1) A Fifth Cup -

Are there sources for drinking a fifth cup at the Seder?

2) Index to Commentaries -

For our index to the commentaries on this chapter of Tehilim, see the Mafteach to Tehilim section on our site, starting here:

3) Protests -

Pharaoh's servants tried to persuade him to let Yisrael go, prior to the plague of locusts. If so, why didn't the firstborn protest before Makas Bechoros?

4) Fleeing the country -

If an Egyptian firstborn fled to another country, was he spared?

5) כי לעולם חסדו -

How can we explain the death of all the Egyptian firstborn – even their children and infants? In what sense was this "a kindness for the entire world, forever"?

1. Parasha-Page for Bo 5757, see section II

6) ויוצא ישראל מתוכם כי לעולם חסדו -

What is the significance of divesting ourselves from the Egyptians, that "we would never have to see the Mitzrim again" (Shemos 14:13)?

7) ביד חזקה ובזרוע נטויה, כי לעולם חסדו -

What do "Yad Chazakah" and "Zero'a Netuyah" mean? What is the distinction between the two terms?

8) לגזר ים סוף לגזרים -

What does the word "Gezarim" (lit. cuts, segments) allude to?

9) The merit of Bris Milah -

Why did Hashem split the sea in the merit of Bris Milah?

10) ונער פרעה וחילו בים סוף -

What does the term" l'Na'er" (lit., to shake up), teach us about the punishments that befell the Egyptians at the sea?

11) פרעה וחילו -

"... To all the forces of Pharaoh" (Shemos 14:28). Who else was drowned in the sea, along with Pharaoh's army?

12) Did Pharaoh drown? -

Although this verse implies that Pharaoh himself drowned in the sea, there is an opinion in the Midrash that Pharaoh survived! Why would this be?

13) Another flood? -

How could the Egyptians have been punished with water? Wasn't this against HaSh-m's oath not to bring another flood (see Rashi to Shemos 1:10)?

14) To sing Shirah? -

According to the Midrash, the angels did not sing Shirah to Hashem on the night of the Splitting of the Sea, because His creations (the Egyptians) were being destroyed. If so, why do we recite Shirah about their destruction?

15) למוליך עמו במדבר -

Why is it so significant that Hashem Himself led us?

16) למוליך עמו במדבר -

Why did Hashem take us out along the route that traversed the desert?

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