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Video Study for Parsha Shemot : What is a name?

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muman613:
Shalom JTF readers,

I am starting my Video Study on the Parsha thread early this week. We are starting the next book in the Chumash (Five Books) also called 'Shemot' but more colloquially known as 'Exodus'. This portion starts the never-ending story of the Jewish peoples decline into slavery and oppression and their miraculous and promised redemption from the depths of bondage. The main character in our portion is Moshe (Moses) who, as a baby, was saved from certain death by the quick thinking of his sister and mother. He was placed on the Nile river and found by the daughter of Pharoah (Batyiah or Daughter of G-d; I hope to discuss why her name is important)... Moshe was raised in the house of the Pharoah and we don't hear much about his childhood, just that one he was mature he ventured out (since he knew he was really a Hebrew) to see the oppression of his people. He felt an incredible desire to relieve his people of the burden placed on them by the Egytian slave masters.

Pharoah and the Egyptians greatly oppressed the Jews, so worried were they that the Hebrews would become a 'fifth column' they burdened us with immense labor, building projects which yielded no lasting results (building cities on quicksand), insulted them by making men do womens work and vice versa... The Egyptians took pleasure in the deprecation of the Hebrews, and this is why Hashem had to utterly destroy ancient Egyptian society.

Here is the Parsha in a Nutshell from Chabad:

http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/3233/jewish/Shemot-in-a-Nutshell.htm


--- Quote ---The children of Israel multiply in Egypt. Threatened by their growing numbers, Pharaoh enslaves them and orders the Hebrew midwives, Shifrah and Puah, to kill all male babies at birth. When they do not comply, he commands his people to cast the Hebrew babies into the Nile.

A child is born to Yocheved, the daughter of Levi, and her husband, Amram, and placed in a basket on the river, while the baby’s sister, Miriam, stands watch from afar. Pharaoh’s daughter discovers the boy, raises him as her son, and names him Moses.

As a young man, Moses leaves the palace and discovers the hardship of his brethren. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, and kills the Egyptian. The next day he sees two Jews fighting; when he admonishes them, they reveal his deed of the previous day, and Moses is forced to flee to Midian. There he rescues Jethro’s daughters, marries one of them (Tzipporah), and becomes a shepherd of his father-in-law’s flocks.

G‑d appears to Moses in a burning bush at the foot of Mount Sinai, and instructs him to go to Pharaoh and demand: “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.” Moses’ brother, Aaron, is appointed to serve as his spokesman. In Egypt, Moses and Aaron assemble the elders of Israel to tell them that the time of their redemption has come. The people believe; but Pharaoh refuses to let them go, and even intensifies the suffering of Israel.

Moses returns to G‑d to protest: “Why have You done evil to this people?” G‑d promises that the redemption is close at hand.
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This time let us start with Rabbi Richman:

muman613:
Here Rabbi Nagin discusses the issue of Batyiahs name...

muman613:
Rabbi Machlis on the portion... This one was recorded the week of my fathers passing.



OT: This year my dads yartzeit falls out on xmas eve... (Dec 25th)

muman613:
Ok, now for some more intensive lessons, longer discussions and more stories from Rabbi Mizrachi on our portion.

Ephraim Ben Noach:
There has been a lot of weird date coincidences this year... Did you notice Friday the 13th was on the 10th of Tevet?

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