The Importance of Truth: Rabbi Weinblatt’s Sermon

The Importance of Truth This week’s Torah reading features a curious anomaly which has been the subject of rabbinic commentaries throughout the ages. When Moses tells the Pharaoh that God will slay the firstborn of the Egyptians, he says it will occur kehatzot, which means literally “somewhere around midnight”, or “at approximately midnight”.  Rashi points out …

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