Did God rob Pharaoh of his free will in the Exodus story? Or, counterintuitively, did God simply strengthen it?

In the closing section of his speech, Milei referenced Moses’s confrontation with Pharaoh and the final three plagues described in Parshat Bo: locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn.

A children's song about a Pharaoh in pajamas tells more about Jewish history than one might think at first glance.

As noted before, Pharaoh’s continued hardness of heart inaugurates a cycle of events often called “the ten plagues on Egypt.” Exodus does use the word “plague” but it also calls them “signs and ...

Moses never veers from this line. Contrary to popular belief, he never tells Pharaoh, “let my people go,” full stop, but ...

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Pharaoh’s Refusal ...

–Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and unable to speak from childhood, became one of the most inspiring writers, activists, and ...

We can read these different versions as the Egyptians, perhaps out of admiration, guilt, fear, or recognition of injustice, freely giving to their neighbors. A situation where Moses is “esteemed.” ...