The Ten Plagues were designed by God to flip all the laws of nature on end to demonstrate ― not just for the Jewish people but for all of humanity, for all of history ― that He alone controls all of nature, all of the physical world, and that there is nothing outside of His control. In Egypt they worshipped the Nile god, the sun god, the cat god, the sheep god, etc. The whole essence of idolatry is the belief that every force in nature has a god that controls it. We have hail ― which should be frozen ― that is on fire we have darkness so dense that no one can see or move things that happened to Egyptians not happening to Jews. The Ten Plagues are a clear example of God flipping the laws of nature on its end. Therefore, most miracles are natural phenomena with awesomely good timing.īut to this rule, the Ten Plagues are a notable exception. God is certainly capable of doing whatever He likes, but He doesn’t play around with the physical world and its workings. Judaism holds that nature does not act independently of God, but, at the same time, God created the laws of nature and does not like to interfere with them. We have become so used to it in out day to day lives that we simply don’t notice it. The first point to focus on is that all existence ― all the processes of the physical universe ― is a miracle. To explain why the Ten Plagues had to be, we need to first explain the Jewish view of miracles in general.
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The obvious question we must ask when we examine The Plagues is why? Why did God choose to set the Jewish people free through this very long, drawn-out process ― an entire year? If He wanted, God, an all-powerful being that He is, could have made all the Egyptians drop dead on the first encounter with Moses, or He could have frozen them in place, then all the Jews could have packed up and left in five minutes.
After the destruction of the First Temple they’re going to cease, although arguably the Jews couldn’t have survived this long without continual hidden miracles. Open miracles are a very important part of early Jewish history. The laws of nature are turned upside down to help the Jews. Each plague is an open miracle, because each one represents a fantastic manipulation of nature.
― the devastation continues for over a year (Talmud – Ediyos 2:10). Once the plagues hit Egypt ― blood, lice, frogs, etc. With the Ten Plagues, the laws of nature are turned upside down to free the Jews.
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