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NEW! YUTorah Parsha Roundup for Shemot

To view this email as a web page, click here. Learn more and join now! Download the YUTorah in Print for Parshat Shemot 5786 11 pages of insights and inspiration from the parsha for your Shabbat enjoyment! Download Now See all previous editions of YUTorah in Print for Parshat Shemot See all articles on YUTorah for Parshat Shemot See all shiurim on YUTorah for Parshat Shemot TOPICS IN PARSHAT SHEMOT The Transition from Bereishit to Shemot How did the story change so sharply? Learn more The New Pharoah Either way how could he not remember that Yosef saved his country? Learn more The Reason for the Slavery What were the underlying issues that the Jewish people were facing? Learn more The Spiritual Slavery It wasn't just our bodies that suffered. Learn more Shifra and Puah Getting a better appreciation of the hidden heroes of the Jewish people in Mitzrayim. Learn more Baby Moshe in the Basket The deeper meaning of his cries. Learn more Why was Moshe Chosen? What made him special over everyone else? Learn more Moshe's Empathy for the Jewish People How did he identify with his people while living in the palace? Learn more The Burning Bush The iconic image that has represented so much over the generations. Learn more Halacha from the Parsha Proper speech, Milk, Shnayim Mikra, Sheimos, Names and More! Learn more More Topics in Parshat Shemot Oveview of Sefer Shemot • The Transition to Slavery •  The Jewish People Remain Jewish in Egypt •  Moshe's Anonymous Parents • The Birth of Moshe • Batya, Daughter of Pharoah •  The Name Moshe • The Development of Moshe • The Jew who was hitting the Jew • Moshe in Midyan •  Tzipporah •  Hashem hears the Jewish people •  Moshe's Refusal to Go To Egypt •  Moshe's Speech Impediment •  Moshe's Tzara'as •  Moshe and Aharon •  The Episode at the Inn •  Moshe Convinces the Jewish People •  Pharoah Refuses Moshe •  Shiurim on the Haftorah QUICK INSPIRATION FROM THE PARSHA (10 MINUTES OR LESS) Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Abramovitz: Extinction Burst: Why Do Things Get Worse Before They Get Better? Rabbi Eitan Bendavid: Leadership that Inspires Vision and Action Rabbi Oshi Bloom: Parshas Shemos with the Yehudi Hakadosh zy'a Rabbi Dov Fink: Moshe Identifies with the Pain of his Brothers Rabbi Yonatan Shai Freedman: Moshe's Influence on the Snake Rabbi Noach Goldstein: Why Hashem Spoke to Moshe Rabbi Jeremy Golker: Moshe Rabbeinu's Double Life Ari Katz: Behaving Differently Rabbi Jonathan Kaplan: Redemption Modeled After Childbirth Rabbi Stephen Knapp: Pharoh's "Wisdom" and Inability To Do Teshuva Rabbi Aaron Leibtag: Humble Beginnings Rabbi Yoni Levin: Gratitude Through a Different Lens: Who Really Saved the Daughters of Yisro? Rabbi Dani Schreiber: Take Off Your Shoes Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: Why Does God Appear to Moshe in the Desert? QUICK READS FROM THE PARSHA Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein: Dry and High Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander: Three Faces of Redemption Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald: And G-d Built Them Houses Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman: Superman, Moses, and the True Superpower Mrs. Michal Horowitz: Heroic Action, Saving a Nation Rabbi Elan Mazer: Why it Doesn't Matter if Moshe was the "Right" Choice Rabbi Johnny Solomon: Knowing the Anguish of our Generation Rabbi Moshe Taragin: Learning Hashem Daf Yomi |  Mishna Yomi |  Support YUTorah The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah Website is a project of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) 515 West 185th St. New York, NY 10033 To continue receiving RIETS emails, please subscribe to the RIETS option in the Manage My Subscription form