Biafra: Pharaoh, let my people go! For every self-acclaimed strong man, there is a God who takes away even the captive of the mighty and delivers the prey of the terrible.

But then, like Pharaoh, their husbands refuse to let them go. Get -refusal is a form of bondage. Jewish law requires a husband to grant his wife a get before she can remarry or build a new life.

The Parsha starts with Shmot, chapter 13, pasuk 17: “When Pharaoh had let the people go.” According to this, it seems as though Pharaoh is aware he’s freeing the Israelites, ...

The first Mitzvah the Jews had to hear from Moses before even he can go the Pharaoh to let them go free was: One day you will be free. Remember that freedom is a gift; use it to free others. Sources: ...

The full command from Gd to Moses to tell Pharaoh is “Let my people go that they may worship me”. And this is repeated more than ten times (probably more) in the text.

Egypt looms largely in the Christian psyche. Many Christians, in their heart of hearts, associate Egypt today with the Egypt of biblical times: a bastion of corruption, idolatry and enslavement of ...

"Let the Palestinian people go": ... a majority of American Jews have been forced to face the fact that Palestinians today are asking Jews what Moses asked Pharaoh: “Let my people go.” ...

Today the cry of the Jewish leadership throughout the Diaspora has been twisted into the very opposite: “Let my people stay!” ...

We should instead follow Moses’ example and tell Hamas: “Let them go.” Moses’ call to Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus to “let my people go” wasn’t a request for negotiation but a ...

Jimi Agbaje, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, has likened Bola Tinubu, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to the biblical Pharaoh of Egypt.

At every Seder I can remember, our family has sung “Go Down Moses” (“Go down, Moses/Way down in Egypt’s land/Tell ol’ Pharaoh/Let my people go”). As a child I loved it because it was a ...