Saturday, April 23, 2016

A Passover Thought: Is Trump a Pharoah?

This Passover, as Americans contemplate deporting 11 million aliens, it is good to think back on the Jewish experience in Egypt. God told Abraham: “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.” Jews are later told (Leviticus 19:33): “When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.” And this: “The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.” Clearly, the 11 million unlawful aliens in the U.S. are far from slaves—but just as clearly, we do not love them as we love ourselves. The exodus of Jews from Egypt was a liberation; the forced exile of 11 million unlawful aliens would be a cruel hardship, unbecoming a nation that reveres Judeo-Christian ideals.

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