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Learning & Values Parshah (Weekly Torah) Shemot - Exodus

Parshat Shemot

AUDIO CLASSES

Shemot: The Narrow Place

There's a particular violence in having one's pain go unseen, their cry unheard, their voice shut...

By Baila Olidort

GUEST COLUMNISTS

The Real Answer to Antisemitism

Life Lessons From the Parshah - Shemot

By Yehoshua B. Gordon

FAMILY PARSHAH

Play Shemot Parshah Bingo

Print this game for fun at the Shabbat table or youth group. Can accommodate up to eight players.

PARSHAH FOCUS

Is Moses a Jewish or Egyptian Name?

By Yehuda Shurpin

WEEKLY SERMONETTE

My Planner, Our Purpose

Losing my planner taught me that we are not lost and listless, but on a path from a Higher Source.

By Yossy Goldman

GUEST COLUMNISTS

How Long Can We Wait?

Miriam shows us how to wait. With bitterness over our suffering but not with despair.

By Chaya Shuchat

Shemot Texts & Summaries

A Summary of the Book of Exodus

Shemot Audio Recording

Shemot Interactive Torah Trainer

Shemot Text-Based Learning

From the Rebbe's Talks

Parshah Focus

Kabbalah on the Parshah

Video

Got Faith, Like Really?

Is It Proper to Question G-d?

Find Your Truest Self by Noticing Another

The Power of One

G-d, What is Your Name?

Shemot – Let the Girls Live

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Audio

Shemot Audio Classes

Shemot: The Narrow Place

Time for Torah: Shemot

Shemot: Book of Names

Torah Gems - Parshah Shemot

Parshah Thought: Shemot

Parshah Insight: Shemot

Chumash and Rashi: Shemot

Living with the Parsha

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Haftarah

Shemot Haftorah: Hebrew and English

Haftorah in a Nutshell

Haftorah Audio Recording: Shemot

Shemot Haftarah Companion

On the Haftarah: Plant Now, Benefit Later

Readings for Shemot

Tevet 23, 5787

January 2, 2027

Torah Reading:

Shemot: Exodus 1:1 - 6:1

Haftarah:

Isaiah 27:6 - 28:13; Isaiah 29:22-23

Shemot in a Nutshell

The name of the Parshah, "Shemot," means "Names" and it is found in Exodus 1:1 - 6:1.

The children of Israel multiply in Egypt. Threatened by their growing numbers, Pharaoh enslaves them and orders the Hebrew midwives, Shifrah and Puah, to kill all male babies at birth. When they do not comply, he commands his people to cast the Hebrew babies into the Nile.

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