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From Rabbi Chaitovsky January 16, 2025

This week we begin the second Book of the Torah – Shemot. The word means names – and there is a good reason why the book is called that - but most people know the book as Exodus, which is the Greek rendering of the Rabbinic name for the book, Sefer Yetziat Mitzrayim – the Story of Exiting Egypt. Its story is familiar to most of us, but in light of the terrible and often dangerous spike in anti-semitism everywhere over the past year, the story takes on an immediacy and urgency it might not otherwise have. One takeaway seems to be that the scourge of anti-semitism has been with us since our earliest days when Children of Israel meant nothing more than the Family of Jacob.

Thu, February 13 2025 15 Shevat 5785