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In the HaChodesh section, we read the commandment to place blood on the insides of the Israelite door frames, to keep the plague out. “They must take the blood and place it on the two doorposts and on the beam above the door of the houses in which they will eat the sacrifice… I will pass through Egypt on that night, and I will kill every first-born in Egypt, human and animal. I will perform acts of judgement against all the gods of Egypt. I alone am God. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are staying. I will see the blood and pass you by (‘pasach’). There will not be any deadly plague among you when I strike Egypt.” (Ex. 12:7,13) And again later, “…Touch the beam over the door and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. Not a single one of you may go out the door of their house until morning.” (Ex. 12:22) Those regulations sound eerily similar to how we are being instructed to disinfect everything and stay inside our homes to protect ourselves from the current plague.
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2022-12-13
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Rabbi Hillel Lavery-Yisraeli
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Beth Jacob Synagogue