Jitro (Sidra)
Jitro ( Biblical Hebrew יִתְרוֹ) denotes a reading section (called Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah , named after Jitro , the father-in-law of Moses . The section includes the text Exodus / Schemot 18–20 (18 BHS , 19 BHS , 20 BHS ).
It is the cider of the 3rd or 4th Shabbat in the month of Shevat .
Essential content
- Jitros visits his son-in-law Moses in the desert
- Jitro's advice that Moses appoint superiors over thousands, hundreds, fifty and ten
- Choosing Israel to be the special property of God
- Proclamation of the Ten Commandments on Sinai
Haftara
The associated Haftara is Isaiah 6-7,6 (6 BHS , 7.1-6 BHS ) according to the Ashkenazi rite ; 9.5-6 BHS , according to the Sephardic rite only Isa 6 BHS .
literature
- David Sander: JITRO . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape III . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 282 ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
- Sidratext Schemot / Exodus 18-20, 23. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
- Haftara Ashkenazi Isa 6–7,6 and Isa 9,6–7. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
- Haftara Sephardic Isa 6 according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Web links
- Walter Rothschild: Jitro - Wrong Leader. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, February 24, 2017, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- Boris Ronis: Jitro - perfectionism. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, February 5, 2016, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- Salomon Almekias-Siegl: Jitro - "My bride, her father and I". In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 24, 2014, 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. 84 (414 pp.).