Vaerah

Vaerah: disaster

 

 

How do we understand Pharaoh's response to the plagues?  To him the plagues look like natural disasters.

Consider the word dis-bad, out of order; aster- star.  This was Pharaoh's science - ast(e)rology.  There was a perfectly good astrological explanation for all these things!

 

But the story as we have it, with Gd telling Moshe to bring on these plagues (and even Gd hardening the heart of Pharaoh)places quite the responsibility upon Hakodesh Baruch Hu.

 

In this context what to think of the Haitian earthquake?

 

last year ( a good one) http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AXfHEywWA3ieZDRobXc5N18zMDZnOGp6c24zMw&hl=en