Torah Classes

Chp. 7 verse 24 - Chp. 8 verse 28: Moshe warns Pharaoh about the plague of frogs. Chp. 8, Aaron brings the frogs on Egypt, which the magicians duplicate. Moshe removes the frogs, but Pharaoh still refuses to release the Jews. Then Moshe tells Aaron to bring the plague of lice, the magicians are not able to duplicate the plague but Pharaoh still refuses to release the Jews. Moshe then brings the fourth plague of wild animals. Pharaoh says that he will allow the Jews to go sacrifice to their G-d but after the plague ends he reneges.

Chp. 7 verses 1 - 23; Hashem tells Moshe that Aaron would be his interpreter. Also that He would harden Pharaoh's heart and he would not listen to them, so that Egypt would know that it was G-d who would take the Jews out of Egypt. Aaron performs wonders before Pharaoh, but his magicians duplicate his acts. Moshe then warns Pharaoh and brings the first plague of blood. The magicians duplicate the feat, Pharaoh refuses to let the Jews go sacrifice to their G-d.

Chp. 6 verses 13 - 30: Lists the genealogy of Ruevain, Shimon, and then Levi in depth, inorder to introduce us to Moshe, Aaron, and his family. To tell us that it would be the two of them who would speak to Pharaoh about taking the Jewish people out of Egypt.

Chp. 6 verses 2 - 13: Introduction, Hashem tells Moshe to tell the people that He is ready to redeem them from Egypt. Moshe tells the people but they don't listen. Then Hashem tells him to tell Pharaoh, but Moshe says that Pharaoh won't listen either since he has a speech impediment. Hashem commands Moshe and Aaron to tell the B'nai Yisrael and Pharaoh that they will take the people out of Egypt.

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.

Chp. 4 verse 2 - chp. 5 verse 22: Hashem gives Moshe signs to show the people. Moshe refuses and G-d gets angry. Hashem tells him that Aaron will be his spokesman. He returns to Midian. He leaves with his family and Zipporah circumcises their newborn son to save his life. Aaron goes out to meet Moshe and they return to Egypt and tell the people what they were commanded to say and are believed. Chp. five, they go to Pharaoh but he refuses to release the people. He increases the burden on the people by making them gather their own straw.

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. 2 verses 1 - 15: We are introduced to Amram and Yochevet. Moshe is born and she hides him for three months. Moshe is put in the Nile and found by the daughter of Pharaoh. She adopts him and names him Moshe. He kills the Eygptian, and Pharaoh tries to execute him, but he flees.

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.