Beschalach

Pharaoh's Army in the Floods ( Frederick Arthur Bridgman , 1900)

Beschalach ( Biblical Hebrew בְּשַׁלַּח When he had let ' - supplement: the Pharaoh the people of Israel ) denotes a reading portion ( parasha or Sidra called) of the Torah , and includes the text of Exodus / Shemot 13.17 to 17.16 (13.17 to 22 BHS , 14 BHS , 15 BHS , 16 BHS , 17 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 2nd or 3rd Shabbat in the month of Shevat .

Essential content

Orderly exodus of the Israelites through the desert to the Red Sea , Joseph's bones are carried along
The Israelites march dry-footed through the sea, while Pharaoh and his army with chariots and horsemen are flooded and killed by the returning water
The rescued sing the song of victory.
The people begin to grumble about the lack of bread, water and meat.
Quail swarms and daily manna provide a remedy (except on Shabbat : the manna collected on the 6th for the 7th day does not become wormy)
Renewed protest by the people due to lack of water
Moses remedies this by hitting a rock, which then donates water
Fight with Amalek under the leadership of Joshua
As long as Moses holds up his hands, Israel is superior, but as soon as he drops them, Israel is in trouble.

Haftara

The associated Haftara is Judge 4,4-5,31 according to the Ashkenazi rite (4,4-24 BHS , 5 BHS ), according to the Sephardic Rite Ri 5 BHS .

literature

David Sander: Beschalach . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape I . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 932 f . ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
Sidratext Schemot / Exodus 13.17-17.16. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Haftaratext Ashkenazi Richter 4,4–5,31. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Haftaratext Sephardic Richter 5. after the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

Web links

Boris Ronis: Beschalach - Not yet ripe. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, February 17, 2017, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Konstantin Pal: Beschalach - hard school. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 29, 2016, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Elisa Klapheck : Beschalach - Another kind of time. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, February 6, 2015, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Tom Kučera: Beschalach - majority capable. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, February 9, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .

Individual evidence

↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 77 (414 pp.).

[1] Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 77 (414 pp.).