Torah Classes

Chp. 12 verses 1 - 3: Introduction, about a woman who gives birth to a male child, her spiritual defilement remains for seven days just as if she was a menstruant. Continues with commandment of circumcision performed on the eighth day.

Chp. 13 verses 4 - 23: Continues with the description of the process of the priest inspecting the person with signs that may or may not be called leprosy. If there is a question the person may be sequestered for a week or two before the priests declares him pure or impure. Interestingly enough if the person is covered with signs of leprosy from head to toe he is pure!

Chp. 12 verses 3 - 8: Continues with the deeper meanings in the ritual of circumcision. The laws of different degrees of spiritual defilement experienced by the mother who gives birth to either a male or a female child. The sacrifices that she would be obligated to bring depending on her financial status, that would allow her to obtain a state of complete purity. She would then be able to enter the temple precincts and eat from the sacrifices.

Chp. 26 verses 1 - 22: There is a famine in the land. Yitzhok moves to Gerar the land of the Philistines. The people are jealous of his success and they ask him to leave. He re-digs the same wells that his father dug but there is contention. He then digs a third well which no one contends with.

368 Chp. 1 verses 2 - 5: On the 1st day of the 40th year in the 11th month Moshe began to expound on the Torah. This was after the defeat of Sichon an Og. He expounded on the Torah in all 70 languages.

Chp. 5 verses 9 - 16: The gift of the First Fruits that were given to the Priest, and other gifts that are given to the Priests. Continues with the ritual of the Sotah, the woman who was accused by her husband of infidelity.

Chp. 1 verse 1 - Chp. 2 verse 1: The book begins with the names of the sons of Yaakov who came down to Egypt. The B'nai Yisrael multiplied miraculously. The Egyptians embittered their lives. Pharaoh tries to get the Jewish midwives to kill the male babies but they refuse. So then he has all male Jewish babies thrown into the Nile, but he allows the females to live.

Chp. 3 verse 11 - Chp. 4 verse 1: Moshe tells G-d to send someone else. Hashem answers his concerns and assures him that He will be with him and he will be successful. Chp. four, begins with Moshe still not certain that the people will believe that G-d appeared to him.

Chp. 2 verse 16 - chp. 3 verse 10: Moshe goes to Midian and there by the well he mets Yisro's daughters. He marries Zipporah and she bears him a son. The king of Egypt dies, the Jews cry out, and Hashem remembers them. Chp. three begins with Moshe tending the sheep of Yisro in the wilderness. Hashem appears to him in the burning bush. Hashem tells Moshe that He is ready to free His people from bondage and to bring them to the land of Canaan, and that Moshe would be His messenger.

Chp. 5 verse 23 - Chp. 6 verse 1: Moshe complains to Hashem that things only got worse not better when he went to Pharaoh. Chp. 6, Hashem assures Moshe that now he would witness what He will do to Pharaoh and that he will drive them out of his land.