The First Rebbe of Ger known as the Chiddushei Harim zt’l zy’a taught that through the Ten Plagues G-D brought upon Egypt reveal the Ten D-vine utterances through the world came in to existence. Each plague opened up another utterance of Creation. As each plague the D-vine origins of creation one of the ten forms of prayer. (see Lekutei Yehudah II:45).

The Rabbi’s observation is profound as Shemoth 20:2 bases faith in G-D on Israel’s Exodus experience. Further the Gerrer Rebbe’s…

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Rabbi Ibn Abuchav ZT’L ZY’A in Menorat Hameor continues his study of Passover by describing the nature of the servitude. Pharaoh before acting needed political cover asserting that “ . . . Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we;”(Shemoth 1:9) Therefore, under the guise of a threat of Egypt becoming overrun by these foreigners Pharaoh called his advisors and said “Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it may come to pass, that, when…

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Rabbi Yossi HaGalili, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Akiva all interpret the same sentence from the Psalms and yet arrive at very different conclusions. The plagues visited upon Egypt were acknowledged as the finger of G-D (see Shemot 8:15). However, at the sea what Bene Yisrael saw is described as G-D’s hand (see Shemot 14:31). Therefore all three Rabbis agree whatever happened to the Egyptians through the Ten Plagues was amplified five times at the Yam Suf.



However why would the Egyptians… Continue