Rock of Ages let our song, Praise thy saving power; Thou amidst the raging foes, Wast our sheltering tower.
Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. 1st Aliya: The year is 2448 and Moshe had unsuccessfully confronted Pharaoh. The situation had gotten worse, not better,…
Yechezkel 28:25The theme of the Exodus is the Jew and the Egyptian recognizing G-d’s absolute mastery over all things. The nature of a slave / master relationship is for the slave to be dependent on the master and the master to feel a proprietorship over the slave. At the time of the Exodus, Pharoah had…
This week we read the parsha of Vaera . In last week’s parsha, Moshe’s first appearance before Paroah to demand freedom for his people, Bnei Yisroel {the Children of Israel}, had led to a harshening of the conditions. The same quota of bricks was being demanded with the straw no longer being provided. Moshe was…