Va eira commentary on the book

The parashah tells of the first seven plagues of egypt. Jews read it the fourteenth sabbath after simchat torah, generally in january, or rarely, in late december. The biblical book that we began last weekshemotis known in english as exodus, a name that. Family edition is a new and exciting initiative from the read more. I appeared to abraham, isaac, and jacob as god but i did not make. Va eira textbased learning va era in depth a condensation of the weekly torah portion alongside select commentaries culled from the midrash, talmud, chassidic masters, and the broad corpus of jewish scholarship. However, the ten plagues are described in two different voices. Later in the book of shemot the torah extends for us even farther the degree to which we are required to show gratitude. In parashat vaera, the first seven of the ten plagues are described. Vaera or vaeira hebrew for and i appeared the first word that god speaks in the parashah, in exodus 6. The torah sometimes says something of fundamental importance in what seems like a minor and incidental comment. By rabbi reuven greenvald when we meet moses again at the beginning of parashat vaeira, there is a question about whether this portion is a continuation of last weeks episode or a new conversation. And in the book of exodusshemot god does indeed inflict ten miracles on egyptthe first seven in vaeira and i appeared, and the last three in bo come. It is made up of 6,701 hebrew letters, 1,748 hebrew words, 121 verses, and 222 lines in a torah scroll.

I heard23 an explanation similar to this one in this parsha from rabbi baruch b. Torah parashah vaeira assembly of calledout believers. Upon discovering that an animal in his flock or herd has been killed by wild animals, the torah requires shemot 22. Hebrew for and i appeared the first word that god speaks in the parshah, in exodus 6.