Frogs - Pharaoh frog-proofed his palace like a sealed room. A big sign proclaimed: "No Frogs Allowed!" Pharaoh sat smugly on his throne as the frogs all banged against the window: "Let us in!" Every day Pharaoh opened the mail slot a tiny crack so they can squeeze in his pita bread for the day.
One little frog proclaimed: "God said into the ovens! Someone has to go!" This frog sneaked into the dough and is baked into the pita, miraculously surviving. (This is the forerunner of Daniel's 3 friends - Chananya, Meshael and Azarya - who learned from the frogs to do likewise.)
Upon entering the palace - and Pharaoh's stomach - this little frog begins croaking the daylights out. Pharaoh screams for help, opens the door and in rush all the frogs! In the end they all died, leaving smelly frog corpses throughout the land of Egypt.
Measure for measure: The Egyptians deprived the Jews of sleep by making them work into the night. Now they couldn't sleep, due to a symphony of frogs.
Rabbi Avi Geller
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