282 - Passover - Death of the Firstborn: Exodus 11-12
The Symbolic World
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The Role of Sacrifice in Society
The secret behind all of these rituals is that you have to give yourself up, says David Walliams. The best of your people will die for your country they will sacrifice themselves even unto death for the purpose of the country to exist itself he argues. That sacrifice will anchor the existence of the of the family and so if one of my child becomes a priest then it will hold my family together right? "There's something wrong with what's going on there's something imperfect about about in some ways about this system,"walliams adds.
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