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We all know the story of the Exodus, but some of the details… well, they're chilling. According to Legends of the Jews, which draws from various Midrashic sources, the suffering in...
A heavy scene. That's where we find ourselves with a certain king in the Legends of the Jews (Ginzberg). He's surrounded by Queen Alfar'anit and his nobles, all weeping, as he prep...
They were enslaved, toiling under Pharaoh’s harsh rule. They’d hoped things would get better when he died, maybe his son would be more merciful. But nope. The new Pharaoh? Even wor...
Like the universe is asking you to do something impossibly huge, and all you can think is, "Who, me?" That's precisely where Moses found himself. Imagine the scene: Moses, tending ...
Moses certainly did. Imagine being chosen to lead an entire nation out of slavery! No wonder he had a few… questions. Moses, as we know from the Book of Exodus, wasn't exactly thri...
He's been arguing with God, questioning his own abilities, and generally dragging his feet about returning to Egypt. But finally, finally, he relents. "Okay," he says, in essence, ...
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...
That’s what the fourth plague was like for the ancient Egyptians. Pharaoh, stubborn as ever, had ignored the previous warnings. He wouldn't release the Israelites, wouldn't listen ...
We read about the plagues, the drama, the escape... but what about the quieter moments? What about the conversations that might have happened just before the dawn broke and freedom...
