Egypt as Metaphor: What Exodus Really Means
Every spring, at Passover tables on every continent, the Haggadah issues one of the strangest commands in religious literature. In every generation, it instructs, each person must regard themselves as if they personally came out of Egypt. Personally. Not their ancestors. Them. Read that command seriously and the tradition itself is telling you the Exodus has an inside. The allegorical readers, whose map of the whole Bible this site laid out recently, were doing what the Passover table demands, and the Exodus was their masterpiece. Walked through from the inside, the old story stops being about the pharaohs’ Egypt and starts being about yours. ...