The Passover holiday has just ended, but the research surrounding it is not yet complete. And now, clear and detailed proof has been found of the Exodus, the events leading up to the Exodus, and even the events following it. The proof is detailed and provides a complete picture of what happened in Egypt, with no other interpretation possible than what is described.
The proof is:
Our holy Torah.
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I assume with great sadness that at this moment, so many hands were raised in rejection. Hands of people among us, "young men and old virgins with boys," except that this time it wasn't so that they would "glorify the name of God," this time it was like this:
Well, this?! What a snob the writer is, a troublemaker and a digger. Based on the title, we already thought that a film had been discovered documenting Pharaoh's Egypt. And if not, then we thought that at least some indisputable archaeological find or something like that had been found. What does he want? Does he think that we don't know what the Torah says? We want something real, with flesh and blood, or in other words: something that will be accepted by science!
You can relax, our Torah is true, even the scientist says
As Passover approached, everyone, from religious websites to the last WhatsApp message writers via Facebook and SMS, began sending insights and links to videos (and well-meaning people sent long videos): Here, gentlemen, you can relax, it turns out that "Moses is true and his Torah is true"! After all, even a certain scientist and an unknown researcher found remains and proof of the Exodus from Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea.
And here the son asks: Is this it, have people lost their faith? Where has our faith gone, where has the tradition of our ancestors gone? In previous generations, the support of science caused almost the opposite. When a scientist supported the Torah, they began to fear.
So it is true that it has already happened: The Chofetz Chaim Zia was asked, why and how is it that all technological inventions were invented in recent generations and not in the generation of Dea or by King Solomon, the wisest of all men? And he replied: In the past, people had innocent faith. Today, people have become materialized and need means of illustration: a camera = a seeing eye, a tape = a hearing ear.
However, during the time of the Chofetz Chaim, inventions were a way to illustrate faith. Now we have reached a situation where the Torah is perceived as a theory (HW) and archaeology is the facts.
Passover Haggadah in English, Romanian and Yiddish
And now let's return to the proportion:
Archaeology draws its power from the artifacts of the past and builds assumptions on them. I am not here to question the credibility of this "science", but it is important that we understand the facts.
Over the course of just a few decades (maybe a little more), archaeologists collect and study items, structures, and writings from the past. Using various means, they date the findings and thus build a picture of nations and peoples, customs, events, and so on. The theories they come up with may or may not be confirmed. And yet, they too admit and agree that all their statements are hypotheses based on findings.
And on the other hand:
From the Exodus to the present day, for thousands of years, in all corners of the world, wherever there were Jews, regardless of race, origin, or gender, they sat on Seder night and told the exact same story, from the descent into Egypt to the Exodus and the parting of the Red Sea, through slavery and the Ten Plagues, without any difference. Without any subtraction or change of a single detail.
It should be remembered that there were no means of communication at that time to coordinate versions, and certainly not the Internet or WhatsApp. Millions of fathers and sons sat around the globe and told the same things in countless languages, the Holy Language and Arabic, Romanian and Persian, Yiddish and English – the content was the same. Even in countries where the Jews were expelled and when they remained underground for a while, the story was told in detail, with dedication to passing on the tradition. When they fled from there and arrived at other sites, the stories were compared and, behold, the story is one!
And here the son reads:
Jews, straighten your bodies with strength, raise your heads to the heavens, raise your eyes to the heights and declare: The name is God, there is none else besides Him! The references from archaeology are simply irrelevant.
