Jitro (Sidra)

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Proclamation of the Ten Commandments (Bible illustration 1907)

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.).