“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.

I wonder if any one of these kids or their parents who feel threatened by the murderous rage directed at them just because they are Jewish can empathize with the babies in the womb whose deaths result from murderous intent directed at them just because they are unwanted or because their advocates lack the power to save them.

Over three thousand years ago, G-d told us from Mt. Sinai not to murder anyone. All five books of the Torah include the death penalty for murder, and it is never approved in the remainder of the Tanach (Hebrew Bible).

We find ourselves once again seeking HaShem’s support and protection as we foster encouragement and consensus for liberation from dependencies on false gods and a culture of death and depravity.