Posts Tagged: Shemot Torah
What the Torah Teaches Us About Contributing to Our Communities
We come this week to the end of the second book of the Torah, Exodus or Shemot (as we call it). For the past weeks, we have been focused...
Parshat Shemot: Honor the Past, But Live in the Future
Some measure of the radicalism that is introduced into the world by the story of the Exodus can be seen in the sustained mistranslation of...
The Story of Moses — and Why We Must Never Consider All People Our ‘Enemies’
She is one of the most unexpected heroes of the Hebrew Bible. Without her, Moses might not have lived. The whole story of the exodus...
The Torah and the Jewish People: An Ever-Repeated Story
Bamidbar, our parsha this week, takes up the story where we left it at the end of Shemot. The Jewish people had journeyed from Egypt to Mount Sinai....
