But here’s the thing: those ugly images matter because they remind us that freeing our hostages (all of them, God willing) isn’t the whole story. This week’s Torah portion, Vaera, shows us that true liberation is about more than breaking chains. It is about reckoning. God didn’t just free the Israelites; God brought Egypt to its knees. Pharaoh’s empire couldn’t stand in the presence of divine justice, and neither can Hamas. Their reign isn’t just a blight on us Jews, but an offense to the moral fabric of the universe.
And regimes that disgrace God’s sovereignty? They don’t last.
Pharaoh fell. Hamas will too.
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