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The exodus to freedom from physical borders was accompanied by the collapse of the living systems of the land of constraints and limitations (a play on the word mitzrayim, the Hebrew for Egypt). The plagues undermine the basic foundation of life ("blood"); the ability to jump and skip over life's problems ("frog"); the ground under our feet ("lice"); the buffer between the space for humans and animals ("wild beasts"); the property and sense of ownership ("pestilence"); and even the air ("boils") and the sky ("hail"). In Parashat Bo, agriculture ("locusts"); the cosmos ("darkness") and human primacy ("firstborns") are beaten.
There are times in the life of the individual and nation when a complete change is unescapable. What once was, will not be again. Inevitably, the collapse is accompanied by pain, but out of the pain the people of Israel are set free. This was the case in the past and so it is today. There is growth only after the seed rots in the ground. We will soon see the salvation that will emerge from the plagues we are currently experiencing. "Like the days of your exodus from the land of Egypt, I will show [my people] wonders" (Micha 7, 15).
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
