[Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.  We are featuring only the new translation to replace the former, the usual commentaries will be added later.—Admin1.] When we read this narrative, there is so much to remember. If you were one of the Hebrew slaves being given all the detailed instructions on what to do and […]

[Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.  We are in process of changing translations; the usual commentaries we feature will be added later.  For now, only the text/translation is being updated.–Admin1] In these three chapters, note the following: the demonstration of YHWH’s power in bringing upon Egypt calamities one after another; the plagues were inflicted only […]

[Commentary by S6K.  Translation:  EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses. .—Admin1.]   At the end of this chapter, Mosheh, still the reluctant messenger and still showing no self-confidence, makes yet another excuse to the God Who has been propping him up since their first encounter.     Exodus/Shemoth 6:    30 Moshe said before YHVH:   If […]

[Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses. The introductory commentary is our own Sinaite discussion of this chapter—we usually allow for straight reading of each chapter without too much interruption from commentaries except our own.  The next post usually follows this ‘straight-read’and that one has verse by verse commentary from 3-4 of our specially selected […]

[Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.   Commentary is mostly Sinaite indicated by S6K ;  additional commentary from P&H/Pentateuch & Haftorah and AST/ArtScroll Tanach. Reformatted for posting.—Admin1.]   ————————-   S6K:  Ugly duckling to swan; absent-minded professor to suave debonair lady’s man; skinny awkward teen with two-left feet to premiere ballerina.  Transformation from inferior to superior is the predictable plot […]

[Translation:  Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.  Commentary from P&H/Pentateuch& Haftorahs and AST/ArtScroll Tanach.—Admin1.] From Pharaoh’s court to the wanderer in the wilderness; from bachelor to husband to Zipporah; and father to firstborn Gershom (“a stranger there”) from prince of Egypt to shepherd for the flocks of father-in-law Jethro who’s a priest of Midian; —–thus far, this is […]

In the previous article “What if you were a Hebrew slave in Egypt” we speculated if, after 400+ years, the generation of Yaakovites/Israelites who have become slaves to a ‘Pharaoh who did not know Yosef” would know anything at all about their roots and ancestry.  Would if they even care about who they supposedly are, […]

[This Introduction is from Pentateuch & Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz, a publication of the Soncino Press. Reformatted for post.] NAME.  The Second Book of Moses was originally called ‘the Book of the Going out of Egypt.’ At an early date, however, it came to be known as ve-eleh shemoth from its opening phrase, ‘ And these are […]