Many of today’s problems are the result of bad choices you made yesterday. They put you in your own Egypt. Want to see the mugshot of your worst enemy? Easy—look on your driver’s license. It’s relatively easy to conceive a male baby; but it is a whole lot harder to turn a male baby into a son. That takes years. Societies that fail to produce sons, but only produce male human beings is a doomed society.

Lessons from Passover. Seeing the future is the only way to escape the past.