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<li>See R. Yaakov Medan's article, <a href="https://www.etzion.org.il/he/tanakh/torah/sefer-shemot/parashat-vaera/%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%90-%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%94-%D7%A2%D7%93-%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D">קורות משה עד יציאת מצרים</a>, and more recently,  ולא  שמעו אל משה", בתוך: כי קרוב אליך (תל אביב, 2014): 86-90", who suggests that thirty years had elapsed between the encounter at the burning bush and the mission of Chapter 6.  Though the second mission is not fundamentally different than the first, it is addressed to a new generation.</li> | <li>See R. Yaakov Medan's article, <a href="https://www.etzion.org.il/he/tanakh/torah/sefer-shemot/parashat-vaera/%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%90-%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%94-%D7%A2%D7%93-%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D">קורות משה עד יציאת מצרים</a>, and more recently,  ולא  שמעו אל משה", בתוך: כי קרוב אליך (תל אביב, 2014): 86-90", who suggests that thirty years had elapsed between the encounter at the burning bush and the mission of Chapter 6.  Though the second mission is not fundamentally different than the first, it is addressed to a new generation.</li> | ||
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| + | There are several inverse parallels between the plagues and the description of the world's creation. The Biblical narrative might be hinting that the plagues were meant to represent a destructive reversal of the act of creation in order to highlight that the God of creation is the God of the exodus: | ||
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| + | <li>In its list of significant events associated with the number ten. Mishnah Avot 5:1 states that Hashem created the world with ten utterances, while Mishnah Avot 5:4 speaks of the ten plagues. Drawing off these sources, later commentators suggest that the two sets of ten correspond to one another.</li> | ||
| + | <li>See Maharal Gevurot Hashem 57, Tzeror HaMor and R"E Ashkenazi, who maintain that each plague corresponds to one of the ten utterances through which the world was created and was aimed at destroying one of the foundational elements.</li> | ||
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Version as of 23:28, 6 August 2023
Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 7-11
Hardened Hearts
Paroh is the first of three people or groups of people of whom Hashem says He will harden their hearts. The other two are Sichon (Devarim 2:30) and the Canaanites (Yehoshua 11:20).
Tools
- See Makbilot Bamikra for a list and links to of all the verses which speak of Hashem hardening someone's heart.
Articles
- See Hardened Hearts for analysis of different approaches to the hardening of human beings’ hearts in Tanakh.
- See And I Will Harden The Heart of Pharaoh, by R. Yaakov Medan, for a unified interpretation of the hardening of the hearts of Pharaoh, Sichon, and Canaan. He suggests that in all three cases the characters never fully lost their free will.
Moshe's Missions
The prophetic mission Hashem gives to Moshe in Parashat Vaera is somewhat parallel to that given in Parashat Shemot. The doubling makes one question both why it was necessary for Hashem to repeat the mission and where, if at all, the second mission differs from the first.
Tools
- See Makbilot BaMikra for links to the various verses which speak of Moshe's mission.
- To compare the two sets of chapters, see the Tanakh Lab.
Articles
- See R. Ezra Bick’s article, איך מושיעים את ישראל, for comparison and contrast of the mission as presented in Shemot 6 and in Shemot 3-4. R. Bick notes that the second mission contains a new emphasis on Moshe’s message to the nation of Israel, and on the manner in which Hashem intends to change the nation’s slave mentality.
- See R. Yaakov Medan's article, קורות משה עד יציאת מצרים, and more recently, ולא שמעו אל משה", בתוך: כי קרוב אליך (תל אביב, 2014): 86-90", who suggests that thirty years had elapsed between the encounter at the burning bush and the mission of Chapter 6. Though the second mission is not fundamentally different than the first, it is addressed to a new generation.
Plagues as Reversal of Creation There are several inverse parallels between the plagues and the description of the world's creation. The Biblical narrative might be hinting that the plagues were meant to represent a destructive reversal of the act of creation in order to highlight that the God of creation is the God of the exodus:
Tools
- In its list of significant events associated with the number ten. Mishnah Avot 5:1 states that Hashem created the world with ten utterances, while Mishnah Avot 5:4 speaks of the ten plagues. Drawing off these sources, later commentators suggest that the two sets of ten correspond to one another.
- See Maharal Gevurot Hashem 57, Tzeror HaMor and R"E Ashkenazi, who maintain that each plague corresponds to one of the ten utterances through which the world was created and was aimed at destroying one of the foundational elements.
