OU TORAH NAALEH.COM and YU TORAH Names of Nobility By Shira Smiles

Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein The second book of the Torah, sometimes referred to as the Book of Redemption in Hebrew (known as Exodus in English) is more often called “Shemot/Names,” as is the first Parsha reading of this book. Simply, the Sefer begins with listing all the names of Bnei Yisroel that descended to Egypt, repeating the list from Sefer Bereishit, and ending with, “And Joseph was in Egypt.”