Tagged ‘Shemot’
Parashat Shemot, 5778
The Power of Your Hebrew Name A D’var for Parashat Shemot by Rabbi Irwin Huberman ’10 A popular website which monitors facts relating to pregnancy, birth, and babies recently released its list of the most popular baby names for 2017. … Continue reading »
Parashat Shemot
by Rabbi Jill Hammer “Just as they oppressed [the Hebrew people], so it increased and spread out…” There is a fierce assertion at the beginning of the book of Exodus that the oppressed will not be stifled by oppression. In … Continue reading »
Parashat Shemot
by Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky Parashat Shemot describes not only the development of the Israelites as a people in Egypt, but also that of their leader Moses. While the Torah does not describe in detail all of Moses’s earlier years, it … Continue reading »
Parashat Shemot
Who Is A Jew? by Rabbi Len Levin “And these are the names of the children of Israel who went down to Egypt with Jacob: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah…” (Ex. 1:1-4) Who are the Jewish people? Are they a biological … Continue reading »
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Parashat Shemot Rabbi Jill Hammer Names: Five Meditations for Parashat Shemot 1. The daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash in the Nile, and her maidens walked along the shore of the river. She saw the basket in the reeds and … Continue reading »
Parashat Shemot
By Rabbi Isaac Mann There are certain verses or expressions in the Torah that lend themselves to a multiplicity of interpretations despite their having a simple plain meaning (referred to hereafter as peshat). One of these is found in this … Continue reading »
Parashat Shemot
By Professor Jerome Chanes The opening chapters of the Book of Exodus relate a narrative that is strange, not in its story, but in its telling; it is a book that begins V’eleh shemot, “And these are the names . … Continue reading »
Parashat Shemot
By Hazzan Marcia Lane In 2007 the Jewish world lost a giant by the name of Alfred J. Kolatch. He was a rabbi, but didn’t always use his title. He was also the author of more than 25 books, including … Continue reading »
Parashat Shemot
By Rabbi Allen Darnov “When Moses had grown up, he went out to his kinsfolk” (Exod 2:11). This verse has generally been understood to denote that Moses, aware of his Hebrew identity, sympathetically goes out to investigate the suffering of … Continue reading »
Parashat Sh’mot
By Linda Shriner-Cahn In memory of my father, whose yarhzeit is the 24th of Tevet. In this week’s Torah portion, Sh’mot, we once more are given all of the names of the sons of Israel, linking this second book of … Continue reading »
