This parashah covers Exodus 13:17–17:16 and tells of the deliverance from Egypt, the splitting of the Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba), the Song of the Sea, manna and the double portion principle to prepare us for Shabbat, the water from the Rock and the war with Amalek!
Learn in Torah parashah Bo about how God allows us to experience the negative cause and effect destruction of holding onto our stubbornness or we can choose to be under the “blood covering of the Lamb” and be blessed with protection, health and prosperity! This parashah tells of the last three plagues on Egypt, instruction on how to observe the New Moon of Aviv in the Spring as the first month of the religious calendar and instruction on how to observe the first Passover.
Shemot (שְׁמוֹת)— Hebrew for “names,” is the thirteenth weekly Torah portion in the annual cycle of Torah readings and the first in the Book of Exodus. The parsha tells of the Israelites’ affliction in Egypt, the hiding and rescuing of the infant Moses, Moses in Midian, the calling of Moses, circumcision on the way, meeting the elders,…