Arthur O. Waskow & Phyllis Berman 
Freedom Journeys [EPUB ebook] 
The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness across Millennia

Preface: Why Should We Relearn the Story? xv

PART I: From Nomadic Freedom to Imperial Slavery 1
1. Entering the Tight and Narrow Place 3
2. Controlling the Family 7
3. Controlling the Realm 11

PART II: Midwives and Moses 15
4. From Benevolent Despot to Vindictive Tyrant 19
5. Giving Birth to Freedom 22
6. Drawn Forth, Drawing Forth 32
7. The Fiery Voice at the Burning Bush 36
8. Toward Freedom—or Toward Death? 45

PART III: From the Palace to the Sea 53
9. Facing Pharaoh 55
10. Who Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart? 60
11. Brickmakers’ Union Number One 65
12. Recalling the Past, Transforming the Future 69
13. The Sea of Ending and Beginning 72

PART IV: From the Sea to Sinai 75
14. The Taste of Freedom 77
15. Before the Sinai Marriage 82
16. The Wordless Torah of the Wordless Mountains 86
17. Sinai: The Universe Says ‘I’ 88

PART V: Encountering Wilderness, Creating Community 93
18. Carrying the Sacred Space 95
19. The Green Menorah 101
20. Sacred Time: The Seventh Day 103
21. Sacred Time: The Seventh Year 111
22. Transforming Our Festivals and Our Lives 117
23. In the Dangerous Doorways 121
24. Sacred Clothing, Holy Body, Naked Torah 124
25. Two Kinds of Holy Light 127
26. Food, Our Innards, and God’s Inwardness 130
27. Strange Fire, All-Consuming Commitment 132
28. The Emerging Torah of Same-Sex Sexuality 134

PART VI: Death, Rebellion, and War 139
29. Into the Earth 141
30. Staring Death in the Face 144
31. Meeting Brings Disaster, and a Cure 147
32. To Remember, to Blot Out 152
33. From Genocide to Purification 157
34. Dying Leader, Dying Generation 162

PART VII: Across the River 167
35. Living on the Edge 169
36. Wind, Rain, Sun, Soil, Seed Are One 173
37. The Land Shall Not Become Mitzrayyim 177
38. Soldier, Go Home! 180
39. Moses as Prophetic Model 183
40. Joshua Meets God’s General 185

PART VIII: Across Millennia 187
41. The Rabbis Cross Their Own Red Sea 189
42. The Rabbis Climb Their Own Mount Sinai 195
43. The Rabbis Sing the Song of Songs: Love as Freedom 198
44. Exodus in the Life and Death of Jesus
Ched Myers and Russell Powell 203
45. Exodus in the Qur’an: Mercy, Compassion, and Forgiveness
S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana 210
46. Exodus in African America: A Great Camp Meeting
Vincent Harding 217
47. Freedom Journey for the Planet? 225

Acknowledgments 237
Notes 239
Suggestions for Further Reading 240
About the Authors 244
About the Contributors 247

Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman is co-author, with Rabbi Waskow, of A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: The Jewish Life-Spiral as a Spiritual Path. Rabbi Berman is the program director of Elat Chayyim, a Jewish retreat center for healing, and coauthor of Tales of Tikkun: New Jewish Stories to Heal the Wounded World. Berman founded in 1978 and now directs the Riverside Language Program, an intensive English-language school for adult immigrants and refugees from around the world. With her husband, Arthur Ocean Waskow, she lives in Philadelphia, and she shares four grown children, one son-in-law, and one daughter-in-law.