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The story of the plagues is another display of that Godly creative energy. Our rabbis say that “with ten sayings the world was created.” (Ethics 5:1) And here, with 10 plagues, a section of ...
As the Passover story tells it, after Pharaoh refuses Moses’ entreaties to let the enslaved Israelites go free, God sends a series of ten plagues to pressure the Egyptian ruler. Each time ...
Here, the author has confined himself to answering the question: What is the lesson that readers of the Torah in the twenty-first century can learn from what we know about the Ten Plagues?
I was just about to pass over Passover. My husband Paul and I had been invited to two seders in Los Angeles, but one was a rock and the other was a hard place. At the former, there would be three ...
With this in mind, a new concern is dominating my thinking about how we will celebrate Passover: Namely, how to frame the recounting of the Ten Plagues? A refresher: the 10 plagues, sent by God to ...
The History Channel is revisiting one of its most popular titles, the 2013 limited series The Bible, with a new nonfiction ...
The HISTORY Channel and A+E Factual Studios have lined up The Bible Revealed (w.t.), which will revisit and reinterpret some ...
The 10 plagues were described in the Book of Exodus as disasters sent from God to the Egyptian pharaoh in order to convince him to free the Jewish people: water turning into blood, frogs ...
The ten plagues that were visited upon Pharaoh and all of Egypt, as they unfold in this week’s Torah portion of Va’era, testify to the true meaning of G-d’s name: The One who brings all of ...
She's watched helplessly as the blazes grew more difficult to control year after year and decided it was time to flee the wrath of disasters often referred to as the '10 plagues of California'.