Beshalach |Part One

Part one of Two lessons on Parshah Beshalach Hebrew for “when [he] let go,” the second word and first distinctive word in the parashah) is the sixteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 13:17–17:16. The parashah is made up of 6,423 Hebrew letters, 1,681 Hebrew words, and 116 verses, and can occupy about 216 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah). We read it the sixteenth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in January or February. As the parashah describes God’s deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt.Comments 1

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