Tag: Exodus
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Play Your Part. We Need You.
[Apologies: wrote this last week and neglected to post here!] A very common question many of us are asking these days is, what can I do? Well, I have an answer: you can do your part. At the end of the book of Exodus, which we read this past Shabbat, we read about the final…
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Warning Bells
Having discussed sacred structures in last week’s portion, the Torah this week turns to sacred fashion. After elaborately describing the materials and construction of the Tabernacle, the portable building that is to serve as the worship space and community center for the Israelites as they make their way through the desert, the Torah describes the…
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The Famous Torah Verse You are Remembering Wrong, and What It Can Teach Us For This Moment
The famous story of the Exodus is what we are reading in the Torah this week, as Moses confronts Pharaoh to demand the liberation of the Israelites. After having been called by God at the Burning Bush, Moses joins with his brother Aaron to demand the release of their people from slavery. Each time they…
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The Difficult Work of the Erev Rav
The Israelites finally make their way out of Egypt in this week’s Torah portion of Beshallach. Having been freed by Pharaoh, the people make their way to the shore of the Red Sea. After Pharaoh dispatches his army after the freed slaves, the Israelites cry out to be saved from a seemingly impossible situation. Moses…
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Torah tl;dr: “Passover”
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Torah tl;dr: “Yitro”
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The Fear of Freedom
I did not write last week because I took a trip out of town for a few days to Los Angeles. What brought me to LA (though I did tag on a few days of family vacation) was a two-day immersive learning experience at Beit T’shuvah, a Jewish residential treatment center for addiction that also…
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For Passover and the Exodus, think Rivers not Seas
This column first appeared in the Rabbis Without Borders blog on My Jewish Learning. You can read the original post here. It’s spring break in our school district, so we are taking a road trip. We left our home in Olympia on the Puget Sound and drove to Boise, ID, where we have family. We…
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Watching Out for the Ox That Gores
In this week’s Torah portion of Mishpatim we continue the theme of last week’s: the revelation at Sinai. Having journeyed out of Egyptian slavery, the Israelites are now at Mount Sinai where Moses is to receive the laws. Mishpatim means “laws” and the portion is a collection of different laws and practices that we are…
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