Welcome to Parshat Bo. Many of us have been troubled by God’s devastating decrees in the biblical story of our people’s liberation from enslavement. Many of us have wondered about the people of the land, Egyptians and others, who suffered economically and physically. It doesn’t seem right. Last Shabbat, one of our members, remarked how, when she was a youth, hearing about the slaying of the first born of Egypt turned her off to Judaism. It seemed so cruel. Someone else in our community asked if this was a kind of revenge for the Pharoah’s killing of new born baby boys. Does Judaism teach revenge?
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