A Passover message: Overcoming a plague of hubris

Commentary from Senior Rabbi Steve Leder of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles:

This is how the Bible describes the ninth plague of the Passover story:

“So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.  They did not see each other, and no one rose from underneath it.”

From underneath what?  What is it that keeps us from really seeing each other? 

We fail to truly see others when we cannot get rise above our own assumptions. 

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