To Be Calm And To Care

Va'era | Exodus, Shemos | 5774

The human paradox of needing to be simultaneously calm and caring, using Moses's dual response of distress at Jewish suffering and calm trust in G-d's plan. G-d's rebuke to Moses at the beginning of Va'era is interpreted as a teaching about the two qualities of equanimity and passionate concern that must coexist.

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