The Bible offers a startling and potentially transformative response: Let your memory teach you empathy and your suffering teach you love. We’ll gather for Seders, in which we’ll re-enact the foundational story of the Jewish people, the Exodus from Egypt. Such a memory, for some, may seem impossible to summon now, in a time of so much trauma and devastation. Further, we are meant not just to remember our suffering but also to grow in empathy as a result. The revolution in empathy I am describing is urgently necessary to remember precisely now, when it seems so utterly out of reach.

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Persons: we’ll Locations: Egypt