Webcast: The Jewish Meaning of Egypt: From Moses to Jabotinsky

The Jewish Meaning of Egypt: From Moses to Jabotinsky
with Dr. Micah Goodman
Recorded Monday, April 6, 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT | 7:00 PM IDT

The liberation of the Jewish people from Egypt is the foundational moral, philosophical, and political story of the Jewish nation—and especially so as we prepare for Pesach. In this “Tikvah Live” lecture, Israeli intellectual and best-selling author Micah Goodman asks: What does “Egypt” symbolize in the moral and political imagination of the Jewish people? How has the meaning of Egypt evolved from the Hebrew Bible to the age of exile to modern Zionist thinkers and leaders like Ze’ev Jabotinsky? And what is our greater danger today: the tyrannical return of Egypts re-born, or the possibility of allowing the spirit of Egypt to corrupt the Jewish nation?

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