Thoughts on Parashat Vaera
I was born in Poland, in a country where many fundamental human freedoms were taken away for 45 years by autocrats who believed that the historical progress of humanity gave them knowledge and awareness of the ultimate causes of all injustices in the human world. This awareness was supposed to give them a never ending mandate to rule the country and the society, as they believed to be ‘saviors of the world’ opposing the inhumane, imperialistic and evil capitalism of the Western World. One of the reasons their reign lasted so long was that no one was able to question, or even to[…]