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…t ,.- spirituality BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION Parshat Shemot: Exodus 1:1-6:1; Isaiah 27:6-28:13; 29:22-29:23. T his year, I read the first por- tion of the book of Exodus differently. After the death of Nelson Mandela, I saw the story through different eyes. Similarities between Moses and Mandela, both liberators of an oppressed people, I am sure have been drawn countless times in the past. But now, Mandela has been gathered unto his a...…