Here, the author has confined himself to answering the question: What is the lesson that readers of the Torah in the twenty-first century can learn from what we know about the Ten Plagues?

The Ten Plagues are the disasters God sent the Egyptians when Pharaoh refused to let the Hebrews go free. The plagues, which are recorded in the book of Exodus, are a demonstration of God’s ...

The answer is that the Ten Plagues, far from constituting an episode of wanton violence, were an exercise in prudence, restraint and morality in the waging of a just war. And this was indeed a ...

The story of the plagues is another display of that Godly creative energy. Our rabbis say that “with ten sayings the world wascreated” (Ethics 5:1). And here, with ten plagues, a section of ...

At best, it is an act of war. The Torah vividly and dramatically and horrifically tells us what will happen when God institutes this tenth plague of the murdering of the first-born. In Exodus 11:6 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the better things I read during this corona period was a statement that said, “Jewish Irony: Pesach canceled because of a plague.” Indeed we are plagued and in a way that as a people ...