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Each plague lasted about a week. With three weeks in between. Perhaps I said or meant to say they lasted a year altogether.
How Long did each Plague last?
Dear Rabbi,
Last weejk, you stated that each plague lasted one year....
So, if Moshe was 80 when he came to lead the people out of Egypt; and they were in the
desert for 40 yrs..That w/have made him 130 yrs at the time of his death. Don't we learn that he lived until 120...??
Chodesh Tov,
Etta Blema
The 10th Plague Someone once told me that the 10th plague was pharaoh's own spoken words aimed at the Jews turned by Ha.Shem against the first born of Egypt. Since you did not mention this in your class, I was wondering if you could elaborate on that which I heard? Thank You!
our own blessings
Baruch Hashem va Shalom Rabbi Gordon...
When you said we could make our own blessing, did you mean from the words of the Tanach or Halachicly from our own words?
Did Pharoah ever rescind the order to kill the Jewish babies? Was it still in effect even 80 years after Moses' birth, when he spoke about the last plague?
Yes. The order was canceled as soon as Moses was placed in the Nile in a basket. Pharaoh’s astrologers saw that the savior of the Jewish people would be stricken by water. Therefore, they arose and decreed: “Every son that is born you shall cast into the river” (Exodus 1:22); they thought that their vision indicated that Moses would be killed in the water. Once Jochebed cast Moses into the water, although he was protected in an ark, the astrologers said: We no longer see in the stars anything like that sign we saw as to the downfall of the leader of the Jews by water, and therefore at that moment they canceled their decree. But they did not know that what they saw foretold that Moses would be stricken on account of the waters of Meribah.
(Sotah 12b)