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NYJW Sabbath Week

As the Jewish people prepare to leave Egypt amid signs and wonders, God introduces Moses and Aaron to the mitzvah of announcing the new moon. To make matters more intriguing, this was the first mitzvah God gives to the Israelites as a nation. In essence, this moment represents the birth of the Jewish people. The […]

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My mother, of blessed memory, instilled in me a Yiddish proverb comparing two kinds of people who fail to do the right thing. The nisht ken’r (who “doesn’t know” how); and the nisht vil’r (who is “unwilling” to do it, or even to find out how). The nisht vil’r, she would say, is worse than […]

When Pharaoh decided to perpetrate genocide against the Jews, he ordered the midwives to kill every male baby born to a Hebrew mother. But midwives Shifrah and Puah (or Yocheved and Miriam, who were actually Moses’ mother and sister, and given nicknames relating to their midwifery) refused to follow Pharaoh’s orders because they “feared” God, […]

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