The Exodus You Almost Passed Over Unknown - 2016

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Aleph Beta Press. New.. New Aleph Beta Press, 2016 New Is 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: Doesn't 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? Couldn't an All-Powerful deity have teleported the Israelites out of Egypt and spared everyone the arduous process of the Ten Plagues? Then there's the uncomfortable parts of the Exodus: Why, exactly, did God have to harden Pharaoh's heart? Was that really fair? In this book, Rabbi Fohrman invites us to look at the Exodus story with fresh eyes-to join him, as it were, on a guided adventure, a close reading of the ancient Biblical text In so doing,