ChaBaD Fascinating Jewish Facts
ChaBaD Fascinating Jewish Facts Fascinating Jewish Facts 14 Facts About the Historic Jewish Communities in Egypt By Menachem Posner 1. Our People Left Egypt After 200 Years of Slavery Passover, the first Jewish holiday, celebrates our people’s miraculous exodus from Egypt. Led by Moses and Aaron, our ancestors witnessed G-d bringing 10 plagues upon our Egyptian slavemasters before leaving for freedom. Before G-d split the sea for his nascent nation, He said: “For the way you have seen Egypt is [only] today, [but] you shall no longer continue to see them for eternity.” 1 Yet it took only several hundred years before some Israelites returned to the land of our oppression. Read: The Prohibition Against Living in Egypt 2. Jews Returned Following the Assassination of Gedaliah Following the destruction of the First Holy Temple, a small, humble Jewish community remained in the Holy Land, governed by Gedaliah ben Achikam. After Gedaliah and