- The two parashot of Geula are actually applied paradigms of the two sets of עשרה דורות: the first is פקידה בעלמא which is the Ramban’s concept of simple “care” and there is no religion involved, only “I feel your pain”; About הצלה and Justice with רשע למה תכה, about shepherds attacking the daughters of Yithro; no promises involved, only “We need to get you out of here to a better place”; entirely human in its concerns, stripping away the complexities of broader identity; caring about babies, from בת פרעה to מרים and יוכבד, and cooing and not about cosmic meaning, about אלקי העבריים-עברי מאחיו. The second is all about בני ישראל and the שם השם and the promise that demands a גילוי השם וארץ ישראל; It is about ולקחתי אתכם לי לעם; it does not care about the babies that are נימוכים מתחת לבנין who will bring to פסל מיכה. There are two דמים here—one the flesh which so attracted בת פרעה and which was thematic in the first parasha with כי טוב הוא- את הנער- בדרך למלון and the other the דם פסח which is the right to complexity and development, and together they become בדמייך חיי בדמייך חיי....
The deep connection between the two levels of גאולה, the nexus of humanity and meaning, is the essence of ברית מילה, where the flesh becomes the word, literally. It is there that the very dust of our humanity is entirely a dedication to developing information, to the real בשביל ישראל and sees in it no contradiction to the human—on the contrary, sees in it the only hope and belief in the rightness and redeemability of the human condition!

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