When the Passover holiday begins — on the evening of April 15 in 2022 — Jewish people around the world will celebrate by retelling the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt — including the ...

The ten plagues that were visited upon Pharaoh and all of Egypt, as they unfold in this week’s Torah portion of Va’era, testify to the true meaning of G-d’s name: The One who brings all of ...

The Hebrew Bible does not number the plagues of Egypt, but the number ten has been canonized in Jewish and Christian tradition, and a list of the ten plagues appears in the Jewish Passover ...

The sixth of the ten plagues was an uncomfortable skin condition described as "an inflammation breaking out in boils on human and beast throughout the land of Egypt." Some researchers claim that ...

The Ten Plagues are reinterpreted through a contemporary lens, merging Biblical themes, personal experience, and symbolic ...

Locusts plagued ancient Egyptians and are mentioned in the Bible, and the insects are still wreaking havoc in modern times ...

boils, raining hail and fire, locusts, three days of darkness, and, finally, the death of the firstborn son. Traditionally, when retelling the 10 plagues, a person attending a Seder would remove a ...