(12,27) 1. "...and the people bowed and prostrated themselves." The PEOPLE!?! In (12,21) Moshe called to all the elders of Israel?

(12,23) 1. "Hashem will pass through to smite Egypt, He will see the blood...and Hashem will pass over the entrance and He will not permit the destroyer to enter your homes to smite." But Rashi on (12,12) "Ani Hashem" says, Hashem Himself would carry out the Plague of the Firstborns. And indeed in the Haggadah on "VaYoytzeainu Hashem MiMitzrayim" expounds: 'not through an angel, not through a seraph, not through a messenger, but the Holy One, Blessed is He, in His glory, Himself, as it is stated...' and brings down verse (12,12). So we see that Hashem Himself smote the Egyptians. If so, then why does our verse (12,23) say that Hashem won't let the destroyer enter the Jews' homes? What was the Destroyer doing in Egypt?
(Indeed Ramban to (12,12) renders it "I am Hashem" not like Rashi "I, Hashem". So then the destroyer could have been in Egypt, but what he does with the Haggadah, is beyond me.)

(12,13) 1. The blood is a sign so that Hashem passes over the Bnei Yisrael. And that's where Pesach comes from, passed over. But why did they need to do this in the first place? Weren't all the Jews in Goshen? Hashem could have just not gone to Goshen, and the Jews would have survived! If you say that not all the Jews were in Goshen (much earlier they multiplied so much that Goshen couldn't fit them, so a bunch of them had to live in the rest of Egypt), it says in (8,18) and (9,26) during the Plagues of Arov and Hail, that the plagues didn't effect the Land of Goshen. If more of the Jews were in Egypt, they would have been killed during those Plagues! (As an aside, Mechilta says in (13,18) that during the Plague of Darkness four fifths of the Jews died out, so then perhaps there was room in Goshen for those Jews who didn't live there.) So why did Hashem have to "pass over" the Jews? (And what happened to those Jews during Arov and Hail?)

(11,10) 1. "Moshe and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh..." Which wonders? This is after all the Plagues (minus the 10th); and if you will say the wonders of the previous verse which Rashi says are the Plague of the Firstborn, the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, and the stirring about of the Egyptians as they drowned in the Sea, our verse continues, "but Hashem strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't send out the Children of Israel from the land." After the Plague of the Firstborn, Pharaoh's heart was NOT hardened, he pleaded with them to leave! And the wonders at the Sea, the Jews were already out of Egypt. So which wonders?

(10,24) 1. Pharaoh agrees to let Moshe and the Jews leave but requires the animals to stay behind. What was he thinking? The initial deal was to go three days into the desert and slaughter sacrifices to Hashem. How were they supposed to do that without their flocks?

(10,23) 1. How did the Egyptians survive the Plague of Darkness?

(12,8) The Abudraham asks this question and answers from Rav Yosef Kimchi, that Hashem who knows the future commanded them before it happened to do so. This would seem to me to be along the lines of Avraham Avinu making matzah on erev pesach when "the palit" came to tell him that Lot was captured. It's a remembrance of the future. Which isn't as paradoxical as it sounds, for if you think you are going to meet someone or go somewhere special you get dressed up to do so. You don't know for sure that it will happen but you are willing to do something in case it does. If Hashem, who knows what will happen tells you to do something because of what will be, surely it's logical to do so.

(10,12-13)1. What does "ba'arbeh" mean? The classic answer is like Rashi - to do so for this maka. The Ohr Ha'chaim answers that Hashem told Moshe to tie a "arbeh" (locust) to his staff. (To signify that this maka was brought through this action.) This would answer the question of why Moshe took the staff, for Hashem had told him to by saying "ba'arbeh".

(10,12-13)1. Hashem says "stretch out your hand..." Moshe stretches out his staff; why does he change the method?

(10,19)1. Hashem sends a west wind and it carries the locust swarm and hurls it toward the Sea of Reeds. Later, when the Bnei Yisrael cross the Yam Suf, shouldn't they have encountered the locust swarm?

(10,17)1. "...please forgive my sin just this time...that Hashem remove from me only this death." Why does Pharaoh use "Ach" and "Rak"? Also what does he mean "only this death", what other deaths was he suffering? There weren't any other plagues going on at the time?

(10,13)1. It took 24hrs for the locust to come. Why? We don't find it took any time at all for the Tzifardae'ah or Arov to come? (Wouldn't Pharaoh lose "faith" in Moshe when it looked like he was trying all day to preform his magic and he just couldn't quite get the hang of it? By nightfall or later Pharaoh would have laughed him off and definitely not listened to Moshe in the future.) ?

(10,5(,15))2. "... And it will consume all the trees that grow for you in the field." But in 10,15 it says "... it ate all the grass of the land and all the fruit of the tree...No greenery remained on the trees or the grass of the field in the entire land of Egypt." What was told to Pharaoh wasn't what happened. He was told the locust would eat the entire tree, not just the greenery, so why didn't the locust consume the trees themselves?

(10,6)1. "VaYeefen VaYaytzae May'im Paroh": And he turned and left Pharaoh's presence. But weren't Moshe and Aaron both speaking to Pharaoh? It should have said "VaYifnu VaYaytsoo" ?

(10,2)2. It's only a question according to Rashi, for Unkelos translates "asher hisa'lalti" as - the miracles I have performed (I have no idea if or how that would translate literally), which could have been the punishments they earned.

(10,15)1. Didn't we say in (9,25) that all of the grass and trees were hit by the hail. So what was left over to be eaten here? If you'll answer that in (9,31&32) it says what was left over, those aren't trees so what left over trees were there here?

why are we told that the reason we eat matza is because the bread did not have time to rise. but in 12:8 Hashem says "and matzos; with bitter herbs shall they eat it". was this not said before they left?

(10,2)2. Since when do things happen for Hashem's amusement? This is not a motivation attributed to Him?

(10,2)1. Isn't the reason that Hashem hardened the hearts of Pharaoh and his servants to mete out just punishment, not to amuse Himself?

Parshas Bo

(10,1) 1. Why is the last word in the pasuk "b'kirbo" - "in him" - in singular? If it's talking about Pharoh and his servants, shouldn't it be plural? Unkelos actually says it in plural - "among them", though it's still a question on the simple meaning of the pasuk. I thought that it could mean the Jews of that generation. The idea being that these signs will gain a place among the tradition and history of the Jews. This would fit well with the next pasuk which would continue that this would additionally be for the future generations as well.

(10,1) 2. Hashem tells Moshe come to Pharoh, to do what?

(10,3) 1. Who invited Aharon?

(10,7) 1. Didn't Hashem say that He would harden the hearts of Pharoh's servants, it doesn't seem to have happened?

(10,11) 1. What does the word "na" mean here? Unkelos omits it.