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In last week’s Parasha, we read of the first seven calamities (makot) that God inflicted upon
Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery.
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locust, darkness and death of the firstborn. After the final plague,
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Weekly Torah Portion: Bo
Blood on the lintel and the doorposts was not a sign intended to aid G-d in sparing His children Israel
from the plague of the first-born, but a sign for all those who performed the Passover offering as
G-d commanded, protecting them from the destroyer within.
Bo (Exodus 10:1 - 13:16)
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Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Go [Bo / come] to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials
so that I may perform these signs of mine among them.
Exodus 10:1
Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Bo - Freedom and Redemption !!!
Shabbat Shalom
Welcome to Bo
(Come!), this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion).
This is the portion of Torah that will be read in
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service. Please read it along with us. We know you will be
blessed!
Parasha Bo (Come!)
Exodus 10:1–13:16; Jeremiah 46:13–28; Revelation
9:1–21
“Then the LORD said to Moses,
‘Go [Bo /
come] to
Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his
officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among
them.’” (Exodus
10:1)
Moses and Aaron with Pharaoh, by Marc Chagall
In last week’s Parasha, we read of the first seven calamities (makot)
that God inflicted upon Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to release
the Israelites from slavery.
This week in Parasha Bo, God sends the most
devastating and final three plagues: locust,
darkness and death of the firstborn.
After the final plague, Pharaoh finally acquiesces,
triggering the Exodus of the Hebrews.
But what were the purposes of the Ten Plagues? To pressure
Pharaoh to let the Israelites go free? Perhaps, but God is
fully capable of setting His people free without a king’s
permission.
We see in this Parasha and the last that God does not see
the Egyptians simply as an enemy to be overcome; rather, He is
committed to communicating something vital to them:
"I will bring judgment on all
the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD."
(Exodus 12:12)
(Exodus 12:12)
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protective case called a Torah tik.
The plagues demonstrate God’s supremacy over and judgment
on all the false gods of Egypt.
When Moses first asked Pharaoh to let the Israelites go, he
responded, ”Who is YHVH, that I
should obey His voice to let Israel go?” (Exodus 5:2)
The God of Israel wants everyone to know who He is. And He
wanted to make sure that Pharaoh and all of Egypt knew Him,
too.
He even told Pharaoh that He was sending the powerful
plague of hail, “so that you
[Pharaoh] may know that there is none like Me in all the
earth.” (Exodus 9:14)
Pharaoh
Notes the Importance of the Jewish People, by
James Tissot
In the end, Pharaoh did come to realize the power
of the God of Israel.
But God was not only concerned about the beliefs of the
Egyptians. The Torah
indicates that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart in order to
demonstrate His power to all the nations as well as the
powerlessness of their false gods.
God does not want to be known only to this one
nation of Israel, either. He wants His name to be
proclaimed in every nation on earth:
“For this purpose I have
raised you [Pharaoh] up, that I may show My power in you,
and that My name may be declared in all the earth." (Exodus
9:16)
And God certainly did make Himself known to Pharaoh through
the final three plagues.
An Orthodox Jewish man prays at the Western (Wailing)
Wall in Jerusalem.
The Eighth Plague:
Locusts (Arbeh אַרְבֶּה)
“If you refuse to let My
people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your
territory. And they shall cover the face of the earth, so
that no one will be able to see the earth; and they shall
eat the residue of what is left, which remains to you from
the hail, and they shall eat every tree which grows up for
you out of the field.” (Exodus 10:4–5)
Parasha Bo begins with the eighth plague upon
Egypt—locusts. They devoured all the crops and vegetation of
Egypt that remained after the hail.
Even though locusts are driven by the wind, a
plague of locusts is so devastating that it cuts off the
light of the sun and wipes out the food supply of the
affected area.
In the Book of Joel, this plague makes another appearance,
ravaging the land. The
Prophet Joel links it to sin and the Last Days, exhorting
Israel to repent and return to the Lord.
God promises Israel that He will make up for all the years
that the swarming locusts have devoured:
“I will repay you for the
years the locusts have eaten—the great locust and the young
locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm—My great army
that I sent among you. You will have plenty to eat, until
you are full, and you will praise the name of the Lord your
God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will My
people be shamed.” (Joel 2:25–26)
Swarm of locusts in Madagascar
Locusts are also mentioned in the Brit Chadashah (New
Testament) as one of the end-time plagues upon the earth.
With the sounding of the fifth shofar in the Last
Days, locusts emerge from the bottomless pit.
They will not harm the vegetation, but they will have the
power to sting like a scorpion and torment men who do not have
the seal of God on their foreheads.
“Then out of the smoke locusts
came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the
scorpions of the earth have power. They were commanded not
to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any
tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on
their foreheads.” (Revelation 9:3–4)
In the ninth plague, God revealed to the Egyptians that
their sun god Ra was nothing but stone and that the God
of Israel is the One True God.
The Ninth Plague:
Darkness (Hosek חוֹשֶך)
“Then the LORD said to Moses,
‘Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will
spread over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.’ So Moses
stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness
covered all Egypt for three days. No one could see anyone
else or leave his place for three days.” (Exodus
10:21–23)
With the ninth plague of darkness, Adonai
delivered a crushing blow to the worship of the Egyptian sun
god, Ra, demonstrating the folly of believing in idols and
mythical deities.
Although the Egyptians were plunged into total darkness,
the Israelites enjoyed light in their dwellings in the land of
Goshen.
While everyone outside
the shelter of God’s covenant live in ever deepening
darkness, especially as the end of the age approaches, the
light of Believers in Yeshua shines ever more brightly.
(Proverbs 4:18)
Today, there are so many reports of evil, and many are
fearful of what may come upon us. Nevertheless, even when
there is total, paralyzing darkness in the world, we can still
have light in our dwellings, just as the Israelites had in
Goshen.
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It is time for us to stop cursing the darkness and,
instead, start living in the light.
Instead of
complaining, murmuring and fault finding over the darkness
of “Egypt” (the world), we can be all that God has made us
to be, shining as lights in the midst of a dark and
perverse generation. (Philippians
2:14–15)
And if we think that we do not know the Word enough to be a
bright light, we must remember that even the smallest of
lights shine brilliantly in the darkest of places.
The Bible says that the wicked stumble in the darkness and
do not even know what makes them trip. (Proverbs 4:19)
When people are in complete darkness, they cannot perceive
anything outside of themselves. In this state of darkness, it
is easy to live in a completely self-centered, miserable
world. Often a symptom of this darkness is using people for
self-benefit.
But God’s presence in our lives promotes a kind of love
that is giving, not self-seeking. (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Torah scroll and yad (Torah pointer)
We need Yeshua, the
Light of the World to set us free from our own
preoccupation with ourselves so that we may truly love our
neighbor.
Sadly, far too many of us who have been set free from
darkness to live in the light still willfully stumble in the
darkness of unforgiveness, bitterness, and resentment. We
must determine to let these go and walk in God's holy Light.
Just as paralyzing darkness fell on Egypt, many in the
world will one day experience a great, devastating darkness,
which is one of the end-time plagues mentioned in the Book of
Revelation.
When the angel pours out the fifth bowl of God’s
wrath, the kingdom of the beast will be plunged into total
darkness. This foreshadows the state of people who
descend into Sheol (hell),
where there is a complete absence of all light. Revelation
tells us that even this will not convince the servants of
Satan to repent and turn to the Maker of All.
"Then the fifth angel poured
out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom
became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues
because of the pain. They blasphemed the God of
heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not
repent of their deeds.”
(Revelation 16:10–11)
(Revelation 16:10–11)
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in Jerusalem.
The Tenth Plague: The
Striking of the Firstborn
(Macat B’Chorot מַכַּת בְּכוֹרוֹת)
(Macat B’Chorot מַכַּת בְּכוֹרוֹת)
“This is what the LORD says:
‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn
in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who
sits on the throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl, who
is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as
well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse
than there has ever been or ever will be again."
(Exodus 11:4–6)
(Exodus 11:4–6)
When Pharaoh still refused to repent and relent after the
Plague of Darkness, God sent the tenth and most devastating
plague—the Striking of the Firstborn of Egypt.
Egypt’s king refused to let God’s firstborn
(Israel) go, so God took Pharaoh's firstborn and those of
his loyal subjects. The word is clear—God will
treat the nations (and individuals) as they have treated
Israel!
God acts on behalf of His people and judgment will fall on
the enemies of Israel.
While Pharaoh was perhaps unmoved, remaining stubborn and
proud as the rest of the land suffered under God’s hand, when God struck
down his firstborn son, the hardness of his heart was
broken through.
How tragic that it took the death of Pharaoh’s own child
to bring him to the place of humility and submission where
he was willing to let God’s people go.
Women pray at the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem.
May our hearts be soft toward the leading of the Ruach
HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) so that God will never need to use ever
increasingly painful disciplinary measures to break through
our stubborn and willful pride and bring us into a holy place
before Him.
Moses prepared the people of Israel for this final
judgment on Egypt by instructing them to sacrifice a lamb
and to put its blood on the tops and sides of their doors.
“And they shall take some of
the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel
of the houses where they eat it.” (Exodus 12:7)
The blood of the Passover lamb served as the sign that caused the
judgment to “pass over” the Israelites,
sparing them from suffering the wrath of God that fell upon
the Egyptians.
“Now the blood shall be a sign
for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the
blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on
you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.” (Exodus
12:13)
Lamb without blemish
At the conclusion of this Parasha, Moses leads the
children of Israel out of Egypt, and the Lord gives them the
ordinances of the Passover.
Thus the Lord did all He had promised; not one Word that
the Lord had spoken was left unfulfilled. Reminding ourselves
of this helps us to also trust in God’s faithfulness, power
and mercy now and in the days to come.
Today, the Jewish People still celebrate this miraculous
Passover each year.
“So this day shall be to you a
memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD
throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast
by an everlasting ordinance.” (Exodus 12:14)
Individual Believers and entire churches are increasingly
commemorating Passover as well, since it foreshadows Yeshua the Messiah,
the Lamb of God who was sacrificed in order to spare us
from the judgment of God.
A man reads from
the Passover Haggadah (Telling / Order) as everyone
raises a glass of wine, a custom during the Passover Seder (traditional dinner).
raises a glass of wine, a custom during the Passover Seder (traditional dinner).
Redeeming the
Firstborn
Because God spared the firstborn Jewish sons from the 10th
plague, we find in this Torah portion the command to
consecrate or set apart for Him every firstborn male. (Exodus
13:1–2)
As well, because they were spared, the firstborn
traditionally fasts on the day before Passover to
commemorate this miracle.
However, the firstborn sons ended up worshiping the Golden
Calf along with most of Israel, so they forfeited their right
to serve God in the Temple.
God, instead, gave that right to the tribe who did not
worship the Calf
— the Levites.
— the Levites.
Jewish parents, therefore, redeem their firstborn sons in a
special ceremony called the Pidyon
HaBen (Redemption of the Firstborn Son).
(Numbers 3:45–47)
In this ceremony the firstborn is fully absolved from the
duty to perform Temple Service.
The Pidyon HaBen (redemption of the firstborn son) is a
traditional Jewish ritual that has been practiced since
ancient times.
This symbolic ritual of redeeming the firstborn son
out of Temple Service continues today with the payment of
five silver shekels (or about 4.4 ounces of pure
silver) to a man of Cohen descent, according to the command
given by Moses:
"Take
the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the
livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The
Levites are to be mine. I am the Lord. To redeem the 273
firstborn Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,
collect five shekels for each one, according to the
sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. Give the
money for the redemption of the additional Israelites to
Aaron and his sons.” (Numbers 3:45–48)
The Israeli Mint
has created special edition silver commemorative coins
for Pidyon HaBen (Redemption of the Firstborn) services. The weight of
the five coins corresponds to the weight of the five silver sheqalim given
to the Cohen in Temple times for the Redemption of the Firstborn.
for Pidyon HaBen (Redemption of the Firstborn) services. The weight of
the five coins corresponds to the weight of the five silver sheqalim given
to the Cohen in Temple times for the Redemption of the Firstborn.
Another custom in Judaism arises from the Exodus
story—the custom of wearing tefillin.
Tefillin (phylacteries) are a set of little black boxes
containing Scriptures connected by straps. The boxes are worn
on the forehead and arm, and straps are wound around the arm
and fingers. This custom serves as a reminder to submit one's
head (thoughts), heart (feelings) and hands (actions) to the
Lord.
This practice arises from the following command:
“This observance will be for
you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead
that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the
Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.”
(Exodus 13:9, see also verse 16)
(Exodus 13:9, see also verse 16)
A Jewish man at
the Western (Wailing) Wall helps a young man, perhaps
his son, to wrap tefillin (phylacteries).
his son, to wrap tefillin (phylacteries).
According to Scripture, in the last days, the anti-Messiah
will attempt to force all people to put his mark, rather
than the Word of God, on their hand or foreheads,
thereby usurping the mark of the rightful place of God in our
lives. (Revelation 13:16–17)
Nevertheless, those who love God will resist evil and
glorify His name till the end.
It is because of God’s enduring mercy that He brought each
one of us out of the darkness that held us captive. Baruch HaShem
(Praise the Lord)!
“To Him who struck down the firstborn in Egypt
His love endures forever
and brought Israel out from among them
His love endures forever;
With a mighty hand and an outstretched arm
His love endures forever.” (Psalm
136:10–12)
"May the Lord direct your
hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of the
Messiah." (2 Thessalonians 3:5)
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