“Heaviness of Speech and the Giving of God’s Torah”
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
"Shabbat Shalom" – Vaera 5776
Parshat Vaera (Exodus 6:2-9:35) Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel –“But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh” (Ex. 9:12) One of the more difficult theological problems raised in the book of Exodus is precisely this verse, in which the Bible declares that it was God who hardened Pharaoh’s heart to be impervious to the cries of his …