"And today we are free!"

Dov Fischer writes in part in the American Spectator,

...Those were their explicit instructions: stay inside and do not venture out tonight, and G-d will pass over your homes as He visits punishment on Egypt and on its gods (Exodus 12:12-14). And so it will be this year. Outside, the lurking dangers. Inside, the sense of solitude and mortality mediated by the comfort of knowing that we were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, were slaves to Rome, later were slaves to Hitler, to Stalin, to Hafez al-Assad in Syria and to Saddam Hussein in Iraq. And today we are free.

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