Bo (Sidra)

Death of Pharaoh's Firstborn (painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema , 1872)

Bo ( Biblical Hebrew בֹּא 'Come' - to the Pharaoh ) denotes a reading section (called Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and includes the text Exodus / Schemot 10–13.16 (10 BHS , 11 BHS , 12 BHS , 13,1-16 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 1st or 2nd Shabbats in the month of Shevat .

Essential content

• The last three of the Ten Plagues in Egypt :

8. Locusts (10.4 EU )

9th eclipse (10.21 EU )

10. Death of the firstborn (11.5 EU )

• Between the 9th and 10th plague, regulations on the sacrificial lamb ( Passover sacrifice ) and on the seven-day celebration of the feast of the Mazzot
• At the onset of the 10th plague, the Pharaoh urged them to move out quickly.
• No uncircumcised person is allowed to eat from the Passover victim.
• Sanctification of the firstborn
• The text excerpts 13.1–10 and 13.11–16 should be worn as "memorials" on the hand and head (parchments with these texts are in the tefillin )

Haftara

The associated Haftara is Jeremiah 46 : 13-28  BHS .

literature

• David Sander: BO . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape I . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 1092 f . ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
• Sidratext Schemot / Exodus 10-13.16. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 . 
• Haftaratext Jer 46: 13-28. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 . 

Web links

• Walter Rothschild: Bo - A theological war. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 22, 2016, accessed December 21, 2018 . 
• Gábor Lengyel: Bo - God is not the cause of misfortune. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, May 12, 2017, accessed December 21, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 72 (414 pp.).