Wa'era

The Seventh Plague ( John Martin , 1823)

Wa'era ( Biblical Hebrew וָאֵרָא And I appeared ' - please complete: the Abraham ) denotes a reading portion ( parasha or Sidra called) of the Torah , and includes the text of Exodus / Shemot 6.2 to 9.35 (6.2 to 30 BHS , 7 BHS , 8 BHS , 9 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 4th Shabbat in the month of Tevet or the 1st Shabbat in the month of Shevat .

Essential content

God repeats his announcement of the deliverance of Israel.
The people still don't believe in it.
Description of the relationship between Moses and Aaron .
The divine command to let Israel go is repeated before the Pharaoh , with Moses' staff turning into a serpent.
Because the Egyptian sorcerers can perform the same miracle, Pharaoh sticks to his refusal.
Then follow the Ten Plagues (Hebrew collective abbreviation DeZaCh AdaSch BeAChaB):
1. The water of the Nile turns into blood (דָֽם Dam ) (7.17 EU )
2. Frogs (צְפַרְדְּעִֽים Zefarde'im ) (7.27 EU )
3. Mosquitoes (כִנִּ֖ם Chinim ) (8.12 EU )
4. Biting flies or horseflies (עָרֹ֔ב Arow ) (8.17 EU )
5. Cattle plague (דֶּ֖בֶר Dewer ) (9.3 EU )
6. Bumps (שְׁחִ֥ין Shekhin ) (9.9 EU )
7. Hail combined with thunder and lightning (בָּרָ֖ד Barad ) (9.18 EU )
The other three plagues are part of the next reading ( Bo ).

Haftara

The associated Haftara is Ezekiel 28.25–29.21 (28.25-26 EU , 29.1-21 EU ).

literature

David Sander: WA'ERA . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape IV / 2 . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 1273 ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
Sidratext Schemot / Exodus 6.2-9.35. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Haftaratext Jecheskel 28.25-29.21 . according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

Web links

Salomon Almekias-Siegl: Wa'era - "I am your God". In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 26, 2018, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Salomon Almekias-Siegl: Wa'era - condition. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, February 3, 2017, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Walter Rothschild : Wa'era - No obedient people. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 15, 2016, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Henry G. Brandt : Wa'era - traits of contemporary problems. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 2, 2014, 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. 65 (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. 65 (414 pp.).