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Shemot - “Names”
Exodus 1:1-6:1
In the first Torah portion of the book of Exodus, the children of Israel have multiplied in Egypt, making them great in number and strength. However, a Pharaoh has come to power that does not remember Joseph and what he had done for Egypt in the time of great famine. Feeling threatened, this wicked ruler enslaves the Israelites, treating them harshly and ultimately instructing the midwives of Israel to kill all male babies at birth. Of course, they do not comply with this horrific order, leading Pharaoh to take matters into his own hands, throwing all the male babies into the Nile.
One child is saved, the son of Yocheved and Amram of the tribe of Levi. This child is placed in a basket and then into the Nile, watched by the child’s sister Miriam. The basket finds its way to the daughter of Pharaoh, who takes the child into her care to raise as her own, naming him Moses. Miriam, who approaches her, suggests Yocheved as a nurse for the child, secretly reuniting him with his mother.
Later in life, Moses witnesses an Egyptian cruelly beating a Hebrew and kills him, forcing Moses to flee Egypt. Finding himself in Midian, he stands up for a group of women at a well and is taken back to their camp to meet their father Jethro. Marrying Tsipporah, one of the women, he becomes a shepherd of Jethro’s flocks.
One day, while tending his flock at Mount Horeb, YHVH appears to Moses in burning bush, instructing him to return to Pharaoh and demand the release of the Israelites. Aaron, his brother, is appointed as his spokesman and together they bring this good news to elders of Israel. Pharaoh refuses however and increases the suffering of the Israelites. Moses protests to God, but is given the promise that redemption is near.
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