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It's easy to think of them as just escalating horrors, but sometimes the sequence itself holds a clue. Let's look at the plague of the frogs, the second of the ten, and see what we...
The frogs were gone. Vanished! You'd think he'd be thanking his lucky stars. You'd think he’d be packing up the Israelites and sending them on their way with a "Godspeed!" But nope...
We know the big picture: Pharaoh’s stubbornness, the Israelites’ suffering, and God’s mighty hand. But what about the little things? Like, what happened to all those dead animals a...
Because true magic, the kind wielded by prophets and emanating from the Divine, is something else entirely. Consider the story of the Egyptian magicians and their fateful encounter...
Think of that friend who finally starts exercising after a doctor's warning, or the colleague who suddenly becomes a team player when their job is on the line. Well, Pharaoh, in th...
Pharaoh, after enduring plague after plague, is finally starting to buckle. He's ready to let the people go – men, women, children, the whole shebang! But, of course, there’s a cat...
But according to tradition, getting the coffin out of Egypt in the first place was a whole adventure in itself. See, according to Legends of the Jews, retold by Louis Ginzberg, Egy...
The answer, of course, is manna. But the legends surrounding this heavenly food are even more astonishing than you might imagine. : feeding 600,000 people, plus their families, eve...
It’s more than just a day off. It’s a connection to something ancient, something profound. It’s a chance to step back and remember. But it wasn't always easy. Imagine this: The Isr...
