“And Moses took Joseph’s bones with him, for Joseph had solemnly sworn to the people of Israel, saying, ‘God will visit you, then you must carry my bones with you from here'” (Exodus 13:19).

This verse comes from Exodus, the second book of the Bible. Tradition says that Exodus was partly written by Moses, says the website Bible Study Tools, and the book tells the story of The flight of the Israelites from Egypt to the promised land.

“Jews had been brutally enslaved in Egypt for 210 years when a young Moses, raised in Pharaoh’s palace, confronted the leader and famously urged him to ‘let my people go,'” Shalom Lamm told Fox News Digital.

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Lamm, based in Israel, is the co-founder and chief historian of Operation Benjamin, an organization that seeks to identify Jewish American soldiers buried in overseas military cemeteries under headstones with Latin crosses. The organization is working with the federal government to replace those headstones with a Star of David, he told Fox News Digital.

“With captivating dialogue, the Bible walks us through the interplay between Moses and Pharaoh,” he noted.

But when negotiations between Moses and Pharaoh break down, “God acts through Moses to release the increasingly unfortunate 10 plagues over all of Egypt.”

As the Israelites are about to leave Egypt, with a “surprisingly small leadership staff of three — Moses, Aaron and sister, Miriam,” “Moses does the unthinkable,” Lamm said.

As the verse says, Moses stopped everything to collect Joseph’s bones.

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“Joseph died hundreds of years earlier,” he said. “Was it really important at this critical time in history for Moses himself to stop the action and retrieve the remains of a long-dead hero?”

Yes, said Lamb.

“That is precisely the point of the biblical story.”

“Handling the dead is Jewishly known as a hesed shel-emet,” said Lamb.

In Hebrew, “Hesed” means “an act of loving kindness” and “shel emet” means “of truth,” he said.

A hesed shel emet is “an act of kindness that is pure because there is no expectation of reciprocity,” he said.

And while this story is thousands of years old, the lessons are still extremely relevant in the modern era, Lamm said — especially this week.

Tuesday, Lamm noted, is it Jewish holiday of “Tisha B’Av,” which he described as “the saddest day of the year.”

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“Many national disasters throughout history occurred on that particular day,” he said. “The destruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem by the Babylonians (present-day Iraq), the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans, the expulsion of all Jews from England in 1290 and the expulsion of the Jews of Spain marking the sudden end of Spain’s Golden Age in 1492 all occurred on that day”, apart from “many other horrible things”.

As a way to mark the day, it is customary to fast and completely abstain from food and water from Monday evening to Tuesday evening, Lamm said.

“There is an old one Jewish tradition that even though the kinetic destruction (on Tisha B’Av) was at the hands of others, the seeds of these calamities are within us,” he said.

“We look inward and declare that sinat chinam, our unwarranted hatred within the community, was the root cause of our downfall,” he said.

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The solution to this, Lamm said, is to “focus on practicing ahavat chinam,” or essentially random acts of kindness toward others.

“Polls have consistently shown that in the United States we feel a sense of unease, we are a nation that feels a sense of misdirection,” he said.

“America has had a spectacular run as the greatest force for good in world history, and yet, as a nation, we don’t feel that glory, and our destiny suddenly feels hazy.”

“America has had a spectacular run as greatest force for good in the history of the world, and yet, as a nation, we do not know that glory, and our destiny suddenly feels hazy.”

In the current political climate in the United States, “promises are being made, deals are being cut and recommendations are flying around, many of which will be repealed shortly after the ballots are counted,” he said.

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And while these promises from politicians and political parties are sincere, they carry weight, Lamm said — namely, that a candidate expects something in return.

However, those strings are not possible when performing an act of kindness for someone who has died, because “they are unable to return a favor,” Lamm said. “That time has passed.”

“In this moment of wild promises and national contracting, perhaps right now, it behooves each of us citizens to have our own”Moses’ moment‘ and practice daily random acts of kindness, if only to push back against the season of bold-faced lies,” he said.

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And while these acts of kindness may not be as dramatic as transporting the bones of a long-dead patriarch, they still work to make the world a better place, Lamm said.

“It’s a great thing to discuss with family members and compare notes about what daily acts of kindness we can perform to lower the purple rhetoric and make ours a kinder, more generous society,” he said.