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Julia Knobloch is a student at the Ziegler school. And a poet. This week’s Torah Portion – Parashat Shemot (Exodus 1:1-6:1) – features the beginning of the epic story of Moses and the exodus from ...
In the course of Moshe’s event-filled return to Egypt, we are not quite sure what happens to his family. We see them riding with him and stopping at an inn. And then we hear nothing until much later ...
Rabbi Sharon L. Sobel is the rabbi of Temple Beth Am in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her career has extended from leading congregations to leading national organizations. She served as Executive ...
Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Branderדוברות כנס שדרות. As we begin reading the book of Shemot - Exodus - this week, we enter the Torah’s narrative of redemption. At its simplest reading , Shemot tells the story ...
This week’s Torah portion describes our exile in Egypt. According to the text, we know that Pharaoh enslaved us and put us to work building the treasury cities of Pithom and Raamses (Shemot 1:11). The ...