These entities of water would now come to taunt them in kind, crippling them from any of the life supporting benefits of water, chief among them the drinking and nourishing of their bodies from these vital waters.
The Midrash reveals that the transforming of all bodies of water into blood was meant to reprove them for having prevented the Jewish wives from immersing in water to purify themselves from the defilement of Niddah, that cruelly disabled them from returning to family life with their spouses. These plagues will not only exhibit G-d’s domination of all forces in the world but will punish the Egyptians in the manner of ‘measure for measure’, being precisely sent to exact from them retribution for their specific abuses they foisted upon the Jewish people.
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A perfect world that began its descent as a result of the first sin committed by Adam and Chava, followed in suit by the faulty generations of the flood, deluge and denizens of Sodom and Amorah, would now revive through the Children of Israel, the beloved descendants of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, who would bear the original mission of Man by leaving Egypt and journey to Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, and the full Torah embodied within it, that would express G-d’s original intent in creation.Įach of the plagues is an assault against those who have corrupted this truth in attempting to exert power and control alleging total independence from a Higher Power, claiming their exclusive control of their own destiny. Theses ten plagues correspond to the ten utterances the world was created with, since its intent is to restore this absolute truth.
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The Almighty unleashes a series of ten plagues that will reveal to a world that has descended to darkness, the truth of His mastery of the universe. (KSA 139:1)ģ) The Menorah was made of gold and had seven branches. This charity, should be given particularly to poor Torah scholars. One should increase charity in these Hanukah days, for this can help mend any defects in our souls. One should tell one's children the story of the miracles that were done for our fore-fathers in those days, (see Josephus) However, these meals are not considered as part of the commandment unless one says at the meal songs of praise. Another reason is because the work of (building) the Sanctuary (in the desert) was completed in these days. Also some say that it is a commandment to increase slightly the festive meals on Hanukah. and also because of those days they (re)-dedicated the house (Temple) which their foes had defiled. These days are called ''Hanukah'' that is to say ''they rested'' (chanu) on the ''25'' ('th of the month) because on the 25th they rested from their enemies. One lights on them lamps at evening at the entrance to the houses, every evening of the eight nights to show off and demonstrate the miracle.
For these reasons, decreed the Sages of that generation that these eight days that begin on the 25th Kislev, will be days of joy and praise. But they lit from it the lamps of the Menorah 3 for eight days, until they could crush olives and produce a (new quantity) of pure oil. When the Jews overcame their enemies and destroyed them, it was the 25th of Kislev 2 when they entered the Sanctuary (inner room) and did not find pure (olive) oil in the Temple, except one jar sealed with seal of the High Priest, and it did not contain enough to light except for one day only.
They appointed a king from the Priests, and the kingdom of Israel was restored for more than 200 years until the destruction of (the) second (Temple). Then overcame, the sons of the Hasmonean High Priest, (the Greeks) and killed them and saved the Jews from their hands. The Jews were in great distress because of them and were much oppressed, until the G-d of their fathers had mercy on them, delivering them from their hands and saving them. They entered the Temple, destroyed and made the pure unclean. They put their hands on their property and their daughters. Mental health (psychotherapists / counselors)ĭuring the Second Temple, the Greek empire reigned (over Israel), 1 and they (the Greeks) passed decrees against the Jews and (tried) to erase their religion, and did not allow them to carry out Torah (study) or the commandments.
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