[Avodah] Miracles Never Cease to Amaze Me

[menucha]

The fact is it worked.  The people of Ninve did amazingly immediate 
teshuva. 
Doing teshuva because of "so what happened to them won't happen to me" 
is in keeping with the theme of the Torah reading of Yom Kippur as in 
the first Rashi in Achrei Mot.
(I think this might be hinted to in the beginning of the kria for mincha 
(kemaaseh eretz mitzraim.....)
menucha

Cantor Wolberg wrote:

> The following Midrash from Yalkut Shimoni Exodus 176 is somewhat 
> troubling:
>
> "Though Pharaoh accompanied his army when they went after Bnai 
> Yisroel, he 
> did not go into the sea and drown, but instead  made his way 
> to Nineveh, Assyria, 
> where he became king—the same king who when hearing the 
> prophet Jonah's message 
> from God foretelling Nineveh's destruction, encouraged all his 
> subjects to repent in order 
> to avert the divine decree."
>
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