Thoughts on Parashat Yitro
Imagine that you live in pre-modern times and the technology we have today does not exist. Imagine that you are in the desert with a group of people and they expect you to lead out of this desert. They expect you not only to take them out of the place they camp, they expect you to guide them to the place they can settle and have ‘a normal life’. They are a group of refugees from the country they had been abused for generations. They are not the most moral and civilized among the people on earth, precisely because of the abuse they experienced: the system they were living under did not encourage them to live morally because it was not a good strategy of survival, those who cheated and stole were much better off.[…]
