11. They thought the Egyptians would hate Moses and the Jews because of the plagues.
12. But instead… They feared the Jews and Moshe and gave the Jewish people their gold and silver. And G-d gave the Jews favor in the eyes of the Egyptians
13. And the man Moshe was very great in the eyes of all the Egyptians –Exodus 11:3
14. After Yosef’s death, the Jews reversed their circumcisions to enamour themselves with their Egyptian neighbors. –Shmos Raba Parsha 1:10
15. But instead… G-d turned their love into hatred. Shmos Raba Parsha 1:10
19. How did Mordechai know not to go to the feast of King Achashvairosh?
20. How did Esther know that spending three days fasting, and not spending three days at the salon would make her succeed?
21. How should the Jews have know that becoming more like the gentiles around them wouldn’t help decrease anti-semitism?
22. He has learned the language of the host people to such an extent that he now thinks he can venture in future to emphasize his Judaism less and place his ‘Germanism’ more in the foreground… Race, however, does not lie in the language but exclusively in the blood. -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925 Page 312
23. If people’s logic coincides with the will of G-d in the Torah, then it will work out. If not, then no matter how much worldly sense it makes, there is a greater reality.