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  "description": "excavating the earliest layers of Exodus' sacred myth",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T23:13:46.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This is **Life as a Sacred Text** 🌱, an everybody-celebrating, justice-centered voyage into ancient stories that can illuminate our own lives. It‘s run on a nonprofit, so it’s 100% NAZI FREE. More about the project here, and **to subscribe, go** here**:**\n\nSubscribe!\n\n__This newsletter is a reader-supported publication. Paid subscriptions allow our tiny team to keep doing this work. If you want in to the House of Study but paying isn't on for you right now, reach out and we'll hook you up, no questions asked.__\n\n## Sign up for Life is a Sacred Text\n\nLife is a Sacred Text is about truth & transformation, with ancient stories serving as mirrors & lights. Collective liberation. Everybody-celebratory.\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nNo spam. Unsubscribe anytime.\n\nModaim l'simcha to whoever's celebrating, friends! (And for all my Christian peeps, hope your Easter was full of joy.) (And for everyone else: Hope spring is springing for you!)\n\nAnother pre- Thursday post, to catch the winds of Holy Day timing.\nWhile some of us are in The Exodus Zone, I thought it might be a good time to share this provocative argument by Rabbi Prof. David Frankel that— _if_ we accept it– could change a lot in our understanding of the Egypt story, and this holiday.\n\nShare this post: \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nMatthew McFayden (in __Deadpool and Wolverine__) in a suit says, \"Walk with me.\"\n\nLet's start with the refrain that we hear throughout the Torah, as a near-constant call to behave justly, however translated (Strangers? Sojourners? Non-citizens? Im/migrants?) We see this language all over the place, notably in Exodus (eg 22:20, 23:9, etc):\n\n> **\"....for you were gerim [sojourners] in the land of Egypt,\"**\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "for we were... [enslaved? sojourners?] in Egypt",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-08T15:02:22.678Z"
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