TableTalk: Mishpatim
Why is kindness such an essential value to us?
Why is kindness such an essential value to us?
Here is this week’s TEN for Parshat Yitro.
This week’s Torah reading is full of drama with the Children of Israel finally leaving Egypt!
How should we react when our enemies are destroyed?
In this week’s Parsha, Parshat Beshalach (read on Shabbat Shira – the Shabbat of Song), Miriam, the sister of Moses, leads the women of Israel in song after crossing the Sea of Reeds. As it says in the Torah, “Miriam, the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women came out after her with timbrels and with dances.” This is a great opportunity to sing and dance with our kids and recreate the splitting of the sea.
The plagues finally convince Pharaoh that it is time to let the Jews go. The Jews begin their dramatic exit from the land of Egypt.