"Break Every Yoke" Isaiah 58:6 URCHATZ
I would love to share some pages from Ben Hecht on the meaning of the Bible as a rebellion against Systems, Governments and Cultures that extinguish the divine personal spirit of human individuals in the service of something else. If there are Jewish writings from the post-Biblical period still to be canonized, his will definitely be anong them.
But first I have to ask, does anybody understand that our society is the same one that Moses opposed? That Amos fulminated against? That Jeremiah cursed? That Isaiah mocked?
We pretend it's otherwise by imagining that the Jews of Egypt were turned into nothing but beasts of burden.
I had that inaccurate impression myself before moving here and being physically confronted by the remains of that day.
They weren't.
They were subject to the occasional terrible decrees that absolute rulers are known to dictate from time to time, but the “cries” that God heard during the pharaonic interregnum weren’t likely for Jewish children being killed for their blood [this belief that one’s enemies murder children for their fluids is still around and no less cringeworthy a fantasy than before], nor was it that the Jews had just a few minutes to catch their breath and moan.
They had a SABBATH from their day to day and had begun to think. They become reacquainted with their inner self and become dissatisfied with their lot in life and understood that they wanted more.
They had inherited at least some understanding and inspiration from Abraham (whose proclivity to pass on his understands to his posterity is part of why God had said he chose Abraham) and now this respite from their day to day allowed their sparks of inspiration to ignite recognition of these ancient precepts and thus they bemoaned their state and were becoming the Seeking People that remains the most obvious ethnic attribute of their people to this very day.
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