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Thought For The Week Being Grateful In this week’s parsha Hashem commands
of lice, which required striking the ground,
Moshe to bring the plague of blood to the
Moshe refused again to strike it, because
Egyptians, and start the painful process
the ground saved him by covering up the
of forcing Pharoah to let the Jews leave
Egyptian taskmaster that he had killed in
Egypt. He tells him that he should stretch
last week’s parsha.
his staff over the River Nile, and strike the water, and this will start the transforma-
The message for us is that if Moshe was
tion of water to blood.
able to show such sensitivity to water and dust which are not living beings, then how
However, when the plague eventually
much more so do we have to be careful to
starts, it is not Moshe who strikes the
show gratitude and sensitivity to anybody
water, but rather his brother, Aharon. The
who does us even the slightest favour,
famous question is why did Moshe not
even something as small as lending a pen
listen to Hashem and do it himself?
or giving us directions.
One answer is that since Moshe was
However big or small the favour or ges-
saved by the River Nile as a baby, he would
ture, the correct thing to do is to say
not be showing appropriate gratitude to
thank you, and try and do something nice
the river by striking it, and cursing it.
in return.
Rabbi Nick Similarly, it is Aharon who strikes the Nile when bringing about the second
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