Exodus: Vayakhel
After a political rupture, rituals of repetition can attempt to restore normalcy—or throw it into question.
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Exodus: Terumah
Does the Tabernacle represent God’s effort to institutionalize the energy of a riot?
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Exodus: Mishpatim
Terrible violence will unfold while the Israelites are kept busy with lines and lines of civic code.
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Exodus: Beshalach
For the enslaved, the formerly enslaved, and the otherwise surveilled, wandering is not simply unproductive movement; it is self-possessed, erratic, wayward action.
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Exodus: Vaera
For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.
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