Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Deeper Insights Into the Pesach Haggadah - Part 5

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we're on page 39 there's an enormous amount of commentary on the 10 plagues I'm going to skip it because it's available to everyone I'm just going to mention an idea which is not widely known the plagues can be divided into two groups 1 79 and 10 blood hail darkness and plague of the firstborn is one category and the rest is category two and the difference between them is this the first ones blood hail Darkness plague the first born are utterly anti-natural nothing res resembling them occurs in the natural world at all Rivers do not turn to blood and hailstones with Sparks of fire enclosed in each one does not do not fall from Heaven and continuous darkness which is so palpable that you can't move from where you are sitting also does not Cur in the natural world and there is no disease known to Medical Science that strikes only firstborn people so these are utterly anti-natural events all the rest are natural processes managed in a miraculous fashion don't get stuck in the first two words and forget the last I say they're natural processes that doesn't mean they're not Miracles they definitely are Miracles but the miracle is that a natural process behaves in an unnatural way so uh the frogs come when Moses says so their infestation is is greater more intense than uh at any other time in history and it disappears exactly when Moses says should disappear that's not natural but the frogs come from the Nile which it's where frogs read all the time so it's a natural process managed in a supernatural fashion that's true for all

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1. 0:20we're on page 39 there's an enormous amount of commentary on the 10 plagues I'm going…
2. 5:29all Supernatural they're all Supernatural but this is anti-natural so couldn't it be a natural phenomenon…
3. 11:06process would be celebrated even though only one was was clearly Supernatural by the way the…
4. 16:20three things eat the Pascal sacrifice eat matah and eat bitter herbs those are the four…
5. 21:58struggled with this for many years two years ago one of my sons-in-law said you know…
6. 27:04the second refers to us singular and plural and this refers to the fact that every…
7. 32:59page 49 we are talking about what we will do in the future when the temple…
8. 38:09connected to that incl including we have fast days and when a person gets married a…
9. 43:50liberal past um as Churchill said if you're not a liberal at 20 you have no…
10. 49:00David got a question um you said that M was when hat Jews enter the world…

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