And that’s why the Ten plagues are important. Jennifer Moses is the author of seven books of fiction and non-fiction , with numbers six and seven to be published in 2020. She lives in Montclair.

The 10 plagues of the Passover narrative constituted a steadily escalating sequence of punishments, culminating in the slaying of the Egyptian firstborn, ...

First count these three punishments "Blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke," then add the the Ten Plagues, and also include the 600 plagues as given by the three rabbis for a total of 613 plagues.

I was just about to pass over Passover. My husband Paul and I had been invited to two seders in Los Angeles, but one was a rock and the other was a hard place. At the former, there would be three ...

Passover is an eight-day Jewish holiday representing rebirth and new beginnings. ... Retelling the story of the 10 plagues is the best, believe it or not. We've used finger puppets, ...

Passover traditionally involves a recitation of 10 plagues the faithful believe God inflicted on Egypt amid the Exodus more than 3,000 years ago: Rivers turning to blood and swarms of frogs and ...

The Ten Plagues. Despite Moses’s pleas, Pharaoh refused to let the Jewish people go. The story goes that God then subjected the Egyptians to 10 plagues: water turning to blood, frogs, bugs, wild ...