Rick Lupert: Exodus 12:34 Grab the Dough, We Gotta Go

Rabbi Barenblat addresses the text which indicates that the Israelites were impatient and crushed by despair. She quotes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who said that to make justice a reality for all requires hard work; we cannot sit back and wait for it to happen. The world will not magically go back to pre-pandemic normal; we have to work.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, z/l: Bo: The March of Folly

Rabbi Sacks compares Pharaoh’s refusal to make the right decision, even though the outcome is obvious. Pharaoh undoubtedly felt he was being strong, in contrast to his advisors, who saw him leading his people to disaster. He remains an enduring symbol of a failure to listen to his own advisors.