Bradley Burston, Haaretz Correspondent: Pharaoh for Passover, a dead son, and the Jews
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Title: Midda keneged Midda/ Measure for Measure Name: Joe City: Baltimore State: Maryland
Even in a Special Place in Hell it is April 1st. There is a principle implicit in the Torah`s narrative of midda keneged midda or measure for measure. Pharaoh ordered the death of all Jewish boys at birth, so that the girls would marry Egyptians and assimilate. The Death of the First Born and the loss of Pharaoh`s army at the Sea of Reeds were a Providential response. Strangely, unlike the leaders of Nazi Germany and Bathist Iraq, Pharaoh himself was spared.