At our Friday Night Shabbat service on January 10th, Rabbi Steven delivered a sermon on the strategic necessity of hope in dark times. In Joseph’s day, the land of Egypt was a refuge, and his family enjoyed wealth and prestige and political power. But in just a few generations, their descendants were enslaved by a tyrant in that same land. In a day when the freedom and stability that we sometimes take for granted is being threatened, how can we find inspiration in our ancestor’s struggle? 

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Produced by Mishkan Chicago. Music composed, produced, and performed by Kalman Strauss.

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