Sometimes Jewish texts might sound obsolete--like how they go on and on about “redeeming captives”--until they’re contextualized.

The cash bail system is, functionally, about the state holding innocent people hostage.

And GOP lawmakers are doubling down on it now--introducing more and more bills to trap more people and make prison reform is even more difficult.

On our obligation to the “great mitzvah”--then, and now:

https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/as-if-spilling-blood