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Daf Hashavua בס״ד 7TH DAY PESACH ׁשְ בִיעִי ׁשֶ ל ּפֶסַ ח In loving memory of Tzemach ben Yisrael z"l Volume 33 | #24 “Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and God moved the sea with a strong east wind all night” 3 April 2021 (Shemot 14:21) 21 Nisan 5781 Yom HaShoah is on Thursday Shabbat ends and 8th Day Pesach begins at 8.25pm. Yom Tov ends on Sunday at 8:27pm. Please note: These times are for London only. Please look regularly at the social media and websites of the US, Tribe and your community for ongoing updates relating to Coronavirus as well as educational programming and community support. You do not need to sign into Facebook to access the US Facebook page. The US Coronavirus Helpline is on INSIDE: 020 8343 5696. May God bless us and the The Power of Thanks whole world. by Rabbi Adrian Jesner The Warsaw Ghetto by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l For those using a A Dream Come True chumash, the page by Rabbi Dov Kaplan numbers for the Torah reading can Sefer Shofetim be found overleaf. Daf Hashavua by Pnina Savery For those using a chumash, the page numbers for the Torah reading are: Pesach 7th Day The Power Artscroll p366 Hertz p265 Soncino p407 Pesach 8th Day of Thanks Artscroll p1018 By Rabbi Adrian Jesner, Hertz p814 Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation Soncino p1072 Maftir (both days) At the centre of the is that the dramatic, unexpected seventh day of Pesach start of the miracle was down to the Artscroll p892 is one of the greatest impact of hakarat hatov (showing Hertz p695 miracles of all time, gratitude). An analysis of various Soncino p945 so important to our verses in the parasha of Beshalach, structure of belief that we refer to where our reading is located, Haftarah 7th Day it several times in our prayers every provides support for this Midrashic Artscroll p1225 single day of the year. This miracle suggestion. Hertz p1017 is, of course, the splitting of the sea, At the start of Beshalach, as which is the main focus of the Torah they leave Egypt, the Children of Haftarah 8th Day reading today. Israel fulfil the commitment made Artscroll p1226 Try for a moment to put yourself by their ancestors just before Hertz p1023 in the shoes of the Children of the passing of Yosef (Joseph), to Israel at the time. The Egyptians are bring his bones with them when Please note that the Haftarot do not pursuing, the sea is in front of them. leaving Egypt, so that Yosef would appear in the Soncino chumash. They needed a miracle. How would ultimately be interred in the Land it happen? of Israel. This demonstrates how One answer suggested by the they remembered the hakarat hatov Midrash (early rabbinic teaching) owed to Yosef. The Midrash notes In loving memory of Moshe ben Avraham Zarach z"l United Synagogue Daf Hashavua Produced by US Living & Learning together with the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue Torah Reading Summary for 7th Day Pesach Editor-in-Chief: Rabbi Baruch Davis 1st Aliya (Kohen) – Shemot 13:17-19 Editorial and Production Team: After Pharaoh sends the Israelites out of Egypt, God does not lead them on a straight Rabbi Daniel Sturgess, Rabbi Michael Laitner, path through the land of the Pelishtim (Philistines) towards Cana’an (later Israel), Rebbetzen Nechama Davis, but rather towards the Sea of Reeds. Moshe is carrying Yosef’s bones, as Yosef had Joanna Rose requested before his death (see Bereishit 50:25). Available also via email US website www.theus.org.uk ©United Synagogue 2nd Aliya (Levi) – 13:20-22 To sponsor Daf Hashavua please A pillar of cloud guides the Israelites by day, and a pillar of fire lights up their journey contact Danielle Fox on 020 8343 6261, at night. or [email protected] If you have any comments or questions regarding Daf Hashavua please email 3rd Aliya (Shlishi) – 14:1-4 [email protected] God tells Moshe to turn back in the direction of Egypt. in an allegorical sense that the scepticism when returning to Egypt the significance ofhakarat hatov, sea split when it ‘saw’ the coffin to begin the process of the Exodus, the Torah’s description of what containing the bones of Yosef. now received the full-hearted happens after the splitting of the Immediately before the song gratitude of a nation. sea should make us sit up in our at the sea, the Torah tells us A third example is when all chairs! As soon as the people feel that the people believed in the women sing with Miriam to thirsty in the desert, they complain God and in Moshe His servant. celebrate the miracles and their rather than pray to God or even ask Expressing this belief, in the midst escape from Egypt. By doing so, Moshe for advice, as noted by the of such awesome miracles, also they show their gratitude for her commentary of Rashi (1040-1105). demonstrated the hakarat hatov that efforts to save Moshe when he was Perhaps the Torah is teaching us the people had to both God and to a baby as well as for her leadership that, even after the amazing events Moshe. The same Moshe, brought as a prophetess for all the Children of the splitting of the sea, there up in an Egyptian palace, who of Israel. would still be challenges in the had initially been met with some Given this powerful Midrash on future. We would have to respond to these challenges by praying to God and taking action to address them, knowing, to use this particular example, that God has the capacity to bring water to a nation in the desert, as indeed then happened. This past year, we have faced our own challenges. I hope that our prayers to God and the magnificent efforts that so many people across the country have taken to address our challenges will stand us in good stead for the future. May God end the pandemic once and for all, so that next year, we may all even be together in Jerusalem! I hope that our prayers to God and the magnificent efforts that so many people across the country have taken to address our challenges will stand us in good stead for the future. 4th Aliya (Revi’i) – 14:5-8 providing a wall on either side of them. The Egyptians enter God hardens the heart of Pharaoh, who pursues the Israelites the Sea but struggle to move forward. with his armed chariots. Point to Consider: Why did God move the Sea with a “strong 5th Aliya (Chamishi) – 14:9-14 easterly wind”? (14:21) The Egyptians catch up with the Israelites, who are encamped by the Sea. Seeing the approaching army, the people cry out in 7th Aliya (Shevi'i) – 14:26-15:26 prayer, and also ask Moshe why they left Egypt only to die in Moshe raises his staff; the Sea closes on the Egyptians, the desert. Moshe tells them not to fear; they will experience drowning them. The Israelites see the drowned Egyptians on God’s salvation. the seashore. Together with Moshe, they sing the Song at the Sea (Shirat HaYam) which celebrates God’s miraculous 6th Aliya (Shishi) – 14:15-25 salvation. The nation travels on, experiencing three days in Moshe raises his staff; an easterly wind blows and the Sea the desert without water. They come to a place called Marah, splits. The Israelites walk through the dry channel, the water where the water is too bitter to drink. They complain to In memory of Rabbi Lord Sacks zt”l, we have reproduced several of his Pesach messages from previous years, to recall his teachings about this festival. The message below was a BBC ‘Thought for the Day’ on 13 April 1995, and later published in ‘From Optimism to Hope’ (2004), p41. The Warsaw Ghetto by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l Tomorrow night, ago. The Jews of Europe were being Each new generation throughout the world, murdered in their millions. In Warsaw, learns how freedom Jews will be celebrating in the ghetto, only a fifth of the Jews one of the most powerful were still alive. The rest had been was fought for, religious ceremonies of the year, the deported to the concentration camps. and painfully won. seder service of Passover. It’s a time Then the news came through. The when we gather in our extended remaining Jews were to be killed Memory is our best families and tell the story of the exodus the next day. Instead of the festival guardian of liberty. from Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. of freedom, they were to receive the We do more than tell it. We relive decree of death. such power, giving those who heard it. We eat the unleavened bread of What happened next was one of it the strength to live and die for the affliction. We taste the bitter herbs of the most remarkable stories of the cause of freedom. They knew it was slavery. And we drink four cups of the Second World War. The Jews fought their story. wine of freedom. I know of few other back. It was a hopeless struggle, 1,200 In a few weeks’ time, we’ll occasions in which history is made to Jewish fighters, with a few smuggled commemorate the fiftieth anniversary come so vividly alive. You feel as if arms, surrounded by German troops of VE Day. And those like me who were you were there.
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