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Posted on February 3, 2025 (5785) By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky | Series: Drasha | Level: Beginner This week’s portion begins with the event that merits the title of the book – Exodus. The Jews finally are chased from Egypt. Hastily, they gather their meager possessions and with the gold and silver that the Egyptians miraculously…

Posted on January 30, 2025 (5785) By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein | Series: Be’er Moshe | Level: Advanced You shall take a bundle of hyssop and dip it into the blood that is in the basin[2] Hyssop bundles do not loom large in any collection of Jewish symbols and icons. That is fitting, because they are…

BS”DVolume 39, No. 153 Shevat 5785February 2, 2025 Sponsored by the Vogel family in memory of Yisrael ben Elimelech Vogel and the other Kedoshim of Oleszyce, Poland Hy”d In this week’s Parashah, the Exodus takes place. The Torah relates that when the time came for Bnei Yisrael to leave Egypt (Shmot 12:39), “They could not…

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1322 Chodesh Issues: Women and Kiddush Levana; Getting Married in Last Half of Chodesh? Good Shabbos! At the beginning of Parshas Bo, Moshe and Aharon tell Pharaoh “…For if you refuse to send forth My…

Yirmiyah 46:13 This week’s Haftorah is from Yirmiyah 46:13. The rise of Nevuchadnetzar and Babylon to world dominance heralded the destruction of Mitzrayim (Egypt) eight centuries after the time of the Exodus. Mitzrayim had been a dominant power in the region for many centuries and saw the decline of Israel as an opportunity to gain…

“And you shall safeguard the matzos”(12:17) The literal interpretation of the verse is that one should approach the preparation of the matzos with extreme caution, for the slightest delay could cause the dough to become “chameitz” – “leavened”, thereby invalidating the matzos for use on Pesach. Rashi cites a Midrashic interpretation which states that by…

This week we read the parsha of Bo, containing the final three plagues followed by Bnei Yisroel’s {the Children of Israel’s} exodus from Mitzrayim {Egypt}. “And it was in the midst of this day, Hashem took Bnei Yisroel out of the land of Mitzrayim… And Moshe said to the nation: Remember this day that you…

The silly family in the following story makes nine mistakes. Can you find them? Can you think of how the story is connected with the parsha? The Story In the city of Balagan, on a street named Gevalt, lived the Mevulbal family. This family was nice and funny and very very mixed up. It was…

Posted on January 29, 2025 (5781) By Rabbi Naftali Reich | Series: Legacy | Level: Beginner Egypt was in ruins, utterly devastated by the first nine plagues. The cities were reduced to piles of rubble, with dead and wounded everywhere. Bloated carcasses of livestock littered fields denuded of crops and vegetation. The rivers and irrigation…

WHAT DOES GOD really want from Creation? Not just from the Jewish people, but from the entire world? That gets answered in these parshios with certainty: God said to Moshe: “Come to Pharaoh, because I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order that I may place these signs of Mine…