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| It's Only Natural
A myth debunked
By Yanki Tauber
Are thing supposed to be the way things are, or are things supposed to be the way things are supposed to be? | |
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| A Mixture of Wild Beasts
By Yitschak Meir Kagan
During the first three plagues the Jews were also affected. During the fourth the Jews were not affected. What was the difference? | |
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| Pharaoh and the Frog
By Lazer Gurkow
If not for the frog, says the Midrash, how would the Almighty take retribution against Pharaoh? Why does the Midrash single out the frog when there were nine additional plagues? | |
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| Frogmen
By Dovi Scheiner
All of creation may be divided into three categories: the good, the bad and the frogs | |
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| Suspended Hailstones
By Yanki Tauber
You're walking down the street when, suddenly, a hard object with sharp edges hits you smack in the middle of the forehead... | |
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| Rain, a River, Fire and Ice
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
On the difference between Egypt and the Holy Land, and the inner significance of the Plague of Hail | |
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| Ten Ways to Destroy Your Life
By Yosef Y. Jacobson
Destructive Confidence, Cold Intimacy, Unhealthy Submission, Wild Ambition, Sly Compassion, Brutal Rejection, Frozen Love, Perverted Intelligence, a Locked Mind, and the Death of Identity... | |
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| The Kabbalah of Darkness
By Lazer Gurkow
When confronted with darkness, what do you do? fight it? peer more deeply into it? A dual lesson from the Plague of Darkness that afflicted the Egyptians | |
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| Did Darkness Prevail?
By Tali Loewenthal
The Jewish people had light wherever they lived. Does it mean that the darkness did not affect the specific area where they dwelt? Or does it mean, more mysteriously that even in the Egyptian areas, there was light in the darkness? | |
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| A Ray of Light
By Yossy Goldman
Do you believe in G-d? That's not enough. Are you just a defender of the faith, or also a defender of the flock? | |
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| Does G-d really need to Punish the Wicked? Isn't there a Better Way?
By Tzvi Freeman
Obviously, the Egyptians did some really bad things, and something had to be done to free the Children of Israel. But couldn't G-d have found a more humane way to deal with the situation? | |
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| Perception and Power
By Tali Loewenthal
What was the purpose of the plagues? | |
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| Why Didn't Pharaoh Release the Israelites?
By Naftali Silberberg
How was Pharaoh punished for refusing to free the Israelites if G-d hardened his heart, making him immune to the plagues? | |
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| Whacking the River
By Yanki Tauber
Our source of sustenance is neither regular nor predictable. It does not well up from a channel grooved in the earth, nor is it treaded up from a hole in the ground. Our eyes are forever trained upward, in hope and expectation, and in faith... | |
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| Is G-d Vengeful?
By Nechemia Schusterman
So this is the famous Torah portion where we read about the beginning of the end of the Egyptians. Why all the violence? | |
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| Pharaoh's Contrition
By Zalman Posner
What lesson can we take from Pharaoh's promises to redeem the Jews and his subsequent reversals? | |
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