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Pharaoh mocks the messenger God sent him. Shemot Rabbah says that insult forced God to enter Egypt personally rather than let His emissary be disgraced.
Blood on a lintel, a convert at the gate, two letters of Torah grammar, Aaron in the Holy of Holies. Four thresholds. One question: who gets across.
A prophet was swept into heaven by a whirlwind, transformed into an angel with giant wings, and has been arriving in disguise at every seder table since.
Jealous of every nation's quiet, Israel flung its anger at heaven, then remembered the night a slaughtered lamb in Egypt saved a terrified people.
Mordechai told Esther her fast fell on Passover. She told him to fast anyway. If Israel was destroyed, what use was the festival?
Mordecai waited outside Esther's palace not as a distant guardian but as husband and Torah teacher, until danger forced her toward the king.
The night the Jewish people were supposed to celebrate liberation, they wept instead. And they blamed Mordecai for everything that was coming.
A poor man obeyed his dying father and bought a sealed casket, then fed a frog that grew into a teacher of Torah and all seventy human tongues.
