The Exodus You Almost Passed Over Dr. Bryna Jocheved Levy the last gate

the last gate

Tracing the development of responses on a given topic – from Talmudic to Geonic to medieval to modern – each chapter reproduces all relevant halakhic sources in both Hebrew and English

עם נבחר

its words packed with meaning

based upon the mitzvot of remembering and defeating Amalek

The Exodus You Almost Passed Over Dr. Bryna Jocheved Levy the last gateIs there an Exodus story that we almost passed over? Every year we read the story of the Israelites Exodus from Egypt. It seems like something we already know. But do we? Questions haunt the careful reader. Among them: Doesnt the name Passover seem a bit strange? Why not just call it Freedom Day, or Independence Day? And did the Exodus have to be so complicated? Couldnt an all powerful deity have teleported the Israelites out of Egypt and spared