Ramban picks up on the fact that the reason for their complaints were not mentioned in this pasuk, and suggests that perhaps the issue was במדבר – they were in the desert, far away from Egypt, it has ...

Likely, “manna” was another process of self-exploration; one of sustenance. The Zohar on Beshalach (63b) explains that every day we ideally should ask for everyone’s sustenance, and that ...

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In this Torah portion, “Beshalach,” it is Egypt now pursuing ... the ingathering of the exiles but did not live to see it. In parashat “Va’era,” God tells Moses that he appeared to ...

The weekly Torah portion ‘Beshalach’ concludes with the first battle the Jewish people faced after leaving Egypt – the war against Amalek. Amalek, the symbol of heresy and impurity and a ...

Much of this week’s Parshah highlights the epic conclusion to the Exodus, where the Jews cross the split sea, and the pursuing Egyptians are devoured by the raging waters coming back to their ...

I was overwhelmed with emotion when I received the verse Table of Five requested that I write about. This verse spoke ...

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