Shemot (Sidra)

Pharaoh's daughter finds Moses in the river (painting by Edwin Long, 1886)

Shemot ( Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוֹת , Name ' ) denotes a reading section ( Parascha or cider called) of the Tora and includes the text of Exodus / Shmos 1.1 to 6.1 (1 BHS , 2 BHS , 3 BHS , 4 BHS , 5 BHS , 6.1 BHS ) . “Shemot” refers to both the Sidra and the entire book of Exodus in Hebrew.

It is the cider of the 3rd or 4th Shabbat in the month of Tevet .

Essential content

List of the sons of Jacob who came into Egypt
Reference to Joseph's death
Description of the enslavement of the Israelites during the construction of the cities of Pithom and Ramses
Order to kill the Hebrew boys
Birth of Moses , his abandonment in the Nile and discovery by the daughter of Pharaoh , education by his mother, then at the court of the Pharaoh
Moses flees to Midian for killing an Egyptian overseer, marries Zippora , daughter of the priest Reguel ; Birth of Gerschom
On Mount Horeb , God appears to Moses in a burning but not burning bush and instructs him to free Israel from the hands of the Egyptians
After Moses repeatedly refused and various miracle signs, Moses returns to Egypt with his wife and children, is in mortal danger on the way, proclaims the divine message of liberation to the people and, together with his brother Aaron , demands the release of Israel while demonstrating various miracles
Exacerbation of the oppression, accusations of the people towards Moses, God's promise that the Pharaoh would be forcibly released Israel into freedom

Haftara

The associated Haftara is according to the Ashkenazi rite Isaiah 27.6–28.13 (27.6–13 BHS , 28.1–13 BHS ) and 29.22–23 BHS , according to the Sephardic rite Jeremiah 1.1–2.3 ( 1 BBB , 2.1-3 BBB ).

literature

David Sander: Schemot . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape IV / 2 . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 190 ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
Sidratext Schemot / Exodus 1.1-6.1. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Askenasic detention text Isa 27: 6-28, 13 and Isa 29: 22-23. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Haftaratext Sephardic Jer 1,1–2,3. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

Web links

Henry G. Brandt : Schemot - A stray lamb shows the way. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 12, 2018, accessed April 28, 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. 62 (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. 62 (414 pp.).