Rabbi Yehuda Rock
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The opening verse of our parasha is opaque and difficult to understand. The commentators have trouble with the factual assertion that "My Name Y-H-V-H I...
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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Endless commentaries have attempted to explain the verse “And I appeared to Avraham, to Yitzchak and to Yaakov as Kel-Shakkai, but My name YKVK I did not...
Prof. Jonathan Grossman
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At the beginning of our parsha we read of Moshe's appointment as God's agent to secure the release of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt. All the elements that...
Rabbanit Sharon Rimon
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Moshe and Aharon confront the Egyptian magicians in the challenge of turning a staff into a serpent. What is the meaning of this test? What is its purpose...
Rabbi Gad Eldad
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We would expect that when God entrusts Moshe with the mission of bringing Bnei Yisrael out of Egypt, it will feel like a perfect fit. As the figure who...
Rabbi Yehuda Rock
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Through an examination of the text, we understand the direction and goal of the scriptural narrative that continues all across the book of Bereishit and...
Rabbanit Sharon Rimon
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Why does Moshe agree to stay with Yitro in Midyan, and to marry his daughter Tzippora? Is his settling in Midyan motivated solely by his fear of Pharaoh's...
Rabbi Dr. Tamir Granot
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The transition from Chapter 1 to Chapter 2 of sefer Shemot is the change from a general, historiographical overview to a personal, biographical one.
We...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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It is a commonplace of rabbinic commentary that Bereishit is the story of individuals - the avot - and Shemot is the story of a people.
Obviously, there...
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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Why was it necessary for Moshe to pass from his biological, Jewish mother to an adoptive Egyptian mother? Why did this adoptive mother have to be the...
