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DeMille was not able to recreate such a phenomenon in his film. Only then, following the footsoldier’s self-sacrifice, did the sea finally split – into 12 COLUMNS!!! Bummer that hasn’t made that into any film of the story (yet).Ĩ) Where Were The Flowers? The midrash tells us that the foot of Mount Sinai, where the Jews awaited receiving the Torah, was carpeted with greenery and fragrant flowers.ĩ) Seeing Thunder? The Torah tells us “All the people saw the thunder and lightning.” Visual thunder is so other-worldly, that evenĬecile B. Which segues nicely to our next difference:ħ) Where is Nachshon?!: The Midrash goes into great detail about the Splitting of the Sea, particularly the story of Nachshon the son of Aminadav – who followed Moshe’s orders and walked into the sea until the waters covered his nostrils. In the Torah account of the story, although Moshe was taken from the Nile by Batya and lived in Pharoah’s house, he continued to maintain a relationship with his birth family – even nursing from his birth mother. Here are just a fraction of the differences between the film and the traditional, text-based Jewish version of the Exodus:ġ) We Are Family In both The Ten Commandments and The Prince of Egypt, Moshe does not grow up knowing his birth family and only later discovers he was, in fact, a Hebrew.
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Comparing and contrasting the two has made for some excellent Shabbos table discussions and intellectual excercises over the years. My first go-around actually learning the Torah with Rashi’s commentary didn’t happen until my early twenties, and I was struck by how much of my own, personal experience of the Exodus was based more on the 10 Commandments than actual Jewish tradition. Although I watched it on a television screen decades after it “played on the big screen, it still took my breath away – even as a child of the eighties, who grew up accustomed to Spielberg and Lucas-era spectacle. Growing up in secular America, it was always a major event when they would broadcast The Ten Commandments on one of the major, primetime networks.