The Difference Between Lo Tahmod and Lo Tit’avveh: An Insight Based on the Hitpa’el
Mitchell First explains the difference in the wording of the tenth commandment in Exodus and Deutoronomy in light of a grammatical insight by Benno Jacob.
Moses in the Teiva: An Act of Hope or Despair?
Was the teiva an attempt to save Moshe's life? David Fried challenges our assumptions about the purpose of the wicker basket in the river.
Miriam’s Song and the Persistence of Music in Dark Times
Why did the women bring musical instruments out of Egypt? In her first Lehrhaus article, musicologist Rebecca Cypess draws a fascinating historical analogy between biblical and African-American slavery to shed light on the Exodus in Jewish tradition.
Frum and Free? Passover and Jewish Views on Liberty
Aton Holzer offers a novel re-reading of the Seder, arguing that it reflects and recreates four types of liberty that can be found in the Exodus narrative, as well as a fifth form of freedom.
Of Split Wood and Waters
Nachum Krasnopolsky explains Rashbam's interpretation of the splitting of the sea as an educational experience.
Rupture and Revelation
Ayelet Wenger weaves together the personal, historical and exegetical in advance of reading Sefer Shemot.
Ki Ani Hashem: A Literary Analysis of the Makkot
Joshua Shapiro explains how close readers of the Biblical text can find a unifying theory for reason behind the ten plagues.
Reeding Between the Lines: Parallels Across the Yam Suf and Baby Moshe Narratives
Ben Greenfield examines the curious parallels between the stories of Moshe in the ark and the splitting of the sea.
Shemot: The Book Without Names
Ben Greenfield calls attention to a crucial, but unnoticed feature of the early narratives in Exodus.
By Whose Blood Do We Live?
Jon Kelsen uncovers a deeper rabbinic meaning to the blood needed to "passover" the Israelites.
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