Shmot
My Weekly Drash -- (a mini D'Var Torah) -- Shmot (3)
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Shmot
As we begin Parshah Sh'mot, we discover how after many generations beyond Joseph things have gotten bad for the Israelites, to the point where the new Pharaoh has ordered the murder of newborn male children. The Israelites need someone who, with God's help, will free them from slavery and lead...
My Weekly Drash -- (a mini D'Var Torah) -- Shmot (3)
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Shmot
As we begin Parshah Sh'mot, we discover how after many generations beyond Joseph things have gotten bad for the Israelites, to the point where the new Pharaoh has ordered the murder of newborn male children. The Israelites need someone who, with God's help, will free them from slavery and lead...
My video divrei Torah on this parasha from youtube Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg
Posted by Jonathan Ginsburg | Tags: Shmot
vayishla Jacob wrestles and gets renamed Israel JewU285 God was on Jacob's side as Jacob wrestlesd himself JewU292
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Sh'mot (2)
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Shmot
Upon seeing the burning bush in Parshah Sh’mot, Moses is instructed, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.” (Exo. 3:5) For those who’ve been watching “Sex and the City,” you may need to be reminded that shoes are more often associated with...
Real to God
Posted by Abe Mezrich | Tags: Shmot
i God frees the Children of Israel from Egypt by means of Plagues and Signs: in which a staff becomes a serpent, and water becomes blood, and land becomes lice. These miracles prove the fixed world to be more changeable than it would seem to be. * God frees the Children of Israel, largely,...
The Beginning of Wisdom is the Fear of the Lord
Posted by Abe Mezrich | Tags: Shmot
i Joseph, who interprets dreams, proclaims God as the source of his understanding of dreams. Joseph says: Do not interpretations belong to God? * The Pharaoh of Joseph's day says to him: Since God has made all of this known to you, there is none so...wise as...
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Sh'mot
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Shmot
We begin the book of Exodus with Parshah Sh’mot. It takes us from Joseph’s death to the start of the showdown with the new Pharaoh in quick, terse passages. Look, for example, at chapter 2, where in verse 10 Pharaoh’s daughter is rescuing the baby from the Nile and naming him Moses, and verse...
