Whether we like to admit it or not we are also affected by outside culture. Our neighbors religious pictures showed round tablets and it migrated to us. As mentioned above, Cecil B. Demille embedded it into the Jewish and Non-Jewish ethos with his epic masterpiece “The Ten Commandments” Maybe today its different because some are more insular. But almost everyone from the older generation has seen at least parts of it and that’s what they picture when they think of Yitziyas Mizrayim because it was amazingly well done and pretty much keeps to the Torah true version.
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