MOSES is reaching for fairy dust in his proposal to lead the Israelite slaves out of Egypt. It’s not going to happen.
A mass exodus would require the approval of Pharaoh, most likely only after a series of devastating plagues.
Even if Pharaoh were to allow an exodus, it would still require approval by the Israelites, who are the very people who would be expected to wander in the desert for forty years. The Israelites have rejected exodus before, and in a time of job cuts, economic worry and unleavened bread, would almost certainly do so again.
Moses has long promoted exodus as a way to “let my people go,” but the people have long suspected that this would lead to even harsher treatment at the hands of their Egyptian overlords. Here the cynics are right.
Certainly, the enslaved Israelites, beaten and oppressed, are having their problems. But their Egyptian masters, facing rising mortar prices and a sudden infestation of frogs, have their problems too. Their interest is in quickly building a monument to the divinity of Pharaoh, which is made less likely by an exodus of slaves.
Some advocates say that Moses would lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, but by what route? Does he expect the people to cross the Red Sea on foot? And once in the desert, how will Moses feed the Israelite nation? Food doesn’t fall from heaven, and you can’t get water from a stone.
Moses is said to talk to God. He might recall that so did Lot. And we all remember what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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ROTF. Let my people go!!
I can just see/hear Frank Blethen doing Edward G Robinson, “Where’s your Moses now?! Where’s your deliverer!”
“Sound familiar?”
Yes, your post about the Seattle Times editorial board does sound familiar.
Trull is already worshiping the golden calf. That didn’t take long.
Goldy, you left out the part about not questioning, ever, the unfallible and all-wise Pharoah. The Israelites are kept as slaves for their own good.
In general, oddly enough, the people who benefit the most from the status quo are the least likely to question it.
When Moses parted the Red Sea, permitting his people to tromp across, wasn’t that a major, major environmental crime. How much delicate sea life was stepped on and crushed?
And the Egyptian soldiers who had tried to follow were drowned with all their gear, talk about water pollution. No Moses for me, thanks.
This is an obvious forgery that has nothing to do with the Seattle Times, since there is no reference to the “Death Tax”.
@2 If Goldy’s criticism of Frank Blethen’s editorial page has become a daily routine, it’s because the Times editorial page has become The Daily Drivel.
The pharaoh was nothing but a cheap labor conservative on a chariot.
Frankly, I don’t see why the Israelites should work! The pharaoh gets all the bricks and they get all the work. If the pharaoh refuses to pay the Israelites a living wage and provide health care, they should walk off the job and let him make his own fucking bricks! I wouldn’t work under conditions like that. Why should anyone work under a system like that?
For the goyem … non Jews
Goldy and I.. along with the rest of the Jews in the world, this week will celebrate Passover. Forf a lot of us, this is also the seasonof freedom and we honor not just Moses but Dr. King, who died during Passover and so many others who have taken upn the cause.
Ahhh …
but … isn’t Passover about Jesus, the lamb, and his last supper?
I dunno, but ..
In our tradtion, about a thousand years older than the Jesus story,we revere Maisch (also the name of SJ’s dog) as the first great leabor leader Really!
Maisch is seen as a member of the privilidged class who discovered his roots when he sawa Republicanb Egytptian boss wipping a (Hebrew) slave. For the first time in history, social concscience triumphed ovder privilidge …
Our greatest hero? not Achilles, not Jason, not Mohamad (the general), not even Jesus (the victim).
Our hero was a community organizer. Of course, my personal hero today, Baruch Obama, is .. well rather Moses-like.
So now you trolls and troglodytes know we we Jews are REQUIRED to be democrats!
A sussen pesach to all!
And when those Egyptian soldiers were drowned, for the first time in history the average guy fought back against big gov’t.
And Moses did not have a problem with waterboarding, even this extreme version of it.
Fat ‘lot’ of good that did him, particularly after he blew out the 16 candles on Strom’s birthday cake. And then there was Lott’s wife; she got turned into a pillar of salt. Then Katrina blew their house down.
Best wishes to all from the Irgun wing of the born-again Jewish community. May you have a passable Passover.
– (signed) Al Nakba
awesome blog.