In our Torah for this week (i.e.,parashat Va’era), the LORD told Moses that He was about to fulfill His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by giving the Israelites the land of Canaan, and that he had heard the “groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians held as slaves...
“This is written for a generation to come, so that a people to be created praise Yah. For Helooked down from the height of His set-apart place; From heavenYahuahviewed the arets, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death, to declare the Name of Yahuah...
The soldiers were followed at a short distance by a weeping, groaning, threatening crowd of Jews wh o had tried, it would seem, to prevent the entrance Ofthe party with their desecrating symbol, and were now following them with lamentations and execrations. As the band came near, Aleph ...
The word here for laugh [H#6711 tsachaq (tsaw-khak’) to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); to make sport of; mock](13) is quite interesting. Her laughter was eruptive and spontaneous, an action she could not hold back. Sarah was facing the facts of her geriatric state; she wa...