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The body, the power and the Torah.

The Jewish people has experienced exile and pain among historic contexts where some bodies had more value than others.
It has also known alienation facing the imposed logic of powers infiltrating the life of the body.
In the Torah, Moses revolted against a Pharaoh who had become paranoid about the overpopulation of foreign bodies, and who allayed his fears by persecuting the most vulnerable among them.
It is possible nowadays to observe the far-right repeating the same argument as the Pharaoh in the times of Moses. « Here is a people who are multiplying uncontrollably within our borders, let us put them in a position of oppression, lest they join our enemies ».
Then actions are taken directly on the bodies: Pharaoh takes a genetic decision, decreeing that all baby boys belonging to the unwanted ethnicity be drowned.
The Torah told the story about this violent relationship of power toward the body, and the Jewish people witnessed it across time and places. Jews have heard all possible pretexts for this domination scheme.
Some justifications were religious, others ideological, and others took on a scientific cover.
Nowadays many who claim to want health for everyone, are not ready to share essential medical patterns with poor countries. The justification has become politico-economic. But that doesn’t change anything in the final. The sufferers, the poor and underprivileged classes are perceived as embarrassing and inconvenient bodies.
We are in fact in the relation to the body of which Torah speaks.
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