Va'eira - Overview

Va'eira - Overview

VaEra Overview
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Even when I appeared…

Exodus 6:2 - 9:35	Haphtorah: Ezekiel 28:25 - 29:21

· New revelation of Hashem 6:2-5

Unlike that to Avraham, Yitzhak, Yaakov
Reiteration of the Covenant

· Message to Israel 6:6-9

Four expressions of redemption	Stages of bondage
* I will bring you out from the burdens	Alienation
* I will rescue you	Slavery
* I will redeem you	Bitter affliction
* I will take you to Myself as a people	Killing of the newborns
I will bring you into the Land

· Moshe is told to go to Pharaoh 6:10-13

· Families of Israel 6:14-25

Levi was the last of the brothers to die at age 137; then the slavery began.

· Hashem’s instructions to Moshe and Aharon 6:26-7:9

· Moshe and Aharon confront Pharaoh according to Hashem’s command 7:10-13

Aharon’s staff turned into a crocodile.
The magicians were able to do the same.
Aharon’s staff swallowed their’s.