)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The passive locomotive impassively emits a column of smoke
    \r\n<\/span>As prosaic as despair,
    \r\n<\/span>As transient
    \r\n<\/span>As hope
    \r\n<\/span>Embodied in a work-certificate ignited by a match.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    If only our fathers had learned
    \r\n<\/span>From columns of cloud and fire in the desert
    \r\n<\/span>How to reveal the hidden glory,
    \r\n<\/span>How to retrieve and reverse and revive
    \r\n<\/span>Wisps of smoke.<\/span><\/em><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":102021,"alt":"","title":"-620a72b481979--620a72b48197bgen8-smell 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    Chapter 13 has two elements (like Chapter 12, just a little more neatly laid out): The story of how we left Egypt and ways to remember the story of the Exodus for generations to come.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Besides the Festival of the Matzot (13:5-10) two more mnemonic devices are established for remembering the experience of the Exodus:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      \r\n\t
    1. \"Sanctify every firstborn male to Me<\/b>... of the Israelites, man and beast alike, they are Mine\" (13:2); you can read the specific instructions in v. 11-13. What does the law mention? If you read the previous chapter you already know, and \"should your son ask you tomorrow: What is this?\" (13:14) you can tell him that it's because \"Pharaoh refused to let us go and the Lord killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt (13:16).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. \"And it shall be as a <\/span>sign<\/b> on your hand and as <\/span>frontlets<\/b> between your eyes\" (13:16). This mysterious commandment is what we know as the Tefillin (phylacteries) of the hand and the head, which contain parchment written with verses from the Torah, including a mention of the Exodus.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      And now for the journey itself, which takes place in Verses 17-22. The route chosen from Egypt to Canaan isn't the shortest one (through the land of the Philistines); it's actually the long way, through the desert. Why? The nation of slaves leaving Egypt isn't yet ready to deal with the dangers, \"for God said: Lest the people change their minds when they see war [approaching] and return to Egypt\" (13:17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      The Israelites are under close guard as they travel. Night and day. \"The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not leave the people\" (13:22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Bon voyage!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Points to Ponder:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        \r\n\t
      1. The House of Bondage<\/b> (13:3) - a new nickname for Egypt which nicely reflects what happened there and will appear in the Bible quite often from here on in.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
      2. The month of Spring<\/b> (13:4). The Exodus takes place in springtime. The text mentions not only the date but the season - spring. And the festival of Passover will continue to be celebrated in springtime from now on.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
      3. And you shall tell your son<\/b> (13:8). Passing the story on from father to son is the key to preserving the memory. The sons with their questions and the father with his answers appear in several verses in the story of the Exodus and reappear with the four sons in the Passover Haggadah.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
      4. Armed?<\/b> \"And the Israelites ascended from Egypt armed [also 'in fives']\" (13:18). What does this mean? Were they equipped with weapons? Did they march in ranks of five? Did only one-fifth of the Hebrews leave Egypt? Look to the commentators for answers.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
      5. They kept their promises<\/b>. Moses and the Israelites take Joseph's bones with them, just as they promised at the end of the Book of Genesis.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

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