This year, the start of Passover and the annual Earth Day occur on April 22nd. Hence, this is an excellent time to consider environmental messages related to Passover and the events and concepts associated with the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt:
1. Today's environmental threats can be compared in many ways to the Biblical ten plagues:
When considering the threats to our land, water, and air, we can easily enumerate ten modern “plagues." For example, (1) climate change, (2) deforestation, (3) increasing droughts, (4) widening deserts, ...
