(Exodus 1:1) Explains Rabbi Menachem Nahum in his Meor Einayim, “it is well known…that the holy creatures dashed to and fro” (Ezekiel 1:14) [this prophecy means] everyone needs to descend ...

not least when they manifest the kind of overwhelming imbalances of power or ethnic discrimination that we see in Exodus 1. Just as the Lord criticized and confronted exploitative labor back then ...