Rabbi Gordon writes about the Israelites who didn’t listen to Moses, out of shortness of spirit and hard servitude. He asks: What are the workarounds for shortness of spirit and hard servitude? They are not like cell phones that can be silenced. He references Exodus Rabbah 6:5, which explains that the Israelites joined the idolaters because their status as slaves was fixed, and God didn’t seem to help.

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