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 Torah Thoughts
This week we begin the Book of Exodus
(Shemot), the second of the five books of the
Torah. We read the Torah portion "Shemot" (Exodus
1-6:1).
It contains 124 verses and no commandments.
The entire Book of Genesis, which we concluded last
week, was an introduction to the story of persecution, liberation,
nation-building, covenant and Law-giving which characterize the Book of
Exodus.
HAFTARA (Excerpt from the Prophets)
This week we read Isaiah 27:7-28:13 and 29:22-23.
The prophet refers to Israel waywardness and the
punishment that awaits them. But he also refers to the fact that Israel will
never be destroyed and that eventually the day will come when the “great shofar will be sounded and those who are lost in the land
of Assyria and those cast away in the land of Egypt will come and prostrate
themselves before HaShem on the Holy Mountain in
Jerusalem.”
Just as Jacob’s generation came down to Egypt and became a great nation and were
redeemed (as we read in this and the coming weeks’ Torah portions), so too,
future generations of Israel
will succeed and will be redeemed.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Baruch Price
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