Exodus | Shemot
This week, all across the country, people are gathering in vigils to guard our democracy. Today I will be standing in New York City. This week’s Torah portion calls us to take an even bigger risk to save our world: “Come into Pharaoh.”
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In this week’s Torah portion, God gives a deep instruction to Moses about the road to freedom. God tells Moses, “Bo בֹּ֖א ,enter, Pharoah.” Enter the place that is stuck, closed, frozen, from where violence is sourced. Enter it, enter the place where the heart is hardened. That is where the light must be seen.
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Elohim, the ancient plural form that spoke the world into form at the beginning of Genesis, reveals the formless unpronounceable name of יהוה to Moses. … The spiritual journey is unfolding in God’s revealing God’s presence to humans in shape, sounds and form that they might receive.
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Exodus begins by showing us Pharoah-nature, the nature that cannot sit where other folk sit in order to feel what they feel, the nature that closes its heart to others’ suffering. And then it presents us with the questions of our time, of all time: How does transformation of suffering occur? How do we humans affect the formless Flow of Life, Eternally Present, the Formless Creator of Genesis, so that there is sitting “where other folk sit in order to feel what they feel.“
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