When I first read stories after New Years about birds falling from the sky I didn't think much about it. But apparently it was not a one-time event, and there have been at least three other events where mass numbers of birds mysteriously die and fall out of the sky.
What is particularly intriguing to me is the timing of this mysterious event. It just so happens that the weekly Torah portion has been about the Plagues in Egypt. I started to think that maybe the event of the birds dying could be a sign to remember the Ten Makkot/Plagues on Egypt. This Shabbat we read about the final plague, the Makkot Bechora/Plague of the Firstborn, and the subsequent exodus from Egypt...
We are living in very interesting times indeed...