Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס: Rabbi Akiva always makes Torah more interesting. Let the giant Pesach kaiju frog be your new Pesach mascot.

Rabbi Akiva always makes Torah more interesting. Let the giant Pesach kaiju frog be your new Pesach mascot.

A bissel Toyreh for all y'all.

Sanhedrin 67b:21www.sefaria.org The Gemara comments: This matter is subject to a dispute between tanna’im: Rabbi Akiva says: It was one frog, and it spawned and filled the entire land of...

I'm imagining Gappa from the classic Japanese movie "Gappa, the Triphibian Monster".

I’ve always done that and didn’t realize till now.

I knew it!

I seem to recall there's a midrash somewhere that it was originally a plague of frogs, then when they all died they died in a pile and merged into one mighty huge megafrog

Froggy Power Ranger?

Froj

My personal favorite is the modern interpretation, "It is a lovely day in Egypt and you are a horrible frog."

gUt yOnTiFf

LOL!

I love the scene in Lamb by Christopher Moore where they point out that frogs weren't really seen as particularly threatening by non-kosher Egyptians.

A single giant frog makes more sense in the scheme of things.

Yet again something that I thought was a Pratchett joke turns out to be a reference to something.

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Even Walrus knows this one.

No no no, it was a giant Spaniard. (IYKYK)

I will never pass up the opportunity to post the Spanish Frog

For as far as that place has fallen, I will forever love that Twitter gave us plague of Spaniards guy

God i love Kaiju frog.

There's a James and the Giant Pesach joke somewhere in there

This explains texts that have baffled generations of Egyptologists.

I'm not Jewish but every time Rabbi Akiva's name is mentioned I know I'm going to learn something hella interesting. (:

An amorphous, toad-like god-creature mentioned in the Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Necronomicon and the Commoriom myth-cycle preserved by the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton, breeding like crazy in lower Egypt?

Good thing that Moses and Aaron were drift-compatible and had their own jaeger, Bullrush Stonetablet.

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