Pharaohs Aren’t the Problem. We Are.

The Passover story I was taught in the ultra-Orthodox yeshivas of my youth was that of a villainous Pharaoh, a heartless tyrant who ruled with an iron fist.

Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.” (Exodus 1:22)

I wasn’t surprised.

Exodus was only Book Two of the…