Why does Moses step aside for Aaron during the first plagues? The answer reveals a profound Torah teaching about humility and gratitude.

As noted before, Pharaoh’s continued hardness of heart inaugurates a cycle of events often called “the ten plagues on Egypt.” Exodus does use the word “plague” but it also calls them “signs and ...

Consider a proportionate divine response to extraordinary cruelty: A gradual, ratcheting pressure on a tyrant who refused every opportunity to stop the suffering (Vaera) ...

The book Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World provides a history of the interpretations of each of the 10 plagues in the Book of Exodus. By the ...

The midrash portrays this as a flaw. Redemption, it claims, comes because of the merit of the patriarchs—not because of Moses ...