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Sabine Sterk
Feb 11, 2025, 5:51 AM
Parshat Beshalach Explains The Cause Of Oct. 7th
Israel is a miracle. A tiny country, surrounded by enemies, yet still standing strong, still thriving. I lived in both Israel and Syria as a teenager, and I saw the difference firsthand. Israelis had something rare—unity. They worked hard, they...
Yakov Rabkin
Feb 10, 2025, 10:55 AM
Is Freedom the Supreme Value? Exodus 13:17 – 17:16
Is Freedom the Supreme Value? Exodus 13 :17 – 17:16. Beshalah. This Torah portion concludes the epic of liberation from slavery. The triumphant splitting of the sea is followed by an explosion of joy reflected in the Song at the Sea (shirat...
Beth Kissileff
Feb 10, 2025, 8:33 AM
Hope, Hands and Bones – Beshalach
It is sometimes hard to figure out what a central message of a particular parsha is, particularly one so action packed and full of significant material as Beshalach. Yet a look at the commentary at the end of the...
Lisi Levisohn
Feb 8, 2025, 1:20 AM
Filled with Song like the Sea
Today is Shabbat Shirah—a Shabbat named after the way Jewish people sang as they crossed though the sea, from slavery, into freedom. אָז יָשִׁיר Then they sang. After so many years of slavery, the Jewish people escaped Egypt; they reach...
Nessya Kamhi
Feb 7, 2025, 6:14 PM
Beshalach: True Freedom
Moving through the desert, the freed Israelites find their source of food in G-d’s manna, the ground around them being covered in dew overnight, waiting to be baked into bread. The Torah is very specific, however, that ביום הששי...
William Hamilton
Feb 7, 2025, 5:59 PM
Steady
The Hebrew word for faith, emunah, is prominent in this week’s portion of Torah. The Children of Israel sing their belief in God and Moses at the seashore, following the parting of the Red Sea. But it’s toward the...
Alexander I. Poltorak
Feb 7, 2025, 4:26 PM
Collapse and Revelation
The Splitting of the Sea as a Metaphor for the Collapse of the Wave Function in Quantum Mechanics And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel...
Mijal Bitton
Feb 7, 2025, 4:53 AM
Featured Post
Those who stayed in Egypt
I have come to see that my 'wide tent' cannot include those fringe alienated Jews who go so far as to betray core Jewish values (Beshalach)
Pinny Arnon
Feb 7, 2025, 12:00 AM
Stealing Knowledge
In parshas Beshallach, Pharaoh and his army chased after the Israelites after they had fled Egypt. But after the 10th plague, Pharaoh himself had told Moses and the nation to go. Why the sudden change of heart? In fact,...
Naomi Graetz
Feb 6, 2025, 10:10 PM
The Tragedy of One-upmanship: Parshat Beshalach
After Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by what was probably the Gaza of today, even though it was nearer. Instead, he led them a round about way through the wilderness taking them to the...
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