It Started on a Shabbat Morning
Everybody remembers Haman. Everybody remembers Esau.
Hardly anyone worries about Laban.
But Laban nearly ended the Jewish people.
He was never violent, gave Jacob work, a home, a family, and twenty years of security.
Beneath that generosity, Laban tried to absorb Jacob and his family until nothing distinct remained.
Rabbi Elie Mischel spent his first forty years in America. In Countdown, he argues that this country has been doing the same.
Generous, welcoming, and quietly dissolving what makes the Jewish people distinct.
And he argues the arrangement is ending now.
Countdown shows how we’re closer than most realize to the end of that story and the start of our redemption.
The fate of every nation follows the fate of the Jewish people.
That ending belongs to all of us.
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