of the heart And hubris will collapse and all of the babies buried in brick 24 the whips of oppressors and stench of state-sanctioned violence will flow out And we remember …
That our story begins with migrants God herself is a migrant 25 and a stranger 26, That fearful for his life our forefather trafficked His wife 27 How fearful for her prominence Sarah trafficked Hagar 28. Fearful for his life, The Midianite priest took in a refugee 29 hunted by the crown Fearful for her life his daughter married the refugee who intervened on her behalf 30
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Pirkei D’ Rabbi Eliezer 48:18
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Shekhinah, as mentioned above wanders along with Jewish people on their journeys
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God is the ultimate other
27
Genesis 12:16
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Genesis 16:2
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Exodus 2:21
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Exodus 2:17
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