Introduction In the second book of Moses—Exodus—there is an enumeration of the seventy souls who entered Egypt with Jacob. It tells how Joseph died, and his brethren, and all that generation; how there arose a new king who slew the infants; how Moses was saved in an ark and became the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;…
Introduction I did not wish to write this commentary on the Book of Genesis, so as not to repeat here what has already been set forth in the hymns and homilies. But, compelled by the love of friends, I here offer briefly that which in hymns and homilies I presented more fully. What moved Moses…
The Holy One (God), commanding Moses that the Israelites should keep the Pascha on the fourteenth day of the first month, said: “Speak ye unto all the congregation of the children of Israel…, that they shall take to them every man a lamb… without blemish… a male of the first year… from among the lambs…