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Exodus: A Parsha Companion (Maggid Books), author Rabbi David Fohrman plays the role of a Biblical radiologist extraordinaire. His attention to detail, and mastery of the text, enables him to find and extract things from the images of the Torah, which a less-trained scholar is incapable of. This is the next volume in his Chumash series and comes on the heels of his remarkable Genesis: A Parsha Companion. If the Jews are the people of the book, then Fohrman is a man of the text.
For those that know Rabbi Fohrman from his website Aleph Beta Academy, they are used to his approach of looking at the big picture and asking the big questions. His website’s goal is the belief that Torah study should be evidence-based, intellectually stimulating, emotionally gripping, and relevant to one’s everyday life. The ideas in the book can in part be found on the website (everything is transcribed so you can print and read on Shabbos), but the material has been expanded and thoroughl
yud, kei, vav, kei (known as the
Shem Havaya), not His name of ‘
Elokim’. He explains that
Elokim refers to a power, whereas the Shem Havaya refers to God’s nature as being totally above the physical world. Moshe was teaching Pharaoh about the one, true God, in contrast to Pharaoh’s belief in numerous powers. Moreover, God expresses His desire that His people rejoice with Him in the desert. Rabbi Fohrman explains that the idol worshippers did not rejoice with their gods, rather they sacrificed to them, but there was no close relationship. Thus, Moshe was alluding to Pharaoh about the difference between the true God and Pharaoh’s conception of gods.
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