Spring feels along way away. Torah tells its story of the winter of the human soul as the weather forecasters do blizzard projections, as our institutions for silent running, as our institutional selves are getting dressed in winter clothes. It will be a long time before we teach Passover. In the meantime, a lot of kids will miss school for many skiing trips. That, too, is Egypt.
Exodus is the time of the night light.
It is the time of repressing our night terror because a still, small light continues to burn, pushing back the darkness, reminding us that our parents are still close, that we, took, have within an eternal light. .