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Podcast: The Weekly Parsha - With Michoel Brooke
Episode: Parshas Beshalach: Even Ezraâs Brutal Truth: Why Your âSlave Brainâ is Keeping You Broke and Broken
Description: Trapped between the sea and a charging army, most of us freeze. We revisit that iconic crossroads and ask the uncomfortable question Ibn Ezra raises: why didnât 600,000 people fight when they could have? The answer isnât about weapons or odds. Itâs about identity. A slave doesnât just fearâhe forgets he has options. That insight becomes a mirror for the places where we stall today, certain the tide will never turn, waiting for a miracle to carry us where courage should.From there, we shift the battlefield inward. The âinner Pharaohâ isnât a mythic villain...