Canaan

The strangeness of this event could not have been known in the moment. All of Egypt mourning Jacob, Joseph’s father. They grieved for Joseph loss. But they celebrated the life of Jacob – known also as Israel.

So Egypt celebrates the formation of the nation of Israel.

A true nation embryo. The question of how we overcome hatred and divisiveness without a social contract is made manifest in the forgiveness and reconciliation between brothers. This could be.

A big step in the advance toward the kind of world that we all imagine. Yes, this embryo will form in the womb of one of the most ancient and important social contract communities, but the new life is radically different from the surrogate who bears it.