"Oath of Asaf", 6th-century CE Jewish medical oath
4th of Sh'vat, 5772
ד׳ בְּשְׁבָט תשע״ב
Sat, 28 January 2012
WEEKLY
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PORTION
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FOR CHILDREN
Even if we consider the murdering of every Egyptian first-born male retributive payback for Pharaoh's earlier order to kill our newborn Hebrew males, we still must ask: do two wrongs make a right?
God's hardening of Pharaoh's heart in Exodus 10:1 presents a theological problem on two levels. First, if God is the agent of Pharaoh's behavior, what does that imply about Pharaoh's free will? Second, if God hardens Pharaoh's heart in order to demonstrate God's power, we must ask: At what price the Israelites' liberation? Indeed, the ultimate result of Pharaoh's stubbornness is the murder of every first-born Egyptian male. Even if we consider this to be retributive justice, payback for Pharaoh's earlier order to kill all newborn Hebrew males, we still must ponder: Does one heinous crime justify another? And how do we come to terms
with killing innocent children
with killing innocent children
The first Passover
God told Moses and Aaron to mark that month as the first of the months of the year. (Exodus 12:1–2.) And God told them to instruct the Israelites in the laws of Passover, and the Israelites obeyed. (Exodus 12:3–28, 43–50; 13:6–10.) (See Commandments below.)
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The Angel of Death and the First Passover
(illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What
They Teach Us by Charles Foster)
(illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What
They Teach Us by Charles Foster)
The plague of the firstborn
Lamentations over the Death of the
Firstborn of Egypt

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Connection to the Parshah

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