WHY SLAVERY? WHY MIRACLES?
On the festival of Pesach (Passover) we celebrate a seminal event in Jewish history – the freeing of the nascent Jewish people from slavery in Egypt over 3,300 years ago.
Rabbi Dunner explores the reasons behind the servitude in Egypt, and explains why it was important for the Jews to be freed from Egypt via the medium of ten miraculous plagues, followed by the splitting of the Red Sea.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) There are some forms of ancient pagan worship described by classical rabbinic sources that are so bizarre you could be forgiven for assuming they... Read More