This week's Torah portion jumps right in to the middle of the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Last week took us from Moses's birth, through his rescue from the river Nile, to the time when as an adult he saw an Egyptian task master beating an Israelite slave and he killed the man, covering the body in the sand. We saw Moses flee to the land of Midian where he became a sheep hearder and encountered God at the burning bush, who told Moses to go down to Pharaoh and demand that he let the Israelites go free.
When Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go, we also saw in last week's Torah portion the first seven out of the ten plagues:
Blood
Frogs
Lice
Flies
Cattle Disease
Boils
Hail
And then this week we find the last 3 plagues:
Locusts
Darkness
the Death of the Firstborn.
While there are many theories about why these specific plagues were chosen, what is certainly true is that they made it extremely hard to live in the land of Egypt. They really disrupted the way of life in Egypt.
The question for discussion this week is, what "plagues" could happen today, in our modern world, that would make it very hard to live, and really disrupt our way of life? What would make it hard to function?
Shabbat Shalom!
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