Just before the people cross the Sea of Reeds, in the Book of Exodus, God/YHVH tells Moses:
Now Pharaoh will say of the Children of Israel:
They are confused [נְבֻכִים, nevukhim] in the land!
The wilderness has closed [סָגַר ,sagar] them in!
— Exodus 14:3, Fox translation (Schocken, 1995)
Is it only Pharaoh who believes, or says, this? Are we stuck due to our own inability to see what confuses us or encloses us?
Looking more closely at what has us confused/enclosed is a first step toward finding a way out. Isn’t it time?!
Rereading Exodus along the Anacostia explores inter-group dialogue, its role in understanding and addressing oppression and in envisioning new ways to get ourselves – all of us– out from under the millstone of racism and inequality and militarism. It explores what life in DC teaches about the Exodus story and vice versa.
Isn’t It Time? shares excerpts from Rereading Exodus plus new thoughts and questions –
- to help in preparing for Passover,
- to explore at the seder or during the Passover week,
- for the omer journey, from Passover to Shavuot, &/or
- to help in interrogating and reimagining the Exodus story in any season
Isn’t It Time? can be explored on its own or as supplement to Rereading Exodus along the Anacostia. Choice of two PDF formats below.
The book itself is available as follows
- via CMCB’s Bookshop, where all purchases benefit CMCB’s literacy work;
- Lulu paperback;
- Lulu ebook
- through Barnes & Noble and other shops
Isn’t It Time? (for Rereading Exodus)
Two PDF versions: (1) B/W booklet: 16 pages to print back-to-back on 8 sheets, folding into 8.5″ X 5″ booklet, and (2) straightforward 16-page (8.5 X 11) PDF.
1) print and fold to 32-page B/W booklet
2) straightforward 16-page PDF
Feature image description: Cover of “Isn’t It Time?” shows stylized map of DC, highlighting rivers, with text: Isn’t It Time? Rereading Exodus along the Anacostia: Engaging the age-old Exodus story, and our own, to inspire change where we are right now.
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