Va'era

The Birth of History

What Was Is Not What Will Be

The Search for a True Jew

You Will See

Spirits in a Material World

Interactions between Yehuda and Yosef over the Generations - Part II

What Comes Before the Land?

A basic precondition for understanding both the situation in which the Israelites found themselves on the eve of the Exodus, and our situation today, is to remember the following words of the Sages: "Like the first redeemer (Moshe), so will be the last redeemer (Mashiach)" (Midrash Kohelet Rabba 1,28). That is, there are basic similarities between our situation in Egypt and ours today, during the final Geula.

Public Pressure

It is difficult to understand the attitude in Moshe's statement to Heaven that it had not yet freed the Jewish people from Egyptian bondage. Moshe certainly realized that Heaven was aware of the promises.