God Is in the Crowd Quotes

“The Exodus had taken three generations. All but two of the roughly six hundred thousand male Israelites who began the journey in Egypt would die in this lonely wilderness over the next forty years. It was their children and grandchildren who ultimately entered the Promised Land. The individual Israelite had no deliverance to celebrate. He died having known only the travails of the journey. The central and defining value that Judaism ascribes to the Exodus cannot be realized by any individual Jew. That value is attained only by the nation.”
― Tal Keinan, God Is in the Crowd: Twenty-First-Century Judaism