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“And none of you shall go out of the opening of his house until the morning” (Exodus 12:22)? If the plague was not decreed upon the Jewish people, why were they not permitted to leave their homes? Once permission is granted to the destroyer to kill, it does not distinguish between the righteous and the wicked. And not only that, but it begins with the righteous first.
We explore how modern plagues such as Corona virus impact faith and the seemingly arbitrary afflictions of even babies using the tools of theodicy and tradition.