Did God rob Pharaoh of his free will in the Exodus story? Or, counterintuitively, did God simply strengthen it?
Parsha Bo is often remembered for its drama including the final plagues, the rising tension, the night that reshaped Jewish history. Yet beneath the spectacle, the Torah is asking a quieter, deeply ...
Explore this week’s Torah portion, Bo, and learn about Pharaoh's struggle with Moses and the demands for worship.
Unlike so many superheroes, Moses’ success doesn’t rely on strength alone, but on his willingness to visibly lean on others.
That phrase isn’t about trembling at divine thunder. As Martin Buber brilliantly puts it, “fear of God” means deep, unshakable respect for human life — the very respect glaringly absent in Amalek, the ...
That insight emerges most clearly in the Exodus narrative. Pharaoh is not portrayed as chaotic or irrational. He believes he ...
The destinies of today’s pharaohs are already written in the destinies of the pharaohs of the past.
The Israelite women who contributed to the tabernacle recognized the deeper gift God had given in the lengthy, exacting instructions for its construction, writes the executive director of Hillel ...
What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...
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