NAALEH.COM Beracha Broadened Parashat Yitro By: Mrs. Shira Smiles

When Yitro, Moshe’s father-in-law, arrives at the camp of Bnei Yisroel with the rest of Moshe’s family, Moshe goes out to greet him and tells him all the wondrous Hashem did for Bnei Yisroel and the terrible things to Pharaoh and the Egyptians. In gratitude, joy, awe, and even grief at the death of the Egyptians, Yitro’s skin was covered in goose bumps. But the words that came out of Yitro’s mouth, “Boruch Hashem,” were so extraordinary that they have become part of the Jewish vernacular and speech pattern. As the Gemarrah notes, no one had ever used that precise phrase before. Could it possibly mean that no one had ever thanked Hashem before for all the chessed He did for us? Click here for Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein.