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Moses’s life was defined by miracles ... To punish Pharaoh, God sent a series of plagues to bend Pharaoh’s will. The River Nile turned to blood. Thousands of frogs covered the land, soon ...
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In the Passover haggadah, we read of the 10 Plagues that God sent to convince Pharoah to let the Hebrew slaves go free. The plagues — bloody, violent, magical — are a dramatic highpoint of the ...
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 ...
Moses and Aaron were approaching him ... Torah in the twenty-first century can learn from what we know about the Ten Plagues? First, we shall consider the various systems for classifying the ...
Nefretiri’s jealousy over Moses and his love for the Hebrew woman ... a more dramatic build-up to his later decisions. The ten plagues in The Ten Commandments are more spectacular and ...
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 ...