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What If Moses Had Facebook? Google Exodus on Social Media
NBC Bay Area ^ | Monday, Apr 14, 2014 | Lisa Fernandez

Posted on 04/14/2014 11:49:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A humorous video walks you through the exodus of the Jews as if it happened today.

What if Moses had Facebook?

That's the question a Jewish group in Israel began formally asking in 2011. And by Monday - on the eve of Passover - more than 2.5 million people had clicked in to watch a YouTube video trying to answer that question, all with a jazzy version of the Passover classic, "Dayenu," set in the background.

When Aish.com first publicized the "Google Exodus - Passover Movie," just 50,000 people had seen the clever 2:17-minute clip.

Silicon Valley plays a prominent role - albeit silent one - in the humorous video, with Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Twitter and Craigslist all acting as the key forms of communication between God, Moses, Pharaoh and the other key Passover players. Of course, Moses emails Pharaoh from his gmail account to the leader's dot.gov account.

The clip begins with a search for "Basket Baby." Someone searches Yahoo for "Why is the bush burning but not being consumed?" Pharaoh's Palace is searched for on Google Maps. And Moses posts a status update on Facebook saying that "My staff just turned into a snake. Cool."

Jimmy Fallon's Thank You Notes While the video is still certainly funny, after three years, it's starting to show its age. There are no Red Sea photos posted Instagram. And if Ramses needed a girlfriend, Tinder wasn't around to have helped him find a nice Eygptian girl.

Maybe that's why this year, Aish.com - a Jerusalem-based Jewish content website - decided to be topical, and create a new Passover video based on the hit Disney film "Frozen."

This year's video is called "Let it Go: Passover Edition." As of Monday morning, it had nearly 80,000 views.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Religion; Travel
KEYWORDS: exodus; facebook; moses
I can't believe they would do this? Isn't Moses the man who singlehandedly started Apartheid against Palestinians and discrimination against gays?
1 posted on 04/14/2014 11:49:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Oh Moses. I thought it was about Moose.


2 posted on 04/14/2014 11:52:47 AM PDT by csvset
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To: nickcarraway

I made an Exodus away from FB .


3 posted on 04/14/2014 11:58:09 AM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: csvset

Boris and Natasha always were in the “must get Moose and Squirrel” mindset.


4 posted on 04/14/2014 12:00:53 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: peteyd

I’d like an accurate number of how many people have lost their job from FaceBook postings. I know of one personally.


5 posted on 04/14/2014 12:01:50 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: nickcarraway
I suppose he would unfriend the Pharaoh.
6 posted on 04/14/2014 12:16:33 PM PDT by AU72
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To: nickcarraway

Wow! Good videos. The funny ones, sure. But the best one is called Choosing Freedom. It speaks to what is wrong in this country today, what is wrong with Mankind. Summary: we are waiting for someone to give us our Freedom.


7 posted on 04/14/2014 12:41:10 PM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: nickcarraway

Flash Mob at the pillar of fire at noon!!!


8 posted on 04/14/2014 12:43:24 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Exodus has a great story line but it needs updating to get rid of sexist language.

Case in point: manna.

Really? Manna?

What's wrong with "personna"?

9 posted on 04/14/2014 12:50:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus (ADES)
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To: nickcarraway

That was really good.
Thanks for sharing.


10 posted on 04/14/2014 1:24:00 PM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: Ingtar

Just received this in an e-mail from Jewish Voice Ministries

“And the blood shall be a sign for you…
and when I see the blood I will pass over you…”

Ex 12:42

“…without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness”

Hebrews 9:22

“...for Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed.”

Cor 5:7

In Egypt, doorposts of Jewish homes were rubbed with blood from a sacrificial lamb ...and God passed over them, keeping them safe from the last and worst of the ten plagues.

Yeshua, “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” was sacrificed for us. When we receive His sacrifice for us, God passes over our sin because it has been paid for by Yeshua’s shed blood.

Wishing you a blessed Passover, remembering all that God has done for you and remembering Yeshua, the Lamb of God.


11 posted on 04/14/2014 5:58:01 PM PDT by Maudeen (Jesus is the Answer. . .now what is the question?)
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