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Haman told the king's advisors the God who split the sea was senile now. His evidence was the ruins of the Temple and the silence of heaven.
The edict Haman drafted for Ahasuerus assembled every accusation used against Jews for the next two thousand years into a single document.
As a she-wolf nursed the twins who would wall Rome, Pharaoh tightened the yoke on Israel, and two cities climbed on one dark clock.
The tribe of Dan abandons its contested land, talks itself out of invading Egypt, and marches south into Ethiopia to build a kingdom at the edge of the world.
Egypt's wise men misread seven cows as daughters, Pharaoh's firstborn dies the day Joseph is freed, and grain rots in every storehouse except one.
Vayikra Rabbah reads Egyptian slavery as a time when Israelite women, men, and elders guarded their bodies and held the world from collapse.
The Tikkunei Zohar reads Moses through his very name, finds the redeemer's first power in a baby's tears, and traces bread and letters back to the stars.
