<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Rabbi Meir Rabi asked:</div>Kitzur Piskey Tosafos Menachos mentions that the 10 plagues were read<br>during the Bikkurim Ceremony. It is not mentioned in Tosafos.<br>Can anyone enlighten?<div><br></div><div>IMHO</div><div>I believe it IS mentioned in Tosafos by R' Yaakov of Orleans who was a Tosafist in France in the 12th century (and studied under Rabbenu Tam).</div><div>Shmos 9:14 "...Ani sholeiach kol magaifosai..." </div><div><i>All My plagues. </i>This expression implies that the plague that was about to begin would be the</div><div>severest of all the plagues. In a comment that the commentators find exceedingly difficult,</div><div><i>Rashi </i>identifies this as <i>makas b'choros</i>, the Plague of the Firstborn, rather than the hail, about</div><div>which Moshe was now warning Par'o. Two questions are obvious: Why would the Torah allude</div><div>to the 10th plague at this point, when the 7th plague is about to commence? And if the reference</div><div>here is to hail, as most explain, why is it referred to as <i>all My plagues</i>? This is one explanation that</div><div>addresses the question of R' Meir Rabi: <i>Makas b'choros</i> should be vowelized <i>makas bakuros</i>, </div><div>(<i>beis,kof,vov,reish,vov, sof</i>), the plague of the early-ripe fruits, since the hail destroyed only the </div><div>crops that were fully grown, but not those that were still growing and pliant [v. 31]. The reason this</div><div>plague was regarded as so serious was because it struck at the food supply.</div><div><br></div><div>Hence, we can infer that could well be the source for the plagues being mentioned in the Bikkurim Ceremony.</div><div><br></div><div><i>May the coming year be full of fruit and free of plagues </i>(irrespective of who is elected president). rw </div><div> </div></body></html>