RE: [ha-Safran]: Ten plagues

2005-01-12 Thread Donald Weinshank
Chaverim: I have seen several such attempts to "rationalize" the miracles. This attempt worries me a great deal, theologically speaking. Even if one could find some "natural" explanations of these stories, such explanations would not account for the fact they occur in rapid sequence and upon the r

RE: [ha-Safran]: Ten plagues

2005-01-11 Thread Samlan, Arnie
While I don't know of a specific website, one of the best written sources on this is Sarna's Exploring Exodus (parts of which also appear in the JPS Torah Commentary) I have not been able to find more than a few excerpts of his materials online. Rabbi Arnold D. Samlan Director of Nassau/Queens Se