בס׳ד

"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



19 Aug 2010

Plague by plague

A while ago I wrote a post titled It's raining frogs about the first two plagues in Egypt. The ten plagues demonstrated G-d's superiority.
Yesterday, Tomer Devorah posted a question corresponding to the third plague - Is this the equivalent of the 'kinim'?

For reasons still unknown, bedbugs really seem to like the state of Ohio. The problem is so dire in Cincinnati that some people with infested apartments have resorted to sleeping on the streets.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100818/us_time/08599201150900

Even the city's top lawyer can't defend against bedbugs.
Inspectors fumigated the Brooklyn offices of the city's corporation counsel Tuesday night after a bedbug-sniffing dog discovered the nasty pests among some files.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/18/2010-08-18_lawyers_battling_bedbugs_in_bklyn.html#ixzz0wzhU4TSZ


NOAA's National Climate Extremes Committee, the agency responsible for validating national weather records, has declared a hailstone found last week in Vivian, South Dakota, to be the largest in diameter and heaviest ever recovered in the United States. The hailstone is 8.0 inches in diameter and weighs 1.9375 pounds (1 pound, 15 ounces) with a circumference of 18.62 inches.
http://www.sciencenewsblog.com/blog/801101

ברדThe seventh plague of Egypt was a destructive storm. The storm was a powerful shower of hail, combined with fire burning onto the ground. The storm heavily damaged Egyptian shrubbery and crops, as well as men and livestock.
Read full list of ten plagues: http://www.milechai.com/judaism/ten-plagues.html

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