Pharaoh- the hardened heart – depraved, Hitlerian dictator of his time; softened by some hailstones – to the point of admission – I am evil. But it wasn’t ..
Written by Rabbi Shimshon Silkin
There’s a lot going on in Parashas Va’eira. We learn about the first seven plagues, and next week, the last three. Each plague on its own is another ..
Written by Nisso (blanga) stein
The book of Shemos (Exodus) has, until this point, been a story of the formation of the Jewish people as a people with its own identity, and their mistreatment and enslavement ..
Written by Rabbi Andrew Savage
Parshas Va’eira describes in great detail the first seven of the ten plagues that brought Mitzrayim to its knees. A major feature of the Plagues is the behavior ..
Written by Rabbi Yehonasan Gefen
It is said that Pharoah was not overly impressed with first two plagues because his own sorcerers could reproduce them, it was only when HaShem made the plague of lice ..
Written by moshe kormornick
There’s a comment that Rashi makes in this week’s parsha, that when I first read it, left me speechless. And I’m not often speechless 🙂 In this ..
Written by Tal Segal
Many sources bring down the following lesson (kal vechomer) that we can learn from the frogs : Just as the frogs went willingly into the ovens to fulfil HaShem’s ..
Written by Moshe Kormornick
Parshas Va’era; Perfect Judgment Our sedra contains seven of the ten plagues that were brought upon Egypt; blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils, ..
Written by daniel fine
This week when learning Ba’alhturim i came across a very interesting lesson. Vo’Era (וארא)he says has the Gematria of 208 which is the same as Yitschok ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose