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Did you know that Wizards of The Coast has just published what I think is their first ever brand new TTRPG? But it's not from the D&D team. It's from the videogame studio Archetype Entertainment and is based on Exodus, their upcoming action RPG. #TTRPG #Exodus
exodusgame.com/en-US/exodus-tr

Exodus Game
Exodus GameEXODUS TRAVELER’S HANDBOOK – OFFER!Due to the effects of TIME, we are offering all our TRAVELERS, who are not yet FOUNDERS in our world, the opportunity to extend your travels through a TTRPG experience!

We are losing our snowbirds. 🇨🇦

Spurred by deteriorating U.S.-Canada relations under Donald Trump’s second administration, annexation and #tariff threats, many #snowbirds are selling their U.S. properties en masse, driven by a surge of #Canadian patriotism, fears of hostility, and new restrictive travel rules. This #exodus is poised to deliver a significant economic blow to the U.S., while Canadians rally to boycott American goods and assert their national pride.

open.substack.com/pub/deanblun

Dean Blundell · Canadian Snowbirds Flee U.S. Homes Amid Trump’s Policies: Wave of Canadian Patriotism Is Killing The US Housing MarketBy Dean Blundell

“Prone to Wander”: Human Judgment, Judged

Psalm 116: 1,10 I love Abba God, because Abba God has heard the voice of my supplication, because Abba God has inclined Abba God’s ear to me whenever I called upon Abba God. How shall I repay Abba God for all the good things Abba God has done for me?

Introduction

Our journey through Lent to Holy Week has brought us to the reality of our situation. We have seen that we’re prone to forsake and give up following the way of the reign of God; we have seen that we’re prone to tromp and tread on the land, on our neighbor, on God, and on ourselves; we have seen that we’re eager to estrange ourselves and become strangers to God, thus to our neighbor, thus to ourselves. While we would love for the exposure of Lent to be over, our exposure is, only now, getting personal.

Maundy Thursday isn’t really about “foot washing” or about finding ways to make yourselves smaller and more servant-like to your neighbor—even though such acts are exposing and can bring a certain (healthy) amount of humility. Rather, Maundy Thursday is about Peter being exposed for what he doesn’t understand about who Jesus is and what his mission on earth is all about. And, thus—if it’s about Peter being exposed—it’s about us being exposed for not really getting what Jesus is truly up to. While we claim all year to know what God’s mission is in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, we don’t really know and we often forget what it is once we’re told, and we conflate it and force it to conform with our own desires, and (then) walk away from it completely. Maundy Thursday is designed to drive some of those final and big nails into our coffin of exposure. As we gaze upon Christ in the gospel story, watch him remove his clothes and don only a wrap around his waist and begin to wash the feet of his disciples, we should feel the urge building up to blurt out, with Peter, “‘You will never wash my feet!’” A simple statement meant for respect yet exposing how much we really don’t understand what is happening or why Christ is here. On Maundy Thursday, our judgment is called to account for itself, and it will be found lacking.

We are prone to bad judgment because we are prone to wander from our God of love.

Exodus 12:1-14

Here in our First Testament passage from the book of Exodus, Moses and Aaron receive the instructions for the Passover event. The Passover marks the beginning of a new era for Israel. While the exodus event through the Sea of Reeds is the tangible component of Israel’s promised liberation, it is the meal that marks the beginning of the new era defined by redemption. [1] It is this Passover event that is, for Israel, the break in time and space between what was and what will be. Their liberation begins in believing God, trusting God’s word—faith manifesting in action; this is why the Passover event of liberation becomes the mark of a new year for Israel and will always be a mark of a new year: each new year will solicit a new faith to enter the dusk setting on yesterday and dawn rising on tomorrow.[2]

The response of Israel built on faith in God’s trustworthiness and truthfulness is to prepare, eat, and perform a meal in a specific way. God informs Moses and Aaron that on the tenth day of the month all of Israel is to take an unblemished, one year-old, male lamb (one per household or one per a couple of small households), and on the fourteenth day they must slaughter their lambs at twilight. The blood from this sacrifice is to be painted onto the doorposts and lintels of the households where the Passover lamb must be eaten. God then gives very specific instructions regarding the eating of the lamb and the Passover meal:

“They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly.” (Ex. 12:8-11)

This isn’t any other meal; it’s a meal that’s refusing enjoyment, merriment, and lingering. Every part of this meal must take place with intention and presence; it’s to be done in haste as if the threat of death looms on the boundary of the meal—because it does loom.[3] “The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt,” (v.13). They will eat this meal, putting all their faith in God and that God is faithful to God’s promises that those who follow what has been told to Aaron and Moses will be exempted from this final curse of the passing over of God and the execution of divine judgment on all the firstborns of the land.[4]

The Israelites must suspend their own judgment. They must step into the void from where God beckons them and faith lures them. They must not pause and consider what is common sense or what aligns with what they know to be good and right. In this moment, human judgment comes under attack by the unstated, whom do you love? The Israelites, individually and as a community had to give their answer. That night, as the angel of death swept over Egypt striking down all the firstborn of the land, divine judgment was executed; that night as families woke up human judgment received its verdict.

Conclusion

Would you? Put yourselves in Israel’s shoes. Would you kill the lamb, paint its blood on your door frames, and eat that meal in haste? Would you risk the life of your child, the life of your sibling, the your own life to appease what made the most sense to you? While we read this as a myth, it’s still a myth with a purpose to expose us. The question comes to us through these Ancient Israelites stuck in captivity and oppression. Would each of us, would we as a community, be able to see the depth at which God is doing a new thing in our lives to liberate us from captivity? Would we be able to trust that God is doing this thing and that God is truthful and trustworthy and will make good on God’s promises? Would we be able to suspend our judgment long enough to let God be God?

I’m neither advocating for “blind” and “uninformed” faith no affirming that voice in your head you think may God’s Spirit telling you to do something a bit uncharacteristic (always have those ideas checked by scripture and teaching!). What I am advocating for is this: are we able to suspend our human informed judgment long enough to see when God is doing something new in the world even when it contradicts our conception of what should be done in the world? Are we able to suspend what we think is right and good long enough to see when God is working a new thing for the wellbeing of our neighbor, which ends up being (ultimately) for our own wellbeing? Are we able to unplug our eyes and ears from what we have grown accustomed to seeing and hearing long enough to see and hear when God is calling us into liberation, into love, and into life and away from captivity, away from indifference, and away from death? Would we be able to learn something new about God’s divine mission in the world so to echo Peter’s eager and desperate response to Jesus, Wash not only my feet but my whole body, inside and out!? Would you be able to suspend your judgment long enough to let God be God?

The bad news is that we, as fleshy meat creatures prone to wander, will deliver our answer; the good news is that God knows this and comes to do something about it.

[1] Jeffrey H. Tigay, “Exodus,” The Jewish Study Bible Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation, eds. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler (Oxford: OUP, 2004), 125. “Preparations for the exodus” “Israel is to prepare for the coming redemption with a sacrificial banquet while the final plague is occurring and is to commemorate the event in the future on its anniversary by eating unleavened bread for a week and reenacting the banquet. This banquet became the prototype of the postbiblical Seder, the festive meal at which the exodus story is retold and expounded each year to this day on the holiday of Pesah (Passover), as explained below.”

[2] Tigay, “Exodus,” 125. “Since the exodus will be commemorated on its anniversary every year…the preparatory instructions begin with the calendar. Henceforth the year will commence with the month of the exodus, and months will be referred to by ordinal numbers rather than names….Since the number will mean essentially ‘in the Xth month since we gained freedom,’ every reference to a month will commemorate the redemption.”

[3] Tigay, “Exodus,” 126. “The Israelites are to eat while prepared to leave on a moment’s notice.”

[4] Tigay, “Exodus,” 126. “In most European languages, it is also the name of Easter (as in French ‘Paques’). The translation ‘passover’ (and hence the English name of the holiday) is probably incorrect. The alternativity translation ‘protective offering’ is more likely…”

It is a positive commandment of the Torah to relate the miracles and wonders wrought for our ancestors in Egypt on the night of the 15th of Nissan, as it is written (Exodus 13:3): "Remember this day when you left Egypt," similar to the obligation (Exodus 20:8): "Remember the Sabbath day."

How do we know this is on the night of the 15th? This is taught by the words (Exodus 13:8): "And you shall tell your child on that day, saying: 'It is because of this..." which indicate it is to be done at the time when matzah and marror are placed before you.

This mitzvah applies even when one does not have a child to tell. Even wise sages who know it well are obligated to tell about the Exodus from Egypt. Whoever elaborates upon the events which transpired is worthy of praise.

(Mishneh Torah, Chametz and Matzah 7:1)
#Maimonides #MishnehTorah #Passover #Pesach #Exodus #Seder #Haggadah

"On #Seder night too, the #Torah gave us a #mitzvah – a beautiful opportunity – “to relate the story of the #Exodus”. This means generations sitting together and exploring the narrative, telling what happened to our ancestors and connecting to the freedom as #Hashem took us out of #Egypt with miracles.

It’s the themes of faith, nationhood, gratitude and mission. And the #rabbis enshrined this in fifteen Seder night steps and the #Haggadah text – albeit currently one that not all of us understand. So how do we navigate that balance?

To ditch the Haggadah altogether is to ignore key text and the rabbis’ Seder night wisdom and guidance. Yet to recite the Haggadah without knowing what it says is to forgo the educational opportunity that is Seder night! Especially since some of the stages in Seder night are aimed at piquing children’s interest – some of the steps or the encouragement of questions."

thejc.com/judaism/how-to-make-

The Jewish Chronicle · How to make your Seder more child-friendlyBy Rabbi Daniel Fine

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#Exodus nach #Europa?

Trumps Angriff auf die #Wissenschaft

Stand: 06.03.2025 17:19 Uhr

Der Kahlschlag, den #Trump und #Musk am US-Staatsapparat vollziehen, könnte kaum größer sein. Besonders folgenschwer ist das im Bereich der Wissenschaft. Forscher befürchten, das könnte Leben kosten.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/trump-exodus-wissenschaftler-monitor-100.html

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Introduzione

Non sono nuovo del #fediverso, ma dal momento che nell'ultimo mese le istanze con cui la mia goto.77nn.it è federata sono letteralmente raddoppiate, mi sembra il caso di reiterare le presentazioni per i nuovi arrivati grazie a iniziative come #eXit o #eXodus o boh, #quitX...

Non sto a fare il solito pippone, che qui siamo tutti santi, eroi e navigatori, anche se un po' più ricchioni e comunisti rispettosi delle diversità, ma sappiate che grossomodo è così - fatevene una ragione.

Io sono un eremita digitale che si è messo in piedi il proprio server sulla pila di ciarpame sulla scrivania. Non ho affiliazioni, scrivo il mio blog, registro il mio podcast. Ma non avendo affiliazioni, non mi legge né mi ascolta (quasi) nessuno. Non ero nessuno su Twitter (non ci sono mai stato, in verità) né su Instagram. Ringrazio sempre il mio unico lettore o ascoltatrice oltre a mia moglie (che mente perché non mi ascolta quando parlo, figuriamoci se lo fa con il Podcast)... Perché lo faccio? Perché magari un domani, da morto, le mie figlie potranno ascoltare le minchiate che dicevo e farsi due risate. O conoscere un po' meglio ciò che non ho potuto dire loro in faccia o non hanno voluto sentirsi dire.

Non offro Verità, ma un quadro storto di come vedo il mio (piccolo in verità) mondo. Ho un articolo contorto sul perché vale la pena, lo trovate qui: https://77nn.it/2023/10/28/effimera-persistenza-identita.html

Grazie e benvenuti!

Introduction

I'm not new to the #fediverse, but since in the last month the instances with which my goto.77nn.it is federated literally doubled, it feels ok to repeat my self-introduction for the newcomers (thanks to initiatives such as #eXit or #eXodus or wtf idk #quitX).

I'm not doing the usual tl;dr that here we're all saints, heroes and navigators, even if a little more gays and communist respectful towards diversity, but do know that this is about the way it is - deal with it.

I'm a digital hermit who put his own server up on the pile of junk that sits on the desktop. I have no affiliations, I write my blog, I record my podcast. But having no affiliations, almost nobody reads or listens to me. I was no one on Twitter (I've never actually been there) nor on Instagram. I always thank my sole reader or listener besides my wife (who lies because she does not listen to me when I speak, let alone if she does it with my Podcast)... Why do I do that? Because maybe tomorrow, when I'm dead, my daughters can listen to the shit I'm saying and laugh. Either they know a little better what I couldn't say straight to their faces or they didn't want to hear.

I do not offer Truth, but a crooked picture of how I see my (small indeed) world. I have a twisted article about why it's worth it, you find it here: https://77nn.it/2023/10/28/effimera-persistenza-identita.html (it's in italian but automatic translation tools work quite acceptably on my italian, if you want to fuck around a little bit).

Thanks and welcome!

#intro

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