“If you diligently heed the voice of God, your God, and do what is upright in His eyes, carefully listening to His commandments and observing all His rules, I will bring none of the illnesses that I brought upon Egypt upon you, for I am God who heals you.”

Their miraculous rescue from capture at the Red Sea provides a unique opportunity for freedom and spiritual fulfillment, initially appreciated and embraced, but soon squandered.

We live in a time when we have neither a temple in which to offer animal sacrifices to atone for the personal and community madness of idol worship, nor consensus about what is madness.

The article explores the complex interplay between Jewish law (Halacha), the sanctity of life, and the permissibility of abortion, particularly in the context of Shabbat observance and the principle of Pikuach Nefesh (saving a life).

The ultimate place of Divine indwelling is the human being, a repository built upon the Intelligent Design of the human person, co-created with a mother and a father here on earth. To house the Divine will and carry it out is the reason we are given life, so we must protect and support human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

Looking deeper into this account, we recognize that the ultimate dwelling place of God is within each and every one of us. We have a lifetime to build a pleasing mind and body in which God's presence can live in the closest proximity to us and inform our thoughts, words and actions.

Many Jewish pro-abortion advocates deliberately misuse this translation to diminish the value of the unborn child, and as a tool to justify and defend unlimited abortion in Judaism. This particular interpretation of Torah has resulted in many Jewish generations lost. It calls into question the foundations of Judaism as a moral and just system. It also causes many righteous born Jews to convert out of our faith in order to resolve a seemingly impossible moral dilemma.

We now find ourselves in perilous times where human ideas rather than biblically based morals and ethics inform our attitudes, laws, national policies and lifestyles. Our pledge to carry our commitment forward through our children fails because we cannot guarantee our children's safe passage from conception through birth and then to teach them the laws of God.

Overnight, the Hebrews are spared endless servitude and extinction, and given the gifts and responsibilities of freedom and spiritual integrity.

Technology advances unimagined in biblical times empower collaboration between nefarious purveyors of anti-human ideology. Anti-life propaganda given away as free gifts in all sorts of pretty packages enslaves the human heart and mind. Too many children, parents, families and communities suffer spiritual exile from a loving God and goodness and life.