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The Highest Calling for the Jewish People?
This Shabbat, we find ourselves celebrating the 7
th Day of the Festival of Pesach and preparing for this week’s special reading of the account of Kriat Yam Suf, the crossing of the Sea of Reeds, which tradition posits took place on this day. And yet, though we are knee-deep in our Passover celebrations, I find myself thinking back to the joy-filled holiday of Purim that we enjoyed just a few weeks back and to one of its primary heroes, Mordechai.
Now of course you are asking yourselves, why? What might Mordechai have to do with the Exodus and in particular with the miracle of the deliverance at the Sea? According to Rabbinic tradition, Mordechai was a prophet and a member of the famed Jewish legal body known as the Sanhedrin which gathered in the Chamber of Hewn Stones, and whose members were so well-educated and worldly, that they knew all of the seventy languages extant at that time. In this respected capacity, Mordechai helped adju
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