D'var Torah; Exodus and Covenant

From: Washington Jewish Week | Date: February 2, 2006| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

In this week's Torah reading, Bo, we return to a tense place in our national history. We are about to make a break from our oppressors in Egypt and face all the insecurity and anxiety that freedom brings.

Within this context, we are asked several times to jog our historical memories and recount this event to our children with the help of visual aids. There is to be blood on our door-posts and a paschal lamb sacrifice and a yearly ritual to commemorate our night flight into the wilderne...

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