Parshat Va'eira

Explanations of this week's ParshaPix -

Remember: ParshaPix are easy, straightforward computer graphic images that represent different elements in Parshat HaShavua. They can be used with family and/or friends, Shabbat guests, etc. as springboards to discussions on the weekly sedra.

Four wine cups at the top represent the Four Terms of Redemption from the beginning of the sedra. Do you know any other "explanation" of the 4 cups?

Below the cups are Davka graphics of the 10 Plagues, specifically the first seven which are presented in Parshat Va'eira. The +BO has a double meaning: [1] plus the rest of the Makot in Parshat Bo, and [2] plus three more, the word BO has a numeric value of three.

The wizard at the top right stands for the wizards, magicians, or whatever they were, of Par'o. They were able to duplicate the first couple of plagues, but failed after that and recognized G-d's supremacy.

The oven is one of the unusual locations of the frogs during the second plague. Commentaries point our the unnatural (supernatural) aspects of the plagues. In this case - would frogs voluntarily go into an oven?

The heart with the barbells refers to Par'o's hardened heart. The repeated references to G-d hardening Par'o's heart prompt commentaries to ask about the apparent loss of free will to Par'o.

And in the middle is a staff, representing the special staff of Moshe Rabeinu, the one that triggered many miracles in Egypt and in the Wilderness.

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