Let My People Go

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G-d sent Moses back to Pharoah with a dire warning that unless Pharoah releases the Israelites, terrible plagues will lay waste the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.'”

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh by Rembrandt
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In the Bible

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, “This is what the L-RD, the G-d of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.'”

שְׁמוֹת י':ג'

וַיָּבֹ֨א מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאַֽהֲרֹן֘ אֶל-פַּרְעֹה֒ וַיֹּֽאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו "כֹּֽה-אָמַ֤ר ה' אֱלֹקי הָֽעִבְרִ֔ים עַד-מָתַ֣י מֵאַ֔נְתָּ לֵֽעָנֹ֖ת מִפָּנָ֑י שַׁלַּ֥ח עַמִּ֖י וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי"

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Antisimetism

The story of the Exodus, when Egypt oppressed the Jewish People, is the first instance where another nation turned against the people of Israel as a nation. During the Passover/Pesach Seder where we recall the story of the Exodus, a special song tells of millennia of oppression and antisemitism that the Jewish People have endured.

And it is this (the Torah) that has stood by our ancestors and for us.

For not only one (enemy) has risen up against us to destroy us,

but in every generation they rise up to destroy us.

But the Holy One, Blessed be He, delivers us from their hands

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All the empires who sought the destruction of the Jewish People are no more, but the Jewish People endure!